Cats Playing Patty-cake, what they were saying...

Fire In The Hole!

Great interview with the designer of Fire in the Hole (font seen here).

Lecture by John Seely Brown

Presented as part of CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series

Thursday, December 9, 2010, 7–9 pm

California College of the Arts

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus

Info: 415.703.9505

John Seely Brown is an avid reader, traveler, and motorcyclist; part scientist, part artist, and part strategist. His views are distinguished by a broad view of the human contexts in which technologies operate and a healthy skepticism about whether or not change always represents genuine progress. His most recent book, published earlier this year, is The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion.

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

Free Lecture on Data Visualization with: Google - GreenInfo - Stamen

The GIS Education Center and CCA URBANlab are hosting a free lecture with Google, GreenInfo, and Stamen this upcoming Thursday, Nov. 4th 6-8pm at CCA, to discuss data visualization and mapping. This is a great opportunity for students to learn and understand the process of raw data to visual print and web development for Google Geo, Stamen Design, and GreenInfo.

For more information:
View the lecture flyer
Visit GISEC website
Visit CCA URBANlab website

CCSF GIS Mapping Collaborative: A Facilities Management application using GIS
maps.ccsfgis.org

CCA Lecture: Scott Constable

Wednesday, November 3, 7 pm

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

Before settling into a dedicated art and design practice, Scott Constable apprenticed in traditional joinery, cooked as a line chef, played drums and guitar in rock bands, served as an "Appropriate Technology Agent" with the Peace Corps, fished as a deckhand on a salmon seiner, and freelanced as a photographer, digital artist, and museum fabricator. Today, his deep interest in vernacular design has led to far-ranging paths of inquiry researching the origins of "invention within tradition."

Soon after moving to the Bay Area in the early 1990s, Constable established Wowhaus, an experimental art and design collaborative working at the intersection of public art, social practice, furniture design, and architecture. In 2007, beginning with a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), he established the hybrid brand/philosophy/manifesto/blog Deep Craft.

Constable lives and works on his rural family compound on California's Sonoma Coast. He grew up on Philadelphia's Main Line, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and earned a BFA with a concentration in sculpture and generative systems at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

BeLoose Graphic Workshop - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 2-5pm in Room 124

Architect and illustrator Mike Lin of the BeLoose Graphic Workshop will give a free workshop next Tuesday, Nov. 2 from 2 to 5pm in room 124. We already have two classes (40-50 people) scheduled to attend but I told all the students in my other classes as well. In case of a large group, I will be setting up a second screen in the back of 124, where the renovation for the new undergraduate studio is almost complete. It's possible that students in classes scheduled that afternoon might ask you to let them attend the workshop. If you don't have critiques or major deadlines scheduled for that day, please consider excusing them if they ask to attend. Mike Lin is unique and does amazing drawing demonstrations.

Students who sign up on the free website beloose.com and also attend the workshop will be entered in a raffle for free drawing supplies. If attending, students should bring a small drawing pad (8.5x11) and a set of colored pencils.

Who designed “the most famous restaurant in North Korea"?

Kim Jong-Il Gets Into Restaurant Design - UnBeige

…the next time you’re vacationing in North Korea, perhaps enjoying a stay in the never-going-to-be-finished Ryugyong Hotel, you might want to think about swinging over to the Jade Stream Pavilion, “the most famous restaurant in North Korea.” TheTelegraph reports that the restaurant has just finished construction on a new 60,000 ft. addition, with its design overseen by Kim Jong-Il himself.

Fwd: [SUST] Call for Events to add to SF State Sustainable Week, Nov 1st - 5th

All Week

Bio-Swale Installation on the north side of the Science Bldg

Monday "Conservation"

Meatless Mondays (lunch) at the Dining Centers

Quad events: Sustainability Pledge, Water Conservation, Recycling game, Carbon Footprint Testing, info on No Impact Week http://noimpactproject.org/, Gulf Oil Spill Awareness and Education

Tuesday "Green Politics" 

Get out the vote / No on Prop 23

Sustainable Vendors Tabling- Local non-profits will be tabling in the quad to introduce the campus to sustainable organizations and volunteer options available within the city. 

