Photos + Surveys
Photos from the conference are now online at Flickr. After you browse and reflect, please respond to our brief survey to help us plan for an even better Schools of Thoughts in the future. Your feedback is very important to us!
Photos + Surveys
Photos from the conference are now online at Flickr. After you browse and reflect, please respond to our brief survey to help us plan for an even better Schools of Thoughts in the future. Your feedback is very important to us!
04/03/2007 | Permalink
Phew! It’s over and I’m overwhelmed by all the weighty words and thoughtful reflections. For me it was like trying to attend a 3-ring-circus while simultaneously keeping the lions and elephants in command. Now I’m trying to wrestle into some sense my observations – what resonated and what to grapple with. Hopefully others will contribute to this effort and together we can cull a valuable collective consciousness that results in much needed and required rethinking of our pedagogical models.
Continue reading "Conference Reflections from Louise Sandhaus" »
03/13/2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Without the exceptional generosity of many individual and companies, Schools of Thoughts 3 would not be possible. We applaud and would like to thank all of the following folks for their labor and support.
Denise Gonzales Crisp, Co-Programmer
Louise Sandhaus, Co-Programmer and -Organizer
Petrula Vrontikis, Co-Organizer
Press and Media
Director: Terry Stone
Panels
Review Chair: Scott Hutchinson
Review Assistance: Ana Sanchez
Sponsor Liasons
Presenting Sponsor: Courtney Spain, Adobe
Media Sponsor: William Drenttel, Design Observer
Visual Identity Design
Creative Director: Denise Gonzales Crisp
Website Design: Lauren Broeils
Print Design: Ryan Cook
Event Location and Coordination
Jojo Tardino
Gwen Hourihan
Danielle Conte
Volunteers
Volunteer Coordinator: Genevieve Freeman
Colleen Cochran
N Silas Munro
Florencio Zavala
Sophine Lim
Cameron Ewing
Tanya Rubback
Christine Lee
Gundula Prinz
Victor Hu
Kristen Coogan
Milka Broukhim
Schools of Thoughts 3 Mapping Project
Supervisor: Terry Stone
Project Advisors: Christopher Vice and Gail Swanlund
Project Designers: N Silas Munro and Florencio Zavala
AIGA National
AIGA Registration: Heather Strelecki
AIGA Project Manager: Maria Emmighausen
AIGA Project Supervision: Denise Woods
AIGA Director of Strategic Alliances: Andréa Pellegrino
AIGA Board of Director: Laurie Churchman
03/08/2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Location
The conference is held at Art Center's main campus.
The address is 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, California 91103.
The telephone number is (626) 396.2200.
Registration location(s)
Conference "Check In" is outside of the cafeteria from
Friday noon-4:00pm, then moves to outside of the Ahmanson Auditorium from 4-7pm
On Saturday, registration will be outside of the cafeteria from 8:15-8:45am, then moves to outside of the Ahmanson Auditorium from 8:50-11:00am.
Saturday 11:15am- 4:00pm, conference "Check In" is outside of the cafeteria. Registration closes at 4:00pm on Saturday
Transportation from hotels to Art Center
FRIDAY, March 9th
From the Westin at 12:15pm to Marriott at 12:20pm,
then to Art Center
From the Westin at 2:15pm to Marriott at 2:20pm,
then to Art Center
From the Westin at 4:15pm to Marriott at 4:20pm,
then to Art Center
From Art Center back to the Marriott and Westin:
8:00pm and again at 8:20pm
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SATURDAY, March 10th
From the Westin at 7:45am to the Marriott at 7:50am,
then to Art Center
Again from the Westin at 8:10am to the Marriott at 8:15am,
then to Art Center
From Art Center back to the Marriott then the Westin:
6:45pm and again:
7:05pm at Art Center, to the Marriott, then the Westin
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SUNDAY, March 11th
From the Westin at 8:00am, to Marriott at 8:05am,
then to Art Center
Again from the Westin at 8:20am, to Marriott at 8:25am,
then to Art Center
At 1:25pm from Art Center back to the Marriott,
then to the Westin: and again from Art Center at 1:45pm
back to Art Center back to the Marriott, then to the Westin
Parking on campus
Park in any of the 3 Art Center lots (indicated as Faculty/Staff, Guest, or Student) and enter the building as indicated on campus map linked below.
