BOREN AWARDS INFO SESSION

BOREN AWARDS - Scholarships and Fellowships for International Study

GENERAL INFORMATION SESSION
with Mr. Chris Powers, Director of the Boren Awards at the Institute of International Education (IIE). Students interested in study abroad and foreign languages are invited to join us and learn about the prestigious international study scholarship program, which awards up to $20,000 for a full academic year for undergraduate study and $30,000 for graduate study.

Friday, April 27, 2012
2:00 to 3:00 pm
Humanities 587

For additional information, please contact us via e-mail at flagship@sfsu.edu, by phone at 415-338-7032 or visit the Chinese Flagship Program office at HUM 573.

AIGA San Francisco 2011 Enrichment Scholarship

The Enrichment Scholarship was created by AIGA San Francisco to enhance the quality and diversity of design education. Winners will receive a $500 scholarship which may be used to underwrite the cost of their design education or to pay for a supplemental program, such as attending a design conference or participating in a class or workshop. In addition, the work from the scholarship winners will be featured on the AIGA San Francisco website.

An Introduction to Graphic Design: Observatory: Design Observer

An Introduction to Graphic Design: Observatory: Design Observer

This article, in an earlier version, first appeared in Dwell (December/January 2009, Vol. 09 Issue 02) in an editorial series of "introductions" to various aspects of design and architecture. The authors thank Dwell for its original publication in their pages.

Fwd: Campus Interaction at San Francisco State University - INDIA Future of Change

Dear Administration: San Francisco State University,

Please allow me to introduce you to INDIA Future of Change. An opportunity for your students to be part of a global movement to harness the power of the youth, their ideas, aspirations, creative zest and entrepreneurial spirit.

INDIA Future of Change is a three-year initiative aimed at engaging students from across the world with contemporary India, and Compete, Collaborate and Co-Create a future for India with a vision for the world.

In its first year, INDIA Future of Change is organizing four contests:
Business Plan, Design, Essay Writing and Poster Design. The contests will be conducted online, and the participants stand to win cash prizes worth USD 250,000, 4/6/8 week internships at top Indian and international companies, 15 day all-expenses-paid vacations in India and 6 week experiential programmes in rural India.

Already, INDIA Future of Change has gained momentum through prestigious alliances with CIIE (IIM-A), IDC (IIT-B) and Financial Times as knowledge partners. In addition, the Indian Ministries of External Affairs and Tourism are also lending their support. We have also partnered with the international youth organisation, AIESEC, for our Friends of INDIA Future of Change brand ambassador program.

We started our communication campaign on Monday, September 13 in Financial Times worldwide and the response has been enthusiastic.

We look forward to the bright, young minds of San Francisco State University adding fuel to the movement.

We request you to encourage them to participate in the contests and make themselves heard in a global dialogue on shaping the future of change.
Best Regards,
Mahid Aisha
INDIA Future of Change
www.indiafutureofchange.com

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

Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Tesla Guitar

Thinking of the Dorks...



-BH

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.........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity..........
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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!

AIGA San Francisco 2010 Enrichment Scholarship

AIGA San Francisco 2010 Enrichment Scholarship
&
Rick Tharp Scholarship

San Francisco State University
Design & Industry

The Enrichment Scholarship, for graphic design, was created by AIGA San Francisco to enhance the quality and diversity of design education. Winners will receive a scholarship which may be used to underwrite the cost of their design education. In addition, the work from the scholarship winners will be featured on the AIGA San Francisco website.

The Enrichment Scholarship award is based on the overall excellence of the student’s work and his/her strong academic achievement. Applicants are chosen by their respective schools and will then be reviewed by the 2010 Enrichment Scholarship Judging Committee. In addition, one student from the overall group of winners will be chosen for Rick Tharp Scholarship. The final awards are subject to review and approval by AIGA SF’s Board of Directors.

More information

Lecture by John Bielenberg

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
San Francisco campus map (PDF)
Directions »

John Bielenberg specializes in helping organizations find the courage and the sense of humor to consider whole new "wrong" ways of bringing their stories, ideas, and innovations out into the world.

His investment in the "value of thinking wrong" led him to create a program called Project M, designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving that their work—especially their wrongest thinking—can have a positive and significant impact on the world. Project M has developed projects related to a conservation area in Costa Rica, microfinancing in Ghana, New Orleans after Katrina, the community of East Baltimore, and connecting households to fresh water in Hale County, Alabama.

Bielenberg has won more than 250 design awards. He has been nominated for two Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, he served on the AIGA national board of directors, and he teaches at CCA. SFMOMA has acquired six of his projects, and he staged a solo exhibition there in 2000. He is a founding partner of C2, MavLab, and Nada Bike Collective, a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International), and on the boards of Waterfall Arts and Unity College. Recently he received the Skandalaris Award for Entrepreneurship in Design from Washington University in St. Louis.

Additional links: www.pielab.org www.blanklab.org

Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship

Sponsor: Worldstudio Foundation
Program Number: 69887
Title: Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship
E-mail: scholarship@aiga.org
Web Site: http://scholarships.worldstudioinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009_10_WS_AIGA_Scholarships.pdf
Program URL: http://scholarships.worldstudioinc.com/deadline-application/

SYNOPSIS:
The sponsor provides scholarships to minority and economically disadvantaged students who are studying the design/arts disciplines in colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships are only awarded to those students who are in financial need.
Deadline(s): 04/02/2010

DEADLINE NOTE
The 2010/11 paper application will be available for download from the sponsor's site on January 15, 2010. The online upload will be live on the sponsor's site February 1, 2010.

Link to full program description