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When a smiling Democratic donkey is poised to shake hands with a happy Republican elephant, odds are you're witnessing a high-stakes card game.
A new deck illustrated by 52 students from four art schools commemorating the Illustration Conference (ICON5) increases those odds.
The reason: the five of clubs carries an illustration by Jamie Stroud, a May 2008 graduate of the Master of Art in Illustration program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, showing the two party symbols about to engage in a forelimb grip.
As a top-tier "Partner Sponsor" of ICON5, held July 2 - 5 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, Xerox Corporation worked in partnership with ICON5 to produce the deck of cards as a commemorative gift for the more than 400 illustrators who attended.
ICON5 organizers arranged for top students from three New York design schools - the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts - and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, to contribute their original illustrations and designs.
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Deck of Student-Designed Playing Cards Gives Xerox a Strong Hand as ICON5 Sponsor
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Barry MacLean, Chairman of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has announced the appointment of Wellington Reiter as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's fourth President.
Mr. Reiter, who joins the School of the Art Institute on August 25, 2008, is an internationally recognized architect, artist, and urban designer, and currently holds the position of Dean of the College of Design at Arizona State University.
In addition to his academic role, Reiter was instrumental in shaping a new university campus in the heart of downtown Phoenix that unites progressive academic, architectural and public art agendas.
Previous to this appointment at ASU, Mr. Reiter was a member of the faculty in the Department of Architecture at MIT from 1990 to 2003 and the Professional Advisor to the Career Discovery Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
Trained at Tulane University's School of Architecture (1981), North London Polytechnic, and Harvard's Graduate School of Design (1986), he began his teaching career at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Through his professional and academic roles, Mr. Reiter has received numerous awards including multiple AIA Honor Awards for Urban Design, the Kepes Prize for interdisciplinary design from MIT, and four awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
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SAIC Names Architect and Artist Wellington Reiter Its 4th President
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As barriers to the design and photography industries fall, the professionals are getting nervous.
Independent graphic designers and commercial photographers, as well as small companies within the industry, feel threatened by a flood of low-cost images, often produced by amateurs, available online.
So-called microstock Web sites offer to sell photos submitted by users for as little as $1 an image.
Other sites let buyers post open calls for designs and pay for only the submission they like best, a practice that riles graphic designers who say it amounts to working for free.
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"Exit Wounds," a graphic novel by the Israeli comics artist Rutu Modan, won the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award this weekend for the best new graphic novel - the most prestigious U.S. prize for works in the comics industry.
The Eisner prizes are awarded every year for comics creations in various categories, at a festive ceremony that is part of the Comic-Con International in San Diego.
The event is considered to be comics' Academy Awards.
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Multiplicity & Visual Identities is an international postgraduate programme + think tank on corporate design and visual identity in hybrid societies.
Research Fellows and individual participants conduct project grounded research on contemporary design and communication strategies that focus on the omnipresent question for identity, design and cross cultural communication in hybrid societies.
You will expand your horizon by teaming up with an interdisciplinary group of local and multi-local experts, researchers and practitioners.
These are artists; authors; international operating designers and strategists; staff from supranational organizations; f.i. United Nations and Red Cross; specialists on governance and forerunners from law; economics; social science; urban and cultural studies.
From November 2008 until Summer 2009 Multiplicity & Visual Identities II will take place mainly in Zurich with some meetings in Amsterdam and Geneva.
Seven colloquia in which you will meet colleagues, designers, developers, commissioners and experts from various fields.
What will be in common is that everyone will address the contemporary question of identity, representation and communication in hybrid societies.
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