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		<title>School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago Visual Communication Design Department Fall Visiting Designer Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katherine McCoy Principal, High Ground &#8220;Contemporary Design Ideas&#8221; Friday, September 10, 5:15 pm Columbus Auditorium (280 S. Columbus Drive) School of the Art Institute of Chicago Free Admission and Open to the Public Katherine McCoy is a leading figure of contemporary design. Her leadership of leading design departments and national design organizations have largely shaped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDEX: Design Challenge: Designing for Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[INDEX: calls for faculty, students, and recent graduates to participate in the upcoming INDEX: Design Challenge, developed in close collaboration with and endorsed by UNICEF. The INDEX: Design Challenge continues the legacy of the INDEX:│AIGA Aspen Design Challenge, in which hundreds of students from six continents participated. The theme of this second contest is Designing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5th Annual Pixel Awards: Call for Entries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pixel Awards announced its fifth annual call for entries. The award annually honors compelling sites in 24 unique categories that have shown excellence in web design and development. &#8220;This time around, we&#8217;ve added 4 new categories &#8211; Apps, Blogs, Community, Food &#38; Beverage &#8211; and for the first time in Pixel Awards history, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typography Competition: Call for Entires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our inaugural juried competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering. Chosen by a jury of leading design professionals, the selected entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Typography Annual and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Posters: Call For Entires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t failed; I’ve had 10,000 ideas that didn’t work  – Benjamin Franklin We think Mr. Franklin had a nice way of looking at things. So the 2010 competition theme is ‘A Glass Half Full’. For those who don’t know, this saying refers to optimism. Some people see situations with optimism (Franklin – glass half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Portfolio School: Friday Night Speaker Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JI KIM, Chicago Portfolio School Ji Kim, Owner and Principal Product Designer at Orange Stripes in San Francisco, has built quite the reputation in the product management and user experience industry. For Ji, the mission has always been to help companies conceive and design interactive products that are fun and most importantly successful. He&#8217;ll bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Legends: Art Paul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An intimate look at the stories behind Chicago’s design history. Local Legends is a small stage dialogue with individuals whose lives and careers have contributed to our rich design community. Art Paul, Our gentle talent, was PLAYBOY magazine&#8217;s first art director. At the beginning, Hefner and Paul were the only two employees and had what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Thinking II: Armin Vit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Design Thinking is an ongoing series devoted to sharing the perspectives of industry leaders. In our second installment, AIGA Chicago is proud to present Armin Vit of UnderConsideration. The Good, The Blog and The Ugly: Armin Vit will give us an unfiltered and uncensored look at ten years of working for design firms, living across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://useaconcept.com/blog/2010/09/02/design-thinking-ii-armin-vit/</link>
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		<title>The Public Works Speaker Night #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public Works Speaker Night #4 will feature Chris Force (Alarm / Design Bureau), Nick and Nadine (Sonnenzimmer) and DJ Clerical Error (Jocelyn Brown) at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Public Works is an annual art show and speaker series that speaks to the enhancement of community and culture through creative occupations. It is a not-for-profit endeavor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://useaconcept.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-public-works-speaker-night-4/</link>
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		<title>Jeremy Rifkin: ‪The Empathic Civilisation‬</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m posting this, not for the illustration/animation, but for the actual content: empathy. This TED talk brings up an interesting debate. As a society, are we becoming more narcissistic or more empathetic? If either of those choices were the actual future course of human evolution, what would be the end results?]]></description>
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