Type Calendars: More famous than ever

In case anyone was on the fence about getting one of Studio Hinrich's Calendar (the ones you've seen hanging around, and of which we still have many more in storage), I would like to remind you of the quality and prestige associated with them and offer this article as proof of this:

Around the Design World in 180 Words: Typographical Edition - UnBeige

Also remember, in preparation for the holiday season, that the pages tear off and make beautiful wrapping paper.

City Chic: ReVamped—A Fashion Event

A not to be missed Fashion Event hosted by the Fashion Network Association celebrates the creative talents of SF State students in the City Chic: Revamped fashion show. Located in Jack Adams Hall Doors open at 6:30 and the show begins at 7:00. Tickets are $5 with a donation for the SF Food Bank, and $10 with out. Join the Fashion Network Association for a fashionable night of fun celebrating SF State's creative talents.

Date: Monday, December 6, 2010

Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM

Location: Jack Adams Hall

Cost: $5 with food donation; $10 without

Web: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~fna/

Sponsor: Fashion Network Association

Internship position at Sustainable Life Media

A former Brunel exchange student named Ben Pawsey is currently working for Sustainable Life Media, a company that helps global brands become more sustainable.  A major part of their work is a yearly sustainable brands conference, and Ben is looking for interns for the Spring 2011 semester with an interest in sustainability and in developing more sustainable and interactive conference experience.

Applicants can come from Vis Comm or Product Design backgrounds, but should be go-getters as described on the attached form. Prof. Chu will be the DAI faculty advisor, and Ben will be the direct supervisor. This is an exciting internship opportunity which will give them insight into sustainability and professional practice. 

Applications are due on December 1st although they may be accepted slightly later, Dec. 1st is ideal. See the brief!

If interested, please email Prof. Hsiao-Yun Chu hychu@sfsu.edu

Cohousing: Community by Design

PRESENTATION BY CHUCK DURRETT
"COHOUSING: COMMUNITY BY DESIGN "
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
1:30-3:30 pm and 7:00-8:30 pm 

San Francisco State University - Institute for Holistic Health Studies. A discussion of key strategies to designing cohousing communities with social and physical structures that support thriving neighborhoods and sustainable lifestyles. 

Humanities and Social Services (HSS) Building, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco State University; 1:30 pm (Room 306); 7:00 pm (Room 213). 

Sustainability and Fashion Event

We would like to cordially invite you to join us for a discussion on Sustainability and Fashion.

We Are Still Here: Exhibition

The Art Gallery is proud to present WE ARE STILL HERE: 

a multi-media exhibit on the historic American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island.

photography  •  video collage  • audioscape • original art

Exhibit Opening and Reception: Friday, November 19^th at the Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery and Jack Adams Hall

Running Dates: November 19^th – December 19^th, 2010

Curated by Vince Skelly and Phil Klasky

Cost: Free

Opening Reception: November 19, 2010 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Where: The Art Gallery, Cesar Chavez Student Center

               

Gallery Hours: M-F 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; or by appointment

Website: www.sfsustudentcenter.com/artgallery

SFAI Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel

Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies

Monday, November 8, 7:30 pm
800 Chestnut st, Lecture Hall
Andrea Zittel combines her work as an artist, designer, engineer, consultant, and advocate with the practices under her corporate identity, A-Z Administrative Services. The latter "encompasses all aspects of day to day living: home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs". Zittel has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada among others. She has been in group shows at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan; Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland. Zittel has received awards such as the AICA Award for Best Architecture or Design Show in 2007, the College Art Association Distinguished Body of Work Award in 2006, and the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2005.
www.zittel.org


Free and open to the public

www.sfai.edu/vas