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

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

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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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

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Designspiration

If you're feeling desperate

Ice cube on Eames

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.

Read the article

Get the new year off to a positive start with these design resolutions

Wake up. I hope you enjoyed your holiday because it’s a new year and it’s time to get back to work.

http://netm.ag/ukpl2L

The Fashion Network Association (SFSU) Presents IMPRESSIONS

Winter Runway Show

December 9th, 2011
Jack Adams Hall
Cesar Chavez Student Center
San Francisco State University

$10 General Admission
$5 with student ID

Doors Open at 6:30pm
Show Begins at 7:00pm

Donate 1 Article of Clothing & Receive 1 Raffle Ticket
Donations to Goodwill

www.fnasf.com

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design

Take a look at the printing of the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work.

Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta.

Film by Alice Masters

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

a provocative and quick read:

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

"Hands do two things. They are two utterly amazing things, and you rely on them every moment of the day, and most Future Interaction Concepts completely ignore both of them.

Hands feel things, and hands manipulate things."


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AIGA launches Design for Good

AIGA launches Design for Good to support socially engaged designers

Every day, designers are creating better communities by working with nonprofits and citizen groups to improve the human experience. If one person can make an impact, imagine what 22,000 designers can accomplish.

AIGA's Design for Good initiative connects and amplifies the pro bono efforts of designers, firms and chapters.

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.

Design Fantasy Camp

Don't you wish!

From Lunch Breath

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.

Press Pushes Hard on "Death of the Printed Book" Angle, All Based on Ikea Bookshelf Redesign

Press Pushes Hard on ‘Death of the Printed Book’ Angle, All Based on Ikea Bookshelf Redesign - UnBeige

In case you missed it, over the weekend, the Economist set off something of a firestorm that’s continuing to reverberate this week with their story “Great Digital Expectations,” wherein they wrote that “next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous ‘BILLY’ bookcase,” followed by their reasoning for the change: “The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome — anything, that is, except books that are actually read.”

As you might expect, this provided ample fodder for too many news outlets to list to jump in with headlines about the death of the printed book. Searching for “Ikea” and “bookcase” lands you pieces like theGlobe and Mail‘s “Does a Revamped IKEA Shelf Spell the End for Books?” andTime‘s “Ikea Redesigns Classic Bookshelf, Foreshadows the Demise of Books.” The only rub is that nearly all of these stories relied upon the Economist‘s opinion, not necessarily the truth of the matter. NPR spoke to an Ikea representative, hearing that while the redesign news was accurate, “the change to the bookcase was made simply to allow people to store bigger books.”Curbed got even more info from the company, hearing directly from the Billy the Bookshelf himself (itself?), reiterating that “My shelves are deeper so I can house bigger books. Deeper books.” Our favorite response (and mentioned by Billy) came from Rosie Gray at the Village Voice who wrote in reply to all the frantic waving of hands and “sky is falling” reports, “It looks more like a thing that holds books and less like a thing that is setting out to kill the publishing industry, but maybe that’s just us.” And while all of this was going on, not many outlets seemed to pick up on the bigger story, that only had the company redesigned its 30-year old staple, but had also slashed its prices on the bookcase, a sign for those, like at Bloomberg, who take seriously the “Ikea Index,” in which price changes reflect international financial health.

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Design School?

Sage advice, for the design student: Observatory: Design Observer

As designers, we solve problems. Indeed, pursuing a design education is probably the first great problem we’re tasked with solving. It all starts with uncertainty and learning, moves on into hard work and refinement, and ends (ideally) with a really simple goal: becoming a designer. Staying on course and reaching that goal is no easy task — nor should it be — and a bit of guidance along the way can be a very good thing.

YIKES! ACTION ALERT: Check LogoGarden for identity work stolen from you

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ACTION ALERT: Check LogoGarden for identity work stolen from you A website promoting access to "do-it-yourself logos for entrepreneurs" starting at $79 has copied logos and other images created by designers and displayed them as LogoGarden founder John Williams's own work for sale, without the original designers' permission. Bill Gardner of Gardner Design, who found more than 200 of his own designs offered on the site, has documented Williams's outrageous and unethical behavior on the blog Rock Paper Ink, including examples of the slight modifications of well-known logos like the identity for World Wildlife Fund and Time Warner Cable.

Fwd: NYTimes.com: The Words We Live By

 The Art of Summer:  The Words We Live By
By DWIGHT GARNER
A day of wandering the semantic landscape of Manhattan with an eye out for everyday words: the language of street signs and menus, MetroCards and T-shirts.

Michael Bierut Pops Up on CBS Evening News Talking About the Design of the USDA’s New Food Plate - UnBeige

From Unbeige

The big news from the US Department of Agriculture, of course, is their move away from the familiar and iconic food pyramid and into their new plate-based system of showing us how much of each type of food thing we should be consuming (full disclosure: this writer’s wife works somewhat directly with the group that creates these pyramid and plate guidelines for the USDA and certainly wouldn’t appreciate his use of “food thing” to describe types of food). And with the transition from pointy to round, eventually the media was going to have to turn to a design expert. We were both surprised and pleased as punch that CBS Evening News went directly to Pentagram‘s Michael Bierut and Mine's Christopher Simmons for their commentary. It’s the nightly news, so of course he only gets a few words in, but nice to hear from someone outside of the food world or government sharing their insight. Here’s the clip: