Citizen Scholar: Design & Responsibility

Alice Twemlow’s D-CRIT lauded by Surface Magazine

Randy J. Hunt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:30:41 +0000

Congratulations to our client Alice Twemlow, chair of MFA Design Criticism at SVA. The D-CRIT program’s inaugural class was chosen to receive the Avant Guardian Award in Education from Surface magazine.

More on articles editor Dan Rubinstein’s blog.

(via Visual Arts Briefs)

Lined & Unlined design evolution

Randy J. Hunt — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:52:58 +0000

I recently worked hand-in-hand with designer, writer, curator Rob Giampietro on the design evolution of his site Lined & Unlined. Rob and I discussed the nature of the collaboration and the resulting design choices, which he has ever-so-elegantly presented in Lined & Unlined fashion.

Sustainability & Green Design for Creatives

Randy J. Hunt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:43:51 +0000

The New York chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild is presents Sustainability & Green Design for Creatives

The event will feature a panel with representatives from The Vox Collective, the Lowe-Martin Group, Mohawk Paper, and Pratt’s Director of Sustainability.

Thursday, October 16th
7-9PM
Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus
144 West 14th Street, Room 203
more info

Mail from Luke Wolagiewicz

Randy J. Hunt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:41:57 +0000

Luke Wolagiewicz sent some lovely postcards from across the pond recently. Cancelled postage from Europe always looks good.

See Luke’s powerful photojournalism at Wolagiewicz.com

6b6a4c115997ac85f8500e32081c667a->

Designism 3.0

Randy J. Hunt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:07:46 +0000

Live Blogging from Designism 3.0

Randy J. Hunt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:04:28 +0000

Tonight starting at 7pm, I’ll be live blogging from Designism 3.0 at the Art Directors Club in New York City.

A few updates may trickle in early from the Ideas That Matter exhibition reception prior to the main event.

Will you be at ADC tonight? Be sure to say “hi!”

Race For The Cure with Citizen Scholar and The Amazing Project

Randy J. Hunt — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:19:27 +0000

Citizen Scholar enthusiastically invites you to join us for Race for the Cure NYC on Sunday September 14th, 2008.

Join The Amazing Project team or give a gift to Race for the Cure, and accompany our friends from the design community and beyond in celebrating the work of the Susan G. Komen Foundation to run breast cancer out of town.

ICON 5 Podcasts in PRINT’s The Daily Heller

Randy J. Hunt — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:22:15 +0000

Steven Heller highlights the ICON 5 podcasts in The Daily Heller at PRINT Magazine.

Follow Citizen Scholar on Twitter

Randy J. Hunt — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:01:54 +0000

A lens into the current thinking at Citizen Scholar: just follow citizenscholar on Twitter.

Icon 5 Illustration Conference Podcasts

Randy J. Hunt — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:00:38 +0000

We produced a series of 5 podcasts for ICON 5, The Illustration Conference. Head over to the ICON site to hear Steven Heller in conversation with:

Mitch Nash of Blue Q

James Jean, author of Process: Recess

Gary Panter, creator of Jimbo, Dal-Tokyo, and way too much more

Stephanie Plunkett, assistant director of The Norman Rockwell Museum

Stanley Hainsworth, former global creative director for Nike, Lego and Starbucks

Many thanks to Scott Hirsch for contributing is audio expertise and Cars & Trains for supplying tracks from Rusty String to set the aural stage.

Field-Tested Reading, New York City, July 28th

Randy J. Hunt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:59:49 +0000

If you’re in New York City this evening, please do come spend some good time on the rooftop of The Delancy where I’ll be joining some other wonderful contributors to this year’s Field-Tested Books in a reading event certain to delight.

Readings begin at 7pm EST.

More info available from Coudal.

Field-Tested Books

Randy J. Hunt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:22:47 +0000

In 2003, Chicago-based design firm Coudal Partners launched Field-Tested Books, a charming project that collects reviews of books which were influenced by the reading locale.

This year’s edition, the third in the series features 143 reviews from more than 90 contributors including yours truly. I’m super-jazzed to be in such good company.

As a rockin’ thanks, Coudal sent over a print from the limited edition celebrating the series, designed by John Solimine of Spike Press. She’s a beaut.

Fresh on the heels of the whole project’s launch, Coudal began offering the book reviews in, you guessed it, book form today. Pick up a copy for only $17. I look forward to getting my hands on one. You can pick up the lovely poster too.

An Old Journal for a New Journal

Randy J. Hunt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:03:32 +0000

Kemosabe: Loyalty, Friend House

Zachary Granger Moldof and Anna Kerlin are working on a journal. According to Zach, the first issue:

...is going to be unbound, and it will come in a plastic bag. It’s going to be ideas, drawings, design, writing, and objects from our friends.

