Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

“This is a 500-year-old process, and it moves like a 500-year-old process,” says Paul Collier, a typography and letterpress technician at the school. “If you set up a paragraph or sentence, if you get wrong or if you haven’t planned your way forward…then you just have to take it apart and start all over again.” At the same time, he describes letterpress as calm, therapeutic, and “a very enjoyable process.” 

A Tale of Two Graphic Designers: Martin Venezky and Jon Sueda

Today, professors Martin Venezky and Jon Sueda seem like two sides of the same coin. In the Graphic Design courses they co-teach at CCA, they listen to their students before speaking, argue with each other fruitfully and comfortably, then almost always agree on what the student should do next. In addition to their academic work, each has forged a successful professional career.

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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.

SFSU Museum Exhibit course needs DAI students !!

Dear DAI Department Colleagues:

We need your wonderful graduate or  upper-division students who like history and who like children. The Museum Studies Program is offering students a unique opportunity to design a museum exhibition for children!  We can accommodate up to 5 students

This Fall Semester, the Museum Studies Program is offering the following course:
"M S 710 Museum Education &  Schools Outreach" and I would like to invite your students to consider taking the course.

Course participants will be developing a family- and child-friendly exhibition that focuses on the concept of "preserving family history across cultures" in our teaching museum in HUM 510, and also, for managing the school field trip program for elementary-age children.

Course information:
Museum Studies 710
Museum Education & Schools Outreach
Instructor: C. Fogarty
Schedule #: 45161
Time: Wednesdays, 1:10-3:55 PM in Humanities Room 506
Location: Humanities Room 506 (different from what's published in the
Class Schedule)

Contact Christine Fogarty if you have any questions: <cfog@sfsu.edu>cfog@sfsu.edu.

Summer Study Abroad Opportunity in Copenhagen

Stir Copenhagen: Design, Culture, and Your SensesOffered through the Rhode Island School of Design3 Credits. Open to students and professionals. June 1 Deadline.stircenter.com/workshops

Invigorate your design process in Copenhagen this summer and participate in an intensive, two-week, 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.

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.

Study Abroad Informational Meeting

Tuesday Feb. 15th, 12:30-1:30pm in FA 123

INFORMATIONAL MEETING
Study abroad for DAI students

• Learn about the new Dublin Institute of Technology exchange program
• Learn about the new exchange with Swinburne University
• Ask questions about existing bilateral exchanges (Brunel, NABA, Chung Yuan University, etc.)

With your hosts…Hsiao-Yun Chu
Nancy Noble
David Wick, Office of International Programs

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

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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.

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.