What I Learned About the Web in 2011

[from the gentle readers of A List Apart]

A Simpler, Freer Life | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

A Simpler, Freer Life | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

“Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives,” Thoreau began one of his essays, noting that since time was short he would “leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism,” as was his way. “What is it to be born free and not to live free?” he asked his fellow citizens. “Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast?” America may have been free from political tyrants, but it was painfully clear to Thoreau that it was “still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant.”

[another - also from Armin Vit at Brand New]

To end the year on a positive note here are The Best Identities of 2011. As much as I enjoy posting the train wrecks, the Bests are more fun, mostly because my selections tend to generate plenty of disagreement. You can catch the worst here. Enjoy and see you in 2012.

Read it!

The Best and Worst Identities of 2011, Part I: The Worst

[From the wit of Armin Vit at Brand New.]

Without much further introduction — since now you know what to expect from our end of year round-ups — here are The Worst Identities of 2011. Enjoy! Part II: The Best will come next Monday.

For clarification: The choices are solely at my discretion. Original comments and voting results do not really influence my selections.

Read it!

There’s an App for That: World War II Posters

From the classic 'Make Do and Mend' and 'Dig for Victory' to lesser-known gems, the posters featured in Great British Posters from the Second World War showcase the striking design, humour, memorable slogans and defiant spirit that helped to carry Britain through some of its darkest hours.
With this app you can:

• Discover the stories behind the posters with supporting information from IWM's experts
• Explore over 30 posters on your iPhone or iPad
• Get up-close to the posters by scrolling, pinching and zooming
• Share your favourite posters with friends via Facebook, Twitter and email

As a special introduction, Volume 1 is completely free.



There’s an App for That: World War II Posters - UnBeige

On Jet Exteriors, a Parade of Vanilla

As domestic airlines have taken a more sober approach to the business of flying, fancy fuselages and lively paint jobs have faded away. The color of choice these days is white.

NYT: BUSINESS DAY, by JAD MOUAWAD

The colorful paint jobs on airplanes have gone the way of free meals and pillows.

After decades of frenzied competition and staggering losses, domestic airlines have taken a more sober approach to the business of flying, with their first priority making money. And so the fancy fuselages and lively paint jobs — remember TWA’s bold red lines? — have gone the way of free meals, pillows and checked bags.

read the article

TED PARTNER SERIES: Paula Scher gets serious

the importance of play and keeping it fresh and real.

Graphic Content | Good Chemistry

December 06, 2011
By STEVEN HELLER

Graphic designers such as Simon C. Page are working with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks.

In something of a trend, graphic designers are working more closely with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks. Simon C. Page, a London-based graphic designer, is the latest example of what I like to call a sci-graphiste. Page, who has a degree in applied mathematics, has designed a series of 10 posters for the International Year of Chemistry. Not only does the subject resonate with him, Page says, but it’s also “a bonus” that his work is “helping an industry which is struggling to be heard.”

Read the rest and see the images at T Magazine: Graphic Content | Good Chemistry   

'Comic Sans Project' Seeks to Save the Web's Most Hated Font

Some fonts get no respect. This is true of Comic Sans, the ’90s-era Microsoft typeface that sought to emulate comic book text and failed miserably, by most accounts.

The font’s childish, unsophisticated scrawl and overuse by armchair designers has rendered it taboo in most artistic circles, and the sophisticated web at large enforces a moratorium on its use. Some have even campaigned to rid the web of it forever.

But despite the haters, French designers Thomas Blanc and Florian Amoneau have sought to spark a movement. Their new Tumblr, entitled the Comic Sans Project, tries to re-imagine the much-maligned font by posing a simple aesthetic question: What if the world’s most recognizable logos used Comic Sans?

'Comic Sans Project' Seeks to Save the Web's Most Hated Font

Catvertising

Selling Books by Their Gilded Covers

Jay-Z signing a copy of “Decoded,” his intricately jacketed memoir.

[NYT December 3, 2011]

By JULIE BOSMAN

Even as more readers switch to the convenience of e-books, publishers are giving old-fashioned print books a makeover.

Many new releases have design elements usually reserved for special occasions — deckle edges, colored endpapers, high-quality paper and exquisite jackets that push the creative boundaries of bookmaking. If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading.

