CALENDAR LISTING
PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER / SUMMER 2007 EXHIBITION LISTING

Masters of Graphic Design: Catalog Covers of UCLA Extension (1990-2007)
1^st Floor Blue Lobby
On view June 11^th through August 31^st

For the past 17 years, the UCLA Extension catalog has offered more than innovative courses.  It's also delivered wonderful cover art from some of the world's most prominent graphic designers.  The catalog covers are bold, playful and often thought-provoking.  Now students, designers and art lovers alike can enjoy this impressive collection of 20th and 21st century graphic design.  The exhibition offers a fascinating retrospective of cover art from several generations of master designers.

MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-Aichen
MOCA Pacific Design Center
On view June 28^th through September 30^th

MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-Aichen focuses on the artist’s photographic portrayal of the natural, industrial and cultural landscape.  He creates expansive, haunting vistas—landscapes devoid of humans but visibly touched by mankind—bathed in an ethereal, almost otherworldly light.  As a young artist in Germany in the late 1990s, Maier-Aichen rejected the photographic conventions established by Bernd and Hilla Becher and instead began utilizing photography as an elastic medium, individualizing each image in terms of content, approach and processing method.  Starting with a traditional large-format image captured on film, Maier-Aichen uses modern technology to digitally weave disparate images from separate sources into seamless photographs that are printed as either a C-print or albumen print.

From Couture to Home presented by domino Magazine
1^st Floor, Blue Lobby
On view September 6^th through September 27^th

Pacific Design Center hosts domino magazine’s tribute to fashion and its connection to home design in celebration of its special September Fashion issue. The exhibit is a backstage pass giving viewers instant access inside the homes of Marc Jacobs, Libertine and many more designers.  They will join the ranks of such luminaries as Carolina Herrera, Alice Temperley, Donna Karen, Victoire de Castellane, and Giorgio Armani who’ve graced domino’s pages with rare insight to their favorite rooms.  Get inspired by how the fashion design world lives!

Young Hollywood Home
Suite B219
On View September 21^st through November 1^st

Hollywood Life magazine in partnership with Pacific Design Center presents the 3rd annual Young Hollywood Home where you will discover what a pad for the pretty and pampered might look like.  Young Hollywood Home assembles a live/work/party space that reflects interior design trends that currently strike a young star’s fancy.  The room settings represent inspiringly unique approaches to domestic beautification and the kind of punchy flair that Young Hollywood can’t get enough of!

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
MOCA Pacific Design Center
On view October 21^st through January 20^th

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas traces the searing graphic art made by Emory Douglas (b. 1943) while he worked as Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s. The Black Panthers cultivated a strong graphic identity for their group and their politics during this period, bringing their concerns to the public through newspapers, posters, and pamphlets that can often be described as angry, militant and incendiary. The mainstream media and the FBI characterized the Panthers through their creative output—using images of gun-toting African Americans or satirical caricatures of porcine police to fuel the view that they were a threat to national security.  Organized by Sam Durant with MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, this compelling exhibition presents approximately 150 of Emory Douglas’ most influential works.

About Pacific Design Center

Award-winning Pacific Design Center is the west coast’s leading resource for the interior design trades.  With more than 130 showrooms and 2,100 interior product lines, PDC sells to the design professional.  The PDC also serves the needs of the design, entertainment and arts communities by providing well-appointed public and private conference spaces for lectures, meetings, special events, screenings, exhibitions and receptions.  A premier, multi-use facility, Pacific Design Center features The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA); two restaurants operated by world-renowned chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck; The SilverScreen Theater, a 380 seat state-of-the-art luxury film venue and reception facility; and Conference Center, a 200 seat facility fully equipped for conferences and public meetings.

Pacific Design Center is located at 8687 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, CA.  For more information, call 310-657-0800 x.1 or visit www.pacificdesigncenter.com.

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