WATCH THIS // Inside Design: The Reality of Living with Style

The designer contestants meet at 3rd WardReady, set, design. The challenge was simple, the time limit insane, and the prize amazing...

Create a room that exemplified humanism, creativity, and functionality. 24 hours to design. 24 hours to build. A $5,000 budget, half of which had to be used at IKEA. And the prize? All the furniture, a new Macbook, and our favorite -- an Unlimited Membership at 3rd Ward.

Four very talented and diverse NYC-area designers duked it out for the judges, including our very own Marketing Director, Jess.

Watch the design magic happen and the winning design come to life in a Manhattan loft in this 3-part webseries at Babelgum.com.

Saturday Rubulad Party CANCELED

Due to unforseen circumstances, the Rubulad "Vegetables Gone Wild" party scheduled for today, November 20th, has been CANCELED. Sorry if this causes you any inconvenience!

Call for art from SUPERFRONT LA for Detroit & Brooklyn inspired exhibition

Calling all architects, artists, urban designers and planners! SUPERFRONT LA wants you to get down with the Motown.

3rd Ward friend and curator Chloe Bass is putting out a call for entries to SUPERFRONT LA's first exhibit of 2011, DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY. This exhibit will produce a case study of the motor city past, present and future, through Detroit studies of Brooklyn and Brooklyn studies of Detroit. Any creative format is welcome, in order to investigate the shrinking city, abandoned city, reclaimed city - but also as an everyday environment, as a specific place with specific moments.

Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study will open at SUPERFRONT LA at the Pacific Design Center in January 2011, and will be on view for 4 months.

Check out this video from Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study and click here to submit now! Deadline for consideration is November 22nd.

Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study from SUPERFRONT on Vimeo.

Membership Deal Infographic

Having trouble understanding our Holiday Membership Deal? We made this handy infographic for you to wrap your head around. Deadline is December 10th, 11:59pm. BUY TODAY!

CLICK HERE for the best deal of the season!

Physical Center : Brooklyn // One Night Only!

Our lovely and talented Membership Services Associate Allison is part of an amazing show this Saturday! Check out Physical Center : Brooklyn at The Convent of Saint Cecilia.  Full details below.

Join us for a night of performance art, video art and interactive installations by artists from London, Berlin and Brooklyn! The event starts at The Convent of Saint Cecilia and then moves to a location (to be announced the night-of) within walking distance for an afterparty!

Physical Center: Brooklyn, is a one‐night exhibition, video screening, and performance event; a tactile soirée featuring both local and international artis ts, performers, and musicians.

Physical Center: Brooklyn is an opportunity to bring together emerging Brooklyn and London‐based video and installation artists. The event will act as a fundraiser for "Physical Center: London", a two‐month series of performance art, video art, photography and sculpture that will take place between January and February 2011 at artist Yinka Shonibare’s warehouse, Guest Projects, in Hackney, London. See more info at: www.physicalcenter.org

Our Brooklyn edition’s after‐ party, with DJ sets from Luiza Sá of Brazilian pop group CSS and DJ Lauren Flax, aims to raise funds for flying two Brooklyn‐based performance artists to London. This is a unique opportunity for these two artists to take part in a not‐for‐profit international exchange and perform in London.

Physical Center: Brooklyn is organized by a panel of curators and artists consisting of, Amanda Schmitt, Allison Wall, Bryan Norvelle, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, and Rachel Rosen. Suggested donation at the door for this event will be $10 with a free beer. All funds will go towards flying three Brooklyn‐based artists to London to perform at Physical Center: London in early 2011.

Performances and screening start at 6pm, so get there early and stay late!

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163103913699852



Get your Goods Groupon TODAY, plus the Seinfelds drop in for a bite.

This weekend, your year-long tropical oasis welcomed two new guests, Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld! The beignets caused delicious chaos, breakfast was called “FREAKY GOOD”, and the kale salad secured a top spot in Jessica’s heart. 

Read Jessica’s rave review of Goods on her blog, Do it Delicious. Already craving a beignet, or maybe some oyster and braised pork belly gumbo? Get your Goods Groupon before midnight TONIGHT!

Jessica Seinfeld has written two books on scrumptious cooking, Deceptively Delicious and Double Delicious. Check out her appearance on Rachel Ray today!

