D e s i g n I n q u i r y

D e s i g n I n q u i r y '03(the Fifth Business)

OFF THE PAGE …type in Motion
July 28 — August 8 2003 Portland Maine, Maine College of Art

You are invited to LECTURE • DEBATE • EXHIBIT • RESEARCH • PERFORM • WATCH • WORK •

DesignInquiry* is a crossroads of shared interests. In an exchange of individual (interdisciplinary) projects, a fertile environment is generated where Knowledge, Practice and Play converge to engage a topic in Graphic Design.
The best this place has to offer is the exchange …all experiences will be recorded and revealed in a publication on this year’s topic: DesignInquiry : OFF THE PAGE …type in Motion.

*the condensed and evolved MSIGD : Maine Summer Institute in Graphic Design Maine College of Art: MECA

>SPONSORS >WORDS ON THE TOPIC >DAILY SCHEDULE >WHO ELSE IS COMING >WORKSHOPS >ADD TO THE ISSUE >QUESTIONS/ANSWERS >SIGN UP FOR THE AFTER-PUBLICATION >ORDER A POSTER >APPLICATION >COSTS >CREDIT >HOUSING >CONTACT US

OFF THE PAGE …type in Motion, an introduction

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With continuing possibilities and subsequent needs of the web, cell-phone and car-displays, complex traffic signs and computergames: -where the presentation of a text is non-physical, framed and time-based-, the number of parameters the designer has to decide on changed enourmously when compared to print design.

In a profession where: position, length, wideness, size, weight, pattern, color, direction and shape seemed to be enough to describe a result; now, with motion; dimension, time, movement, morphing, sound, linearity versus non-linearity and even interaction becomes urgent.
Wow!

Looking at type in motion from the last decade, it is easy to be seduced. But the codes of conduct of gesticulating type is still under construction while we are hardly aware of its particular history or paths designers instigate.

Because language is a part of daily life and typography is a visual counterpart, it is evident that next to typographers, designers and typedesigners also ‘others’, are challenged and occupied with the articulation of text _off the page_. But a difference by technology, the kind of document and the intended audience does not shut the door for an exchange of thoughts or experiences. Therefore we gather: designers, moviemakers, poets, performers, dancers, typedesigners, critics, musicians, traffic-managers, … who are able to tell or show each of us more about this subject. Each from another point of view. Each from the heart of it. Each to the heart of it.

DesignInquiry does not want to repeat the expected, but is willing to engage the search; escape the obstacles and the serious gaps in ones knowledge by defining questions often hidden in results.
DesignInquiry wants to unravel this magic; make clear what has (always) been known,

With love,
Melle Hammer

read also
communicative design by Ewan Lentjes & Jan van Toorn
recommended sites by Max Bruinsma, Steve Bowden

Add to the issue

As you will understand, the summer gathering of DesignInquiry 2003 is continuously under construction:
Our aim is to organize twelve loaded days and bring about a kaleidoscopic view on this year’s topic: OFF THE PAGE …type in Motion.
Please provide us (email Margo or Melle) with essays, articles or just short thoughts (no problem if it’s been published before). Give us a link to an interesting website, the title of a movie, a clip or a play, names (and addresses) of performers, writers, artists, designers, architects, composers, ‘whatever‘s’, who you would like us to introduce to the DesignInquiry.

Consider to apply to come for one week or two weeks or a weekend this summer or sign up for the after-publication.

