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educationThursday Oct 09, 2008
James Dyson Pulls the Plug on His Design School
We've been expecting this announcement for a while now, but sort of couldn't believe when it all came down. You remember all of the trouble guru James Dyson was going through in trying to get his design and engineering school built in the UK? Well, he's finally said "enough is enough" and has pulled the plug on the whole $50 million dollar endeavor, saying he hates to do it, but that's the way it goes. Here's a bit: "I'm sad and very disappointed that it has had to end this way," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Engineering is vitally important to this country but it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Last we heard, Dyson was considering moving the whole thing to the US. Or was that just a threat to the local officials? If it's still up in the air, James, you should consider Chicago. We're totally cool with whatever and we've got really good food and stuff around here, promise. Tuesday Sep 30, 2008
School of Visual Arts Launches New MFA Program in Documentary Filmmaking
Our good pal Steven Heller dropped us a line to let us know that the place he spends a lot of his time, the School of Visual Arts, has launched a brand new MFA program that we wish we could drop out of working life and move to NY to attend. It's the two-year Master of Fine Arts Degree in Social Documentary Film, which will begin in the fall of 2009 and will feature a roster of instructors that make our hearts skip a beat. Maro Chermayeff, the producer and director of the PBS series, Carrier is set to chair the program and other instructors include Michael Epstein, Susan Froemke, and fantastic cinematographer, Bob Richman. If you're in the market for a graduate film program, it sounds just spectacular. And might we suggest that one of the first projects the SVA's new students in the program work on be UnBeige: The Untold Story, so we can be involved to? Because, really, you wouldn't believe the skeletons we have in our closets, especially in Stephanie's. Wednesday Sep 24, 2008
John Maeda Simplifies RISD Inauguration
Earlier this month, the Rhode Island School of Design inaugurated computer scientist, artist, author, designer, and overall shape shifter John Maeda as its 16th president in a streamlined swearing-in ceremony that The Providence Journal described as "notable both for its brevity—the entire event lasted less than two hours—and for its roster of A-list guest speakers." Those speakers included Congressmen, the mayor of Providence, keynote speaker Nicholas Negroponte of MIT, and Brown University President Ruth Simmons, who alluded to Maeda's fondness for casualwear, quipping, "We're all wondering what you'll wear to your first meeting with your fellow college presidents." The ProJo also commented on the "Maeda-esque touches" to the inauguration festivities: During the ceremony, dozens of cloth banners—some printed with the phrase "Start Here," others decorated with drawings and paintings—hung from the church's second-story balcony. Organizers said the banners were meant to evoke both ship's sails, a reference to Providence's maritime past, and Tibetan prayer flags, a symbol of good luck.Read a still-growing stream of messages posted to Maeda's "Start Here" inauguration website and add one of your own here. Previously on UnBeige: Monday Sep 22, 2008
BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum Joins Parsons Faculty
Wednesday Sep 17, 2008
Learn the ABC's of HTML
Monday Sep 15, 2008
Get the Big Picture at Photo Portfolio Workshop
Monday Sep 08, 2008
Questioning Architecture Schools in the Middle of an Industry Downturn
An interesting point/counter-point between architect Tim Ronalds and architecture school head, Richard Hayward called "Are Architecture Schools Turning Into Factory Farms?" over at Building Design. The point of the piece is obvious, based off the title, of course. Ronalds says yes, explaining that there are more students, fewer teachers, and instruction so rigid as to not allow for much originality. Hayward says no, saying that schools still do foster creativity, but does accept that there's a problem within the industry as a whole. Beyond just their talk, it's an interesting discussion considering all of the financial woes the architecture business has found itself in, and in reading reports like in yesterday's Irish Business News that thousands of architects are expected to lose their jobs this year. And if that's just in Ireland, which is just now coming out of one the biggest economic booms in the whole of Europe, you can imagine the dire situation all over. Wednesday Sep 03, 2008
I Photoshop, Therefore I Am
Wednesday Aug 27, 2008
Feed Your Brain with Photoshop Fundamentals
