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I’m anIndustrial Designer.
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I’m anIndustrial Designer.
Hello, my name is Samuel McClellan and I’m an Industrial Designer. I’m a graduate from Brunel University with a 1st Class Honours BA in Industrial Design and Technology, aswell as spending a year at San Francisco State University studying Product Design.
I’ve always had a strong desire to be a designer and to create change through means of design. From taking drawing classes at a young age, I’ve had the ability to express my creativity and design thinking on paper and this is where my passion in design lies. I apply a very thorough and holistic design process throughout my work and am drawn to areas such as humanistic and inclusive design. When I say I want to create change, I ultimately want to design to help people and am not seeking to create a name for myself through products that bear no real purpose in life. I want my designs to have meaning and to change the way people go about their daily lives for the better. I believe in timeless design and hope to achieve greater sustainability in a products life through means of design.
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“I apply a thorough and holistic design process throughout my work.”
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Contents.Product Design.
Graphic Design.
Sketching & Illustration.
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Product Design.The section showcases a wide spectrum of product design skills through a collection of design projects, company collaboration briefs and classes undertaken at San Francisco State University. Concepts range from a smart water meter to a new sex toy.
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Pivot Kettle.Arthritis can reduce motor capability in people’shands, resulting in difficulty performing basic tasks in the kitchen, such as using a ket-tle. Redesigning ‘domestic water processing’ to remove exclusion due to physical impairments should not carry stigmatism. In fact, an‘inclusive’ product can carry usability benefits for everyone. The Pivot Kettle can improve people’s kitchen experience by address-ing water filling, lifting, carrying and pouring. It does this byoffering a non-prescriptive handle design, providing posturally neutral hand positions to relieve physiological stress.
Iterative development alongside physically impaired people pro-vided a rich context for a relevant solution that appeals to a broad market. Furthermore, the design principles of the Pivot Kettle are ready for extension into other water products.
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“a kettle is one of the most frequently used and
problematic domestic products...
...with around615,000 people having difficulty with the lifting andtransporting of the product.”
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The design of the cross handles incorporates a rotational limiter mechanism at each pivot point which provides the user with agreater sense of security when using the kettle when limiting the level of forward rotation. Torsion springs placed inside the rotary limiter mechanism, automatically retract the kettle back to its original position if accidently let go of. The springs open up during pour-ing and close back when the front handle is released. A soft close dampener was integrated into the design to prevent the front handle from snapping back into place and shocking the user.
Iterative development in prototyping through to user testing fuellled the design process and was vital to the overall design solution of the project.
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The CorKase.A high performance, waterproof case to protect your Ipad on and o board. The design incoporates natural cork handles to ensure bouyancy if ever in water, aswell, as providing aesthetic tactile touchpoints for the user. The spongy Santoprene casing presents comfort whilst in use aswell as a waterproof wipe clean surface. The CorKase is aimed towards those who require maximum func-tionality along with high aesthetic appeal.
Gear4, a company that offers an exclusive range of accessories for Ipod and Iphone, set a brief to design a new Ipod accessory. iTidy aims to tackle the ongoing frustration with tangled headphones. By attaching two small clips to the side of the Ipod, the user can neatly wrap up their headphones without every having to worry about the frustration of untying knots whenever they want to listen to music again!
iTidy.
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Future concept for Wrangler.Flash floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and forest fires are common but devastating occurrences. The people who are worse affected are often urban dwelling civilians with no concept of basic survival skills. These disasters strip people’s lives down to a primitive level and their daily struggles become based around primary needs, such as how they will be sheltered.
Wrangler embodies the concept of the true survivor; the individual who is able to meet his or her needs through knowledge and raw physical capabilities. Wrangler empowers survivors of natural disas-ters by providing them with the necessary tools they need to begin rebuilding their lives.
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“the concept responds to the post natural disaster effects of bushfires.”
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The Wrangler Smoke Mask responds to the post-natural disaster effects of bushfires. The respiratory conditions exacerbated by the smoke and haze produced from fire results in hazardous condi-tions. The mask aims to prevent health risks by providing residents with vital inhalation protection from toxic fumes and dust.
