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

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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TED PARTNER SERIES: Paula Scher gets serious

the importance of play and keeping it fresh and real.

To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons

by Milton Glaser

Scientists have been trying to unravel what specific components of music make it emotionally expressive. The following quiz is based on research by Daniel Levitin, director of the laboratory for music perception, cognition and expertise at McGill University.

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SUMMER 2011 Course: Art 511: Introduction to Physical Computing

This class has been very popular and is now offered this Summer, 2011. It is a great elective for design students

Content relates to industrial technology, industrial design, exhibit design, user interface design, interactive installations, etc.  This is an accessible way to creatively play with the intersection between computers and the physical world.

DAI Alum Made Good! Acme Made and Me

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gritchelle Fallesgon

Hello Professors!

I just wanted to share some awesome news. I am featured in an SF inspired campaign by Acme Made! They made a little video about me and currently have me on the homepage of their website. If you're not familiar with Acme Made, they are an SF designer bag company specializing in laptop & camera bags and iphone/ipad cases. This new campaign will feature all sorts of SF creatives such as photographers, bike builders, foodies and graphic designers (like me!) and my piece starts off the campaign.

The interesting thing is that for the video, they focused on the "I Haight Art" piece which is a project I did in Josh Singer's DAI 525 class! I was kind of surprised that they decided to just focus on that piece, but whatever, I'm grateful to have been chosen in the first place.

Anyway here is the video: http://blog.acmemade.com/2011/03/17/sf-inspired-gritchelle-fallesgon/

And the website: http://www.acmemade.com/

I'm pretty stoked!

I hope everyone is doing well!

Best,

Gritchelle 

Free Economy Stickers!

Free stickers! Have you ever thought about what's actually good, or bad, for the economy? We have, and it's not pretty. We'll send you two of our stickers (from six sayings like: "Crime is good for the economy" and "Carpooling is bad for the economy") Then it's up to you to post them around town.
Get yours now

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

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.

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

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

Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Tesla Guitar

Thinking of the Dorks...



-BH

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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.