Shop Where Your Heart Is

Happy Thanksgiving! November has been an exciting month at Ideal, with shipments from our summer New York trip arriving weekly. We are busy rearranging and getting the store looking festive for holiday shopping. Rest assured there are many new beautiful objects of good design for people of all ages and interests.

Starting Friday, November 27, we are participating in Downtown Bellingham Partnership's Shop Where Your Heart Is, a week-long series of holiday events encouraging shoppers to support Bellingham's unique, local stores. Pick up a passport, collect stamps from all participating shops, and you will be entered into a raffle with dozens of great prizes. Please visit us during the week of November 27 - December 4 to have your passport stamped and check out what's new in the shop.

Here's to a happy, healthy holiday season. Our heartfelt thanks to you for supporting our locally-owned business.

Art Walk, November 6 - Form Function by Jason Morris

Join us Friday night as we feature two screenings of Jason Morris's short film "Form Function." Jason is Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Western Washington University. His film follows 12 WWU students through a design process from start to finish, with fascinating results.

In Jason's words:

This short film shows a design process that begins with abstract form creation and ends with unique and fantastic designs of furniture, vehicles and spaces. Twelve selected projects are exhibited from the industrial design students at Western Washington University from March 2009. It is highly visual and dreamlike, with no dialogue and an ambient soundtrack by Moby. (9 minutes running time)

Screenings will be at 8 and 8:30 pm. Jason will be on hand to answer questions about the project. We'd love to see you!

Objectified Film Screening Next Weekend

We are happy to co-sponsor screenings of Gary Hustwit's great documentary, Objectified, next weekend at the Pickford Cinema. Showings will be Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (October 2,3 & 4) at 2pm. Here's a blurb about the film from its site, www.objectifiedfilm.com :

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

We are co-sponsoring this film with WWU's Industrial Design program. Before each screening, Professor Jason Morris will be screening his short film, Form Function. In this film he shows an industrial design creative process that starts with abstract sculpture and ends with a functional object. Junior class ID students and their work from January to April 2009 are featured so you may see some familiar Bellingham faces.

http://www.pickfordcinema.org/pickford/Schedule.aspx?si=1611

Join us for a matinee! We'd love to see you there.