March 10, 2011
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Rhonda Sergeant birdsong gregory Studio Manager member since 1999 (12 years) Where are you from? Grew up in Kankakee, IL, have lived in Charlotte since 2006 What’s your proudest accomplishment? Being a part of the small team that started Naperville Magazine (a regional lifestyle publication for a Chicago suburb). It was a great learning experience and I feel pretty confident that if I had to start another magazine I could do it but I also think I wouldn't want to. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Professional organization, though I am pretty sure it isn't as glamorous as I make it out to be in my head How and why did you get involved with AIGA? Approximately how long have you been involved with the organization? When in college, I was approached by a professor to help start a student chapter and be president. My school was in between St. Louis & Chicago so we would pop between the two cities for inspiring events. After graduation I continued…
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March 09, 2011
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The February 2011 AIGA Portfolio Reality Check was just that, a reality check for young designers. This was our chance to find out from local professionals in the field if our portfolio is up to par. More importantly, if our portfolio is ready to take into an interview. Students and recent grads were invited to participate in this full-out portfolio review from a number of professional designers, photographers, illustrators, and other artists in Charlotte. This extremely beneficial process was a unique approach to networking, especially to have so many people from different working backgrounds critique your work in a row. However, no one likes to have their work picked apart and dissected, but what is often a grueling process was made fun one Saturday at the Art Institute of Charlotte. The portfolio viewing was set up in a straight-forward manner: a table was provided for each student, and professional interviewers rotated stations, spending around 15 minutes per student portfolio. You…
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March 02, 2011
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Meet the man who creates red-hot design for agencies all over the country. Von Glitschka is an illustrative designer, working his one-man studio out of the great western state of Oregon. He’s been in the business for over 25 years and has amassed a client list as impressive as his portfolio. Von’s body of work is unique—his aesthetic is extremely recognizable, but he slips in and out of a variety of styles for different client projects. A quick glance through his portfolio reveals logo marks, realistic characters, continual line drawings, custom lettering, repeating patterns, and imaginary monsters, all completely unrelated, yet all possessing a unique Vonster vibe. Part of what makes Von Glitschka’s work so recognizable is his use of precise vector artwork. He has multiple tutorials on his site, as well as a recently published book, that document his creative process from detailed sketches through to final Illustrator files. Using scans of his sketches, and a few…
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February 02, 2011
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Most of us are aware of the contrived conflict between designers and non-designers, the latter including copywriters. Designers cite experiences with writers who don’t know what the word “edit” means or who simply want a designed template into which they can insert written content without regard for the dynamic between the design of the page and the words on it. Likewise, writers put designers into a few general categories: those who let the content inform their design process – more of these please; those who give graphic hierarchy to the copy but don’t otherwise base design decisions on its content; and then there’s that small lot of designers who consider words the bane of their design existence – not fun. However, though the training and deliverables assume different forms, copywriting parallels design work in practice. Copywriting is: Creative, Idea-intensive, Client-based, Deadline-driven, a Business, and a Communicative Art. The session’s…
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January 17, 2011
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From 1984 to 1994, a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever. The following behind the scenes look at Waking Sleeping Beauty is provided courtesy of Disney Enterprises, Inc. Join us Feb 4th for a screening of Waking Sleeping Beauty. Learn more and register (free for members). SYNOPSIS By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. The conditions produced a series of box office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn’t care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It’s the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits—“The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “The Lion…
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