tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77353103232224009132024-03-12T21:25:02.946-07:00www.mkangeles.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-2739824327388689512010-02-07T13:19:00.000-08:002010-02-07T13:20:04.237-08:00I'm no longer on blogspot!<a href="http://WWW.MAKATTAK.TUMBLR.COM"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >WWW.MAKATTAK.TUMBLR.COM</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-74181143694165921072009-04-21T03:24:00.000-07:002009-04-21T03:37:18.125-07:00So, I haven't been blogging in a while.No, I swear I'm not broke and can't afford an internet connection. It just means I've got a new, real, 40-hr-a-week, full-time job! Right now I'm doing print and web design for Reed Taylor Fitness. For the past couple of weeks, I've been doing a bunch of research on Yoga and getting a feel of what colors, shapes, and patterns are usually being used in the design. Maybe I should actually try it. (Sike.) Work really starts this week with some simple photo editing, drawing up some book cover thumbnails and picking out some color schemes. I'm sort of just using this blog entry to recap what I've done and what I should be getting to. <div><br /></div><div>Pretty soon I'll be ridiculously busy beyond what I'm used to. <div><br /></div><div>I've finally re-enrolled for school at CSB for Multimedia Arts so classes start up in May. This doesn't mean I'll be dropping my full time job though. Yikes. </div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-29900314103045736922009-03-05T00:58:00.000-08:002009-03-05T01:04:35.694-08:00Velociraptour!<img style="width: 400px; height: 615px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/flyer.jpg" border="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-22628396353228636012009-02-14T16:05:00.000-08:002009-02-14T16:49:58.764-08:00Updated Portfolio!As I await the day my dual citizenship kicks in and I no longer have to deal with student visa applications, I also await the day I can start school... again. Lately I've been pumping out a bunch of sketches in my art journal, weird ideas and notes, and a crap load of cheap/volunteer design work. My print portfolio seems to be growing. Pretty soon I'll have new stuff in my Web and Identity sections, and maybe even a new layout, so come and visit the site again soon. (Assuming people other than prospective clients/employers actually view this.)<br /><br /><img src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/mk.jpg" border="1" /><br /><br />Til then, have a<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> Happy Love</span>-just-one-other-person-rather-than-love-everyone<br />-around-you-by-buying-them-loads-of-lame-stuff-made-in-china-on-February-the-<br />14th-and-make-the-world-jealous-lonely- bitter-angsty-and-uncomfortable <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">day!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">xo</span><br />MK!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-4795528665145491102009-02-13T23:06:00.000-08:002009-02-13T23:17:42.694-08:00Kindassault Records<img style="width: 500px; height: 937px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/afest4.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-54176526030279781742009-02-12T03:25:00.000-08:002009-02-12T03:26:47.814-08:00Epic Stop Motion<object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3089176&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed allowscriptaccess="never" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3089176&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="225" width="400"></embed></object><br><a href="http://vimeo.com/3089176">Mykonos</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/grandchildren">Grandchildren</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.<br><br>Mykonos by Fleet Foxes. I read off Design You Trust that this video took 4 weeks to make. Geezus. The things I could do if Youtube, Facebook, LastFM, Multiply, Myspace, and Instant Messaging didn't exist.<br><br>Production Credits: <br>Music: Mykonos by Fleet Foxes <br>Director/Animator - Sean Pecknold <br>Artist/Illustrator - Jesse Brown <br>Animation Assistant - Toby Liebowitz <br>Animation Assistant - Chris Ando <br>Produced by Grandchildren <br>Labels - Bella Union & Sub Pop <br>Special thanks - Ryan Rothermel, Matt Daniels, Miles Tillman, Thad Scott, Mike Ragen, That Go, Britta Johnson, Aja, Greg, Lisa, Smokey, Robin, Christian, Josh, Casey, and Skye. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-23430715121202362632009-01-30T21:35:00.000-08:002009-01-30T21:44:39.995-08:00Figgity Final<img style="width: 300px; height: 450px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/sample5.jpg" /><br /><br />So it's all come down to this design. They liked the pattern from the first sample and the light element from the second. The third ended up a great combination of the both. This final edit has the silhouette of the woman from the first sample rather than the second. Oh, geez how I wish I could be there for the event! I hope it goes wonderfully! I love you FiRE womyn! <3<br /><br />I'm not too sure if a lot of people view my blog, but it'd be great if people left comments and feedback! :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-62131590102463415232009-01-26T10:02:00.001-08:002009-01-26T10:03:33.225-08:00F.I.R.E FlierHere's an edit on the flier I was working on in the previous post.