July 02, 2009
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Designers to use their skills in promoting and documenting opportunities
The White House and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have requested AIGA members’ help in promoting public service opportunities in their communities during the “United We Serve” initiative, a summer of community involvement culminating in a National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11, 2009.
On behalf of the Obama administration, the NEA has asked members of AIGA, the professional association for design, to visually promote local opportunities for community service and then create a visual record of the results. “Designers should be involved as citizens and as designers. Each designer has the ability to move others by making stories visible and capturing the community experience,” said AIGA Executive director Richard Grefé.
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July 01, 2009
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Ron Edelen, AIGA Member Since 2008
Creative Director and Partner at Myjive Inc.
What attracted you to design?
I originally went to school with a Mickey-Mouse perception of what graphic design was. I was ignorant. It wasn't until six years after my first typography class that I fully understood the depth of design as a profession. It was many years later before I was confident in myself as a design professional. Design embodies so much of life – which is why it is always changing – and is one of the few disciplines that can be simultaneously artful and utilitarian. It took a long time for me to mature within the field. I fell in love with design for that reason.
Profession other than design?
A Chef. Let me preface this with the fact that I am a very uneducated cook. I've always wanted to go to culinary school. I love...
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June 17, 2009
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Are you up for the challenge?
Back by popular demand, “Command X: Season 2” is the ultimate live graphic design reality show held at “Make/Think,” this year’s AIGA Design Conference! We’ll provide a stage for emerging designers to break into the industry in front of 2,000 peers, heroes and potential employers. All you have to do is provide the talent.
What is “Command X”?
Over the course of the conference, seven contestants will take on a series of design challenges for a panel of esteemed judges—including Bonnie Siegler of Number Seventeen, author and designer Chip Kidd, and some surprise guests! As the drama unfolds throughout the weekend, judges will edit the group down to one winner. If you think you (or your favorite up-and-coming designer) can compete with the rising stars of design, apply now.
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June 11, 2009
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I have had the honor of attending the AIGA Leadership Retreat for past three years. After a couple years of attending, chances are that things are going to get repetitive. There are only so many leadership exercises you can go through before you start to do some of the same things. You can mix things up by leading a break-out session – as I did for developing content for chapter websites. The 2009 AIGA Leadership Retreat in Portland, Oregon however was not a rerun. In fact, it bucked any kind of trend that was going. Like its monicker, it truly was a 'Sea Change.'
I, along with my fellow attendees from AIGA Charlotte, Carolyn Colonna, president, Trent Edwards, events director, Rachel Martin, membership director, and Joseph Schlosser, chapter ambassador represented AIGA Charlotte in what will hopefully be marked as a turning point in AIGA's history to becoming not just a professional association for design, but a global design movement. What do I mean by a global des...
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June 10, 2009
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Bragg Swain, AIGA Member Since 2005
Creative Services Manager
Pelton & Crane
Where do I get my inspiration?
When working on concepts I enjoy taking random photos and discovering new perspectives for the subject at hand, looking at architectural magazines, sinking into well worn chairs at Barnes and Noble and perusing books, listening to RUSH, high energy dance music or show tunes ( I am a Pandora nightmare), going to design conferences & lectures, anything on TED.com. Love me some coolhunting.com, searching for random inspiration through google images, seeing musicals, watching films and playing with my kids!
Favorite book
I have giant stack of design books (Designing Brand Identity, The Art of Innovation and Killer color book titled Color:messagesandmeaning by Leatrice Eiseman…the Queen of amazing pa...
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