MoMA's new videogame collection - Boing Boing

New York's Museum of Modern Art has acquired 14 videogames that will be playable in a gallery there beginning in March 2013. According to Paola Antonelli, the MoMA's senior curator of architecture and design, these titles are "the seedbed for an initial wish list of about 40 to be acquired in the near future, as well as for a new category of artworks." I'm delighted that my favorite game, Pac-Man (1980), was part of the initial acquisition. The others include: Tetris (1984), Another World (1991), Myst (1993), SimCity 2000 (1994), vib-ribbon (1999), The Sims (2000), Katamari Damacy (2004), EVE Online (2003), Dwarf Fortress (2006), Portal (2007), flOw (2006), Passage (2008), and Canabalt (2009). "Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters"

MoMA's new videogame collection - Boing Boing

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Interaction Design Symposium

Friday, November 30, 6:30 pm

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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6:30 p.m. reception; 7 p.m. panel discussion

In this panel design leaders of a variety of organizations will share with us their best practices around cross-disciplinary collaboration. Each panelist will share “behind the scenes” showcasing how their team structure and work environment enables successful team collaboration. The panel conversation is intended to lead us into a productive discussion about how collaborative structures enable breakthrough innovation.

The panel is hosted by Indhira Rojas, CCA faculty member and founder of Design Theorem. It features Anna Shaw, director of brand at Smart Design; Dani Malik, principal at Hot Studio; Caroline Wiryadinata, senior designer at Fitbit, and Celeste Prevost, designer at Square.

This is a great opportunity for students to learn what to expect once they enter their professional careers. What are the requirements for team collaboration? What can we practice today that will make us great team players?

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Interaction Design Symposium

NYTimes: ‘Ballot Design With Todd Oldham’

In an Op-Docs video, the designer Todd Oldham reviews the design of election ballots from across the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/opinion/ballot-design-with-todd-oldham.html

Pentagram Rebrands Competitive Chess, With A Spiffy 3-D Logo

When entrepreneur Andrew Paulson approached Pentagram to update the World Chess Championship, to give it all the international prestige of the Bobby Fischer era, the creative team responded with a similar trick--creating a 3-D logo constructed as much from enigma as geometric simplicity, a new look for a new era of competitive board gaming that they renamed, simply: World Chess.

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Our Right to Sing - Creative State Presents

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
2:10pm

This project examines the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship. Our Right to Sing is the first film on the musical byproduct of this collective experience, something director Carolina Fuentes witnessed firsthand as member of a musical group inspired by the principles of Liberation Theology and with the arson of the San Jose Catholic Church, where she was parishioner. After the assassination of friends and classmates, Fuentes fled from her native El Salvador to Mexico, where she lived for seven years. Fuentes, a former radio and television reporter as well as a documentary maker, will be available for questions. Free.

Fine Arts Building, Coppola Theatre

Our Right to Sing - Creative State Presents - College of Liberal & Creative Arts - San Francisco State University

Type Trends: Hipster Design « FontShop Blog

"…So, in an attempt to appear established, perhaps winking at the irony created by the freshness of their look, small businesses today sign off on the work of graphic designers whose aim is to present them as having existed before design as we know it."

Type Trends: Hipster Design « FontShop Blog

The 2012 AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries

How you can use the salary survey

The 2012 AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries is a useful tool for students: It allows you to compare compensation across different positions, company sizes, organization types and geographic locations. Log in to designsalaries.aiga.orgto see industry trends, use the members-only salary calculator and learn what designers are earning across the country.

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AIGA | Justified Competition: 2012 Selections

AIGA’s “Justified” competition recognizes case studies that demonstrate the value of design in a clear, compelling and accessible way. Effective design will nearly always reflect the powerful emotional draw of creativity, inspiration and simplicity; and yet today, for design to be truly effective, it must also serve the client’s very specific needs.

Designers’ unique capacity for seeing problems from unexpected angles—as well as designers’ creativity and empathy with human experience—is in high demand. AIGA believes that a competition built around the case study format, rather than one built around the selection of artifacts, offers a more effective means of revealing how designers have approached clients’ problems, with all of the attendant constraints. With this in mind, the 2012 “Justified” competition honors 18 exemplary case studies of design solutions, each of which successfully demonstrate the value of design.

To learn more about the competition and the selection process, read the jurors’ comments.

AIGA | Justified Competition: 2012 Selections

30 Reasons 2012

30 Reasons is gearing up for 2012.

They’re enlisting 30 designers to each create a poster that represents a reason to re-elect President Obama. Starting on October 8th, we’ll reveal a new poster on 30reasons.org every day until the election. Join our mailing list, and we’ll email you each poster so you can share them with fellow supporters or undecided friends.

