San Francisco–based studio Shape Field Office partnered with Nicholas Riddle, a framebuilder and founder of the Urban Mobility Lab at California College of the Arts, to create this handsome porteur-style conveyance.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by Allison Byers
As a professor at California College of the Arts, I've pondered how to bring that spark home. How to get more students building as a means of thinking. How to get more people engaging in high-craft endeavors? I've contemplated how to parse design and the knowledge of how things actually go together. It struck that more building needed to happen for more students.
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Gregory HURCOMB: This interdisciplinary studio looked to examine the nature of surfaces, color, light and space through the
instigation and eventual transformation of California College of the Art’s main nave space. By utilizing different
digitally and analogue driven techniques such as scripting, collage, physical modeling, photography, rendering, and
drawing, the studio sought to explore the interstices between interior design, installation, art, and architecture.
Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Allison Byers
At Stanford University you can learn how to design calm. The course is one of several dozen offered by what Stanford calls its d.school, an eight-year-old program in design thinking. The hybrid discipline—dubbed “the hottest trend in business culture” by Businessweek—is now taught at schools ranging from Parsons to Yale. At California College of the Arts you can get an MBA in Design Strategy, learning how to apply design principles to such seemingly un-designy pursuits as human resources and accounting.
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Friday, May 17, 2013: The Fashion Design Program at California College of the Arts is pleased to announce the Annual Fashion Show 2013, which will begin at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 17, 2013, at CCA’s San Francisco campus (1111 Eighth Street, at 16th and Wisconsin).
The show features eight new collections created by CCA’s senior Fashion Design students, juried by industry professionals and worn by runway models. General-admission tickets are $40. VIP tickets are $100 and include admission to the pre-party at 6:30 p.m. and preferred seating at the event.
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California College of the Arts is hosting a Dutch design speaker series titled Seeing Orange (top image). The series will feature lectures, workshops, and discussions based on the Dutch approach to industrial design, graphic design, and architecture. Speakers include Kas Oosterhuis, Cobbenhagen Hendriksen, and Maarten Baptist. Most all of these talks are free and open to the public.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 by Allison Byers
Having trouble finding consistent work despite having a degree, Hutton enrolled in the California College of the Arts and focused on design. His first project after graduating was a restaurant called Today's on Union Square. Although it's no longer in business, Interior Design Magazine profiled the establishment in 1979.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Allison Byers
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past three years, odds are you’ve heard of Angry Birds. That horribly addictive smartphone game in which you fling a variety of “angry” birds at mischievous, thieving pigs was downloaded eight million times on Christmas Day alone. It’s undeniably entertaining.
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Michael Cronan, a San Francisco-based graphic designer and marketing executive who placed his stamp on popular culture when he created the brand names TiVo and Kindle, died on Tuesday in Berkeley, Calif. He was 61.
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So Many Mountains But This One Specifically
Carville Annex Press, 2012
Paperback, 60 pages, $10/$15/$20
This is Junior Clemons's (MFA Writing 2010) first book. For the project he was awarded a Poets & Writers reading grant through the James Irvine Foundation. Alexis Petty (MFA Design 2009) designed the book, and took the photographs that appear in it. It was edited by Sarah Fontaine (MFA Writing 2010) Molly Prentiss (MFA Writing 2010), and Emily Jern-Miller (MFA Writing 2010).
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