jam session
Taeyoon Choi wrote about his visit to Rutgers. Read about it here. It was a very fun workshop.
Month: March 2013
HACK RU
Come join the 3D Printing Club this Saturday and Sunday at the annual Rutgers Hackathon! For more information visit:
University Career Services is Looking for a Graphics Design Coordinator
HR Job Title: Edit/Media Asst
Operational Title: Graphics Design Coordinator
Position Number: 13-‐000687
Department: University Career Services
Best Consideration Deadline: April 21
Application Link: http://uhrapps.rutgers.edu/jobs/JobDetail.aspx?pst_num=13-‐000687
Salary: Grade 3 -‐ Commensurate with experience
JOB DESCRIPTION
This position reports to the Assistant Director of Public Relations & Marketing. He/she will serve as the primary graphic designer for the department and produce both print and non-‐print materials. Responsible for organizing, maintaining, and archiving marketing files such as packaging electronic files, design job folders, and photos. Prepares, coordinates and monitors in-‐house and/or vendor production schedules. Works with external vendors to ensure timely delivery of publications. Assists in the development and implementation of department-‐wide marketing campaigns and the department mailer projects, participates in programs and outreaches, planning meetings and more. Participates in the department’s Marketing Working Group comprised of staff representatives from various units within the department. Assists with the career services street team. Completes work under direct supervision, with specific instructions on routine or semi-‐routine work and/or within established work parameters for the unit.
SPECIFIC DUTIES
60% -‐ Design Services: The Coordinator serves as the primary graphic designer for the department. He/she will assist with the creation and maintenance of both print and non-‐print publications utilizing a consultation relationship with staff. Design work will include the creation of logos, posters, brochures, palm cards, newsletters, web banners, etc. The incumbent will also be responsible for organizing, maintaining, and archiving marketing files (e.g., packaging electronic files, design job folders, etc.) and photos. The Coordinator will also work with external vendors to ensure timely delivery of publications.
15% -‐ Marketing: As a member of the Public Relations & Marketing Team, the Coordinator will assist in the development and implementation of Center-‐wide marketing campaigns. He/she will also assist with department mailer projects, participate in programs and outreaches, planning meetings and more.
15% -‐ Supervision: The Coordinator will provide supervision to at least two undergraduate student interns. The incumbent may also be asked to assist with the career services street team.
10% -‐ Other Duties as Assigned
The Mayor’s Geek Squad
It was a case for a digital Sherlock Holmes. Last fall, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection wanted, finally, to crack down on restaurants that were illegally dumping cooking oil into sewers in their neighborhoods — congealed yellow grease is responsible, the department says, for more than half of New York’s clogged drains. The question, of course, was how to find the culprits?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/nyregion/mayor-bloombergs-geek-squad.html?ref=nyregionspecial&_r=0
Common Name
Visit the new Web site of Common Name, the design studio of Yoonjai Choi and Ken Meier. Tons of beautiful and smart work, in particular the current American Institute of Architects exhibition Design by New York.
Black Mirror
An amazing TV show on Channel 4 about creativity, contemporary data and network cultures and technology.
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/25/review-of-black-mirror-the-waldo-moment/