This Friday DO NOT MISS our spring senior graphic design show at ADX! Be sure to see the latest batch of graduates and their amazing work along with checking out the incredible ADX space!
Also: Check out the GREAT write up that ADX did about the show. So excellent. THANKS!
Also: Check out the show website!
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend a preview reception for our design exhibit, Process + Prototype, taking place on First Thursday, June 2, from 6-10pm. The following evening's Grand Opening party includes local food and drink, music, and an opportunity for the community at large to get to know ADX. Both events are free!
ABOUT ADX:
Equal parts workspace and incubator, our membership-based community unites multiple creative disciplines within a 10,000 square-foot facility that is accessible, collaborative & affordable. ADX will operate seven days a week, from 7am-11pm. Memberships are currently available at http://adxportland.com/members, with special promotions for students and recent graduates, small creative firms, and corporate groups.
ADX’s multifaceted warehouse space includes a wood shop, metal shop, production spaces, programmed workstations that include an industrial sewing machine and jewelry-making workbenches, and a number of project-specific areas available for rent. ADX will host classes and workshops instructed by local design professionals, and offer a portion of their facility to the design community as a special event space. ADX members can choose from affordable hourly, daily, or monthly plans – eliminating the individual burden of investing in expensive tools.
For more information about ADX or to view a schedule of Grand Opening events, please visit http://adxportland.com or email[email protected] to schedule a tour of the facility, located at 417 SE 11th Avenue in Portland.
HOW TO ATTEND: http://openengagement.info/attend
The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students, this year’s conference features internationally renowned artists Julie Ault, Fritz Haeg, and Pablo Helguera. The work by these artists’ touch on subjects including democracy, group work, the boundary (or lack there of) between art and life, education, and transdisciplinarity. In addition, Open Engagement will play host to the Bureau for Open Culture, an exhibition by the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and a summit on art and education. The summit features students and faculty from MFA programs focusing on public and social art, including OTIS College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the University of California Santa Cruz, and the California College of the Arts.
This year’s Open Engagement sets out to discuss various perspectives on art and social practice. Through conversations, interviews, open reflection on experiences, and related projects created for or presented at the conference we will be looking at five themes that encompass ideas connected to social practice:
Peoples and Publics, Social Economies, In Between Places, Tracking and Tracing, and Sentiment and Strategies
Open Engagement is a free conference that will take place May 13-15, 2011, in Portland, Oregon. Contributors are not asked to pay a registration fee and the public will not be charged to attend. Contributors to the event will be supported in the following ways: participants from out of town will be housed in Portland homes. Several meals during the conference will be provided emphasizing slow food and community cooking. A variety of transportation will be provided drawing on Portland’s bike culture and public transportation. Conference activities will be integrated with local businesses, using pubs and cafes as conference hubs.
All primary conference venues are ADA accessible.
sidenote: Our awesome PSU GD grad Nicole Lavelle designed the materials for the conference!
above: Poster by the ever awesome Jennifer Daniel.
Jennifer Daniel is our SPECIAL GUEST STAR at Be Honest this year. She will be giving a public lecture starting at 7:30 at The Cleaners after the portfolio reviews on May 5th. Again, the public is welcome!
Jennifer Daniel is an internationally recognized illustrator, designer and art director, based in New York. She has art directed for the New York Times, Good Magazine, and Bloomberg Businessweek where she currently works as the Graphics Director. Jennifer has been featured in most major design and illustration publications including Communication Arts, Print Magazine, American Illustration, Type Directors Club, and Society of Publication Designers. She was featured as one of Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists 2009 and The Art Directors Club Young Guns 8.
Jennifer is also giving an Editorial Illustration workshop on Friday, May 6th from 12-4 in room 160 of the Art Annex. Sign up HERE!
One week from today! Come and see a TON of wonderful PSU graphic design work (67 students are showing in two shifts) and hear a GREAT lecture by the awesome, brilliant and amazing Jennifer Daniel.
What? BE HONEST is the second annual Portfolio Review hosted by PSU's Friends of Graphic Design and partnered with DesignSpeaks. This year we are continuing the tradition of students and professionals coming together to meet, look at work and hear a great visiting designer. This year Be Honest welcomes New York designer Jennifer Daniel!
Jennifer Daniel divides her time between biking, twittering, art directing and graphics editing at Bloomberg BusinessWeek and working in her studio in the Pencil Factory where she specializes in multi-tasking and eating tacos. Occassionally award–winning, her work has been printed in many fancy publications. She is from Kansas.
When? Thursday, May 5th. Starting at 5.
Where? The Cleaners (next to the Ace Hotel) 403 SW 10th AVE.
Schedule of events:
5:00 First Round of Portfolio Viewing
6:00 Second Round of Portfolio Viewing
7:30 Jennifer Daniel Lecture!
The events are open to the public! A five to ten dollar dontaion is strongly encouraged and will will welcome it with open arms and high fives.
Come out to tonight's edition of the Monday Night Lecture Series and see a video lecture with Daniel Eatock. 7:30 in the Shattuck Hall Annex.
London-based artist Daniel Eatock (born 1975) has a practice shaped by discovery, invention, and an alert sensitivity to coincidence and contradiction. Projects such as a set of dances to accompany car alarms, an open call for snapshots depicting camera straps that resemble photo accidents, and a wiki that invites participants to add the lengths of their favorite vertical structures to a mile-long website scroll, all employ wry humor and reductive, serial logic to reorient our methods for making sense of the world.
A graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, Eatock served on the design staff of the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) before returning to England to work with clients that include Channel Four Television and the Serpentine Gallery. His early regard for conceptual art (cultivated, in part, by his reading of Lucy Lippard’s 1973 classic Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object) has consistently biased his solutions toward the objective, the essential, and the critical without sacrificing the wit that characterizes some of the best examples within this tradition.
Eatock’s hybrid practice is unified by a generous abundance of examples and its openness to collaboration, both of which are demonstrated by the number and variety of projects posted on his website. Driven by ideas and the fluidity of language and its categories, the works are equally invested in a curiosity about the physical properties of objects and materials and the range of circumstances in which we might encounter them. Unforeseen solutions to familiar challenges (domestic storage and display, stationery, website design) join an expanding roster of more idiosyncratic, client-less efforts, such as Eatock’s ongoing attempts to draw a perfect freehand circle, sustain a helium balloon at a constant height, or carry carry a glass of seawater from the ocean to his bedside. These and other projects offer contingent forms of value and meaning amidst the chaos of the everyday.
In 2008 Princeton Architectural Press published Eatock’s monograph Imprint. This 224-page book, the first to survey Eatock’s practice to date, features nearly 1000 images from over one hundred projects from 1994 to the present. Entirely authored and designed by Eatock, the book is distinguished not only by its (deceptive) lack of apparent order but also by the fact that each individual copy in the run of 4,000 is unique. In addition to inking his own thumbprint onto the spine of every book, Eatock arranged for one of his freehand circle drawings (inscribed on a sheet of yellow A4 paper) to be inserted into the binding of each copy at random locations throughout the entire edition.
See more of this thoughtful work at his website.
The deadline for reserving a spot in Be Honest is right around the corner! Be sure to read the super informative post over at the Friends of Graphic Design Blog to learn more details.
Above: Short movie of the the general sounds and sights from 2010 Be Honest at The Ford Building...this year The Cleaners!
Here are a few things to remember: Don't be so nervous about showing your work that you don't show your work. This would be a mistake. Be Honest is a great event designed just for you to showcase the fantastic ideas and work that you are generating and making at PSU. Also remember: the more you talk with people about your work the easier it gets. This event is FUN! It engages you with the community of makers that you live in. You become part of the fabric of this great city by sharing with others. Cheesy? Yes, perhaps, but so true. Please, come join us!
Above: Frantic table arrangement before the doors open at Be Honest!
HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?
+ Send us an email ([email protected]). Please give your email the Subject of Be Honest: Showing Work & include your name, email and phone number, and a link to your work in the flickr group: (see below)
+ Post to the FoGD flickr group the 5-10 examples of your work that you will be showing. You must post this work AND email us by April 15.
Above: Michael Eaton's Be Honest Table!
If you decide to participate you will receive a few feet of table space to make your own. You may bring actual projects, portfolio book, a laptop, posters to hang and cards to give away. You might also want to bring a piece of fabric to cover your table. Think of your table space as a mini installation of your work!
Above: Rachel Yokum's Be Honest Table.
You might also have wall space to hang work behind you as well. Bring your A game!
Please look at more pictures in the Be Honest Flickr Set.
Please RSVP for the event HERE!
Exciting news! Ethan Allen Smith is running for ASPSU President! You probably have seen Ethan around the art annex talking, laughing it up and also making really lovely and thoughtful work. Let's get an effective communicator on ALL levels (visual and verbal) into the ASPSU President role.
Part of Ethan's platform is focused on strengthening the student groups on campus.
From his statement of candidacy:
My name is Ethan Allen Smith and I am looking forward to serving you as your student body President. As a Portland native, I love this city and this university. When my wife and I made the decision to return to college, we knew there was no better place to earn a degree in Graphic Design than from Portland State University. When I transferred from PCC, I was instantly impressed by the enthusiasm and dedication of the students and faculty on this campus. I am on the board of the Friends of Graphic Design student group. I also became involved in ASPSU almost immediately, where I have had the privilege of serving as a Senator, President pro-tempore, and currently as Vice President. My long term goal is to become a professor of graphic design, so it has been a wonderful opportunity to work closely with PSU Students and this administration.
Read the rest of the statement at the campaign website! Go LIKE hiim on facebook! and for the love of everything good, please go and vote for him on the 23rd of April!
Write these Spring Dates DOWN!
Ray Fenwick Video Chat: March 31st at noon in room 160!
Daniel Eatock Video Chat: April 11th @ 7:30 in Shattuck Hall Annex
Jelly Helm IN PERSON: April 7th @ noon in room 160
Randy Hunt Video Chat: April 14th @ noon in room 160
Lisa Congdon IN PERSON: April 21st @ noon in room 160
Little Friends of Printmaking Video Chat: April 28th @ noon in room 160
Faythe Levine Video Chat: May 5th @ noon in room 160
BE HONEST REVIEW @ The Cleaners: May 5th starting at 5pm.
Jennifer Daniel IN PERSON @ The Cleaners: May 5th @ 7:30
Virb Video Chat: May 12th @ noon in room 160
OMFG IN PERSON: April 19th @ noon in room 160
Jessica Hische Video Chat: May 26th @ noon in room 160
The public is always welcome! Also, for an archive of past Show & Tells check out our videos!