To Raise your grade
Only those who got a grade lower than a C on the exam may do one of the activities below to raise their grade to a C.
If anyone wants to guarantee a one grade raise on the final exam (c to b, b to a, d to c, etc.) you may do one of the following in advance of the exam. That means that if you got below a C on the midterm you can raise your grade by one activity and if you are worried about the final you can do one to raise your grade by one letter.
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Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present
September 15, 2007 - September 1, 2008
Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present opens Collab's new gallery in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building with a chronological look at the Museum's collection of modern and contemporary decorative art. On entering the gallery, object platforms joined together and punctuated by four vertical display cases illustrate major movements in design history: Art Deco and the Bauhaus; American and Scandinavian Modern Design; Italian Design; and Postmodernism. The exhibition includes favorite masterworks from the collection, along with large and small acquisitions that have never before been displayed.
Formed in large part since the founding of Collab in 1970, this collection beautifully and dramatically illustrates the history of design, focusing in some depth on the designers who created that history.
How to get the points? Verify your visit by bringing your paid ticket / brochure from show. Write a list of all of the Bauhaus items and write about any one item in the show---one or two paragraphs.
DUE: Send written report by April 24th via email
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Graphic Designer Extraordinaire Carin Goldberg
Thursday, April 10 --6pm
Bossone Research Center (Drexel)
3120 Market Street
Few designers have enjoyed the career Carin Goldberg has. Her work has been sought after by celebrities from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and Madonna to publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times. Carin's legendary career will be highlighted in a lecture Thursday, April 10th at 6 PM in the Bossone Research Center (3120 Market St.). As a guest of the Graphic Design program Ms. Goldberg will spend the evening discussing her work with such major American publishing houses as Simon & Schuster, Random House, Harper Collins and record labels Warner Bros., Motown and EMI.
Born in New York City, Carin studied at the Cooper Union and began her career as a staff designer for CBS before establishing her own firm Carin Goldberg Design in 1982. Her design work has garnered hundreds of awards including a Gold Pencil from the One Club. Her work was included in the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2006. Carin's book jacket for James Joyce's Ulysses has become an icon of postmodern design. Her recent projects include design of the book Last Letters Home: Voices of Americans from the Battlefields of Iraq that was based on the recent HBO documentary.
Since 1983, Carin has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is the author and designer of Catalog. The Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; the Cooper-Hewitt, New York; and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, China house permanent collections of her work. Her lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited so be sure to arrive early.
How to get credit?
See me I will be there’Ķarrange several days in advance to know how to find me. Write a half-page description of the event.
DUE: By April 17th via email
#3 / 3 Points
Collab Spring Lecture: Charles Eames Centennial: The Eames Design Legacy
At The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Van Pelt Auditorium, main building, ground floor
Friday, April 25, 2008
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
http://www.philamuseum.org/calendarEvents/adults/special_lectures.htm
Presented by Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles Eames
Free admission with student ID
To celebrate the Charles Eames Centennial Year, Eames Demetrios will give a talk about the design process and Eames philosophy, with a special emphasis on the profound impact Charles' upbringing and early career had on his future work (and thus design history).
Demetrios will use the breadth of the Eames work to underscore the importance of a commitment to design as opposed to style. In addition, he will share special treasures from the Eames family archives and screen the rarely seen short film Callot, which Charles and Ray made for Charles' Penrose Memorial Lecture at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia in 1974.
This lecture is generously supported by Mode Moderne and Herman Miller, Inc.
For more information, please contact The Division of Education by phone at (215) 684-7580, by fax at (215) 236-4063, or by e-mail at educate@philamuseum.org.
How to get credit? See me I will be there’Ķarrange several days in advance to know how to find me.
DUE: By May 1st via email