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Students who attend any of these Design lectures in the Twin Cities can receive extra credit in my classes...

Insights: Design Lecture Series is co-presented by AIGA Minnesota and the Walker Art Center for more than 20 years, AIGA Minnesota’s Insights: Design Lecture Series brings leading designers and design thinkers from around the country—and around the world—to the Twin Cities. Lectures are held at the Walker Art Center Cinema on Tuesday evenings during the month of March.

These lectures are webcast live on the Walker Channel. Encore viewings are available through the Walker Channel archives. webcasts
http://channel.walkerart.org/index.wac

Spring 2008 Lectures:
March 04 Marian Bantjes
check out her work at:
http://bantjes.com/
March 11 Lorraine Gauthier and Alejandro Quinto
March 18 Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels
March 25 Ed Fella
http://edfella.com/
for those who love the hand-drawn

more info:
http://minnesota.aiga.org/events/2008/03/17627822

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A fascinating and refined area of visual culture:

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com

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Digital Studio 2 students are investigating the ways that digital culture is providing recreational and playful opportunities for adults. Some areas of interest are: virtual worlds, games of various types, and toy like products created using digital tools. Students will post their favorite finds in the comments below...

(Students: please include a short description of the area of playful culture you are drawn to, a link to at least one visual example, and what you plan to explore in your own PLAYLAND project...)

Here are some ways that writers are thinking about role playing games as a literary artform:
link to essays on the Electronic Book Review:
www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson

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On the heels of our Digital Composite project, I found a series of satirical photoshop tutorials on YouTube. ( short films from MyDamnChannel.com) They may be faster to view on YouTube though.
Caution: These may be a bit raunchy for some, but if you've spent hours trying to master photoshop, they may make you laugh til you cry!

You Suck at Photoshop ( episodes 1 - 6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_X5uR7VC4M

or
http://laughingsquid.com/you-suck-at-photoshop-by-donnie-hoyle/

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Students who attended the Deborah Mersky clay printing workshop or lecture can post their comments below...

I absolutely loved Deborah's work. The clay stamped pieces were my favorite. If she sold posters of the prints she made I would like to buy some. Her steel pieces were good too. I like how she encorporated the environment into what she made.

Posted by: Laura Murphy | February 12, 2008 09:04 PM

I really like the window designs at one of the light rail stations. And the stamping of the clay stamps were also amazing in the repetition of them and the way she worked with color and the background out of old pages of books and dictionaries. O also the piece with the crabs, that she loves to eat!

Posted by: Kathryn Deitner | February 13, 2008 09:19 AM

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http://labs.digg.com/arc/

On Digg, stories are arranged around a colorful circle.

http://www.electronicbookreview.com

Electronic Book Review's colorful interface was designed by Anne Burdick.

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Ann Klefstad, the Duluth News Tribune Arts & Entertainment reporter, has created a new blog entitled 'Makers' to encourage discussion in our arts community.

check it out
http://www.areavoices.com/makers/

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I really love the blog, Design Sponge, which posts all sorts of interesting ways that artists and designers are playfully enhancing our visual world. Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. I was happy to find this guide to cool spots in the Twin Cities, students should copy this list and plan to visit a few of these shops and galleries on your next field trip south:

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2007/11/twin-cities-design-guide.html

Some of my favorite places to hit include:
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Bibelot shops and Robot Love.

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View Posters by Art Chantry>>
http://www.gigposters.com/designer/3275_Art_Chantry.html

Art Chantry interview>
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/001306.html

blog entry about an Art Chantry poster workshop in Portugal
Images generated at the workshop / Posters for Death of a Salesman>>
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/003440.html

Minneapolis', Aesthetic Apparatus was founded around 1999 in Madison, Wisconsin by Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski as a fun side project from their "real" jobs. Over the years their limited edition, screen printed concert posters have secretly snuck into the hearts and minds of a small, rather silent group of socially awkward music and design nerds. (from their bio)
http://www.aestheticapparatus.com/portfolio.php?subsection=posters&page=0

Rene Wanner's Poster page
http://www.posterpage.ch/

Freedom on the Fence
a new documentary bout the history of Polish posters
and their significance to the social, political and cultural life of Poland.
http://oregonstate.edu/freedomonthefence/
http://oregonstate.edu/freedomonthefence/abios.html

http://www.mrposter.com/
vintage and contemporary posters

Mixing Messages essay by Ellen Lupton
from the exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
about Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/archive/mixingmessages/essay/start.htm

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