http://designchat.info Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:23:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://designchat.info/2010-seek-design-conference/ http://designchat.info/2010-seek-design-conference/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:02:34 +0000 James Gray http://designchat.info/?p=3000 SEEK is a one-day design conference that has been organized by the students of Northern Illinois University for ten years. The event is run by the Visual Communication program at NIU. In the past, SEEK has played host to widely recognized designers including Paula Scher, Kyle Cooper, Chip Kidd, Joshua Davis and in the past year, Jakob Trollbäck and Massimo Vignelli. 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How are we going to celebrate this momentous occasion, you ask? We're sending one of our fans to CUSP!]]> http://designchat.info/dc-official-media-sponsor-of-cusp/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/urbanized-film-set-for-2011/ http://designchat.info/urbanized-film-set-for-2011/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:18:50 +0000 James Gray http://designchat.info/?p=2507   Filmmaker Gary Hustwit, has announced the subject of his third design documentary. Urbanized will focus on the design of cities and the issues of urban planning. The film will complete what Hustwit has referred to as his “design trilogy,” joining 2007’s Helvetica and 2009’s Objectified. The film is said to feature top architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers... 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