2010 Workshops

Guaranteed – you’ll get your hands dirty.
 

Birdhouses: Recycled with Terry Marks
That’s no teapot, that’s somebody’s house! Terry Marks will show you how to re-envision used or obsolete housewares to create a new house for your feathered friends. Using kettles and spoons, breadboxes and butter knives, you’ll channel your inner Frank Lloyd Alessi to create Dwell-worthy digs for your friendly neighborhood robin redbreast or swallow. A reduced, reused and completely recycled workshop.

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Creative Process: That’s a HIT! with Steve Mason
It could be argued that “creative” and “process” make for odd bed fellows. Steve Mason, of Steve Mason Music, posits that there are indeed universal truths that apply to creation and he will use the medium of songwriting to illustrate his point. So cancel your fieldtrip to the Brill Building and come learn how to write the songs that make the whole world sing.

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Designing with the Body with David Sherwin
If you want to find a great idea, it helps to start with a lot of them. David Sherwin of Frog Design will show you how to use techniques rooted in your physical body, elements of improvisational theater and other sense-based skills like taste and smell to generate new ideas for all sorts of creative projects. Get out of your head and into your body.
 

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Judging a Beer by its Label with Elmer dela Cruz & Jay Hilburn
Join HADW dynamic duo as they share with you their guiding principles and methodologies for creating packaging that puts the sell-through in craft brew. Since 2000, they’ve helped Widmer Brothers and Redhook Brewery sell a lot of beer in a very competitive space and they’ve won several awards in the process. Of course, you can’t very well sell beer without tasting it, so bring your thirst for knowledge!

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Make A Name For Yourself — And Maybe A Coffee Table, Too with Jesse Doquilo
The name Eames is synonymous with the mid-century furniture craze as seen in Mad Men, Dwell magazine and on Ebay. In this woodworking crash course, Jesse Doquilo of Modernobject will guide you through the process of creating your own mod piece of furniture worthy of your swanky, stage set of a flat. Downed tree limbs, cool wood scraps, and salvaged wood from a 100 year old building will be put to good use as you create your own family heirloom of the future. Maybe you can license it to Herman Miller (we have a connection).

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Naturally Grown Typography with Jeff Barlow
When you walk through the woods you’re surrounded by all things natural and organic — trees, plants, rocks, flowers, blackberries (turn that thing off!) The intrepid Jeff Barlow, Starbucks Global Creative, and instructor of typography at SVC, will guide you on a typographic treasure hunt over the river and through the woods of Leavenworth. You’ll come face to face with naturally occurring letterforms from which you’ll design a custom typeface indigenous to the area.

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Screen-printing 101 with Andy MacDougall
and Jon Smith
Admit it: You’ve got “a thing” for screen-printing and the word “squeegee” kind of turns you on. We get it. We won’t judge you. Andy wrote the book on screen-printing (he’ll probably try to sell you one) and Jon, well, Jon is the design master behind many of your favorite posters from Death Cab to Queens of the Stone Age. These two have teamed up to teach you just how accessible (and sexy) screen-printing can be.

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Soup du jour? Plastic with Kelly Chrey,
Mohawk Fine Papers
You’ve no doubt heard about the Texas-sized, swirling soup of plastic that was discovered in the North Pacific. But do you know what’s being done about it? Come learn about and get involved with Plastic Island, a 21st century ecological project that will change the way you think about recycling.

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Urban Sketching with Gabriel Campanario
There's more to drawing than creating illustrations or story boards. Seattle Times artist-reporter Gabriel Campanario shares his philosophy of sketching as a way to see the world with new eyes, rediscovering our own cities as we render them on paper. Campanario will get everyone sketching during a field drawing session around the Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort — no erasers allowed! At the end of the sketchcrawl, participants will share sketchbooks and discuss the creative and journalistic benefits of drawing on location based on the experience.

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What’s up with Wordpress? with Paul Ingram
You can’t swing a dead cat around the internet without hitting a content management platform promising a sexy site with little to no effort. (Two-minute abs, anyone??) Paul Ingram, of Ingram Labs, will act as your personal trainer as he puts you and Wordpress through your paces to create a web site from scratch. You’ll learn how to leverage the high-value tools that Wordpress has developed to deliver high-margin sites to your clients; sites that work great and look hot in a bikini, too.

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Wood I? Would you? with Amy Redmond
If you think typography is sexy, then just wait till you get your hands on the wood type collection from the School of Visual Concepts. Amy Redmond is packin’ the wood, the presses and the ink for a how-to session on letterpress printing that will turn you on to the endless creative possibilities of this art form. You wouldn’t want to miss this one!