High risk areas will be automatically supplied with the mask during a residential meeting that highlights the vunerable areas of the town/city. Those caught in sudden disaster will recieve the mask from fire fighters dispatched across the area. The mask sits within a protective leather pouch that slips neatly inside a wallet, purse or pocket. The mask folds out revealing two ear straps that attach to the face and offers maximum performance of up to three uses.
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Smart Water Meter.A “Smart Water Meter” aimed at reducing the amount of water consumed within a domestic environment. The intelligent display uses Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) to record the amount of water used at different daily time intervals and provides the user with consumption data that they can upload to their computer as well as receive tips on how to reduce their water footprint.
The concept is the result of a group project at Brunel University and was designed in response to the RSA brief ‘Make Something Disappear’, which required the use of design to eliminate waste, over production, or excessive consumption.
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“The concept has received a high level of online recognition.”
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‘All in One’Culinary Starter Kit. The project named DINKY (Dual Income No Kids Yet) required working in a team of 4 to create a company with a distinctive brand which core values focused on helping people enjoy food. Each team member designed individual concepts reflecting the brand essence. ‘Bish Bash Bosh’ (team brand) targets those with little time and little space to cook food and provides them with the necessary tool to cool quick and easy meals.
My concept (right) is an ‘All in One’ culinary starter pack that not only provides all the necessary tools to cook a simple meal but is an object of focus and aestheic appeal in the kitchen. The base of the design is made up of 5 nesting bowls; 2 baking, 1 salad, a colander and cheese grater. A chopping board lays snug over the bowls to seal the base. A set of 3 utensils is attached to the underside of the lid with the rest of the lid houses a set of scales.
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“The scales simply twist out from the top of the lid.”
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Tilt.A design concept and aesthetic models of a pair of salt and pepper shakers made from beech with cork lid and twist grinder base. The shakers, named ‘Tilt’, are weighted with a with a flat angled base so that they sit at a slant on the work surface and can be re-filled easily by removing the cork stopper. The concept was developed in a class undertaken during my time in San Francisco and aims to evoke fun and excitement when eating.
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Loving JoyGloria.‘Gloria’, a design concept submitted to Net 1On1 for their adult toy brand Loving Joy. The brief was to design a product that was both functional and aesthetically pleasing and to be the “next big thing in adult toys.” No more late nights in dark toilets, this product brings glory holes to the home. The flatpack ‘sexcessory’ is ideal for couples who enjoy the naughty and adventurous side of sex.
“the UK’s biggest distributor of adult toys.”
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RCLArchitectural Lighting Project.
A lighting concept in response to a brief set by Architectural Liighting company RCL Lighting. A mulit-functional spotlight to be recessed inside entrances, corridors and walkways of waterfront developments. The effect created resembles that of rippling water to provide a sense of ‘walking on water.’ The fixture adopts a 360º rotational mechanism that allows the light to be projected onto different surfaces from the same fixed position.
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“creates a sense of walking on water.”
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Design for Manufacture.The project required working in a team of 4 to carefully select an existing children’s toy or piece of office equipment to re-design. The re-design not only involved introducing a new concept but a concept that was designed for manufacture, resulting in producing detailed component drawings of each component. Each teams drawings were passed onto another who went on to manufacture five identical copies of the design.
My initial concept of a children’s push-along wooden car was taken forward. The design integrated cam mechanisms into the wheel axis, that when pushed along would bob the passengers up and down creating visual excitement for the child.
The passengers were made up of different shapes and required the child to slot each one into its correct hole. The design aimed to be intellectually aswell as emotionally stimulating.
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Bentley MotorsSubtle Symbols of Wealth.‘Subtle Symbols of Wealth’ was a runner-up design submitted to Bentley Motors out of a total of 215 submissions. The one week charette required a 15 year target market projection for Bentley combined with a new automotive design concept suited to a created persona within that market. Backgorund research into the company’s current sales figures and market share was conducted to help identify the potential future market.
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Yao LoongNationality Chinese Age 47 Marital Status Married Social Class Upper
Mr. Yao Loong is the CEO of China Top Real Estate Co., Ltd, one of the reputable realty agencies comprised of highly qualied realty brokers in Beijing. He is married but has no children, which allows him to focus on the what he considers are the important things in life, his work and the luxuries that come of it. He excels in his job due to his vast experience in the line of work combined with his natural sales skills. His job earns him a disposable income that he wastes no time on spending.
