Notable Costume Designer Martha Mann passed away Monday.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 6:30am

Martha grew up in Toronto, wanted to learn stage design, went to OCA for three years taking courses across the college then started to designed sets. She didn't go back for a fourth year as she went to work in the field. Was an important costume and set designer from the 1950s onwards in Toronto and London, designed for Anne of Green Gables, many operas etc. 

https://www.thetitleblock.com/episodes/2017/3/8/40-martha-mann

Here is her obit notice:

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=martha-mann-southgate&pid=192993955

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Publishing our way into a thriving discipline – Recent publications in Systemic Design

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 6:30am

Peter’s editorial titled The Systemic Turn: Leverage for World Changing, served as the theme for the articles comprising the issue.  The issue featured five articles from RSD5 authors, including Jones and Jeremy Bowes’ Rendering Systems Visible for Design: Synthesis Maps as Constructivist Design Narratives. All articles are available free for download at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/vol/3/issue/3

 

Peter also edited a second RSD symposium collection, a Springer book in the Translational Systems Science series, one of the series edited by Dr. Kyoichi Kijima of Tokyo Institute of Technology. The book Systemic Design: Theory, Methods and Practice, comprises 10 chapters from the top-selected papers from the RSD4 Symposium, the 2015 RSD conference in Banff. As with the She Ji issue, the chapters were developed in close collaboration with authors form the emerging systemic design community, and were also rigorously peer-reviewed. One of the chief differences in the book collection is that the chapters are widely ranging in length, with some chapters at nearly 50 or 70 pages long. As Springer books are not open access (See the volume at https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9784431556381#otherversion=9784431556381 ) please contact Peter Jones if interested in the articles.

 

The RSD8 Symposium is being held this year at IIT / Institute of Design in Chicago, October 17-19, in the new facilities at ID. SFI students and alumnae have already contributed and are expected to continue to make a strong showing at this continuing program, as it develops from emergence to excellence, as demonstrated in these continuing publication projects now following each conference. See http://rsd8.org for registration (soon) and to submit synthesis maps or posters (the call for papers is closed, but poster sessions will be open through June 14.

Dori Tunstall will be the Keynote speaker at the Joint Futures conference in Helsinki.

Dori Tunstall, keynote at Helsinki Conference
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 7:15am to Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 7:15am

All of us strongly strive to create a community and a safe space to learn, get inspired, meet like-minded people, and gather actionable insights to create change in your own teams.

Joint Futures Conference, September 3-5, 2019 - https://jointfuturesconf.com

We have been offered a 10% discount, please use discount code: tunstall@jf2019!2kj6

Venue & Address: 
Helsinki, Finland
Website: 
https://jointfuturesconf.com
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Illustration students are selected for publication in 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 16

by Christian Piasentin
by Camilia Teodoro
by Mathieu Larone
by Lily Snowden-Fine
by Amanda Arlotta
Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 6:15am

DISTINGUISHED MERIT

Christian Piasentin “Empty Head"

 

MERIT

Amanda Arlotta “Fame” (SERIES MERIT)

Amanda Arlotta “Beyoncé”

Amanda Arlotta “Lady Gaga”

Camilla Teodoro “Toy Soldiers”

Camilla Teodoro “Sale Day”

Lily Snowden-Fine “Ship in a Bottle”

Lily Snowden-Fine “E.Y. Endicott”

Lily Snowden-Fine “By the Fire”

Mathieu Larone “The Gulp Sessions”

Xulin Wang “Uprooted”

Deloris Chen “Zebra”

Salwa Majoka “Inner Turmoil”

Xinyu Ding

Christian Piasentin

Julia Pereira

Chris Tu

 

HONORABLE MENTION

Nathan Devlin “And So He Lies Awake”

Adam de Souza “Limited Adult Supervision”

Varvara Nedilska “Family Pet”

Varvara Nedilska “Creeper”

Reginald Balanga "Summer of 1976: The Heatwave that Gave Birth to British Punk”

Reginald Balanga "H.H. Holmes & His Murder Castl

Dongzhu Yang "The White Ribbon”

Melanie Yan “Utopia"

Deloris Chen “The Portrait”

Hyunsun Park “Girls Do Everything”

Salwa Majoka “Clichés”

Camille Dumaine

Skylar Dunk

Lixiyue Yan

 

3x3 is the first publication devoted entirely to the art of contemporary illustration, published in the United States and distributed worldwide.

 

Congratulations to everyone!

