Nicholas Benson - MacArthur Foundation
Nicholas Benson is a third-generation stone carver, calligrapher, and designer whose meticulously executed inscriptional works are noted for their uncompromising craftsmanship and beauty in form and line. While almost all cut-stone lettering in the United States is done by machines today, Benson is a master of hand letter carving, using brush strokes to outline the individual letterforms before inscribing them in situ by hand. His inscriptions and decorative reliefs can be seen on family memorials and buildings throughout the United States, including the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the National World War II Memorial.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Matthew Carter wins MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant
Matthew Carter - MacArthur Foundation
Matthew Carter is a master type designer who crafts letterforms of unequaled elegance and precision for a seemingly limitless range of applications and media. Throughout his career, which spans the migration of text from the printed page to the computer screen, he has pursued typographic solutions for the rapidly changing landscape of text-based communications. He has cut metal letterforms by hand in the manner invented over four centuries ago, created enduring works for machine- and phototypesetting, and produced many of the world’s most widely used digital fonts. To date, Carter has designed over 60 typeface families and over 250 individual fonts reflecting a staggering variety of styles, including revivals of classic type as well as eccentric, expressive, and experimental forms. In settings both specialized and everyday—from art museums to newspapers, works of classical scholarship to websites—his typefaces are read wherever the Latin alphabet is in use and are also employed extensively in languages based in Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. His recent work has focused on developing highly legible fonts for computer screens, including the small screens of low-resolution, handheld devices. While bringing a deep knowledge of the history of his art form to bear on each new project, Carter continues to respond to a stream of new developments in communication technology with a thoroughly modern sensibility.
Matthew Carter is a principal of Carter and Cone Type, Inc., which he co-founded with Cherie Cone in 1991. He trained as a punchcutter at Enschedé and Zonen type foundry (the Netherlands), was a designer at Mergenthaler Linotype (1965–1981), and was co-founder of Bitstream, Inc. (1981–1991), the world’s first independent digital type foundry. Since 1976, he has been a senior critic at the Yale University School of Art.
Matthew Carter is a master type designer who crafts letterforms of unequaled elegance and precision for a seemingly limitless range of applications and media. Throughout his career, which spans the migration of text from the printed page to the computer screen, he has pursued typographic solutions for the rapidly changing landscape of text-based communications. He has cut metal letterforms by hand in the manner invented over four centuries ago, created enduring works for machine- and phototypesetting, and produced many of the world’s most widely used digital fonts. To date, Carter has designed over 60 typeface families and over 250 individual fonts reflecting a staggering variety of styles, including revivals of classic type as well as eccentric, expressive, and experimental forms. In settings both specialized and everyday—from art museums to newspapers, works of classical scholarship to websites—his typefaces are read wherever the Latin alphabet is in use and are also employed extensively in languages based in Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. His recent work has focused on developing highly legible fonts for computer screens, including the small screens of low-resolution, handheld devices. While bringing a deep knowledge of the history of his art form to bear on each new project, Carter continues to respond to a stream of new developments in communication technology with a thoroughly modern sensibility.
Matthew Carter is a principal of Carter and Cone Type, Inc., which he co-founded with Cherie Cone in 1991. He trained as a punchcutter at Enschedé and Zonen type foundry (the Netherlands), was a designer at Mergenthaler Linotype (1965–1981), and was co-founder of Bitstream, Inc. (1981–1991), the world’s first independent digital type foundry. Since 1976, he has been a senior critic at the Yale University School of Art.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Fwd: Campus Interaction at San Francisco State University - INDIA Future of Change
Please allow me to introduce you to INDIA Future of Change. An opportunity for your students to be part of a global movement to harness the power of the youth, their ideas, aspirations, creative zest and entrepreneurial spirit.
INDIA Future of Change is a three-year initiative aimed at engaging students from across the world with contemporary India, and Compete, Collaborate and Co-Create a future for India with a vision for the world.
In its first year, INDIA Future of Change is organizing four contests:
Business Plan, Design, Essay Writing and Poster Design. The contests will be conducted online, and the participants stand to win cash prizes worth USD 250,000, 4/6/8 week internships at top Indian and international companies, 15 day all-expenses-paid vacations in India and 6 week experiential programmes in rural India.
Already, INDIA Future of Change has gained momentum through prestigious alliances with CIIE (IIM-A), IDC (IIT-B) and Financial Times as knowledge partners. In addition, the Indian Ministries of External Affairs and Tourism are also lending their support. We have also partnered with the international youth organisation, AIESEC, for our Friends of INDIA Future of Change brand ambassador program.
We started our communication campaign on Monday, September 13 in Financial Times worldwide and the response has been enthusiastic.
We look forward to the bright, young minds of San Francisco State University adding fuel to the movement.
We request you to encourage them to participate in the contests and make themselves heard in a global dialogue on shaping the future of change.
Best Regards,
Mahid Aisha
INDIA Future of Change
www.indiafutureofchange.com
Saturday, September 25, 2010
print project calculator
http://www.re-nourish.com/?l=tools_projectcalculator
"The Re-nourish Project Calculator helps you minimize waste on any print project, "
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Fwd: Kristee Rosendahl Lecture
LECTURE BY KRISTEE ROSENDAHL
Tuesday, September 28, 7 pm
CCA San Francisco campus
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)
In 1985 Kristee Rosendahl pioneered the field of user experience as the cofounder of the Apple Human Interface Group and a principal designer in the Apple Multimedia Lab. In the years since, as a VP, director, creative director, art director, designer, and manager, she has designed and delivered products across multiple media platforms and multiple channels in the service of a larger vision of the future of digital interactivity. She has 25 years of experience in product development, user experience, design, and management for innovative new digital products and applications.
