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

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

Design Change. Changing Design. | AIGA San Francisco

Design Change. Changing Design. | AIGA San Francisco

In a time of staggering challenges, how can design create inspired solutions for some of our most pressing social issues? Find out howAIGA National President Doug Powell uses design methodology to take on today’s most complex social and cultural problems, and learn about AIGA’s new Design for Good initiative.

Doug Powell is a designer, strategist, entrepreneur and the creative visionary for Schwartz Powell, leading design-driven projects for some of the most prominent organizations in health and nutrition, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Johnson & Johnson and PepsiCo.

Thursday, 1 Mar 2012
6:30pm - 8:30pm

130 Sutter Street Suite 600

San Francisco, California 94104 Map

Registration

• AIGA Members: $5.00
• Non-Members: $5.00
• Student Members: $5.00
• Student Non-Members: $5.00

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

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.

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

Public Program: Afghanistan in 4 Frames Exhibition Walk-Through and Artist Talk with James Lee

Thursday, March 10, 2011
6:30-7:15 pm Exhibition Walk Through at City Hall led by exhibition curator and SFAC Gallery Director, Meg Shiffler
7:15-8 pm Artist Talk with James Lee at SFAC Main Gallery

Join us for a guided tour of Afghanistan in 4 Frames: 4 Embedded Photojournalists Take Aim at War led by Meg Shiffler and an artist talk by exhibiting photographer, James Lee. Mr. Lee lectures on his work and life as a photojournalist, writer and US Marine Corps Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A camera belt-pack donated by Think Tank Photo will be given away.

Please RSVP to aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. Seating is limited.

For more information about Afghanistan in 4 Frames: 4 Embedded Photojournalists Take Aim at War please click here.

INNOVATIONS IN INTERACTIVITY: WHERE TECHNOLOGY & PLACEMAKING INTERSECT

The demand for interactivity has reshaped every aspect of our culture. No longer content to simply observe and absorb, we expect to shape our environment and personalize our experience. Held at San Francisco’s beautiful new McLoughlin Gallery, this salon will explore how cities, neighborhoods and cultural organizations are using interactive media to engage people in public spaces and create a sense of place. Join our eclectic panel as they show innovations from around the globe and hypothesize where this trend is going. Debate encouraged!

http://www.7story.net/salons.html

Wednesday, February 23
5:15 pm reception
6-7:30 program
Details/Tickets : http://enlightenedspaces5.eventbrite.com

Workshop
PUBLIC SPACE AS MIXED REALITY: ART, DESIGN & COMMUNITY IN A DIGITAL WORLD http://enlightenedspaces6.eventbrite.com/
Saturday, February 26
10-4
Details/Tickets: http://enlightenedspaces6.eventbrite.com/

www.7story.net
Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/7Story-Enlightened-Spaces/186212091407982

... helping cities, neighborhoods and organizations understand the identity or "story" of a place and bring it to life through innovative art and design...

DESIGN ALERT: Talk by Mexican architect/designer Eduardo Terrazas -Thursday, 2/17, 4pm, FA 203

Talk by Mexican architect/designer Eduardo Terrazas, on the interrelationship of design and art.
Thursday February 17 at 4:00 pm, Dance Studio, FA 203.
Mr. Terrazas is best known for his work creating the signage for the Mexico City subways and the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.  This talk is held in conjunction with México: Política y Poética, the exhibition of contemporary art from Mexico being held in the CCA Fine Art Gallery.

The poster for this event (attached) was designed by Steve Jones, Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design, Department of Design & Industry.

AIGA Lecture: James Victore

James Victore is a father, graphic designer, teacher, and rebel. As an independent designer in New York, he strives to make sexy, memorable design that causes excitement—sometimes even controversy. Victore’s clients include Moët & Chandon, Esquire, Amnesty International, the Shakespeare Project, The New York Times, MTV, Time, and Portfolio Center, among others. He has been awarded an Emmy for television animation, a Gold Medal from the Broadcast Designers Association, the Grand Prix from the Brno Biennale (Czech Republic), and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director’s Club. Victore’s posters are in the permanent collections of the MoMA, Palais du Louvre, the Library of Congress, and the Museum für Gestaltung, among others. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and currently a professor at the School of Visual Arts.

Thursday, 10 Mar 2011

Networking & Refreshments: 6:00 PM

Lecture and Q & A: 7:00 PM


Design Lecture Series: James Victore | AIGA San Francisco

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.

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).