Lao is a private man but does enjoy showing o� his luxurious lifestyle with high quality, expensive purchases such as his Mercedes Fascination that he drives to work everyday. He is a high end consumer and loves prestige brands that emphasise his wealth.
He is part of the growing sophistication of Chinese car buyers that rivals big spenders in other markets. He is design-driven and up to date with modern technology. He is not interested in loud, ‘in your face’ design but is attracted by classy, rened design that is both subtle and elegant.
Expensive high performance cars is the fastest growing segment in the Chinese car industry and Yao ts right in. For Yao foreign luxury brands have a certain built-in-brand advantage over domestic carmakers and he is particularly attracted to classic British automotive design such as Rolls Royce and Bentley.
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By 2015 emerging Asia will be the fastest growing region, led by break-out candidates China and India, whose economy already comprise 1/6 of global GDP.In 2012 there will be more Bentley’s sold in China than the USA and China is already contributing more to global GDP than the USA.
Sales were up by 93% in China, a strong indicator that Bentley is breaking into emerging - and potentially huge - markets.Its economy grew by 11.9% in the year 2007 to the second quarter. Since 1978 it has grown by an average of almost 10% a year.
Estimates have China consuming 29% of the world’s consumer goods by 2015.American and European markets are slowing down while Bentley expects to sell 1000 units annually in China.The market for wealthy car bu�s is booming in coastal markets such as Beijing and Shanghai.
Why China...
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Bentley Concept
Subtle Symbols of Wealth
“Because of the fruitfulassociations with the number eight, many Chinese citizens make an e�ort to pluck up items that bear its likeness.”
The concept I am proposing is all to do with the
and the Chinese beliefs associated with the number. In Chinese culture, certain
numbers are believed by some to be auspicious or inauspicious based on the Chinese word that the number sounds similar to. In Chinese the word for ‘8’ is
associated with
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I propose to incorporate the Chinese associations with the number ‘8’ into specic design aspects of a Bentley,
therefore creating a
between the consumer and the product. The design features will be as subtle as
having the stitching in sets of 8 or displaying only 8 switches/control but-tons on the dashboard. These features
may mean nothing to any other culture but for the Chinese they act as subtle
symbols of wealth which is a key market-ing aspect of the Bentley brand.
cultural connection
A telephone number with all digits being eights was sold for USD $270,723 in Chengdu, China.
A man in Hangzhou o�ered to sell his license plate read-ing A88888 for RMB 1.12 mil-lion (roughly $164,000 USD).
Bentley Concept
Subtle Symbols of Wealth
On the main control panel there is a selection of 8 radio stations that only Bentley has access to.
Again I am incorporating the number 8 into the spokes of the alloys.
The introduction of an 8th presents consum-ers with the ultimate driving experience. It’s the lucky gear and when in it you are driving at a level above everyone else. It’s a gear that only the high-end consumers can a�ord.
‘Stitch in 8’s’ is probably the most subtle but e�ec-tive design out of the lot. Within the embroidery of the vehicle there is a gap after every 8th stitch. Passengers will notice such detail and automati-cally realise the wealth of their friend/colleague.
In China you have to pay extra to have the number 8 in your phone number or license plate, and this is the same policy for these design details. So whoever has such design details in their Bentley is seen as someone where money is no object, some-one of immense wealth.
You can cut the number 8 in half vertically or horizontally, and both halves mirror themselves perfectly. Perfect symmetry lends itself to perfect balance. In Chinese Astrology, perfect balance is considered the ideal.
In China, the word for ‘8’ is assocated with wealth and prosperity; two words that are heavily embodied within the brand Bentley. The concept plays on this Chinese perception of the number ‘8’ by incorporating the idea into delicate features of the cars design. For example, within the embroidery of the car there would be a gap after every 8th stitch.
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CAD Modelling.A selection of Computer Aided Design (CAD) modelling and renderings using software such as Pro-Engineer, Autodesk Alias Studio and SolidWorks.
