Saturday, November 28, 2009

Digital Kitchen speaking at KU

Monday 11/30, 6-8pm

http://www.d-kitchen.com/projects

3139 Wescoe Hall, KU campus.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

threadless iphone cases

Dynamic Media Institute on Vimeo

DMI invites you to visit its new channel on Vimeo,
http://vimeo.com/channels/dmi.

The dynamicmediainstitute.org/ at Massachusetts College of Art and Design offers a creative and intellectually stimulating environment wherein graduate students focus on the role and possible new uses of dynamic media in communication design.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

the man who designed america

Check this small slideshow showing the work of Raymond Loewy.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Tammy's been twittered by the D.O.

Tammy Shell's amazing self-initiated project "a light on washington street" has been noticed and tweeted by the Design Observer group.

The Liberty Memorial as Modern Architecture

Check the Design Observer article all about KC's liberty memorial.

lunch lecture: Sprint



this week's lunch lecture series will feature Jason Rincker, mobile interface designer at Sprint.
wednesday november 18, 10:40 am, in futura

Monday, November 16, 2009

HOW Poster Design Awards

The Prizes
10 winners will be featured on the HOW website, get $150 worth of HOW books and receive a 1 year subscription to HOW magazine. You will also receive a graphic to post on your website announcing your winning status.

Enter the HOW Poster Design Awards today »

The Deadline
Work must have been created between July 1, 2008 and Dec.1, 2009. Each single entry is $30. The fee for a poster campaign (3 or more posters that function as a system or series) is $60. Single Entry (student): $0.00. All entries must be submitted online no later than December 1, 2009. Entries submitted after Dec. 1 require a late fee of $10 per entry. Entries will not be accepted after December 15, 2009.

procrastination is...

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/03/05/multimedia/1194838341802/procrastination-by-johnny-kelly.html

Art Directors Club

ADC Young Guns features talented visual communications professionals under the age of 30.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

world building

Jonathan Harris has posted a series of short vignettes containing some of his ideas about the current state of the online world and some thoughts about what that world's future could be like.

http://number27.org/worldbuilding.html

Friday, November 6, 2009

aiga portfolio workshop identity competition

Congratulations to Laura, for her winning identity for the upcoming AIGA portfolio workshop. The design was selected by members of the local KC AIGA board and you'll see all the materials roll out this spring semester for the workshop.
































Also take a look at the great submissions from Dmitri (left) and Lambert (right).

Thursday, November 5, 2009

123 AIGA: Fri Nov 13th, 2:30-4 pm

1. Video conference and Q&A with recent KCAI grad, Monina Velarde! Monina will talk about applying to, competing in, and WINNING Command X. Read a recap here.

2 Meredith and Ian will share photos and talk about their experiences as volunteer and attendee
at the make/think national AIGA design conference. Read a recap here.

3. PLUS, snacks and prizes!

AIGA members, please join us in the studio gallery!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Pattern & Form at the Crossroads Gallery

Ramzy and Ian are curating a show of design work from the department at the Crossroads Gallery which opens this Friday evening, November 6th. Please come out and support them!

Pattern & Form
Crossroads Gallery
Friday November 6

Sunday, November 1, 2009

butdoesitfloat

you know how I love blogs. well, this is my current favorite.
http://butdoesitfloat.com/