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2010 METROPOLIS Next Generation Design Competition

CALL FOR ENTRIES: DEADLINE IS APPROACHING: JANUARY 29, 2010

Good design determines how well products, spaces and systems work from the beginning. We think that great design ideas can make things work even better. One Design Fix for the Future challenges you to prove us right — whether you are an architect, interior designer, product designer, landscape designer, graphic designer, communication designer. We’re looking for ONE design fix you can make now in your designed environment — the products you use, your home, your workplace, your city or any commercial application-that, in scale or as inspiration, can improve our future.

To enter, provide one small (but brilliant and elegant) fix-leading to an incremental (or dramatic) change in sustainability. Your fix needn’t have anything to do with “environmentalist engineering” to make a difference. Concentrate on what you know best, are aching to improve in a way that deploys your training and imagination.

DEADLINE: January 29, 2010

For details, registration and to apply visit www.metropolismag.com/nextgen

Guest Lecture: Shawn Sheehy when: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11 where: Rm. 202 Art Building free & open to the public Workshop: Making Moveable Book Structures when: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13 cost: $125; Kent students, faculty, staff and alumni $75 where: Rm. 111 Art Building Pull a tab. Turn a wheel. Bring new life to your images by animating them with movables! In this two-day workshop, participants will learn the fundamental principles that guide the movables seen in many interactive books published today. Beginning with basic tools and techniques, the workshop will quickly move on to building a series of increasingly complex movable structures based on wheels and pull tabs. Participants will leave with a bound collection of models. Throughout the workshop, participants will view and discuss the work of commercial paper engineers. No experience necessary, though patience is a must! Most supplies are included in the fee. However, we ask that attendees bring the following tools: steel ruler, xacto knife with several new blades, scissors, a pencil, a compass and a cutting matt. click here to register or contact Shawn Simmons at ssimmo2@kent.edu

Guest Lecture: Shawn Sheehy
when: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11 
where: Rm. 202 Art Building
free & open to the public

Workshop: Making Moveable Book Structures
when: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13 
cost: $125; Kent students, faculty, staff and alumni $75 
where: Rm. 111 Art Building

Pull a tab. Turn a wheel. Bring new life to your images by animating them with movables! In this two-day workshop, participants will learn the fundamental principles that guide the movables seen in many interactive books published today. Beginning with basic tools and techniques, the workshop will quickly move on to building a series of increasingly complex movable structures based on wheels and pull tabs. Participants will leave with a bound collection of models. Throughout the workshop, participants will view and discuss the work of commercial paper engineers. No experience necessary, though patience is a must! Most supplies are included in the fee. However, we ask that attendees bring the following tools: steel ruler, xacto knife with several new blades, scissors, a pencil, a compass and a cutting matt. click here to register or contact Shawn Simmons at ssimmo2@kent.edu

Make/Think Videos Online

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Some of the presentations from the Make/Think Conference are posted online. If you did not have the chance to go to Memphis this past October, this is the next best thing. Check them out.

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The city of Cleveland is totally doing something..and it’s for bikes! Innerbelt Bridge Access For Everyone Reasons to support biking and walking optionsImproved health and fitnessReducing transportation costs to ease household budgetsEquity: Overall, 25% of Cleveland households do not own a car (46,841 households, 114,292 individuals)Proactive response to climate changeDone as a matter of course in other statesFinancial sense. One size fits all highway approach doesn’t work in citiesTourism, views and connectivityLeverage Towpath Trail investmentsOft cited concerns of safety and snow can be overcome Next Meetings:Friday, December 11, 2009, 10am: NOACA Board meetingFriday, December 18, 2009, 9 am: City Planning Commission meeting

The city of Cleveland is totally doing something..and it’s for bikes!

Innerbelt Bridge Access For Everyone

Reasons to support biking and walking options
Improved health and fitness
Reducing transportation costs to ease household budgets
Equity: Overall, 25% of Cleveland households do not own a car (46,841 households, 114,292 individuals)
Proactive response to climate change
Done as a matter of course in other states
Financial sense.
One size fits all highway approach doesn’t work in cities
Tourism, views and connectivity
Leverage Towpath Trail investments
Oft cited concerns of safety and snow can be overcome

Next Meetings:
Friday, December 11, 2009, 10am: NOACA Board meeting
Friday, December 18, 2009, 9 am: City Planning Commission meeting

AIGA VCD Wall Space

Mission Statement: To provide students with a communal area for their communications and promotions in the art building. By doing so we eliminate fliers being scattered about and clean up the look of the art building.

Introducing a common area will also give the design community the chance for consistency in the presentation of materials, thus making it easier for everyone to find what they need.

Millman interviews Sagmeister

A great interview between (AIGA President) Debbie Millman and fantastic designer Stefan Sagmeister.

Via Design Observer.

Tips for Lazy Designers from Michael Bierut

Tips for Lazy Designers from Michael Bierut

Great little Q/A with M. Bierut about being lazy. Good tips, and sugesstions. perfect for the end of the semester. Just kidding, Give your work that final push!

(via SwissMiss)

AIGA Center for Sustainable Design



AIGA Living Principles

This is some really interesting information regarding sustainability and design. Worth checking out.

On Friday the 13th, Hilary, Ian, Laura and Nate payed a visit to the local Kent Roosevelt Rough Riders with their presentation on the VCD program. Everything went spectacularly with quite a few students highly interested in our work, and some possible recruits.

Our next presentation is December 4th at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School.

good for grasshopper 

I found this website while researching a designer for my Typography brochure project. It’s a website where professional designers/professors/etc. give advice and answer frequently asked questions for students and young designers. I didn’t get much of a chance to check out how helpful it is, but the idea is interesting regardless.

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