Speaker – Chris Do

The founder and executive creative director of Blind, Inc., a multi-disciplinary motion graphics design studio with offices located in Santa Monica and New York City. Prior to forming Blind in 1995, Mr. Do worked briefly as an Art Director at Seattle Ad Agency, Cole & Weber, and as a designer at punk rock music label Epitaph Records. While at Cole & Weber he gained valuable insight, experiencing firsthand the challenges of being an agency Creative. It wasn’t until he formed Blind that he was able to fully utilize his Art Center training to combine his passion for design, typography, illustration and animation. Soon, he was working on feature film titles such as Eraser, Celtic Pride and The Island of Dr. Moreau, as well as a variety of commercials and broadcast identities.

Read more: http://www.blind.com/people/chris-do/

Event

Thursday, May 17, 2012

7:00 PM – 9:00PM

Free and Open to the Public

California State University Los Angeles

5151 State University Drive,

Los Angeles, CA 90032

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The speaker event will be held in Lecture Hall 1 of King Hall.

Parking is available in Parking Lot C on the North end of campus with purchase of an hourly permit.

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Come to the Fine Arts Gallery patio Thursday April 19, 2012 from 4pm – 6pm for the GAUGE Spring Meet and Greet.

Join us for food, drinks, games, and conversation with fellow Graphic Design/Visual Communication students.

We hope to see you there!

MEET AND GREET
-3:30-4 pm
- Hector Meza – pizza/soda
- Nadine Cheung – table wear (plates, napkins, cups, trashbags)
- Veronica – table clothes

OPEN DESIGN LAB POSTER
- text – hector
- poster - Lindsay Jacoby
- draft #1 – april 19

SPEAKER SERIES
- Ceng Ma- Poster
- Promotion – ASAP

NEWSLETTER
- Draft 1 – april 19
- finished/to be sent – april 30

TAX FORM
- talk to brett and jimmy
- deadline – MAY

CALENDAR/SCHEDULE
- Lindsay – put AIGA LA dates on gauge website

FUNDRAISER
- giant raffle – donated goods
- student art show
- jimmy moss shirt – I SURVIVED THE MOSS!
- same day as election

ELECTION DAY
- date – May 24 thursday
- poster – astrid
- location – U-SU building – paperwork

Event Info:

Where – Outside West Entrance to the Fine Arts Building

When – Thursday, February 9, 2012

Time – 10:30 AM until 12:30 PM

Join GAUGE and Kali Nikitas February 16, 2012, 7:00PM at Cal State L.A. – King Hall, Lecture Hall 1.

Kali Nikitas is Department Chair of Communication Arts and Graduate Graphic Design at Otis College of Art and Design, MFA (Graphic Design) Cal Arts; BA Univ of Illinois at Chicago. Designer, author, curator and editor.Founder of the design firm, Graphic Design for Love (&$). Fellow of the Design Institute of Minneapolis; past Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Northeastern Univ. and Minneapolis College of Art and Design; faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Curated two international design exhibitions and co-programmed the international symposia “Just the Type” and “What Matters.” Her work has been published in Emigre, Eye, I.D. and the AIGA Journal; and she has received awards from the ACD, AIGA and the Type Directors Club.

src: http://www.otis.edu/academics/communication_arts

The GAUGE Speaker Series brings design industry professionals to campus to stimulate discussion, inspire excellence and build community among the design students, alumni, faculty and staff of California State University Los Angeles.Established in the 2006-2007 academic year, GAUGE has brought one speaker each quarter to campus. Past speakers have included: Deborah Sussman, Agustin Garza, Stefan Bucher, Kim Baer, Ricardo Cardeñas, Michael Hodgson, Noreen Morioka, Yu Tsai, Petrula Vrontikis, Cynthia Murnane, David Lai, Ismael Obregon and Lorraine Wild.

GAUGE is the AIGA student group, at Cal State L.A. AIGA, the professional association for design. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.

Please join us in celebration of the completion of our Graphic Design/Visual Communication Senior Projects and see what Cal State L.A. students have to offer to the world of design.

Students:

Irene Cobos
Kazaf Dang
Betsy Escobar
Kim Huynh
Ching Yee Lee
Oei Kei Ling
Andrea Lopez
Alyssa Moore
Richard Romero
Jessica Vance
Marcela Vazquez

Opening Reception: Monday, Dec. 5th @ 4:00pm

Location: CSULA, Fine Arts Gallery
5151 State University Drive, LA 90032

Directions: Click Here

Parking: Park in structure C or lot 5

If you are unable to attend the opening reception, the exhibition will be up through the 10th of December.
Gallery Hours: Mon-Thurs 12-5PM, Sat. 12-5PM
Gallery Phone: (323) 343-4040

GAUGE is the AIGA student group, at Cal State L.A. AIGA, the professional association for design. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.