Back in ’08 we featured posters by some of the best designers and artists in America. We reached hundreds of thousands of registered voters, and are upping the ante for ’12. This year we’re providing powerful visual messages and the facts to back them up. Let’s stop the misinformation and give voters 30 reasons to vote for Barack Obama in November.

30 Reasons

2012 Poster Competition | Recyclemania!

RecycleMania’s 2012 Poster Contest
Coordinated by the RecycleMania Poster Review Committee
As part of RecycleMania, Inc. (“RecycleMania”)

All entries must be uploaded by 3:00 pm Eastern Time on Monday, October 22, 2012

2012 Poster Competition | Recyclemania

All The Pretty Gradients Mapped Out in Three Big Books: The RGB Colorspace Atlas

The full atlas is a compilation of three books, each of which resembles a solid cube of gradients from afar, as they measure a perfect 8 x 8 x 8 inches. Each volume contains the entire visible spectrum and the spines slice the RBG cube in different directions: vertically, horizontally, and from front to back.

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Voters Annoyed by Hard-to-Read Ballots

In New York City, you may want to bring a magnifying glass.

Voters who trekked to the polls for Thursday’s primary races were handed ballots with candidates’ names printed in an eye-straining 7-point type, akin to the ingredient list on the side of a cereal box.

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SF State Web-design Opportunity for Students

We are seeking creative, computer-savvy students to create a website for our student-led sustainability campaign here at SF State. It's called The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) and it's been wildly successful at other campuses nationwide.

This is a great opportunity to add to your portfolio while contributing to the campus community and working with students from different departments who are all united by a passion for sustainability, social equity, and improving our school. You don't need to know anything about sustainability - we'll fill you in! There are no set hours and we'll do all we can to make the task as easy for you as possible. You have a valuable skill we need.

This is not a paid position, but time spent building the TGIF website could potentially be used towards volunteer/internship requirements or just as a chance to work on your web-design skills and take on a fun, fulfilling challenge. Additionally, if the TGIF campaign is successful, it may eventually be used to establish a paid student web-manager position - that could be you!

We welcome all and any SF State community members to join our team, and not just web-designers. There's something for everyone, even if you can only spare twenty minutes or just want to become informed about green happenings on campus.

Interested students should email TGIF.SFSU@gmail.com for more info.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Yael Ofer
Campaign Manager, The Green Initiative Fund at SFSU
Ecostudents

Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Typography

Why settle for casual flirtation when looking for a long-lasting relationship? Finding the perfect match is easy if you know the rules. Meet Your Type will help you overcome common obstacles, and keep your heart thumping for your one true love: typography.

Education | FontShop

People Who Like Art Are Better Than People Who Don’t, Study Finds [from UnBeige]

Pat yourself on the back because finally we have proof that you’re a superior bunch. It’s not simply reading here that makes you a better person but your love for art and design. According to a new study, people with an active interest in the arts contribute more to society than those with little or no such interest.

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The Complete Engraver - NYTimes.com

Nancy Sharon Collins is a graphic designer (for clients like the Museum of Modern Art and Clinique) who is also known for her luxurious stationery designs, which are witty, chic and thoughtful at the same time. Collins herself is something of a crusader for the art of engraving, and her fervor has produced a lively book called “The Complete Engraver: Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals, and the Etiquette of Social Stationery” (Princeton Architectural Press).

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Microsoft Unveils a New Look

"In advance of one of the most significant waves of product launches in Microsoft’s history, today we are unveiling a new logo for the company."

Microsoft Unveils a New Look - The Official Microsoft Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

NYTimes.com: MetroCards for Sale

Last week, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York announced that it would be selling advertising space on the front of its fare cards to raise revenue. “The whole thing is available, except for the black stripe,” said Aaron Donovan, an agency spokesman. As a MetroCard-carrying subway rider and graphic designer, I offer a couple of ads that both natives and tourists might actually find useful.

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and author.

from MetroCards for Sale

Spec work simplified

The next time a potential clients asks you to do spec work, you can just send them a link to this video that does an excellent job of explaining why it’s not cool to ask designers to do work for free. (This helpful video was created by Topic Simple, which specializes in educational web animation.) And here’s a link to AIGA’s statement about spec work.

[From the How Blog]

Forty Posters for Forty Years | New at Pentagram

Pentagram was founded 40 years ago today, on June 12, 1972, in London by the designers Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Theo Crosby, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky. The company was formed when Pentagram’s predecessor, Crosby Fletcher Forbes, added two new partners, Grange and Kurlansky, expanding the multi-disciplinary partnership to five.

