We’d like to congratulate Derek Roberti on the launch of Should I Go to Law School? The $100,000 Gamble. It’s a critical framework for making informed decisions on the implications of joining the esteemed profession.

To communicate both this seriousness and sense of adventure, the confident book and CD design clarifies advice with a vibrant color palette, clean, simple layouts and a well mannered contempt for the more typical legal imagery — court buildings, chess boards, columns.
You can buy it here.

Please join us, our AIGIASF Continuum and AIGA friends in honoring San Francisco’s 2011 Fellows — Linda Hinrichs, Michael Mabry, Dugald Stermer as well as our local AIGA 2010 Medalist, Jennifer Morla.

So let’s cheer — all net proceeds will benefit the AIGASF Scholarship Fund. This year, 12 scholarships will be awarded to students across Northern California and will be acknowledged at AIGA SF Portfolio Day in June.

We’re incredibly pleased to be recognized among such prestigious company for HOW Magazine’s 2011 International Design Awards.

Throughout March we’ve been busy scouring the city for as many copies as we can find and, before discretely slipping them back into circulation, ironing them flat to page 107. There, under ‘miscellaneous’, you’ll find the graphic system and Tiger T for our Goods at NOON initiative.

Steve Oscherwitz is an artist exploring the evolving intersection between art and science; culture and technology; the brain’s logic and imagination.

Take a look the logo we designed – it’s based on the simple idea that
physicists consider Star Trek inspiring, painters find mathematical logic beguiling and weavers are energized by architecture. Creative types, eh?... they talk in riddles and ask a lot.

If wisdom can be found anywhere, perhaps start with Sedona. The Wise Women Circle is an arts and media production company of thinkers and crafters.
Based on ‘genuine revelation’, the logo encapsulates the heartfelt trust expressed through one’s own hand. A friendly signature to many narratives, the brand functions as a short-hand for ‘guarantor’, proud of its identity as an intellectually honest community and, we hope, might get you interested in folding.

The future yawns before CCA’s senior Graphic Design students across a spectrum of potential horizons. It’s a tense time so pop along, say hello and celebrate their recent thesis accomplishments. Open to the public, the day-long presentations include thesis projects, portfolios and other experimental student work.

While you’re there, you may want to check out CCA’s other programs; the lecture series, architecture, design, design strategy, fine arts, visual & critical studies, curatorial and writing.

We’re pleased to announce our offering to the House of Air and MINE fundraising auction for local charities. Based on the idea of coaxing the graphics out of the material itself, the deck suggests how skateboarding is about an acute relationship to surfaces and the enjoyment of urban landscapes. With a handy burning tool, we traced the wood’s natural veins, providing a contour effect typical of topographical maps. We hope it and all the other contributions raise some serious lolly.

With Chronicle Books, we’re pleased to announce the launch of Amy Butler’s Style Stitches – a modern and accessible sewing project book of purse and handbag designs. With textured imagery and subtle layouts conveying the author’s sense of personal craft, it presents simple approaches to creating sophisticated style statements.

Get it here.