Friday night’s Art Night
A special Pasadena-wide event called Art Night coincides with SOT3 on Friday night. Our SOT3 presentation ends at 7:30pm. All attendees are invited upstairs to the Williamson Gallery for a tour and can connect with the event transportation to visit art events around the city of Pasadena. For details, see: http://www.artcenter.edu/artnight/
Wireless access
Wireless access is available during the conference on the "ACCDPUBNET" network throughout the building.
Bookstore
SOT3 will have a variety of books for sale. Recommendations for the selections were made from our conference presenters and organizers. The bookstore is located in the Student Store across from the cafeteria. It may also be available outside of the Ahmanson Auditorium on Friday evening and Saturday mid-morning. The bookstore is closed on Sunday.
Art Center Campus map
Note that conference sessions are in locations in a variety of areas on campus. Some locations are at opposite ends of the campus. It takes 5 minutes to walk from one end of the campus to the other. Please be aware of this as you plan your schedule for workshops and breakout sessions.
03/07/2007 | Permalink
Visit the Main Stage Panel
Conversations among main stage participants
for Schools of Thoughts 3.
Moderated by Alice Twemlow.
02/17/2007 | Permalink
SOT3 Mapping Project: Where is the discipline heading and in what contexts are graphic designers working?
N Silas Munro, Terry Stone, Chris Vice, Florencio Zavala
We organize information on maps in order to see our knowledge in a new way. As a result, maps suggest explanations; and while explanations reassure us, they also inspire us to ask more questions, consider other possibilities.
—Peter Turchi, Maps of the Imagination
As the discipline of graphic design becomes more “media agnostic” we can no longer chart it's territories solely by the products of its practice. We must define the ever-“slippaging” borders of graphic design by the ideas and methodologies of its practitioners. What is depicted is an expanded, but ruptured field in constant flux. One that is loosely joined together by a wider definition of [graphic] “design as a conceptual operation.”
—N Silas Munro
For the duration of Schools of Thoughts 3 all conference attendees are invited to collaborate in creating a map of graphic design today. This map will attempt to locate graphic design at this very moment while considering what constitutes or delineates the current field and practice and in what direction it might be heading (or not). In Art Center cafeteria will be a magnetized chalkboard where you can write, draw, deviate, derive, dérive, pinpoint, and post. This collective activity will drive this work-in-progress (to wherever it ends). As we progress, we will be recording the procession of the map with periodic photographic documentation in order to preserve this—your most spontaneous form of scholarship.
02/17/2007 | Permalink
Up Next 2007 is a free event scheduled the day before the opening of the AIGA Schools of Thoughts conference at Art Center, and will address issues of concern to educators and practitioners alike. Hosted by the graduate Media Design Program (MDP) of Art Center College of Design on Thursday, March 8 from 2:00 to 7:00, with a reception to follow. We hope to see you there.
01/17/2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Southern California is a center for communications media:
television, film, and music production, web production,
video gaming, public entertainment and cultural spaces,
to name the more obvious.
These ubiquitous industries coupled with branding
concerns and ever penetrating advertising (to say nothing of
an emerging “do-it-yourself” ethic) is dramatically
changing the terrain that graphic designers navigate.
In such a territory, discreet disciplines that generate the work—
graphic design, advertising, interactive and motion design,
environmental and exhibition design, and even writing content—
seem increasingly difficult to discern.
How is education meeting these challenges?
How is design and other curricula teaching students to sort
through the tangle of options and prepare for a career,
or more likely careers, within them?
Specifically, what belongs in a graphic design curriculum,
or is a graphic design curriculum becoming a quaint notion?
Please plan to join co-chairs Denise Gonzales Crisp,
Louise Sandhaus and Petrula Vrontikas for the third
Schools of Thoughts Graphic Design Educators Conference.
If you absolutely cannot attend, please consider participating
in the discussion at the conference blog
Discussions among and tales betwixt.
