First, to get some “old” ACCD business out of the way: during the summer my weekly column for imPrint, Print magazine’s online edition, included interviews with instructor Sean Adams, which you can read here, and graduate Scott Gandell, here.
Moving forward, during this semester you can expect some special speaker events in my “Thursday evenings at [...]
For my imPrint feature this week I interview Sean Adams. In my opening paragraph I mention a TeachEvil story I posted last year about Sean. And that story linked to another imPrint feature I wrote.
Does that make this TeachEvil post way too meta?
Anyway, my title is, “How Sean Adams Transforms His Childhood Insecurities into Brilliant [...]
Throughout AIGA National’s Pivot conference, none of the on-stage staff smiled anywhere near as much, or as radiantly, as Art Center’s own Sean Adams. To be fair, though, all the rest of that group hailed from East of here.
I’m happy to say I’ve gotten heaps of praise from my review of Pivot. Mostly, designers thanked [...]
I think this Four Icon Challenge by Kyle Tezak would make a great Communication Design 1 project (Sean? Whatddya think?). From the designer:
Lately I’ve been working a lot with icons. Trying to capture the essence of an object or idea with only a few lines and at the same time maintaining its elegance [...]
3×3: The Long Strange Journey of a Graphic Design Career
Wednesday, June 23
7:30pm–9pm
Featuring: Sean Adams http://www.adamsmorioka.com/
Tom Devine http://www.tomdevine.com/
Terry Lee Stone http://www.terryleestone.com/
Los Angeles Times Media Center (LAT)
Art Center College of Design, Hillside Campus
1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
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Each term the Graphic Design Department brings together three top creative minds to address a certain topic of interest. Join us for [...]
“Interiors” Architectural News, Chermayeff & Geismar, 1964
Way back in first term–knee high to a grasshopper as I was–we were assigned in Communication Design 1 to make a magazine cover for Architectural News using the idea of “fused metaphors.” We were told to make lists of each of the things to be represented (in our case [...]
Margo Chase, founder of Chase Design Group, joined us a few weeks ago for another thrilling installment of Design History with Michael Dooley. She gave a wonderful presentation about the importance of change, and how it relates to her work over the years. She and I caught up afterward to talk about running a business, [...]
Petrula Vrontikis is a strong contributing member of the Art Center community who not only teaches Advanced Graphic Studio and Portfolio classes, but also strives to represent us out in the real world. I first met her about four years ago at an Art Center event at the Landor offices in San Francisco. She came [...]
It is no secret that I follow Sean Adams around like an obedient puppy. I’ve been his TA for four terms now, and it was Sean who encouraged me to take on the presidential role, and also convinced me to go to the conference in Memphis. And well he should, as he recently completed his [...]
After what seemed like an endless day of airports, crying babies, and attempted homework, I finally arrived in Memphis. The AIGA socializing began even before I got off the plane, with Sean Adams aboard (small world, smaller city, American Airlines loyalty) and Shel Perkins, who I met later. We found Jay Ganaden (AIGA SF) after [...]