Monday, November 30, 2009

graphic design: the MIX

Seeking song recommendations for a MICA mix for graphic designers!
Anyone who recommends gets a free copy of the compilation. Post suggestions here:

Thursday, November 19, 2009

junior andy mangold featured in make magazine


Andy's project from Graphic Design 2 last spring made it into a magazine!
Enjoy.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

the bird machine in baltimore


Jay Ryan from The Bird Machine is at Atomic Books/Pop
tonight (wed, nov 18) at 7, signing his new book. More info here.

ellen lupton in print magazine

Enjoy Ellen Lupton's conversation with Jeffrey Zeldman about web typography in Print magazine online.

win fame and prizes: How mag


Have a great poster design?
Enter it into the How magazine's poster competition for FREE!
Deadline is December 1.

(this poster by amazing junior Kailie Parrish)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

MICA AIGA @ the MoMA




Hey Gang
Sorry for the lack of updates recently - we've been busy.
The MoMA trip was a great success. Thank you all for coming, I hope you all had fun and enjoyed the Bauhaus exhibition as much as I did. It was great getting to know everyone a little more a long the way.

Anything in particular stick out to you in the exhibition?
Textiles? Modular Alphabets? Architectural Drawings? Cradles?
Please feel free to use this blog as an outlet to you know, do just that!
T'ai Smith will be coming to our meeting this upcoming Monday.
From what I understand, she has also invited students from her class specifically about the Bauhaus to join!


Also, I couldn't really get over these lithos, I mean they are LITHOGRAPHS. Awesome!?

"ABC ONE TWO THREE AGAINST THE WALL THANK YOU" - probably the best coat check attendant of all the museums in new york city

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Michael Bierut // NOT TO BE MISSED!



Michael Beruit of Pentagram, Thursday, November 12, 7pm AOK Library Gallery

Michael Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1957, and studied graphic
design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture,
Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. Prior to joining
Pentagram in 1990 as a partner in the firm’s New York office, he worked
for ten years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as vice president of
graphic design.

His clients at Pentagram have included The New York Times, Saks Fifth
Avenue, The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Harley-Davidson, The
Museum of Arts and Design, United Airlines, The William Jefferson Clinton
Foundation, Mohawk Paper Mills, Princeton University, the New York Jets,
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Morgan Library and Museum.

He has won hundreds of design awards and his work is represented in the
permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal.
He has served as president of the New York Chapter of the American
Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president
emeritus of AIGA National. He also serves as on the boards of the
Architectural League of New York and New Yorkers for Parks. Michael was
elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, to the Art
Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003, and was awarded the profession’s
highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in 2006. In 2008, he was named winner in
the Design Mind category of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.
Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art,
and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He writes
frequently about design and is the co-editor of the five-volume series
Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic published by Allworth Press.
His commentaries about graphic design in everyday life have been heard
nationally on the Public Radio International program “Studio 360” and his
appearance in Helvetica: A Documentary Film is considered by many that
movie’s funniest moment. Michael is a co-founder of the weblog
DesignObserver.com, and his book 79 Short Essays on Design was published
in 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press.

free copy of Lettering and Type



Thanks, everyone, for assisting with the Book launch party on Thursday
night. Make sure to check out the website for a new book about fonts,
Lettering and Type.

http://www.letteringandtype.com/site/

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November 6 at 5pm.