<br /><br /><img style="width: 337px; height: 500px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/sample3.jpg" border="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-31775151960682787532009-01-19T03:59:00.000-08:002009-01-19T04:40:08.374-08:00I'm a filipina too.Here are two versions of a flier I'm currently working on for <a href="http://www.firenyc.org/">Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment</a>:<br /><br /><img style="width: 280px; height: 414px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/sample.jpg" border="1" /> <img style="width: 280px; height: 414px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/sample2.jpg" border="1" /><br /><br /><br />Saturday, April 25, 2009, <a href="http://www.firenyc.org/">Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE)</a>, a volunteer-run, mass-based women's organization serving the New York City area, will celebrate the history and resistance of Filipino women in an all Filipina and Filipina-American artists' showcase.<br /><br />Diwang Pinay ("Spirit of the Filipina") is an annual performance and silent auction in New York City showcasing Filipina/ Filipina-American performers, writers, and visual artists. Diwang Pinay hopes to promote the work of Pinay artists everywhere and, following in the fold of Gabriela Silang, Lorena Barros and Bullet X Marasigan, redefine the "ilaw," the light and radiance that has represented Filipino women for decades.<br /><br />In the traditional Filipino family, while the father is considered the "Haligi ng Tahanan," the pillar of the home, the mother has long been regarded as the "Ilaw ng Tahanan," the light of the home. The dominion of the woman in Filipino culture is over taking care of the children, keeping a home and being responsible for the radiance of the household.<br /><br />Although, this might be the case for many Filipino women, the past 25 years have seen Pinays break out of this mold. Often, her duty has doubled working from sunrise to sunset, at home and at the workplace. And, more excitingly, a true testament to the will and strength of the Pinay, she has also taken up the responsibility to emerge as an integral figure of social change in the Philippines and in the US.<br /><br />This year's Diwang Pinay is embracing the tradition, revising its meaning, reflecting on women's advances and looking towards the future. In a commemoration of Filipino women's struggle, hardships and triumphs, Diwang Pinay's theme is "Light of the Nation, "Ilaw Ng Bayan": Celebrating 25 Years of Filipino Women's Resistance."<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Website Updates!!</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>Theres new work in my PORTFOLIO and I've added a little comment box under CONTACT.</span><br><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-7370188681903374872009-01-14T04:25:00.000-08:002009-01-19T04:31:12.212-08:00Like, oh my gawd.Cristiana Couciero's use of clean, clean, lines, and typography skillz rulez.<br /><br /><img style="width: 542px; height: 542px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/3075857374_11f3f36625_o.jpg" /><br /><img style="width: 542px; height: 542px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1342/3174185300_8d7bcfe5d1_o.jpg" /><br /><img style="width: 542px; height: 540px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2870320192_32e43daa59_o.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-85822438080814026732009-01-09T13:44:00.000-08:002009-01-09T14:30:24.375-08:00Insomnia strikes again!<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >*</span><br />I've eaten atleast 5 tons of spaghetti with garlic bread, a carton of chocolate milk, and I've put fresh new sheets on my bed.<br />I should be sleeping right now. The carb coma should have kicked in around 1AM after my spaghetti binge, but it hasn't.<br /><br /><br />(5:51AM):<br /><img style="width: 325px; height: 407px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/blah.jpg" border="1" /> <img style="width: 267px; height: 407px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/deneyes.jpg" border="1" /><br /><img style="width: 597px; height: 402px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/yowtf.jpg" border="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-32198093384380638542009-01-06T09:19:00.000-08:002009-01-13T13:28:50.503-08:00Fliers, upon fliers, upon fliers to design.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span></span><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.kylemcleod.com/"></a></span><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.kylemcleod.com/">ksteeeezy:</a></span> makes me want to grow a ponytail and party.</blockquote><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >"</span><br /><br /><img src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/meidayflyer2.jpg" border="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-17829306279122145962009-01-05T08:39:00.001-08:002009-01-14T12:07:41.217-08:002009 life =<ul><li>Exercise</li><li>Daily sketches/entries into my art journal</li><li>An organized desktop/file system</li><li>Hopping off the social networking sites</li><li>More paintings (I want to have a show sometime this year!)<br /></li><li>Continued work with <a href="http://www.progressivepoop.blogspot.com/">P.Poop</a> as a zine and street art project</li><li>More money making! (is needed. ugh.)</li><li>Regularly updating this site!<br /></li><li>More sleep at night</li><li>And more self-discipline</li></ul>Happy New Year/Home/Country/President/Love/All of the aboveUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-697645759453683862009-01-04T04:35:00.000-08:002009-01-04T05:22:04.941-08:00Bad Habits!Even though I ABSOLUTELY HATE a messy desktop, my attempt at keeping a clean, neat organized desktop has been a major failure. Everything just builds up whenever I see things I like on the web. (Much like clipping things you like from magazines.) This overflow happens every so often when I'm caught up in ideas or work. Lately, I've been losing sleep over my zine, unfinished books, some copy writing, and a few flyer samples that're sitting in my sketchbook waiting to be put into illustrator. WOMPWOMPWOMP.