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

Our Right to Sing - Creative State Presents

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
2:10pm

This project examines the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship. Our Right to Sing is the first film on the musical byproduct of this collective experience, something director Carolina Fuentes witnessed firsthand as member of a musical group inspired by the principles of Liberation Theology and with the arson of the San Jose Catholic Church, where she was parishioner. After the assassination of friends and classmates, Fuentes fled from her native El Salvador to Mexico, where she lived for seven years. Fuentes, a former radio and television reporter as well as a documentary maker, will be available for questions. Free.

Fine Arts Building, Coppola Theatre

Our Right to Sing - Creative State Presents - College of Liberal & Creative Arts - San Francisco State University

BIER SOMMER at SFAI

BIER SOMMER
Movie Theater and Beer Garden
Friday, July 27–Saturday, July 28
3:00 pm–9:00 pm
Sponsored by Karen and John Diefenbach

Join conceptual artist Hans Winkler, Office Wiederholt, and SFAI for "BIER SOMMER: View Point Movie Theater and Beer Garden" on the quad of our historic Russian Hill campus.

BIER SOMMER explores beer gardens in the broader context of consumer and spectator culture. Discover films with
notable beer garden scenes, including Bierkampf and Das Andechser Gefuhl by Herbert Achternbusch and Herr Ober and Democrazy by Gerhard Polt. Take home beer coasters featuring original artwork from Tom Marioni, Paul Kos, Julio Cesar Morales, Nao Bustamante, and Rebecca Goldfarb. Drink fresh beer from Hofbruhaus Traunstein, one of the oldest breweries in Germany.

This two-day event is FREE and open to the public, but space is limited and advance registration is recommended. Beer and food will be available for purchase. Guests must be 21 or older to drink beer.

Reserve your FREE ticket to BIER SOMMER today:http://sfaibiersommer.eventbrite.com

Free poster competition/ Occupy what's next ? / Extended deadline

As you already know, it appears that this Spring will be very active in matters of expressing social issues. Both, students and professionals have been invited to our open, free, and international poster competition on the theme "Occupy: What's Next?".

We are not looking for protests, but we are interested in gathering visual designs that address central issues, express your own concerns and suggest solutions to societal ills and disconnects.

We have extended the deadline to May 31, 2012

And let me repeat: there are no entry fees !

Are you in ? Thank you to spread the word in your design- and education community.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Whats-Next-Call-for-poster/321940504514978

Interview: https://www.entrythingy.com/108

First posters have arrived from around the world. Check it out on our website.



http://Occupywhatsnext.org/

The Noun Project

The Noun Project

Fwd: Vigilante, Vigilante Film Screening March 8th

You are invited to an exciting film screening and filmmaker's talk!

Please join us for a one-time only screening of Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, co-produced and edited by SF State Alumni Nathan Wollman and Julien de Benedictis. This documentary film follows anti-graffiti vigilantes in the Bay Area and beyond, and is an illuminating film for anybody interested in graffiti, self-expression, and the urban visual environment. For more information, visit http://www.vigilantefilm.com/

• Thursday, March 8th
• 7:00pm
• Coppola Theater, first floor of the Fine Arts Building (near main entrance)

This event is co-hosted by the Design and Industry Department and the Cinema Department with support from the College of Arts and Humanities. For more information, please contact Hsiao-Yun Chu, hychu@sfsu.edu

Erler Dingbats [free]

For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 – U + 27BF) is now covered by a complete, contemporary quality font. Erler Dingbats is a spin-off of the distinguished FF Dingbats 2.0 family, and was designed as a special collaboration between designers Johannes Erler and Henning Skibbe.

http://ffdingbatsfont.com/erler/index.html

International Documnetary Film Screening at SFSU

Adobe Muse Demo in DAI, Nov. 10

On Nov 10, at 2:10pm in FA115, Dani Beaumont, product manager for Muse, will be giving a demo - an overview of features and worklfow for Muse. Space will be reserved for DAI 525 students, but will be open to other DAI students as rooms permits. 

http://muse.adobe.com/

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.

Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century: Film Screening with director Q&A

Come join us at Typekit's headquarters on Tuesday October 4, 2011 for a more personal look at Richard Keglers' new documentary on metal typefaces. We'll open the doors at 7:00pm for drinks and begin the screening at 7:30pm followed by a Q&A at 8:30pm.

Making Faces' is a fascinating design documentary by Richard Kegler that captures the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist and type designer Jim Rimmer (1931-2010).

https://makingfaces.eventbrite.com/

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.

Emigre Fonts PDF Catalogs

Emigre's award winning type specimen catalogs are now available for free as downloadable PDF files. Many have been long out of print and some have reached collector item status. So if you haven't received these in the past, or have lost your copy, here is your opportunity to receive these beautifully designed type catalogs delivered directly to your computer for immediate typographic perusal.

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.

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

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.

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