Our friends over at the learnin' side of mediabistro have just let us know about a valuable class running out there on the east coast in NY that should help increase your smarts by at least a factor of ten. It's the Fundamentals of Photoshop for Mac workshop, aimed for beginners and it runs for two days, Saturday, September 6th and Sunday, September 7th. They'll go over all the things you'll need to learn to get up and running with Photoshop, so you can start inserting your family members into old Soviet era photographs (or perhaps something more practical, but that's really up to you, isn't it?). What's more, if you enroll in any mediabistro class in September, you'll get a free one-year AvantGuild membership, which is beyond worth it (just hurry because that promo runs out on August 31st). All the details on the class can be found here. Thursday Aug 14, 2008
Dyson School of Design Runs Into More Trouble, Thinks of Moving to US
Back in March, you might recall that we were reporting on James Dyson finally, after months and months of government intervention, getting the okay to open his Dyson School of Design Innovation in the UK. Well, it looks like we spoke too fast, as it's being reported now by the local Bath Chronicle that the scheduled building has been put back on hold pending additional investigation as to whether or not the school will be safe where it will be constructed (next to a river) and if the town still even wants him there to begin with, pushing the building back to at least 2012. Dyson has said that he wants to keep the school in the UK, but he's been approached by investors to move the planning over to the US and build it over here. Whether or not that's for real or is simply a maneuver to scare the local government to hurry up and give him a more solid okay is anyone's guess, but clearly no one in the Dyson camp is very happy at the moment. We'll keep an eye out and let you know what goes down when we pick up any more news. PreviouslyIn September, Photoshop 'Til You Drop New School Adds Programs in Sustainable Design, Urban Ecosystems SVA to Offer Interaction Design Degree Learn Secrets of Design Studio Success HOW to Have a Successful Design Career Adobe Illustrator, in a Class by Itself Stock Tips: PhotoShelter Gets Inside Image Buyers' Brains Art Center Divided over Planned Gehry Building, Educational Priorities Comic Book Guy: 'Hone Your Craft Whilst Wearing Pajamas' Label Love: Art Center College of Design Gets $2M from Avery Dennison Philippe de Montebello Headed to NYU Vito Acconci to Deliver New School Commencement Address Teaching Tips from Alexey Brodovitch Oh, SNAAP!: Project to Study Art School Grads' Career Paths University of Kentucky to Use $6 Million Gift for International Design Contest Why RISD Can Beat Up Your School Any Day North Carolina Universities: 'Where the Money Goes, So Goes Ayn Rand' Dyson School: Council Approved It, But Now Where's the Rest of the Money Coming From? James Dyson Gets the Okay to Build His Design School Yea or Nay Coming Soon for James Dyson School of Design You Oughta Be in Pictures; Or At Least Be Able to Expertly Manipulate Them New at the New School: The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Teaching Torture at the University of Kent Okay, Designers Can Play Sports, But Only If Their Teams Are Named After Genitalia SF's Academy of Art Recruits Designers...On the Football Field? SCI-Arc's Got a New Annual Publication and a Shiny New Table To Read It On John Maeda's Wife Bet Their Five Daughters He Wouldn't Land RISD Gig Internet Famous Class Gets An A+ Hablas Diseno?: SVA to Offer Courses in Spanish Take mb.com's Writing for Shelter Publications Class Online "Is the Honda Civic the Best We Can Do?" Asks Russell Flinchum CalArts Design Students Launch pub Roland Young's Cheeky Teaching Methods Design Writing for Designers In LA Party on the Quad! Core77's Headed Back to School Put Em' To Work! The Lack of Required Construction Apprenticeships Sanjaya Pretends His Failed Singing Career Was an Industrial Design Project The U.S.'s First-Ever Design Criticism MFA Program Is Official UnBeige to Corrupt Malleable Young Minds in Atlanta SVA's Fresh Crop and Serious Fun CalArts Student Says No to Paper and Plastic Henning Breuer and the Way We Learn Design Ed: Won't Someone Please Think of the Children?!? John Bielenberg's Project M Returns to Its Roots Life Among the Royals at the RCA The CalArts Illuminated Manuscript The Few, The Proud, The Ones Who Are Interesting Enough to Meet '07 Resolution: Learn More About Sex from Designboom Looking Upon Berlin With Fresh Eyes Rock Out to the Hot New Sounds of SVA My Thesis Is To Build a Flashier Oatmeal Container The Gift Every Grad Wants: The Stark Realities of Truth Degree Programs in Business, Technology, Health Care and...Design Management? O Canada! Our Home and Well-Designed Land. It's Design, It's Science, It's a Lab! All In One! Spring & Summer In the City That Always Types What's That Sharp Thing With the Eraser On It? Job Placement for Paralegal Dental Assistant Designers! Even in Canada, Students Do More Than Drink and Party And Now a Word From Our Sponsor So, You Want To Use InDesign On Your Mac? Now You CAN! We Love Learning About The Interplay Of Images And Text And Now We Can Pay Attention, Young Padewan, And Learn How To Make A Graphic Novel Daniel Clowes is So Not An Art School Snob |
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