The Fashion Network Association (SFSU) Presents IMPRESSIONS

Winter Runway Show

December 9th, 2011
Jack Adams Hall
Cesar Chavez Student Center
San Francisco State University

$10 General Admission
$5 with student ID

Doors Open at 6:30pm
Show Begins at 7:00pm

Donate 1 Article of Clothing & Receive 1 Raffle Ticket
Donations to Goodwill

www.fnasf.com

Erler Dingbats [free]

For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 – U + 27BF) is now covered by a complete, contemporary quality font. Erler Dingbats is a spin-off of the distinguished FF Dingbats 2.0 family, and was designed as a special collaboration between designers Johannes Erler and Henning Skibbe.

http://ffdingbatsfont.com/erler/index.html

The Branding of the Occupy Movement [NYT]

By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: November 27, 2011

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Kalle Lasn, the longtime editor of the anticonsumerist magazine Adbusters, did not invent the anger that has been feeding the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the United States.

But he did brand it.

Details on Chip Kidd’s Batman: Death By Design

It’s no secret that Chip Kidd is a big Batman fan. In fact, just a couple of years back, we were talking about exactly that, when we wrote about the famous design keeping tabs in his journal of all things Batman-related at that year’s Comic-Con. Now it seems that Kidd is making that love official, with the news coming last month that DC Comics had brought aboard Kidd to pen a full-length graphic novel and artist Dave Taylor to visually bring it to life.

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design

Take a look at the printing of the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work.

Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta.

Film by Alice Masters

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

a provocative and quick read:

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

"Hands do two things. They are two utterly amazing things, and you rely on them every moment of the day, and most Future Interaction Concepts completely ignore both of them.

Hands feel things, and hands manipulate things."


courtesy of
artdepartment.tumblr.com

Type. A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, 1628-1900

Wow - what a book and a second volume as well. Includes exclusive access with TASCHEN keycard to online image library: over 1000 high-resolution scans of type specimens downloadable for unrestricted use.

Check it out.

Thank you James Van Kriedt for the reference.

111 Minna Gallery event - call for submissions

Call for Submissions - Due Friday November 11th

Nexus ArtReach is organizing a one-night exhibition event at the 111 Minna Gallery that will happen on November 23, the day before Thanksgiving. The deadline for submissions for the show is Nov. 11, which is Friday and they are still looking for art - namely from college/university students, recent graduates, or community-based artists. The theme of the event is "Have Your Say," and is supposed to be a platform for artists to share what's on their minds regarding today's local, national, or global affairs.

A Tale of Two Graphic Designers: Martin Venezky and Jon Sueda

Today, professors Martin Venezky and Jon Sueda seem like two sides of the same coin. In the Graphic Design courses they co-teach at CCA, they listen to their students before speaking, argue with each other fruitfully and comfortably, then almost always agree on what the student should do next. In addition to their academic work, each has forged a successful professional career.

Read the article

AIGA SF Student Lecture: Tom Crabtree | AIGA San Francisco

AIGA SF Student Lecture: Tom Crabtree | AIGA San Francisco

Schedule:
6.30pm – 7.00pm – Mixer, Free beer & snacks (21 and over with ID), while supplies last!
7:00 – 8.00pm – Talk
8:00 – 8.30pm – Questions/mixer

This event is for students only.

Manual is a San Francisco design and branding studio. Originally from England, Tom has been living and working in San Francisco since 2006.

Tom’s career started in London in 1999. Within a few years he was working as a senior designer at two of London’s most high profile design studios;MadeThought and Spin. In 2006, he relocated to San Francisco to work as an Art Director at Apple, specializing in packaging design and art direction for products including the iPhone.

In 2009, Tom established his own studio: Manual. In just over two years Manual has gained an international reputation and continues to embrace working with a diverse range of clients in fashion, arts & culture, technology, food, architecture & industrial design, and publishing.

International Documnetary Film Screening at SFSU

AIGA launches Design for Good

AIGA launches Design for Good to support socially engaged designers

Every day, designers are creating better communities by working with nonprofits and citizen groups to improve the human experience. If one person can make an impact, imagine what 22,000 designers can accomplish.

AIGA's Design for Good initiative connects and amplifies the pro bono efforts of designers, firms and chapters.

Adobe Muse Demo in DAI, Nov. 10

On Nov 10, at 2:10pm in FA115, Dani Beaumont, product manager for Muse, will be giving a demo - an overview of features and worklfow for Muse. Space will be reserved for DAI 525 students, but will be open to other DAI students as rooms permits. 

http://muse.adobe.com/

Design Perspectives Lecture Series online

Over the past year, the Design department at Swinburn University has been holding their Design Perspectives Lectures on a regular basis. They've documented these on audio and video.

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/design-perspectives/

Eight lectures are now available online.