01/11/2007 | Permalink
Please note that the panel descriptions for Designing for Multiple Devices, moderated by David Womack, and History, Theory, Writing in Studio, moderated by Lorraine Wild, are updated and complete.
Also, the last of twelve breakout panel sessions seeks content. If you are thinking about a topic, and if you submit your proposal early and it is accepted, we may be able to post it here as part of the open call for papers.
01/07/2007 | Permalink
"In his book Maps of the Imagination, Turchi not only inspires confidence about navigating and recording unknown territory—the creative process—he indirectly points to the defining role artists of every sort play as they translate their worlds. Turchi the writer reminds us that the practice of design is story telling at base, and eloquently illustrates how individual perspective and imagination produce the traceable contours of our moment." (dgc)
01/07/2007 | Permalink
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Designing Systems for Designing
Designing for Multiple Devices
Research, Research Practice, Practice
History, Theory and Writing in Studio
How Is Curriculum Anticipating Emerging Practices
Literature, Graphic Design, Literacy
The Thorny Generalist / Specialist Question
Off the Page: Graphic Design Beyond Print and Screen
Models for Cross-, Trans-, Multi- Disciplinary Practice
Integrating Media in Design Pedagogy
Expanding Design Opportunities in Research Universities
Field Trip (blog panel)
01/06/2007 | Permalink
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
12:30 to 6:30
Registration
1:00 to 2:15
Workshops
Adobe Workshop: CS2 Brush-Up
Scott Citron
Computer Lab - Room 145
Given the depth of Adobe's Creative Suite, how's a user to know all the gems hidden inside Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or Acrobat? In this session, Scott will show how to get the most from these amazing products by uncovering some of their most important (and least understood) features.
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The Art and Craft of Teaching
Bob Price (eggplant.org)
Boardroom
How do I get my students to participate in class discussions?
How do I succeed with a large number of students?
What are some tips for the first day of class?
How do I handle difficult students?
What can I do to get my students to excel?
How do I help my students to "get it"?
How do I facilitate a lively and productive crit?
This workshop is a hands-on experience where you‚ ¨!"ll learn a variety of techniques and strategies to make your classroom experience more successful. The sessions include many practical tips you can use right away.
Peer Coaching
Powerful Questions
Schema
additional tools
3:00 to 4:15
Adobe Workshop: CS2 For Super-Power Users
Scott Citron
Computer Lab - Room 145
So you know the CS apps pretty well and you're ready to push on to the next level. In this session, Scott will show you how to super-charge your workflow by while using Adobe Bridge, Photoshop Actions, Scripting, Acrobat Form Recognition, Adobe Connect, and an arm-load of advanced techniques throughout the entire Suite. Time permitting, Scott will also demonstrate how to create interactive PDFs with buttons, links, and embedded movies and sounds directly from InDesign. Not for the timid.
Q & A with 20 Outstanding Los Angeles Designers In 1986
Archie Boston
Boardroom
A film on graphic design in the Los Angeles area created in 1986 stars Los Angeles designers Saul Bass, Douglas Boyd, Keith Bright, Jim Cross, John Cleveland, Louis Danziger, April Greiman, Ken Parkhurst, Jack Roberts, Bob Runyan, Don Weller (Weller Institute for the Cure of Design), and many more. These interviews share a conversation with these illustrious designers on their views, working environment, and work, as well as questions about their education, design style, idols or mentors, advice to students and teachers, and the evolution of graphic design in Los Angeles.
Print Processes Workshop
David Mayes
Faculty Dining Room
This presentation is targeted to help design educators prepare students for buying print and working with printers to get the best results out of the process. The workshop will discuss everything from file preparation, to the most common mistakes (as well as ways to avoid them) to the latest in print technology. We’ll also cover stochastic screening, internet-based file submission and proofing and color management, as well as estimating. The importance of clear specifications that enable a successful partnership with your printer will top off the discussion.
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5:00 to 6:15
Reception
Cafeteria
6:30 to 7:30
Welcome: Organizers and Programmers.