Action Through Fashion Clothing Drive

• Princess Project- prom dresses and accessories for the 14-18 year old
• Nike Reuse a Shoe
• Fix it Table with needle and thread
• Do it Yourself- recreate with scissors and sewing machines

Wednesday "Reduce Reuse" 

Bike to School Day (EcoStudents)

Speakers in Malcolm X Plaza

Action Through Fashion Clothing Drive

Thursday "Food and Agriculture"

Vista Room is offering a local and organic lunch for $12

Canning and pickling demo

Sloat Garden worm demo and seed donation

 In Search of Good Food documentary (http://insearchofgoodfood.blogspot.com/).

Friday "Campus Sustainability"

Eco Student Sign up

Waste Monitor Volunteers at the Student Center

E-waste collection w/Green Citizen

Play: Berkeley Digital Media Conference

The >play conference is organized and led by the members of the Berkeley Digital Media & Entertainment Club (DMEC), which is an organization of MBA students interested in understanding, exploring and anticipating business opportunities found at the nexus of technology, media and entertainment. DMEC provides its members with the chance to learn about these opportunities and the broader business of digital media through a number of avenues, including:

• Conferences and speaker series (most notably the annual >play conference)
• Recruitment and company events within and beyond Silicon Valley
• Mixer events to connect with professionals and alumni in the digital media industry
• Company visits to explore summer internship and full-time opportunities (recent visits include Activision Blizzard, NBC Universal, and Warner Bros.)
• Opportunities to develop expertise in specific aspects of digital media, and blog accordingly

We hope you enjoy our website and encourage you to become active in our organization.

Design is Dead! Long Live Design? | AIGA San Francisco

Design is Dead! Long Live Design? | AIGA San Francisco

Technology is evolving more quickly than ever. The planet can’t sustain our consuming ways anymore. We’re still in a deep economic recession. And 40,000 design students are graduating every year across the country. Is a new golden age of creativity upon us? Or is it the end of design as we know it? (Or both?) Many are touting design as the primary catalyst towards meaningful societal change, but will we all just be designing mobile apps in 5 years instead? And what about the rest of us who still just want to make cool posters?

On October 21, Volume Inc. founder, CCA design professor, and Open Space contributor, Eric Heiman will assemble 5 designers/design teams to address these issues in “Pecha Kucha” format—20 slides, 20 seconds each, 400 seconds total—and then moderate a discussion between them. And because this is an after hours event at SFMOMA, San Francisco’s premier Hip-Hop (M)istress of©eremonies, Melina Jones, will be introducing each guest’s credentials with a freestyle rap performance of her own composition (just for starters).

Guests:

• Shawn Allen, Stamen
• Bob Aufuldish, Aufuldish & Warinner, Professor of Design at CCA
• Guthrie Dolin, Odopod
• Mike Simonian & Maaike Evers, Mike and Maaike
• Joshua To, founder Brute Labs

Seek, Student Design Conference, November 20 2010

Seek, the student design conference hosted by Northern Illinois University in DeKalb Illinois is scheduled for Saturday November 20, 2010.

So mark the date on your calendar, and let your students know about this.

Planning is proceeding, and we are introducing workshops for the first time this year. 

Design firms participating so far include IA Collaborative, Rule29, Digital Kitchen, Lynch2, Grip Design, A5, Brainforest, Three Communications, and The Royal Order of Experience Design. 

More to come too... We are still confirming our keynotes, but in the past we have had Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, Chip Kidd, Kyle Cooper, Rick Valicenti, Jakob Trollback, Andrew Blauvelt, Robynne Raye, and other notable designers.

This is an all day conference, and the fee is a very affordable $35 which includes lunch.

Website and online registration will be available no later than October 20th. I will post a message when registration is open.