Nigel Cross - Creative Thinking in Design
Nigel Cross - Understanding Design Thinking
Wendy Wong - Chinese Graphic Design History in Greater China SInce 1979
Keith Russell - Chocolate Bread, Sacred Rice: Continental Ways of
Looking at Things
Judith Gregory - Activity Theory as a "Trading Zone" for Design
Research and Practice
Kalevi Ekman - The Story Behind Aalto University's Design Factory
Jacob Buur - User Centred Design
Pi'ikea Clark - Expanding Design Education through Indigenous Design

More lectures will be added as they complete the preparations

"DESIGN TO LIVE..." Nathan Shapira Design Archive Opening Reception & Design Symposium

Open House Reception, Nathan Shapira Design Archive
5:30 - 6:30 PM, Tuesday, November 1st, 2011,
San Francisco State University, Fine Arts Building,
Graduate Studio Space, FA 151 and FA 151C

Symposium: Design to Live: Inclusive Design in the Majority World,
6:30 – 8:30 PM, in the Fine Arts Building, FA 115

Rod Cavazos of PSY/OPS Type Foundry will be visiting DAI 425

10/19, 2pm in FA119

It’s open to all students - they can stop by and sit in on the lecture.

ImagePlot visualization software

ImagePlot visualization software

ImagePlot visualization software: explore patterns in large image collections.

ImagePlot is a free software tool that visualizes collections of images and video of any size. It is implemented as a macro which works with the open source image processing program ImageJ.

Seymour Chwast and Friends Create Logos for ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement - UnBeige

Seymour Chwast and Friends Create Logos for ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement - UnBeige

Studio Tours: Stamen | AIGA San Francisco

Studio Tours: Stamen | AIGA San Francisco

Tuesday, 11 Oct 2011
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Tours sell out early, so get your tickets today!

Join us as we get a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of five influential Bay Area design studios during our Fall / Winter Studio Tours. See projects in progress, learn about different firms’ cultures and methodologies, and rub elbows with design luminaries and up-and-comings in the environment that inspires their best work.

Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century: Film Screening with director Q&A

Come join us at Typekit's headquarters on Tuesday October 4, 2011 for a more personal look at Richard Keglers' new documentary on metal typefaces. We'll open the doors at 7:00pm for drinks and begin the screening at 7:30pm followed by a Q&A at 8:30pm.

Making Faces' is a fascinating design documentary by Richard Kegler that captures the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist and type designer Jim Rimmer (1931-2010).

https://makingfaces.eventbrite.com/

Design Fantasy Camp

Don't you wish!

From Lunch Breath

Pentagram’s Abbott Miller Designs New Identity/Branding for Barnes Foundation

Pentagram’s Abbott Miller Designs New Identity/Branding for Barnes Foundation - UnBeige

http://pentagram.com/en/new/2011/09/preview-the-barnes-foundation.php

Our friends at Pentagram have this week posted information on the branding and identity work partner Abbott Miller has created for the new location. The logo is based off of the coloring of Matisse’s Joy of Life, resulting in a muted but strong, modern orange, laid out in a form based related to Albert Barnes‘ sketches for the original gallery. The main font within the logo is Milo, created by Mike Abbink, with Monitor just below, spelling out the full name of the organization. In addition to the identity, Miller and his Pentagram pals are also working on a site redesign (launched this week), as well as “environmental graphics and interpretative displays and materials.” Here’s a bit from their write-up about Miller’s process:

"To develop the identity Miller conducted extensive research of the Barnes estate and the original building at Merion. The identity’s form was suggested by a sketch by Barnes of one of his signature arrangements, a symmetrical row of paintings. Miller recognized the layout as “the DNA of Dr. Barnes’ vision,” a motif that captures the museum’s unique environment and Barnes’ singular view of art. The logo consists of a row of rectangles that recall the centered, axial hanging at the Barnes, each form containing a letter of the museum’s name. The letters play with positive and negative space, referencing the Barnes’ intention to read across works and make connections."

Theaster Gates Lecture: Tuesday 09.27.11

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LECTURE BY THEASTER GATES
Tuesday, September 27, 7 pm

CCA San Francisco campus
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)

Theaster Gates is an artist, musician, and "cultural planner." His performances, installations, and urban interventions have included assembling gospel choirs, forming temporary unions, and using systems of mass production as a way of underscoring industry's need for the body. He is committed to the restoration of poor black neighborhoods by converting abandoned buildings into cultural spaces that not only allow new cultural moments to happen in unexpected places, but also raise expectations about where "place-making" happens and why.

