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

AIGA San Francisco 2011 Enrichment Scholarship

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

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

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

de Young Museum Call for Art

New Generations: Student Showcase
Call for student artwork to be featured at the
de Young Museum on April 22, 2011
Application deadline: March 14

TITLE: Where to? The Call of the Times

DESCRIPTION: Our communities are responding in different ways to the social issues of our times such as the recession, human rights or climate change. The challenges ahead are dynamic and often troubling, yet, we will continue to find solutions through activism and art.

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.

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

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

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.

output award for students in design and architecture | call for entries

" Works carried out by students usually disappear into drawers after presentation to a relatively small college audience. There the work remains invisible. We want to change that."

:output is the biggest international competition for students in design and architecture. The works selected by the jury will be published in the yearbook :output.

+ :output Grand Prix: 3.000 Euro

+ Deadline for submissions: February 15 2010

More information: www.output-award.org

Design professor contributes to U.N. World Urban Forum

Assistant Professor Joshua Singer recently won a $15,000 grant from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme to grant to administer and coordinate the World Urban Campaign logo design’s worldwide competition. He will present the award at the campaign’s public launch, to take place at the fifth World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro in March.

Sponsored by Veolia Environment, the international competition’s jury will select three finalists. The World Urban Forum is the world’s premier gathering on urban issues. More than 15,000 leaders and representatives of government and the private, professional, academic and civil society sectors from more than 100 countries will attend. The U.N. Human Settlements Programme promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
In the Design and Industry Department, Singer serves as coordinator of visual communication design. He is a graphic designer, artist and occasional writer. He runs a small graphic-design practice, developing independent work with a particular interest in mapping and visualizing systems. Singer has exhibited and published in the U.S. and Europe.


(from CCA SFSU)