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Product Runway 2012 Event Highlights Photo Collage

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Product Runway Cntd. Event Highlights Photo Collage

Underwriter Spotlight Calender of Events

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HCC Council Product Runway Cntd. Winners Circle

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HCC Council Cntd.

June CEU Highlights Photo Collage

July CEU Highlights Photo Collage

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Thank You to Past Council

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Metro-Con 2012

PRODUCT RUNWAY 2012: TRAVELING TRENDS

INTERIOR DESIGNERS TURNED FASHION DESIGNERS

A crowd

of over 1,100 sav-

vy event attendees

packed Bayou

Music Center to

witness Architects

and Interior De-

signers create

couture garments

for the fourth an-

nual IIDA Product

Runway design

competition. The

judges included Houston stars Jeff Gremillion, editor-in-chief of Houston Maga-

zine, Joy Sewing, fashion and beauty editor of the Houston Chronicle, Alex

Chapman, professor of fashion design at HCC, and Lisa Spain, owner of The

Cotton Club Boutique. The star Master of Ceremonies was Houston’s own Rod

Ryan from 94.5 the Buzz. Chairing this event were two key players, Jeannie Wu

with Gensler and Laura Thompson with JCS,ltd.

Product Runway Traveling

Trends celebrates the fusion of inter-

national culture, design, and fashion.

All entrants transformed standard

architectural products into couture fashionwear.

Winning design teams included: Gensler, HOK, Pow-

ers Brown, Page Southerland Page, Kendall-Heaton,

Ziegler Cooper, PBK, and FKP. Creativity included a

beverage cart made out of demountable wall sys-

tems, ceramic tile used as decorative trimmings on

a woman’s bodice, leather upholstery used to cre-

ate Mayan armor, and carpet thread weaved to-

gether to make a fringe skirt.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

September 13 TAID Art Gala September 20 Membership Social & Industry Roundtable October 3 Leadership Breakfast Dallas, TX October 6 Connect: A Campus Center Conclave

October 19 Art & Artifacts 2012 November TBD Furniture Bank Anniversary Party November TBD Forum Tour November 15 Chapter Partner CEU December 20 Jingle Bell Rock Holiday Party January 17 TAID Event February 21/22 Student Days March 21 Healthcare Project Tour April 19 Product Runway 13 May TBD Leaders Breakfast May TBD Green Event June 20 Barrier Free CEU

PRODUCT RUNWAY 2012 Cntd.

The event took place May 11th at Bayou Music

Center and was presented by IIDA, the International

Interior Design Association. The fashion show raised

over $14,000 for the Houston Furniture Bank. Chloe Dao,

owner of Lot 8, supported the event as the Model’s

coach and has all of the events winning garments on

display at her boutique.

PR12– Underwriter Spotlight

We want to thank all of our Product Runway 2012 underwriters for

their very generous donations. Your support helped make this even

a huge success!

PRIVATE CHARTER– JCS

FIRST CLASS– Steelcase/McCoy Workplace Solutions, J.Tyler, ACS Flooring Group, Inc./Interface FLOR, Balfour

Beatty Construction

PREMIER COACH– Texan Floor Service, Cosentino, Harvey, Gallant Builders, Inscape, Trio Electric/Wylie Con-

sulting Engineers, Centiva

PLATINUM ELITE– Clestra, Humanscale, OM Workspace, Quality Service Floor Covering, Quality Stone & Mar-

ble, Silsby Nunes Group, Tandus Flooring, Teknion, The Ofis, Trendway Corporation

GOLD ELITE– American Art Resources, Hart Associates, Kimball Office, Lesco Architectural Lighting, Structure

Tone

SILVER ELITE– Abel Design Group, Gensler, Inventure Design, PBK, Planning Design Research

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HOUSTON CITY CENTER COUNCIL

DIRECTOR Kristy Emmrich, IIDA, RID, LEED AP Gensler kristy_emmrich@gensler.com DIRECTOR ELECT Joanna Prazak, Assoc. IIDA, LEED AP ID+C Contract Resource Group prazakj@crgoffice.com PAST DIRECTOR Shannah O’Neill, IIDA, RID Shannah..oneill@gmail.com

PROGRAMS CHAIR Necia Bonner, IIDA, LEED AP Inventure Design Group necia.bonner@invesdesgroup.com

