from Katia:
1. Junk Mail Life cycle and it's weight in society (building paper bricks)
2. Appliance usage and consumption ($)
3. Using Junk mail to build banners with sustainability information
4. Waste materials X landfill x water ways.
5.Collaborations yields result: one person can make a difference
6. What have we lost? How is our earth degenerating? What is the next generation not going to see? Change today for your children tomorrow
7.Technology Impact in 10 years
8. Individual behavior can change the world: 51 little everyday habits to save the world
9. Recycle art - build art sculpture/pieces with recycled material
10. Consumerism X anti-consumerism
11. The supermarket bag: why not to use it?
12.What is CO2 and your contribution (in easy to understand terms using everyday items)
13. Packaging and its consequence on the environment: Pretty but deadly!
14. Milk jugs, cans, card box packaging, junk mail _ 3 months collection _ A visual truth.
15. What do you through in the trash? What is biodegradable and what is not? What is you inheritance to your children?
15. Overpopulation X pollution: The lack of infrastructure.
16. Creativity_100 things we can do with aluminum cans, plastic bags, etc
17. The effects of green communities
I also thought about getting the seniors/juniors to work with us and developing Earth Day posters with educational facts that coud be displayed in the exhibit... Just a thought.
Below are some interesting videos:
This is a series of videos on carbon. Really easy to understand!!
It's all about carbon
I also thought this video was really interesting:
NASA: 2011 Temperatures
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Slideshow from Monday
Thanks Katia for the tip on making it a pdf: shrunk to about 18% of original size!
Thanks Katia for the tip on making it a pdf: shrunk to about 18% of original size!
Monday, January 09, 2012
Sunday, January 08, 2012
As you read the following three articles, note any difficulties you find in absorbing the information. After reading them, what would you tell a friend who was considering buying an Apple computer?
How Green is Apple?
Apple Computer on its environmental impact
Carbon Footprint of a Macbook
How Green is Apple?
Apple Computer on its environmental impact
Carbon Footprint of a Macbook
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
January 12th Early Registration Deadline Approaching!
The third biennial NC State Master of Graphic Design graduate symposium is just around the corner. We want to hear what you have to say!
The time: January 22–23, 2010
The place: College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
The topic: The rhetoric of authenticity within design practices and for community experience
Register Early and Save!
Our website is up and running, complete with information on registration, travel, and lodging. A tentative schedule and further information on the weekend’s speakers and events can be found there. Please be aware that seating is limited, so we encourage you to register now.
Registration fees through January 12: Graduate Students ($34.99), Educators and others ($64.99), and Friday night only ($9.99)
After January 12: Graduate Students ($44.99), Educators and others ($79.99), and Friday night only ($14.99)
Call for Student Panel Participants
We’re searching for graduate students interested in serving as part of a concluding panel to reflect on the events of the symposium weekend. The panel will take place at the closing of the symposium program, Saturday, January 23rd. If you’re planning on attending and would like to participate on the panel, please contact David Raymond (dsraymon@ncsu.edu) for more information.
Share Your Work
We’ll be holding an informal graduate student work-sharing session on Sunday morning, January 24th. This casual affair will provide an opportunity for students to talk about the work they’ve produced at their programs and see what other grad students in design are making and doing. If you’re interested in participating, please contact Tania Allen (tanialallen@gmail.com).
Official call for participation
From the built environment to the virtual realm of interface, design persuades individuals and communities of the truth, honesty, and realness of objects, spaces, and systems. These tactics of persuasion amount to what may be called a rhetoric of authenticity. Though designers employ this rhetoric, communities ultimately decide what is authentic to them.
Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall describes five requisites of communities: commonality in terms of historic consciousness, life goals, organizational structures, relationships, and conceptions of individual agency. Can considering how the rhetoric of authenticity relates to these defining characteristics of communities help identify points of engagement with complex and discriminating audiences?
This symposium will explore the rhetoric of authenticity within design practices and for community experience. We will confront provocative issues relating to designers’ roles and responsibilities to communities and the individuals who comprise them. Join us in this dialogue.
NC State’s Third Biennial Graduate Symposium in Graphic Design is brought to you by the grad students: Brooke Chornyak, Cady Bean-Smith, Caroline Maxcy Prietz, Dan McCafferty, Kelly Bailey, Lauren Waugh, Liese Zahabi, Lincoln Hancock, Rebecca Knowe, Ryan Gottfried, Samyul Kim, Sidney Fritts, Tania Allen, TJ Blanchflower, Tony Fugolo, Gary Dickson, David Raymond, and Laura Rodriguez. Plus Denise Gonzales Crisp, Graduate Symposium Advisor; Meredith Davis, Director of the MGD Graduate Program; and Santiago Piedrafita, Head, Graphic Design and Industrial Design Department.
The third biennial NC State Master of Graphic Design graduate symposium is just around the corner. We want to hear what you have to say!
The time: January 22–23, 2010
The place: College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
The topic: The rhetoric of authenticity within design practices and for community experience
Register Early and Save!
Our website is up and running, complete with information on registration, travel, and lodging. A tentative schedule and further information on the weekend’s speakers and events can be found there. Please be aware that seating is limited, so we encourage you to register now.
Registration fees through January 12: Graduate Students ($34.99), Educators and others ($64.99), and Friday night only ($9.99)
After January 12: Graduate Students ($44.99), Educators and others ($79.99), and Friday night only ($14.99)
Call for Student Panel Participants
We’re searching for graduate students interested in serving as part of a concluding panel to reflect on the events of the symposium weekend. The panel will take place at the closing of the symposium program, Saturday, January 23rd. If you’re planning on attending and would like to participate on the panel, please contact David Raymond (dsraymon@ncsu.edu) for more information.
Share Your Work
We’ll be holding an informal graduate student work-sharing session on Sunday morning, January 24th. This casual affair will provide an opportunity for students to talk about the work they’ve produced at their programs and see what other grad students in design are making and doing. If you’re interested in participating, please contact Tania Allen (tanialallen@gmail.com).
Official call for participation
From the built environment to the virtual realm of interface, design persuades individuals and communities of the truth, honesty, and realness of objects, spaces, and systems. These tactics of persuasion amount to what may be called a rhetoric of authenticity. Though designers employ this rhetoric, communities ultimately decide what is authentic to them.
Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall describes five requisites of communities: commonality in terms of historic consciousness, life goals, organizational structures, relationships, and conceptions of individual agency. Can considering how the rhetoric of authenticity relates to these defining characteristics of communities help identify points of engagement with complex and discriminating audiences?
This symposium will explore the rhetoric of authenticity within design practices and for community experience. We will confront provocative issues relating to designers’ roles and responsibilities to communities and the individuals who comprise them. Join us in this dialogue.
NC State’s Third Biennial Graduate Symposium in Graphic Design is brought to you by the grad students: Brooke Chornyak, Cady Bean-Smith, Caroline Maxcy Prietz, Dan McCafferty, Kelly Bailey, Lauren Waugh, Liese Zahabi, Lincoln Hancock, Rebecca Knowe, Ryan Gottfried, Samyul Kim, Sidney Fritts, Tania Allen, TJ Blanchflower, Tony Fugolo, Gary Dickson, David Raymond, and Laura Rodriguez. Plus Denise Gonzales Crisp, Graduate Symposium Advisor; Meredith Davis, Director of the MGD Graduate Program; and Santiago Piedrafita, Head, Graphic Design and Industrial Design Department.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
“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.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
[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
– from Drifting with the Situationist International, Anonymous
Monday, August 17, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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.
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.
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