AIGA Kent and the School of Visual Communication Design present:
James Nesbitt (co-founder and creative director) and Larkin Werner (partner and creative director) of Wall-to-Wall Studios, Inc.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
7pm-9pm
Rm 202 Art Building, Kent State University
Guest speaker Chris Allen is slated to present at the Cleveland Institute of Art this coming Tuesday on biomimicry and what’s needed from local biologists (researchers, faculty and students) to make the discipline of biomimicry come to life in Northeast Ohio. He comes very highly recommended.
Allen is a part of the Biomimicry Institute. I have had the privilege of studying with their co-founders Janine Benyus and Dana Baumeister in Peru and Cleveland. Their organization is doing spectacular work with companies and institutions all over the world bringing biologists and related disciplines to the design table, integrating biomimicry into college curriculum and engaging biologists in real world problem solving (vaccine preservation to airplane structure to green building to urban design). They are increasing the need to have biologist consult on a wide variety of innovative projects, including several in Northeast Ohio. There are real opportunities to have faculty and students from Northeast Ohio colleges participate in some of this work.
Designers, biologists, naturalists, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders will all find something of interest in the talk.
See links below for event details, the Biomimicry Institute, their Ask Nature tool and the local biomimicry networking group facilitated by E4S.
We changed Student Pricing. The program is FREE for Students with Current ID
E4S national speaker events have a great reputation, great networking, top-notch speakers. There is an event fee for faculty and other attendees but you receive two free Great Lakes Brewing Company beer tickets to sweeten the deal. Students get in free of charge with a current student ID, but because of spring break schedules not many are aware of this event. Please help bring this opportunity to their attention.
Thank you so much and we hope to see you at the event.
Victoria Avi
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Biomimicry: Sustainable Design and Innovation
E4S Third Tuesday Network Event / National Speaker
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
SPECIAL LOCATION: Cleveland Institute of Art - Russel B. Aiken Auditorium (Directions http://www.cia.edu/about/visitingCia/visiting.php)
The program is FREE for Students with Current ID
Register online: http://www.e4s.org/content/eventdetail.asp?id=502
Bio•mimicry (http://www.biomimicryneo.org/page/what-is-biomimicry)- from Greek bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate - is a design discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems. Biomimicry inspires innovative solutions to discover how we will: Harness energy, Feed ourselves, Design products, Heal ourselves, Conduct business and more.
Designers, biologists, naturalists, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders are invited to join E4S and theBiomimicry NEONetwork on March 16th to learn how to put biomimicry to work. We have invited Chris Allen, Director of the AskNature (http://www.asknature.org/) project at the Biomimicry Institute (http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/), to speak on how innovative strategies lead to more sustainable designs. At this event you will also hear from Doug Paige, the Associate Professor of Industrial Design at CIA and Jennifer Duda, CIA Industrial Design student on how they are applying biomimicry to solve challenges in the Cuyahoga Valley. Do not miss this opportunity to help us create the first regional Biomimicry Network in the world.
Deadline: March 26, 2010
Entries submitted after that date require a $10 per entry late fee. No entries will be accepted after April 9, 2010.
Enter the most prestigious competition for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition. Any photograph first printed or produced within the last twelve months prior to the deadline is eligible. Selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and photographers, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Photography Annual and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work. As a service to art directors, designers and art buyers, a comprehensive index will carry contact information of the photographers represented.
CA’s Award of Excellence is one of the most-coveted awards in the industry. If chosen, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession. Ask any creative director which competitions rank as the most influential and they’ll place Communication Arts at the top of the list.
What to Enter: Information on eligibility, categories and fees.
How to Enter: Information on preparation of entries and forms.
Photography Competition FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions about applications and file formats.
Paul Sahre is coming to Kent State University!
Thursday, March 25, 2010 @ 7pm
First Energy Interactive Auditorium in Franklin Hall
Kent State University ( Kent Campus)
Created by Jeff Finley of GoMedia, Weapons of Mass Creation will take place May 22-23 and become a collaboration of creative visionaries, including artists/ designers, bands, and film makers to Cleveland.
This all happens in the midst of a supercharged creative art show featuring some of my favorite artists and designers from across the country. And if we’re lucky a few of them might share their insights in collaborative panel discussion or demonstrations. It’s truly something for the creative community to experience.
Click here for more information on how to get involved or attend.
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
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.
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
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.