Since 2004 Rosendahl has evolved her practice to center on early-stage product development. The highly usable and highly useful products she designs serve both customers and the internal organizations that support them. She holds two U.S. patents for navigating large databases and manipulating information visually.
Tuesday, September 28, 7 pm
CCA San Francisco campus
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)
In 1985 Kristee Rosendahl pioneered the field of user experience as the cofounder of the Apple Human Interface Group and a principal designer in the Apple Multimedia Lab. In the years since, as a VP, director, creative director, art director, designer, and manager, she has designed and delivered products across multiple media platforms and multiple channels in the service of a larger vision of the future of digital interactivity. She has 25 years of experience in product development, user experience, design, and management for innovative new digital products and applications.
Since 2004 Rosendahl has evolved her practice to center on early-stage product development. The highly usable and highly useful products she designs serve both customers and the internal organizations that support them. She holds two U.S. patents for navigating large databases and manipulating information visually.
Fwd: SFSU University Museum Needs Volunteers for Etruscan Exhibit!
Greetings!
Our upcoming museum exhibition is:
EAT, DRINK & BE BURIED: Life & Death Among the Etruscans
Dates/Time: Nov. 3-Dec. 3, 11 am-4 pm [closed Thanksgiving week]
Location: Humanities bldg, 510
We need volunteers (students, staff or faculty) who can spare 1 or 2 hours to help us keep the museum open for the general public. Training provided.
Please email Christine Fogarty: cfog@sfsu.edu
Our upcoming museum exhibition is:
EAT, DRINK & BE BURIED: Life & Death Among the Etruscans
Dates/Time: Nov. 3-Dec. 3, 11 am-4 pm [closed Thanksgiving week]
Location: Humanities bldg, 510
We need volunteers (students, staff or faculty) who can spare 1 or 2 hours to help us keep the museum open for the general public. Training provided.
Please email Christine Fogarty: cfog@sfsu.edu
SIGNS 2010: How they tell us where to go.
Do You Draw Good Maps? A professor has been examining hand-drawn maps for three decades. Send him yours. March 4, 2010
Legible London Can better signs help people understand an extremely disorienting city? March 4, 2010
The Secret Language of Signs They're the most useful thing you pay no attention to. Start paying attention. March 1, 2010
IDEO Imagines the Future of Books
Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Paper War on AIDS
The Paper War on AIDSby Steven Heller
"Twenty-five years ago, the HIV/AIDS virus began killing thousands and infecting hundreds of thousands more. Although the western world was hit unaware, the disease had been coursing through the third world’s bloodstream for years before. When Europe and the Americas were directly impacted, however, curative and preventative measures were gradually instituted and awareness began—much of it through posters."
Monday, September 13, 2010
Positions available in YBCA Student Cultural Ambassador Program
Students interested should contact Prof. Josh Singer
Student Cultural Ambassador, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
We are currently seeking a volunteer undergraduate student to represent Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on-campus during the 2010/11 year. One year commitment.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a contemporary multidisciplinary arts center anchoring the Yerba Buena Gardens in the downtown San Francisco arts district. We are a space committed to innovation in our practices, exceptional diversity in our range of work, and the engagement of audiences with art that speaks to the ideas and issues of the contemporary world. In the coming year, we hope to engage Bay Area college audiences even further with the help of on-campus Student Cultural Ambassadors. If you're a creative, motivated college student with a passion for the arts and/or community outreach, this is an incredible opportunity for you!
As a Student Cultural Ambassador, you'll be working to connect your student body with all of the exciting programming available. Each quarter, you'll be meeting with YBCA staff and other Bay Area student Ambassadors to decide what's hot at YBCA for the college crowd. From there, you will help plan events and publicize programs on your campus for students and teachers.
In return for all of your dedicated work, you'll have access to all of YBCA's groundbreaking shows as well as to all of the behind-the-scenes action that makes YBCA a thrilling place to be. In addition, you'll gain valuable experience learning how a center for the arts works, developing community engagement skills around issues in the arts, and working closely with curators, fundraising professionals, and publicity staff.
Principal Responsibilities
- Attend selected YBCA exhibits, functions and events as Student Cultural Ambassador.
- Develop and implement outreach tactics to engage students and teachers with YBCA programs within acceptable college guidelines
- Communicate regularly with YBCA staff regarding campus activities and outcomes
- Actively promote and sell YBCA memberships throughout the year
- Participate in the Student Cultural Ambassador program evaluation, including finding new Ambassadors once the one year term is complete.
Minimum Requirements
- Enrollment in a Bay Area college degree program
- Ability to attend quarterly meetings at YBCA
- Commitment to representing YBCA in a professional manner
If you're interested, please send a resume and letter indicating which school you currently attend, your resume and why you would like to participate in the Student Cultural Ambassador program at YBCA to Gemma Juan-Simo (Public Relations & Marketing Intern) at gjuan-simo@ybca.org
Two students from each local college/university will be chosen to participate. Deadline for applicants is on a rolling basis through early fall.
For more information about YBCA, visit: www.ybca.org
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Tesla Guitar
Thinking of the Dorks...
-BH
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.........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity..........
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-BH
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.........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity..........
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