Dario Antonioni- Duncan Anderson Lecture October 6th

Dario Antonioni- Orange22 Design Lab

Thursday, October 6th, 7:00 - 9:30pm

PRESENTS:

How To Get Creative Ideas Off The Ground Using OPM (Other People’s Money)

Dario Antonioni talks of his recent experiences using Kickstarter to fund his own, unique projects. He explains what Kickstarter is, how he learned from the process and gives us tips on creating our own successful projects.

By the age of 10, while other kids were memorizing baseball statistics, Antonioni was devouring books on the Wright Brothers. Even then, Antonioni was amazed, not so much by that first flight itself but by the fact that two nobody bicycle mechanics had the effrontery to revolutionize a field so far beyond their area of expertise that they almost had no business being there.”They were innovators who didn’t follow a standard path,” says Antonioni. “They followed intuition even if it meant they didn’t know where they’d end up, and they were relentless. To me, that’s innovation.”

Today, the founder of the Los Angeles design lab Orange22 still takes his cue from those aviators, refusing to abide by the often fiercely guarded distinctions between disciplines in design. He calls himself a “maker of things” a purposefully open-ended description, as Orange22 designs and fabricates both mass-market and limited-edition objects and furniture, brand-defining retail environments, residential interiors and design concepts licensed for mass production. In every case, Antonioni fuses technology, art and design, with the overarching intent to revolutionize the way we live.

Antonioni’s work has received awards from RedDot, IDEA, Good Design, Spark, Surface, Contract Magazine and has been nominated for the People’s Choice Award by the Cooper Hewitt. His work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Paris, Cologne, Milan, Sydney, and Singapore. He currently lives and works in Playa Vista, California with his wife, baby girl and two dogs.

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