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3wZabwY96D7wWBDfnouhPODvOSdLBRHQLOIQAaAx4gsoH1oDbNV18k9WdDq8_eHRDxEPYCdTYr-LOIbJvltQB8aZIKzP735m5Acf-84nGCL409U7vqA6aFwia-SeVuiCesIz1HqO2j6M/s400/desktop.jpg" border="1">Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-88687739084218793732009-01-01T12:32:00.001-08:002009-01-13T05:33:28.620-08:00New years, new friends!<span style="font-weight: bold;">I've made a new friend:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.tengalgorhythm.blogspot.com">Tengal</a></span> is a Manila-based interdisciplinary media artist, composer-musician, and filmmaker working with various mediums. He curates and organizes, as well as participates in various media art shows in the Philippines and abroad. His work puts the focus on direct experience, risk-taking and personal interaction between artists and audience, and emphasizes the situational potential of live performance, the interplay of various media – sound and image, in particular – and candid exchange between sub-cultural and academic initiatives. He founded <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sabaw">SABAW Media Art Kitchen</a> – a not-for-profit, artist-run initiative and network platform for all kinds of information and communication carried via modern electronic media focused specially in the region of South East Asia.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">More info about the event:</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">After the WASAK year-ender, <a style="text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wasakfete.tk/"><i style="">Fete de la Wasaque</i></a>, (the festival that brought us 2-nights of wall shaking acoustic-meets-digital assault stirring acts), <b style="">SABAW Media Art Kitchen</b> opens this year with a very unique 1-hour "digital fireworks" display of live video art, live electronic music and live radio transmissions!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">SABAW is pleased to welcome California-based composer, pianist, electronic musician, instrument-builder, <a style="text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cbmuse.com/"><b style="">CHRIS BROWN</b></a>, who creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. He will be performing his <a style="text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cbmuse.com/transmissions/index.html"><b style=""><i style="">Transmissions series</i></b></a> in collaboration with media artist <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tengalgorhythm.blogspot.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tengal</span> </a>and the electronic sound-video performance collective, <a style="text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gangan-series.blogspot.com/"><b style="">The Gangan Ensemble</b></a>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The "<a style="text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cbmuse.com/transmissions/index.html">Transmissions</a>" series is an audience interactive, live electronic music performance series about the transmission of culture through the information media of sound and radio.<span style=""> </span>It redefines the relationship of performers and audience to the radio medium, opening audio spaces to unheard voices in diverse communities by emphasizing the ability of both to create both the content and the means of production of radio communication. For this performance, radios in automobiles are primarily going to be used since it provides a more familiar experience and is easily accessible today. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Using the outdoor parking space of Cubao X, Chris Brown and The Gangan Ensemble produce live electronic music, while video artist <a style="text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cavemanifesto.blogspot.com/"><b style="">Tad Ermitano</b></a> performs live video manipulation alongside the electro-magnetic sound tapestry. We are also pleased to feature the video works of California-based visual artist, <b style=""><a style="text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.johannapoethig.com/">Johanna Poethig</a>.</b><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10px;"> </span></b>The live music is mixed into a stereo channel, which is sent to a low-power FM radio transmitter, assigned to a unique frequency where people in the performance space can tune in.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The audience is encouraged to bring their own cars and park them along the parking strip of Cubao X and turn up their radios to create an expansive sound tapestry. Apart from car radios, they are also encouraged to bring portable radio receivers, especially battery powered boom-boxes, mobile phone radios, and to tune in to the transmission channels while moving around the performance space. The audience is thus made a creative partner in the performance of the music, and the event becomes an interaction between the musicians, audience, and the sounds presented in the transmissions.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Think: Drive-in cinema. The audience can watch the live video projection and performers by either sitting inside or staying outside their cars while listening to the music coming from their car stereos.