This is an excellent oppty to share your insights. Let me know if you need help getting a proposal together - Liz

The Welch School of Art and Design’s Gallery is organizing a
symposium on Friday February 12, 2010 in celebration of Black History
Month. Graduate and undergraduate students from all GSU departments
are invited to present papers that address any of the following areas
as they pertain to the African and African American artistic experience:
Journey, Representation, Autobiography, Spirituality, Identity,
Critical Perspectives, Race, and Visual Culture. By assembling a
diverse set of papers without temporal or geographical guidelines, the
symposium strives to highlight the variability and complexity of African
and Diasporic cultural and artistic legacies.

Paper presentation time should not exceed 20 minutes. The symposium
space will be equipped to project digital images. Support will be
available for students who wish to receive assistance in polishing their
presentations prior to the symposium.

Please email Waduda Muhammad or Dr. Kimberly Cleveland with paper
topics by 5:00pm Friday December 18, 2009 if you are interested in
participating.

Drive-By Press Friday 6-9pm at Youngblood

PREPARING DESIGNERS FOR A CHANGED MARKET
Location: SCAD-Atlanta, Room 4C
Date: Sat, Nov 7
Time: 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM (come early to sign in or register)
FREE
A must attend event for all graphic design students!

This program is tailored for all Atlanta area graphic design students to learn about the current conditions of the graphic design market place and what they can do as students to prepare for their future careers.

Art & Copy
A Film About Advertising and Creativity
Wednesday, September 23rd
7:45 pm
The Plaza Theatre
An AIGA Special Film Screening
Student Members $6.50
Members $6.50
General Admission $8.00

“Embrace the Depot”

Depot by definition stands for ‘a storage space’ or ‘warehouse’.

Office Depot can successfully build stronger brand equity through a 360 degree ‘warehouse’ experience by creating visual continuity across retail display, product packaging, and storage components; by utilizing vertical space with complementary lighting, sound, temperature and visually compelling hangings; by providing interactive, mixed product displays that engage customers and enhance consumer experience.

Office Depot locations Atlanta

Office Max locations Atlanta

Staples Atlanta

[The spectacle] implies some sort of circus or show put on by a few and watched by the masses who stare dumbfoundedly in amusement and amazement. It implies control and passivity, separation and isolation. The "show," in fact, is modern society: "The entire life of societies in which modern conditions of production prevail announces itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles" (Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, p.1). The term spectacle subsumes all the means and methods power employs, outside of direct force, to relegate potentially political, critical, and creative human beings to the margins of thought and behavior. The spectacle then is depoliticization par excellence: "The very principle of the spectacle is nonintervention" (S.I. Anthology, p.45). Mesmerized by the wide array of "diversions" offered by the spectacular society, from goods and services to entertainment and conveniences, human beings stray far from the most critical task: changing the world and liberating everyday life. In the meantime, bureaucratic domination refines and perfects its techniques.
– from Drifting with the Situationist International, Anonymous

There is Such a Thing as Society
The major artistic movements of this century—the futurists, constructivists, dadaists, surrealists—all had a theory of society that guided their explorations. The exploration of the formal structure of language—its signs, symbols, and how these construct and carry meaning—should be the staple diet of designers. Language is a means through which we express our consciousness of ourselves and our relationship to the world; it is our attempts to describe our situation and to think about the future that lead us to search for appropriate vocabularies. Language changes when it is no longer able to express what its users require of it, so unless it is to be of academic interest only, an exploration of language must also take into account the changing consciousness of human beings. It is difficult to comprehend the point of exploring form if it is not related to contemporary problems of vocabulary and the search for meaning. The study of visual form and language is limited if it does not consider the forces of cultural production, which involve a set of social relations between producer and audience.
­— Andrew Howard, 1994.

Consequential Matters opens June 15 at CDC
SMOG IS DEMOCRATIC
Jonathan Lukens and Carl DiSalvo
Smog is Democratic explores particulate matter through the medium of visualization. As we inhabit and wear away at the city, we produce dust and debris. As plants attempt to reproduce, they release pollen. These and other processes create particulate matter, a residue of life. An investigation of particulate matter touches multiple concerns: pollution, the relationship between urban living and hygiene, the tension between scientific and artistic representations of information, and the desire to produce measurement techniques that gauge the threat of the unseen. This installation is interpretive and expressive, with the goal of considering how the sources and measurements of particulate matter might be rendered in order to generate reflection, discussion, and debate.

Wednesday, May 13th, 7pm
The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) invites you to a special screening of Objectified--Part of the MA "Design is Human" Event and Home Tour.
Plaza Theatre 1049 Ponce De Leon Ave. Atlanta GA 30306
Post-screening Q&A with director Gary Hustwit and special guests. Presented by the Museum of Design Atlanta, AIGA Atlanta, and IDSA Atlanta. Tickets $20 general public, $15 for AIGA, IDSA, and Museum of Design members.
MA (Modern Atlanta) 09 Design is Human will feature:
* Modern Home Tours May 16-17
* MA Launch Party, Architect Models and Renderings, and Modern Design Exhibit featuring local designers and student work from GA Tech at White Provision
* MA ology Italian Design Event, Fashion Show & Fundraiser for CARE at White Provision featuring the paintings of Marco Grassi, fashion by Jeffrey and a exhibit of the iconic Sacco Chair by Zanotta
* MA Talks at The High Museum featuring the Metropolitan Home Magazine panel discussion on CRAFTdesign‚ with their Creative Director Linda O’Keeffe, and a presentation by Architect Anthony Ames
* Objectified documentary screening sponsored by MODA, AIGA Atlanta, ASID Atlanta and MA
* MA Film Series at The High Museum featuring Koolhaas/Houselife by Rem Koolhaas and City of Dreams
* An evening and book signing with renown designer Clodagh at DEX Studios
* Modern art show and reception in the modern flat designed by architect Robert Trestch at The Mansion on Peachtree
* Open House at Portfolio Center featuring a talk by Dragon Rouge founder Marcus Hewitt
* New product launches, inspiring talks and receptions at SieMatic, bulthaup and Poggenpohl
* And much more‚ ¨¶

