After nine months of discussion and building, we’re happy to announce the re-launch of the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts website. The team is Chandler McWilliams, myself, and DMA undergraduates Vincent Cordero, Greg Batha, and Johanna Reed. The site uses the same database, but re-organizes the content with different groups (undergraduates, graduates, faculty, alumni) as the primary categories.

John Maeda gave a lecture on 16 May 2008 in the MIT Media Lab’s Bartos Theater before he left MIT to become president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). His former students were invited to design a poster to announce the event. My poster (above) encodes the data about the time and place of the lecture into visual form. The forms are the sound waves created as I read the lecture information into a microphone. I designed the poster with typographic information superimposed on the waves, but I removed the type at the last moment. From top to bottom: 16 May 2008, 3:30 – 4:30pm, John Maeda, MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, E15, 20 Ames St, Cambridge.