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Sony Headphones
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Biro Pen
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Eco Redesign.Using the Cambridge Eco Audit Tool, a streamlined LCA analysis was carried out on a pair of Mikomi Hi Fi headphones to identify the stages in their lifecycle that consumerd the highest amount of energy. The Material Extraction and Manufacturing stages of the lifecycle proved most significant. The new design is stripped of any unnecessary components or features and uses a greater source of environmentally friendly materials including a cork headband.
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Model Making.Polyurethane model of a computer mouse finished with spray paint.
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Graphic Design.A selection of my work displaying different elements of graphic communication including book design, personal branding, web design and advertising.
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the colour of innovation.I was a key member of a small team of Brunel designers who worked to produce and publish the 2011 Made in Brunel book. My role was in partnership with another designer to design and format the layout of the book, cover to cover, aswell as edit the contents of the book. The book showcases the talents of 2011’s Brunel graduate designers and is sold worldwide from China to New York, aswell as being found on Amazon.com.
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“everything from typography and layout to
brand understanding was taken into account.”
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“published worldwide with
7500 copies now in circulation.”
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Personal Branding.I used a number of graphic skills to develop a personal brand identity package, consisting of a logo, business card, cover letter, envelope, portfolio and website.
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Icon Magazine Article.A contextual essay written on “The worsening gobal water footprint and how design can change the consumption patterns of everday consumers.”
Written and designed in the style of ICON Magazine.
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OLAFUR ELIASSONThe Icelandic artist builds a bridge, a concert hall and a corporate HQ
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WATER IS THE NEW CARBON
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water footprint consumer patterns
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option however Ridoutt stresses otherwise. Surprisingly the pasta sauce contributes 10 times as much to water scarcity than do the bag of M&M’s. This is down to the tomatoes in the sauce being watered using irrigation systems that draw water from the same loca-tion as human drinking water whereas the peanuts and cocoa in the M&M’s do not require irrigation as they adopt water directly from the ground. Ridoutt’s solution provides an alternative to volumetric water foot-printing methods, which combine green and blue water consumption from water scarce and water abundant regions such that they give no clear indication about where the actual potential for harm exists (Ridoutt, 2009). This suggests that a more in depth visual display needs to be pre-
sented to consumers rather than a number of bath tubs filled with water or a series of water droplets lined up against each other.
Including Ridoutt, conservationists around the world are trying to work out the best possible ways in displaying the environmen-tal impact of water foot-prints so that they can be shown on food packaging. The International Organi-zation for Standardization (ISO) is currently setting out water footprint require-
ments and guidelines and suggest that instead of pro-viding methods of calculating ones water footprint it would be more positive to address aspects such as the benefits of decreasing ones water footprint. ISO state that due to the current lack of inter-national standards in this area, business organizations around the world apply dif-ferent definitions and criteria to report water use in their environmental reports, or in product packaging or docu-mentation (ISO, International
Others challenge Ridoutt’s work and say we currently dont know enough about the Earth’s water cycles to accu-rately measure environmental impact
Organization of Standardiza-tion). For this reason others challenge Ridoutt’s work and say that we currently don’t know enough about the Earth’s water cycles to accu-rately measure environmen-tal impact. Organisations such as the Water Footprint Network and the World Wild-life Fund (WWF) denounce the notion of a more detailed footprint calculation and believe that simply reporting the total volume of water is currently the best and clear-est way to communicate to the consumers. “The paper Brad has written has quite a high value, but there is a long way to go,” says the World Wildlife Fund’s Ashok Chap-again, who has been study-ing water footprint methods for over five years. He states that without an agreed-upon standard, reporting water footprints simply as volumes is the easiest for consumers and businesses to understand (Scienceline, 2011). Ridoutt argues “if you want to com-municate something to the public in a simple way, you have to express it in a way that gives the [environmen-tal] impact.” (Ridoutt, 2009).