For the anniversary the 19 current Pentagram partners, under the creative direction of Harry Pearce, have designed a series of posters for the 40 years since Pentagram’s birth. Each partner created posters for two or three different years, and the only parameters for the series were the use of black, white and red (Pentagram Warm Red, of course).

http://new.pentagram.com/2012/06/forty-posters-for-forty-years/

BIER SOMMER at SFAI

BIER SOMMER
Movie Theater and Beer Garden
Friday, July 27–Saturday, July 28
3:00 pm–9:00 pm
Sponsored by Karen and John Diefenbach

Join conceptual artist Hans Winkler, Office Wiederholt, and SFAI for "BIER SOMMER: View Point Movie Theater and Beer Garden" on the quad of our historic Russian Hill campus.

BIER SOMMER explores beer gardens in the broader context of consumer and spectator culture. Discover films with
notable beer garden scenes, including Bierkampf and Das Andechser Gefuhl by Herbert Achternbusch and Herr Ober and Democrazy by Gerhard Polt. Take home beer coasters featuring original artwork from Tom Marioni, Paul Kos, Julio Cesar Morales, Nao Bustamante, and Rebecca Goldfarb. Drink fresh beer from Hofbruhaus Traunstein, one of the oldest breweries in Germany.

This two-day event is FREE and open to the public, but space is limited and advance registration is recommended. Beer and food will be available for purchase. Guests must be 21 or older to drink beer.

Reserve your FREE ticket to BIER SOMMER today:http://sfaibiersommer.eventbrite.com

Sneak Peek: NY Times Magazine’s ‘Innovations Issue’ Thinks Big with Four Covers, Four Logos - UnBeige

The New York Times Magazine’s annual innovations issue arrives this Sunday, stuffed with big ideas ranging from planet-saving bugs to futuristic family reunions. The magazine’s crack design team took the theme to heart with an innovation of its own: an ambitious split run of four covers, each featuring a (gasp!) reimagined version of the Gray Lady’s famed blackletter logo.

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Portfolio Tips and Guides

Portfolio Tips and Guides

"The end of the school year is coming soon and many students or graduates need to prepare their portfolios to get an internship or job. The professional designers should also update their portfolio once or twice a year [really? ed]."

How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body | Smashing Magazine

What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes? The answer differs slightly, depending on whether one aims for print or Web-based environments.

How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body | Smashing Magazine

“I am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer.”

Avería – The Average Font, via Adam G.

AIGA | Tips for Designers: Nailing the Interview

Ashley Rundall, Art Director, Savage

I can still remember my senior year of college… building a portfolio, researching places I dreamed of working and sending countless pleas for an interview. I not only remember how nervous I was, but how clueless and unprepared I was for “a real job.” Now looking back, I wish I had someone to give me more direction on how to get interviews, prepare for them, what to do after interviews and the most important part, how to be good at the interview process. By no means do I have all of the answers, but I do have some useful tips that I would have greatly benefited from… and I hope that you can too.

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COME TOGETHER: CCA MFA Design Exhibition 2012

COME TOGETHER is a celebration of the collective work of 31 disparate designers, linked by the practice of transdisciplinary design. It is an event, two years in the making, in which our unique lines of thought, processes, and methodologies converge and intersect in one final exhibition.

MFA Grad-wide Grand Opening
Thursday, May 10
6–10pm
CCA opens its doors to the entire community. COME TOGETHER will run concurrently with the Fine Arts show. Open to the general public.

California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

www.cca.edu

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http://www.typeconnection.com/index.php

Type Connection is a game that helps you learn how to pair typefaces.

Yay!

Logos Quiz Game App

This is quiz game full of fun that consists on guessing the names of hundreds of logos from different companies. To achieve this you have a lot of clues which you can use to help you complete the game. You can also ask your friends if you don't know the answer! Challenge them to see who know more logos!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logos-quiz-game/id478364212?mt=8&ls=1

Sarcastic Font

Manifesto

For too long e-mails, instant messages, web pages and documents have been unable to fully communicate the subtleties of sarcasm. Text delivered without intonation fail to represent the rare form of language where the intended meaning is the opposite of the written word.

Over the internet we yell at each other with ALL CAPS and emphasize with bold and italics, but where is sarcasm? Where is the nuance, the elegance? We say it is time for a change. It's time for a revolution. It's time for a new font style!


  Bold
  Italic


http://glennmcanally.com/sarcastic/index.htm

Microsoft Re-Designs the Ipod Packaging

Free poster competition/ Occupy what's next ? / Extended deadline

As you already know, it appears that this Spring will be very active in matters of expressing social issues. Both, students and professionals have been invited to our open, free, and international poster competition on the theme "Occupy: What's Next?".

