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view the results of the vote assignment
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jrock2/vote2008/

poster by Michelle M

poster by Angie S

poster by Christopher G.

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Next Tues, OCTOBER 7, at 6PM graphic designer and design educator Rick Griffith will lecture about his work in Boh 90.

Rick runs the design studio Matter in Denver, CO

see more of his studio's cool work at:
http://www.morematter.com

See you there!

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Did you miss going to Chicago? Maybe you can still register for...
AIGA Minnesota Design Camp 2008
October 3–5, 2008 (next weekend)

c'mon up for some inspiring speakers, hands-on workshops, fun and fellowship in the beautiful and mysterious woods of Nisswa, Minn. You'll see over 300 species of designers, students, educators and business partners. It may just be the change you've been looking for...

DESIGN CAMP WEBSITE
http://minnesota.aiga.org/designcamp/

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Graphic Design 2 students were asked to target a specific audience and a specific voter issue... and then create a compelling graphic that urges the audience to respond by voting on November 4th.

Links to a gallery of student posters AND downloadable PDFs coming soon...

Reflections about the assignment can be posted below...

more about the Get Out the Vote Assignment...
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jrock2/rockblog/140923.html

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For more thoughts about the gender gap in design read this commentary >

Alice Rawsthorn: Object Lesson - New York Times

Silent Majority
Is Design Still a Boy's Club?
By Alice Rawsthorn
Sept 28, 2008 in Sunday's NY Times Magazine

Or read this article by Michael Bierut from 2006
The Graphic Glass Ceiling
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=20303

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Crown Fountain gargoyle

If you are one of the UMD students who attended the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) Student Conference in Chicago, Please post your reflections about the trip to the comments below...

UMD was very well represented with over 40 attendees. It was terrific to see our students make the effort to get themselves to Chicago for this mid-week event. Please report on your travel adventures, workshops with famous designers, and impressions of the conference overall!

students drawing in Millennium Park with Seymour Chwast.

from the conference website:
On September 23-28, 2008, over 1000 of the world’s top designers, students, educators and graphic arts professionals will converge in Chicago for the 2008 AGI Congress and AGI Student Conference. Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) will bring their annual Congress to America for only the third time in fifty years. Billed as the global design event of 2008, the event will present lectures, exhibitions, and a host of unique interactions with the world’s most notable leaders from the design profession.
http://www.agichicago.org

Francois Robert purchases this pepper spray with face from a student in his seeing and noticing workshop.

ALSO>>> Check out the Sappi Blog 24-7DesignHeaven for more comments about the AGI conference!
http://24-7designheaven.com/24-7dh/index.php

Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is a club of the world’s leading graphic artists and designers. There are about 350 members from 27 countries
http://www.a-g-i.org/about/about_who.php

The designers belong to this fraternity by invitation only. (This is very different from the open membership of AIGA.) Perhaps this explains why so few women designers were represented on stage during the student conference. (Perhaps AGI will be discussing ways to redress the lack of diversity in their membership... ?)They were put on the spot with a few embarrassing questions from the audience, and no one seemed prepared with an answer as to why there wasn't more diversity on stage. The one woman on the stage was Jennifer Morla. She remarked that there seems to be a lack of interest in public speaking among women designers. She urged more female students to build skills in this area.

Continue reading "AGI Chicago Trip" »

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Digital Studio students choose an artist from the text, Digital Art by Christiane Paul.

Please post your research about the artist to my blog by Sept 25th for viewing by your classmates. Be prepared to present your research about the artist to the class after that.

Directions below...

Continue reading "Digital Art Research" »

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 / 6pm / Bohannon Hall

Philadelphia-based Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, has recently concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey, where he has talked face to face with more than 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of their American captors.

“Sometimes people think art should be pretty, and this isn’t very pretty,” Heyman admits.

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The Sieur du Luth Fall Lecture and Symposium, featuring world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, will take place from 2 - 6:30 pm on Thursday, September 18 in the Pelli-designed Weber Music Hall. Five architects, each with a stake in the growth of the University of Minnesota Duluth campus, will give an afternoon symposium on Campus Architecture. Cesar Pelli will deliver the opening address.

Continue reading "Campus Architecture Lecture:" »

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Please post your reflection on one of the Persuasion essays from the book Design Literacy by Steven Heller...

See links to more info on the essay topics below

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National Portrait Gallery | Ballyhoo! Posters As Portraiture
view online galleries

Great show of historical posters at the Smithsonian

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http://www.artofdemocracy.org/posters/posters.html

Art of Democracy is building a network of exhibitions and events that will all take place in the fall of 2008. New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, Puerto Rico, Muncie, and several more locations are planning exhibitions.

poster by frances jetter

For guidelines on making your own poster go to http://www.artofdemoncracy.org/posters/poster-guidelines.html.

Midwest exhibits:
http://www.artofdemocracy.org/galleries/midwest/art_exhibitions-midwest.html

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This event is highly recommended for my GD2 classes. We will be working on the Global Water Crisis > Designing Water's Future project in October, so this fits right in. Please attend!

Great Lakes Water Wars:
The UMD Center for Freshwater Research and Policy will host 2008 Distinguished Aquatic Speaker, Peter Annin, the director of the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources, at 7 pm on Wed., Sept. 24 in the Weber Music Hall. Annin, an environmental journalist, is a former correspondent with Newsweek magazine, and author of The Great Lakes Water Wars.
http://www.d.umn.edu/cfrp/special_events.htm

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Graphic Design 2 students will begin the semester working on Get Out the Vote posters.
View the AIGA poster project
AIGA invites designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters—and YouTube submissions—that inspire the American public to participate in the electoral process and vote for a presidential candidate in the 2008 general election.

Assignment: Focus your efforts on a specific audience and a specific voter issue. Create a compelling graphic that urges your audience to respond by voting in the November election.

Also: don't forget to read all the essays on Persuasion in the Design Literacy text.

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Fall 2008, Graphic Design2 students have recently noticed these trends in visual culture...

Students, Please post your item to the comments below
(+ include a link to the item if it is viewable on the web, or send me a jpg!)

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