ART470

Investigations into Thinking & Making. 470 Contemporary Design Projects is taught at Portland State in the Graphic Design program. This senior level class focuses on participatory design and design thesis development and execution.   This is the group blog run by Professors Jason Sturgill, Briar Levit and Adam Garcia.

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Postcard Club

Another cool self initiated project.

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DoNotOpen.It

Another good example of a self initiated project!

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Carte Postale

Project One // Experimental/Test animation using things from my collection plus hand rendered images.

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Sturgill's class Tumblrs

Here's links to your fellow student's class tumblrs.

Andrea Kerr Amy Summers Blake Caudle Tabitha Grow Cassandra Frances Cynthia Sullivan Jessie Woodcock Nicole Worthington Chloe Fields Brendan Mulligan

...this will be updated soon with the rest.

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Daniel Eatock is a great person to look at for this first project. He's not only a designer that's created the changing logo for the UK's Big Brother show every season, he also creates a project out of everything and records them.

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Student Tumblrs!

Hey folks. Here's a list of your peers' tumblrs for you to check out as the class progresses. Thanks for getting these up!

Cheree Andringa / http://cheree470.tumblr.com/

Sarah Franks / http://yoursfranks.tumblr.com/

Alan Hernandez-Aguila / http://art470alanhernandez.tumblr.com

Charlie Kohlmeier / http://art470charliek.tumblr.com

Rebekah Lee / http://rebekah470.tumblr.com/

Michelle Leigh / michelleelle470.tumblr.com

Kit MacAllister / http://kit470.tumblr.com/

Sarah Seitz / http://www.tumblr.com/blog/s-m-seitz

Cody Sprague / http://grodycody470.tumblr.com/

Zaneta Taylor / http://www.tumblr.com/blog/470z

Landon Tuff / http://landontuff.tumblr.com

Corey Van Hoosen / http://www.tumblr.com/blog/coreyart470

Steve Tibbetts / art470fa13st.tumblr.com

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Experimental Jetset rebrands Whitney Museum

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Museums, long reluctant to post good-quality images of their artworks online, are rethinking that strategy as innovators like the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam make a range of copying and clipping services available.

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Interesting collection of good luck charms.

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Jessica Walsh is a designer, art director, and illustrator working in New York City. She is a partner at the New York based design studio, Sagmeister & Walsh and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has won numerous design awards from the Type Director’s Club, Art Director’s Club, SPD, Print, and Graphis. She has received various celebrated distinctions including Computer Art’s “Top Rising Star in Design”, an Art Director’s Club “Young Guns” award, and Print Magazine’s “New Visual Artist”.

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A few recent design projects give pleasure both in the traditional sense and in more surprising ways.

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Rethink: The birth certificate

IWANT design takes a look at the single most important piece of paper in your life. This rethink aims to make the birth certificate worth treasuring: a multi-format document that records your first moments forever.

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January of last year, I found myself with a group of new students many of them better designers than I ever was and I had to teach them how to be researchers.

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Breakthroughs share three common characteristics: they challenge fundamental assumptions about existing products, services, business models, or organizations; they transform existing ways of doing business by rewriting rules or revolutionizing current practices; and they apply resources in entirely new ways, whether people, knowledge, relationships, or technology.