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CCA Angie Wang and Mark Fox Graphic Design Scholarship

A group photo from California College of the Arts’ latest annual scholarship dinner!

Kirk Johnson (to Angie’s right) is the recipient of our recently endowed Angie Wang and Mark Fox Graphic Design Scholarship.

Also with Angie is Monotype Award and Steve Renick Memorial Scholarship recipient Mark Buenefe (far left), and Steve Reoutt Memorial Scholarship recipient Rebecca Kao. (Missing from this photo is Monotype Award winner Jacqueline Lau and Mark.) Congratulations all!

(photo: Olivia Smartt Photography)

Play Press: The Design of Dissent

(clockwise from top left) Trump 24K Gold-Plated, Republican Contract on America, howiloveya and Beware of God.

Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilić’s “Expanded Edition” of The Design of Dissent includes posters from Design is Play, BlackDog, and California College of the Arts!

We are honored that our 2016 poster Trump 24K Gold-Plated shares a spread with work from Barbara Kruger and Edel Rodriguez. Earlier BlackDog posters are also represented, including Republican Contract on America (1995), howiloveya (1998), and Beware of God (1992).

Student work from my CCA Graphic Design 1 classes includes posters by Dan Covert and Wishmini Perera. [MF]

Play Press: Typography 38

Both Trump 14K Gold-Plated and Trump 24K Gold-Plated were selected for inclusion in the 2017 Annual of the Type Directors Club, Typography 38. (It was designated a “Judge’s Choice” by juror Spencer Charles.) In addition to being exhibited in New York City, our posters and the other winning entries will tour cities in the United States, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

CCA Angie Wang and Mark Fox Graphic Design Scholarship

Congratulations to Kirk Johnson, the first recipient of the recently endowed Angie Wang and Mark Fox Graphic Design Scholarship! (This was a five-year effort on our part.) Kirk embodies the quality of student at CCA that our scholarship was intended to support. We look forward to celebrating with future recipients!

(photo: Nikki Ritcher Photography)

Symbols: A Lecture and Book Party at CCA, 11.21.2016

We had the pleasure of celebrating the publication of our book Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing with a lecture and book signing at California College of the Arts where we teach. It was a treat to see so many current and former students! Our friend and colleague Bob Aufuldish provided introductions, and Mac Warrick from ARCH Art & Drafting Supply was there to sell copies of the book—which we slowly signed. (Thank you Bob and Mac!)

Watch the lecture:

Symbols: Angie Wang + Mark Fox at CCA (24:50)