new design blog from AIGA

Design Envy

"Design Envy is a daily blog featuring the best in design today as chosen by a new curator each week. AIGA, the professional association for design, selects the curators, who are encouraged to discover and share examples of design that’s so good, they wish they had done it themselves.

Ultimately, Design Envy aims to inspire and inform in equal measures—through strong use of imagery, compelling descriptions about why selections were made, and attributions given to the creative minds behind the work."

if you are a jayhawks fan

Below is the link to a job posting in the Kansas Athletics department for a graphic designer.

https://www7.ultirecruit.com/KAN1002/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*26CD7B30947EA431

This first friday

For those of you that follow the blog in the summer, come down to this First Friday and see my gallery exhibit, "Dead Modern" at the Gallery at 19 Below. – Jamie

http://www.pitch.com/events/first-friday-at-the-gallery-at-19-below-1770439/

Gerg Kaufman's degree project recently published

Gerg's senior degree project (KCAI, graphic design '10) continues to inspire. Check out the nice spread of his multi-touch screen interface in A Touch of Code: Interactive Installations and Experiences. He blogs about it here.

summer internship

Internship position available in KC with an internet start-up called liveon.com

$10 per hour, up to 40 hours per week.

You will be working on print and digital production.

Contact Mel Hogan (mel@liveon.com), and include a personal portfolio.

AIGA membership discounts

Did you know AIGA members get discounts on Blurb, Apple products, Adobe, shutterstock, fedex and lynda.com?

http://www.aiga.org/interior.aspx?pageid=7412&id=6877

two socially minded design competitions

cause/affect
There are plenty of ways to make your mark as a designer. Some of us count our contribution by the number of awards they’ve won. Others like to check off the number of big named designers they know. But for a select group, making their mark means making a contribution — to their clients, to the design community, to those in greater need. The trouble is, doing work for good causes often slips under the radar. So we’ve come up with a way to help you make your mark — the cause/affect competition. cause/affect is a biennial, international design competition that celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society. Deadline for submission is June 24, 2011.

aiga (re)design awards
All designers and creative professionals, art and design students, educators, and business and/or organizations of design throughout the world are encouraged to enter. Entrants need not be members of AIGA.

All design work entered in the competition should communicate the importance of social responsibility or sustainability for our planet. We are looking for excellence in design solutions that actively engage in enriching our lives. This could be, for example, raising awareness about a cause or condition, celebrating an arts institution or event, or even harnessing innovations in production and materials that are better for our environment. Contest begins June 15, 2011.

Alumni newsletter wins design award

"The fall issue of Alumni News, designed by Molly Hawthorne (’05 graphic design), has won an American Inhouse Design Award. The awards are given to recognize outstanding work by inhouse designers. It is a unique opportunity for inhouse design, marketing and communications departments — within corporations, nonprofits, publishers and media companies, associations, government, education and other institutions — to be recognized for their talent, for the special challenges they face and for their contributions to their businesses and institutions."

Congrats Molly!

congrats to our 2011 graphic design achievement award winners!

The Weingart Award: Awarded for superb achievement in formalism.
Samantha Mak

The Kalman Award: Awarded for imbuing work with conceptual depth and meaning.
Patrick Drake

The Hofmann Award: Awarded for outstanding rigor and diligent process.
Jessica Meurer

The Lausen Award: Awarded for outstanding social/ethical awareness and advocacy through design.
Tom Morse-Brown

The Tschichold Award: Awarded for significant growth and transformation.
Luke Babb

The Bierut Award: Awarded to the most articulate in oral and written communication.
Amanda Laffoon

The Emigre Award: Awarded for a fearless and exploratory approach.
Tammy Shell

The Poyner Award: Awarded for insightful contribution in critique.
Taylor Pruitt

The Cooper Award: Awarded for boldly embracing designing for emerging technology.
Ian Spaeth

The Lupton Award: Awarded for outstanding participation in KCAI's graphic design studio community.
Micah Barta

The McCoy Award: Awarded for an exemplary design research approach.
Kelsey Anderson

graduates: job postings

Hey seniors! Don't forget to browse through all of these job boards as you enter the job search:

http://designalogue.blogspot.com/p/jobs.html

graduate in the news

Laura Berglund, graphic design '10, is featured on Black Eiffel design blog. They showcase two projects that she completed while a student at KCAI.

http://blackeiffel.blogspot.com/2011/05/smart-design.html

Mapping project for the Nelson

This semester the junior user experience design students have been working on a wayfinding project for the Nelson-Atkins museum. One project goal is to get young kids and their families to explore the park and the newest acquisition, Ferment. After many weeks of concepting, user testing and iterating the students presented their final projects.