For the Fall 2011 quarter, GAUGE is honored to present Jose Caballer.

Jose has a passion for education, and has recently begun his own education company, known appropriately as Groop Skool. He teaches teamwork and has a process for collaboration between business, creative and technical people that is unmatched. He is known for his positive approach to education.

In addition to examples of some inspiring design work, what you’ll get from Jose is a unique perspective on the business side of design. A creative business presents many different challenges from other businesses. Jose knows them well, and is very willing to share his experiences.

The following bio is taken from AIGA-LA, of which Jose is a board member:

Jose is CEO & Chief Digital Educator of The Groop, a Digital Agency. Growing up in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Jose developed his visual acumen at an early age (he handcrafted a race track and cars out of river clay and cardboard shoe boxes). He quickly developed an appetite for entrepreneurism as well, selling Star-Wars replica space ships made out of chipboard, foam and paper to his 6th and 7th grade classmates (Darth Vader’s Imperial Transport was his top seller). He figures that’s why he gravitated to a career in digital media because of the blinking lights, sounds and visuals that it combines.

Throughout his career he’s had the opportunity to collaborate with clients such as Sega, Microsoft, Wieden + Kennedy, WK Tokyo Lab, Sony Music, Warner Music, Art Center College of Design, Nike and Live Earth. While Jose is much more driven by results than awards, he’s taken home his share of hardware too, including Art Directors Club Young Guns 2004; HOW Magazine’s, Interactive Best of Show 2003; American Center for Design Web 100. In 2009 The Groop was #204 in the INC 500 and one of the Top Latino run companies. http://www.inc.com/ss/2009-inc-500-top-10-latino-and-hispanic-run-companies#5

When he’s not producing results for clients or helping run an alternative contemporary art space called LMProjects that he co-owns, he spends his time dropping knowledge on his weekly LIVE web show and iTunes podcast “This Week in Web Design” which reaches over thousands of viewers every month. http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-web/

Location

Cal State L.A. – Music Hall

5151 State University Drive

Los Angeles, CA

Time 7:00 P.M.

Welcome to another quarter at Cal State LA and another quarter of GAUGE.

Come join us Thursday, September 29th 6:30pm at Starbucks (1131 S. Fremont Ave. Alhambra, CA) for our quarterly Meet & Greet.

Event Description
Reconsider. Re-imagine. Re-explore . . . the very symbols that define our language and meaning. Learn how twenty-six designers re-imagined the letter and explore what a letter can be. Join us for a discussion with featured designers from the Pasadena Museum of Art’s exhibition Getting Upper, an exhibition inspired by language-based experimentation and how it can create new avenues of cultural expression.

Rebeca Mendez is a graphic designer and artist who operates a multidisciplinary studio focused on design for art, architecture and other cultural clients. Her work is represented in public and private collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Design Museum, Denver Art Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Recently her work was exhibited at the Pompidou Centre in Paris as part of the exhibition ‘Morphosis: Continuities of the Incomplete.’

Jon Sueda is co-founder of the design studio Stripe, specializing in printed material for art and culture. He is also the co-editor of Task Newsletter, and the co-organizer of AtRandom events. Sueda has lectured, taught workshops and has been visiting critic at numerous college and univeristies both at home and abroad. In 2007, Sueda relocated to the San Francisco area, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Program at California College of the Arts.

Kali Nikitas is an accomplished designer and a partner in the studio, Graphic Design for Love (+$) which focuses on projects that allow her passion for design to outshine any monetary reward. She is also Chair of the Communication Arts department program at the Otis College of Art and Design. Nikitas has received awards from the ACD, AIGA and the Type Directors Club and her work has been published in Emigre, Eye,I.D. and the AIGA Journal.

Tickets
This event is free. RSVP is required.
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Schedule
7:00 PM: Mix and Mingle
7:30 PM: Panel Discussion
8:30 PM: Q&A

About PMCA
The mission of the Pasadena Museum of California Art is to present the breadth of California art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics that are unique to California. Informed by the state’s rich mixture of cultures and inspired by its impressive geography, California art has long been defined by a spirit of freedom and experimentation. PMCA educational programs examine the influences unique to California that have shaped and defined art in all media.

Location & Parking
The Pasadena Museum of California Art is located one block north of Colorado Blvd. between Los Robles Ave. and Oakland Ave. Free parking is available on the ground level of the museum and additional public parking is available across the street on Union.

To take the Metro Gold Line to the museum, exit at the Memorial Park station and head south on Arroyo Parkway one block to Union Street. Turn left and head east on Union for about six blocks. The museum is on the south side of Union, just before Oakland Ave.