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PROGRAM : DesignInquiry 2003
July 28 — August 8 2003 Portland Maine
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mon jul 28
10.00 OPENING: How and What and Who of DesignInquiry
INTERVIEWS/participants present their project/what they brought with them
INTRODUCTION WORKSHOP TOPICS
21.00 BAR: with music/visuals
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tu jul 29
INTERVIEWS/participants present their project/what they brought with them
FEEDBACK WORKSHOP TOPICS/CASE HISTORIES
21.00 MOVIE: explained and discussed
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wed jul 30
INTERVIEWS/participants present their project/what they brought with them
14.00 FEEDBACK: DesignInquiry
21.00 MOVIE: explained and discussed
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thu jul 31
11.00 WORKSHOP TONIGHT’S PRESENTATION introduced and coached
20.00 PRESENTATION at Portland Museum of Art
- explanation of designinquiry - movie and: what we have done so far
21.00 BAR: music/visuals
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fri aug 01
INTERVIEWS/participants present their project/what they brought with them
20.00 DINNER (mussels) with the new arrived guests
21.00 BAR
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sat aug 02
11.00 OPENING ‘a festival of lessons and carols’
–lectures, debates, presentations, performances
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sun aug 03
11.00 OPENING ‘songs of innocence and experience’
–lectures, debates, presentations, performances
20.00 EVALUATION
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mon aug 04
10.00 OPENING: How and What an Who of DesignInquiry
INTERVIEWS/participants present their project/what they brought with them
INTRODUCTION WORKSHOP TOPICS
21.00 BAR: with music/visuals
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tu aug 05
INTERVIEWS/participants present their project/what they brought with them
FEEDBACK WORKSHOP TOPICS /CASE HISTORIES
21.00 MOVIE: explained and discussed
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wed aug 06
INTERVIEWS/participants present their project/what they brought with them
14.00 FEEDBACK: DesignInquiry
21.00 MOVIE: explained and discussed
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thu aug 07
11.00 WORKSHOP TONIGHT’S PRESENTATION introduced and coached
20.00 PRESENTATION at Portland Museum of Art
- explanation of designinquiry - movie of what we have done so far,
21.00 BAR: music/visuals
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fri aug 08
EVALUATION / ‘…everyone knows: this is not the end.’
20.00 DINNER, DRINKS, PARTY
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mon .. – fri .. aug
10.00–17.00 live projection of Margo, Melle (and some Helpful Assistants) editing and designing the after-publication.

read also
application form part 2

Guestlist/Participants in alphabetical order

Steve Bowden | may 9 - 1972, Maine
website-contribution
Upon graduation from Maine College of Art in 1997 Steve attended Bennetton’s Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. In 1998, he relocated to New York City where he was won in a poker game by The Chopping Block, Inc. In 2001 he and his wife Allison returned to Maine to start their own design shop 8.5x11 dedicated to humor and humanity in life and work. Steve is currently an adjunct professor of New Media at Maine College of Art and is probably working on this site at this very moment.

Max Bruinsma
website-contribution
max.bruinsma@xs4all.nl Leading international critic of graphic design. Former editor of Items (Amsterdam) and Eye (London) design magazines, he is based in Amsterdam. His upcomming book, ‘Deep Sites - intelligent innovation in contemporary webdesign’ (Thames & Hudson, March 2003), scrutinises the design- and cultural implications of the web. Among many other things, he is currently researching new methods for ‘enhanced on-screen reading’, in collaboration with interface designer Joes Koppers http://www.usemedia.com. A generous selection of Max’s earlier writing can be found on his personal site: http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb.

Harold Groot | Attending nov. 4 - 1972, the Netherlands
July 28 – August 8
Left university (majoring in cont. history and journalism) in my final year to study New Media at the Dutch Film Academy. Graduated with a game concept focusing on storytelling. Co-founder of the new media studio Shosho in 1998, together with Thaumar Rep. Over the past four years we’ve created numerous programs, installations and film and video effects for broadcasters, companies and museums - both in the Netherlands and abroad. Together with Thaumar Rep; your computer/programming assistant.

Margo Halverson | sept. 16 - 1956, North Dakota
Attending July 28 – August 8
alicedesign.com | mhalverson@meca.edu : Founder with Melle Hammer, Margo was the Director of the Maine Summer Insitute in Graphic Design for the past 10 years. Now she moves the program to the next place with Melle. She teaches graphic design at Maine College of Art full-time, designs books and other and is mother and vigelent observer of Jack and Cora, 4 & 6 with Charles Melcher.

Melle Hammer | march 17 - 1956, the Netherlands
Attending July 28 – August 8
xc2me@xs4all.nl : Together with Margo Halverson redeveloping the summerprogramm of Maine College of Art. Typographer. Designer. Teacher. Lingering between art, design and advertising. Easily seduced to design a table, a chair or a stage set. Every now and then: a movie or a poem comes out. Always: questioning ‘the spot’. On and on surprised, incenced or in love. Lost? Found!

Ewan Lentjes
website-contribution
Ewan Lentjes is a publicist and one of the editors for the designmagazine Items. He teaches design theory at the Arnhem Institute of Arts. Contributed, in collaboration with Jan van Toorn, with an article mentioning some urgent notions on type in motion.