In order to begin to shift consumption patterns it’s not just about which method of footprint analysis is most beneficial, it’s also about how that information is presented in a way that the consumer can relate too. WWF’s freshwater-footprint manager, Stuart Orr, stated that because the ecological analysis of water footprints is complex, everyone is a bit confused about just what to include, how to measure it, and what the numbers mean (Treehugger, 2011). Research from the Future Foundation (a business that focuses on iden-tifying and forecasting social and consumer trends) highlights the widespread confusion of existing green labelling and suggests that water footprint labelling looks set to add to that confusion. “The main thing is confusion: con-sumers do not understand the language that is being used,” said FF’s director of research Karen Elton. “When somebody goes into a shop to buy a product they are being asked to consid-er a wide array of different things before they can make their choice.” (Food Manufacture, 2011). To really get to grips with monitoring their own water footprint, consumers need to be provided with a greater detailed amount of information but in a manor that is still easily understood. With Ridoutt’s view in mind, the consumer doesn’t want to be left confused over what they see in front of them otherwise they wont want to take the time out to fully appreci-ate the impact of the products they’re buying. Clear, visual and highly semiotic information graphics need to be displayed to connect with the customer. It’s all good and well providing the correct information but if the companies of the products cannot display that information
in a way that consumers can fully understand than it’s useless. One idea is to incorporate the information into a wider sustainability label that covers fair trade and carbon as well as water.
Raising users’ awareness can ultimately influence sustainable behaviour and consump-tion. There’s an emergent body of research and experimentation looking into using product design to influence sustainability awareness and related consumption behaviours (Velden, 2003). Consumer awareness can be provided using a number of applications other than product labelling. Information can be made available through the Internet with companies such as M&S and WWF collaborating to help reduce their own water footprints as well as providing information on how their custom-ers can do the same. However, existing online footprint calculators available through com-panies such as the Water Footprint Network (WFN) and M&S, attempt to provide the user with a quick and simple overview of their foot-print but in fact succeed in doing the opposite, leaving the consumer more confused than they were before they entered the site. For example, the WFN calculator requires four fields of information to determine ones water footprint; country of residence, gender, dietary habit and gross annual income and then expect the user to go away with some form of understanding of where they can begin to change their con-sumption patterns. The M&S carbon calculator displays the result in the form of ‘planet’ icons, revealing to the user that they have a footprint rating of “3.4 planets” and again expect the user to take something meaningful away
Global water crisis
he water footprint of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used
to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation (Chap-again, 2005). Virtual or embedded water is the amount of water used in the production of a good or service, for example a single cup of coffee embeds about 140 litres (246 pints) of water. The amount of virtual water imported by developed countries such as the UK and the USA is worsening water shortages and putting significant pressure in the developing world. Virtual water accounts for more than two thirds of the UK’s water footprint and with this taken into account, the daily water footprint of an individual person in the UK is 4,643 litres, of which 3,000 litres is imported. These are staggering figures that are hidden from the knowledge of everyday consumers across the world. Forecasts suggest that when the world’s population soars beyond 8bn in 20 years time, the global demand for food and energy will jump by 50%, with the need for fresh water rising by 30% (BBC News, 2011). The UK must recognize its own water footprint and how it is exacerbating the water stress in already water-strained countries if it’s going to want to make change.
Reducing water footprints can be done in various ways; from adopting production
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The worsening global water footprint and how design can change the consumption patterns of everyday consumers.
“it’s time to promote the concept of water footprint to everyday consumers.”
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Book Design.
A Typography class undertaken during my time in San Francisco required the making of a book based on the renowned literature “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” written by R. Buckinster Fuller. I designed the layout and format of the book in a way that thought best refelcted the writing of Fuller. I used a traditional book binders in South San Francisco to print and bind the book. A website and poster were also designed to accompany the book.
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Golden Gate[X]press Newspaper.During my year in San Francisco I worked for the Golden Gate [X]press, the San Francisco State University Newspaper. I partnered in a two-member Graphic Design team within the Advertising Department, involving the designing and collating of advertisements for clients in the weekly newspaper and monthly magazine.
The job involved weekly one-on-one interaction with the Journalism Department, clients, and networking with future clients.
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Nothing says Super Bowl Sunday like eating a bowl full of cow heart chili while surrounded by people yelling for their fa-vorite football team in a blur of gold, green and yellow.
On Feb. 6, Bottom of the Hill held its third annual “Heavy Metal Cook-off and Stuporbowl Party.” The event involved a chili cook-off competition accompa-nied with a rock and heavy metal playl-ist including such bands as Electric Light Orchestra, Kelley Stoltz and Creedence Clearwater Revival, all in preparation for a showing of Superbowl XLV.
