pick up A5 work

Please pick up your submissions to A5 after studio on M/W/F this week. Jessica Bayer, Ian Tirone and myself will help distribute work. Thanks, Jamie

Lecture :: One Laptop Per Child

Howdy!  I'll be giving a talk to the multimedia class about the One Laptop Per Child project, but Eppelheimer and I would like to extend an invitation to everyone!  I'll be showing the laptop that I purchased, and all of the amazing things that are being done with it!  It'll be a great break from your last week of finishing up projects!

Tuesday, December 2nd at 6:15 pm
Futura room

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Film Premiere: Beautiful Losers

Thursday, December 4, 2008, 8:00 pm

Tivoli Theatre in Manor Square

AIGA Kansas City is proud to present the local premiere of a great new film, Beautiful Losers. The film celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation, featuring inspirational outsider artists like Shepard Fairey, Geoff McFetridge, Mike Mills, Harmony Korine and many more.

The film screening will take place at the Tivoli in historic Westport, but please join us before the film at a fun mixer, jointly sponsored with the KC Ad Club, benefiting Boys and Girls Club of KC.

Congratulations to the A5 student winners!

This was a very competitive judging with 25 winners selected from well over 200 entries from KCAI, KU and JCCC. I was told that the juror's were highly-highly impressed with the quality of student work entered.

Josh Eithun: vote poster
Morgan Allen: aalto poster
Morgan Allen: seven sins
Monina Velarde: visiting artists lecture poster
Matt Urlaub: emigre poster
Greg Kaufman: rave act information graphic
Nik Smith: moon pendant lamp poster
Josh Lambert: tizio richard sapper poster
Ramzy Masri: modesty vote poster
Kristy Tilman: converse internship project

One Laptop Per Child!!!

The One Laptop Per Child G1G1 program just launched on Amazon last week. Donate a $200 laptop to a child in the world, and also receive one for $200! Pentagram branded the project, with Yves Béhar behind the industrial design.

studio hours

thanksgiving holiday (nov 26-30)

9:00 am-1:00 am every day. no late passes.

dec 1-11 (end of term)

8:00 am-3:00 am every day. 

5:00 pm friday dec 12 

studios close for winter break.

All are invited!

Multimedia Experience with Michael & Garrett
Senior Project 2 Presentations...

Tues & Thurs
November 18th & 20th, 6pm
Univers / room 102

After many weeks of backbreaking work, the seniors will be presenting their Collaborative Community Systems and everyone is invited! Teams of two researched self-chosen activities from both individual and collective user perspectives, mapping needs, wants, physical boundaries, etc. They then devised hypothetical interactive systems and 3-d data-gathering objects to facilitate communication and interaction within the communities. Goals were to create systems that both served the current needs of their audience as well as introducing tools and interactions that added value to the activities.

Come enjoy the multimedia extravaganza!

Web 2.0 Lecture this Thursday

Lars Trieloff, a colleague of mine from Day Software and a specialist in all things Web 2.0, will give a presentation this Thursday at 3pm in Futura. Lars is a product manager at Day and his specialty is social collaboration and how it can be used to transform business practices. Lars is one of the founders of Mindquarry, Open Source collaborative software. Anyone interested in web collaboration, interface design, and the future of the web should attend, the more the merrier!

Thursday / November 13 / 3pm / Futura, room 101

http://twitter.com/trieloff
http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/lars3loff
http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/lars
http://trieloff.suprglu.com
http://pipl.com/directory/people/Lars/Trieloff
http://www.linkedin.com/in/trieloff
http://www.rssmeme.com/user/71428/

Emmett Byrne from the Walker Art Center speaks at KU

Hallmark Design Symposium Series:
Emmett Byrne
November 17 6:00pm – 8:00 pm
3139 Wescoe Hall, KU

Emmet Byrne is a senior designer at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where he has worked for 5 years. He teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 2005. With Alex DeArmond and Jon Sueda he edits and designs the Task Newsletter, a journal of graphic design. His work has been published in various magazines such as I.D., Step, Metropolis, Idea, Grafik, and has received numerous awards for his book designs for Kiki Smith and Kara Walker. He is currently co-editing and designing a book about the Art Shanty Projects, an exhibition that takes place every winter on a frozen lake in Minnesota. Among other things, Emmet will discuss the wonders and horrors of working for an in-house design studio with overly-competent creative types.