DETAILS, DETAILS Thursday, April 30th
AIGA Members: $10 adv. / $15 at door
AIGA Student Members: $5
Non-Members: $15 adv. / $20 at door

Doors 6PM, Lecture 7PM
Ellen Lupton's Design Rant! Learn what�??s wrong with dumb quotes, hotel rooms, roller bags, the food pyramid, and more, much more. Ellen Lupton is obsessed with promoting design thinking and design practices to general audiences: writers, artists, kids, working fathers, and radical housewives. The D.I.Y. movement is part of the future of design; it is affecting every intellectual industry, from politics and journalism to music and rocket science. How is it affecting you? Designers are becoming evangelists of their own expertise, as well as breaking into countless new fields themselves that once were protected by barriers of professional knowledge. Today, anyone can be a designer (if they try)�??or a publisher, pundit, rock star, or filmmaker.

Grad Student Conference
Deadline extended for Politics of Consumption and Leisure Conference
Location: Illinois, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2009-02-10
The Politics of Consumption and Leisure

The History Graduate Student Association of Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale HAS EXTENDED ITS DEADLINE FOR PAPERS for its 4th
Annual Conference on April 10-11, 2009. Dr. Eric Reed, noted historian of
the Tour de France, will give the keynote. We are seeking papers on
historical aspects of consumerism, consumption, and leisure activities.
Though criticisms of material, intellectual, and leisure culture are
timeless, investigations of these topics illustrate broader patterns of
cultural, social, and political attitudes and beliefs. Papers that address
marketing/advertising, commercialization, and the growth of consumer
culture, and leisure time, or contemporary critiques of these themes from
the early modern period (c. 1450 CE) to the present from any area of
European, American, or World history are encouraged to submit.
Topic areas may address, but are not limited to:
-Gender, race, class and religion
-colonialism/imperialism or anti-colonial/imperial/revolutionary movements
-food and drink
-nationalism and the state
-elite vs. popular consumption and leisure activities
-sport and recreation
-fashion and clothing
-creative arts (music, film, literature, dance)
-social circulation of ideas and attitudes
-visual culture (monuments, artwork, architecture)
-medicine and health
-technology and/or media
Please send a 100-150 word abstract of your 15-20 minute paper/presentation,
a brief CV, and a list of any audio-visual needs to Donovan Weight by
February 10, 2009.
Donovan Weight
Faner 3321
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale Illinois 62901
Email: dweight@siu.edu

April 24th deadline for entries
Create print and Internet Yellow Pages advertising for a Yellow Pages advertiser -- No entry fee.
$10K in prizes!

Check out the winners from previous years - you can do better! Let me know if you want to participate - I am happy to be Faculty Sponsor, and will donate any prize money to the GSU Graphic Design program. - Liz

Sorry -- thought this was already available:

Keith Smith: Time in Books

This is directly from the book and includes pictures. The entire book is available in the Pullen library:
Keith A. Smith
Structure of the Visual Book, 3rd Ed., 1996
- L

Or if you don't feel like downloading chapter 1 of Language of Vision, you can read most of it in GoogleBooks
here

Part one of "Plastic Organization"
Part two of "Plastic Organization"
At long last this chapter from Gyorgy Kepes' Language of Vision

Jessica Helfend, Wm Drentell at PC Monday Jan 12th
FREE
Join us at Portfolio Center with William Drenttel & Jessica Helfand, Winterhouse
Monday evening, January 12th at 6:30pm
@ Portfolio Center
125 Bennett St., Atlanta, GA 30309

Winterhouse Studio focuses on publishing and editorial development; new media; and cultural, educational and literary institutions. Design work for Teach For All, The New Yorker, Yale University Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, Errol Morris, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Poetry Foundation, among others.

Museum of Design to host Graphic Imperative in May
May 15 – August 15 (Patron Opening May 14)
The Graphic Imperative is a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters. Themes include dissent, liberation, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy and tolerance, collectively providing a window to an age of great change.
MODA

Design for the Other 90%
February 17 – May 29, 2009
Of the world’s 6.5 billion people, 90 percent have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted. In fact, nearly half do not have reliable access to food, clean water, healthcare, education, affordable transportation, or shelter. The exhibition Design for the Other 90% features more than 30 projects that reflect a growing movement among designers, engineers, and social entrepreneurs to create low-cost solutions for everyday problems. Through local and global partnerships, individuals and organizations are finding unique ways to address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor.

Design for the Other 90% showcases designs that incorporate new and traditional materials, and abandoned and emerging technologies to solve myriad problems—from cleaner-burning sugarcane charcoal to a solar-rechargeable battery for a hearing aid, from a portable water-purification straw to a low-cost laptop. By understanding the available resources and tools as well as the lives and needs of their potential users, these designers create simple, pragmatic objects and ingenious, adaptive systems that can help transform lives and communities.