Friday, January 30, 2009

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

Saturday, January 10, 2009

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

Friday, January 09, 2009

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

Thursday, January 08, 2009

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.

Friday, January 02, 2009

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.