Congrats!

Greg Gentry's "great wave" poster won the Get out the Vote poster competition. He was kindly recognized at a recent AIGA event with a signed copy of Stefan Sagmeister's book.

CHIP KIDD, KIDS!

book design bad boy chip kidd will once again visit our beloved city, this time speaking about "the secret history of batman in japan" on wednesday nov 19 at 6:30 pm in the truman forum at the plaza branch library, 4801 main st.

Admission is free, free, free! Click here or call 816.701.3407 to RSVP.

new pics up on flickr

a few images of of parent's day and








Photos from the martin venezky workshop are now up on the KCAI GD flickr account. check 'em out, folks.

The Typical Day of a Design Student

TheGraphicStudent.com wants to know what your typical day is like as a design student.  You can even view others' comments. That way, you can continue to partake in the infinite battle of comparing sleep schedules. 

Your voices on the radio! NPR interview

Kyle, Veronica and Greg were interviewed by NPR for the Get out the Vote campaign.

The audio is scheduled to run over the weekend on KC Currents (Sundays at 5 pm) and also on Monday morning as a local insert during Morning Edition at 6/8:30 AM. It's also posted on the website.

On November 04, Where do I vote?

Got your voter registration card? Vote at the polling site indicated on the card. Don’t have it yet, visit: www.kceb.org – if you live in Jackson County, Missouri OR www.jocoelection.org – if you live in Johnson County, Kansas.
You can verify your voter registration and polling site at each of these websites. For information on voting via absentee ballot, visit www.longdistancevoter.org for more information.

If your address is the Living Center and/or very close to campus, your voting site is more than likely across the street at the All Souls Church at 45th and Warwick/Walnut. If for some reason this is not your site, the individuals working at the election site will direct you to the correct voting location.

What do I need to bring with me when I go to vote?
The most common types of identification used on Election Day are listed below. Please bring ONE of the following forms of ID. If you are a first time voter, bring one form of ID and an official document that verifies your local address (bank statement, utility bill, paycheck).

· Identification issued by the state you are voting in, an agency of the state, or a local election authority of the state
· Identification issued by the United States government or agency thereof
· Identification issued by an institution of higher education, including a university, college, vocational and technical school, located within the state you are voting in
· A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check or other government document that contains the name and address of the voter
· Drivers license or state identification card issued by another state
· If you do not possess any of these forms of id, you may still cast a ballot if two supervising election judges, one from each major political party, attest they know you.

Meet the A5 Jurors

Stanley Hainsworth, Pum Lefebure, and Alan Leusink will give brief presentations of their own work and life of creativity, but most importantly this is where you can ask them the burning questions about what really appeals to them as a juror of a design competition.

Thursday, November 6, 2008. 6:00 - 8:00 PM

HOK Grandstand
300 Wyandotte, KCMO 64105
Enter at front door and take elevator to second floor.

Paid in advance online: Coming Soon
$5 student members
$10 student non-members

Retro Type

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/26/retro-and-vintage-typography-showcase/

Flickrfolio: Create an instant portfolio from your flickr account

Flickrfolio is a soon to be launched service that takes a Flickr account and automagically turns it into a portfolio website. You can read more and sign up for project updates at Flickrfolio.

sign up for the online course!

"type design for the screen" is an online elective i'm teaching over the winter intersession. it will be our first foray into an entirely virtual learning experience, allowing you to make awesome typefaces and related projects in your p.j.s at home. i'm looking for more interested individuals to register for this exciting course. here's the description:
This course will examine issues of designing and using typefaces for screen use, including text-sized faces (pixel fonts) and display faces, history of screen-based fonts, legibility issues, modular letterforms built from the online “fontstruct” application, and interactive/behavioral/motion-based typefaces enabled by the screen and user input. a font development application will be required, costing around $60.
tyler

talk on obama poster collection tues oct 28

Hal Wert will speak tonight at the H&R Block Artspace at KCAI, 16 E. 43rd St., about his collection of Obama posters, currently on display in the second floor studio space at the Artspace. check here for more info from artspace.