Herbert Bayer came to New York in the 1938 to organize an exhibit about the Bauhaus for the Museum of Modern Art staying on to work. life in the city opposes his bauhaus ideals. Instead he moves to CCA (Container Corporation of America) and produces notable environmental work such as Great Ideas of Western Man.
This worked out really good for a number of past students.
Just a quick email to check if you are still going to send some graphics students for the Business Challenge on Wednesday the 19th – just to refresh we are looking for some students to help the business and media students visualise their project in terms of design – if your students want to come along for the full day and get involved as part of a team then they can win a prize along with the others, we will give them come gift vouches for their troubles.
9am start at the catrin finch conference centre – running all day with Lunch.
Even if you don’t normally like this kind of thing – I think there will be a few bits here that will make you smile. ‘Special Effects’ have a come a long way since my childhood, and The Mill are the best. I used to be impressed by Space 1999 and ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’, but this blows my mind.
Worth watching if you’re a fan of Michel Gondry.
This worked out really good for a number of past students.
Just a quick email to check if you are still going to send some graphics students for the Business Challenge on Wednesday the 19th – just to refresh we are looking for some students to help the business and media students visualise their project in terms of design – if your students want to come along for the full day and get involved as part of a team then they can win a prize along with the others, we will give them come gift vouches for their troubles.
9am start at the catrin finch conference centre – running all day with Lunch.
Emigre’s influence will be warmly rekindled with the release of this. Michael Surtees calls it the Best Book Ever Written Using Graphic Design: #Emigre70.
A copyeditor at the Toronto Star greeted the news that union copyeditor jobs were being eliminated in favor of freelancers by heavily editing the publisher’s memo announcing same, pointing out all the ways in which the publisher could benefit from editorial aid. More.
We now have a University Tie that can be purchased for £19.95. Please contact Meryl Austin on xtn3290 or visit the University shop. The tie is silk, maroon coloured with the Coat of Arms displayed as background and as a motif on the front.
* Good design is innovative
* Good design makes a product useful
* Good design is aesthetic
* Good design helps us to understand a product
* Good design is unobtrusive
* Good design is honest
* Good design is durable
* Good design is consequent to the last detail
* Good design is concerned with the environment
* Good design is as little design as possible
Twin brothers and designers R&E Praspaliauskas have designed a collection of shoes made of bread.
Linked from matts post further down. Level 6. Take note.
Make Cool Shit is full of tips on how to be productive and how to survive in the business of design.
The Blog is run by Nick Cambell, who also makes free tutorials on photography, motion graphics, Cinema 4D etc. which is nice of him