Steve

Steve Quinn

Associate Professor

Visual Communication

Northern Illinois University

steve@quinndesign.com

An Introduction to Graphic Design: Observatory: Design Observer

An Introduction to Graphic Design: Observatory: Design Observer

This article, in an earlier version, first appeared in Dwell (December/January 2009, Vol. 09 Issue 02) in an editorial series of "introductions" to various aspects of design and architecture. The authors thank Dwell for its original publication in their pages.

AIGA SF State mixer OCT 7

Nicholas Benson wins MacArthur Foundation grant

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.

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.

Design Advice

http://goodfuckingdesignadvice.com/

Fwd: Campus Interaction at San Francisco State University - INDIA Future of Change

Dear Administration: San Francisco State University,

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

print project calculator

http://www.re-nourish.com/?l=tools_projectcalculator

"The Re-nourish Project Calculator helps you minimize waste on any print project, "

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.

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

SIGNS 2010: How they tell us where to go.

from slate.com

"She Does a Better Job Than Map Quest!" Wonderful hand-drawn maps from firefighters, club-hoppers, Boy Scout dads, grandmothers, and Alexander Calder. Julia Turner April 28, 2010

A World Without Signs Does the advent of GPS mean we'll no longer need them? Julia Turner March 12, 2010

The Big Red Word vs. the Little Green Man The international war over exit signs. Julia Turner March 8, 2010

Do You Draw Good Maps? A professor has been examining hand-drawn maps for three decades. Send him yours. Julia Turner March 4, 2010

Legible London Can better signs help people understand an extremely disorienting city? Julia Turner March 4, 2010

The Secret Language of Signs They're the most useful thing you pay no attention to. Start paying attention. Julia Turner March 1, 2010

Lost in Penn Station Why are the signs at the nation's busiest train hub so confusing?Julia Turner 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 Paper War on AIDS

The Paper War on AIDS

by 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."

Read more: Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers | The Paper War on AIDS

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

Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Tesla Guitar

Thinking of the Dorks...



-BH

........................................................................
.........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity..........
..........................http://dorkbot.org............................
........................................................................

Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Hardcovers at Amazon

"We've reached a tipping point with the new price of Kindle—the growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled since we lowered the price from $259 to $189," said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "In addition, even while our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format. Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books—astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128629853&sc=emaf

Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world.

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

by Mike Lacher

"Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg…"

Read the rest

40 Sites for Finding Web Design Jobs

In the current economy there are a lot of designers and developers looking for work, whether it is full-time employment, contract work, or freelance opportunities. Fortunately, there are a number of great places to find these types of positions. In this post we’ll look at 40 sites that include specialized job boards that include web/graphic design and web development opportunities.

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/business/web-design-jobs/

Lesson on Freelancing and Billing

Searching via Web Directories

On her site The Spider's Apprentice, Linda Monash talks about online search resources including Web or subject directories – which she compares to using the "subject" option of a library card catalog.
Monash explains:

Think back to the library card catalogue analogy. In the old card files, and even in today's computer terminal library catalogues, you find information by searching on either the author, the title, or the subject. You usually choose the subject option when you want to cover a broad range of information.

Example: You'd like to create your own home page on the Web, but you don't know how to write HTML, you've never created a graphic file, and you're not sure how you'd post a page on the Web even if you knew how to write one. In short, you need a lot of information on a rather broad topic—Web publishing.

Your best bet is not a search engine, but a Web directory like the Open Directory Project, Google Directory or Yahoo. A directory is a subject-tree style catalogue that organizes the Web into major topics, including Arts, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, News, Recreation, Reference, Regional, Science, Social Science, Society and Culture. Under each of these topics is a list of subtopics, and under each of those is another list, and another, and so on, moving from the more general to the more specific.