 

PAUL DALLAS
CHAIR, ILLUSTRATION
 

 

Illustrations by:

Christian Piasentin “Empty Head”; Camilla Teodoro “Sale Day”; Mathieu Larone “The Gulp Sessions”; Lily Snowden-Fine “E.Y. Endicott"

 

Skip Dean - 'Homage-Jim Dine'

Friday, May 24, 2019 - 12:00pm to Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - 5:00pm

Opening Night is May 23rd 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

See poster for additional information and participants.

Venue & Address: 
The Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Road, Toronto
Website: 
www.capic.org
Skip Dean Homage
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Fiona Smyth to be inducted into the Giants of the North Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame

Fiona Smyth
Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 6:45am

For more than three decades, Fiona Smyth’s work has straddled art, comics, and murals. Since her days as a student at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) in the mid-1980s, her comics have been marked by a bold and overt sexuality—rare for a female cartoonist at the time—that often, erroneously, saw her labeled an anti-feminist. Alongside her countless self-published zines, Smyth’s comics have appeared in ViceExclaim!, and her pioneering 1990s Vortex series, Nocturnal Emissions

Smyth’s work has been exhibited in countries around the world, including the United States, Mexico, Berlin, France, Venice, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, and Torontonians are familiar with her eye-catching mural gracing the exterior of iconic local club Sneaky Dee’s, located at the intersection of College and Bathurst streets.

Smyth’s publications include The Never Weres, a science fiction graphic novel for teens, and a series of progressive “sex talk” books for children, created with the writer Cory Silverberg. In 2018, Koyama Press released Somnambulance, a career retrospective of Smyth’s work to date. Presently, Smyth teaches illustration and cartooning at OCADU.

Artists are elected to the Giants of the North Hall of Fame by the Doug Wrights Awards executive committee, which solicits input and suggestions from across the Canadian cartooning community. 

 

This year’s Giants of the North nominees will be inducted on May 11 at the 15th annual Doug Wright Awards, a featured event of the 2019 Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), which takes place May 11–12 in and around the Toronto Reference Library.

 

Media inquiries: dougwrightawards@gmail.com   dougwrightawards.com

 

   

 

 

VRTO Update

Friday, November 22, 2019 - 3:15pm

As part of the OCADU and Ontario Tech (UOIT) Digital Human Experience initiatives, please be aware of the upcoming VRTO development workshop on designing VR experiences. This fantastic VR development learning opportunity will be colocated with the Virtual Reality Toronto Conference. In partnership with OCAD U, Ontario Tech student participants will be engaged in a 1-day intensive workshop, held on May 31, 2019, letting you jump into immersive VR design and development. During the workshop you will be part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team of both developers and non-developers that will create a new VR artifact, and will go through the development cycle from design to development to assessment, using Unity3D and industry-standard VR hardware, provided at the workshop. Bring your passion and interest in VR and learn to transform this into engaging virtual experiences.

VRTO, Ontario Tech, and OCAD U have made 20 spaces at the workshop available for students, with a 50% discount (total of $22.60 per ticket). To register, go to https://vrto2019.eventbrite.com and enter the discount code VRTO19UniStdntWkrshp. Participants can also gain access to the entire VRTO conference at a discounted price (80% off the regular price with the following discount code: VRTO19WrkShpExtn20, available after May 1, 2019). This unique professional conference and solutions-focused symposium, held June 1-3, 2019, is an exciting opportunity for students to engage with industry. We look forward to your participation.

Why Canada's universities must be at the forefront of innovation

Friday, November 22, 2019 - 3:15pm

Go to external news story. Graduates entering the workforce simply must have the skills necessary to thrive in an economy balancing human needs and technological change

Illustration students' selected for American Illustration 38

Amanda Arlotta - chosen
Joshua Middleton - chosen
Skylar Dunk - selected
Nathan Devlin  (aka Paliate) - selected
Mia Viva - chosen
Amanda Arlotta - selected
Nan Shi - chosen
Monday, April 22, 2019 - 8:00am

This year’s distinguished jury included: Christopher Brand, Crown Publishing;  Dennis Huynh, Buzzfeed;  Maria G. Keehan, Smithsonian;  Hannah K Lee, The New York Times;  Janet Michaud, Politico;  Aaron Rinas, Art + Mechanical;  and Marianne Seregi, National Geographic.

From over 7,000 submissions, the jury selected only 386 images to appear in the book and represent the best illustrations from 2018. The American Illustration 38 winning collection will be presented in print and in a digital slideshow sent to 50,000 creative professionals. The Archive will launch with a party set for November 7, 2019 in New York City. 

 

Congratulations, students!

 

Amanda Arlotta (2 pieces) (4th yr)

Paliate (1st yr)

Skylar Dunk (4th yr)

Mia Viva (4th yr)

Joshua Middleton (4th yr)

Nan Shi (4th yr)

 

 

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