PIXEL PIXIE

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Through teaching, writing and workshops
Alison King sets up unforgettable experiences
that motivate people to create art & design

By day, Alison King is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at The Art Institute of Phoenix. By night she's an artist and is the editorial force behind ModernPhoenix.net, an active community that is reshaping the face of Phoenix one building at a time — and in some cases rescuing city icons from total destruction.

She's out in the community and fighting hard for its preservation through writing, education and documentation. Undaunted by failure and fueled by fire, Alison intreprets design history in a way that sweeps people off their asses and into action.

SELECTED WRITING + RESEARCH SAMPLES

The Phoenix Financial Center aka Western Savings and Loan for Modern Phoenix
Ralph Burgess Haver: Everyman's Modernism for Modern Phoenix [exerpt]
Foreword for Midcentury Marvels: Commercial Architecture in Phoenix by The City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office and Ryden Architects
Arizona at Midcentury: Photographs by Julius Shulman for Modern Phoenix
Farewell to Mountain Bell for Modern Phoenix
Talk like a Phoenician for Java magazine
Ralph Haver for Wikipedia
Remixing Phoenix for 944 magazine
Jazz Standard: The Lorna House for Desert Living and Modern Phoenix
Restoration Yardware [PDF] for Desert Living and Modern Phoenix
Research Your Midcentury Home using Primary Sources for Modern Phoenix
Al Beadle's Executive Towers for Modern Phoenix
The Madole-Sedona West Studio for Modern Phoenix

SELECTED EDITING + INTERVIEWS

All About Paradise Gardens for Modern Phoenix [with journalist David Tyda]
100 Degrees of Design [PDF] for Desert Living in collaboration with David Tyda and Joey Robert Parks
There's No Place Like Sunnyslope by Marshall Shore
DK Taylor: Scottsdale's Mysterious Modern Master by Taz Loomans
How Superlite Shaped Phoenix inot the Block Capital of America by Taz Loomans
The Cedar Street Residence by CoLab
Growing up Haver by Bucky Haver
Holy Houses! by Walt Lockley with Alison King
The Scoville House: Requiem in Shades of Gray by Walt Lockley
Banking on Progress: The Valley National Banks by Walt Lockley
Contemporary Landscaping with Xerophytic Plants by Thomas Park
20 Questions with Environmental Designer Troy Bankord

SELECTED VIDEO

Ralph Haver and the Vig Uptown
Phoenix X Design
Demo of Al Beadle's Mountain Bell Building

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Into the land of McMansions, Alison King leads her Midcentury Modern army in The Arizona Republic
Phoenix: at Home with Alison King in Java magazine
The Vig Goes Uptown: Preserving the City Through Adaptive Re-Use in Java Magazine
Meet Alison King of Modern Phoenix in Retro Renovation
Save Our City in Java Magazine [PDF]
A Midcentury Modern Kind of Love on Phoenix Art Space
A Phoenix man scored when he bought Ralph Haver's family home for a song in the Phoenix New Times
Kings of Modernism in Desert Living magazine [PDF]
Rolodex // SUN in Item magazine including Top 5 Signs You're a Modern Phoenician

RECENT AWARDS

AIA Arizona Chapter Award of Distinction 2010
The Art Institute of Phoenix Vanguard Award 2010
The New Times Best of Phoenix Award 2009 + 2011 for Best Home Tour
WebAwards Standard of Excellence, Architecture Category 2009
AIA Arizona Chapter President's Commendation 2008
The Art Institute of Phoenix Vanguard Award 2007
The New Times Best of Phoenix Award 2006
944 magazine Platinum Award 2006

RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Pecha Kucha Phoenix 2010: Julius Shulman in Phoenix
Everyman's Modernism: The Haver + Nunn Partnership in Phoenix
Julius Shulman: Progress + Preservation Through the Lens
The Ranch Home in the Valley of the Sun
Get Found on Google: SEO for Smarties

RECENT WEBSITE DESIGNS

The Modern Phoenix Neighborhood Network
Bill Tonnesen, Landscape Architect, WebAwards Standard of Excellence 2009
Iteon Consulting

RESUME

Find out how Alison got here

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TESTIMONIALS

"I take my hat off to you. You are one of the few who authentically walks the talk."

Eddie Jones
Principal Architect
Jones Studio

"Modern Phoenix has truly become an indispensable cultural resource."

Thomas Martens

"Many thanks for your passion and interest in understanding, excavating and preserving the legacy of modernism in one the 20th century's most important regions."

Anthea M. Hartig, Ph.D.
National Trust for Historic Preservation

"Every time I go to your site, I get really jealous. It's perfect!"

Margaret Foster
National Trust for Historic Preservation

"I've been frying my brain reading and watching the Modern Phoenix website for the last 3 1/2 hrs. It's like a book I can't put down. Seriously addicting."

Marc Patlan
Nostalgic Alley

 

"Thank you Modern Phoenix for your efforts in this important collaboration. 1000+ Facebook Preservationists connected and thereby empowered to preserve our cultural heritage is especially significant now, when the very preservation movement itself seems to suffer legislative abandonment. We hope you will continue to cultivate even broader support amidst a ravaged economy, sprawling development, and rapid cultural changes, as proof that the need for responsible stewardship of our community cultural resources remains critical to our quality of life. On the verge of our centennial you inform an active preservation community that may focus the conservation message and effectively organize its activism."

Joe Nucci
Historic Preservation Officer
City of Tempe

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Wondering where Alison's portfolio went?
It is currently offline. Cobbler, shoes, etc.
View her students' portfolios instead.

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