Filed under: Interesting Stuff, Pop Culture, Teaching
December 3, 2009 • 16:22 0
Student Loans… Help is here!
As an educator, I get SO many questions about student loans. This site is a great resource for income-based repayment and loan forgiveness programs.
They are a non-profit organization, and I have found their information to be the most up to date and reliable. Worth a shot.
Filed under: Teaching
November 29, 2009 • 13:53 0
Rupert Everett
November 25, 2009 • 12:28 0
Burned teen’s mom: ‘It’s been a roller coaster ride’ – CNN.com
August 24, 2009 • 18:04 0
Annual Survey Time! Do it. You know you want to.
Calling all FORMER students: It’s time for my annual attitudes and opinion survey! Take it before August 31st at: http://tiny.cc/ICRdA
Filed under: Teaching, What I'm Doing
February 12, 2009 • 22:40 0
Little Italy in Buffalo
Filed under: Sustainability, Teaching, Television
February 4, 2009 • 17:06 0
Holy Cow
My Design Applications II graduate students made their presentation to the Hertel Avenue community in Buffalo today. Their work was exceptionally well received, so much so, the presentation was featured as the afternoon headline buffalonews.com, and was also featured on NPR-affiliate WBFO, NBC-affiliate WGRZ, and even the afternoon Shred and Regan show on WEDG. What a day!
You can read the whole article from the Buffalo News at http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/569302.html
Filed under: Design, Place Branding, Sustainability, Teaching, What I'm Doing
December 23, 2008 • 17:27 0
Scholarships for LGBT students.
What a lovely way to breed a new generation of people to fight Pro Prop 8-like laws.
Deadline: February 9, 2009
The Point Foundation ( http://pointfoundation.org/ ), a scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students of merit, has announced the opening of its 2009 application season. Students who will be enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs for the 2009-10 school year are eligible to apply for the multiyear scholarships.
The scholarship program’s selection criteria include academic excellence, leadership skills, community involvement, and financial need. Particular attention is paid to students who have lost the financial and social support of their families and/or communities as a result of revealing their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
On average, a Point Scholarship awards $13,200 in direct financial support, in addition to leadership training and mentoring. The average amount of annual support devoted to each scholar is between $26,000 and $31,000. In return, Point Scholars agree to maintain a high level of academic performance and to give back to the LGBT community through the completion of an individual community service project each year. In addition, scholars are matched with mentors from the professional world who lend their expertise and career guidance and serve as role models.
For further information and application guidelines, visit the Point Foundation Web site.
RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016126/pointfdn
Filed under: American Studies, Interesting Stuff, Social Justice, Sustainability, Teaching
October 2, 2008 • 16:22 1
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A couple of my (very awesome) students from RIT have been busy working to launch a new magazine. It has a digital home and a Facebook page so check it out: [11]
Filed under: Consumerism, Design, Graphic Design, Interesting Stuff, Teaching
October 1, 2008 • 14:41 1
RIT Archives, a real treasure.
From Speak Up [original article here]:
Inside the Graphic Design Archives at RIT
One of the most gratifying perks of working on Graphic Design Referenced— aside from the unbelievably intense pressure of writing 400 pages and making sure we don’t tell any lies — has been the opportunity to interact with many of the design artifacts we are featuring: We now have a healthy collection of 1960s Playboy magazines, 1980s The Face, LP albums from the 1970s, a Lufthansa 1968 timetable by Otl Aicher, and other items. And if I was excited about our previous visit to the Herb Lubalin Study Center at Cooper Union, I can only begin to tell you how ecstatic I was to visit theGraphic Design Archives in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) at the beginning of this month.
Just one of the many aisles in the Graphic Design Archives at RIT.
The Graphic Design Archives are perhaps the most comprehensive collections of the work of American designers practicing from the 1950s – to 1980s, including Saul Bass, Lester Beall, Alexey Brodovitch, Will Burtin, Tom Carnase, Cipe Pineles, Paul Rand and Bradbury Thompson, among others. On a windy Friday morning I JetBlued myself over to Rochester to spend the better part of the day going through the archives to select work from Beall, Sutnar, Pineles, Carnase and Rand for inclusion in our book. As I expected, the collections and condition of the work were superb, and it was a real pleasure to go through the carefully labeled folders and boxes. I only had a handful of hours as I had to hop on a plane that evening, so I didn’t have the luxury of kicking back and browsing every page of Caterpillar’s corporate identity manual, or read through Rand’s famous presentation book for the Next logo, or bring out the full collection of Harper’s Bazaar to see all the covers and spreads. I only had enough time to make some selections and snap some quick photos to give everyone a very limited sneak peek at what lies in this treasure trove of graphic design history.
Due to the sensitivity of wrongful reproduction or usage of RIT’s materials, the following photographs are, on purpose, not the best and are oddly framed by folders, pencils and my laptop, as well as some being taken in unflattering angles.
Lester Beall
Lester Beall’s letterhead and folder cover, die-cut.
Corporate identity manual for International Paper. Top: This is how logos were provided for reproduction in the days before .EPSes and .GIFs. Bottom: Swatches of how the green should print in different paper stocks — slightly more effective proof than today’s PDFs.
Corporate identity manual for Connecticut General.
Corporate identity manual for Caterpillar.
Corporate identity manual for Martin Marietta Corporation, which would merge in 1995 with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin.
Covers for Scope, a publication by Upjohn Pharmaceuticals.
Ladislav Sutnar
Small brochure for Addo-x, titled “Adventures with a Logotype.”
“Transport, the Next Half Century” brochure. I could not keep my eyes off of this one. It was truly amazing.
Foxboro catalog.
Holtzer-Cabot Corp. catalog.
Paul rand
Presentation book for Next.
Presentation book for The Limited.
Presentation book for American Express.
Cummins Annual Reports.
PDR Computer Impressions capabilities brochure.
One of many guideline documents for IBM. Very humorous note.
Many thanks to Kari Horowicz and David Pankow for opening their collection to us, and for their help and support with our project.
Filed under: Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Interesting Stuff, Teaching
