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pOn February 25th, a href=”http://www.anothercupdevelopment.org/”The Center for Urban Pedagogy/a (CUP) is hosting a pop-up workshop in the Lower East Side to launch their “Affordable Housing Toolkit,” the first of the ema href=”http://envisioningdevelopment.net/”Envisioning Development Toolkits/a/em. This series aims to “demystify the most important, controversial and confusing concepts in land use and development in New York City,” bringing the public into the conversation through an interactive set of educational materials./p

pThe Affordable Housing kit comes with an interactive felt chart that breaks affordable housing down into legible visuals, an a href=”http://www.anothercupdevelopment.org/affordablehousingbook.zip”affordable housing guidebook/a (the first ever illustrated guide on the topic), and an a href=”http://envisioningdevelopment.net/map”online map/a that instantly charts the income demographics and housing costs of any neighborhood in New York City./p

pBelow, a short video produced by CUP that outlines the basics:/p

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pVisit the launch party or attend any of the community workshops listed below for a demo of the kit . /p

pbCUP’s Affordable Housing Toolkit Launch Party/bbr /
Thursday, February 25, 6 – 8 pmbr /
61 Delancey St., New York City/p

pCommunity Workshops: February 24th and 26th, 10a, 1p, and 4p. Email john (at) anothercupdevelopment (dot) org to sign up./p

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On February 23rd, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum will host Design in the Face of Disaster, a discussion on how design can aid Haiti in both its rebuilding efforts and preparation for the future. The conversation will be led by Chris Hacker, the Chief Design Officer for Johnson & Johnson.

Panelists include Pierre Fouche, a Haitian earthquake engineer, Anna Muoio, Principal, Design Continuum, Social Innovation, Jean-Cedric Meeus, Emergency Coordinator of UNICEF Supply Division and Gerald Martone, Humanitarian Affairs Director for the International Rescue Committee.

The event is free, but be sure to register online first.

Design in the Face of Disaster
6:30-8:30 pm
February 23, 2010
New York City

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I found out a few hours ago and this news needed some time to sink in. I still can’t believe that I’m posting this amazing news… UPPERCASE is one of 16 finalists in the annual Society of Publication Designers’ Magazine of the Year category!!! And what a category! To be listed along with such iconic publications as The New York Times Magazine, Bon Appetit, Wired, GQ, Esquire, and Time… and well-respected award-winning art directors such as Fred Woodward, Deb Bishop, Matthew Lenning, Janet Froelich and Scott Dadich… to be included amongst these people and publications is certainly the high point in my career as a designer and more than I could have expected for a small, year-old, independent magazine from Western Canada.

Thank you to the panel of judges who took time to discover our relatively unknown magazine and decided to recognize it in such a manner.

A heartfelt thank you to editor-at-large Deidre Martin and to Jenny Tzanakos and my husband, Glen Dresser. And to our generous contributors, photographers and illustrators and other enthusiastic collaborators: thank you for sharing your talents and helping to make UPPERCASE a magazine with outstanding content and an inspiring publication to design. Thank you to our subscribers and stockists for keeping us going!

From the SPD.org website:

Magazine of the Year is the highest annual award SPD grants. It is given to the art director whose magazine demonstrates the most effective and imaginative use of design, typography, illustration and photography to promote the editorial message. The category is judged entirely by itself during the first day of judging, as the jury pores over three different issues from each entry in order to get a sense of both the highest high points and the steady consistencies the magazine the readers rely upon. Those scores, from the entire jury, created this pool of finalists for the jury to sift through again during the final round of judging on day three.

The sixteen finalists we share here are representative of this year’s strong and vibrant entries in the category, showing a wide and varied range of editorial challenges and solutions. Each is now officially a Merit winner for Magazine of the Year; from these sixteen we will announce the Magazine of the Year Medal Finalists on Friday, February 12th (this Friday! check back soon!) along with all the other Print Medal Finalists (so really: check back Friday for the FULL LIST OF PRINT FINALISTS ON THE SITE).

Our heartiest congratulations to each of these magazines and their creative teams, representing the best of the field from 2009, presented here in no special order other than alphabetical because we’re like that:

Blender
Creative Director: Dirk Barnett
Director of Photography: David Carthas

Bon Appétit
Design Director: Matthew Lenning

Cookie
Design Director: Kirby Rodriguez
Art Directors: Alex Grossman, Kristina DiMatteo
Director of Photography: Darrick Harris

ESPN The Magazine
Creative Director: Siung Tjia
Director of Photography: Catriona Ni Aolain

Esquire
Design Director: David Curcurito
Director of Photography: Michael Norseng

GQ
Design Director: Fred Woodward
Director of Photography: Dora Somosi

More
Creative Director: Deb Bishop
Director of Photography: Stacey Baker

New York
Design Director: Chris Dixon
Director of Photography: Jody Quon

The New York Times Magazine
Design Director: Arem Duplessis
Deputy Art Director: Gail Bichler
Director of Photography: Kathy Ryan

Real Simple
Creative Director: Janet Froelich
Design Directors: Ellene Wundrok, Cybele Grandjean
Photo Director: Casey Tierney

T, The New York Times Style Magazine
Creative Director: David Sebbah
Director of Photography: Kathy Ryan

Time
Art Director: Arthur Hochstein
Director of Photography: Kira Pollack

Uppercase
Creative Director: Janine Vangool

W
Design Director: Edward Leida
Art Director: Nathalie Kirsheh

Wired
Creative Director: Scott Dadich
Design Director: Wyatt Mitchell

Wired (Italy)
Art Director: David Moretti
Photo Editor: Francesca Morosini

Please come down to Art Central this evening for First Thursday festivities! Mike Kerr’s Show of Letters was hung last night and it is looking great. (UPPERCASE will be open from 3pm – 9pm today.)

I’ve got one month to go before the baby is due, so I will be working from home more and more (it is getting more difficult to walk/waddle/breathe these days!) So tonight is really the best time to come see the show (and purchase some affordable, original paintings) in person. There are plenty of First Thursday festivities (plus the opening of my landlords’ newest development project, Fashion Central, just a block away.)

The show will be posted in the online shop by the weekend.

The Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference is going on now at MIT in Cambridge, MA. Lucky for us, Form + Zweck is doing a wonderful job live blogging it, with constant reports on the best new projects and papers (check out the digital slingshot above) in tangible interactions and interfaces, complete with video.

If you’re keen on watching the rest of the conference, TEI is streaming live here. Today is the last day, but you can still catch Paper Session 4: Materials, Garments, and Light, Paper Session 5: Learning through Physical Interaction, a Panel Discussion on “Art Science,” and closing keynote by artist Vik Munoz. Or, just follow along on Flickr.

A few of our favorites from the Form + Zweck blog follow:

Jamming Gear, by So Kanno from the IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group, is a physical tool for composing and modifying music, based on a geared system that influences rhythm and synchronization. One gear revolution equals one loop of its sound. Pieces can be added or subtracted to change the overall composition. Form + Zweck make the point that the changes to pitch and tempo are controlled by an
“ordinary” switch in the center of each wheel instead of using other gear metaphors.

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