OMG Design: Can Style Move Us to Environmental Action?
Date/Time: | Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm |
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Location: | Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design |
Cost: | free |
Contact: | Chris Martin |
Phone: | 515-294-1639 |
Channel: | College of Design |
Categories: | Lectures |
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Danko believes it is the job of architects and designers to incorporate OMG materials that tell the story of a comfortable, beautiful, fun and romantic future, and that only the design community can move people from the status quo to choose that which makes a more environmentally balanced world.
Danko's use of ply-bending, or bending wood in layers, combined with his use of other recycled and sustainable materials, significantly reduces the wood used in construction of his furniture when compared to traditional construction. This is because veneer yields 8-10 times more usable wood from a log than does solid lumber. A number of his seating designs incorporate nylon seat belts from production overruns/remnants.
Danko received a BA in fine art and art history from the University of Maryland in 1971. His work has been exhibited at the American Crafts Museum, American Design Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery, among others, and is a part of several of these and other institutions' collections. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents.