February 05, 2010
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On Wednesday, January 13, 2010, twenty-four professionals from a range of fields gathered at the ImaginOn to participate in AIGA Charlotte's first "Eat Your Greens" event. The discussion served as a "Sustainability Roundtable," with everybody contributing and exchanging ideas. The event was put together by the AIGA Charlotte Green Team made up of Trent Edwards, John Howard, Jenna MacFarlane, Rachel Martin and Luke Atkinson. The Green Team's mission is to promote sustainability and socially responsible design within our local design community and at all AIGA Charlotte events. Leigh Brinkley of Brinkley Design, served as the moderator for the event and kicked things off by going through some of the ways she incorporates green practices into her lifestyle, hammering home the idea that it's hard to, "Separate my thinking about sustainability as a design issue and thinking about it as a way of life." From there, the discussion touched upon a variety of issues and…
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February 01, 2010
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Daniel Allegrucci, AIGA Member Since 2009 Freelance Web Designer and Visual Artist Where are you from? I was born in Fayetteville and raised in NY state. I also lived in a small town in Italy for a while. I've been in Charlotte more or less since 1990. Where do you get your inspiration from? Since I design for the screen, I like to look for ideas in the physical world: product design, vintage posters, nature, art history. I especially like food packaging from other countries. What’s one goal (professional or personal) you have for the future? I'd like to continue to find ways to bring my fine art and web design practices together. For example, I'm working on a project that takes imagery created as a woodcut print and brings it to life using Flash/Actionscript 3. I'm a big fan of mixing old and new technologies. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? "Find something you like and get really good at it" and "Reliability and professionalism are at least…
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AIGA Connecticut Number of Members: 113 Year Chapter was founded: 2008 1. What is your Chapter’s most proud recent accomplishment? Every conversation about AIGA Connecticut’s purpose circles back to the importance of building a collaborative community rooted in a shared professional ethos and the openness to look at our individual differences with encouragement and appreciation. This attitude of working together to honor camaraderie over competition has become a bit of a mantra for us and we hope—with enough repetition—it will continue to catch on with all of the creative folks throughout the state. With this goal, we took on a project with another local design organization—Connecticut Art Directors Club. We put together a shared event, “Defining Connecticut: LEGENDS of Design”, an evening conversation with 5 visionaries (including AIGA Fellow, Peter Good) who were pivotal in shaping the creative voice of our region. The two organizations worked…
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January 01, 2010
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Mikale Kwiatkowski, AIGA Member Since 2006 Senior Designer, Lowe's Corporation: Oct 09 to Present Regional Designer/Art Director, Whole Foods Market: July 04 to Oct 09 1. What attracted you to the design profession? For most of my life, I have been interested in spatial and 2 dimensional aesthetics. I started drawing in 5th grade and studied art and design throughout high school and college. I crave variety and thrive in the anxiety of having to figure out new things. I love the variety of experiences the graphic design field offers. 2. What’s your proudest accomplishment? I currently work as a senior designer for Lowe's corporation. My proudest accomplishment so far is the opportunity I recently had to affect a sustainable paper choice for a direct mail piece being printed in a quantity of hundreds of thousands. 3. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Architecture. 4. If there is karaoke at the next office party, what song will you be singing? I would be…
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December 14, 2009
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Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. He has written for AIGA's VOICE, Emigre, Eye, Creative Review, HOW, and STEP magazines, among others. He is a former faculty member of Portfolio Center and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts. He has lectured on topics ranging from typography to branding in locations ranging from San Diego to Berlin. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration and its myriad sites. His last employment position was at Pentagram. He now runs UnderConsideration’s Department of Design. Armin joins our Charlotte Chapter on January 28th, 2010 as part of our Talk About Lecture Series to share with our members his process, learnings, experiences and latest work - the book Graphic Design, Referenced. Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design. With…
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