PROGRAMS CHAIR Steavie Cain Quality Floor Covering scain@qservice.com PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CHAIR Ann Briganti, IIDA, RID, LEED AP McCoy Inc. abringanti@mccoyinc.com GRAPHICS CHAIR Daphne Yuanidis Gensler Daphne_yaunidis@gensler.com

COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR Sarah Waltisperger, Assoc. IIDA, LEED AP JMC Associates sarah@jmcassociates.com ASSOCIATES CHAIR Jennifer Trenta, Assoc. IIDA Office Pavilion jtrenta@ophouston.com MEMBERSHIP CHAIR Lindsey Craig, Assoc. IIDA, LEED AP MDI Resources Lindsey@mdiresources.com

PRODUCT RUNWAY 2012– WINNERS CIRCLE!

GENSLER I- Best of Show

Suzanne Miks, Sarah Wistner, Amanda Meininger, Radiance Ham, Bryan Brady, Daphne Yuanidis

MDI Resources + Mechoshade

PAGE SOUTHERLAND PAGE- Best Performance

Anna Garrison, Angela Cantu, Autumn Gloetzner,

Monica Hurley, Kari Brown, Courtney Thomas

Mannington Commercial + DesignTex

PBK- Most Sustainable

Sean Pantin, Hannah DeFord, Alice Boedeker, John Kubala, Andrea Barrera

DIRTT + Maharam | J.Tyler

POWERS BROWN ARCHITECTURE- Best Construction

Nicole Barcas, Brian Burnett, Barry Conner, Sally Diaz, Steve Oliver, Alaina Dixon

Haworth + Bolyu

KENDALL/HEATON ASSOCIATES, INC.- Best New Arrival

Amy Cooke, Nicole Mahoney, Megan Ebert, Jennifer Digges, Jory Alexander, Ai Loreman

Ann Sacks + Architex

ZIEGLER COOPER ARCHITECTS- Crowd Favorite

Jenna Stanke, Rachel Gonzales, Ali Naghdali, Jaclyn Morfin, Melinda Smiljanic, Donald Hickey

Kimball | JCS + Spinneybeck | The Ofis

FKP ARCHITECTS- Most Wearable

Ben Notzon, Amy Force, Kara Ary, Erica Spicer, Stephanie Fallon, Whitney Fuessel

TRI-KES + JCS | Sue Gorman

HOK- Most Original

Giancarlo Salonga, Wendy Niziol, Emily Willner, Kelly Beaumont, Meredith Savage

Clarus Glassboards + M. Jarvie Partnership | Debner & Co.

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JUNE CEU HOUSTON CITY

CENTER COUNCIL UNDERWRITING CHAIR Amanda Meininger, Assoc. IIDA Gensler Amanda_meininger@gensler.com

UNDERWRIITNG CHAIR Monica Fiasconaro Rohling Interface FLOR Monica.rohling@interfaceflor.com

GRA/TAID CHAIR Amy Gilmore, IIDA, RID, LEED AP Ziegler Cooper agilmore2003@gmail.com INDUSTRY CHAIR Jeremy Dicks OM Workspace jeremydicks@omworkspace.com

SUSTAINABLE CHAIR Stacy Dobbs Texan Floor Service Sdobbs@texanfloor.com STUDENT CONFERENCE LIASON Jessy Fuller, IIDA, RID, EDAC, LEED AP J Tyler fuller@jtyler.com STUDENT CONFERENCE LIASON Stephanie Fallon, MS, Assoc. IIDA FKP Architects sfallon@fkp.com PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CHAIR Ann Briganti, IIDA, RID, LEED AP McCoy Inc. abriganti@mccoyinc.com PHILANTHROPY CHAIR Laura Thompson JCS lthompson@j-c-s.com PHILANTHROPY CHAIR Sean Pantin PBK Architects Sean.pantin@pbk.com

June 21st a small group of designers met for an even-

ing CEU hosted in tandem by Columbia Forest Products

and Dal-Tile. The topic was “Decorative Hardwood Ply-

wood and Interior Air Quality”. Richard Poindexter

with Columbia Forest Products educated the group on

understanding composite core adhesive options and

formaldehyde emission issues. Multiple samples of the

differing applications were passed around the group to

touch and feel. Dal-Tile generously provided refresh-

ments and their showroom as

a meeting place. An HSW

credit and tasty meal capped

off the evening.