Example: To find out about Web page publishing from Yahoo, select the Computers and Internet Topic, under which you find a subtopic on the Wide World Web. Click on that and you find another list of subtopics, several of which are pertinent to your search: Web Page Authoring, CGI Scripting, Java, HTML, Page Design, Tutorials. Selecting any of these subtopics eventually takes you to Web pages that have been posted precisely for the purpose of giving you the information you need.

If you are clear about the topic of your query, start with a Web directory rather than a search engine. Directories probably won't give you anywhere near as many references as a search engine will, but they are more likely to be on topic.

Web directories usually come equipped with their own keyword search engines that allow you to search through their indices for the information you need.

Monash offers many other valuable insights on search strategies. Check them out at The Spider's Apprentice.

from Q&A!

An Overhaul of an Underground Icon

Link to article in the NYT with historical sequence of maps

Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a resized, recolored and simplified edition of the well-known map, its first overhaul in more than a decade.

More Info on Barbra Streisand's Design Book

From Unbeige

By Steve Delahoyde on May 28, 2010 07:00 AM

Save for that quick post last month when we told you she would be the keynote at this year's BookExpo, it had been almost a full year since we'd last thought about Barbra Steisand writing a book about architecture and design. But now here it is all over the place (thanks BookExpo), with the first peek at its cover (where Babs looks just slightly more comfortable than her very uneasy dog). The initial info has come out now, so we and you now know that it'll be 288 pages, cost somewhere south of $60 depending on where you buy it, and has an official release date of November 16th of this year. And while we'd really rather not have to think about it again until then, she does score some points in this quote over at the NY Times' T blog for dropping Mies van der Rohe's name:

Gayle King, the editor-at-large of O, the Oprah Magazine, interviewed Streisand but was obviously outmatched by the diva's aesthetic prowess. "When I think of a Tiffany lamp," King said, "I think of bright colors." "No," replied Streisand, "you're thinking of fake Tiffany lamps." Burn! King went on to quote Oprah, who likes to say, "God is in the details." "Ah," Streisand chimed in, "But Mies van der Rohe said the devil is in the details." They're both right, of course, but Babs had the last word.

Michael Bierut on designs rising status

It always good to take some time and hear from the industry’s best. This video from AIGA last year shows design legend Michael Bierut Discussing good design, working in a recession and designs rising status.



View on the Blur Designs blog

Streaming Lecture from the Cooper Hewitt: May 27

The event will be streamed live online.
http://cooperhewitt.org/

MICHAEL BIERUT and YVES LUDWIG of Pentagram talk about designing the catalog for the National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?

* Thursday, May 27, 2010
* 18:30:00
* | Lecture

A partner at Pentagram, critic at Yale and co-founder of Design Observer, Michael is one of the world’s most admired graphic designers. We at Cooper-Hewitt were thrilled with the design that he created for our Triennial exhibition catalog! He will be the first presenter in a new series of conversations, BILL’S DESIGN TALKS, moderated by Bill Moggridge.

Yves Ludwig is the graphic designer at Pentagram who developed the full design for the Triennial catalog. She and Michael will show the design process as a case study and discuss the design of this piece in a broader context, followed by a discussion with members of the contributing team at the museum.

Stir Copenhagen: Design, Culture + Your Senses

July 9–19, 2010
3 Undergraduate Credits
(Credits usually transfer between schools, check with your department to confirm.)

Open to All Students
Cost: $3350.00
Registration for this course closes May 14, 2010.
http://www.risd.edu/summerstu_registration.cfm

Additional Information:
Visit the website
Contact Stephanie Grey

Course Description

To stir means to provoke, to evoke strong feelings in, to rouse to activity.

Invigorate your design process in Copenhagen this summer and participate in an intensive, ten-day, 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. Students in this course tour the studios of notable Danish designers and gain insight into their thought processes, visit historic architectural sites, tour museums, bike through the cobbled city streets as the natives do, and take day trips to scenic parts of the country.