We are not looking for protests, but we are interested in gathering visual designs that address central issues, express your own concerns and suggest solutions to societal ills and disconnects.

We have extended the deadline to May 31, 2012

And let me repeat: there are no entry fees !

Are you in ? Thank you to spread the word in your design- and education community.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Whats-Next-Call-for-poster/321940504514978

Interview: https://www.entrythingy.com/108

First posters have arrived from around the world. Check it out on our website.



http://Occupywhatsnext.org/

Bricks & Balloons Architecture in Sequential Art

Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels and Norman Foster – all these cutting-edge architects have at some time used comic strips to present their projects or to reflect on the socio-political context that shaped them. There are other architects with a surprising diversity of architecture in the comic strip format to their name. Willem Jan Neutelings and the Californian Wes Jones have even won international competitions with them.

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FUSE Returns

Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft ignited FUSE in 1991 as a “dynamic new forum for typography that [would] stimulate a new sensibility in visual expression, one grounded in ideas, not just image.” More than a decade since its last issue, the influential publication (which commissioned original, “experimental” fonts from type gods such as Erik Spiekermann, Peter Saville, and Tobias Frere-Jones, and provided them to readers on a disk) returns in FUSE 1-20, out this month from Taschen.

read the article on UnBeige

BOREN AWARDS INFO SESSION

BOREN AWARDS - Scholarships and Fellowships for International Study

GENERAL INFORMATION SESSION
with Mr. Chris Powers, Director of the Boren Awards at the Institute of International Education (IIE). Students interested in study abroad and foreign languages are invited to join us and learn about the prestigious international study scholarship program, which awards up to $20,000 for a full academic year for undergraduate study and $30,000 for graduate study.

Friday, April 27, 2012
2:00 to 3:00 pm
Humanities 587

For additional information, please contact us via e-mail at flagship@sfsu.edu, by phone at 415-338-7032 or visit the Chinese Flagship Program office at HUM 573.

Exhibition: Types We Can Make

Types We Can Make: Opening Reception — swissnex

This exhibition, curated by ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, presents a selection of new typography works from Switzerland, where type design has had the status of a high art form for generations.

Swissnex

730 Montgomery St. San Francisco

from 04 May 15 Jun 2012

9:00 AM to  at 5:00 PM

Opening Reception
May 3, 2012, 6:30 pm
Presentations from ECAL Director Alexis Georgacopoulos and Head of the Masters Program in Art Direction at ECAL, François Rappo

Medical Daily: Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills

Not to condone drinking (note it states a couple of beers or glasses wine - not being very drunk), but interesting in how it shows that creative thinking requires being open to new ideas, change, finding new paths. Innovation is not possible by thinking the same ways as usual.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them". Albert Einstein

Medical Daily: Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills

Dad's iPad

DAI alumna Maggie Lee featured in IIID Awards 2011 website

Maggie Lee's poster on "Tallest Buildings in the World", which was designed as part of the information design class, is featured in the website for the first International Institute for Information Design Awards competition, Taipei 2011. Maggie will receive a full membership to the IIID organization. 

Awards web page:

IIIDAward Student Work

Designspiration

If you're feeling desperate

the Typecast app

Typecast by FRONT is a tool for creating your CSS code with webfonts directly in the browser with a true WYSIWYG view. It’s an online service for developing the typographic layout of websites directly in the browser. You can style your headlines and paragraphs in an easy and intuitive way, without the need for writing and changing CSS values over and over again. Once you are satisfied with the results you can just grab the CSS code and put it in your project.

The Typecast app is currently in Beta, but you can already play with fonts from Typekit, Fontdeck and the Google Webfonts directory.

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From the Opentype Blog

Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, PA

"I am usually rather bored with definitions," Sagmeister says. "Happiness, however, is just such a big subject that it might be worth a try to pin it down." Centered around the designer's ten-year exploration of happiness, this exhibition presents typographic investigations of a series of maxims, or rules to live by, originally culled from Sagmeister's diary, manifested in a variety of imaginative and interactive forms.

Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, PA

Map Of Energy Consumption In Every Single NYC Building

A new map by the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University gives us a picture of energy consumption in the five boroughs of New York, on a block-by-block basis. It’s kind of like Google Maps for spotting the greediest energy hogs of the city (and it won’t surprise you that Manhattan is, by far, the biggest spender). You can zoom all the way down to your own building, if you’re so inclined, and see how your building stacks up.

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Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback?