Currently a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gates has received awards from the Joyce Foundation and the Graham Foundation. In 2010 he performed and exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and the Armory Show in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Bruno David Gallery and the Pulitzer Museum of Art in Saint Louis, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Press Pushes Hard on "Death of the Printed Book" Angle, All Based on Ikea Bookshelf Redesign

Press Pushes Hard on ‘Death of the Printed Book’ Angle, All Based on Ikea Bookshelf Redesign - UnBeige

In case you missed it, over the weekend, the Economist set off something of a firestorm that’s continuing to reverberate this week with their story “Great Digital Expectations,” wherein they wrote that “next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous ‘BILLY’ bookcase,” followed by their reasoning for the change: “The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome — anything, that is, except books that are actually read.”

As you might expect, this provided ample fodder for too many news outlets to list to jump in with headlines about the death of the printed book. Searching for “Ikea” and “bookcase” lands you pieces like theGlobe and Mail‘s “Does a Revamped IKEA Shelf Spell the End for Books?” andTime‘s “Ikea Redesigns Classic Bookshelf, Foreshadows the Demise of Books.” The only rub is that nearly all of these stories relied upon the Economist‘s opinion, not necessarily the truth of the matter. NPR spoke to an Ikea representative, hearing that while the redesign news was accurate, “the change to the bookcase was made simply to allow people to store bigger books.”Curbed got even more info from the company, hearing directly from the Billy the Bookshelf himself (itself?), reiterating that “My shelves are deeper so I can house bigger books. Deeper books.” Our favorite response (and mentioned by Billy) came from Rosie Gray at the Village Voice who wrote in reply to all the frantic waving of hands and “sky is falling” reports, “It looks more like a thing that holds books and less like a thing that is setting out to kill the publishing industry, but maybe that’s just us.” And while all of this was going on, not many outlets seemed to pick up on the bigger story, that only had the company redesigned its 30-year old staple, but had also slashed its prices on the bookcase, a sign for those, like at Bloomberg, who take seriously the “Ikea Index,” in which price changes reflect international financial health.

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Design School?

Sage advice, for the design student: Observatory: Design Observer

As designers, we solve problems. Indeed, pursuing a design education is probably the first great problem we’re tasked with solving. It all starts with uncertainty and learning, moves on into hard work and refinement, and ends (ideally) with a really simple goal: becoming a designer. Staying on course and reaching that goal is no easy task — nor should it be — and a bit of guidance along the way can be a very good thing.

Emigre Fonts PDF Catalogs

Emigre's award winning type specimen catalogs are now available for free as downloadable PDF files. Many have been long out of print and some have reached collector item status. So if you haven't received these in the past, or have lost your copy, here is your opportunity to receive these beautifully designed type catalogs delivered directly to your computer for immediate typographic perusal.

SF State celebrates Park(ing) Day this Thursday, 9/15, from 2-4pm, come check out these new pop-up 'parks' and win prizes!

We are organizing another year of PARK(ing) Day here at SF State. We invite all of you to join us for the festivities. The event will take place this Thursday, September 15th from 2:00pm to 4:00pm.

PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event that invites citizens everywhere to transform metered parking spaces into temporary parks for the public good. SF State 'parks' will be located at: The Quad, Tapia Drive, Holloway Ave, Centennial Walk and on 19th Avenue. Zipcar and the campus Transportation Department will be tabling at the Quad as well.

Fwd: carson's talk canceled

david carson is in europe and can't make it back to california in time for the lecture. please inform your students that the event has been canceled.

bah.

AIGA SF STUDENT MIXER

Confessions of a Typomaniac

By SIMON GARFIELD
Essay in WSJ

"Of all the truly calamitous afflictions of the modern world, typomania is one of the most alarming and least understood. It was first diagnosed by the German designer Erik Spiekermann as a condition peculiar to the font-obsessed, and it has one common symptom: an inability to walk past a sign (or pick up a book or a menu) without needing to identify the typeface. Sometimes font freaks find this task easy, and they move on; and sometimes their entire day is wrecked until they nail it."

Volunteer at the AIGA Pivot National Conference

Volunteering at "Pivot" is a great way to participate in the conference, meet new people, network, get inspired and have fun!

We're seeking volunteers to help us with on-site event management in Phoenix. Volunteer positions are available on a first-come, first-served basis, though regional members or student groups accompanied by an educator are preferred.

Application deadline: Thursday, September 15 (the deadline has been extended to overlap with the current student membership drive)

Be part of the team that makes this event a success!