Lynn Schwarz, 40, one of Bottom of the Hill’s four owners, said that they are nor-mally a venue for music, but events like
this provide variety.“It’s a change from three-band rock and
roll starting at nine or ten,” Schwarz said. “It’s a completely different departure for us.”
In a “first-come, first-serve style” con-test, competitors brought their own unique recipes from all over the city to first be an-alyzed by a panel of four judges as well as the audience. The competition involved two separate categories: best-tasting chili and best heavy metal chili-cooking name. The contestants included everyone from chili-cooking veterans to students.
SF state senior and sociology major Jesse Edwards, 23, made his first visit to the competition with his creation that he named “Brewcifers Nautical Nightmare.”
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SF State President Robert A. Corrigan released a letter to faculty Feb. 4 accepting the University Planning Advi-sory Council’s recommendation to reorganize the eight colleges of the University into a six-college structure.
The majority of the UPAC’s recommendations, which were released in a report by the council Jan. 20, were ac-cepted by Corrigan, with the exception of a few key mod-ifications.
Corrigan stated the reorganization of colleges will be the broadest and most challenging of the recommenda-tions, but he accepted the general concept with a slight
adjustment of a “six-plus-one” structure that will create a freestanding Graduate School of Education.
“The work of reorganization will not be simple or easy, but necessary given our budget outlook,” said University spokeswoman Ellen Griffin. “I’m confident we will be a stronger, more student-responsive University as a result, and I look forward to working with the deans and faculty as work gets under way.”
With SF State’s anticipated loss of $32 million hinging on the acceptance of Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2011-2012 budget proposal, UPAC’s report claims that the merger will save SF State at least $1 million annually.
“The failure of the state to adequately fund the Cali-fornia State University system puts the quality of educa-tion for our students at grave risk,” said Academic Senate Chair Shawn Whalen. “The UPAC recommendations are aimed at finding ways that we might be able to reduce costs while maintaining our institutional excellence and insulating the student experience from these cuts.”
On Feb. 11, the Academic Senate will give faculty an op-portunity to vote and comment on the placement of units within the six-college structure via a referendum.
Whalen said that Corrigan valued the perspective of the campus community and wanted to provide ample op-portunities for faculty to contribute to these decisions.
“Other CSUs have made similar decisions with far less input from faculty, staff and students,” Whalen said.
After the voting process is complete, a decision will be made and reorganization will begin, according to Corri-gan. Once reorganization is finalized, a related UPAC rec-ommendation encouraging partnerships among smaller departments and programs will be considered.
But many faculty members are concerned that the re-structuring of colleges could change the very nature of education at SF State.
“Unless further clarified this Friday, the real purpose
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San Francisco police have been involved in three recent incidents that called into question their use of firearms.
The latest officer-involved shooting in San Francisco oc-curred Jan. 4 when police shot a man in a wheelchair who had been vandalizing city vehicles with a knife.
Now, the police commission is slated to review its stance on the use of non-lethal weapons, in the form of stun guns.
Interim Chief of Police Jeff Godown and a group of experts will stand before the Police Com-mission on Feb. 23 to propose the implementation of stun guns for city officers, according to Lt. Tim Falvey.
Erika Contreras, an 18-year-old international relations major at SF State, believes it would be safer for the city if officers were issued electric stun guns.
“Tasers are less dangerous and they won’t allow police to make stupid mistakes,” Contreras said.
According to records, the com-mission “narrowly” rejected the department’s proposal to explore the possibility of using Tasers last year, citing safety and liabil-ity concerns.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled on setting guidelines for when it is appro-priate for law enforcement to use Tasers.
An SFPD spokesman said the department could not comment further due to a recent policy that prevents it from comment-
ing to high school and college news publications.
A medical researcher at Wake Forest University Baptist Medi-cal Center in North Carolina published the first study of inju-ries from Taser use in 2009 and according to his findings, serious injuries happened in less than 1 percent of 1,201 Taser uses by law enforcement officers.
