Design professor contributes to U.N. World Urban Forum

Assistant Professor Joshua Singer recently won a $15,000 grant from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme to grant to administer and coordinate the World Urban Campaign logo design’s worldwide competition. He will present the award at the campaign’s public launch, to take place at the fifth World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro in March.

Sponsored by Veolia Environment, the international competition’s jury will select three finalists. The World Urban Forum is the world’s premier gathering on urban issues. More than 15,000 leaders and representatives of government and the private, professional, academic and civil society sectors from more than 100 countries will attend. The U.N. Human Settlements Programme promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
In the Design and Industry Department, Singer serves as coordinator of visual communication design. He is a graphic designer, artist and occasional writer. He runs a small graphic-design practice, developing independent work with a particular interest in mapping and visualizing systems. Singer has exhibited and published in the U.S. and Europe.


(from CCA SFSU)

Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship

Sponsor: Worldstudio Foundation
Program Number: 69887
Title: Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship
E-mail: scholarship@aiga.org
Web Site: http://scholarships.worldstudioinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009_10_WS_AIGA_Scholarships.pdf
Program URL: http://scholarships.worldstudioinc.com/deadline-application/

SYNOPSIS:
The sponsor provides scholarships to minority and economically disadvantaged students who are studying the design/arts disciplines in colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships are only awarded to those students who are in financial need.
Deadline(s): 04/02/2010

DEADLINE NOTE
The 2010/11 paper application will be available for download from the sponsor's site on January 15, 2010. The online upload will be live on the sponsor's site February 1, 2010.

Link to full program description

Digital sketching demo at DAI

DAI graduate student Eugene Wong will be giving a Digital Sketching (PC tablet) demo as part of the IDSA demo series.
Time: Wednesday Oct. 21 -- 1PM
Place: FA 163

Mohamed Zakariya lecture

World-renowned master calligraphy Mohamed Zakariya will make a rare Bay Area appearance next week, supported by the ICA at SFSU.

He will lecture at the de Young Museum's Piazzoni Murals Room at 7 pm on Friday evening, October 23. The talk is free.

GAFTA Exhibition: OPEN

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) is pleased to announce its Inaugural Exhibition, OPEN, featuring the works of C.E.B. Reas, Camille Utterback and Stamen Design. Including new works from three pioneers in the field of digital art, OPEN celebrates GAFFTA’s arrival as San Francisco’s leading digital arts organization and cornerstone of The City’s emerging Tenderloin Arts District.

OPEN commences with a series of fundraising events, public celebrations and workshops October 1st – 4th, with related programming running through November 18th (see full calendar of Grand Opening events below).

The multidisciplinary works in OPEN span a range of formats and techniques: from prints and sculptures to interactive video, generative processes and cartography. While the styles of each featured artists are unique and diverse, all the works in GAFFTA’s Inaugural Exhibition exemplify the core values of our organization’s creative vision and civic mission: technology, community and openness.

"Let me have my fun": Aldo Palazzeschi on the Press

Free Letterpress Printmaking Event

Kathleen Burch, cofounder, The San Francisco Center for the Book
John McBride, editor, Invisible City
Paul Vangelisti, translator and poet

The San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street
Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2009
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (drop-in hours)

As part of this open-house printing, the public may help create and take home a free poster of Aldo Palazzeschi's poem "Let me have my fun" (1910), an early futurist text first published in the U.S. by editor John McBride and poet Paul Vangelisti in a 1972 issue of their magazine Invisible City. Recognizing the tremendous impact of Futurism on the graphic art of the 20th century, the event also celebrates the simultaneous centenary of the Vandercook Proofing Press, a machine that has been crucial to the development of contemporary book arts. During Vangelisti's performance, the clack of the press complements his bilingual recitation of the text in Italian and in English.

Part of Metal + Machine + Manifesto = Futurism's First 100 Years.

Free and open to the public.
http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1457

Textiles Guest Speaker - Kati Cesareo from Forms+Surfaces

All are invited to hear Kati Cesareo talk about her creative process and how her studies in textiles are applied at Forms+Surfaces an architectural fabricator that designs high performance products for public spaces.

Friday, OCT 16 @ 2:30
FA 284

Seek Student Conference Website

The website is launched. Info and registration here

Mathew Carter at SJSU

SJSU School of Art and Design
Tuesday Night Lecture Series
presents
Matthew Carter (preeminent type designer)
Tuesday, November 10, 5:00pm
San Jose State University
Engineering Building Auditorium
admission FREE!

Seek 2009: Student Design Conference

Northern Illinois University (NIU) has been hosting a student run design conference since 2000, and this year is shaping up to the best year yet.

On Saturday November 21st, 2009 NIU will be host to student and professionals designers from across the country to further the study and profession of design.

This year we are excited to announce that our keynote speakers are Massimo Vignelli, an AIGA gold medalist, winner of the first ever Presidential Design Award and member of the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame; and Jakob Trollback of Trollback + Company, a noted motion graphic designer from New York.