David Carson at SJSU

San Jose State University Department of Design presents David Carson


5 PM Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Admission: Free

Location: Tower Hall (Morris Dailey Auditorium), San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA

David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. As an art director of Ray Gun (1992-5), Carson came to worldwide attention. In a feature story, NEWSWEEK magazine said he "changed the public face of graphic design". When Graphic Design USA Magazine(NYC) listed the "most influential graphic designers of the era" David was listed as one of the all time 5 most influential designers, with Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli. In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era. David Carson's boundary-breaking typography ushered in a new vision of type and page design. He made the point, over and over, that letters on a page are art. Carson claims that his work is "subjective, personal and very self indulgent". Design educator and historian Ellen Lupton said after the release of Davids 4th book Trek. "David Carson continues to be one of the worlds most distinctive typographic voices—much imitated, but never matched" (ID Mag.nyc). AIGA (the American Institute of Graphic Arts) called Carson "our biggest star". The magazine Eye (london) produced a graphic chart showing Carson to be the most 'googled' graphic designer ever. Since 2010, he has lectured, held workshops and exhibitions in Europe and Asia, and United states.

Parking info: http://www.sjsu.edu/parking/ 

Directions and maps: http://sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/campus_maps/

DAI 300's Recombinant Furniture exhibition!

Reception:

Thursday, September 1 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Come enjoy snacks and refreshments 

Available for public viewing September 1 - 30

 

Rearranging the Syntax of a Design Vocabulary
SFSU Design and Industry students enrolled in Mimi Sheiner’s DAI-300 Design Process class over the past academic year were asked to create lamps and chairs using non-traditional, re-purposed materials. The result is not merely a showcase of technical craftsmanship. Rather, it is a series of startling and often humorous insights into a changing era of design that is shifting its vision to gaze on a greener future while demanding unconventional innovations in order for survival.

Location The Art Gallery, Cesar Chavez Student Center, SFSU

C-134 third floor

on Facebook!

iYou: Revealing the iPhone's Hidden Usage Data Logs

iYou: Revealing the iPhone's Hidden Usage Data Logs

iYou [iyou.nu] is an almost-working proof-of-concept developed by Mind Design that visualizes the still relatively unexposed usage data of a typical iPhone, such as historical phone call activity, text message contents, or Facebook communication patterns.

Designers Consumed by Lust as Wacom Unveils ‘Inkling’ - UnBeige

Designers Consumed by Lust as Wacom Unveils ‘Inkling’ - UnBeige

Fall 2011 Community Arts Design Studio

Students who are interested in community arts/design, there will be an information meeting for the Fall 2011 Community Arts Design Studio - Thursday, September 1st - 12:30pm - FA123

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Community Arts Design Studio is offered through the Design an Industry Department. The course is community-arts oriented and will cover the fundamental principles and techniques of graphic design, typography, layout and production for application to community art and education contexts. Students will learn to flexibly employ standard design and production tools and techniques, i.e., Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. You will mentor and lead students from underserved communities in graphic design and client projects. The course will be a collaboration with community partners. Class meets every Friday.

The course will emphasize media literacy and analysis skills, emphasizing nuanced, non-stereotypical, representation of cultural vernaculars. Students in the program will have an understanding of how historical, social, economic, and political factors of communities relate to community art. They will also acquire the necessary skills, conceptual thinking, and professional practice to enable them to fulfill their creative potential and make art for, in, and with the community.

PRE-REQUISITES: DAI 325 (or higher) or an intermediate knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

For questions contact Prof. Steve Jones
sajones@sfsu.edu

Fwd: Design Competition to Support Wounded Soldiers

Hello AIGA student groups.  My name is Mike Norton and I run a non-profit called Fashion Has Heart.  We provide rehabilitation support for wounded Soldiers through our partnership with the Mary Free Bed Wounded Warrior Traumatic Brain Injury Project. Together we have created an online design competition called HeARTContest.com.  Our goal is to inspire the artistic and creative community to help support our wounded warriors.   HeartContest is an art and design competiton inspired by those who made sacrifices so that we can all continue to express our creativity however we choose –and who must now live with the ailments of their heroic military service. We are currently looking for designers to participate in our heartcontest competition.  All HeartContest proceeds will go toward improving their lives. Without the sacrifices that American warriors have made, there would be no freedom of fashion or art.   Please help us promote this initiative to all your student participants.  You can visit the competition at www.heartcontest.com <http://www.heartcontest.com/>.  Attached is a flyer for the competition.    Thank you all.

Very Respectfully,
Mike Norton
Vice President
www.fashionhasheart.org <http://www.fashionhasheart.org/>
www.heartcontest.com <http://www.heartcontest.com/>
michael@fashionhasheart.org
www.facebook.com/fashionhasheart
www.twitter.com/supportfhh

SFSU Museum Exhibit course needs DAI students !!