Redecoration your landlord will approve of with OrangePiel (plus a rad discount!)

Image: Custom wallpaper from Orange PielYour living environment just got a whole lot more interesting. Creatively-minded decor company, OrangePiel, empowers you to print custom window shades and large-scale textile murals with artwork from their vast gallery. With sizes ranging from wee inches to a whopping 16x150 feet, this online gallery gives you the flexibility to re-imagine anything from a small window to large loft walls. All pieces are printed on organic canvas and attach with safe and sturdy hardware, so you can transform your space without breaking the lease agreement.

Now, friends of 3rd Ward can get 10% off all orders. Just enter promo code 3RDWARD when you checkout. To start your first order and learn more about Orange Piel, visit http://www.orangepiel.com/.

Plus, OrangePiel is looking for artists to add to their diverse online gallery. They’ll handle all transactions and promotion of your images, so all you have to do is upload and reap the royalties! To find out more about becoming an Orange Piel artist, click here.

This Saturday, Rubulad showcases new crop at “Vegetables Gone Wild!!!”

Rubulad presents "Vegetables Gone Wild!!!"
Saturday, November 20, 2010
hosted at 3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
10 pm

Carrots, tomatoes and broccoli, oh my! This Saturday, November 20th, grab your strangest vegetable-themed getup for Rubulad’s latest naughty and nutritious party, “Vegetables Gone Wild!!!”. Hosted at 3rd Ward, this event from the game-changing Brooklyn project will go down with nonstop music, jaw-dropping aerial theater, circus freaks, and unforgettable installations.

Don’t miss your turn with the Dreams and Aspirations Vending Machine or a spin on the Homespun Merry-Go-Round. More Installations by G. Scopitronic, Norm Francoeur, Bob Robbins and Hot F**king Tamales. Stay late for sets from Spanglish Fly, Ikebe Shakedown, The Secret Band from Another Land, Ursula 1000, $mall ¢hange, Pork Chop, Count ZyrO and DJ Mojo.

“Vegetables Gone Wild!!!” starts at 10pm at 195 Morgan Avenue. Admission is $20 at the door.

SUNDAY: 3rd Ward Teacher Allison Maletz’ group show “B is for Bear”

B is for Bear

Sunday, November 14, 12-7pm
1031 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Would a bear survive in the city? 3rd Ward instructor Allison Maletz’ new group show, “B is for Bear” will have you seeing this oft-exiled animal in new ways. Pick up your pack and head into the woods. Expect glittery deciduous horns, vomiting apes, and an endless array of shimmering trees along your way. Fun times!

Allison has taught Watercolor, Drawing and Installation Art at 3rd Ward and has been featured on Break Thru Radio. Tomorrow, Allison’s new work will be joined by 18 other artists as they bring this hefty creature to unexpected new life.

The show is up Sunday, November 13th only as part of BETA Spaces (Bushwick Exhibition Triangle of Alternative Spaces), a FREE one-day festival of conceptualized and thematic group exhibitions. To see “B is for Bear”, head over to 1031 Flushing Ave tomorrow between 12 and 7 pm. To learn more about the show and Beta Spaces, click here.

November 13: Catch TEDxBrooklyn @ Pratt Institute.

TEDxBrooklyn
Saturday November 13
Pratt Institute (Brooklyn Campus)
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

What does TED stand for? Technology, Entertainment, Design. But can we also get a “B” for “Badass”? These 18-minute-or-less talks are a true phenomenon that have brought the world together in a global pow-wow of “ideas worth spreading.”

For the first time ever, TED is coming to Brooklyn (we know, why didn’t it happen sooner?) this Saturday at Pratt. Some of the confirmed speakers at TEDxBrooklyn are street artist extraordinaire Swoon, NPR's Kurt Andersen, DJ Spooky, M.I.A.'s eco husband Ben Brofman, PBS' Nate Ball, Whitney Biennial writer Tracie Morris, along with a mind bending group of the most promising innovators.

The theme “One Moves Many,”  will focus on how the passions of transformational individuals can launch a movement, and how emerging technologies and merging communities can help shape and propel those movements.

Check out a video from TEDxBrooklyn below and click here to get your ticket.