Aug 28 2008
Dining By Design
Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), one of the largest funders of HIV/AIDS service and education organizations in the U.S., launched Dining By Design (DBD), which pairs great design and food, earlier this year in New York before heading to Kansas City.
This year marked the debut of a new component of DIFFA’s DBD: the Student Design Initiative presented by Benjamin Moore. With the participation of top New York City design schools including FIT, NYU, Parsons, Pratt and SVA ,and mentors including Dalzell Productions, David Rockwell, Jamie Drake, Arpad Baksa and Miles Redd, the Initiative paired participating schools with mentors who guided the student design teams through the process of creating a design installation from inception to execution.
Working within a strict budget and the technical and logistical guidelines of DBD, each student design team had the singular opportunity to work with internationally renowned and cutting edge designers. These unique student designed installations are on view throughout all of the 2008 DBD events.
This event was dubbed the “Cannes of Tabletop” by filmmaker John Waters and is an opportunity for various corporations and designers to showcase their creativity and talents by creating unique dining installations to ultimately accommodate their dinner guests.
This year’s event stops also include Los Angeles, September 13 - 15; Dallas, September 26 - 27; Atlanta, October 12 - 13; Chicago, November 6 - 8; San Francisco, November 19 - 20; and Boston, December 5 - 6.
Click here to purchase tickets.
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