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

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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
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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.

An Evening of Stop-Motion Puppet Films
Saturday, January 17, 2009, 8pm
Ages 18 and up ONLY
Come enjoy the end result of countless hours of painstaking puppet manipulation captured on film one frame at a time as we celebrate an evening of stop-motion puppet animation. The evening includes Adam Elliot’s Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet from Australia, Haunted Hogmanay from Ko-Lik Films of Scotland and more.
Center for Puppetry Arts

Cost: $7; $5 Center Members

"After 1968" features "Unbranded" work by Hank Willis Thomas

This summer at the High Museum of Art
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
June 7–October 5, 2008

Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas, born 1976, appropriates images and language from advertising, exploring the intersection of commerce with the cultural ambiguity underlying African American experiences. His 2004 thesis, Swoosh: Looking Black at Nike, Moses, and Jordan in the ’80s, explores the process whereby a myth or image can become attached to a graphic symbol. His soon-to-be-completed Unbranded series is an exploration of racial typing in capitalist culture. Reproducing 80 images printed between 1968 and 2008 in popular magazine ads targeted to black audiences, “Unbranded” presents text-stripped images, meditating on the creation and dissemination of stereotypes.

Website for Adult Literacy Survey

On Non-Verbal Representation by Donald Brook in the British Journal of Aesthetics

Schenck, Ernie. "The Cave of The Forgotten Word." Communication arts 49.4 (2007):214-216.

In the Cave of the Forgotten Word

Visible Language for the expression of scientific Concepts

"Advancing Icon Design for Global Non-verbal Communication" in Visible Langauage v. 40, 2006