Dear DAI Department Colleagues:

We need your wonderful graduate or  upper-division students who like history and who like children. The Museum Studies Program is offering students a unique opportunity to design a museum exhibition for children!  We can accommodate up to 5 students

This Fall Semester, the Museum Studies Program is offering the following course:
"M S 710 Museum Education &  Schools Outreach" and I would like to invite your students to consider taking the course.

Course participants will be developing a family- and child-friendly exhibition that focuses on the concept of "preserving family history across cultures" in our teaching museum in HUM 510, and also, for managing the school field trip program for elementary-age children.

Course information:
Museum Studies 710
Museum Education & Schools Outreach
Instructor: C. Fogarty
Schedule #: 45161
Time: Wednesdays, 1:10-3:55 PM in Humanities Room 506
Location: Humanities Room 506 (different from what's published in the
Class Schedule)

Contact Christine Fogarty if you have any questions: <cfog@sfsu.edu>cfog@sfsu.edu.

SFSU DAI Networking get together

Notice!
There is a DAI Night this Thursday night From 6 to 8pm at 111 Minna Street Gallery. The location is just two block down from Montgomery BART Station. This is a 21+ event. Please spread the word to past DAI Alums and faculty.

YIKES! ACTION ALERT: Check LogoGarden for identity work stolen from you

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ACTION ALERT: Check LogoGarden for identity work stolen from you A website promoting access to "do-it-yourself logos for entrepreneurs" starting at $79 has copied logos and other images created by designers and displayed them as LogoGarden founder John Williams's own work for sale, without the original designers' permission. Bill Gardner of Gardner Design, who found more than 200 of his own designs offered on the site, has documented Williams's outrageous and unethical behavior on the blog Rock Paper Ink, including examples of the slight modifications of well-known logos like the identity for World Wildlife Fund and Time Warner Cable.

Black Eyed and Bruised Ribbed, Shepard Fairey Offers Up His View of the Recent Attack Against Him in Copenhagen - UnBeige

Black Eyed and Bruised Ribbed, Shepard Fairey Offers Up His View of the Recent Attack Against Him in Copenhagen - UnBeige

Abercrombie & Fitch Offers to Pay Jersey Shore‘s “The Situation” Not to Wear Its Clothes - UnBeige

"We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino’s association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image."

Abercrombie & Fitch Offers to Pay Jersey Shore‘s “The Situation” Not to Wear Its Clothes - UnBeige

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones and Paula Scher Appear in New PBS Web Series, Off Book - UnBeige

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones and Paula Scher Appear in New PBS Web Series, Off Book - UnBeige

Is there still any social cache in saying that you watch PBS now that there are a billion television outlets available and not just a couple of networks that you could dial in with the careful repositioning of some rabbit ears? We would assume, however slight, there surely must be (all our smart friends, for example, kept babbling to each other and everyone we met how great that new Sherlock Holmes show was). That in mind, PBS still seems to know how to get it done, even when they venture online. Such can be witnessed with the recent launch of Off Book, a 13-part, bi-weekly web series “focused on experimental and non-traditional art forms.” It launched back on July 20th, with an interesting episode on photograph that uses painted light, but they seem to have really hit their stride with this week’s release of “The World of Typography,” which features interviews with the likes of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Paula Scher, and Eddie Opara. It’s great and you’ll find it below.

Fwd: NYTimes.com: The Words We Live By

 The Art of Summer:  The Words We Live By
By DWIGHT GARNER
A day of wandering the semantic landscape of Manhattan with an eye out for everyday words: the language of street signs and menus, MetroCards and T-shirts.

Michael Bierut Pops Up on CBS Evening News Talking About the Design of the USDA’s New Food Plate - UnBeige

From Unbeige

The big news from the US Department of Agriculture, of course, is their move away from the familiar and iconic food pyramid and into their new plate-based system of showing us how much of each type of food thing we should be consuming (full disclosure: this writer’s wife works somewhat directly with the group that creates these pyramid and plate guidelines for the USDA and certainly wouldn’t appreciate his use of “food thing” to describe types of food). And with the transition from pointy to round, eventually the media was going to have to turn to a design expert. We were both surprised and pleased as punch that CBS Evening News went directly to Pentagram‘s Michael Bierut and Mine's Christopher Simmons for their commentary. It’s the nightly news, so of course he only gets a few words in, but nice to hear from someone outside of the food world or government sharing their insight. Here’s the clip:

Summer Study Abroad Opportunity in Copenhagen

Stir Copenhagen: Design, Culture, and Your SensesOffered through the Rhode Island School of Design3 Credits. Open to students and professionals. June 1 Deadline.stircenter.com/workshops

Invigorate your design process in Copenhagen this summer and participate in an intensive, two-week, sensory-based design workshop.