“Tasers appear to be very safe, especially when compared to other options police have for subduing violent or combative suspects,” said William P. Boze-man, M.D., in his study.
“That is not to say that injuries and deaths are impossible. Police and medical personnel need to be aware of the potential for serious injury and look for evidence that a person subdued by a Taser has been hurt.”
Vance McLaughlin, an expert in use-of-force and a professor in the criminal justice department at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, said deaths could not be attributed directly to Tas-ers because police don’t always use them on healthy people who are unwilling to cooperate with officers.
“A person on cocaine, for ex-ample, can die from any type of vigorous exercise or activity that easily accelerates the heart,” McLaughlin said.
Someone struck by a Taser ex-periences stimulation of his or her sensory nerves and motor nerves, resulting in strong invol-untary muscle contractions.
McLaughlin, a former deputy police chief in both Georgia and North Carolina, said police of-ficers throughout the country need better training to have op-tions when confronting aggres-sive situations.
“If police knew different pres
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Oh the joys of going back to school! A welcomed excuse to splurge on some new kicks, fancy Gamma-Go pens, and perhaps a MUNI pass to avoid
dealing with the dreaded parking garage permit machines.
Most of you probably can’t even remember a time when you weren’t either breaking from or going back to school. Some of you summer-schooled straight on through, never coming up for a gasp of chilly San Fran air. School is a dependable and exciting never-ending cycle. Or is it?
Welcome all of you excited freshmen, knee-deep sophomores and juniors, and good luck dear disgruntled seniors.
Someday, be it sad or happy, school will be over forever. Rumor has it we will all be assigned roles in the “real” world (not the MTV version) where we will systematically “grow up,” get jobs and make babies. Or not.
Many of us will struggle to fi nd a place in the professional world. Some of us will move back in with our parents (or cool new “roommates”).
Many of us will take whatever we can get after we face the glaring fact that this dose of national hard luck is only getting harder. Maybe a couple of
us will achieve fortune and fame. Hopefully we all fi nd happiness and fulfi llment.
The point of this rambling is to remind you all that the “best years of your life” are right here in front of and all around you!
The future can wait.So you have a monotonous retail job, you lost
your license, your boyfriend, or maybe even temporarily, your mind. But you have your youth and plenty of times to F-up, fi x-up, learn from your mistakes (sometimes it takes a few) then repeat it all over again, and the process is awesome.
Sure the sea that is the California educational system is becoming increasingly diffi cult to maneuver in this leaky student canoe, but we’re still afl oat aren’t we? So take advantage of our wise (if underpaid) professors, cheap and delicious campus food, and explore this hip locale by putting one curious foot in front of the other.
Bottom line: relax and enjoy student life already! All of us here at [X]press are excited to keep you up to date on the comings and goings of SF State and San Francisco proper throughout the coming year and in particular to remind you how cool it is to be you, right here, and most importantly, right now.
EDITORIAL Welcome back
AARON TEIXEIRA Investigative Cartoonist
AFRICA Who cares?
EDITOR IN CHIEF Ryan Smith - [email protected]
MANAGING EDITORAndrew Palma - [email protected]
OPINION EDITORLindsey Graham-Jones - [email protected]
SAN FRANCISCO Theatre closure
Return to the present
Without dough, America won’t go ... to Africa
Aft er 100 years, curtains close for good at SF’s Clay Th eatre
By Chris [email protected]
Scientists claim people originated from Africa. If this is true, society needs to get in touch with its roots.
The Associated Press reported Mon-day that Rwandan and Congolese rebels raped around 200 women in a village approximately 10 miles from a United Nations peacekeepers’ base and that three weeks later, the U.N. had given no formal statement.
Now, the confl ict in Africa is nothing new. From South African apartheid to the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region, African confl ict is the norm.
However, the nonchalant approach of the U.N. to this atrocity and America’s long-term policy of apa-thy for the crises on this beleaguered continent beg the question: who cares about Africa?
The answer, seemingly, is no one.The United States has troops stationed all over
the world: Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea, even Germany.
(Germany? Really? The last time Germany was a threat the goosestep and Groucho Marx mustaches were in style.)
Yet, America and the U.N. apparently cannot afford anything more than a few peacekeepers to watch the most volatile region in the world.
