Job opps., workshops, call for entry, more about interactive digital media, Italian designers to explore.
Please list any of your own interdisciplinary-design-related posts by replying to one of these posts or by contacting me (utidea@yahoo.com) and I'll give you the login.

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Call for submissions:

thresholds 31: ephemera
Submissions due: 31 October 2005
Accepting a wide variety of media. Really interesting!
http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/CallForSubmissions/cfp31.htm
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Workshops, etc.:

Intensive vault building workshop
www.adobealliance.org/poster.pdf
Contact for more info.: simone swan, adobe alliance, 632 avenida celaya santa fe, nm 87506 (505)988-2828 cell:(832)277-4425
www.adobealliance.org, swan@adobealliance.org

2 hours of free Maya tutorial video content
http://3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_mfcinfo.php
Life drawing: $5 to sit in and draw a still life model.
http://www.art-facts.com/life-drawing/

OpenGL tutorials for the C++ programmer. Interdisciplinary learning tools.
http://3dbuzz.com/xcart/customer/product.php?productid=31&cat=2&page=1

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Job opportunities:

1. Charles Cowsert is looking for student(s) to design some book covers for publisher. He is particularly interested in hand drawn illustrations. His phone number: 301-1757.

2. I am a chef, artist, author, currently in Alaska on culinary assignment until Sept. I am in need of an artist / graphic designer, who can design a cover for a book I will be self-publishing. The title is: The Flying Apple Pie and Other Tales of Life and Gastronomy. The contents are short stories from my work as a chef on mega-yachts. The cover will be printed in black and white, so this is a fairly straight-ahead assignment. I envision this cover design including the title, author's name, and a small B/W graphic. Perhaps you can refer a student, or other professional in the UT art school who would have interest in this project - including you. Time frame is: initial meeting-end of Oct; completion within 3 months; suggested budget-$300, or $150 kill fee.

I appreciate your assistance,
David Larousse
dlarousse@hotmail.com

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Interactive digital media:

Serious games listserv e-mail:
seriousgames@listserver.dmill.com

Research by Jim Ferwerda at Cornell about visuals for the visually impaired taken to the application level.
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2001/B/200111737.html
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~jaf/projects/lovis/project_summary.htm

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Interesting info.:

Neat'o'list of Italian designers, 1900-1959 (courtesy Kate Catterall)

GIUSEPPE PELLIZZA DA VOLPEDO - painter
"The Fourth Estate" (Il Quarto Stato) or "Proletariat", 1898-1901,
oil on canvas, 293 x 545 cm,

Futurists
Maronetti - poet
Antonio Sant'Elia - architect
Umberto Boccioni - sculptor
Giacoma Balla - painter
Russolo - musician (art of noises manifesto)

De Chirico - painter

Radical politics that affected society and design in Italy during the 20th C.:
Mussolini 'Duce' - fascist dictator deposed in 1945
Brigate Rosse (red brigade) communist militants active throughout the 1970's

Cars
Alfa Romeo - Zagati design house
Fiat
Lambretta
Lamborgini
Lotus
Stanguellini

Specific designers
Terragni - Casa del Fascio
Gio Ponti - Pirelli Tower + furniture
Carlo Scarpa - architect, Venice predominantly
Marcello Piacemtini - fascist architect
Luigi Nervi - engineer/architect
Ettore Sottsass architect/furniture designer
Joe Colombo - furniture
Alessandro Mendini - architecture/furniture
Achille Castiglioni - furniture/lighting
Gaetano Pesce - furniture
Giovanni Lauda - architecture/furniture
Aldo Rossi - architecture/furniture
Andrea Branzi - designers, historian/writer

Office + Design groups
SuperStudio - radical architecture
Archizoom Associati
Studio Alchemia (Sottsass + Mendini)
Memphis (Sottsass)
Atalier Mendini

Product/ Furniture
Alessi - product
Cassini - furniture
B&B Italia - furniture
Kartell - furniture/product
Artimede - lighting
La Paconi - coffee machines etc.

Fashion (all clothing, unless otherwise noted)
Antonelli
Pucci
Capucci
Veneziani
Benetton (Tibor Kalman - Colors magazine - graphic designer, own
company M+Co. See online reference:
http://www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/05/19/kalman/)
Fiorrucci
Gucci
Furla
Armani
Prada
Versace
Alberta Ferreti
Salvatore Ferragamo - shoes

More films:
My Voyage to Italy - Scorcessi
Amacord - Fellini
L'Avventura - Antonioni
La Notte - Antonioni

Magazines:
Domus - founded by Gio Ponti
Abitare

Some related websites:
http://www.mosne.lacab.it/.../ scudero/a3/miniA3.html
http://www.ateliermendini.it/
http://home.tiscali.be/d.side/pag42_09.htm
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=51
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/design/exhibition/italy.asp