Lecture by Mauro Panzeri, graphic designer from Milan, Italy, as part of San Francisco State's School of Design Fall 2020 Visiting Designer Series. Mauro shared work from his 40-plus years as a designer and educator, including recent ...
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Leonardo Book Club welcomed author Pino Trogu in a live discussion of his article "Giorgio Scarpa's Model of a Sea Urchin Inspires New Instrumentation." The article describes Scarpa's bionic model of "Aristotle's lantern" the mouth of the ...
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Trogu, Pino. "Giorgio Scarpa's Model of a Sea Urchin Inspires New Instrumentation", Leonardo 52.2 MIT Press, 2019, pp. 146-151. [Read more...]
Trogu, Pino. "Counting But Losing Count: the Legacy of Otto Neurath's Isotype Charts", Visible Language, 52.2, 2018, pp. 83-109.
Abstract: Since its invention by Otto Neurath in 1920s Vienna, the Isotype system of ...
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Trogu, Pino. "The Landscape of the Physical Book: Space and Memory in the Printed Page", TXT -- The Book Issue, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 90-99.
Abstract: Although useful, digital screens have not yet replaced ...
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Trogu, Pino. The Image of the Book: Cognition and the Printed Page. Design Issues (MIT) 31.3 (2015): 28-40. Download PDF of ...
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A ongoing archive (since 2009) -- plus other useful links -- of DES523 Information Design: Data Visualization, a course taught at San Francisco State University. School of Design (Formerly Design and Industry Department). Instructor: Pino ...
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https://www.youtube.com/user/pinotrogu/playlists Visit my YouTube home page for a series of videos on drawing, data visualization, typography, personal videos, ...
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Letterpress Broadsides handset and printed by the students of 226 Modern Letterpress Printing, San Francisco State University. Spring 2017. Instructor: Pino Trogu. [Read more...]
Click on the links below to download individual PDFs of the posters.
"Patient No More! People With Disabilities Securing Civil Rights" is an accessible, interactive exhibit celebrating the Bay Area's contributions to the disability rights movement. Opens Summer 2015.
Patient No More! celebrates the Bay ...
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He also taught Theory of Perception for 28 years at the Institute of Design (ISIA) in Faenza. His books on Bionics (Aristotle's Lantern) and Rotational Geometry, were published in Italy as part of a design series edited by the late Bruno ...
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Bookbinding workshops with my students at San Francisco State University. Updated handouts (Fall 2013) with step-by-step instructions, tools list, and more images can be found here: [Read more...]
On Sat. Nov. 16, 2013 I presented the paper "The Image of the Book: What cognitive psychology tells us about the interplay of the visual and aural when experiencing a printed book." at the Resurrecting the Book Conference. Birmingham, U.K. ...
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I made this booklet of data visualization principles for my Information Design students at San Francisco State University.
You can view the booklet online here: Handbook online version ...
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On Wed. Sept. 11, 2013, I presented the paper The Double Constraints of Convention and Cognition as part of the Theory and History track at the 6th Information Design International Conference in Recife, ...
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I am in Oslo, Norway from May 14-17, 2013 for the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers. I will be presenting two papers:
The Four-Second Window: How the Time Constraint of Working ...
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The Crossword Puzzle, constructed by our son Francesco (16) and edited by Will Shortz, was published in The New York Times on Monday, January 30, 2012. You can try to do the puzzle. Just download the PDF at right. Then read [Read more...]
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From the data insight website: "Ever wondered what would happen if we put amazing designers and ...
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Reverb Time Lapse Video – By Kevin Funk (7'20"). Music by Mauro Panzeri.
The 22nd Annual Design and Industry Student Design Exhibition. Opening night was Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Exhibit design ...
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Follow the progress of this year's exhibit design class. Visit the blog and the website and don't forget the opening night: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 6PM in Jack Adams Hall, Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University. ...
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A series of posters from my Information Design class at San Francisco State University, Department of Design and Industry, Fall 2009 and Fall 2010. Posters are 34"x44", they can be folded down to 8.5"x11". [Read more...]
In Pulse: The Rhythms of Design. 21st Annual Design and Industry Student Exhibition.
The 5,000 sq ft exhibit, showcasing more than 250 works from the students of the Design and Industry department at San Francisco State University, had ...
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The font was created based on the original logo design. Font design by James Molgaard, based on an expanded logo concept by Pino Trogu. Original logo design by Maggie Lee, Based on an initial concept by Stefanos Krenteras.
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The department of Design and Industry at San Francisco State University holds an annual exhibition of the best student work. This year the event is titled In Pulse: The Rhythms of Design and it takes place from Tuesday, May 11 to Friday, ...
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In Pulse: The Rhythms of Design
21th Annual Design and Industry Student Design Exhibition
Opening Night:
Wednesday May 12, 2010 from 6 to 9pm
Jack Adams Hall
Terrace level of the Cesar Chavez Student Center
San Francisco State University ...
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