September, 2020
Kyd Kane Poetry Presents: Challenge Privilege w/ Liquid Courage
Live SiTE:LAB event featuring: poet and spoken word artist Kyd Kane, hip hop artist Callab, jazz musician and poet CC, and cellist Jordan Hamilton. Special guests: DJ set by SuperDre, and experimental design studio, Not Design spun Performative Typography through live responsive Letterpress.
The Critical Infrastructure stage was designed by artist Paul Amenta and architect Ted Lott of Lott3Metz Architecture, in collaboration with DisArt.
August, 2017
Public Space 415
SiTE:LAB
An ongoing performance-based project, ‘A Language’ was an experiment in how language facilitates exchange among a community. Using primarily letterpress printing as a medium, we invited visitors to contribute to our dialog through the work of the Grand Rapids Fine Art Delivery Company (GRFADC). The GRFADC workshop was open for business during posted operating hours, facilitating live printing on-site and exchanges by both bike and mail delivery. This collaborative narrative allowed for a conversation that challenged both language and community as its been previously defined.
January, 2019
UICA
Installed during Warm Water, a show of work by artist Charles Williams. Warm Water is a collection of re-narrated visual works based on the event that sparked the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Inspired by Williams’s use of hot and cold elements in his work, 100 Years, 100 Lines is an abstract representation of the warm and cool sides of the color spectrum, merging together in the center and creating both tension and harmony at the same time. The mural was installed on the exhibitions entrance ramp of the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI.
December, 2017
UNTITLED:Radio
Radio Station: Miami Folly II is an installation by artist Paul Amenta and architect Ted Lott of Lott3Metz Architecture, in collaboration with Untitled, ART, Wynwood Radio, Not Design, and DisArt. This project was realized in partnership with Xibitz Inc. and Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University.
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Not Design participants: Chris Fox, Rebecca Rapin, Alex Barger, Veronica Elaine, and Elyse Flynn.
Summer, 2018
UICA Outside, Artprize
“Fiber” is a permanent, site-specific mural project located in the Creston Neighborhood of Grand Rapids, as part of the UICA Outside exhibit for Artprize 2018. Inspired by contemporary design elements and the furniture store that currently resides here, "Fiber" is comprised of an arrangement of patterns, inspired primarily by textiles, textures, processes and their evolution.
Contributing artists: Elyse Flynn, Chris Fox, Ty Davis, Rebecca Rapin, Katherine Watson, Alex Barger, Jasmyne Schierbaum, Kacie Forbes, Colette Holston, Haylie Bos
Bad Camel Press Exhibition
Grand Rapids, MI
Artprize September 2012
Exhibiting artists (Motu Viget: The Curiosity Shop, Window Vignettes)
Venue design team-Identity, volunteer t-shirts, venue signage
April 2016
Art. Downtown
Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Rapids, MI
April 2013
Co-curators, venue & identity design, exhibiting artists.
Print-focused art show at the Old Grand Rapids Public Museum, 54 Jefferson.
Workshops held during the duration of the show.
Not Design letterpress demo and workshop during West Michigan Design Week, brought to you AIGA West Michigan.
Photos courtesy of Bird + Bird Studio
October 2014
Open House at the Not Design studio.
Collaborative work stations for attendees including letterpress designs, hand-lettering, and chalk drawing. Work from studio-mates was projected in stairwell and rotated through in conjunction with DJ Sleepy Jackson and the Moz Effect.
Saginaw, MI
November 2015
Lecture and hands-on Letterpress Workshop as well as installation of work from past exhibits on display.
July 2014
Contributing artists, hands-on letterpress station.
September 2010
Grand Rapids, MI
Artprize
Live documentation of this project can be found here.