Adobe: Claire Irwin
Ahmanson Auditorium
Keynote Address: Peter Turchi
Director, MFA writing program at Warren Wilson College,
Asheville, North Carolina. Poet, novelist, educator,
and author of Maps of the Imagination.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10
8:15 to 6:00
Registration
8:00 to 8:50
Continental Breakfast
Cafeteria
9:00 to 10:30
Main Stage Panel
Ahmanson Auditorium
Where is the discipline heading and
in what contexts will graphic designers be working?
{ Part I: from realists with high ideals }
Jens Gehlhaar
Creative Director, Brand New School, Santa Monica
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Somi Kim
Creative Director, Ogilvy Big, Los Angeles
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Alice Twemlow, Moderator
10:45 to 11:45
Breakout sessions A
How is Curriculum Anticipating Emerging Practices?
Boardroom
Moderator: Anne Burdick, Art Center College of Design
Christopher Vice: Design Leadership MFA at Herron
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Holly Willis: Media to Think With: USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy
Anne Burdick: Names for Design That Doesn't Exist (yet): Neologisms for Neo-practices from the Media Design Program
Graphic Design Off the Page:
Graphic Design Beyond Print and Screen-based Media
Los Angeles Times Media Center
Moderator: Nik Hafermaas, Art Center College of Design
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Stephanie Cunningham: Public Art is Design in Disguise
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Natalia Ilyin: Beyond “good” design principles
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Maureen Carter: Breaking down the walls of predictability
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Look Left, Look Right, Look Up, Look Back: History, Theory, Writing and other Literacy in Studio
Faculty Dining Room
Moderator: Lorraine Wild, California Institute of the Arts
Leslie Becker: Piercing the Surface with Ethical Decisions: A Paradigm for Thinking While Making
Michael Golec: The Practice of Research and Writing Design History: A Studio Application
Elizabeth Guffy: Words and Spaces: Literature and the Geography of Graphic Design
12:00 to 1:00
Breakout sessions B
Models for Cross-, Trans-, Multi- Disciplinary Practice
Los Angeles Times Media Center
Moderator: Lance Carlson, Alberta College of Art and Design
Hugh Dubberly: The Rise of Service-Craft: Implications for Disciplinarity
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Dori Tunstall: An Anthropologist in our Midst: Graphic Design, Research, and emerging Anthrodesigners
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Geoff Fried: What About the "Design" in "Graphic Design?" A Cognitive Evolutionary Approach
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Literature, Graphic Design, and Literacy
Boardroom
Moderator: Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design
Download Paper
Dmitri Siegel: Undesigning Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener
Julia Lupton: Thinking with Shakespeare: Design and Literature
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Research, Research Practice, Practice?
What Good is a Terminal Degree?
Faculty Dining Room
Moderator: Meredith Davis, North Carolina State University
Meredith Davis: Sorting out the Research Dilemma
NC State Grad Student: AIGA Research Database Project
Sean Donahue/Lisa Nugent: Discovery through Clarity and Ambiguity: Advancing a Research Practice
Scott Townsend: Is there a question here? Developing critical positions in new media and the role of the graduate seminar
1:00 to 2:15
Lunch
Brown bag provided in the cafeteria
2:30 to 4:00
Main Stage Panel
Ahmanson Auditorium
Where is the discipline heading and in what contexts
will graphic designers be working?
