AIGA Design Educators SHIFT Virtual Summit 2020

PIECE STUDIO was invited by the AIGA Design Educators Committee to participate in the Shift Virtual Summit 2020. Bernard J Canniffe participate in the panel topic that addressed Design Research and Tenure & Promotion in the Age of Social Distancing.  


AIGA SHIFT Design Educator Summit 2020 Part Two

Name Tag for the AIGA SHIFT Design Educator Summit 2020


AIGA DEC SHIFT SYMPOSIUM 2020

PIECE Studio has been invited to participate in the AIGA Design Educators 2020 SHIFT Symposium that will take part in August 3-7. Bernard J Canniffe will take part in a panel discussion on Design Research and Tenure and Promotion in the Age of Social Distancing.   The panel will be moderated by Liese Zahabi  


AIGA DEC SHIFT SYMPOSIUM 2020

PIECE Studio invited to participate in the AIGA Design Educators Community SHIFT Symposium 2020. Bernard J Canniffe will be on the panel Design, Research and Tenure in The Age of Social Distancing. The panel is moderated by Liese Zahabi


Protesting U.S. Immigration Policies, Artists Aim for the Sky

This Independence Day, 70 artists are having messages of solidarity and defiance typed in the sky to highlight the plight of immigrants held in detention centers.   NY Times Link  


Protesting U.S. Immigration Policies, Artists Aim for the Sky

The project started a year ago when the artists Cassils and rafa esparza teamed up with a goal of forming a coalition of artists and activists determined to address the ills of mass detention. NY Times Link


Poster from the Trenches Certificate

PIECE Studio recently received a certificate and letter from the Official Graphic Design Association of Catalonia for three posters that were accepted for the exhibition in Barcelona and will also be included in the exhibition catalogue. The exhibition and exhibition theme was graphic design in the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic .   PIECE Studio would like […]


Fabrica Presentation 2010 A

PIECE Studio, along with Russell Kerr were invited to speak at Fabrica Research Center, Treviso, Italy about our work and the importance of using design as a catalyst for positive change. Fabrica was established in 1994 from a vision of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani, it is based in Treviso, Italy, in a space of magical architecture restored and augmented […]


At This Table: Community Engagement and Activation

At This Table is a PIECE Studio project is a physical table and also community engagement tool. At This Table provides a platform to bring different community members together in a physical space that fosters empathy and understanding. PIECE Studio will engage in, and with, disenfranchised communities and invite a diverse group of community members to share […]


FAREWAY: Midwest Quality Wholesale

PIECE Studio worked with graduate graphic design students from Iowa State University and partnered with FAREWAY at their corporate office in Boone, Iowa on a project that has become known as Midwest Quality Wholesale. Midwest Quality Wholesale‘s visual langue is derived from the colors of the Iowa natural and physical landscapes. The colors of the […]