Help us develop and improve the DAI Rapid Prototyping Facilities

Milan Bhatt, a graduate student, and Rapid Prototyping (RP) /Shop manager at the Design and Industry Department at SFSU has been conducting an important study for the DAI department on the usage of available Rapid Prototyping Resources in the DAI Rapid Prototyping-Lab. This on going study's main focus is to develop a student/teacher rich resource that can enable the user to fully utilize the available DAI RP technology, which would further augment the DAI curricula, and enrich the design student development and experience.

At this point in time, he needs student input, and would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to fill out this survey, and help improve the learning experience at SFSU's Design and Industry Department.

The survey will be available 19th April 00:00 Hrs. onwards and will be closed on 30th April 00:00 Hrs.

SURVEY LINK

Dare to watch! April 13th Day of Action

On Wednesday, April 13^th (tomorrow) all 23 campuses in the CSU will take action for public higher education and fair contracts.  Faculty, students and staff on the CSU campuses will be joined by other Colleges and University across the nation, in taking action to defend public higher education in the face of sweeping funding cuts and attacks on the rights of employees and students.

Please take a few minutes to watch a You Tube clip (link below) created by organizers at CSU Long Beach on why we need to take action on April 13^th.

April 13 -- Day of Action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1WqIZ_vBM

JOIN US TOMORROW AT SF STATE:

•  STAND UP! FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION TEACH-IN 
  Jack Adams Hall @ 11 am
•  MARCH WITH STUDENTS, JOIN THE DISPOSABLE LABOR MARCHING KAZOO BANDCorner of 19^th and Holloway at 12:45pm

LetterMpress: A Virtual Letterpress on Your iPad

Experience the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing on your iPad

LetterMpress™ will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints.

The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.

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...

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.

Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Tesla Guitar

Thinking of the Dorks...



-BH

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I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

by Mike Lacher

"Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg…"

Read the rest

Searching via Web Directories

On her site The Spider's Apprentice, Linda Monash talks about online search resources including Web or subject directories – which she compares to using the "subject" option of a library card catalog.
Monash explains:

Think back to the library card catalogue analogy. In the old card files, and even in today's computer terminal library catalogues, you find information by searching on either the author, the title, or the subject. You usually choose the subject option when you want to cover a broad range of information.

Example: You'd like to create your own home page on the Web, but you don't know how to write HTML, you've never created a graphic file, and you're not sure how you'd post a page on the Web even if you knew how to write one. In short, you need a lot of information on a rather broad topic—Web publishing.

Your best bet is not a search engine, but a Web directory like the Open Directory Project, Google Directory or Yahoo. A directory is a subject-tree style catalogue that organizes the Web into major topics, including Arts, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, News, Recreation, Reference, Regional, Science, Social Science, Society and Culture. Under each of these topics is a list of subtopics, and under each of those is another list, and another, and so on, moving from the more general to the more specific.

Example: To find out about Web page publishing from Yahoo, select the Computers and Internet Topic, under which you find a subtopic on the Wide World Web. Click on that and you find another list of subtopics, several of which are pertinent to your search: Web Page Authoring, CGI Scripting, Java, HTML, Page Design, Tutorials. Selecting any of these subtopics eventually takes you to Web pages that have been posted precisely for the purpose of giving you the information you need.

If you are clear about the topic of your query, start with a Web directory rather than a search engine. Directories probably won't give you anywhere near as many references as a search engine will, but they are more likely to be on topic.

Web directories usually come equipped with their own keyword search engines that allow you to search through their indices for the information you need.

Monash offers many other valuable insights on search strategies. Check them out at The Spider's Apprentice.

from Q&A!

Helvetica Cookies

They taste Neutral

(Thanks to Rosa Moreno for the reference)