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This is Convo By Design with award winning set decorator, Victor Zolfo. Award winning…. Oscar winning for his work on Benjamin Button. I was really curious what that experience was like. How do you prepare yourself for the Academy Awards? Do you prepare a speech, or not? What if you win, what if you don’t…. I know, it’s an honor just being nominated. I’m sure that it is, but what if they don’t call your name? So, you get to hear it strait from someone who’s been there.

Zolfo has works on some truly memorable projects including The Avengers, The Social Network, Deepwater Horizon, Real Steel, Daredevil, Godzilla, and many many more but what is really interesting about this list is the diversity in his work. You have a range, yes in genres, but look at the diversity in time and feel. Victor’s job, his art is taking words from a page and crafting an environment so when you and I go see this movie, we believe that character but also that the character belongs in that space.

You are also going to hear Victor talk about films like Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the 2005 Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie film that was rumored to be the start of their relationship. This film was really interesting as well for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that a main character is the house itself… And the house is killed off in dramatic fashion. How does Zolfo manage the process knowing the a film isn’t shot sequentially. You are going to find out. This is Oscar winning set decorator, Victor Zolfo.

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This is the third and final episode of our Pasadena Home Tour featuring Rozalynn Woods. The ASID, Pasadena Chapter is offering a really unique event. This is a semi-guided tour of three amazing homes that will give design enthusiasts a truly unique glimpse into Pasadena’s rich and diverse design and architecture. This one day event will feature tours of three amazing homes, a pop-up and food trucks…

The event is October 7th from 10am to 4pm in Pasadena and you can find all the details on the ASID Pasadena Chapter website. Now, if you download these episodes AFTER the 7th, that’s great! You can’t tour the homes, but you can hear all about them here AND you can find much in the way of video on our YouTube channel so we’ve got you covered.

The three designers you are going to hear from include; Christine Santana of Santana Interiors. Her Las Vegas inspired traditional, you heard me right will, if your like me, make you long for the Rat Pack days on the Strip. Jennifer Bevan-Montoya of Jennifer Bevan Interiors offers up her own home, A Paul Williams update… And what an update it is. You will also hear from Rozalynn Woods of Rozalynn Woods Interior Design and a soft modern ranch with a woodsy-open floor plan and a tree-house master suite that you will crush on, big time.

All three designers are featured in their own episodes so you can spend time in each home. I hope you enjoy the tour. I Also hope you like this episode, if you do… please give us a 5 star rating and a review on iTunes or wherever you enjoy your podcasts. You can also find us on most social media, but what I think you will like best is the Convo By Design YouTube Channel where you can find short videos from the podcast.

This is…

Rozalynn Woods of Rosalyn Woods Interior Design

#Design #Architecture #ConvoByDesign #Miele #SnyderDiamond #ASID #ASIDPasadena

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ASID Pasadena Home Tour Information – https://capas.asid.org/events/asid-pasadena-home-tour

Santana Interiors – https://santana-interiors.com

Jennifer Bevan Interiors – http://www.jenniferbevan.com

Rosalyn Woods Design – https://www.rozalynnwoods.com

Music provided by Electric Sol Artist: Electric Sol Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com

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The ASID, Pasadena Chapter is offering a really unique event. This is a semi-guided tour of three amazing homes that will give design enthusiasts a truly unique glimpse into Pasadena’s rich and diverse design and architecture. This one day event will feature tours of three amazing homes, a pop-up and food trucks…

The event is October 7th from 10am to 4pm in Pasadena and you can find all the details on the ASID Pasadena Chapter website. Now, if you download these episodes AFTER the 7th, that’s great! You can’t tour the homes, but you can hear all about them here AND you can find much in the way of video on our YouTube channel so we’ve got you covered.