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">According to Brown, "personal radios are electronic musical instruments that we all know how to play:<span style=""> </span>we adjust their loudness and tone-quality to our taste and we move them around in our environments to accompany us in our lives."</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p><br />And this is work (poster, web flyer, and logo) I've done for <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sabaw">SABAW Media Art Kitchen</a> & <a href="http://www.gangan-series.blogspot.com/">THE GANGAN SERIES</a><br />Check out their upcoming events with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Brown</span> (<a href="http://cityrag.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/11/chris_brown_3.jpg" target="new">not this guy</a>) at <a href="http://www.greenpapayaartprojects.org/">Green Papaya Art Projects</a> and <a href="http://cubao-x.blogspot.com/">Cubao Expo</a>.<br /><br /><img style="width: 640px; height: 494px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/sabawwebflyer.jpg" border="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-67043408145905045852008-12-31T11:33:00.000-08:002009-01-01T13:48:15.671-08:00My first zine.So I haven't been <span style="font-style: italic;">design</span> blogging as much as I should be,<br />but it's because I've been a bit busy working on tons of projects that half get worked on, half unfinished, and another half finishing.<br />(Does that make sense?)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Progressive Poop</span>, the streetart project, has turned into a handmade 32 page local (to Metro Manila) zine. It features several artists and writers in the area and is packed full of current events, social commentary, art, photography, poetry/creative writing, a giglist, upcoming art shows, and frustrating shit that just doesn't make any damned sense.<br /><br />For <span style="font-weight: bold;">50</span>php, you can have one <span style="font-weight: bold;">this friday!</span><br />I'll be at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Route 196 / <a href="http://www.rockedphilippines.org/" target="new">RockEd Philippines</a>' open forum on:</span><br /><a href="http://vicissitude-decidido.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-is-fucked-up.html"target="new"target="new"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Valley Golf Incident</span></a>. (i highly suggest you <a href="http://coolestbar.multiply.com/journal/item/69/This_VALLEY_GOLF_Incident_An_Open_Forum_Gig_Route_196" target="new">go!</a>)<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJax1fss1FH-rgqysNi4z6f07lgn7yvzgEaY_nuZTEFIIr7NUSnzMyLsDTxYUSmteqAJNPo928pfMOuDl7-eQyiHFS6nhBFCf3aLCCZV5o6g9MkwPxxR53FxytRyJFuXnhWZe-W_VxZK0/s400/cover.jpg" border="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-17123463379377978832008-12-04T01:59:00.000-08:002008-12-04T02:01:26.593-08:00Rock The Riles 2008<img src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v799/92/37/618028897/n618028897_1072185_1548.jpg"><br><img src="http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v799/92/37/618028897/n618028897_1072186_2007.jpg">Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-53075341943294322972008-11-20T13:31:00.000-08:002008-11-20T18:31:38.104-08:00i overuse the word awesome.<object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1172803&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed allowscriptaccess="never" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1172803&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="300" width="400"></object><br><a href="http://vimeo.com/1172803">2008Reelv1</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user539369">Jared Bowditch</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.<br> <!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-22314988369026909892008-11-10T11:50:00.000-08:002008-11-10T12:02:50.237-08:00doodling @ 3am<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeeNfeXzqvIujfP2Uo9c6IXmYUCpi23gGO4ynMR8HKJB6nVO8EJpAEOoYRfgoKKEi7WgKewLPufG27TmeNWM_WQtgF6hW4OPPgyCGopVkv7v91UdZHEoRBkWof-5I901hEt8GwlXsUIFk/s1600-h/Picture+12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeeNfeXzqvIujfP2Uo9c6IXmYUCpi23gGO4ynMR8HKJB6nVO8EJpAEOoYRfgoKKEi7WgKewLPufG27TmeNWM_WQtgF6hW4OPPgyCGopVkv7v91UdZHEoRBkWof-5I901hEt8GwlXsUIFk/s400/Picture+12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267120159054797186" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-49780474284514316552008-11-09T22:39:00.000-08:002008-11-09T22:45:27.367-08:00Maintream support for the Reproductive Health Bill.<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6dPTXsYoBLvySnV1L2NHYzz0_9qHBbPQ_BcfnLOW5BK9bLhj6mEf0K1Y48mqSyoE7lyqwjRzOWnLwz70xVReLz0lIKprK2k7t0atpdA1G0HxL69f3QOMq_JtYOMMaA6bv6jcnKORhvI/s1600/sample_5.jpg" /><br />"The Reproductive Health Bill<br />Don't let someone else speak for you.<br /><a href="http://www.rhbill.com">www.rhbill.com</a>"<br /><br /><a href="http://76.163.104.237/bbdoblog/index.php">BBDO Guerrero's</a> "Marie Claire Mouths" campaign will be featured in the next issues of Marie Claire. I personally have never bought a copy in my life, i'll be picking up the next one to check out the article.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-52499936587517573272008-11-08T03:53:00.000-08:002008-11-08T03:58:11.784-08:00re-blogged from AIGA's Cause/Affect blog.<ul class="posts"><blockquote><li id="post-21" class="post"> <h2 class="date"></h2><blockquote><h2 class="date"><blockquote></blockquote>Thursday / August 23 / 2007</h2> <h3 class="title"> <a href="http://causeaffect.aigasf.org/blog/what-is-design-for-social-good-anyway">What is Design for Social Good Anyway?