Chatype came about when D.J. Trischler, a brand consultant, discovered he'd been sitting next to typeface designer Jeremy Dooley at their local coffee shop. The two became fixated on a question: What if Chattanooga had its own typeface? The idea may sound strange from an American perspective, but it's actually the norm throughout Europe, where even small cities employ unique typefaces to distinguish themselves.

Read the article in Good Magazine

Absolutely mindblowing video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch

From cameras on the solid boosters and sound mixing at Lucas Arts, comes this incredible video of a space shuttle launch and re-entry. No words, no music. A nice lesson in visual narrative, IMO.

Laser 'unprinter' wipes photocopied ink from paper

The process involves using short laser pulses to erase words and images by heating the printed material to the point that they vaporise.

The researchers say it works with commonly used papers and toner inks and is more eco-friendly than recycling.

However, they add that more research is needed to bring a product to market.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica goes out of print after 244 years

Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer publish its flagship encyclopedia in book form for the first time in 244 years, but it will continue to publish digital versions.

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Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

“This is a 500-year-old process, and it moves like a 500-year-old process,” says Paul Collier, a typography and letterpress technician at the school. “If you set up a paragraph or sentence, if you get wrong or if you haven’t planned your way forward…then you just have to take it apart and start all over again.” At the same time, he describes letterpress as calm, therapeutic, and “a very enjoyable process.” 

Internship Opportunity at Roots of Change, San Francisco CA

Roots of Change seeks a team of interns to assist with the following two program areas: the California Food Policy Council and Highlighting the New Mainstream. We are looking for 3 unpaid interns with a variety of skills in policy, social media, web development, graphic design and communications. Our internships offer hands-on experience and invaluable practical experience. We are seeking interns that can commit to at least 16 hours per week for a period of 3 months between April 1st and October 1st.

The Noun Project

The Noun Project

Ice cube on Eames

Read your newspaper on your computer? 1981!

Fwd: Vigilante, Vigilante Film Screening March 8th

You are invited to an exciting film screening and filmmaker's talk!

Please join us for a one-time only screening of Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, co-produced and edited by SF State Alumni Nathan Wollman and Julien de Benedictis. This documentary film follows anti-graffiti vigilantes in the Bay Area and beyond, and is an illuminating film for anybody interested in graffiti, self-expression, and the urban visual environment. For more information, visit http://www.vigilantefilm.com/

• Thursday, March 8th
• 7:00pm
• Coppola Theater, first floor of the Fine Arts Building (near main entrance)

This event is co-hosted by the Design and Industry Department and the Cinema Department with support from the College of Arts and Humanities. For more information, please contact Hsiao-Yun Chu, hychu@sfsu.edu

Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality

Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality

By NICK BILTON
Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated. 

Florent Gallery

From the gallery of Florent with work by the illustrious Tibor Kalman and M&CO.

AIGA student lecture: Mucho from Barcelona

March 7, 6:30-8:30pm

AIGA SF
130 Sutter St., SF

The creative directors and founders of Mucho in Barcelona are coming all this way just to talk to you - students! Mucho will talk about their time as students and their career path from College to now being one of the most talented and creative agencies in Europe.

Here's a link to their website
http://www.mucho.ws/

This is not open to professionals, only to students and tutors and it's completely tailored to this audience (including of course Free weak beer).

A limited edition print of this poster will be available for all students who attend the lecture.

Student members: $7
Student Non-Members: $10.00
Tickets available at aigasf.org

FORMATIONS WORKSHOPS 2012 @ CCA

JUST ANNOUNCED: CCA _ Feb 25, 2012

We are pleased to announce FORMATIONS 2012, a series of software based workshops for students and professionals taking place on Feb 25th at CCA in San Francisco. FORMATIONS, an annual workshop series at the California College of the Arts, provides a platform for students and professionals in the design disciplines to explore new technologies in a hands-on workshop setting. FORMATIONS is a collaboration of the three research labs at CCA: MEDIAlab, URBANlab, and eLAB. Each year the focus of the event evolves to reflect emerging research topics in the fields of architecture, landscape, and urban design in relationship to new media.

Eligibility: The workshops are open to all students and professionals in the design fields.

Cost: Each workshop costs $75 for students and $175 for professionals

Hardware and Software: Attendees must bring their own laptop to the workshop. For software requirements please see below.

Location: All workshops will be held on the CCA San Francisco Campus. Exact Classroom/Labs TBA.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: (Registration Link)

The 2012 workshops will be:

AIGA | Running Out of Running Time

By Ralph Caplan

Anyone who has performed before an audience knows the wisdom of the dictum, “Always leave them wanting more.” As Ralph Caplan observes, that requires the sensitivity to know when is enough and the discipline to stop there.

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