The three designers you are going to hear from include; Christine Santana of Santana Interiors. Her Las Vegas inspired traditional, you heard me right will, if your like me, make you long for the Rat Pack days on the Strip. Jennifer Bevan-Montoya of Jennifer Bevan Interiors offers up her own home, A Paul Williams update… And what an update it is. You will also hear from Rosalyn Woods of Rosalyn Woods Interior Design and a soft modern ranch with a woodsy-open floor plan and a tree-house master suite that you will crush on, big time.

All three designers are featured in their own episodes so you can spend time in each home. I hope you enjoy the tour. I Also hope you like this episode, if you do… please give us a 5 star rating and a review on iTunes or wherever you enjoy your podcasts. You can also find us on most social media, but what I think you will like best is the Convo By Design YouTube Channel where you can find short videos from the podcast.

#Design #Architecture #ConvoByDesign #Miele #SnyderDiamond #ASID #ASIDPasadena

Convo By Design – http://www.ConvoByDesign.com

Snyder Diamond – http://www.SnyderDiamond.com

Miele USA – http://www.MieleUSA.com

Vondom USA – http://www.Vondom.com

ASID Pasadena Home Tour Information – https://capas.asid.org/events/asid-pasadena-home-tour

Jennifer Bevan Interiors – http://www.jenniferbevan.com

Music provided by Electric Sol Artist: Electric Sol Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com

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This is a first for Convo By Design. We are producing three episodes in one week to showcase a design tour in Pasadena on one day only, October 7th, 2018. Since the purpose of Convo By Design is to share, inspire, educate and motivate the design and architecture communities in particular and all creative thinkers and doers in general, this seemed like a good time to do this.

The ASID, Pasadena Chapter is offering a really unique event. This is a semi-guided tour of three amazing homes that will give design enthusiasts a truly unique glimpse into Pasadena’s rich and diverse design and architecture. This one day event will feature tours of three amazing homes, a pop-up and food trucks…

The event is October 7th from 10am to 4pm in Pasadena and you can find all the details on the ASID Pasadena Chapter website. Now, if you download these episodes AFTER the 7th, that’s great! You can’t tour the homes, but you can hear all about them here AND you can find much in the way of video on our YouTube channel so we’ve got you covered.

The three designers you are going to hear from include; Christine Santana of Santana Interiors. Her Las Vegas inspired traditional, you heard me right will, if your like me, make you long for the Rat Pack days on the Strip. Jennifer Bevan-Montoya of Jennifer Bevan Interiors offers up her own home, A Paul Williams update… And what an update it is. You will also hear from Rosalyn Woods of Rosalyn Woods Interior Design and a soft modern ranch with a woodsy-open floor plan and a tree-house master suite that you will crush on, big time.

All three designers are featured in their own episodes so you can spend time in each home. I hope you enjoy the tour. I Also hope you like this episode, if you do… please give us a 5 star rating and a review on iTunes or wherever you enjoy your podcasts. You can also find us on most social media, but what I think you will like best is the Convo By Design YouTube Channel where you can find short videos from the podcast.

This is…

Christine Santana of Santana Interiors

#Design #Architecture #ConvoByDesign #Miele #SnyderDiamond #ASID #ASIDPasadena

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ASID Pasadena Home Tour Information – https://capas.asid.org/events/asid-pasadena-home-tour

Santana Interiors – https://santana-interiors.com

Jennifer Bevan Interiors – http://www.jenniferbevan.com

Rosalyn Woods Design – https://www.rozalynnwoods.com

Music provided by Electric Sol Artist: Electric Sol Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com

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Alison Trent invited me into her world for an afternoon, and it was a wonderful experience. Trent is Executive Chef at LA eatery, Ysabel. She calls LA home by way of New York and her first home, Australia. Alison’s journey to Ysabel included stints at French Laundry and Bouchon. She has been at Ysabel for 3 years as of this recording.

