Communication Design 2013 website is now live live live.
Image: work by Jessie Wang
This book is a gem but often difficult to buy. For some reason Amazon have a used copy going for only £1965.00.
Save yourself a few pennies and buy it from WH Smiths for £9.50 or buy 200 copies if you saved up for the amazon used copy.
WH SMITH link is here
Fancy embed, coming up. Show opening times here, and design is at the skylark campus.
The culturally aware weather site for Glasgow ‘Taps Aff’ has just 2 settings.
TAPS AFF and TAPS OAN dependent on the temperature and weather.
Our friends at MakLab, Scotland’s first open access digital fabrication workshop, have been chosen as a finalist for the Google UK Global Impact Awards with nine other innovative social enterprises from the UK. If you would like to vote for them you can do so here, and help support this emerging facility for designers and makers.
“Due to its obsession with primarily formal questions, art education has, I believe, seriously failed to acknowledge the fact that creativity is a producer of reality.”
https://www.facebook.com/artschoolrebrand
http://www.scribd.com/bookings15/documents
POW if you don’t know about me
POW better ask someone quickly
’cause POW!
Personal thoughts on the rebrand of the Whitney by Experimental Jetset. That makes the content sound more exciting and contentious than it actually is. Elsewhere on the internet…
At this time of year, probably for obvious reasons, I get quite interested in design education, how it’s structured, what it is for (is it even ‘for’ anything, is that the wrong question?) – Yes, this probably happens to you too, and as a result I’m just posting up a couple of things i’ve stumbled across recently. The first is Questions/Questions and the second is Pilots, curated by El Ultimo Grito and David Faulkner. A follow-up post on the explosion of summer schools coming very soon. The reference to Ulysses on the cover of Questions/Questions is entirely coincidental.
Incase anyone missed the BBC 4 documentary on Erwin Blumenfeld (Photographer) on BBC 4 you can still catch it on the BBC iPlayer at;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01skv6r/The_Man_Who_Shot_Beautiful_Women/
Sorry for the late notice, but coming up tonight…
Zhang Liang (Ray) and Wang Ning
U Must Be Funking Joking!
Studio 41, Glasgow
11:00 – 6:00pm, 18 – 21 May, 2013
Opening night: 6:00pm, Friday, 17 May
Campaign to Save the Kinning Park Complex (Artist Studio and Community Centre Complex on the Sth Side).
More info on the Kinning Park Website: http://www.kinningparkcomplex.org/
KPC Important update. Please read and Act. On 15 April, without any prior notice or discussion, City Property on behalf of Glasgow City Council sent us a Notice of Removal telling us to be out of the building by 27 May 2013. The first thing to say is – Don’t panic! We won’t be leaving. But please do take action.
For the last 15 months we have tried to talk to the Council / City Property, funders, other agencies and councillors about how we all might work together to secure the long term future of Kinning Park Complex as a community facility.
We are a strong community making good use of the building and intend to do so for the long term. We have written to City Property asking for urgent clarification of their intentions and asked our local political representatives for an urgent meeting. We will update on progress with that next week.
The number of building users has grown again enormously in the past 2 years and that is fabulous. We need now to ask you all to make your voice heard in support of KPC.
This City Property letter reminds us that despite the huge efforts made by many in the community to keep this building open and in daily use there is still a long way to go to secure our long-term future and fund the major repairs needed.
The main thing to remember is that it is business as usual at KPC. Future bookings are secure. Please continue to make bookings and conduct all business as usual.
But please act to support us – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
Please:
Contact local councillors, MP, MSP and MEP to ask them to support our call for City Property to withdraw this Notice and meet with us to discuss the situation (see contact list at end of this message).
Contact City Property directly. Ask them to withdraw the Notice. Feel free to raise any questions or thoughts with them – eg. you might also want to ask them why, while they claim to be the new landlord, they are not prepared to spend a penny on the essential repair work?
Sign-up as a supporter of KPC so that we can provide more evidence of the numbers of people who use the building. Please also encourage all of the people who attend your classes or events and all other building users and friends to sign-up as well.
Below is our new Supporter of KPC sign-up form. Please add your contact details and return it to us.
Become a KPC Supporter
Kinning Park Complex is an independent community centre, used for dance classes, theatre projects, benefits advice, art and music events, kids’ activities and much more.
We would like to be able to keep you up to date with what’s happening around the building. We’d also like to be able to include your name in a list of KPC Supporters.
Please sign up below. We need all the details if possible.
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I want to be a registered supporter of KPC
Name:
Address:
Post Code:
Email:
Tel:
Your name will be added to our Supporters page – no other info is shared.
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Please fill in your details and email this section back to us at info@kinningparkcomplex.org
Please use the subject title: Another KPC Supporter
Here at Vis Com HQ, we get a fair amount of spam, but occasionally get some real gems. This is the latest to add to the list:
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Coffee Chocolate & Tea, (a friendly local coffee shop that help contribute to keeping me awake during the working week, and which is run by vis-com-des person Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte) are looking for 3 different designs to produce as greeting cards to be sold and used as promotional material. They say; “We’re looking for 1 coffee related, 1 tea related and 1 chocolate inspired design. The themes can be interpreted very loosely and produced in a variety of techniques, from typography to staged photography.”
“We will pick three winners, one for each theme, and will award them with 6 month freshly roasted coffee subscription (different single origin coffee bean every month along with tasting notes) or a luxurious tea hamper of similar value (generous amounts of handmade truffles included in both!). Your name will obviously be stated on a back of a card.”
Extended deadline – 1st of June. Submit to wakeup@coffeechocolateandtea.com
BlackMagic will shortly release a new affordable video camera. It is uses micro 4/3 lenses. A sample of the quality is in this video above. you can see more about the pocket sized HD camera at;
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera/
This short was shot with the The “MōVI” – a digital 3-axis gyro-stabilized handheld camera gimbal. The completely silent device weighs under 3.5 pounds bare and can be operated solo, or with the help of a second “gimbal” operator with a joystick to pull off some incredible moves. To read more about it go to: wp.me/pjtZ0-2a4 The resulting video from this shoot is at:vimeo.com/62917185
Estimated to cost around $15,000
To download extra features go to:
vimeo.com/ondemand/movi
“Dedbullets is a software construct. A generative identity. He reads my blog, and my twitter feed, and any other textual content we point him at. He munches it, remixes it and spits it back out in the form of tweets. For extra authenticity he has, at times, been allowed access to posts I haven’t made public, so occasionally quotes content I’ve never before shared. If his tweets sound like the kind of thing I’d say, it’s because they are the kind of thing I’d say.”
via Social Networking With The Living Dead – Matt Pearson (@zenbullets).
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