Guerrilla Truck Show 2012 brings designers to the West Loop

Guerrilla Truck Show 2012 | slideshow

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  The eighth annual Guerrilla Truck Show took place June 12 along Fulton Market.

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  Festivalgoers line up for beer and refreshments. Food trucks like 5411 Empanadas and the Southern Mac and Cheese truck were stationed on side streets to provide even more mobile enjoyment.

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  “I love making things from materials that would be thown away,” says Michael Schafer, who was at the Guerilla Truck Show for his fourth year. “I like to keep it from the landfill.” His work included flower boxes, tables and multiple horse sculptures.

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  "The handbuilder market is growing; it’s making a comeback,” says Levi Borreson, who owns Legacy Frameworks, which builds bikes out of lightweight American steel.

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  Not all artists and designers exhibited in plain rental trucks.

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  “The best part is just the serendipity of people happening upon your stuff in a truck,” says Scott McGlasson, a furniture maker from Minneapolis who came to the show for the first time this year.

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  Peter Klick's Harrington College of Design students created a “human Tetris” truck. Players wedged themselves through Tetris block-shaped cutouts in a series of wooden panels. "It’s about economics: How can you reach things? How can you get through? And are you still in good shape?” Klick says.

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The eighth annual Guerrilla Truck Show took place June 12 along Fulton Market.

Photo: Shaunacy Ferro

Art and design lovers swarmed Fulton Market Tuesday night for the eighth annual Guerrilla Truck Show. As always, Morlen Sinoway Atelier put on the event, which benefited Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA). U-Hauls and trailers became showrooms for art, furniture, bikes, accessories and other designs by professionals and students alike. 

This year's notable exhibitors included Michael Schafer, a retired plastic surgeon who makes sculptures using only found materials like wood, old rakes or panels of glass abandoned in a basement; Levi Borreson, who builds bikes by hand in Bridgeport; and Harrington College of Design professor Peter Klick, whose experimental design class put together a game of “human Tetris” inside its truck. Learn more in our slideshow, above.