AIGA | Justified Competition: 2012 Selections

AIGA’s “Justified” competition recognizes case studies that demonstrate the value of design in a clear, compelling and accessible way. Effective design will nearly always reflect the powerful emotional draw of creativity, inspiration and simplicity; and yet today, for design to be truly effective, it must also serve the client’s very specific needs.

Designers’ unique capacity for seeing problems from unexpected angles—as well as designers’ creativity and empathy with human experience—is in high demand. AIGA believes that a competition built around the case study format, rather than one built around the selection of artifacts, offers a more effective means of revealing how designers have approached clients’ problems, with all of the attendant constraints. With this in mind, the 2012 “Justified” competition honors 18 exemplary case studies of design solutions, each of which successfully demonstrate the value of design.

To learn more about the competition and the selection process, read the jurors’ comments.

AIGA | Justified Competition: 2012 Selections

30 Reasons 2012

30 Reasons is gearing up for 2012.

They’re enlisting 30 designers to each create a poster that represents a reason to re-elect President Obama. Starting on October 8th, we’ll reveal a new poster on 30reasons.org every day until the election. Join our mailing list, and we’ll email you each poster so you can share them with fellow supporters or undecided friends.

Back in ’08 we featured posters by some of the best designers and artists in America. We reached hundreds of thousands of registered voters, and are upping the ante for ’12. This year we’re providing powerful visual messages and the facts to back them up. Let’s stop the misinformation and give voters 30 reasons to vote for Barack Obama in November.

30 Reasons

The Complete Engraver - NYTimes.com

Nancy Sharon Collins is a graphic designer (for clients like the Museum of Modern Art and Clinique) who is also known for her luxurious stationery designs, which are witty, chic and thoughtful at the same time. Collins herself is something of a crusader for the art of engraving, and her fervor has produced a lively book called “The Complete Engraver: Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals, and the Etiquette of Social Stationery” (Princeton Architectural Press).

Read the article

NYTimes.com: MetroCards for Sale

Last week, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York announced that it would be selling advertising space on the front of its fare cards to raise revenue. “The whole thing is available, except for the black stripe,” said Aaron Donovan, an agency spokesman. As a MetroCard-carrying subway rider and graphic designer, I offer a couple of ads that both natives and tourists might actually find useful.

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and author.

from MetroCards for Sale

Forty Posters for Forty Years | New at Pentagram

Pentagram was founded 40 years ago today, on June 12, 1972, in London by the designers Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Theo Crosby, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky. The company was formed when Pentagram’s predecessor, Crosby Fletcher Forbes, added two new partners, Grange and Kurlansky, expanding the multi-disciplinary partnership to five.

For the anniversary the 19 current Pentagram partners, under the creative direction of Harry Pearce, have designed a series of posters for the 40 years since Pentagram’s birth. Each partner created posters for two or three different years, and the only parameters for the series were the use of black, white and red (Pentagram Warm Red, of course).

http://new.pentagram.com/2012/06/forty-posters-for-forty-years/

Microsoft Re-Designs the Ipod Packaging

Florent Gallery

From the gallery of Florent with work by the illustrious Tibor Kalman and M&CO.

TED PARTNER SERIES: Paula Scher gets serious

the importance of play and keeping it fresh and real.

Graphic Content | Good Chemistry

December 06, 2011
By STEVEN HELLER

Graphic designers such as Simon C. Page are working with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks.

In something of a trend, graphic designers are working more closely with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks. Simon C. Page, a London-based graphic designer, is the latest example of what I like to call a sci-graphiste. Page, who has a degree in applied mathematics, has designed a series of 10 posters for the International Year of Chemistry. Not only does the subject resonate with him, Page says, but it’s also “a bonus” that his work is “helping an industry which is struggling to be heard.”

Read the rest and see the images at T Magazine: Graphic Content | Good Chemistry   

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.

Read the article

AIGA SF Student Lecture: Tom Crabtree | AIGA San Francisco

AIGA SF Student Lecture: Tom Crabtree | AIGA San Francisco

Schedule:
6.30pm – 7.00pm – Mixer, Free beer & snacks (21 and over with ID), while supplies last!
7:00 – 8.00pm – Talk
8:00 – 8.30pm – Questions/mixer

This event is for students only.

Manual is a San Francisco design and branding studio. Originally from England, Tom has been living and working in San Francisco since 2006.

Tom’s career started in London in 1999. Within a few years he was working as a senior designer at two of London’s most high profile design studios;MadeThought and Spin. In 2006, he relocated to San Francisco to work as an Art Director at Apple, specializing in packaging design and art direction for products including the iPhone.

In 2009, Tom established his own studio: Manual. In just over two years Manual has gained an international reputation and continues to embrace working with a diverse range of clients in fashion, arts & culture, technology, food, architecture & industrial design, and publishing.

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/

Using Flickr Geotags to Map the World's Cities

Photographer Eric Fischer uses Flickr's geotags to create city maps that show the places of intense human interest.

• Article in Fast Company
• Flickr: Visualizations of Locals and Tourists

Nuclear Boy has stinky poop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sakN2hSVxA&feature=player_embedded

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

Poster Printing Workshop | The Oakland Standard: Political Poster Jam

Poster Printing Workshop | The Oakland Standard
On February 25, 2011, the Oakland Standard will honor the history of political posters in the Bay Area, and the Museum’s acquisition of the All Of Us Or None (AOUON) collection with an evening of printmaking and conversation. 

Type Calendars: More famous than ever

In case anyone was on the fence about getting one of Studio Hinrich's Calendar (the ones you've seen hanging around, and of which we still have many more in storage), I would like to remind you of the quality and prestige associated with them and offer this article as proof of this:

Around the Design World in 180 Words: Typographical Edition - UnBeige

Also remember, in preparation for the holiday season, that the pages tear off and make beautiful wrapping paper.

Free Lecture on Data Visualization with: Google - GreenInfo - Stamen

The GIS Education Center and CCA URBANlab are hosting a free lecture with Google, GreenInfo, and Stamen this upcoming Thursday, Nov. 4th 6-8pm at CCA, to discuss data visualization and mapping. This is a great opportunity for students to learn and understand the process of raw data to visual print and web development for Google Geo, Stamen Design, and GreenInfo.

For more information:
View the lecture flyer
Visit GISEC website
Visit CCA URBANlab website

CCSF GIS Mapping Collaborative: A Facilities Management application using GIS
maps.ccsfgis.org

BeLoose Graphic Workshop - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 2-5pm in Room 124

Architect and illustrator Mike Lin of the BeLoose Graphic Workshop will give a free workshop next Tuesday, Nov. 2 from 2 to 5pm in room 124. We already have two classes (40-50 people) scheduled to attend but I told all the students in my other classes as well. In case of a large group, I will be setting up a second screen in the back of 124, where the renovation for the new undergraduate studio is almost complete. It's possible that students in classes scheduled that afternoon might ask you to let them attend the workshop. If you don't have critiques or major deadlines scheduled for that day, please consider excusing them if they ask to attend. Mike Lin is unique and does amazing drawing demonstrations.

Students who sign up on the free website beloose.com and also attend the workshop will be entered in a raffle for free drawing supplies. If attending, students should bring a small drawing pad (8.5x11) and a set of colored pencils.

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