DesignInquiry Reloaded ’06

A Rustic Retreat

Topic: More than business as usual

Date: June 22 — June 27

Place: Vinalhaven, Maine

DesignInquiry is an intensive week of workshops, presentations, and discussions, in which design professionals, educators and students explore a topic relating to the aesthetics and ethics of graphic design. An alternative to the one-way delivery of a standard design conference: a week of collaborative production — “thinking through making”.

DesignInquiry frames the questions, participants explore the answers.

Join Elliott Earls, Peter Hall, Melle Hammer, Ellen Lupton, Marlene McCarty, Douglass Scott, Matt Soar, Louise Sandhaus, Nancy Skolos + Thomas Wedell, Lucille Tenazas, Rick Valicenti, Lorraine Wild, and more check back often in this evolved Maine Summer Institute in Graphic Design at Maine College of Art.

$200 non-refundable registration fee, not including housing. $125 fee for breakfasts and dinners. We’ll cook ourselves.

Maximum number of participants: 22

Attendees are also welcome to come for a shorter stay: contact DesignInquiry for details.

Contact: Margo Halverson

DESIGNINQUIRY…horizontal professional event

Elliott Earls

“DesignInquiry is quite possibly the most ‘horizontal’ professional event I have ever had the pleasure of participating in. It’s like grad school without the teachers. Fifty people coming together to discuss, debate and work on issues that are central to Design and life. It’s a fantastic experience where you both learn and teach.”

— Elliott Earls, Artist in Residence, Cranbrook Academy of Art