A big congratulations goes to Ian Spaeth because the Nelson has selected his design to actually produce for the summer family event. Ian's design concept includes a blank canvas on the back of the map. At five key sculptures the kids get a stamp that correlates to the sculpture. They can use these stamps to create their own work of art on the back (see before and after).

Adobe Design Achievement Awards

The 2011 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students and faculty from around the world the shortcut to brilliance to propel their careers in the future. Cash prizes will be awarded in Taipei during the 2011 IDA Congress.

Submissions close June 24th, 2011.

Participants may submit up to 2 times in 15 different categories

Free to enter
Submit now!

Wordcamp

WordCamps are community organized meetings for users of WordPress, the blogging platform and content management system that is sweeping the online world.

Come to WordCamp and learn from one another, network, and celebrate the global phenomenon that is WordPress.

Where: Johnson County Community College
When: June 11-12, 2011
Cost: $40 for students
Register NOW!

Let me know if you are planning on attending (if there is a group of you registering at once, I might be able to snag a free ticket or two).

Local scholarship winner

Congrats to sophomore graphic design student, Eli Brumbaugh, and junior, Bethany Ediger, for winning the 2011 AAF-KC Foundation Scholarships. A well deserved honor.

sprint internship

Sprint's UXD group is hiring a visual design intern for the summer. Online job description and application form for Req# 108906BR at http://careers.sprint.com/. KCAI students certainly should meet their list of "requirements". Link directly to position.

50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know

The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know by Jamie Wieck

advise from advertising insiders

http://breakinginbook.com/

Summer Internship in San Francisco!

UX | Research Summer Intern
gotomedia is a global leader in creating people-friendly, connected experiences. Our approach combines research, strategy and design into digital solutions. gotomedia is looking for an intern interested in multiple areas of UX design and research to work in our fast-paced, real-world environment. We currently have an open position for a paid internship at our office in San Francisco for a talented and motivated applicant.

Note: Though our ideal is a mixed-experience internship, we will consider applicants interested exclusively in UX design OR research.

You
• Are personable, proactive and self-running, with a desire to learn and a passion for user experience and research
• Are completing or have finished a bachelor’s or master’s degree in HCI, digital design or related fields
• Take a problem and figure it out yourself—in unique and creative ways
• Have a strong portfolio and can demonstrate your style of visual thinking
• Have excellent verbal and written skills—and can type really fast!
• May have experience in human factors, cognitive psychology, or other
• May have coding or other technical experience

Our working environment
gotomedia is located in San Francisco’s eclectic Mission District. Our loft space is casual, inviting collaboration and creativity. We revel in our flexible environment and ability to work in the manner and location that yields the best outcome. We welcome you to visit!

What you will be doing
The UX side of things demands attention to detail and a focus on real user experience strategies. You will learn task and behavior-oriented mapping and information architecture. Depending on your aptitude, you will participate in design reviews, working sessions and project meetings. Applicants who are more technically focused will have a chance to get deeper into the specifications and coding side of the solution. Design-focused applicants will participate in brand sessions, product and interaction deliverables, and more.

In the research portion of the internship, you will focus directly on projects ranging from usability to remote and in-person (contextual) studies. You will be asked to help with recruiting, testing, note taking, report writing and integration into results.

Interested?
Please send a cover letter to go2work (at) gotomedia (dot) com in email format. Attach a current resume and link to online portfolio. (Exceptions can be made if you do not currently have an online portfolio.) We will prioritize applications received on or before May 1, 2011.

Please let me know if you are interested or have questions.

A very good deal for purchasing type!

House Industries photolettering.com allows you to purchase single settings for $7 each or less through a subscription program. This allows for a cheap purchase when you just need to set a few words.