Der Zeitgenosse

My work will be included in an exhibition at Eastern Washington State University entitled Der Zeitgenosse: A national exhibition of Contemporary Art from February 28th-April 3, 2008. If you are in the area, the reception will be held at noon on Thursday, February 28th.

Beijing Now: Oil Paintings by Twelve Chinese Artists

On February 9th, 2008 we attended the opening reception for this intriguing show at the First Street Gallery in Chelsea that Doretta Miller curated. Doretta Miller, John Reid, Pat Hilleren, Joosje Anderson-Boehm, and Bill Rooper went to dinner afterwards with John L Moore and Jane Farver. Last March, when Doretta and I were in Beijing, we visited some of these painters studios.

HELVETICA and Alumni Panel

We are looking forward to the Skidmore showing of HELVETICA: The Film on February 29th, 2008 at 8:00 pm in Davis Auditorium.
The Advanced Communication Design class is making posters to advertise the event. Additionally, we are excited to have some of our alumni return to talk after the movie about type and design and making it in the design world.

Scheduled to be a part of our panel are:

Evan Campisi
Jason Tors
Paris Woodward
George Kokkindas

Stay tuned....

Typophiles

Special thanks to Toph in Australia and Chris, my first proclaimed typophile with evidence to back it up.

Toph writes:
I like kuler but the process of getting the swatches from the website to the application. check out this little application that provides an interface to kuler from within any CS2 app.

http://www.lithoglyph.com/mondrianum

and Chris wants to recognize a relatively new site:

ilovetypography.com

Nike and LeBron

It is always great to hear from Driscoll Reid who is with Weiden + Kennedy in Tokyo. (Click on Title above) He sends the link to the Nike commercial he just completed.
and more info on the campaign here:
www.nikebasketball.com

Driscoll writes, "My creative partner and I came up with the initial concept here in Tokyo and created the TV spot and most of the print for Asia and the United States.
Here is a blog for my office in Tokyo and the one from back at the HQ in
Portland. Both relevant for budding design/commercial arts students!"

http://www.wktokyo.jp/blog/
http://wkstudio.typepad.com/

Margaritas

BTW, it was great to see everyone at Mary Ann's in Chelsea. There were approximately 15 people there. No ROSIE though. We missed her excellent Deb impressions.
Still waiting for Drew's photos of the occassion. It was especially fun to see Melanie Royster '00 (? it is so hard for me to remember the years.)
she is teaching art and design at Columbia Prep in New York!

Visiting Alum from Texas

Brit Upham '95 came back to campus last Friday, November 9 to speak with business majors. He graciously called and came over to the lab to see the developments that have been made since he graduated. We had a nice conversation and it was great to see him. He was a Business major, art minor (Communication Design), and currently works with McGarrah Jessee in Austsin, Texas. He was formerly with The Stan Richards Group. Still no Texas accent though. One of my current students, Toph Brown 09(?), was present during his presentation.