</a> </h3> <div class="content more"> <p>The concept of Design for Social Good is not a new one. In 1963, Ken Garland penned his historic <a href="http://www.emigre.com/Editorial.php?sect=1&id=13" target="_blank">First Things First </a>manifesto – which in very simple terms stated that designers had wasted far too much time and effort working on projects advertising trivial items, while more worthy causes assumed lesser significance. Since then a debate about social responsibility has, to a greater or lesser extent, simmered in the design media.</p> <p>So pertinent was First Things First that in <a href="http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=18&fid=99" target="_blank">2000 Adbusters’</a> led the charge to publish an updated version of the manifesto and renew the demand that designers take greater social responsibility for their work. The manifesto asks us to consider where we stand in the system of mass production and daily consumption. If we don’t like what we see, we are asked to take greater responsibility for our part in this process.</p> <p>From climate change to social problems, this design competition is intended to honor those who have made social responsibility part of their working lives and chosen, often at their own expense, to pursue work for social good. It also offers us an opportunity to connect at the cause/affect awards ceremony at the AIGA SF office, on December 4, 2007. We look forward to seeing you then!</p></div></blockquote></li></blockquote></ul><br /><br /><span class="text10b"><b>First Things First Manifesto 2000</b></span><br /> <span class="text10b"> <br />We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it.<br /><br />Encouraged in this direction, designers then apply their skill and imagination to sell dog biscuits, designer coffee, diamonds, detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles. Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers do. This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession’s time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.<br /><br />Many of us have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this view of design. Designers who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.<br /><br />There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programmes, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.<br /><br />We propose a reversal of priorities in favour of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication – a mindshift<br />away from product marketing<br />and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.<br /><br />In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed the original call for our skills to be put to worthwhile use. With the explosive growth of global commercial culture, their message has only grown more urgent. Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart.<br /><br />Jonathan Barnbrook<br />Nick Bell<br />Andrew Blauvelt<br />Hans Bockting<br />Irma Boom<br />Sheila Levrant de Bretteville<br />Max Bruinsma<br />Siân Cook<br />Linda van Deursen<br />Chris Dixon<br />William Drenttel<br />Gert Dumbar<br />Simon Esterson<br />Vince Frost<br />Ken Garland<br />Milton Glaser<br />Jessica Helfand<br />Steven Heller<br />Andrew Howard<br />Tibor Kalman<br />Jeffery Keedy<br />Zuzana Licko<br />Ellen Lupton<br />Katherine McCoy<br />Armand Mevis<br />J. Abbott Miller<br />Rick Poynor<br />Lucienne Roberts<br />Erik Spiekermann<br />Jan van Toorn<br />Teal Triggs<br />Rudy VanderLans<br />Bob Wilkinson<br /></span><span class="text10b"><br /></span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b">-</span><span class="text10b"></span><span class="text10b"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I just thought this was very awesome and so worth the lame re-blog.</span><br /></span><blockquote></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-54658006956519131562008-10-28T09:21:00.000-07:002008-10-28T09:23:49.014-07:00my workspace; october '08<img style="width: 796px; height: 412px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/wspace.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-66665520821043133842008-10-28T02:08:00.000-07:002008-10-28T02:12:20.146-07:00i really should invest in a new scanner..<img style="width: 541px; height: 424px;" src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/playcamera.jpg"><br /><br />drawing, doodling, watercolor pencils.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-24657045636793041942008-10-25T07:54:00.000-07:002008-10-25T12:17:06.060-07:00coming soon to a wall near you.<img style="width: 310px; height: 414px;" src="http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/33/l_ffaa2af78508400daa14969394032e60.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735310323222400913.post-14658151112339724182008-10-22T09:23:00.000-07:002008-10-22T23:56:02.948-07:00charka and bestfriends with combsi hate that my horrible internet connection results in me having to post horrible quality quicktime movies.<br /><br /><embed src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/roto1.mov" autoplay="false" controller="true" loop="false" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" height="255" width="320"></embed><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.mkangeles.com/SAMPLES/roto2.mov" autoplay="false" controller="true" loop="false" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" height="255" width="320"></embed>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0