Your point of view is found through your senses as you focus on taste, texture, smell, sight and sound as a means to connect with your surroundings. You are introduced to the topic of the senses and design through readings, discussions and exercises that yield innovative approaches to design concepts. A sensory-based design process guides you as you record the happenings of the city and the nuances of the culture. This process helps expand personal awareness, and as a visual communicator, helps broaden and strengthen your design skills and gain the tools necessary to invite full sensory participation into your design work. Each student creates a final process notebook, which serves as a tangible method of creating and can be used for a lifetime of generating work.

This course — led by Stephanie Grey (MFA GD'04), a Boston-based graphic designer who has lived, worked and taught design in Denmark — challenges your current methods of creating (and experiencing the world) and helps stir, invigorate and add value to your design communication, products and experiences.

:output is looking for a design intern in amsterdam

:output offers a place for an internship in Amsterdam for 3 or 6 months starting june 2010. We are looking for an enthusiastic and reliable student with experience in graphic design projects (minimum 3rd year student). Skills in Adobe CS and experience with print work projects required. Your assignment would be to co-design the new :output book.

If you are interested to spend your summer in Amsterdam working with us please send your application with CV and work samples to: lambers@open-output.org.

Film: Typeface at YBCA

By Justine Nagan

Sat, May 15: 6 pm - Justine Nagan in person
Sat, May 15: 8 pm
Sun, May 16: 2 pm - Justine Nagan in person
Sun, May 16: 4 pm

Typeface tells the story of the Hamilton Wood Type Museum and print shop in rural Wisconsin. The centuries-old technique of handmade wooden type comes to life when seasoned craftsmen, masters of this obsolete but beloved technology, meet with international artists and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. Preceded by a short film to be announced. (2009, 58 min, digital video)

YBCA is offering $6 discounted tickets to students and faculty through our onsite box office (not online). If people pick up their tickets early, it also entitles them to same-day admission to our galleries.

BLF (Billboard Liberation Front) Speak at DeYoung Museum, May 7th.

Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents “Mission Muralismo” in partnership with Precita Eyes Muralists

WHAT: Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo series presents “Directional Signals: Pranksters and Preachers, Paste and Stencil” featuring talks by Rigo, and John Jota Leaños. Also, Jack Napier, BLF co-founder, and Milton Rand, Kalman BLF chief scientist, will give a presentation titled “The Art and Science of Billboard Improvement,” plus stencil cutting demonstration by Russell Howze author of Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community and Art.

WHEN: Friday, May 7, 6–8:45 pm
Live music in Wilsey Court: Marcus Shelby Quartet featuring vocalist Faye Carol performing the MLK project, 6:30-8:30 pm

WHERE: de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park

COST: Programs are free of charge

On Friday, May 7, the de Young Museum presents another dynamic program, luminous projections, and book signing in the ongoing series Mission Muralismo, in conjunction with the recently published book Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo, edited by Annice Jacoby for Precita Eyes Muralists, foreword by Carlos Santana (Abrams, 2009). The evening focuses on the talent and passionate work of major contributors to the book: Rigo, John Jota Leaños, Russell Howze, Jack Napier Billboard Liberation Front (BLF) co-founder, and Milton Rand Kalman BLF chief scientist

The lecture/demonstration program will take place in the lobby of the Koret Auditorium starting at 6:45 pm with Russell Howze demonstrating stencil cutting and the process of working a stencil from start to finish. Visitors will have an opportunity to see completed stencils and work at his stencil station until 7:15 pm.Projections of Howze’s work will be shown in the Koret Auditorium.

AIGA San Francisco 2010 Enrichment Scholarship

AIGA San Francisco 2010 Enrichment Scholarship
&
Rick Tharp Scholarship

San Francisco State University
Design & Industry

The Enrichment Scholarship, for graphic design, was created by AIGA San Francisco to enhance the quality and diversity of design education. Winners will receive a scholarship which may be used to underwrite the cost of their design education. In addition, the work from the scholarship winners will be featured on the AIGA San Francisco website.

