February 2012
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January 2012
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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...
December 2011
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Terry Irwin, head of CMU School of Design, speaks... →
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...
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WatchA 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
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November 2011
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paris wanderings, part two
Reina Takahashi (Communication Design ‘09) posts some fabulous personal sketches from a trip to Paris.
reinasaur:
A selection from the journal that kept me company on my trip to Paris.
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WatchCMU Design Alums meet up in San Francisco to catch up on what they’ve been up to. Check out the video by Luther Young!
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how well do you know your typefaces? →
Play the letter shaping game!
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Urbanized
A little short notice but if you have time, AIGA Pittsburgh is sponsoring Urbanized, the new Gary Hustwit film, which has two screenings during the Three Rivers Film Festival festival.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 — November 9, 2011
Harris Theater 809 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA
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Click here for more information about the event and the film.
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October 2011
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Think you have a good eye for type? Play the...
Kern the letters by eye and compare them to the pre-kerned word to see how close you were! Works on iPad too! PLAY NOW!
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Freshman Design 2015: Cube-licious
CUBES: The Snake Game?
^Froshies working hard :D ( Vivian*)
Cubes, cubes, cubes. That’s the freshman focus as of now.
We just finished working on our pencil-on-paper version of… the snake and are now moving on to more ways to draw our favorite: the cube.
^Snake
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September 2011
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Tom de Blasis: 10pt Lecture Recap
The School of Design’s lecture series started off this past Friday with a lecture from Tom de Blasis. Currently a Global Design Director for Nike Football (Soccer), his latest creation is called The Gamechanger Bucket, a health and happiness kit that brings access to clean water and sport to disaster areas and communities in need around the world.
If you missed the lecture, watch it...
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Freshly baked rebrand →
A nice rebranding and packaging of Warburton’s baked goods.
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The Snoop: Thankyou by Alex Laskaris →
We all do it more than we like to admit - snooping around our friend’s websites looking for cool new work. Today’s find: Thankyou by Alex Laskaris (CD ‘11).
At every stage of technological advancement there have been naysayers who warn of the negative consequences inherent in increases of efficiency and mediation. Thankyou is a book about mediation that explores seven media...
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j.edmund blog: A Pintastic Few Weeks →
iamjedmund:
About six weeks ago, after interviewing for almost two months with over twenty companies, I decided to take a position as a product designer at Pinterest in sunny Palo Alto, California. For those who don’t know, Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can collect all the things that you…
Justin Edmund (CD ‘11), just blogged about his first few weeks as a product...
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Pizza in Breed Hall at 5:00!
Remember to come to the very first Design Legue meeting today! Come meet the presidents, representatives, and hear about all the great stuff we are going to be doing this year!
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Proposed living Wikipedia logo changes shape per... →
The proposed logo uses javascript to generate a movement per search. It seems lately that more and more logos are being designed to be “living” - they change according so certain situations much like the logo for MIT Media Lab.
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Want to know how much designers are making these... →
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Follow Michelle in Florence, Italy! →
Follow Junior Communication Design major Michelle on her semester abroad at SACI in Italy!
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August 2011
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Designers vs Coding
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“Do I need to know how to code?” is a question that comes up with sure-fire consistency in design circles. I’ve seen it asked by so many, from uncertain design students in classrooms worried about their chances of landing a job, to seasoned professionals at conferences seeing their pool of print projects slowly evaporate. The question is being asked with even greater frequency as of...
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New Diet Coke can →
CMU designers know cropped letterforms all too well. [via Brand New]