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March 01, 2010
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Kimberly Diedrich, AIGA Member Since 2006 Graphic Designer, Image Resource Group and Freelance 1. Where are you from? Originally from Upstate New York (Adirondacks). My family moved to the Charlotte area when I was in grade school and I've lived here ever since. 2. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I would love to be a Dog Psychologist/Behaviorist. I've always had a love for animals, but never paid much attention to training or behavior until I got my dog a year and a half ago. He was a handful to say the least, but he's come a long way! It's surprising how receptive they are once you communicate to them in a way they understand. 3. What attracted you to the design profession? Did you have particular mentors or experiences that opened the door to the profession for you? When I first went to college, I was studying Biochemistry @ Clemson University. I wanted to go into Pediatrics from the time I knew what a career was. That plan fell through when I realized…
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AIGA Center for Cross-Cultural Design (AIGA XCD) Number of members: newsletter circulation 4,000+, Facebook membership 867+ Year started: 2002 AIGA XCD is an AIGA community of interest established to foster greater communication between designers across cultures, and highlight the interwoven experience of design and culture in our lives. Consequently, we are committed to engaging AIGA membership in the global design community and marketplace. Like AIGA Center for Sustainable Design, we believe we add value to AIGA membership by creating a forum for issues that cannot be limited to geographic boundaries. In the past we have organized a variety of travelling exhibitions, travel tours abroad, presentations and a design competition. We are currently focused on growing our online presence and social network, to facilitate the dialogue about design and culture within AIGA chapters. 1. What is AIGA XCD's proudest recent accomplishment? We are proud of all our accomplishments! In the spring, we…
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AIGA Baltimore Number of Members: 382 Year Founded: 1989 1. What is your Chapter’s most proud recent accomplishment? Our Pulp Ink and Hops event last year was a success, even in this economy, bringing approximately 20 design vendors and hundreds of designers together to review the latest and greatest in designer's tools from printers and paper samples to job resources and design information. Photos available here. 2. Tell us about your Chapter's Mentorship Program. Our chapter recently worked on the Create don't Hate mentorship program which brought together members of the design community and schoolkids to create messages about stopping the ongoing violence. The program involved approximately 20 mentors and two schools here. In the mentorship timeline the mentor groups developed 24 billboards of which seven have been chosen to be displayed around town. We feel promoting this message was a particularly important endeavor in which to undertake given the problems of gun violence in…
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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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