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Monday / November 5 / 2007
volume founders sign on as cause/affect judges
We are delighted to announce that the co-founders of award-winning design Volume Inc, Adam Brodsley and Eric Heiman, have agreed to judge cause/affect.
Adam Brodsley, Volume (above left)
While pasting up mechanicals at Islands magazine in Santa Barbara (and visiting all the publication-featured islets, atolls and archipelagos he could), Adam Brodsley decided the only way to afford such excursions was learning the lucrative art of graphic design. After clearing the salt water from his ears, Brodsley attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and eventually (in between fondue binges in the Swiss Alps and Parisian museum-hopping) rose to become the lowest (but tallest, at 6’4”) man on the totem pole at April Greiman’s studio, where he developed an appreciation for Charlie Parker’s music. He eventually headed north to San Francisco’s Mauk Design, where he mastered the art of large-scale exhibit design. Never one to be pigeonholed, though, Brodsley founded the multidisciplinary, award-winning firm Volume Inc. (with Eric Heiman) at the dawn of the new millennium’s first recession—and lived happily every after.Eric Heiman, Volume (above right)
Starting in the hunter-filled woods of rural Pennsylvania, Eric Heiman embarked on a journey through the Carnegie Mellon architecture program, late nights of DJ spinning, record store employment and week-long vows of silence in the mountains of Maui that eventually led him to design school in the Bay Area. At the dawn of the new millennium he founded Volume (www.volumesf.com) with Adam Brodsley. Volume’s work has been extensively exhibited, honored and published around the world, and Heiman‘s writing on design has been published in Emigre, Letterspace and the AIGA’s online journal, Voice. Heiman is also a Professor of Design at the California College of the Arts and was awarded the college-wide Excellence in Teaching award in 2003. -
Friday / November 2 / 2007
Massive Change co-author to judge
We are delighted to announce that Jennifer Leonard has agreed to be a judge for the cause/affect competition. Jennifer is a design researcher and writer at IDEO, in Palo Alto, California. Her craft is content creation; her art is “the interview” and her favorite tools include fine-tipped pens, hard-bound journals, her digital camera, her Sennheiser mic, a Marantz solid state recorder and Final Cut Pro. Prior to IDEO, Jennifer co-authored Massive Change, a book about the future of global design, and worked for several years as a print journalist, radio broadcaster and design critic. Her pieces have been published in Azure, Nylon, Saturday Night, Details, Form, Damn and Shift. She has spoken at design conferences around the world – Designmai (Berlin), World Design Congress (Copenhagen), Utrecht Manifest (Utrecht), IdcN (Nagoya), Luminous Green (Brussels) – and is a graduate of the inaugural year of the Institute without Boundaries, a design think-tank that once-upon-a-time lived inside the Bruce Mau Design studio in Toronto.
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Monday / October 29 / 2007
bringing clean water
Led by John Bielenberg, Project M is an intensive summer program designed to inspire young designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world.
In the month of June, eight young designers from San Francisco, New York, Dallas, Baltimore, and Dubai, came together in the rural town of Greensboro, Alabama with the goal of making a positive difference in the community. Inspired by Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio, they designed a newspaper, website, and a t-shirt to help bring clean drinking water to rural families.
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Thursday / October 11 / 2007
what’s going on?
This piece, from iamalwayshungry, is dedicated to the people of New Orleans. Its purpose is to ask a simple question. It has been created to stimulate thought, educate and promote discussion surrounding New Orleans and its people.
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Monday / October 1 / 2007
and the word gets out
News that do-gooders are finally getting their chance for a piece of the limelight is starting to filter through the web:
design21
sfstation
designaddict
k10k
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Thursday / August 23 / 2007
What is Design for Social Good Anyway?
The concept of Design for Social Good is not a new one. In 1963, Ken Garland penned his historic First Things First manifesto – which in very simple terms stated that designers had wasted far too much time and effort working on projects advertising trivial items, while more worthy causes assumed lesser significance. Since then a debate about social responsibility has, to a greater or lesser extent, simmered in the design media.
So pertinent was First Things First that in 2000 Adbusters’ led the charge to publish an updated version of the manifesto and renew the demand that designers take greater social responsibility for their work. The manifesto asks us to consider where we stand in the system of mass production and daily consumption. If we don’t like what we see, we are asked to take greater responsibility for our part in this process.
From climate change to social problems, this design competition is intended to honor those who have made social responsibility part of their working lives and chosen, often at their own expense, to pursue work for social good. It also offers us an opportunity to connect at the cause/affect awards ceremony at the AIGA SF office, on December 4, 2007. We look forward to seeing you then!
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