The project gets exciting before the first issue is published. To support the publication costs, Zach and Anna are selling “subscriptions” to out of print issues of National Geographic dating back to the 1930’s.

they’ll send a questionaire to the subscriber
the subscriber will fill it out and return it

Zach and Anna will go through a massive collection and select issues based on the relevance of the content to the survey response
Subscriptions are $40 for a year or $20 for a half-year. To subscribe, contact natgeoreissues (at) gmail.com.

Fresh Dialogues 24: IN/VISIBLE interviews

Randy J. Hunt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:38 +0000

On Friday May 23rd, AIGA/NY hosted Fresh Dialogue 24, IN/VISIBLE: Graphic Data Revealed, a 3-way conversation between Steve Duenes, Fernanda Viégas and Andrew Kuo around discuss the visual ethics of information graphics. The conversation was be moderated by John Maeda.

Prior to the event I had the opportunity to talk with the participants about their relationship to information design on DESIGNY.

For more information about the evening, see the event site.

SMART/MODELS Interviews

Randy J. Hunt — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:21:01 +0000

On Saturday May 17th, AIGA/NY hosted SMART/MODELS, a one-day conference about various business models for creative businesses.

Prior to the event I had the opportunity to interview some of the participants over at DESIGNY:

Drive Your Design Business: An Interview With Emily Ruth Cohen. Emily talks about the common problems facing small-to-medium sized businesses and offers some guidance to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Stop Making Things Hard on Yourself: An Interview with Jason Fried of 37 Signals. Jason discusses optimizing business for happiness, working 4 days a week and getting by giving – all principles that have come to underline

Teams That Fit: An Interview with Athletics James Ellis and Matt Owens of Brooklyn-based design collective Athletics discuss the scalability and flexibility of their modular business model.

Citizen Scholar to Present at AIB Expo

Randy J. Hunt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:20:54 +0000

Citizen Scholar will give the keynote presentation at AIB Expo Saturday May 10, 2008.

AIB Expo is an event organized by graduating seniors from the Art Institute of Boston, featuring a showcase of their work titled “Tag We’re It.”

Event Info
Saturday May 10, 2008
Midway Theatre
15 Channel Center Street
Boston, MA 02210 (map)
6pm

More info and directions at AIBexpo.com

Introducing Stefan Sagmiester in Providence, Rhode Island

Randy J. Hunt — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:18:52 +0000

I’ll be introducing Stefan Sagmiester at his talk “Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far” for AIGA Rhode Island on April 24, 2008.

Event Info
Providence, RI
RISD Auditorium
17 Canal Street at Market Square
7pm lecture, 6:30pm doors

More event details at AIGA RI.

Event promo design by Jarrett McPhee.

Transit Antenna on Wheat Wurtzburger

Randy J. Hunt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:49:14 +0000

I’ve heard good things about Transit Antenna, “an experiment in mobile life.” Recently the traveling creative collective stopped in our former stomping ground: Orlando, FL.

While there, they spent time with Wheat Wurtzburger. Their Florida experience is recounted here along with an incredibly sincere and endearing depiction of our dear friend Wheat.

Creative For A Cause

Randy J. Hunt — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:27:46 +0000

Student surveys are always tricky. Ultimately, everyone wants to help a student project along, but very often they’re longer or more cumbersome than most market research surveys and rarely offer an incentive for participation. Just as often, they come and go, with little evidence or news of their effectiveness or the application of the survey results. Thankfully, that’s not always the case.

A couple of months ago I was asked to respond to a survey about social responsibility in design and design education. Today, I saw the results of that survey.

Creative For A Cause is the thesis project of Syracuse University senior Heidi Cies. “A Resource for Visual Communication Educators” she calls it. Having identified a lack of standards or common ground on which design educators are incorporating social responsibility into curricula, Heidi set out to build a collection of online and offline resources, case studies, role models (thanks for including Citizen Scholar!) and more, targeted and promoted directly to educators.

Beyond creating a well-edited, nicely-structured site that tactfully asks for additional resources in the clever add-it-like-a-comment arrangement of submission forms, Heidi’s site has the potential to act as a common cross-discipline and cross-institution source of information for educators.

With enough traffic or interest, perhaps Heidi will pursue growing of her site into a network that will allow educators to exchange and update this information more freely. Maybe other existing networks will look to embrace and integrate her research. I look forward to seeing how it progresses.

What do you see when you look up “citizen”?

Randy J. Hunt — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:24:36 +0000

If you’re looking at The Big Word project, you’ll see us. Thanks to Josh Silverman, citizenscholar.com is “the new definition” of citizen. We like that.

Check out The Big Word Project.