DAT Symposium at High Point University

On March 6^th, our Computer –Aided Design class went to the DAT symposium that took place at High Point University.

We had the opportunity to see Designer Julian Alexander, a North Carolina Designer from Chapel Hill who was the guest speaker during the morning.

It was quite interesting, I’ve never heard about him before but he talked about very creative things in the fashion, interior design and architectural field.

He’s been the first designer to design college and professional sportive uniforms. He designed the UNC Tar heels basketball uniforms and also some suit for NASCAR professionals.

Also, he has a lot of experience in the fashion design field, he has a huge reputation designing textiles and combining colors and has experimented with new techniques such as: Photo printing, Digital printing and Watercolor + cork. His textiles designs have been influenced by artists’ paintings such as: Pablo Picasso and Mondrian.

Part of his work is specialized in the Home Furnishing field designing Rugs, Linens, Flooring and lines of furniture. He also designed the seats for the Charlotte Knights' baseball stadium.

I considered this presentation very helpful for the interior architecture field since it gave us a broad idea about furniture, colors and architectural design.

We also attended to the Art, Creativity & Entrepreneurship workshop, which was very fun and entertained. Creative professional talked about their works and experiences and how to pursue your dreams in in the design field. The ones that I enjoyed the most was Designer John Murphy who’s the creator of Stupid Creatures, I can’t see this very related to the interior architecture field, but still was fun! He uses very colorful textiles to design these toys. If you go to this link you will be able to see all his monsters:

http://www.stupidcreatures.com/.

Another artist was Professional Photographer Bill Lusk; his work is focused on Commercial, Real and Cartoon Photography. I considered his work very fascinating and creative. http://www.billlusk.com/