Articles

’Twas the Icon of Christmas
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From Voice

by Steven Heller Dec 23, 2009 (2)
How did Santa Claus come to be known for his snowy white beard and red suit? Heller looks back at the illustrators who gave life to this now iconic image.

From AIGA Insight

What is AIGA thinking about the future of design?
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by Richard Grefé
Dec 18, 2009(0)
Where is design going and what role will designers play? Richard Grefé finds clues in Roger Martin’s and Elizabeth Coleman’s presentations at “Make/Think.”

From Voice

Where Value Lies
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by Ralph Caplan
Dec 16, 2009(2)
If celebrity can put an ice cream shop on the map and fetch six figures for a typewriter, Caplan wonders what influence designers have in creating desirability.

From In-house Design

How to Speak Every Internal Client’s Language
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by Michelle Taute
Dec 11, 2009(5)
When it comes time for in-house designers to connect with internal clients, they rarely speak the same language. Taute offers tips to improve communication.

From Voice

The Decade of Dirty Design
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by Steven Heller
Dec 09, 2009(16)
Although our lives are more digital than ever, Heller contends that, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, an analog aesthetic still reigns.

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Events

September 4, 2009 Continues through the end of 2009

AIGA Portland is partnering with re:active, a local nonprofit, arts-education program for youths 15-19, on the local component of the Create, Dont Hate! program for Design Ignites Change....

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AI[Give]A Holiday Cards
December 8, 2009 Frosty Darling

While the weather outside is frightful, AIGA Salt Lake City invites you to a cozy December social: AI[Give]A. Four original holiday cards designed by four local letterpress printers will...

 

Deadlines

January 8, 2010 Downtown

Call for Entries Open Call for YOU — yes, you — to plant and participate in The Urban Forest Project! If YOU are a Washington DC metropolitan designer or artist...

 

Exhibitions

January 22, 2010 Space 237

Join us for the Urban Forest Project Toledo banner unveiling! Be the first to see this fabulous collection...