Lectures
“Insights; Blu Dot” Walker Art Center 2005 (Blanks, Christakos) “Blu Dot” Hallmark Inc., Kansas City, MO. 2005 (Christakos) “Blu Dot” M.A.D.E., Edmonton Museum of Contemporary Art 2005 (Christakos) “Blu Dot” California College of Arts and Crafts 2005 (Christakos) “Blu Dot” Arts Club Chicago 2005 (Blanks) “From Garage to Global: Blu Dot’s Trip” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2005 (Blanks) “Thought at Work” Rochester Institute of Technology Student Design Conference 2003 (Christakos) “Blu Dot Unplugged” Stanford University Graduate Program for Industrial Design 2003 (Christakos) “Design Entrepreneurs” Metropolis Conference ICFF 2003 (Christakos) “Close At Hand” Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial Symposium 2003 (Lazor) “Fabrication and Everyday Forms” Washington University 2003 (Lazor) “Don’t Fear The Rigor” AIGA Keynote Speaker, Columbus Ohio 2002 (Christakos) Keynote Speaker: CAD/CAM Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Design 2002 (Lazor) “Blu Dot” AIA Minnesota Chapter Annual Conference 2002 (Lazor) “Blu Dot, Blu Not” IDSA Portland Chapter guest lecture series 2001 (Christakos) “Don’t fear the Rigor” The University of Minnesota 2001, guest lecture “Here By Design” (Christakos) “Blu Dot” Rhode Island School of Design guest lecture 2001 (Lazor) “Best Practices in Design Education” Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum 2001 (Lazor) “What We Do” Rhode Island School of Design, 2000 (Lazor) “More or Less” Walker on Wheels (Walker Art Center) 2000 (Christakos & Lazor) “Context” Walker Art Center, 1999 (Christakos & Lazor) “Blu Dot’s Design Approach” Product Forum guest lecture series, 1999 (Lazor) “More or Less” Yale School of Architecture, “Unconventional Practices” guest lecture series, 1998 (Lazor) |