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‘ADAC (the Art Directors and Artists Club) presents What’s Next?, a panel featuring four Sac State graduates speaking about the different paths they’ve taken in the design world since graduating five years ago.’

ADAC’s first event in – oh, Lord knows how long – happens this coming Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at the AIA Central Valley Building in Sacramento. Details and pricing here.

Pictured: Four cool event posters by the four designers. Top poster by Christopher Lee; bottom event posters by Hans Bennewitz, Rob Martin and Jeffrey Tanhueco.

Click on images to view large/jump.

Found via Hedie Joulaee

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Directed by Andreas Hykade. From Germany.

Found via Oded Ezer

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‘ohhhh THATS how i become a graphic designer.’

If you can touch your toes, you’re in.

Found via jescellophane

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‘if graphic design did not exist, information would suffer, you’d die, and things would be ugly.’

This weekend, my alma mater – San Jose State University – is putting on their 2010 senior graphic design show – with two receptions scheduled.

Tough school. Even Businessweek thinks so – SJSU is one of their top 60 D-Schools worldwide. Always incredible work.

receptions
Friday May 21 and Saturday May 22, 2010 at art ark gallery in San Jose, CA. Details here (click on the people to see their work). Blog here.

Exhibition runs just under a week. Ends Thursday May 27, 2010.

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‘I actually glued those letters to my finger’

Photography by Richard Roche.

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‘First and foremost, not everyone can be a designer’

Here’s a great post from former student Raina Dayne. Read it here.

Follow her on Twitter.

Pictured: Moon by R. Dayne

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‘Giacomo Mojoli, vice-president of Slow Food International, contemplates what it means to mutually contaminate the sphere of food sensoriality with the wider one of material, manufacturing and creative sensoriality’

Applying the concepts of the Slow Food movement to design.

NYT article here. Recent article here. Website here.

Take your time, make something better. Very William Morris-like.

Illustration by Leigh Wells for the NYT

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Ratcat’s Candyman. From the 1993 album Insideout.

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I have a small collection of vintage menus. Some cards, matchbooks, other ephemera. My Joe’s and Googie stuff.

They just don’t make em like this anymore. Beautiful utilitarian type suggesting odd specials and Braised Swiss Steak.

Nothing worse than walking into a small town diner and seeing a computer-generated mess passing itself off as a menu. Happens too much these days.

Pictured, some finds from Flickr (better than what I have). More here, here and here. Best book I’ve found on the subject, Jim Heimann’s May I Take Your Order?

Jackie Gleason Orchestra: Yesterdays

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One more dish. But it’s for tomorrow. You have to soak the beans overnight.

Recipe here.

Recipe by José Andrés; photo by Patricia Heal

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Fucking go here.

Found via Robynne Raye
Recipe by José Andrés; photo by Sang An

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