Immerse yourself in Danish design, history and culture from an insider's perspective and discover how a passion for creating exceptional design is woven into the fabric that forms Denmark.

SFAC Gallery Internship Program

The SFAC Gallery internship program is unique in that the gallery staff works directly with each intern to develop specific projects that suit his or her talents while providing professional development.

When an intern is hired, the first month is dedicated to training and introduction of gallery operations. During this time, the intern will work with the gallery staff to develop a long-term project that he or she will manage during the course of the internship. While working at the SFAC Gallery, all interns are considered staff members. It is an open-ended collaborative relationship that both serves the needs and goals of the gallery while providing essential experience for the intern.

If you are interested in working with the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, submit your resume and a cover letter to Aimee Le Duc, Gallery Manager. The application deadline is Friday, May 27, 2011.

More info here

Premier presentation of social advertising campaigns for The YMCA of San Francisco

Date: Wednesday May 11, 2011
Time: 3:00-4:30
Place: Studio 1 (CA 128)
Creative Arts Building
San Francisco State University

The students of the Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts, Marketing and Design and Industry cordially invite you to attend the premier presentation of their public service advertising campaigns for the YMCA of San Francisco.

Every semester since it¹s inception in 1996, this interdisciplinary course (BECA 647/MKTG 440/DAI), in partnership with the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement (ICCE), has given students from three different disciplines the opportunity to work together to create effective advertising campaigns in a real-world environment, for Bay Area nonprofit organizations. We are proud to be able to utilize the resources and expertise of the University to serve the needs of our diverse Bay Area community, and beyond.

892 Unique Ways to Partition A 3x4 Grid: Observatory: Design Observer

892 Unique Ways to Partition A 3x4 Grid: Observatory: Design Observer

Book designers grapple with their changing role in a digital world: Observatory: Design Observer

Book designers grapple with their changing role in a digital world: Observatory: Design Observer

REVERB: Notes on Design -- Call for entries deadline extended!

Reverb: Notes on Design, is the 22nd annual DAI student exhibition. We have extended the deadline for submissions. Please be sure to fill out and print the submission form online at http://daishow.sfsu.edu/submit/ before April 28, 2011. All instructions are available on the online form. Please include the printed form along with your work. All projects can be submitted to FA 151, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. If you do not have access to the work right away please fill out the form anyway to get started.

Thank you for supporting the Reverb show.

http://daishow.sfsu.edu/submit/

Help us develop and improve the DAI Rapid Prototyping Facilities

Milan Bhatt, a graduate student, and Rapid Prototyping (RP) /Shop manager at the Design and Industry Department at SFSU has been conducting an important study for the DAI department on the usage of available Rapid Prototyping Resources in the DAI Rapid Prototyping-Lab. This on going study's main focus is to develop a student/teacher rich resource that can enable the user to fully utilize the available DAI RP technology, which would further augment the DAI curricula, and enrich the design student development and experience.

At this point in time, he needs student input, and would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to fill out this survey, and help improve the learning experience at SFSU's Design and Industry Department.

The survey will be available 19th April 00:00 Hrs. onwards and will be closed on 30th April 00:00 Hrs.

SURVEY LINK

SF State Fashion Show!

What:
The Fashion Network Association presents the annual SFSU Spring fashion show, Runway 2011: Enchantment

Portfolio Day 11 | AIGA San Francisco

The San Francisco chapter of AIGA invites you to Portfolio Day. Known as the best portfolio review on the West Coast, this is an opportunity for students to get valuable one-on-one feedback on their portfolio and career goals from some of the Bay Area’s best designers. Over 90 top Bay Area designers will serve as reviewers.

info here

Free Webinars for students from AIGA

Learn with AIGA this summer
AIGA offers members access to several opportunities for professional development, ranging from webinars to one-week intensive programs. So, no matter where you are in your career or in the country, there’s a new education opportunity for you.

To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons

by Milton Glaser

Scientists have been trying to unravel what specific components of music make it emotionally expressive. The following quiz is based on research by Daniel Levitin, director of the laboratory for music perception, cognition and expertise at McGill University.

