NYTimes: ‘Ballot Design With Todd Oldham’

In an Op-Docs video, the designer Todd Oldham reviews the design of election ballots from across the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/opinion/ballot-design-with-todd-oldham.html

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

Voters Annoyed by Hard-to-Read Ballots

In New York City, you may want to bring a magnifying glass.

Voters who trekked to the polls for Thursday’s primary races were handed ballots with candidates’ names printed in an eye-straining 7-point type, akin to the ingredient list on the side of a cereal box.

Read the article

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/

At War With São Paulo's Establishment, Black Paint in Hand

The São Paulo authorities have tried for years to stop Pichação, graffiti that reflects urban decay and deep class divisions.

Read the article in the NYT

The Branding of the Occupy Movement [NYT]

By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: November 27, 2011

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Kalle Lasn, the longtime editor of the anticonsumerist magazine Adbusters, did not invent the anger that has been feeding the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the United States.

But he did brand it.

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

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

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

We Are Still Here: Exhibition

The Art Gallery is proud to present WE ARE STILL HERE: 

a multi-media exhibit on the historic American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island.

photography  •  video collage  • audioscape • original art

Exhibit Opening and Reception: Friday, November 19^th at the Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery and Jack Adams Hall

Running Dates: November 19^th – December 19^th, 2010

Curated by Vince Skelly and Phil Klasky

Cost: Free

Opening Reception: November 19, 2010 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Where: The Art Gallery, Cesar Chavez Student Center

               

Gallery Hours: M-F 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; or by appointment

Website: www.sfsustudentcenter.com/artgallery

Who designed “the most famous restaurant in North Korea"?

Kim Jong-Il Gets Into Restaurant Design - UnBeige

…the next time you’re vacationing in North Korea, perhaps enjoying a stay in the never-going-to-be-finished Ryugyong Hotel, you might want to think about swinging over to the Jade Stream Pavilion, “the most famous restaurant in North Korea.” TheTelegraph reports that the restaurant has just finished construction on a new 60,000 ft. addition, with its design overseen by Kim Jong-Il himself.

The Paper War on AIDS

The Paper War on AIDS

by Steven Heller

"Twenty-five years ago, the HIV/AIDS virus began killing thousands and infecting hundreds of thousands more. Although the western world was hit unaware, the disease had been coursing through the third world’s bloodstream for years before. When Europe and the Americas were directly impacted, however, curative and preventative measures were gradually instituted and awareness began—much of it through posters."

Read more: Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers | The Paper War on AIDS