{ Part II: from Pragmatic Utopians }
Allan Chochinov Editor-in-Chief, Core 77, New York
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Peter Lunenfeld Executive Editor, MediaWorks Pamphlets, Los Angeles
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Alice Twemlow, Moderator
4:15 to 5:15
Breakout sessions C
The Thorny Generalist/Specialist Question
Los Angeles Times Media Center
Moderator: Kali Nikitas, Otis College of Art and Design
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Tyler Galloway: Creating the Strategic Generalist
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Doug Kisor and Alex Braidwood: Design Education and the Constancy of Change
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Lisa Abendroth (presentation by Kelly Monico with Bryana Sylvester and Elysia Syriac): Tryptych:
Perspectives on the formulation and effective of a college design curriculum
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Eclectic Forays
Boardroom
Moderator: Dmitri Siegel Download Paper
Will Temple: The Vicissitudes of Software
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David Cabianca: I know it when I see it: graphic violence, graphic sex and now; graphic design
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Yeohyun Ahn and Gregory May: The Power of Processing: Reviewing the Potential Impact of a Simple Programming Language
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Models for Integrating Media in Graphic Design Studios
Faculty Dining Room
Moderator: Terry Stone, California Institute of the Arts
Kelly Leslie: Cut and Post: Online Delivery of Design Education
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Chad Reichert: Technology as Community
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5:30 to 6:30
Breakout sessions D
Expanding Design Opportunities in Research Universities
Faculty Dining Room
Moderator: Christopher Vice, Indiana University Herron School of Art and Design
Michael Gibson: Creating Viable, Interdisciplinary Research Partnerships between Designers and People
in Universities who haven’t been to design school
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Stacie Rohrbach and Suguru Ishizaki: How do we teach and learn visual communication design? Toward the Development of an Interdisciplinary Research Community
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David Morgan: Navigating Collaborative Projects
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Designing for Multiple Devices
Boardroom
Moderator David Womack
Tracy Kroop: New Information Spaces: dialogue between dynamically generated information and the environment
Brian Lucid: From Composition to Choreography: A Curriculum for Designing Dynamic Content
Kelly Monico: Techno-Design: A New Way of Teaching for the Digital Age
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Designing Systems for Designing
Los Angeles Times Media Center
Moderator Hugh Dubberly
William Drenttel: Systems for creating visual unity: A case study
Shelley Evenson: Designing Service Systems
Isabel Meirelles: Representing Systems: A case study
SUNDAY, MARCH 11
8:30 to 9:00
Morning Stimulants
Morning coffee and fruit
Cafeteria
9:00 to 10:30
Moderated Roundtable Discussions
Cafeteria
Topics to be determined
10:45 to 11:15
Main Stage
Ahmanson Auditorium
Future of Design Software
Lydia Varmazis
Who will be the next the designer of future and what software solutions will they use? Now with the proliferation of user generated content on community sites such as YouTube and MySpace, the boundaries and barriers for creative expression are being challenged. Many similar concepts are enabling designers to experience sharing ideas with others to enhance design experiences and leverage the community in gaining design knowledge. A new series of web-hosted services from Adobe Labs, built on the Adobe Engagement Platform, bring together the design and developer community from the web into the Adobe Creative Suite desktop
11:15 to 12:45
Concluding address: Where is the discipline heading and in what contexts will graphic designers be working?
Main Stage Panel
William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand
Design Observer and Winterhouse, Connecticut
12:45 to 1:00
Conclude
Extra-curricular activity during the entire conference
Mapping Project: Where is the discipline heading and in what contexts are graphic designers working?
N Silas Munro, Terry Stone, Chris Vice, Florencio Zavala
Download Final Thoughts
Download Mapping Process
We organize information on maps in order to see our knowledge in a new way. As a result, maps suggest explanations; and while explanations reassure us, they also inspire us to ask more questions, consider other possibilities.
—Peter Turchi, Maps of the Imagination
As the discipline of graphic design becomes more “media agnostic” we can no longer chart it's territories solely by the products of its practice. We must define the ever-“slippaging” borders of graphic design by the ideas and methodologies of its practitioners. What is depicted is an expanded, but ruptured field in constant flux. One that is loosely joined together by a wider definition of [graphic] “design as a conceptual operation.”
—N Silas Munro
During Schools of Thoughts 3 all conference attendees are invited to collaborate in creating a map of graphic design today. This map will attempt to locate graphic design at this very moment while considering what constitutes or delineates the current field and practice and in what direction it might be heading (or not). In Art Center cafeteria will be a magnetized chalkboard where you can write, draw, deviate, derive, dérive, pinpoint, and post. This collective activity will drive this work-in-progress (to wherever it ends). As we progress, we will be recording the procession of the map with periodic photographic documentation in order to preserve this—your most spontaneous form of scholarship.
