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Show & Tell with Alissa Walker + Student Good City Presentations!

Post on Mar 12th, 2012 by katebingburt

Alissa Walker is our last Show & Tell of the quarter!

Please join us for our LAST Show & Tell of the quarter! Let’s welcome Alissa Walker!

Who is Alissa? In her own words from her website:

You can find my writing at GOOD, Fast Company, Dwell, Sunset, Print, The Architect’sNewspaper, LAWeekly, Metropolis, Wired, DesignObserver, Core77,
Coudal, ReadyMade, Eye, HOW, and even at two magazines that don’t exist anymore, I.D. and STEP Inside Design. I’m a contributing writer for Fast Company’s new design site, Co.Design, and a contributing editor at GOOD, where I write the column Design Is a Verb. I’ve also written for the Los Angeles Times, but it wasn’t about design, it was about Star Wars. From time to time, I’ve been tapped to pinch-hit for the restaurant and nightlife blog Eater LA. And in 2008 I spent two incredible months pounding the pavement in New York while researching and writing the first of a new series of walking guides, City Walks Architecture: New York, which was published by the fine people at Chronicle Books in 2009.

This Show & Tell will be happening at ADX on March 14th starting at 6:30pm. This event is also happening along with GOOD Ideas for Portland Student Presentations by Nicole Lavelle’s Design Thinking class.

In 2010, she was named as one of seven USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellows for her writing on design and urbanism.

Go to her blog and check out the other wonderful things she has her hands in. Amazing!

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PSU Graphic Design X GOOD Magazine = GOOD Ideas for Cities!

Post on Dec 9th, 2011 by katebingburt

We are pleased to announce that PSU GD is the host for GOOD Inc.’s GOOD Ideas for Cities event in Portland!

What?
GOOD Ideas for Cities is a GOOD Design initiative that taps creative problem solvers to tackle real urban challenges and present solutions at live events. Similar events have taken place in New York and San Francisco. Because of a partnership with CEOs for Cities and a grant from ArtPlace, the program has recently been able to expand to cities across the country. And Portland is their first stop.

The live event will take place on February 16 at Ziba Design in Portland.

How will it work?
Local creative teams will be paired with civic leaders, and in partnership, work to devise innovative solutions for pressing urban challenges. At the event, they will present their creative solutions for specific challenges relating to the design of cities. Areas of consideration may include transportation, water, urban gardening, neighborhood issues, public participation and more.

Creative teams are encouraged to apply NOW! The application deadline is December 14. By the new year, we will announce the creative teams and they can get to work to prepare for the February event.

Why did GOOD decide to partner with PSU’s Graphic Design program?
The questions and concepts that drive this series of events align with the topics that we will tackle in Design Thinking, a special seminar course that will take place this winter.

The class will integrate with the February event and use the second half of the term to identify and devise solutions for urban challenges. The final project for the class will be a GOOD-style evening of public presentations, this time with student teams and live feedback from a panel of civic leaders and creative design practitioners.

Students, faculty and alumni are encouraged to apply for the GOOD event in February. We’d love to have some representation from the smart, innovative bunch we have here at PSU.

Have questions? You can ask Nicole Lavelle, who is reachable at nlavelle@pdx.edu. Or follow GOOD Ideas For Cities on Twitter at @IdeasforCIties.

Posted in Community, Events, In The Classroom, Press, Sustainability

PSU GD in the Oregonian

Post on Nov 30th, 2010 by Command Save

PSU NEWS!
Author: Carrie Sturrock, The Oregonian
Posted:November 19, 2010
Link: http://blog.oregonlive.com/pdxgreen/2010/11/graphic_designers_in_portlan…

Garlic grows perfectly packaged. So it was especially galling to the graphic design students in Chris North's five-week "Waste Not" seminar at Portland State University when a fellow student found peeled garlic at the grocery store sold in individually wrapped cellophane packets, all in a larger bag. But it helped spur a branding project by three students called Think. "Less". where they envisioned a system whereby customers would be rewarded with points for purchases that generate less waste. Those students will present their sustainable solution at the Shift 5 salon "What does sustainable design mean to you?" on Thursday in Portland sponsored by the local chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design.

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Posted in PSU Faculty, PSU Students, Sustainability

Portland AIGA SHIFT 5 Salon: What does sustainable design mean to you?

Post on Nov 13th, 2010 by Command Save

AIGA Shift 5 Salon: What does sustainable design mean to you?

November 18, 2010 / 7:00pm – 9:30pm / Ecotrust 721 NW 9th Avenue

Students from Chris North’s 5wk seminar “Waste Not” (ART 471) will present at this event.

Congratulations to Jessica Cerrato, Jason Heglund, Justin Lucero, Bruce Myhre, Stephanie Kotaniemi, Heather Noddings!

above: Think. Less. by Jessica Cerrato, Jason Heglund, Justin Lucero

Think. Less. Proposes that the true environmental, social & economic costs of consumer choices are not visible to consumers. If the cost of waste were made more transparent, by connecting the price at the cash register with the cost in terms of environmental, social and economic sustainability, it might foster a sense of urgency and responsibility about our finite resources.The tools of branding are used for a labeling/receipt system that ranks waste for food products.Consumers are awarded points for making purchases that generate less waste. These points canbe used towards purchase of further low-waste items.

above: Perfectly Fine by Bruce Myhre, Stephanie Kotaniemi,Heather Noddings

Perfectly Fine is a proposal to Rebrand Portland’s Municipal Water Supply. Bottled water represents one of the most egregious examples of needless waste in our culture, but most efforts to shift behavior focus on the negative approach of discouraging the use of bottled water.Perfectly Fine takes on the challenge of the negative perception of bottled water by exploring are-branding and marketing campaign for Portland tap water.

Waste Not is a five week seminar that engages graphic design students in discussion and hands on research to rethink the role they play in product design, packaging, distribution and marketing. Students review, discuss and brainstorm social, environmental and economic issues related to waste. Key concepts addressed include de-materialization (dependency on the material whenwhat you really need is the service), the true cost of a product versus perceived wants and needs,our throw-away culture and the process of understanding how choices or actions influence oneanother within a whole.

Congratulations to these fine students and their wonderful presentations for being selected. Now go and hear them be presented on November 18th! GOOD WORK!

Posted in Community, Competitions, In The Classroom, Press, PSU Students, Sustainability

Waste Not | Art 471 White Papers

Post on May 17th, 2010 by Command Save

above image from How Green is Green? submitted by Ryan Sonderegger, Jamie Oelrich and Dustin Norton. Instructor: Chris North

For five weeks ART 471 students reviewed, discussed and brainstormed social,
environmental and economic issues related to waste created by product packaging.
Key concepts discussed included, de-materialization (dependency on the material
when what you really need is the service), the true cost of a product versus
perceived wants and needs, our throw-away culture and the process of
understanding how choices or actions influence one another within a whole.
Waste Not is a white paper of proposed solutions to this conundrum.

Three students in 471 (Shannon Crutchfield, Micah Fuller, MinJi Pak) have been selected to present their project at the AIGA SHIFT Salon. In addition, Jamie Oelrich, Ryan Sonderegger and Dustin Norton have been selected as alternates to present at SHIFT.

This class is taught by Chris North.

Please take a peek at their flickr group to read some of the discussion that happened this quarter as well. Also, please download all of the White Papers for further reading. These students are great and so are their concepts!

Download Waste Not White Papers HERE!

Continue after the jump to read all of the White Paper summaries. GOOD WORK ALL!

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