Useful research report analyzing data about careers of 216 craft and art and design graduates in the late 1990s. M. Press & A. Cusworth (1998). New Lives in the Making: The value of craft education in the information age. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University. Available http://www.scribd.com/doc/2417983/New-Lives-in-the-Making Report offers comprehensive figures about wide range of work outcomes. Some statistical muddiness, particularly relating to records of graduates' multiple rapidly changing job profiles leaves some questions about whether there is double counting or whether many graduates part-'jobs' (particularly those that are not profitable) are simply hobbies alongside paid work.
ACM Multimedia Art (MM-ART) Call for Participation -- Extended Deadline http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca October 27 - November 1, 2008
Vancouver, Canada. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program is a premier international venue connecting the arts and digital multimedia.
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Sex Service Premises: Safer Design and Security
The City of Sydney has produced design guidelines in the Safe City Factsheet Series Issue 7 for the design of safer and more secure sex services premises. These design guidelines draw on design research in the areas of design out crime, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and criminology The design strategies are intended to improve personal safety and reduce crime. They are available at http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Business/documents/SexPremises/1803_SafeCityFactSheet.pdf
The Seventeenth Annual Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design, jointly run by Parsons The New School for Design and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
April 3 - 4, 2008 Free and open to the public.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, New York City
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