JULY CEU

The Metropolitan Multi-Service Center was the setting for Houston City Center’s annual Barrier Free CEU Event. Participants were led through this strategically designed environment allowing them to explore numer-ous universal and accessible spaces, including an adap-tive fitness room, full court gym, wheelchair-accessible indoor pool, and the Playground Without Limits. To top it off, participants were able to spectate a Wheelchair Rugby Match! The guided tour was followed by an inter-active discussion and Q&A session with none other than Lex Frieden, Director of the ILRU Program at TIRR Me-morial Hermann and instrumental player in the develop-ment of ADA.

A special thanks to the Southwest ADA Center, who made this entire event possible. The South-west ADA Center has teamed with IIDA HCC for the past 4 years in order to bring the important subject of ac-cessible design to Houston’s design community. Tracy McCarthy, a grad-uate student of Industrial Design at Philadelphia University, was instru-mental in making this year’s event a

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THANK YOU TO PAST COUNCIL

If you happen to remember last year at this time at the beginning of my term as Director , I likened my-

self and our upcoming IIDA year to a Tasmanian Devil, whirling around and around at break-neck speed. That

analogy has remained true. It has been a wildly exciting and successful year for our Industry. We have seen tre-

mendous growth in Houston design firms equating to busy, busy designers...but not so busy that they didn't

make time to attend a few project tours, CEUs and maybe an entertainment event or two. All work and no play

= bad news!

This year's IIDA council has worked tirelessly to provide creative, educating and entertaining diversions

throughout the year. In October, volunteer designers created masks to disguise us at Art & Artifacts Masquer-

ade, in February, we volunteered time to encourage design students at our 12th annual Student Conference,

and lest we forget all our volunteer design teams' hard work to give back to our community with Product Run-

way in May. Our organization is nothing without volunteers, so part of my next adventure as Past Director is to

rally those in our A&D community to make our industry stronger and connect them with the opportunities they

are passionate about.

The memories I have collected from this past year will stay with me forever. There is a saying that has

proven very true for me...You get out of life exactly what you put into it, so even though this particular adven-

ture is over, my next adventure is just around the corner, waiting for what I can put into it.

Shannah

Shannah O'Neill, IIDA, RID

IIDA Houston City Center Past Director

Shannah.oneill@gmail.com

281.507.2988 (cell)

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METROCON12– EXPO & CONFERENCE

2012 TX OK CHAPTER PARTNERS

ELITE| JCS, OM Workspace

SOCIAL MEDIA| Crossville Porcelain Stone, Steelcase

PLATINUM| Allsteel, Furniture Marketing Group, G.L. Seaman & Company, Herman Miller Inc., Hossley Lighting Associates,

J. Tyler, KI, The Mohawk Group/Daltile, McCoy Workplace Solutions/McCoy Floor Covering/Rockford Business Interiors, Patcraft,

Shaw Contract Group, Tandus Flooring, Teknion, Vector Concepts

GOLD| 3form, Business Interiors, Colt Industries, Connectrac, Cronan & Associates, Humanscale, InterfaceFLOR, J&J/Invision,

Mannington Commercial, MDI Resources, Office Pavilion, Paoli, Professional Furniture Consultants, Southwest Solutions Group, TRI-KES

SILVER| 3M Architectural Marketing, Armstrong, Bauhaus, BKM Total Office of Texas, Business

Interiors by Staples, Columbia Forest Products, Concept Surfaces, Danika + Company, LLC,

Debner+Company, Forbo Flooring Systems, The Gunlocke Company, Hart Associates, HAWA

Americas, Haworth, J Fyffe Company, Kenmark, Kimball Office, Knoll, KSM Associates,

Milliken, National Office Furniture, nora systems, Inc., The OFIS, P.S. Gerry, Inc, Philadelphia and

Queen Commercial by Shaw, Reid-Cooper Associates, Royer & Schutts Commercial Interiors, The

Spencer Company, Skyline Art Services, USG Interiors, Inc., Vanguard Environments, Inc., Wilson

Office Interiors, Workplace Resource Group

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METROCON12 was August 9th & 10th, along with the Gala Fri-

day night. It was a huge success! There were new and innovative prod-

ucts from furniture companies, flooring manufacturers, fabric & wall

covering manufacturers, plumbing, lighting and other interior finishes.

The CEUs ranged from Green Design to The Future of Ergonomics and

Technology to the Texas Legislative update for 2012.

Thank you to all who

came out to look at

new product, get

CEUs and have a

good time at the

Gala! See you at

METROCON13 next

year.