The Design History society is a quiet little organization in Britain that publishes real scholarship year-in and year-out, somehow avoiding the various waves of academic hipness that have been known to blow other journals around. Do enter! It could result in a nice little chunk of change. And what scholar does not need a new pair of shoes and a fresh case of ramen?
The deadline is 14 June 2013.
Here are the details:
Submissions are invited for the Design History Society Essay Prize, established in 1997 in order to maintain high standards in design history in higher education. Two prizes are awarded annually; one to an undergraduate student and the other to a postgraduate (MA or PhD).
Competition requirements:
1. The entrant must have been a current or graduating student (full or part-time) within the academic year 2012/2013.
2. The essay should be written in English.
3. The length of the essay should be between 6,000 words and 10,000 words, including footnotes (for postgraduate students this may take the form of a free-standing essay or a thesis chapter re-worked into a free-standing essay). A word count must be provided with the essay and on the submission form.
4. The essay (including illustrations) should be submitted electronically as a PDF.
5. The essay should not have been previously published.
6. The essay must be accompanied by an academic nomination. Copies of these guidelines can be forwarded to tutors on request.
The Prize includes:
· A bursary of £300 given by the Design History Society
· One year’s membership of the Design History Society (includes subscription to The Journal of Design History)
· Free place at the Design History Society conference Towards Global Histories of Design: Postcolonial Perspectives 5 – 8 September 2013, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, plus free place at the conference gala dinner.
· ONLY if attending Towards Global Histories of Design conference, £200 towards travel costs to Ahmedabad, India.
· £100 worth of Oxford University Press publications
· 5 Paperbacks in the Oxford History of Art series
Application forms are available from the DHS Essay Prize Officer:
Dr Annebella Pollen a.pollen@brighton.ac.uk
The closing date is 14th June 2013
Essays received after the deadline will not be considered.
Due May 21
As per listed on the syllabus, everyone should have three proposals posted to this website as a media attachment and categorized under “Finished Proposals”. If you were working collaboratively, put a post that links to your classmate’s post.
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Hello all,
We’ll have coffee and pastries delivered to the room before class and for break. We’ll be running on a tight schedule… so be sure to arrive on time. Anther, I have you first.
10 minutes max presentation, 10 minutes discussion. Better if you present for less time.
I’ll follow up with an email that I sent the critics…
9:00 Introduction to critics
9:10 Anther – Design for Commerce (3 projects under one umbrella)
9:30 Justin – etc Magazine
9:50 Elie – Radio RISD
10:10 Carly – Book Proposal
10:30 Jen and Anne – City Development
BREAK
11:10 Kaveh – Installation
11:30 Jay and Carlos – Installation
11:50 Jay – Installation #2
12:10 Daniel – Roomie
12:30 — Course evaluations
Frieze Writer’s Prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics.
Entrants must submit one unpublished review of a recent contemporary art exhibition, which should be 700 words in length. Entries must be submitted in English, but may be translated (this must be acknowledged). Entrants must be over 18 years of age. To qualify, entrants may only previously have had a maximum of three pieces of writing on art published. The winning entrant will be commissioned to write a review for frieze and will be awarded £2,000. Entries should be emailed as a word attachment to writersprize@frieze.com. Please do not send images.
The closing date for entries is 22 July 2013.
Judges
Christy Lange (associate editor of frieze)
Sean O’Toole (co-editor of CityScapes)
Lynne Tillman (fiction writer and critic)
More than a decade ago Sappi Fine Paper North America— the maker of McCoy, Opus, Somerset and Flo — established the Ideas that Matter grant program to recognize and support designers who use their skills and expertise to solve communications problems for a wide range of charitable activities. Even today, Ideas that Matter remains the only grant program of its kind in the industry. Since 1999, Ideas that Matter has funded over 500 nonprofit projects, contributing $12 million worldwide to causes that enhance our lives, our communities and our planet. Sappi believes that the creative ideas of designers can have an impact beyond the aesthetic and that those ideas can be a powerful force for social good. Working together with our customers, we aim to make a difference.
Due July 19
More information and entry form
Owen Johnson, founder at Providence accelerator Betaspring, and founder of Providence’s Awesome Foundation. Owen brings substantial experience in how to get budding ideas off the ground. More on Owen
Greg Victory is Director of Career Center at RISD and higher education consultant. Greg is RISD’s go-to person for student entrepreneurial projects… having just started “The RISD Lab” at 204 Westminster. More on Greg
Clement Valla is on the full-time faculty in the Graphic Design Department. His teaching and art career has touched on an incredible range of the arts: architecture, painting, digital media and design. More on Clement
Ian Gonsher is an artist, designer, and educator currently working in Providence, RI. He is on the faculty in the School of Engineering at Brown University, where his teaching and research focus on the creative process in practice. More on Ian
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Greetings all… let’s meet as a class tomorrow from 9am until 1pm. We should
use this time to review everyone’s final proposal.
We have four excellent critics for our final class next week. I’ll give you
more info about them then.
How did the project get started?
Kickstarter
When you wree initially building the site were there a lot of suprises, things you didn’t anticipate?
Where do you see some of this graphic language going as a means of communication? What symbols do you feel are really new?
One color icons? Do you think of ever introducing color, or animation, or dimension?
Do you ever kick anyone out?
What happens if you receive a symbol that means something somewhere else in the world, do you accept it?
Did you build your own platform? What technology is it built on?
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There are 2.5 weeks until the last Call for Proposals class. We’ll have a final review with outside critics on May 14. Representing the viewpoint of business and fundraising will be Owen Johnson (Betaspring) and Greg Victory (RISD Careers). We’ll have one or two GD critics as well. If any of you have other critics or guests that you feel are appropriate, let me know of feel free to invite them to your final presentation.
As far as course requirements, I have maintained that I expect three proposals and one final project. These four pieces may overlap in terms of what content they are working with and for whom they are targeted.
I’ve posted a video of Guy Kawasaki talking about the 10 mistakes of entrepreneurs. One being the mistake of not prototyping when you can. I think that’s good advice. His talk is about 35 minutes, then the rest is questions. You should all check it out.
I want to meet with each of you individually on Tuesday to help assess what you should be presenting and bringing in on the last day of class.
There is a sign-up sheet on the class website. Edit the post and put your name in. Note, early meetings are longer. You only need to come to class for your individual meeting and the lunchtime conversation. This week we’ll have Edward Boatman, founder of The Noun Project, via Google Hangout.
-John
8:00
8:20
8:40
9:00 – Carly is the werst(bratwerst)
9:20- Justin Chen
9:40 – Mr. Anther Kiley, MFA
10:00 — Break
10:15 – Carlos
10:30 – Elie
10:45 – Jen and Anne
11:00 – Kaveh
11:15 – Daniel
11:30 – Jay
Work for Hire
Licensing
Who is a licensing partner?
Compensation
The Manila Notebook
Is there any fear about stealing idea?
Other than going to the gift fair, are there other ways to approach companies?
None
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