A few things that make Alison Trent so unique is her attention to detail, a focus on perfection with a strong desire to experiment and create. Two very different concepts constantly battling against each other. Check out the Convo By Design YouTube channel for video with Alison. You can see her in action, and she is as effortless as I have ever seen an artist work. Alison spares nothing in her search for the right ingredients, masterfully prepares and artfully assembles her dishes. Her concern for their appearance, down to the crafted plates they are served on show that this is more than a job to Trent.

Alison and I discuss a few issues of note… #SustainableFarming #Foodie culture, #Love of #Art and blending the two in unique #FoodStyling and #PairedPassions.

One thing that I think you might also find of interest … If you are in the Los Angeles area and want to eat, chill or hang at Ysabel, they do NOT make it easy for you to find. You will hear Alison and I talk about this and it really seems like it was done by design. So, if you are looking for Ysabel, it is located at 945 North Fairfax in West Hollywood. It is a non-descript building with no signage on the south west corner of north Fairfax and Romaine Street. And it is worth finding.

#Design #Architecture #ConvoByDesign #Miele #SnyderDiamond #Ysabel

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Ysabel – http://www.ysabel.la

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Brandi Kalish is a set decorator with a nomination this year for a prime time Emmy for her work on HBO’s Silicon Valley. She is up for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour Or Less). Kalish, whose work includes, of course Silicon Valley, Wilfred, White Famous and Teen Wolf amongst other shows. This conversation gets very fun when we start discussing different types of blood that don’t stain and how to use nut shavings for an assortment of different types of bugs.

Set decorators are artists or mad scientists, or perhaps a little of both. At the same time, they have an opportunity to create new ideas from scratch all for the purpose of moving the characters forward along their journey.

Our Emmy week coverage continues with Emmy nominated set decorator, Brandi Kalish…

#Design #Architecture #Art #ConvoByDesign #Miele #SnyderDiamond #TV #Movies # EmmyAwards

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Set Decorator Society of America – https://www.setdecorators.org

Music provided by Electric Sol Artist: Electric Sol Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com

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The EMMYS are coming and while many will be watching to see who wins best actor, best actress and best show, a few of us will be looking to see who wins the awards for production and set design. As a fan of television and movies as well as design and architecture, the EMMYS present the best of both worlds. I had the opportunity to sit with Juan Morales, publisher of Emmy Magazine before Emmy season started and we discussed both the magazine, the Emmy’s themselves and the art behind the creation and production of set design. I think you will enjoy hearing about what happens behind the scenes of an awards show like this. I really wanted to shed some light on this aspect of the Emmy’s since traditionally, most of the art department categories get announced during the commercial breaks.

Following my conversation with Juan is a chat with award winning set decorator, Kimberly Wannop, who is also a Set Decorator Society of America member. Kim has worked on a number of your favorite shows including, Bones, The Good Place, VEEP, Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn nine-nine. Kim is a six time Emmy nominee and a Primetime Emmy Award winner for her work of VEEP.

The set decorators, art directors and all of the members of the art department have this unique job of telling a story, about characters, both real and imagined in a way that shows how they live or lived, how they became the characters the actors want you to believe them to be. Kimberly Wannop is an absolute pro and this is her story.

#Design #Architecture #Art #ConvoByDesign #Miele #SnyderDiamond #TV #Movies #EmmyAwards

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Set Decorator Society of America – https://www.setdecorators.org

Music provided by Electric Sol
Artist: Electric Sol
Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com

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Mia Lehrer is the principal architect, president and founder of Studio-MLA. She was raised in El Salvador to a family that was heavily involved in activism and community leadership. In the 60’s, her mother started a micro lending project for women while her father was helping disadvantaged youths. Lehrer earned her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She founded Studio-MLA and surrounded herself with some of the best and brightest.

Speaking with Lehrer is Hunker Media’s VP of Content, Eve Epstein. They talk about advocacy, public spaces, social engagement and building a better society while building better spaces.

Thank you for listening to this episode of Convo By Design. If you like what you hear, and I hope you do, please give us a 5 star rating and a review. It helps new listeners find the podcast and it is greatly appreciated.

