To start off the second semester, the freshman class built wearable plastic animals. For the first part of the project, we chose animals whose qualities represented ours, and constructed its form through containers of different shapes. The next step: designing a poster consisting of type and pictures of ourselves wearing the animals.
Are you a fan of TED talks? Every year CMU hosts TEDxCMU, a conference that brings together some of the world’s most bold and innovative thinkers to give the talk of their lives. We want to spread great ideas to the Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh community and that starts with you attending this event!
TEDxCMU 2012 will be held on March 4th, 2012 in the University Center McConomy Auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Looking for a quick, creative project?
GoodMagazine is challenging its readers to make an infographic of their spendings for this week as a part of their #30DaysofGOOD Challenge
The Assignment
Keep track of the amount of money you spend this week and make an infographic about your habits.
The Requirements
Upload a ,jpg file with a high enough resolution (at least 300dpi) to be seen clearly here. The winner will receive a GOOD t-shirt and year’s subscription to the magazine.
Due date: Tuesday, January 31
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The 2012 Confluence website is live. This website provides information for our recruiters coming in March as well as showcases the work of our undergraduate and graduate students. Check it out!
The Fresh: Long Overdue…
The update on the Freshman Final show is, as the title of this post indicates, long overdue. But, it is my pleasure to go back and recap all the good that has come to the Freshman designers this past semester!
As many of the upperclassman are well aware, the week before ( especially the night before) the show is always the busiest, most frantic time of the semester. Even though there was a short moment of distress the freshman pulled through and were happy to show off the work they had done throughout their first months at CMU.
From the trons to the maps, “The Fresh” designers left their first semester on a high note, excited to discover what they’ll be up to starting this January.
Terry Irwin, head of CMU School of Design, speaks at the AIGA Pivot Conference
Check out the head of our school rocking it at the AIGA Pivot Conference back in October!
“It has been argued that the transition to a sustainable society is essentially a design problem, one of the most important of the 21st century. Making this transition will require nothing less than a reconstitution of our collective cultural image. Communication designers have an important role to play in this process. Our individual and collective worldviews are the result of our beliefs, values and cultural norms that often go unnoticed and therefore unchallenged, but which utterly direct the way we see the world and interact in it. Designers’ individual and collective worldviews direct whether or not they see problems, how they frame them in context and how they set about designing solutions. In short, our worldview controls how and what we design.”
Poster for the Senior Pieces Design show, part of the greater CMU Design Senior Show.
From top left to right:
Jamie W, Sharon K, Victor N, Brier A, Thea M, Allison T, Rowan H, Lea S, Kaeo H, Akshay U, Eric H, Joanne O, Lauren B, Linda D.
Poster by Victor Ng
Check out the rest of the Junior Type III’s PAAR projects on the site!
In conjunction with an exhibit on Heroes and Villians, Chip Kidd, prolific book cover designer, will be giving a lecture at the Warhol, this Friday.
He’ll be speaking about his work and his recent involvement with the Batman franchise. He’s known as an entertaining speaker and there’s a big discount for AIGA members, so make sure to be there!
For more information: http://www.warhol.org/webcalendar/event.aspx?id=3351
A recap of some of the amazing firms we visited in New York. Over 90 students attended this 3-day trip!
“When They Fight, They Fight” by the Generationals.
Video by Linda Dong
