Olek Zempliński 1st Place and Mark Goerner 2nd Place
Los Angeles -- As allotment of the third anniversary Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition + Home Tours that transpired in Los Angeles from June 5 - 6 (speakers conference) and 7 - 8 (exhibition and home tours), Michael Leifer and blackmailer PR (http://www.guerillapr.com) advised and produced the aboriginal anytime abide architectural cartoon challenge at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in the Upper Sculpture Plaza (http://dwell.uber.com/moca).
Dwell Wacom Moca Event
A abundant befalling to advertise new technology and altered strategies for architecture image-making as able-bodied as accumulation acquainted acceptable architecture aesthetics in architecture. The burden of the abide accident with time constraints provided an added thrill. Thanks to anybody who was complex in authoritative this accident happen! All of the entries were impressive, because the almost little time the contestants were accustomed to aftermath their designs The 2008 Dwell Wacom Live Eco-Design Rendering Challenge featured seven of Los Angeles' top design-rendering gurus aggressive in a video-game-tournament-meets Iron-Chef-style antagonism to actuate the ''Best Designer of the Evening''. The contestants drew on Wacom Cintiq Interactive Pen Display Monitors (http://www.wacom.com/cintiq) and had their abide sketches brought to activity on eight hi-definition claret collapsed screens basic a thirty two bottom octagon of adumbration over their heads.
The challengers produced 2D renderings of acceptable and modular homes and allowance designs that adhered to Dwell architecture principals: relying on blooming technologies for activity efficiencies, featuring affluence of accustomed ablaze and color, akin architecture costs to beneath $300K and attached absolute aboveboard footage to 3,000 sq ft. The claiming consists of two 45 minute rounds. The board ranked and called Olek Zempliński as the aboriginal abode champ and Mark Goerner as the additional abode winner, based aloft the afterward criteria: creativity, aesthetics, light, flow, eco-friend efficiency, blueprint and activity aural the amount parameters.
''This is a abundant account for me. It was a absurd event,'' declared Olek Zempliński, the aboriginal abode winner, adding, "A abundant befalling to advertise new technology and altered strategies for architecture image-making as able-bodied as accumulation acquainted acceptable architecture aesthetics in architecture. The burden of the abide accident with time constraints provided an added thrill. Thanks to anybody who was complex in authoritative this accident happen!"
''Initially I anticipation the claiming was to the death, but again it became bright that sustainability was apropos to architecture. It was a amusement to accompany in the 7 sided octagon and diaphoresis out some pixels with LA's finest dressed architects and designers,'' remarked Mark Goerner, offering, ''You never apperceive what your able of until you accept an MC'd countdown, and a few hundred pairs of eyes on your screen, and a Vodka greyhound at your side. Let's crop this on the road!''
Don Varga of Wacom Technologies commented ''The contestants absolutely showed us the ability of alive anon with a pen on the awning of a Cintiq Interactive Pen Display. In beneath an hour, they were able to actualize actual complete and accomplished analytic abstraction renderings with endless of detail. Wacom is actual blessed to accept supplied the technology that enables Architects and Designers to accomplish at such a top level''.
The acclaimed console of board for the accident included:
Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Faculty, SciArc
Paul Petrunia, Founder of Archinect
Scott Robertson, New Media Department Chair, Art Center College of Design
Max Crome, Principle, Crome Architecture
Geoff Manaugh, Senior Editor, Dwell
Santino Medina, Faculty, SciArc
Jeff Daniels, Architecture & Interior Design Programs UCLA Extension
"All of the entries were impressive, because the almost little time the contestants were accustomed to aftermath their designs," commented Paul Petrunia, accident adjudicator and administrator of Archinect.com and Bustler.net, ''but the two winners acutely stood out. Mark Goerner, the runner-up, displayed alarming apprehension abilities but did not accommodated the affairs requirements as able-bodied as the acceptable access by Olek Novak-Zemplinski. Olek's access was presented beautifully, in accession to announcement a array of eco-friendly elements and astute account requirements.''
However, the claiming was about added than just abstruse skills, says Geoff Manaugh, Senior Editor of Dwell annual and Wacom challenge judge. ''The accident absolutely brought out a lot of artistic account and responses -- and there was even a absolute faculty of amusement in some of the designs. In fact, I was abundantly afraid by how altered the approaches were. Above all, I anticipate this showed that humans will consistently acquisition a new, and impressive, way to break absolute challenges.''
To access the pictures and images from the accident amuse appointment the Dwell Wacom MoCA Electronic Press Kit at: http://www.guerillapr.com/dwellondesign/moca
About Dwell:
Dwell was created to aggrandize perceptions of the chat "home" and best an adept in architecture that is modern, idea-driven and acute to amusing and concrete surroundings. Their inherent affection for ''bringing acceptable architecture to everyone'' has added beginning ambit to what it agency to be At Home in the Modern World. Dwell® and Dwell on Design ® are registered trademarks of Dwell, LLC (http://www.dwell.com).
About Wacom:
Wacom Company Ltd., (Tokyo Stock Exchange 6727), is a all-around aggregation based in Japan with subsidiaries about the globe. Founded in 1983, Wacom's eyes to accompany humans and technology afterpiece calm through accustomed interface technologies has fabricated it the world's arch architect of pen tablets, alternate pen displays and agenda interface solutions. The beat technology of Wacom's automatic ascribe accessories has been acclimated to actualize some of the a lot of agitative agenda art, films, appropriate effects, fashions and designs about the apple and provides business and home users with the adeptness to accurate themselves in a accustomed way. Today, millions of barter use Wacom's cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology to accurate their adroitness (http://www.wacom.com/cintiq).
About Michael Leifer and Guerilla PR, Inc.
Guerilla PR, Inc. creates cultural movements and builds markets. Founded by Cultural Anthropologist Michael Leifer in 2000, GPR helps audience affix their brands, causes and applicant agendas with targeted consumers, capacity and influencers application accordant approach alternative and accurate messaging to body and authorize new markets. They are cultural anthropologists, strategists, technologists, bloggers, programmers, amusing media experts, creatives and analytics enthusiasts, who accept the new archetype of advice in which humans are channels. They appraisal chump touchpoints, architecture out of the box assurance platforms and burn and absolute the chat of aperture buzz. These communications body and coalesce community, drive sales, access votes and access retention. GPR designs commutual attendant and associate to associate accord campaigns, which virally advance agendas in an amoebic yet 100% trackable capacity. GPR has formed with abounding Fortune 500 brands and altruistic NGOs including: Wacom, Dwell, Konami, Shorebank, Sony, Napster, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Yahoo!, EarthJustice.org, Cancer411.org, iChapters, and the GlobalWaterTrust.org. GPR is committed to authoritative a absolute and proactive aberration in the apple (http://www.guerillapr.com).
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