#Design #Architecture #Art #ConvoByDesign #Miele #SnyderDiamond #LADesignFest #Movies

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We continue our journey through the forrest of unique conversations from this years LA Design Festival. This week, we have a very cool presentation from LADdesign founder, graphic designer, creative director and Grammy Award winner, Lawrence Azerrad. Azerrad’s studio, LADdesign is focused on the crossroads of branding, culture, music and education. It makes perfects sense too as Azzard’s prior experience was as an art director with Warner Bros. Records working on the creative packaging for artists ranging from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Miles Davis.

Azzara is the author of a book called Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde. It is a Prestel release due out in September 2018. He is also a producer and creative director of The Voyager Golden Record 40th Anniversary Edition. He discusses all of it here in a conversation about design from a very unique point of view. Lawrence is introduced by Erika Abrams, member of the Advisory Board of the AIGA, Los Angeles chapter, as is Lawrence. A happy coincidence here is that we shared our space at the LA Design Festival with the AIGA LA as they were presenting some AMAZING subway art graphics that you can still see in the the background of our videos shot at the festival. Please go to our YouTube channel and check them out.

Thank you for listening to this episode of Convo By Design. If you like what you hear, and I hope you do, please give us a 5 star rating and a review. It helps new listeners find the podcast and it is greatly appreciated.

#Design #Architecture #Art #ConvoByDesign #Music #Miele #SnyderDiamond #LADesignFest #Movies

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Music provided by Electric Sol
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Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com

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I was in #PalmSprings for #ModernismWeek and got into a very passionately heated conversation between an architect, designer and myself on the topic of intellectual Property rights and their relationship to the design and architecture business. The designer at the table that night was LA native and LA design fixture, Gary Gibson. My background is in broadcasting and digital media. Was the general manager and program director for Playboy and the digital audio division. It was there that I met Emile Nicolau. Emile is one of the sharpest minds in the field of intellectual property rights. As the GM, I didn’t always see eye-to-eye with Emile, but I did always listen to him and he kept me out of trouble. As I was thinking about how I wanted to present the ideas regarding design and intellectual property, I heard Lori Posner on a panel at the 2017 WestEdge Design Fair and was really impressed t both her knowledge of artist’s rights, but the manner in which she conveyed the ideas and made them easy to understand.

See, I have been around intellectual property for quite some time and it is probably one of the most complex areas of the law. And it is probably one of the most misunderstood elements of the design and architecture business. If you are a designer, architect, artist, product designer or creative of any type that delivers a product or design based on your creative talents, you have rights based on that performance. Knowing your rights and choosing to or not to enforce them are two very different things. The following conversation is all about intellectual property rights featuring IP attorney Emile Nicolaou, art expert, Wendy Posner and designer, Gary Gibson. This interview was recorded live from the Convo By Design Audio Design Lab at the LA Design Festival. A collaborative space designed to showcase audio design and explore issues that affect designers of every discipline. Publisher’s Note: My voice sounds terrible, it sounded like this all weekend from talking non stop over a three day period of time. I will have to take that into account the next time we do this.

Enjoy this conversation covering intellectual property rights for creatives, And if you do, please, head over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a five star rating and a review, it is greatly appreciated and it helps new listeners find the show.

#Design #Architecture #Art #ConvoByDesign #IntellectualProperty #Copyright #ModernismWeek #PalmSprings #Miele #SnyderDiamond #LADesignFest #Movies

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Vondom USA – http://www.Vondom.com

Wendy Posner – http://posnerfineart.com/

Gary Gibson -https://garygibson.com/wordpress/

Special thanks to: Emile Nicolaou, Wendy Posner and Gary Gibson for adding their insight and expertise of a very important issue to this conversation recorded LIVE from the Audio Design Lab presented by Convo By Design at the LA Design Festival.

Music provided by Electric Sol Artist: Electric Sol Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com