Check out a mapping project done at CalArts
Event contacts
Panel Review Chair
Scott Hutchinson
[email protected]
Organizer and Programming
Louise Sandhaus
[email protected]
Organizer and Programming
Petrula Vrontikis
[email protected]
Programming
Denise Gonzales Crisp
[email protected]
Conference Web site
http://www.superstove.blogs/schoolsofthoughts3
12/14/2006 | Permalink
Systems help us make sense of choice and manage complexity. They offer scaffolding on which we can build. Think, for example, of tatami mats, the DIN paper system ("A" sizes), Adrian Frutiger's Univers family of typefaces. All are systems in which we can design.
Designers often speak of systems:
- typeface and symbol systems
- grid and proportion systems
- content management systems
- identity systems
- signage systems
- social systems
- natural systems
- eco-systems
12/11/2006 | Permalink
The idea that digital information should be accessible to "anyone, anywhere, anytime, anyhow" creates both challenges and opportunities for the graphic designer. As information becomes more fluid and its manifestations more mutable, it seems increasingly resistant to being graphically designed. The free flow of 1s and 0s through multiple devices burns away context, leaving only bare wires of data to be sliced up by search engines, spliced into RSS feeds, or absorbed by the ambient interactions of the technological surround.
12/03/2006 | Permalink
"Enlightened Innovation: 5 Keys to Promoting Thoughtful Design Leadership in Education" by Xanthe Matychak and David Morgan
Traditional business models are failing in the face of global competition, and American companies are scouring design schools for design-innovators to lead them into the twenty-first century with creative strategies. Great. But the question is, where will these young designers lead us?
12/01/2006 | Permalink
Allan Chechinov poses more than a few tough questions in Something for Nothing?
Design education is forever acknowledging that any design problem comes with a set of criteria and constraints. These two players are pitted against each other, balanced, traded off. The popular triad of time/quality/price (that you can ever only have two of the three) is a fun parlor trick, but it hardly takes into account what may be the more accurate either/or paradigm at play: In design, if you get something, you give something.
Contribute your thoughts on the Schools of Thoughts 3 Blog.
12/01/2006 | Permalink
Main Stage Participants
jump to... Allan Chochinov ... William Drenttel ... Jens Gehlhaar ...
Jessica Helfand ... Somi Kim ... Peter Lunenfeld ...
Peter Turchi
Panel Moderators
jump to... Anne Burdick ... Lance Carlson ... Meredith Davis ...
Hugh Dubberly ... Kenneth Fitzgerald ... Nik Hafermaas ...
N Silas Munro ... Kali Nikitas ... Terry Lee Stone ...
Alice Twemlow ... Lydia Varmazis ... Christopher Vice ...
Lorraine Wild ... David Womack ...
Susan Yelavich
Conference Organizers
Denise Gonzales Crisp, Louise Sandhaus, Petrula Vrontikis
Visual Identity Designers
Lauren Broelis, Ryan Cook, Denise Gonzales Crisp
11/25/2006 | Permalink
Chair, Graduate Media Design Program
Art Center College of Design
In addition to her role at Art Center, Anne Burdick is Design Editor of Electronic Book Review (electronicbookreview.com). In her practice, Anne collaborates with texts and writers to produce new modes of reading and writing. Despite winning the prestigious Leipzig Award for the “Most Beautiful Book in the World,” Anne does not call her practice book design. Rather, she designs spaces for writing in diverse media and environments, which sometimes includes books. Her projects are wide-ranging: poetry installations for the Getty Research Institute, unique approaches to lexicography with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, experimental fiction at the Walker Art Center’s Gallery 9, and books of literary/media criticism by authors such as Marshall McLuhan and N. Katherine Hayles.
11/17/2006 | Permalink
President & CEO
Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD)
Lance Carlson has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts, Art Center College of Design, and other colleges, universities, and art & design programs; he holds graduate degrees in both cultural studies/sociology and design. His work as an artist is in select collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Smithsonian, among others. For the last fifteen years, he has published art criticism and cultural commentary, including attention to the rapid changes in design thinking. His interest is in the redefinition of design and creative process as fields of inquiry and practice, especially with regard to how art and design institutions can embrace and animate a definition of design having more to do with human systems (especially as applied to business, organizations, and communities) than aesthetically-rooted theory and practice.
