Read this review

This is a review (albeit from 2003) about the book Citizen Designer. I have used this book in previous Art 412 classes and agree and disagree with the reviewer. Have a read.

Good Magazine

Good Magazine is a great magazine that focuses on individuals, businesses, and non-profits who are making the world a better place to live.

Singapore Design Festival

Redesign your world. Why Not? Check out the Singapore Design Festival

Book Review

Book review from Core 77 on Glimmer by Warren Berger

Book Review

Book review in PRINT Magazine on Poster Child by Mike Mills

How Design Blog

From HOW magazine---this is the design blog.

Core 77

Core 77 is an online magazine and resource site with articles, resources, books, discussions and more.

Cool Hunting

Cool Hunting is a cool website! If you are interested in accessories, fashion, jewelry, Portland, studios, handmade, photography, digital, decor....check it out!

Brand New

Brand New is a division of Under Consideration and it is a site devoted exclusively to "chronicle and provide opinions on corporate and brand identity work, focusing mostly on identity design and a modest amount of packaging."

HW>01.20.10

Picturing Argument final written essay and visual argument due.

Include drafts and finals neatly in a manila folder with your name on the tab.

Choose at 3 topics of interest from your "thesis topics" index cards and find at least one interesting article from each category.(or 3 articles from one topic if you are interested in one area). Bookmark the article (or copy it), read the article and be prepared to summarize it in class.

Design Your Life

Design Your Life is a book and a website by Ellen and Julia Lupton

HW>01.13.10

Rough draft of "Picturing Argument" essay

Bruce Mau Design

Bruce Mau Design is an interdisciplinary design studio based in Toronto and Chicago.

Design Observer

Design Observer: A site about design, culture, change

COMA

COMA: A design partnership based in New York and Amsterdam

HW>01.11.10

Go to Rick Valicenti's website "Intelligent Design" and click on the "research" project. Look over other projects on his site.

How do you think Rick brings research into his design and what do you think of the results? Does anything make Rick's work unique?

Go to The Cooper Hewitt Design Life Now website. Listen to three podcasts.

Do the three designers have anything in common? (design process, etc.)

Write down on interesting point from each.

Write a paragraph about what your ideal or dream collaboration would look like?

{Write all of this in your notebook and bring to class on Monday}

Design Life New

Site from the 2006 Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial

UnderConsideration

UnderConsideration is a growing network and enterprise dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts.

AIGA

AIGA

HW>01.04.10

DUE: Wednesday>January 6th

Go to Stefan Sagmeisters website: http://www.sagmeister.com/index.html and click on the
“answers for students” button.

Choose a category and read the entire interview. Based on the interview, choose one answer that resonates with you and write a response to this answer.

Next, write a paragraph in which you answer that same question posed to Sagmeister.

Read essay by Audrey Bennett and be prepared to answer 3 questions in class

Look over "The Decade in Design" timeline on blog and find one item that influenced you over the past 10 years. Write one or two paragraphs about this.

Intelligent Design

Designer Rick Valincenti's Intelligent Design is a self-published tabloid based on intersecting issues...Righteous appropriation, consumerism, politics, religion, etc.

Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister's website is chock full of food for thought.