Join DnA at Dwell on Design This Weekend!

Yes, it's that time of year again, when Dwell's San Francisco-based editors make their annual pilgrimage to the frontline of progressive design, Los Angeles. Dwell on Design is this Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28 at the downtown L.A. Convention Center.

Friday the magazine comes to life in a full-day conference with panels curated and moderated by Frances and the other Dwell editors. Speakers include Yves Behar, William Krisel, Linda Dishman, Zoe Melo of the enlightened gallery/showroom, Touch (which tonight hosts a party to launch Indisposed, a show of American design inspired by the problem of consumer waste) and Jeremy Levine (whose beautiful Eagle Rock house you can see in Dwell; for anyone using Metropolis' helpful table of contents it's the horizontal wood slat house on the cover and starting on page 80). And after the closing keynote by Daniel Pink, the winners of the AIA Los Angeles Restaurant Design Awards will be announced on stage.

Saturday and Sunday, the exhibition, panels and speakers will continue, including the landscape and prefab exhibits of Dwell Outdoor, the Modern Family area for kids (and their parents), the sustainable showcase of Kitchen Ecology, and Reclaimed Design, where designers will stage modern rooms from furniture finds found in the LA Times classifieds.

On Saturday night, it's A Night at the Movies as Dwell screens Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman  while the finest meals-on-wheels in the city will corral up for a Mobile Restaurant Row outside the Geffen Contemporary. Tickets to the film are $15 in advance, but you'll have to pay for your hot dogs, tacos, BBQ, shaved ice and more (don't worry, truck cuisine is cheap!). Architectural ice cream truck Coolhaus will also be serving the winning flavor from the Sweetest Contest Ever, co-sponsored with Dwell. Also Saturday night, starting at 8pm, Ford + Ching, formerly FordBrady, will host The Party with Vice Magazine at their space in the Kim Sing Theatre in Chinatown with bands and food until midnight. RSVP by calling 213-620-9971.

And if you're still hungry the next day, come back for Square Meal Sunday an entire day devoted to food and design co-curated by Dwell editor Sarah Rich and our Good Food KCRW compatriot, Evan Kleiman. The art and politics of meat, victory gardens, foodblogging, farmers markets, and many more topics will be covered in panels, speakers and tasty demonstrations.

Members of the design trade can actually get in to the exhibition and weekend events for free (but you must register, read carefully). Students can get in to the weekend's events for free as well. For the rest of our listeners, we have special DnA codes to register (but use these by tomorrow!): DnA listeners pay $10 for Exhibition Plus (weekend pass) with code DWELL6C and $49 for Dwell Conference Plus (three day pass, includes Friday's evening events) with code DWELL992G. Register at dwellondesign.com

Also starting Thursday is the AIA's concurrent convention which will also take place at the L.A. Convention center, Mobius LA, featuring panels and speakers specifically geared to the architects in town. And if that's not enough design for you, there's yet another show across town:  CA Boom will be setting up shop this weekend in a new location, the former Robinsons department store in Beverly Hills, with a trade show, panels and home tours, including a special trip to the Pierre Koenig-designed Case Study House #22.

If you're at Dwell on Design be sure to say hi to us (Frances will be on-stage, while I'll be the one happily chained to the laptop in the live-blogging pit). If you can't make it, follow along at Dwell.com or of course on Twitter at @DwellOnDesign. Hope to see you then!

~Alissa Walker