Panel: Models for Cross-, Trans-, Multi- Disciplinary Practice
11/17/2006 | Permalink
Allan Chochinov is a partner at Core77, a New York-based design network which supports the global design community through both online and offline initiatives. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, one of the most widely read design websites in the world, and as strategist for Coroflot.com (design jobs and portfolios) and DesignDirectory.com (design firm database).
Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. (Johnson & Johnson, Herman Miller, Federal Express, Kodak, A.C. Nielsen, Oral-B, Crunch Fitness and others.) He is associate professor at New York's Pratt Institute, where he teaches two courses in the Graduate Industrial Design Department. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and has received awards from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club and The One Club.
He received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and a Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.
11/17/2006 | Permalink
Professor, Graphic Design Department
College of Design, North Carolina State University
Meredith Davis is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Graphic Design at NC State University. She is also Director of the College of Design PhD in Design and teaches graduate courses in design and cognition. Meredith holds degrees in design and education from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Penn State University respectively. She taught for 13 years at Virginia Commonwealth University and has been at NC State for 16 years, where she served 10 years as department chair. Meredith currently teaches graduate courses in design and cognition and undergraduate courses in typography and design theory.
Meredith was principal in the graphic design firm Communication Design from 1979-1989. She is the recipient of more than 50 national and international design awards and her work appeared in Graphis, ID Magazine, Print, Graphic Design USA, ACD 100, Creativity, Typography, and other publications.
Meredith is a former president of the American Center for Design and the Graphic Design Education Association. She served on the national board of directors of the AIGA and as a frequent member of its various committees. She is currently the AIGA representative to the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and a member of its accreditation commission. In this position, Meredith has led the authoring of six briefing papers on graphic design education. Meredith consults with colleges and universities on curriculum development and assessment and has provided nearly 50 external reviews of faculty for tenure and promotion.
Meredith’s research explores the use of design in achieving the goals of educational reform in K-12 schools. She has served as a member of the development team for the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts and on the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership for the US Department of Education. She has taught for the Harvard Graduate School of Education and served as a consultant to the departments of education in Wisconsin and Michigan. Meredith authored the study of design in K-12 education for the National Endowment for the Arts, titled Design as a Catalyst for Learning; the book received the 1999 CHOICE award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. She has also served as consultant to the Smithsonian Office of Education and Museum Studies and reviews professional development proposals for the US Department of Education. Her work has been funded by the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science; Kenan Institute for the Arts; Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise; National Endowment for the Arts; and several state arts and humanities commissions. She is currently a member of a National Science Foundation sponsored team exploring the Science of Teaching Science in K-12 schools.
Meredith is currently under contract to Thames and Hudson/UK for a series of college-level textbooks on graphic design, including an undergraduate introduction to design theory. She is a member of the editorial boards of Design Issues and Design Studies Review and reads manuscripts for MIT Press, Visible Language, and Design Studies Journal. Meredith authored the study of design in K-12 education for the National Endowment for the Arts, titled Design as a Catalyst for Learning; the book received the 1999 CHOICE award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. She is a frequent contributor to journals on design and design education and wrote the description of the discipline for high school students for the College Board.
11/17/2006 | Permalink
William Drenttel works in partnership with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse, a studio focusing on publishing, new media and cultural institutions. Drenttel is a founding editor of Design Observer, the largest weblog of design and cultural criticism; a co-editor of Below the Fold:, a journal of visual culture published by Winterhouse; and the co-founder of the AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism, a $5000 yearly prize. In 2006, Drenttel launched the Polling Place Photo Project, a national initiative to photograph the voting process in America.
Drenttel is president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and a trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He is a co-editor of four volumes of Looking Closer anthologies, the widely taught series of writings on graphic design. He is a former board member of Lingua Franca and Poetry Society of America, and has lectured at the Library of Congress, Walker Art Center, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Cranbrook Academy, and two national AIGA conferences, among many others.
Drenttel received a B.A. in Film and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University.
