I love the things students are doing over at UCLA Design | Media Arts

My favorite symposium of 2008 happened there: The 2008 Body Art Disease Symposium was really thought provoking and eye-catching.

There’s some great upcoming lectures set for 2009

Clay Shirkey will speak on Jan 13th at 6 pm. Clay authored Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

On Jan 28 at 6 pm, Steven Heller, art director of the New York Times, an owner of the venerable and iconic Push Pin Studios and a regular contributor to Design Observer, one of my favorite smart blogs.  I hope he’s coming to Cali to discuss his upcoming book, “Iron Fists: Branding the Totalitarian State,”on how major dictatorships used graphics to implement ideology.