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.