Films from GSU Community-based Media Class

These annual screenings have been very inspiring. They are also a chance for you to see what you could participate in as part of this yearly class.

May 1st @ 8pm
Com-Based Media EYEDRUM Benefit/Screening Event
The GSU Department of Communication in collaboration with vibrant Atlanta community voices present...
"Crosswalk Collective," a benefit screening at EYEDRUM on May 1st.
GSU Community Based Media Production students will screen six short documentaries produced in collaboration with Unidos Elementary School, the Boys and Girls Club, Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children, Fourth Ward residents, Katrina survivors and Atlanta graffiti artists.
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- Doors open at 7:30 pm and screenings will begin at 8:00 pm.
- Suggested donation: $3 w/ raffle at the door.
**All proceeds go to benefit the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women & Children and the Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta.**
Contact: Niklas Vollmer / niklas@gsu.edu / 404.413.5640
Directions: http://www.eyedrum.org
290 MLK Jr. Drive SE, Atlanta, GA 30312

Project Descriptions:
- A Place of Hope: The Atlanta Day Shelter serves women and children by helping them renew hope, gain stability, and empower themselves to leave shelter life behind and prosper in the community.
- Displaced in Atlanta: a glimpse into the memories of a family that experienced Katrina together. You will hear their stories of displacement and resettlement, horror and loss. This film gives a voice to one family that is a part of a much larger community. The community of Katrina victims displaced by Katrina into the Atlanta community.
- A peak into the life of Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward. It is a collection of old memories and new hopes for the neighborhood.
- A creative collaboration with the Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta, emphasizing the unique and often powerful voice of our youth through visual and written expression.
- Unidos Elementary students are learning in a very unique way. Taught in both Engish and Spanish, the kids are learning what it means to become truly Unidos.
- An exploration of Atlanta-based graffiti artists and their practice, which ranges from the harrowing fringe to more the mainstream and in-between.
Hope you can make it!
Niklas Vollmer
Associate Professor of Film & Video

Hustwit's OBJECTIFIED May 13th

Wednesday, May 13th, 7pm
The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) invites you to a special screening of Objectified--Part of the MA "Design is Human" Event and Home Tour.
Plaza Theatre 1049 Ponce De Leon Ave. Atlanta GA 30306
Post-screening Q&A with director Gary Hustwit and special guests. Presented by the Museum of Design Atlanta, AIGA Atlanta, and IDSA Atlanta. Tickets $20 general public, $15 for AIGA, IDSA, and Museum of Design members.
MA (Modern Atlanta) 09 Design is Human will feature:
* Modern Home Tours May 16-17
* MA Launch Party, Architect Models and Renderings, and Modern Design Exhibit featuring local designers and student work from GA Tech at White Provision
* MA ology Italian Design Event, Fashion Show & Fundraiser for CARE at White Provision featuring the paintings of Marco Grassi, fashion by Jeffrey and a exhibit of the iconic Sacco Chair by Zanotta
* MA Talks at The High Museum featuring the Metropolitan Home Magazine panel discussion on CRAFTdesign‚ with their Creative Director Linda O’Keeffe, and a presentation by Architect Anthony Ames
* Objectified documentary screening sponsored by MODA, AIGA Atlanta, ASID Atlanta and MA
* MA Film Series at The High Museum featuring Koolhaas/Houselife by Rem Koolhaas and City of Dreams
* An evening and book signing with renown designer Clodagh at DEX Studios
* Modern art show and reception in the modern flat designed by architect Robert Trestch at The Mansion on Peachtree
* Open House at Portfolio Center featuring a talk by Dragon Rouge founder Marcus Hewitt
* New product launches, inspiring talks and receptions at SieMatic, bulthaup and Poggenpohl
* And much more‚ ¨¶

The Failure of Comic Sans

A friend shared this article with me about the failure of Comic Sans. I found it very amusing and wanted to share it: Typeface Inspired by Comic Book Has Become a Font of Ill Will

"Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer."

Typecon 2009 July 15 through 19 in Atlanta

Website still under construction
Consider getting involved now and let me know if you would like to volunteer

Ellen Lupton at Portfolio Center Thursday April 30

DETAILS, DETAILS
AIGA Members: $10 adv. / $15 at door
AIGA Student Members: $5
Non-Members: $15 adv. / $20 at door

Doors 6PM, Lecture 7PM
Ellen Lupton's Design Rant! Learn what�??s wrong with dumb quotes, hotel rooms, roller bags, the food pyramid, and more, much more. Ellen Lupton is obsessed with promoting design thinking and design practices to general audiences: writers, artists, kids, working fathers, and radical housewives. The D.I.Y. movement is part of the future of design; it is affecting every intellectual industry, from politics and journalism to music and rocket science. How is it affecting you? Designers are becoming evangelists of their own expertise, as well as breaking into countless new fields themselves that once were protected by barriers of professional knowledge. Today, anyone can be a designer (if they try)�??or a publisher, pundit, rock star, or filmmaker.