Doyald Young (Photo by Louise Sandhaus and courtesy AIGA)
Type makes a big splash when TypeCon2010 takes over the City of Angels next month.
Advertising alumnus and longtime College instructor Doyald Young will be one of the speakers at the annual letterfest, presented by the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA). Registration for the event is now open.
TypeCon2010: Babel
August 17-22
Century Plaza Hyatt Regency, Los Angeles
Dear Art Center Community:
I am writing to update you on Art Center’s planning process and to outline the next steps to completion. As many of you know, we designed the entire process to consist of two major phases of work: the visioning phase and the strategic planning phase. The midpoint and fulcrum of the process took form by way of a retreat of the Board of Trustees (on June 23 and 24) in which the Trustees heard the work completed by the visioning task force committees to date, focused their priorities and set the course for the final strategic phase to be concluded by the end of the calendar year.
Art Center students, alumni, faculty and staff convened for visioning brainstorming sessions in January.
The Board, I believe, was energized by what they heard and were compelled by the fact that hundreds of participants representing a cross-section of the community were involved at various points in the deliberations. They were engaged during the retreat in a thoughtful and rewarding dialogue that included the chairs of the visioning task force committees as well as representatives from the Chairs’ Council, Faculty Council, Art Center Student Government (ACSG) and senior staff. The effort was inclusive and courageous.
The work of the retreat coalesced the findings of the task force committees into a cogent statement of educational purpose, a statement serving at once as a tribute to the heritage of the College as well as to a dynamic vision for the future.
Untitled (Wrestler), by Salomón Huerta
Illustration alum Salomón Huerta is known for revealing identity by obscuring it. He has painted collections of finely detailed portraits of the backs of heads, florid but unemotional masked lucha libre wrestlers, and unassuming suburban homes stripped of individuality.
He’ll be giving a free lecture tonight at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), presented by Zócalo Public Square.
Huerta has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Gagosian Gallery and LACMA. He will discuss his creative methodology and his notions of art, ego and creativity.
Salomón Huerta:
Ego, Destruction and Facebook
Wednesday, July 14, 7:30 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Transportation Design alum Jason Castriota has been named director of design for Saab.
From Inside Line: “Saab Chairman Victor Muller said the acquisition of Castriota means the automaker ‘will be making landmark cars for the foreseeable future.’ Castriota will report to Saab Automobile CEO Jan Ake Jonsson and will lead Saab’s push to expand its product lineup.”
Read more:
Saab Names New Design Chief (Inside Line)
Saab’s Future Can Be Found in Saab’s Past, Says Its New Designer (NYT)
MDP 
student Mikey Tnasuttimonkol earned his BFA with an emphasis in advertising photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. He chose to come to Art Center to attend the Media Design Program.
“The program is designed in a way that allows me to bring what knowledge I had from my photo background, and combine it with design, rather than just totally abandoning what I have learned in the past,” he explains.
Read more about Mikey and his Art Center experience at in this great interview.
Don’t miss Monday’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Penny Florence, who will present the lecture, “Art is Intensely Political: Why You Should Be Interested in Digital Poetry and the Sexed Subject.”
Florence is Chair of Humanities and Design Sciences at Art Center and professor emeritus at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of York, U.K., and has lectured at universities across Europe and the U.S., including Art Center’s Graduate Art program. She has written or edited six interdisciplinary books traversing visual art and theory, film, poetry, painting and feminism, and contributed to 17 others.
Please note: Originally scheduled for July 12, Sandra Ball-Rokeach’s Big Picture lecture on The Seeds of Civic Engagement in Contemporary Urban Communities has been rescheduled for fall.
Big Picture Lecture Series: Penny Florence
Art is Intensely Political: Why You Should Be Interested in Digital Poetry and the Sexed Subject
Monday, July 12, 1 pm
Los Angeles Time Media Center, Hillside Campus
Ah, summer. Swimming pools, barbecues, ice cream trucks. But summer is not all play. It’s when Art Center teaches teachers—and the results make the first day of the next school year an eagerly anticipated event.
Using a methodology called Design-Based Learning, Art Center has found a proven way to empower educators to excite students about learning, improve their test scores and boost their overall performance—in any subject. The College has made this approach the cornerstone of its award-winning Summer Institute for Teachers, an intensive five-day program for K-12 teachers in all subject areas and grade levels.
“At the Summer Institute for Teachers, brand new and deeply experienced teachers alike will pack their tool kits with practical techniques they can use to inspire, involve and energize their students and help them develop reasoning and problem-solving skills, no matter the subject, the curriculum, or the grade level,” says Managing Director of Public Programs Dana L. Walker.
Learn more about our Summer Institute for Teachers: Art Center College of Design Offers Award-Winning Summer Institute for Teachers
Product Design in the Sustainable Era, a new book published by Taschen, features more than 100 projects by industry leaders including IBM, frog design, IDEO, fuseproject, GE, Electrolux—as well as the work of seven Art Center students, individually featured on double-page spreads!
Congratulations to these students for this recognition of their outstanding work:
The work was produced in the Design for Sustainability 2 studio, led by instructors Heidrun Mumper-Drumm and Fridolin Beisert. In addition, project sketches from Huang and Paluch were used as section dividers. Great work, everyone!
Williamson Gallery Director Stephen Nowlin discusses the interconnection between art, science, design and technology in a recent Pasadena Star-News article profiling Nowlin and the two current shows in the gallery, The Future of Objects and The Curious World of Patent Models.
From the article: “Nowlin sees the exhibit as a perfect fit for the gallery because Art Center students are learning product design and ‘every object that is made is conceived within the technology of its era.’ The Curious World of Patent Models shows how people were thinking at the time, but to make it more relevant, he looked to David Cawley, director of Rapid Prototyping and Model Shops at the school. The two came up with The Future of Objects, an exhibit focused on 3D printing.”
Read more: Old and new in science and design on display in Pasadena
Don’t miss today’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Jonathan Gold.
Gold is the LA Weekly’s renowned restaurant critic and the author of Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles. In 2007, he became the first food writer to win the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Please note: the location has been moved to the Ahmanson Auditorium.
Big Picture Lecture Series:
Jonathan Gold
Authenticity, Culture and the Kimchi Taco
Monday, July 5, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium, Hillside Campus