****CFDA meeting  July 12, 2005 - Guest speaker: Carl Boyd - Normal Design: A Sustainable Design Practice ***

 
 

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Officers
President
Michael Obrecht

Vice President
Chris Brandel

Treasurer
Pete Radecki

Secretary
Dan Kowalik

 

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CFDA 
Monthly Newsletter

July  2005

 

Inside this issue:

 - CFDA  meeting report - 6/14/05 - Dan Kowalik

 

 

All general meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm at Corosh, 1072 North Milwaukee, 2nd Floor.

Announcements:
- Shop space for rent. Approximately 1200 square feet, in Jeff Miller's building. $750/month. Contact Jeff at 773 761-3311.

- Announcements continued --
   

 


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Announcements continued

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- Meeting/Program Schedule  (John Kriegshauser)

July -

Tuesday, July 12--Carl Boyd on Normal Design: A Sustainable Design Practice. Carl and his partner, Liam Hawry, formed their design practice with the expressed intention of developing products with minimal environmental impact. In the process they have familiarized themselves with the recyclable aspects of many of today's plastics. This is an area of design few of our members are familiar with, so come on and get informed about the materials of the 21st Century!

August - 

I thought we might take the August meeting to talk about models and detail mock ups. I know that I have found models and mock up's to be essential design tools in many furniture projects. Do you find it that way too? I propose to bring an assortment of these to the August meeting as the nucleus of a program. But at least a few other people will have to join me to make this work. So if you have one or more models to share, please reassure me by responding!

The kind of thing we are talking about here is not a prototype. Either it is the proposed piece of furniture in miniature, made realistically or abstractly, or it is a fragment of the piece, made at any scale, to help visualize or test the idea. In the past we've talked about the advantabes and capabilities of CAD programs, now let's encounter the unique capabilites of models.


CFDA June 14, 2005 - Membership Meeting Report
Dan Kowalik

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Attendees:
Dave Waycie
Ross Fiersten
Jeff Miller
Rob Frazer
Antanas Abraitis
Curt Vevang
Pete Radecki
Chris Brandel
Michael Obrecht
S. Lloyd Natof
John Krieghauser
Dan Kowalik
John Sirovatka
Erik Newman
Carl Boyd

Sustainability Show

Sustainability Advertisement Sightings List

Metropolitan Home, June 2005, p.38
Woodshop News, June 2005, p.47
(*please email me other listings of the show, dpkfurniture@yahoo.com, I will create a list.)

Thank you letter w/pictures of show - Dan Kowalik, Bill First

Judy S. Show

Judy will hand pick pieces from the Sustainability Show for October Artist month running at her gallery from Oct. 21st to Dec. 21st.

John S. will receive a list from Judy and will send out an email to all artists that have been picked.

We will need to decide on several issues for the Judy S. show:
1. Mailing
2. Postcard
3. What does Judy want?
4. PR and Money