Thaumar Rep | june 28 - 1973, the Netherlands
Attending July 28 – August 8
Attended The Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden (college of professional education) and studied New Media at the Dutch Film Academy. Graduated with a game concept focussing on character behaviour. Co-founder Shosho, a new media and visual effect studio. Since 1998 we’ve worked on numerous programs, installations and film and video effects for broadcasters, companies and museums - both in the Netherlands and abroad. Together with Harold Groot; your computer/programming assistant.

Sponsors in alphabetical order

Millennium Graphics, Norwood MA: poster (printing)
Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc.: poster (paper)

DesignInquiry advisors in alphabetical order

Anne Bush
Anne Bush is a graduate of Yale University and chairs the design program at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Her work spans writing, graphic design, and site-specific installations. Her writing on design has been published by Emigre, Visible Language,Design Issues, the American Center for Design Journal, and Visual Communication. Her design work has been recognized by I.D.Magazine, the AIGA, Print, the American Center for Design, and EYE. She has been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France and a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

Peter Hall
Peter Hall is a writer and design critic based in New York. He is a contributing editor for Metropolis magazine and research fellow for the Design Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he edits the online conference review, Knowledge Circuit. He also teaches a seminar on design theory at Yale School of Art’s MFA graphic design program. He has written widely about design in its various forms, from TV graphics and neon lights to bridges and spaceships for publications including Architecture, Creative Review, The Guardian and The New York Times. He wrote and co-edited the books Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist and Sagmeister: Made You Look and co-authored Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics.

Doug Lloyd
www.flat.com : Doug Lloyd lives and works in NYC. He is a Founding Partner of Flat Inc., a design firm founded in 1996. Flat has worked on projects that are educational, political, industrial, artistic and entertaining in nature. Doug, with Flat co-founder Tsia Carson, were profiled in International Design Magazine’s ‘ID’s 40 under 30’ (40 influential designers under 30 years old) in 2000. He has taught at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Parsons in NYC and is currently a Lecturer at Yale in the Graduate Program for Graphic Design. Doug serves on the Board of Directors for the Church of Craft and is volunteering time to help start a foundation for social enterprise with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School Alumni Associations.

Douglass Scott
Douglass Scott is Design Director at the WGBH television and radio in Boston. He is also consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts.In addition to his WGBH work, he has designed books, identity programs, exhibitions, and publications for many clients.
Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography, and graphic design history at the Rhode Island School of Design (since 1980) and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale University School of Art (since 1984). He has also taught at the Boston Architectural Center, Harvard University, and Maine College of Art. Since 1989, Scott has been actively constructing and exhibiting paper collages and sculptures.
Since 1978, Scott has given over 150 lectures on the history of design and printing at various colleges, universities and symposia, and has been curator of many design exhibitions.

Nancy Skolos & Thomas Wedell
Skolos & Wedell Design,Charlestown, MA USA
skolos-wedell.com : Skolos/Wedell is an interdisciplinary design and photography studio. Clients include Digital Equipment Corp., boston Acoustics, Kloss Video Corporation, Sensimetriscs and Viewlogic, EMI Music Publishing, Walker Art Center and Hasbro. Skolos/Wedell’s work has been widely published and exhibited both here and abroad. Posters are included in the graphic design collections of MOMA, NY, The Isreal Museuum, Jerusalem and the Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich. Both are faculty in Graphic Design at RISD.

Lucille Tenazas
tenazasdesign.com : Lucille Tenazas is principal of Tenazas Design, a multi-disciplinary design firm based in San Francisco. Her design reflects an interest in the complexity of language and the overlapping relationship of meaning, form, and content. By merging the poetic and the pragmatic, she achieves a fluid and flexible approach to design, one that is human as well as critical. Educated in Manila, the Philippines, Lucille studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) and received her MFA in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Lucille is currently the Chair of the newly established MFA program in Design at CCAC responsible for shaping its three-pronged curriculum in the areas of form-giving, teaching and leadership. As an educator for the last 17 years, she has been a visiting faculty at various art and design colleges here and abroad. In 1995, she was honored as one of the I.D.Forty, I.D.Magazine’s third annual selection of 40 of America’s leading design innovators. Retrospectives of her work have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996) and most recently at the Ayala Museum in her native Philippines (1998). In 1998, Lucille Tenazas became a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), joining a select few designers invited to represent the United States. From 1996-1998, she served as the National President of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), representing the first presidential appointment made outside of New York in the organization’s 80-year history.

