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This FRIDAY: Spring PSU GD Senior show at ADX!

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!

ADX Grand Opening! June 2nd!

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.

 

 

Summer Workshop with Jessica Helfand! Sign Up! Sign Up!

 

PSU GD...you have the chance to take a summer workshop with the brilliant Jessica Helfand. Space is limited, so please sign up asap! ART 408 Studies in Visual Biography. This is a one credit class that will start on June 13th and run through June 17th. 

What is this workshop about?

The scrapbook was the original open-source technology — a unique form of self-expression that celebrated visual sampling, culture mixing, and the appropriation and redistribution of existing media. Part personal diary, part cultural stockpile, they've since evolved as homespun calendars, enabling us to chronicle the major events and minute details of our own personal odysseys. In this workshop, students will consider the role of the scrapbook in the context of the studio, and learn how to excavate meaning, interpret history, and express compelling new narratives from the lives of old paper. What is the relationship between material evidence and evocative storytelling? How does the artist reconcile research with making work, history with true innovation? And finally, to what degree can visual thinking advance the understanding of the human condition? Come prepared to dig deep and look hard. 

Studies in Visual Biography from Winterhouse on Vimeo.

 

 

Who is Jessica?

Since 1997, Jessica Helfand has worked in partnership with William Drenttel at Winterhouse, a studio focusing on publishing, new media and cultural institutions. Recent clients include Archives of American Art, Errol Morris, Teach for America, New England Journal of Medicine, The New Yorker, NYU Institute for the Humanities, NYU School of Journalism, Paris Review, Legal Affairs, University of Chicago Press, Yale School of Forestry, and the National Design Awards.

Prior to co-founding Winterhouse, Helfand was an award-winning editorial and interaction designer, whose clients included The New York Times, Newsweek, Times of London and The Discovery Channel. 

Helfand is a founding editor of Design Observer, a blog of design and cultural criticism: today, the site is the largest design publication in the world with over a million site visits a month. She is also a co-editor of Below the Fold:, a journal of visual culture published by Winterhouse; and the founder of the AIGA Winterhouse Writing Awards, a $5000 prize for innovation in design writing and cultural criticism. A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines, she has written for numerous national publications including Aperture, The Los Angeles Times Book Review and The New Republic, and has also appeared on National Public Radio. She is the author of several books on design and cultural criticism, including Paul Rand: American Modernist (1998), Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media and Visual Culture (2001) and Reinventing the Wheel (2002), which formed the basis for an exhibit in 2003 at The Grolier Club in New York City. Her next book, Scrapbook : An American History will be published in October, 2008 by Yale University Press. 

Helfand has taught for the last decade in the graduate program in Graphic Design at Yale University, where she is a Fellow at Jonathan Edwards College and a member of the committee on graduate admissions in the School of Art. She has also been a visiting artist and visiting lecturer at The Cooper Union, Cranbrook Academy of Art and NYU School of Interactive Telecommunications. She has been a visiting critic at most of the other major educational design programs in the United States and Europe, and has lectured at the Netherlands Design Institute, the Walker Art Center, Smithsonian Institution, the Annenberg Center for Public Policy, and two AIGA national biennial conferences, among many others. In October 2006, Helfand was appointed to the Postmaster General's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, the group responsible for evaluating the subject and design merits of all stamp proposals in the United States. 

Jessica Helfand received a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Architectural Theory and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, both from Yale University. She lives in Falls Village, Connecticut with her husband, William Drenttel and their two children, Malcolm and Fiona.

This workshop is an amazing opportunity. Please read more about the workshop HERE and HERE and see more videos HERE and HERE.

Open Engagement is this WEEK!

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!

PSU STUDENTS! We want you for Be Honest!

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!

 

Design Lectures & Events! Attend! I command thee!

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! 

 

 

The Second Annual Be Honest Portfolio Review!

 

Springtime means preparation for the 2nd Annual BE HONEST PSUGD Portfolio Review.

This year we teamed up Designspeaks!

The review is going down at The Cleaners on May 5th.

We are inviting a ton of awesome Portland Makers to take a look at the great work that is coming out of the Graphic Design Program at Portland State University.

Along with looking and talking about work, we are also hosting what is sure to be a fantastic lecture by the fabulous Jennifer Daniel. 

BE HONEST will also mark the launch of the PSU.GD etsy store. 

BE HONEST will also have a raffle.

BE HONEST will also have food and drink.

BE HONEST will make your dreams come true.

Stay tuned for more details, but for now, keep May 5th reserved for a night of intense design celebration. INTENSE! DESIGN! CELEBRATION!

The glitter letters were cut with care by PSU.GD student Jasmine Silver. We have a team of talented students on creating the Be Honest campaign. Can't wait to share more soon!

 

You are invited to ADX! TH 2/24 A new resource for the creative community...

ADX, a new creative facility is opening on SE 11th and Stark. Our goal is to be a resource for the creative community— from students and recent graduates to freelancers and to hobbyists. Our member-based warehouse will contain a wood shop, metal shop, digital media station, coworking desks, private studios (housed in a few swanky vintage travel trailers) soft goods production areas, gallery, workshop/classes, and special events. The core of our “team” is also a collective of freelance design, branding, and marketing professionals who will also be available to help launch members' ideas and products, prototype, and ideally take members’ work to market.

protest signmaking workshop 1.07.11

via www.flickr.com

Friday, January 7. 2-5pm at Field Work (1101 SW Jefferson Ave.)

North South Portland is a project that is currently underway at Field Work, a PSU art space in downtown Portland. Artists (and graphic design students and alum!) Justin Flood, Sarah Baugh and Nicole Lavelle invite you to help shape the project with your input and collaboration through a workshop co-sponsored by the Friends of Graphic Design.

Explore 1960’s typography and hand lettering techniques while participating in a discussion about the polarizing nature of urban renewal.

Is renewal helpful or detrimental to neighborhoods? Can communities benefit from quick, planned urban development? Let's investigate the role that visual communication can play in community politics and land use issues. Come craft protest signs supporting or decrying urban renewal, and learn about the history of the PSU neighborhood and how it came to its present state.

We'll have painting supplies and sign materials, as well as information about the history of urban renewal in Portland. Plus hot tea and classic 1960's jams!

All signs will be on display at Field Work from January 7 to January 16. Participants are welcome to take their signs home after that date.

All are welcome and please bring your friends!

For more information, see www.fieldworkspace.org or email Nicole Lavelle at nicolelavelle at gmail dot com.

Poster Talk! Thursday Eve 12/9. 6pm. Shattuck Hall.

Thursday evening, December 9th in Shattuck Hall at 6pm. Joint talk with Architecture Department.

Editor Edward Morris will speak about his book, Green Patriot Posters, the book includes work by: Shepard Fairey, Michael Bierut, DJ Spooky, James Victore and Geoff McFetridge.