March 12 Through April 9, PUSH Product Designs on Show at the UAB Visual Arts Gallery

Innovative industrial design work by Birmingham’s PUSH Product Design will be exhibited March 12 through April 9 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Visual Arts Gallery, 900 13th St. South.

   March 10, 2010

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Innovative industrial design work by Birmingham's PUSH Product Design will be exhibited March 12 through April 9 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Visual Arts Gallery, 900 13th St. South.

An opening reception is planned for 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 12 in the gallery. Admission is free. Call 205-934-0815.

PUSH explores design as a process that has the capacity to improve people's lives. This exhibition will explore art and design with a focus on the useable object. The exhibition will include two gaming consoles so people can experience the PUSH-designed controllers.

PUSH products have included a motorhome for Tiffen Motorhomes, the SpeedFreak and FPS Freek aftermarket add-on game controllers, and Locabulary, a text-to-speech application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that is a free download from the iTunes Store. PUSH also works closely with Birmingham's medical and science communities and has designed both the Mehta Casting Table, a scoliosis treatment device, for Birmingham Children's Hospital, and a series of patented spinal implants now being marketed by Medtronic. Lloyd Cooper, Andrew Thomson and Foster Phillips form the core design team at PUSH.

"We believe our approach to be one that could be described as 'Design for People,'" says Cooper. 

PUSH also strives to explore the intersections between industrial design and the fine arts.  The team was responsible for the innovative linear motion installation that visitors encounter on the façade of the McWane Science Center, as well as the design that enabled artist Jane Timberlake Cooper to realize her major art installation that adorns the Children's Dance Theater in Homewood. PUSH also contributed a computer-controlled, light-emitting diode (LED) artwork for a 2009 benefit exhibition for the UAB Visual Arts Gallery.

About the UAB Visual Arts Gallery
The UAB Visual Arts Gallery showcases both historical and contemporary artworks by local, regional, national and international artists. Its exhibitions highlight works by faculty, students and emerging and established artists, in up to a dozen regularly changing shows that always are free and open to the public.