The Enrichment Scholarship award is based on the overall excellence of the student’s work and his/her strong academic achievement. Applicants are chosen by their respective schools and will then be reviewed by the 2010 Enrichment Scholarship Judging Committee. In addition, one student from the overall group of winners will be chosen for Rick Tharp Scholarship. The final awards are subject to review and approval by AIGA SF’s Board of Directors.

More information

Drive By Press

Farmer’s Market this Thursday, March 18th

Two guys driving around the country with a press, making prints. They will be giving their demonstration (and T-shirt sale).

www.drivebypress.org

Lecture by John Bielenberg

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
San Francisco campus map (PDF)
Directions »

John Bielenberg specializes in helping organizations find the courage and the sense of humor to consider whole new "wrong" ways of bringing their stories, ideas, and innovations out into the world.

His investment in the "value of thinking wrong" led him to create a program called Project M, designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving that their work—especially their wrongest thinking—can have a positive and significant impact on the world. Project M has developed projects related to a conservation area in Costa Rica, microfinancing in Ghana, New Orleans after Katrina, the community of East Baltimore, and connecting households to fresh water in Hale County, Alabama.

Bielenberg has won more than 250 design awards. He has been nominated for two Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, he served on the AIGA national board of directors, and he teaches at CCA. SFMOMA has acquired six of his projects, and he staged a solo exhibition there in 2000. He is a founding partner of C2, MavLab, and Nada Bike Collective, a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International), and on the boards of Waterfall Arts and Unity College. Recently he received the Skandalaris Award for Entrepreneurship in Design from Washington University in St. Louis.

Additional links: www.pielab.org www.blanklab.org

Lecture by the Reverend Shane McCraig

Presented as part of CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
San Francisco campus map (PDF)
Directions »

The Reverend Shane McCraig has toured the world unlocking the mysteries of design, reframing what it means to "be a designer" and saving young designers from essential business practices that can strip great design of its soul.

Through invigorating and inspired storytelling, McCraig (real name Joel Kashuba) reveals the emotive power of playfulness in the design process and uncovers how this process makes the connection between seemingly illogical product inspiration and the success of everything from pet rocks to hula hoops, cola bottles, and vacuum cleaners.

In this sermon, the Reverend will take his audience on a journey of insight and discovery about who we are as designers and what role we will play in the future of business. The good Brother will peel back the layers of a designer's existence to reveal a purpose that is alive and well in the hearts and minds of those who truly seek to change the world through the power of design.

Student Design Competition: Entries Due Mar. 8

Every year, SPD holds a professional competition to find the best editorial design out there. Now all you students have the chance to be a part of this world-class event! Enter up to 5 entries according to our categories and rules, and you could win cash prizes, the Adobe Creative Suite software and--perhaps best of all--an internship! Check out all the details.

SFSU AIGA Student Group meetings for the Spring Term

The SFSU AIGA Student group will be meeting Tuesdays 12-1pm in FA115. If you're a Vis. Comm. major, and not an AIGA member come and find out more of what you can do and take advantage of as a student member. If you are a member, come and find out more and what you can do to participate.

You can check out the group's website and the AIGA and AIGA SF websites.

Part-time student web design assistant

The College of Creative Arts Publicity Office seeks qualified student assistants to help with various duties in media content generation, Web site development and communications efforts.

All positions are part time, 20 hours per week maximum. Salary $9.70–$15 hour, depending on experience.

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Junior Front-End Web Developer (JOB ID 13990)

This is a technically focused position. XHTML and CSS, Accessibility Guidelines (Section 508), Adobe Creative Suite.

Requirements

• Passed JEPET or ENG 414.
• Hand code XHTML and CSS. JavaScript experience a plus.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (emphasis on Photoshop and Acrobat).
• Experience customizing a content publishing or management systems recommended.
• Familiarity with basic design practices a plus.

Apply online: http://bit.ly/86qPB0

Job details and application instructions are available online:
http://creativearts.sfsu.edu/jobs