We are currently seeking a Product Development Intern to assist with tasks related to product development, manufacturing, and distribution. This ideal candidate should be a Junior, Senior or recent graduate with an interest in design manufacturing and background in fabrication, Industrial Design or Mechanical Engineering.

We teach a Design Events class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where we experiment with how behaviors, spaces, and objects come together to create experiences. For their final project, our students were charged with producing a public event loosely based on the theme of "factory." The outcome is Confectionairy: A Sugar Inflation Event, hosted at the ODLCO storefront on Friday, May 3rd from 6-9pm.

"I stayed there the entire day. The only time I wasn't allowed to film was during the lunch break, which was a shame. All the employees sat amidst their creations and ate the food they had brought, which looked exactly like the imitations all around them. You could almost imagine one of them biting into a wax roll by mistake."

-Wim Wenders, Tokyo-Ga

Last year, we visited Dalian, a city on the Northeastern coast of China, and Hong Kong, where we sought out a wide variety of local street food stalls. We love these operations not just for culinary reasons, but also for the transparent and economical inventiveness of the proprietors. Unlike a restaurant, many street food vendors specialize in only one or two things. This specificity allows the stalls to be tiny and efficient, helped along by home-made food preparation machines (see the cast iron corn roaster in one of the photos below) and a rigid mise-en-place. The specialized tools, practiced techniques, and high turnover rates of street food vendors are as exciting to us as any high level production process, and we thought it high time to share some of our experiences to accompany the collection of miniatures we posted in the shop when we returned.

Prem Krishnamurthy, Adam Michaels, and Rob Giampietro, principles of the graphic design firm Project Projects, are speaking at the Art Institute of Chicago on April 16th. The firm is known for publication, exhibition, website and identity work for cultural institutions and art and design practicioners, as well as self-initiated publication and curation projects.  The Art Institute has invited them to use the museum's permanent collection to explore their own interests in the curatorial process and exhibition design, culminating in an exhibition entitled Test Fit, on view in Gallery 286 through April 28th.