We will also be featuring several breakout speakers and presenters which will contribute to this already exciting event. Mark the date on your calendar, there are limited seats available for Seek. On October 2nd, the Seek Design Conference website will be available for registration. A notice will be sent regarding the website address.

Registration fees will be $35 for pre-registration, and $40 at the door (based on availability), and includes lunch.

Website is to be launched on October 2. Will post when notified that it is up (JS)

Lecture by Paul Discoe @ CCA 9/16

Lecture by Paul Discoe
Presented as part of CCA’s Design and Craft Lecture Series
Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7–9 pm

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
San Francisco campus map (PDF)
Directions »

Info: 415.703.9563

Paul Discoe is a designer and Zen Buddhist priest. He apprenticed in Japan with traditional temple builders and has designed and built many Zen temples, residential projects, grand estates, and modular structures. He helped transform a rustic hot-springs resort into Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. His team at Joinery Structures recently created a modular cardboard zendo for Burning Man. Currently he is working on a new Zen temple complex for Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. Discoe focuses on sustainable design and building practices.

His commitment to the environment (and deep respect for wood as a material) inspired him to open an urban lumber mill that salvages and recycles trees cut down in Oakland to make low-cost, prefabricated housing systems and furniture. His lecture will include not only an overview of his past work, but also an in-depth discussion of the wood types available in this area, their uses, how to cut and dry them, when to machine them, and how to deal with imperfections.

The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.

Mapping Exhibitions at SFSU

Cartographic Imagination/An Atlas

The twin exhibitions Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art and An Atlas unfold the beauty, mystery and hidden meanings behind maps, on display simultaneously. The 28 works help find the way about a range of a host of environmental and social issues from all angles, including criminal justice, human rights, politics and more.


SFO/OAK from the Airport Project

Cartographic Imagination

Cartographic Imagination is a new show exploring maps as both image and cipher, in media including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, new technologies, performance and installation. The exhibition intends to expand the long history of the conceptual use of mapping in art into 21st century expressions and practice.


An Atlas

An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working with “radical cartography”—a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement linking art, geography and activism. The participating artists, architects and collectives play with cartographic conventions—geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views—to take on issues from globalization to garbage.


Event Details

Reception: Saturday, September 19, 1–3pm
Exhibit: September 19 - October 15

Admission is free.

Hours: Wednesdays–Saturdays, 11am–4pm

Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 238

Website

Student complaint form

Let the powers that be know how the budget cuts and furloughs are negatively affecting your education!
Complaint Form (PDF)

Bargain Fonts!

10 fonts at $10 or less, with further discounts if you order a family, or several fonts from the same foundry.

http://new.myfonts.com/newsletters/sp/200909.html

Jim Sherraden Lecture at CCA

CCA Design and Craft Lecture Series

JIM SHERRADEN "Advertising Without Posters Is Like Fishing Without Worms"

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 7 pm
SAN FRANCISCO CAMPUS, TIMKEN LECTURE HALL
1111 EIGHTH STREET (AT 16TH AND WISCONSIN)

If you're at all a fan of graphic design or music, you'll recognize the unmistakable look of Nashville's Hatch Show Print. Founded in 1879, it is among America's oldest letterpress design shops and has evolved into a tourist attraction, museum, and historical archive as well. Jim Sherraden is its manager, chief designer, and archivist. In addition to managing all the new jobs ordered each week (Hatch designs and produces more than 600 projects annually), he has been systematically hand printing the shop's massive archive of woodblocks into unique monoprints for collectors and museum shows worldwide. A Smithsonian-organized exhibition of Hatch posters is touring through 2012.

Recent Hatch Show Print posters have featured B. B. King, Neil Young, Coldplay, Anthropologie, the New York Times, Wired magazine, and Taylor Guitars. Sherraden's CCA presentation will begin with the very first poster printed at Hatch, then speed through more than 100 years of hand-set graphic design.

ALL LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. CALL 415.703.9563 OR VISIT WWW.CCA.EDU/CALENDAR TO CONFIRM DATES AND TIMES.

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THE DESIGN AND CRAFT LECTURE SERIES IS FUNDED BY THE WORNICK ENDOWMENT FUND.

GENEROUS SUPPORT FOR CCA PUBLIC PROGRAMS IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY GRANTS FOR THE ARTS / SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL TAX FUND.

Film, illustration & the net

Iran: A Nation of Bloggers by Aaron Chiesa, Toru Kageyama, Hendy Sukarya, and Lisa Temes, students the Vancouver Film School.

Narrative of the modern history of Iran. Not only a lesson in revolution and media (French & English Colonial pamphleteers, Phillipine SMS, and now Iranian bloggers), but an example of the natural convergence of cinema and gaphics by way of the graphic novel, in this case, Persepolis.

Writing/Drawing

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