The pinkcomma gallery announces five winners of the inaugural Design Biennial Boston, an awards program and exhibition envisioned to recognize early-career designers in the Boston region. They are: Dan Hisel; Carla Cerruzi / Ryan Murphy; William O'Brien Jr.; Gretchen Schneider; and Theodore Touloukian.
The pinkcomma gallery announces five winners of the inaugural Design Biennial Boston, an awards program and exhibition envisioned to recognize early-career designers in the Boston region. They are: Dan Hisel; Carla Cerruzi / Ryan Murphy; William O'Brien Jr.; Gretchen Schneider; and Theodore Touloukian.
BOSTON, April 20, 2010—The jury for the Design Biennial Boston 2010 has selected five emerging practices to showcase design work at Boston’s pinkcomma gallery and to be included in a booklet published to coincide with the exhibition. The following architecture firms and designers will be on view in the gallery from the opening event on Friday evening, April 30, until the show closes on June 10, 2010:

Dan Hisel
Dan Hisel Architect, Somerville (www.danhiselarchitect.com)
Carla Ceruzzi / Ryan Murphy
Ceruzzi & Murphy Projects, Somerville (www.camparch.com)
William O’Brien Jr.
William O'Brien Jr. LLC, Cambridge (www.wojr.org)
Gretchen Schneider
Schneider Studio, East Boston (www.schneiderstudiodesign.com)
Theodore Touloukian
Touloukian Touloukian Inc., Boston (www.ttarch.com)

The winners were chosen after an open call for entries and a review process conducted by a jury of prominent designers. The five firms represent a wide range of emerging practice types, from those whose work is primarily produced digitally to others that have built extensively. “We were inspired to see so many innovative practices submit,” explained juror Amanda Reeser Lawrence, editor of the architectural journal Praxis and a professor of architecture at Northeastern University. “The people we selected represent a crosssection of the broad talent in our city. As practices, they each promote the kind of fresh contemporary design thinking that is so urgently needed for Boston’s future.”

The Design Biennial Boston aims to identify and promote emerging designers who have shown promise in developing an innovative body of independent work. “The new Biennial series provides us with ways to better fulfill the gallery’s mission of showcasing emerging design talent,” gallery co-director Chris Grimley stated. “This program lets us highlight Boston’s best designers across several professions.” The gallery will host two alternating programs, with even years dedicated to architecture and the built environment, and odd years dedicated to the design arts, including graphic and industrial design.