Julia Whitney
Ms. Whitney is currently the Director of Interactive Design at WGBH in Boston, where she oversees a staff of 20 designers producing Web sites for a number of PBS television series, including NOVA, American Experience, ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, ZOOM, Arthur, and Between the Lions. In previous positions at WGBH she designed CD-ROMs, interactive TV projects, and Web sites for programs such as This Old House and Mystery! She also designed and co-produced award winning Web sites for the PBS miniseries A Science Odyssey and Culture Shock. Ms. Whitney received a B.A. in Mathematics from Brown University in 1988 and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale University in 1994. From 1996 to 2001 she taught graduate-level interaction design at the Yale School of Art’s Graphic Design program, where she continues to serve as a guest critic. Ms. Whitney has spoken widely on design at conferences and symposia for organizations such as the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and Yale University.

Janet Zweig
Janet Zweig is a New York-based artist working in sculpture, book-art, and installation. Zweig’s work with words, sentences and reading is an outgrowth of her earlier work with book-art. Her work is visually as well as conceptually tied to electronic media. Zweig has exhibited in a number of group shows as one-person exhibitions. She has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts visual Fellowship: Sculpture, and the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowship: Artists’ Books, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and is a Visiting Critic at Yale University. She has also been a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design. Zweig is represented in several permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She received her BA from Cornell University and her MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop.

Sign Up : DesignInquiry 2003 : OFF THE PAGE …type in Motion

5.5”x8.5”/black+1 color/128 pages/1000 copies/edited and designed by Margo Halverson and Melle Hammer

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application for admission
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order a poster (the 1st quire)

We will make the book available at the lowest possible price. But we are still in search for a publisher. If you sign up now this will be very helpful to find one. We will confirm your order before shipping.

To reserve your copy, email Jeanne with your name, address, phone number and email address. We’ll contact you with the price and schedule when this information becomes available.

email Beth with your address and email address and we’ll send you a poster.

(Folded it is the 1st quire of the after-publication)
18”x24”/black and yellow, designed by MH

sponsored by: Madnock Paper Mill Inc.: paper
Millennium Graphics, Norwood MA: poster (printing)

Application for Admission

Applications will be reviewed beginning March 15, 2003.

make your choice
> $ 895 July 28 — August 3 before
> $ 895 August 2 – August 8 after
> $ 1,500 July 28 — August 8 complete program
> $ 3,000 July 28 — August 8 complete program for 3 BFA credits
> $ 300 August 2 & 3 THE WEEKEND

Credit
Three college credits are awarded for the complete program which includes pre and post research TBD. Maine College of Art is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Insuring credit transferability is each participant’s responsibility.

Refunds
100% of tuition charges will be refunded for withdrawal from the Institute before June 29 and 50% refunded for withdrawal between June 30 and July 22. No refunds will be made after July 23. The application fee is non-refundable. All withdrawal requests must be made in writing to Director of Special Programs, Maine College of Art, 97 Spring Street, Portland, ME 14101, or Beth Panzini.

Payment
Full payment of all tuition and fees is due on or before June 29, 2003.

Administration
Beth Panzini, Director of Special Programs
Greg Murphy, Dean of the College, VP for Academic Affairs

Maine College of Art does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, age, handicap, national or ethic origin, or sexual orientation.

Admission
Admission is based upon 1 evidence of eagerness in the topic, 2 project proposal 3 evidence of talent and 4 assumed capability of working in collaboration, through a 5 portfolio review

To Apply
1 Complete the application forms 1&2.
2 Send ZIP DISC or CD with your portfolio in a slide show format or a URL with an online portfolio.
3 Send a $40 non-refundable application fee, check or money order made out to Maine College of Art.

You will be notified of acceptance no later than three weeks after we recieve your application. The Maine College of Art reserves the right to withdraw or modify the DesignInquiry at any time. Participants will be notified in advance.

Application for Housing

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> $255 Double occupancy/per person July 28 — August 3 before
> $305 Single occupancy* July 28 — August 3 before
> $255 Double occupancy/per person August 2 — 8 after
> $305 Single occupancy* August 2 — 8 after
> $480 Double occupancy/per person July 28 — August 8 complete program
> $570 Single occupancy* July 28 — August 8 complete program