As we all know, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. So, why not surprise your honey with a cherub-delivered Valentine Gram!! We will have our team of Valentine cherubs delivering chocolate roses to places on campus February 10th, 11th and 12th. Oh, did i not mention this is occurring on TANDEM BICYCLE? Well, it is.

We will be selling these either in front of Dexter (bldg 34) or Campus Market from 11–2:
Monday Feb 1st
Tuesday Feb 2nd
Wednesday Feb 3rd
Monday Feb 8th
Tuesday Feb 9th

Chocolate rose w/out delivery: $3
Chocolate rose w/ delivery: $5

You really don’t want to miss this opportunity. It’s once in a lifetime. We’re not going to be delivering to classrooms anymore (too many disgruntled teachers) but we will have time slots that you can sign up for and we will surprise you and your lover/friend/crush/teacher at the location of your choice on campus. This is also your chance to get a picture with the cherubs!

Submit A Design
Have your design printed at the screen printing workshop. We will be choosing two different designs at the next AIGA meeting on Feb. 4th.

SPECIFICATIONS
Size: No larger than 10”x10”
Color: Black and White
Note: Theme is open-ended!

SUBMISSION
Email: Send us the PDF file or outlined AI file
[calpoly.aiga@gmail.com]
or
Hardcopy: Bring in printed example of your
design to the AIGA meeting.

DESIGN DUE: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4TH, 11AM

Mr. Fella’s talk will occur immediately following Cal Poly Art and Design
Pushpin. This is an unbelievable opportunity to listen to a true graphic
design visionary. Please help the Cal Poly Art and Design Department
welcome this modern day legend. Make sure to be there on time as space
will most likely be limited!

Also, Pushpin is this Friday night from 4PM-6PM. Set-up will be around
3:30PM and take down will be immediately afterwards. Pushpin is a great
opportunity to see what other students have been working on all quarter and
a great time to make connections! Come and enjoy your fellow student’s
company and work. More information for pushpin to come.

If you are planning on attending and participating, please bring marker paper and one of the following markers (available at Michael’s):
– Speedball Elegant Writers Broad Point Marker
– Marvy Calligraphy 5mm Marker
– Martha Stewart Dual Tip Marker

If you have any questions about supplies or the event itself, please see Katie McCormick.

Compostmodern is fertile ground for sustainability. Presented by the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design (CFSD), this interdisciplinary conference explores the range of design thinking necessary to create a socially and ecologically responsible society. Designers, manufacturers and business leaders come together to find inspiration, share knowledge and explore real world opportunities for transforming products, industries and lives.

Compostmodern 09 will be held at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on Saturday, February 21. This year’s conference demonstrates how sustainable solutions converge as design, ecology, social activism, business, and economics intersect. Speakers include Eames Demetrios of Eames Office, Saul Griffith of Makani Power, Allan Chochinov of Core 77, California College of the Arts (CCA) Design MBA Chair Nathan Shedroff, climate strategist Michel Gelobter, John Bielenberg and Pam Dorr of Project M and the HERO Housing Resource in Alabama, Emily Pilloton of Project H Design, and Autodesk Sustainable Design Program Manager Dawn Danby. GreenBiz editor and sustainability author Joel Makower will reprise his role as emcee.

UPDATE:
If you are interested in going to Compostmodern, you must buy tickets in advance through the “City Box Office.” Tickets are $50 for student-members. We spoke the the membership department of the AIGA and your memberships should all be processed in time for the event. So, even if you haven’t received an email yet letting you know your membership has been processed, go ahead and buy the student member tickets anyway.

Here’s a little information about who IDEO is and what they do:
IDEO is a design consultancy based in Palo Alto, California, United States[1] with other offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. The company helps design products, services, environments, and digital experiences.[1] Additionally, the company has become increasingly involved in management consulting.[2]

IDEO was formed in 1991 by a merger of three established design firms: David Kelley Design (founded by David Kelley, who is also a professor at Stanford University), ID Two (founded by Britain’s Bill Moggridge), and Matrix Product Design (founded by Mike Nuttall).^[3] Office-furniture maker Steelcase owns a majority stake in the firm, which operates as an independent unit.^[2] The founders of the predecessor companies are still involved in the firm. The current CEO is Tim Brown.

The firm employs approximately 550 people in the disciplines of Human factors, Mechanical, Electrical and Software Engineering, Industrial Design, and Interaction Design.^[4]IDEO has worked on thousands of projects for a large number of clients in the consumer, computer, medical, furniture, toy, office and automotive industries. Notable examples are Apple’s first mouse, Microsoft’s second mouse, the Palm V PDA, and Steelcase’s Leap chair. Major clients (as of 2004) included Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, and Steelcase.

If you take a look at their website you can see some of their more recent projects they’ve been working on.

Marian Bantjes has been called a designer’s designer, who is completely immersed in her craft. She is a wildly talented illustrator and designer, equally at home with a pen, a computer, or just a piece of cake and some powdered sugar.

A new exhibition at Cal Poly’s University Art Gallery showcases the diversity of her creative production to present a complete picture of her work. “What’s exciting about Marian Bantjes is that she uses an immense set of tools for design,” says Cal Poly design Professor Charmaine Martinez, the show’s curator. “She doesn’t limit herself to any single idea, medium, or style.” In describing her own media choices, Bantjes states that she works in pencil, pen and ink, vector art, digital/photographic manipulation, photography, scratchboard, colored pencils, crayons, paint, fabric, ribbons and other objects that pop into her head.

Students and designers continually email her to ask where she finds her ideas. In her classic fashion, Bantjes states that: “reading, watching films, or just having conversations with people will make connections and trigger ideas that will cause me to rush off to a notebook to store something away for a future date. I can be inspired by anything I’m not bored by. I can be inspired at any moment by the strangest things. I am seldom bored. I have more ideas than I will ever be able to produce in my lifetime—some of them are even good ideas.”

Bantjes and her work are in high demand. She has lectured at institutions across the United States and Canada, including Cal Arts, Art Center, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Her work has been shown in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, UC Davis Design Museum, and Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy. She has been featured in Eye, STEP inside Design, Communication Arts, and Creative Review. She has collaborated with numerous designers, who attest to her innovative working methods, generous spirit and raw intelligence. The influential designer Rick Valicenti called her “perhaps the most important, conceptually complete designer of our time. Not only does her form making resonate with the spirit of this moment, her writings reverberate with laser-sharp clarity and gut-busting insight amidst culture’s din. She sets a beautiful page of type, is a sweetheart to collaborate with and is socially enigmatic.”  Her clients include: Pentagram, Houghton-Mifflin,ESPN Magazine, Details, InStyle, The New York Times Magazine, Print, and Wired.

Marian Bantjes Shows Off will be on view January 9th through February 20. The University Art Gallery is located in Dexter Hall next to the Kennedy Library on the Cal Poly campus.