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Principal, Dubberly Design Office
Dubberly Design Office is a San Francisco-based consultancy that focuses on making software easier to use through interaction design and information design. At Apple Computer in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Dubberly managed cross-functional design teams and later managed creative services for the entire company. While at Apple, he co-created a technology-forecast film called "Knowledge Navigator," that presaged the appearance of the Internet and interaction via a mobile device. At Netscape, he became vice president of design and managed groups responsible for the design, engineering, and production of Netscape's web portal. In 2000, he co-founded DDO. In addition to his practice, Dubberly also teaches. While at Apple, he served at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as the first and founding chairman of the computer graphics department. He has also taught classes in the Graphic Design Department at California State University, San Jose, at the Institute of Design at IIT, and in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.
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Kenneth teaches in the undergraduate Studio Art and graduate Visual Studies programs Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. His writings on design can be found in Emigre, Eye, Idea, and Redaction magazines; the books Graphic Design and Reading, The Education of a Graphic Designer volume 2, and the upcoming Looking Closer 5; plus the online journals Voice: AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Observer, and Speak Up. He’s also contributed forewards for monographs by Robert Appleton, Elliott Earls, and Stefan Sagmeister. As producer, he created The News of the Whirled, a 4-issue limited-edition magazine that received awards from the American Center for Design and AIGA. As “collator,” he organized and toured "Adversary: an exhibition (of) contesting graphic design," from 2001-2004.
Online Panel: Field Trip
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After leading his own print design studio in Germany for six years, Jens Gehlhaar enrolled at the graphic design program at California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated with an MFA in 1997. His graduate thesis was The CIA Compendium, an encyclopedic typeface system.
For the next three years, he worked as a freelance art director, graphic and type designer for Wieden+Kennedy, ReVerb, Imaginary Forces, Razorfish, Mike Mills, David Carson, Dreamworks and ESPN. His most prominent projects included the design of the launch print campaign for Microsoft Windows 98, the 1998–2001 network graphics package for ESPN X Games, as well as exclusive typeface designs for the Steven Spielberg movie “Minority Report”, for David Carson’s “Metropolis” magazine design, and for the IBM e-business Centers.
From 1998–2001, he taught upper level typography, type design and motion typography at California Institute of the Arts and Art Center College of Design.
In 2001, he joined bicoastal Brand New School as Creative Director, where he has co-directed campaigns for Volkswagen, Apple, Toyota, Vodafone and Budweiser. He has been responsible for the network identities of VH1 Classic, Fox Fuel and IMF; as well as the typography of campaigns such as UPS, AT&T and American Express; and packaging for MTV Sunday Stew and MTV2 Sic’em Friday. He has also written and directed dozens of live action station identifiers for VH1 Classic, Fox Fuel and IMF, as well as a music video for the British band Muse.
Among other awards, he has received a Sports Emmy for television graphics, an ADC Gold Medal for live action direction, a TDC award for type design and an MVPA award for Special Effects.
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Chair, Graphic Design
Art Center College of Design
Nik Hafermaas has been the department chair of Graphic Design at Art Center College of Design (www.artcenter.edu/gpk) since August 2004, where he has created a new Graphic Design curriculum and co-hosted studio abroad programs in Berlin, Copenhagen and, most recently, in Tokyo. His current large-scale environmental work PowerPLANTs – a major public work awarded by the City of Pasadena – made its debut before a professional audience at the Art Center Design Conference in March 2006 at the Wind Tunnel in Pasadena.
Prior to Art Center, Mr. Hafermaas was a Professor of Integrated Design and Temporary Architecture at the University of Arts, Bremen and curator of the Berlin-based network Young Creative Industries. His clients included the Bertelsmann Media Group, World Expo 2000, Audi, Deutsche Telecom AG, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and Zurich Financial Services, Expo.02.
Mr. Hafermaas is also the former co-owner and chief creative officer of the design company Triad Berlin, where he and his two partners formed an integrated professional team of over 50 employees, shaping it into one of Germany’s leading design firms specialized in the field between industry and the arts, technological innovations, new media and contemporary culture. Most recently, he founded the design company UeBERSEE, specializing in narrative spaces.
Mr. Hafermaas was recipient of the IF Design Award in 1999 and 2004, the German Design Club Award in 2000 and 2002 and the Art Directors Club Design Award in 2002. He studied Visual Communications and Architecture at the University of Arts, Berlin.
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