The hypocrisy is blatant. The U.S. has spent nine years fi ghting “terrorism” in the Middle East, where it is unwelcome, while rebels traipse around Africa committing crimes that would make Saddam Hus-sein uneasy.
Terrorism is not violence for the sake of violence but rather violence with the intent to intimidate and instill fear.
It seems as if the citizens of Africa - where Soma-lia has not had a working government for the better part of two decades, has an estimated two-thirds of the population living with HIV/AIDS, and has seen more violent disputes than the Jerry Springer show - have a lot to fear.
And still the U.S. does nothing.Why not? My guess is money. The Middle East
has far more wealth than Africa and if America’s imperialism has taught me anything, it is that the U.S. does nothing if not for its own benefi t.
So this is not merely a problem at the top; it also stems from the bottom. Africa enters Americans’ consciousness only when a movie like “Blood Dia-mond” comes out or a special report interrupts the nightly smorgasbord of reality television.
However, the neo-liberal guilt vanishes before the next Old Spice commercial appears.
So, who cares about Africa?Unfortunately, no one.Because if people cared about the place where
human life began, our leaders would stop playing pin the tail on Osama and focus on fi nding a solu-tion to the biggest injustice in the modern world - African disintegration.
By James [email protected]
One of the oldest theatres in San Francisco will close its doors on Sat-urday. The Clay Theatre
has been entertaining people for 100 years, since it opened as a nickelode-on in 1910.
It would be nice to say this is an iso-lated incident, but unfortunately this occurrence is becoming increasingly common. The Clay Theatre just hap-pens to be the latest landmark of its kind to go under. Over 15 classic sin-gle frame theaters have closed down across the city in the past decade.
These small, vintage venues, which typically only boast one or two
screens, are fi nding it impossible to compete against gigantic multiplex theaters like AMC Lowe’s Metreon.
It’s ironic that closing these theatres is so prevalent in a city that prides it-self on preserving and retaining its historic buildings and landmarks. The New Mission Theatre remains vacant today and has been stuck in litigation ever since it was purchased by a de-veloper in 2004. The Richmond dis-trict’s Alexandria Theatre was once a vibrant and beautiful place to see a fi lm, but now lies dormant since it’s 2004 closure. Its large space collects dust and its originally attractive sign is now an eyesore to Geary St. pass-erby.
The Apollo Theatre (formerly the Amazon), a staple within the Mission
District community, was shut down and converted into a Walgreen’s. The Coronet, which once entertained the Inner Richmond District was demol-ished in 2005 and The Institute on Ag-ing now sits in its place.
The problem is not a lack of com-munity support, but rather inade-quate funding for much needed basic upkeep. Preservation and restoration projects are funded solely by private patrons and donations. Organizations like the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation and the San Fran-cisco Film Society have made many valiant attempts to save these institu-tions, having success with a few, but unfortunately not all.
Organizations like these suffer from the same problem the theatres
do; lack of funding and volunteers. It’s not that people are uninterested in the cause, it’s that these concerned in-dividuals lack adequate resources to prevent the landmarks from closing.
The movie theatre used to be a place where people could see a fi lm in a refi ned setting characterized by ornate scenery and elegant architec-ture. The movie theatre was not just a place to see a fi lm, it was an expe-rience.
With megaplexes being construct-ed across the country, it seems those days are numbered. The sterile, uni-form environment of the new theater model is taking over, and the opulence of the theatres of yore is in grave dan-ger of becoming nothing more than a distant memory.
I built client relationships to meet needs and specifications of each advertisement. I thrived from pressurized situations in which weekly numbers of required advertisements had to be fulfilled; followed through every week exceeding the number of advertisements expected.
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Showcasing two websites designed for individual assignments; the first is my online portolfio that was designed to accompany my personal identity package and the second is a site displaying the content of Buckminster Fuller’s “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, again to accompnay the book design of Fuller’s work.
Web Design.
Online Portfolio.
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Sketching & Illustration.A compilation of sketches, renderings and illustrations from both design projects and personal interests.
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Contact Me.I hope you enjoyed my portfolio. Please feel free to contact me at any time if you are interested in any of my work or would like a copy of my CV.
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