Vignelli Center for Design Studies 2023 Summer Design Workshop

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This exhibition showcases twelve unique lamp designs created during the Vignelli Center for Design Studies 2023 Summer Workshop. Students and designers from the global art community participated in a week-long workshop divided between the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT in Rochester, New York and The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.

Inspired by the Vignelli Archives, participants develop a project of their own design that they explored under the supervision of Vignelli Center staff and through the facilitation of master craft glass blowers from The Corning Museum of Glass.

VCFDS Director Josh Owen designed a custom lamp base for the workshop in order to set some unifying parameters for the body of work to be produced. “Vignelli Red” was selected as the color for these bases in order to create a link to the Vignelli ethos and to offer ‘consistency in advance’ to the experimental grouping. Additionally, the famous Unipolar Slider Switch designed by Achille Castiglioni was selected to be a part of the lamp assembly to pay homage to the connection between the two designers.

a view into the Grid Space gallery with two red chairs, four information panels and a view of the display of lamps on wood stands.
a group of people gathered around a person holding up an i-pad.

two people in a glass blowing studio working on a molten catch of white glass.

a person looking at a lamp with a red metal base and a white glass shade.

a person leaning on a table surface watching the hands of another individual arranging an object.

a view into the Grid Space gallery with two red chairs, four information panels and a view of the display of lamps on wood stands.

a view into the Grid Space gallery with a view of the display of lamps on wood stands.

a view into the Grid Space gallery with a view of the display of lamps on wood stands.

a view into the Grid Space gallery with a view of the display of lamps on wood stands.

a view into the Grid Space gallery with a view of the display of lamps on wood stands.

a view into the Grid Space gallery with a view of the display of lamps on wood stands.

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'The Ball' John Bechtol

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Teaching Tool' Josh Owen

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Parse' Lori Resch

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'The Voyager' Maria Canale

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Whisp' Mark Havens

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Illuminating Timelessness' Matt Silverman

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Ornamento' Melissa Dawson

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Beacon' Paul McGroary

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Melting Point' Peter Rossetti

a lamp with a red metal base and glass shade against a grey background.

'Pinocchio' Reza Aliabadi

Blank white space

Blank white space