Mutant Design: Exhibition Design: 1. Define the Exhibition

RESOURCES

Digication e-Portfolios
Counter-Print.co.uk
"Counter-print.co.uk is dedicated to the promotion and sale of Art and Design related material. Often out of print or hard to find, we aim to celebrate both forgotten gems as well as those heralded designers that we all admire."
iMindMap™
Official Mind Map Software for mind and concept mapping
This Is Not PR
PR know-how for designers
Typonine
Test type in layouts.
Design PHD-DESIGN
Lord of the Rings Fanatics Forum
Example of Web Wiz forum.
Web Wiz Forums
Free Bulletin Board System (BBS), Forum Software, recommended by Deb Littlejohn
Ponoko – Buy Make and Sell Almost Anything
Laser-cutting out of all sorts of materials!
Graph Visualization for the Web | Asterisq.com
Excerpt from Writing for Visual Thinkers
Andrea Mark's new e-book.
Spoonflower: Print custom fabric on-demand
Web Wiz Forums software
Used by LoTR: http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/default.asp
Fifty Ways to Take Notes
Design Methods
Outline from the British Design Council on the various step of human-centered-design process

EDUCATION

MIT Visualizing Cultures
Image-driven scholarship
DESIGNING DESIGN EDUCATION
By Tim Marshall
Sir Ken Robinson on American education
Watch+Listen - Hammer Museum. 7/1/08 -- Sir Ken Robinson, author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative," outline the current crisis in American education, compares our schools and universities with others around the globe, and with wit and humor, shows us the path towards a more enlightened America.

INFO DESIGN

Gerd Arntz Web Archive
The most prolific icon and symbol designer of all times. Designer of the Otto Neurath's Isotype.
Felix Sockwell
The prolific icon designer of the moment!
Jonathan Barnbrook's Olympukes
Parody of Olympics icons
Johanna Drucker on digitally-based scholarship
UCLA Digital Humanities & Media Studies. Many of the early approaches to digital humanities have come of age as substantial repositories and archives have become established. Early pioneering projects in editing, collections development, and visualization are now accepted parts of digital humanities' research. But huge challenges -- cultural and intellectual as much as technical -- remain if the humanities are to help shape the next generation of scholarly tools for research and pedagogy. This talk describes a work in progress, I.nterpret, that aims to engage humanistic concerns in a digital environment.
The Web Time Forgot
The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
modernarchitecture.net
Personal web site of Ewan Branda – architect, software designer, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in architectural history and theory at UCLA – as well as an old friend. His work deals the changes in architecture for "the organization and dissemination of cultural information."
Lewis and Clark Maps from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
From the site: "The David Rumsey GIS Viewer allows on-line visitors a unique opportunity to easily interact with, integrate, and visualize these historic maps along with the modern geospatial data from NASA, USGS, ESRI and GCS Research. The modern geospatial data that can be overlaid and compared to the historical maps includes urban areas, transportation infrastructure (roads, rail), public land survey, lakes, parks, state boundaries, digital elevation models and satellite imagery.

Presentation: A historical overview of exhibition design.

Examples shown in class:
• Exhibition concept presentations
• exhibition titles
• object checklists
• floor plans

In class: Identify the exhibition goal (what the exhibition is about, why it is worthwhile, and why anyone would care). Brainstorm concepts for the exhibition along with exhibition titles.

Homework:
1. Define exhibition title
2. Write short statement defining exhibition
3. Make checklist of objects, including images
4. Create or get a floor plan of your intended exhibition space
Please post the title and exhibition description on the class blog

Download a_History_of_ Experimental Exhibition Design presentation.pdf

DESIGN IS CHANGING

Designs on Policy
Allison Arieff Blog - NYTimes.com About U.S. Design Policy
Design it is a-changin’ : Design & Society
From Emily Campell's Design & Society blog, part of the RSA, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (very Ruskin!!)
Redesigning America's Future
10 design policy proposals for the united states of america’s economic competitiveness & democratIc governance. The American Design Communities, JanUary 5, 2009
Talk to the Hand: Dan Saffer and gestural interfaces
by Andy Polaine - Core77 "Most product design is done wrong...too many devices come onto the market where the interface and the physical product were clearly done by two separate groups that never talk to each other."
crowdSPRING
"Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design." Addressed to clients: "1. Post a creative project; 2. Watch the world contribute ideas; 3. Choose the one you like."
"The Creativity of Crowds" - Forbes.com
Christopher Steiner, 01.22.09, 06:00 PM EST Forbes Magazine dated February 16, 2009 "CrowdSpring aims to slash the cost of graphic design work--and democratize a snooty business."
Dunne & Raby
They make critical design – it's function is to raise questions.
Summit to explore U.S. national design policy
Press releases: News: AIGA
It's the end of graphic design as we know it
eye opinion by Rick Poynor. A brilliant argument for graphic design/ visual communication via a review of the 'New Views 2' conference.
The Graphic Design of Barack Obama
UGLY: How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design, by Tad Toulis - Core77
Info graphic result from collaboration between social science and design
"Op-Chart: How Much Is Your Vote Worth?" Collaboration between sociologist and graphic designers.
AmbiScript Overview
Notation system for genetic data to support manipulation and analysis.
Greenaway's hi-tech gadgetry highlights Da Vinci for the laptop generation | News | guardian.co.uk Film
Designer of 2015 trends
One of several articles by the AIGA describing the Designer of 2015 (sponsored by Adobe)
Graphic Convergence: Drawing Together Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA
Holly Willis' excellent review of Michael Worthington's Two Lines Align exhibition. Most interesting to me is her positing of design history.
Shel Perkin's article on Design Ethics in Step
An excellent overview of various forms of ethics and what these mean as well as links to other readings.
I.D. Magazine article from 6.07 on changing NY Times
IDSA Guide and Syllabus for sustainable practice
More targeted for Industrial Designers but perhaps some useful readings for Graphic Designers
Kyoto Design Declaration
Outlines a global design agreement supported by ICSID, BEDA, AIGA and EIDD. "By signing the Kyoto Design Declaration, the members of Cumulus committed to sharing global responsibility for building sustainable, human-centred and creative societies."

CULTURE IS CHANGING

Talking About My Generation
From Entrepreneur magazine: "Gen Xers, Gen Yers, Millennials and Boomers are all working alongside each other. But how do you get them to work well together?"
NY Times Magazine - The Screen Issue
Ideas and Trends: Must It Always Be About Sex?
Article about the many meanings of "fuck" and "shit."
Map of Future Forces affecting Design Education
Organized into Trends, Dilemmas, Hot Spots placed on a matrix organized by Drivers and Impact Areas.
TED | Talks | Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world (video)
The Girl Effect - Home
The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books
Why Bother? By Michael Pollan
From the "The Way we Live Now" column in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, Published: April 20, 2008 An astoundingly elegant description of impacts of global warming, culturally, socially, economically – the multitude of issues at stake and why its worth changing our lifestyles.

DESIGN IS FABULOUS!

CUSTOM LETTERS
FIRST HALF 2009 — LetterCult
Lizzie Allen - Hand Screen Printed Wallpaper
DOSA
CHRISTOPHER SILAS NEAL
Artist and Illustrator. Maybe the next Charlie Harper although the subjects he work with might be wider. I'd seen much of his work in the NY Times and also found out that my Dad shares a passion for his work as well.
Herb Lubalin VOTE Poster *1968 reprint from Urban Inks

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