Project Never 2010: Redemption for Slapped-in-the-Face Designers January 31st, 2010 | Post Comments

Project Never, a design competition that celebrates the best designs never produced, announced today that award submissions will be accepted until March 8, 2010.

The free award competition, created for graphic designers by graphic designers, celebrates the best concepts, ideas and designs made for real projects, but ultimately left unused.

“Thousands of effective designs die each day – often for good reason.

At the same time, successful designers and agencies generate many worthy ideas for each project or campaign, only one of which gets chosen for wider audiences,” said Matt Gustavsen, Project Never co-creator and also a member of the HB Agency design team.

This year’s judging process will include a panel of four industry expert judges from several worldwide agencies.

In addition, this year’s competition will include an online voting component to complement the judges’ input.

The 2010 winner will be announced in April and profiled on the Project Never Web site.

Create 2010 Student Design Competition January 30th, 2010 | Post Comments

Today’s art, design and technology students are the people who will be defining what the interdisciplinary field of interaction design will become in the near future.

Create10 is a conference that celebrates innovative interaction design, whether digital products, services, environments or new interaction paradigms.

This competition is aimed at students from a range of disciplines, both undergraduate and postgraduate, in interaction design, product design, industrial design, communications design, architecture, fashion, multimedia, HCI, and related fields.

The conference theme of “transitions” is the inspiration for this competition brief.

Entries will be assessed by a jury of leading creative design practitioners and academics, and all selected submissions will be exhibited at the Create10 conference exhibition in June/July 2010 in Edinburgh, at New Media Scotland’s Inspace. Follow this link for more information.

Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2010.

Design anthropology: What can it add to your design practice? January 30th, 2010 | Post Comments

Design Anthropology

Designers primarily concern themselves with how to create a “successful” communication, product, or experience. But with the past 10 years of globalization, digitalization, and ever increasing design complexity, designers have come to realize that to answer the question of design “success” requires that they answer that question of how the processes and artifacts of design help define what it means to be human. This “humanness” can range from how humans control the environment through tools (homo faber); how high-heeled shoes affect natural ways of walking; to moral issues of how participation in the design process empowers marginalized communities. In this space, the practice and theory of design anthropology has emerged.

Design Anthropology: What is it?

Design anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the role of design artifacts and processes in defining what it means to be human (e.g., human nature). It is more than lists of user requirements in a design brief, which makes it different from contextual inquiry, some forms of design research, and qualitative focus groups. Design anthropology offers challenges to existing ideas about human experiences and values.

The rest of this article can be read here.

A Word to the Unwise: By Steven Heller January 29th, 2010 | Post Comments

I won’t beat around the bush. If you are a student, a graduate or a professional, and you are looking for “Employment Opportunities” and decide to send an email query to various potential employers, you should really consider the following:

1. Don’t be informal or overly familiar in addressing your email.

  • No first names (unless you’ve been acquainted, “Dear Mr. or Ms.” is advised)
  • No down-river homey greetings (spare the “Hey there,” “Yoo hoo” or “Hello folks”)
  • No “To whom it may concern” (take the time to find the name of a contact)
  • No hyperboles (“Dear Mr. X, This is your lucky day”—well, I highly doubt it)

    • You can read the rest of this article over at the AIGA website.

    Call for entires: Creative Allies January 29th, 2010 | Post Comments

    Upload original artwork inspired by music for a chance to have your work exhibited at the ReadyMade Rocks party March 20th.

    All submissions must be uploaded by February 23rd at 12 p.m. EST.

    Call for entires: HOW’s Promotion Design Awards January 29th, 2010 | Post Comments

    Show us how you Get Creative With Your Enter your favorite projects in HOW’s Promotion Design Awards for the chance to see your work—and your name—in the pages of HOW. There’s a category for every design occasion, from wedding invitations to pro-bono projects to client promotions.

    THE DEADLINE
    All entries must be postmarked no later than March 5, 2010.
    Entries postmarked after March 5 require a late fee of $35 per entry.
    Entries postmarked after March 22, 2010, will not be accepted.

    Get Involved! January 27th, 2010 | Post Comments

    I created Design for Obama and saw what a fully engaged, passionate, creative community can do. On that occasion, we were eager to lend our creative talents to a movement calling for change and inspire others to do the same.

    Today we face a much graver task: In the wake of the unimaginable suffering that has befallen the island of Haiti, it is our job as artists and designers to use our talents to call for advocacy and understanding. Thanks to Design for Obama artist, James Nesbitt, we are now operating from designforhaiti.com.

    Consider this a creative call to action to design:

    Posters that advocate President Clinton and President Bush’s call for relief.

    Information graphics that increase understanding of the plight of Haitians affected by the earthquake.

    Both are necessary; this is what artists and designers do best. Let us come together and lead the way to relief.

    -Aaron Perry-Zucker

    Show Your Design to the World January 27th, 2010 | Post Comments

    Would you like your work to be published in Lars Harmsen’s next book, TypoShirt One? If so, send it to us.
    # Not registered at indexbook.com, yet? Before you start, Sign up here and then fill in the participation form.

    Typeface—Chicago Premiere January 24th, 2010 | Post Comments

    Kartemquin is excited to announce that its latest release, Typeface, will have its Chicago premiere with a week run at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning Friday, January 29th. The Society of Typographic Arts is helping to sponsor the Chicago premiere.


    In Typeface, handmade wooden type comes to life in new and unique combinations when seasoned craftsmen–the masters of an obsolete but beloved technology–open the Hamilton Wood Type Museum to contemporary artists and graphic designers.

    This exploration of the art of putting letters on a printed page from world-renowned Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams) finds the human story in the preservation of the centuries-old printing process when artists of the digital age discover the tactile delight and limitless possibilities of working with the real rather than the virtual. Typeface director Justine Nagan will be present for audience discussion at the screening.

    Preceded by the vintage Kartemquin short Viva la Causa, celebrating Chicago’s Chicano mural movement of the 1970s.

    When
    Friday, January 29 at 8:00 pm

    Where
    Gene Siskel Film Center
    164 North State Street, Chicago

    Costs

    • $10 general admission
    • $7 students
    • $4 for students, faculty of the School of the Art Institute and staff of the Art Institute
    • $5 Film Center members

    Tickets available now at the Gene Siskel Film Center’s box office or online at www.siskelfilmcenter.org/tickets.

    Visit Kartemquin’s site for more information.

    What's Your Type? January 11th, 2010 | Post Comments



    Pentagram     wants to know “What Type Are You?”

    simply enter your first and last name and the password (CHARACTER) and then answer four questions. I am Architype Van Doesburg. Personally I would have thought I was Baskerville, but hey, who is going to argue the professionals over at Pentagram?


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