Read the article

AIGA San Francisco 2011 Enrichment Scholarship

The Enrichment Scholarship was created by AIGA San Francisco to enhance the quality and diversity of design education. Winners will receive a $500 scholarship which may be used to underwrite the cost of their design education or to pay for a supplemental program, such as attending a design conference or participating in a class or workshop. In addition, the work from the scholarship winners will be featured on the AIGA San Francisco website.

Mule Design’s Mike Monteiro Wants Designers to Say ‘F*ck You, Pay Me’

2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

Logorama

Robert Reich talk on Corporate Social Responsibility at SFSU

free admission

Will Corporate Social Responsibility Stop a Race to the Bottom in  Labor  Standards ?

A public lecture by Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley, former Secretary of Labor and author of Supercapitalismand Aftershock.

Introduction by President Robert A. Corrigan.
SF State’s Labor Studies Program presents
Wednesday, May 4
4 – 6 p.m.
San Francisco State University
Seven Hills Conference Center

For more information, e-mail: jlogan@sfsu.edu

SUMMER 2011 Course: Art 511: Introduction to Physical Computing

This class has been very popular and is now offered this Summer, 2011. It is a great elective for design students

Content relates to industrial technology, industrial design, exhibit design, user interface design, interactive installations, etc.  This is an accessible way to creatively play with the intersection between computers and the physical world.

Dare to watch! April 13th Day of Action

On Wednesday, April 13^th (tomorrow) all 23 campuses in the CSU will take action for public higher education and fair contracts.  Faculty, students and staff on the CSU campuses will be joined by other Colleges and University across the nation, in taking action to defend public higher education in the face of sweeping funding cuts and attacks on the rights of employees and students.

Please take a few minutes to watch a You Tube clip (link below) created by organizers at CSU Long Beach on why we need to take action on April 13^th.

April 13 -- Day of Action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1WqIZ_vBM

JOIN US TOMORROW AT SF STATE:

•  STAND UP! FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION TEACH-IN 
  Jack Adams Hall @ 11 am
•  MARCH WITH STUDENTS, JOIN THE DISPOSABLE LABOR MARCHING KAZOO BANDCorner of 19^th and Holloway at 12:45pm

IDT public presentations

Public Presentations

to students, faculty, staff and community for the Department of Design and Industry Industrial Design Technology Position.

Tuesday, April 19
1:00-2:00pm
Candidate: Young Mi Choi

Friday April 22
1:00-2:00 pm
Candidate: Calvin Chen

Location: Room FA 119

All faculty, students and staff in any department are welcome to attend.
DAI students and faculty especially encouraged to attend.

Candidates will be asked to detail their teaching and work experience in a presentation, followed by a Q&A Session

Are Awards Shows’ Posters Encouraging Unhealthy, Stress-Filled Lives? - UnBeige

Are Awards Shows’ Posters Encouraging Unhealthy, Stress-Filled Lives? - UnBeige

Using Flickr Geotags to Map the World's Cities

Photographer Eric Fischer uses Flickr's geotags to create city maps that show the places of intense human interest.

• Article in Fast Company
• Flickr: Visualizations of Locals and Tourists

Nuclear Boy has stinky poop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sakN2hSVxA&feature=player_embedded

200th Birthday for the Map That Made New York

By SAM ROBERTS

Published: March 20, 2011

Henry James condemned it a century ago as a “primal topographic curse.” Rem Koolhaas, the architect and urbanist, countered that its two-dimensional form created “undreamed-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy.” More recently, two historians described its map, regardless of its flaws, as “the single most important document in New York City’s development.”

read the article 

Interactive historic maps

DAI Alum Made Good! Acme Made and Me

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gritchelle Fallesgon

Hello Professors!

I just wanted to share some awesome news. I am featured in an SF inspired campaign by Acme Made! They made a little video about me and currently have me on the homepage of their website. If you're not familiar with Acme Made, they are an SF designer bag company specializing in laptop & camera bags and iphone/ipad cases. This new campaign will feature all sorts of SF creatives such as photographers, bike builders, foodies and graphic designers (like me!) and my piece starts off the campaign.

The interesting thing is that for the video, they focused on the "I Haight Art" piece which is a project I did in Josh Singer's DAI 525 class! I was kind of surprised that they decided to just focus on that piece, but whatever, I'm grateful to have been chosen in the first place.

Anyway here is the video: http://blog.acmemade.com/2011/03/17/sf-inspired-gritchelle-fallesgon/

And the website: http://www.acmemade.com/

I'm pretty stoked!

I hope everyone is doing well!

Best,

Gritchelle 

Bird on it

Found at home! - referencing the now famous: