Costumes from a wilder time

Halloween is on it's way. Check out some of these amazing costumes in demilked magazine photographed by Charles Freger who traveled through 19 European nations to create this series Wilder Mann.

Help Empower Future Leaders: underserved youth in the Treobytes Program

We are looking for SDCC Design students willing to help empower kids to learn, create and develop the next great app, website or logo through the Treobytes Program. See  their website http://www.treobytes.com. Ava Mason who coordinates this effort  hopes to integrate college students into the instruction. She is looking for students to lead the instruction for the after school program.  This would require 2-4 students for 1.5-2.0 hours per week on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.  The students will be learning basic Illustrator techniques, basic website development and social media.  Beta testing will take place November 18-22 at Albert Einstein Academy. If you want to learn more about this or help please contact Ava Mason

Connecting with Alumni Andrea Carrillo

Humor. Chronic Dissatisfaction (the always unfinished project). Borderless.

These are some of the main ideas that have defined my design practice throughout the years.  I believe that as designers, we shouldn’t take ourselves to seriously and we should be able to laugh at ourselves, a little.  Although it may seem negative, my constant dissatisfaction with my work pushes me to improve as a designer and never settle. I strive for a borderless practice, where I become an anthropologist, a writer, a content creator: attempting to redefine what a graphic designer is.

I am a graduate from Art Center College of Design. Over the last years I have had the opportunity to collaborate with people and studios from very different industries. My work has spanned from cultural to commercial, with projects for film, architecture, education, advertising, and more.

One of the things that I am most grateful for from studying at SDCC is the professors’ unconditional dedication to the program and its students. Their constant support allowed me to create a portfolio that led to a scholarship at Art Center, and brought me to where I am today.

Some of Andrea's most recent work can be found here.

Art Center at SDCC this Wednesday October 9 -11:30-12:30

This coming Wednesday Ryan Perez, Assistant Director of Admissions at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena will be on campus. All design students are invited to Room V403A at 11:30-12:30 in the afternoon. 

You can learn more about the program and see examples of their stellar work. 

See you there!

Armin Vit: AIGA San Diego event

Thursday, September 26, 2013

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

New School of Architecture and Design

1249 F Street

San Diego, CA 92101

There are the lucky ones who, through a combination of talented hands and eyes and brains and hard work, can create dazzling typographic compositions that make designers gasp in jealous awe. Then there are the rest of us.

Armin will show some of the best and worst typography choices he has made over the course of 15 years, from the crappy days of dot-com design to his stint at Pentagram to his own projects at UnderConsideration— most of which have been really very decently good. For the most part.

About Armin. Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration, a graphic design firm and publishing enterprise all rolled into one. While he has written for most of the well-known trade publications, he is better known for his writing on the blogs that make up the UnderConsideration online network, as well as from the books he has co-authored with his wife and partner, Bryony Gomez-Palacio— their most recent efforts being Graphic Design, Referenced and the self-published Flaunt. Through UnderConsideration’s Department of Design he designs corporate identities, books and web sites for a few clients.

- See more at: http://sandiego.aiga.org/event/a-night-with-armin-vit/#sthash.Puq8Vscu.dpuf

Alumni Garrett Patz of Departure

Sharing the work of SD City College alumni Garrett Patz who hails from Departure. This full cranium agency focuses on business challenges blending creativity and digital know-how. We asked Garrett to share some of the projects he has worked on like this airport rooftop campaign for the most grueling physical test on the planet. This was hand painted so as you fly in, there it is and it's HUGE!  Here is the  Dinner Date video he worked on and Garrett's amazing projects have been featured in books like Relogo: Redesigning the Brand. To view Garrett's personal work visit his website Cogniform. As a student at SDCC he designed this beautiful vodka packaging that was featured in books and websites like Lovely Packaging. 

Leanna Jones in Brand ID Magazine

A big shout out to Leanna Jones as the packaging she created in Portfolio Building Class was recently featured in Brand ID Magazine. Leanna won best cross cultural design at the AIGA San Diego 2013 Review and was hired at Digitaria. Portfolio Building Class will run again this Spring so join us!