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AIGA awards 2009 Medal to Ferro, Goldberg and Young Pablo Ferro, Carin Goldberg and Doyald Young have each been awarded the 2009 AIGA Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the design profession. The AIGA Medal has been given to distinguished design practitioners, educators and role models since 1920. Its value accrues from its association with the professionals who have inspired the profession with creativity, intelligence, perception and skill. The three 2009 medalists will be celebrated at the sixth annual Design Legends Gala on September 17, 2009, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. |
Four weeks left to live forever; enter by March 6 AIGA’s annual competitions—“365: AIGA Annual Design Competition 30” and “AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers”—are the only ones that give you a shot at immortality, since your work gets a permanent home in the AIGA Design Archives online and at the Denver Art Museum. Entries will be accepted through the late deadline of March 27, but you’ll have to pay a $25 late-entry fee for each one sent after the March 6 deadline. Prepare now to get your entries in by March 6. |
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Vote now for new directors on AIGA’s board A member-based nominating committee has recommended a slate of nominees to serve on the national board for the term beginning July 2009. Consistent with the AIGA bylaws, the proposed slate is submitted to the full professional membership for adoption. The slate includes five members with three-year terms—Julie Beeler, James Koval and Angela Shen-Hsieh, as well as Zia Khan as treasurer and Debbie Millman as president—and two filling one-year terms: Shelley Evenson and Lynda Weinman. All professional-level members should vote online by Friday, March 13.
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Pilot program with Aquent Graphics Institute offers deeply discounted training AIGA and Aquent Graphics Institute now offer a program through which AIGA members in select cities may obtain deep discounts on practical, hands-on training. San Francisco and Los Angeles area members can take advantage of “Web & Interactive Design Summit 2009” in February and March. Introductory and advanced training sessions in design and development using Flash will be offered in New York City in March. AIGA members can register for each of these events at more than 50 percent off the regular rate. If enough people express interest, Aquent Graphics Institute will explore expanding the program to include more courses and more cities. | ||
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Members-only Center for Practice Management webinar series will launch in March AIGA board member Shel Perkins will be hosting a new series of live online seminars for the Center for Practice Management beginning next month. Webinars will be offered to current AIGA members for $55 and pre-registration is required. Each session will start at 2:00 p.m. Eastern/11:00 a.m. Pacific and include a 45-minute PowerPoint presentation followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. The first webinar on March 19, “Income taxes for freelancers,” will cover the basics of income taxes for freelancers—from tracking typical business expenses and making quarterly estimated tax payments, through filing your completed annual return.
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Who will be in Memphis this October? Make sure you’re there! “Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference” will convene inspiring and provocative experts from all corners of the creative world, to discuss the role of designers as both makers of beautiful things and thinkers that contribute value to clients’ products, services and processes. Hear from Stefan G. Bucher (344 Design), Daniel Eatock (Eatock Ltd.), Carin Goldberg (Carin Goldberg Design), Roger Martin (Joseph L. Rotman School of Management), and many more. Kurt Andersen, author and host of “Studio 360,” will moderate. Don’t miss your chance to hear from a wide spectrum of leaders who influence our culture, society, business and design. |
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AIGA Design Leaders Confidence Index continues to reflect uncertainty The quarterly index for January 2009 recovered slightly from its lowpoint in October 2008, but is still well below the benchmark of 100 at the start of the survey in April 2005. This reading mirrors the findings of consumer and CEO surveys done by The Conference Board in the same time period. |
Do Good Design, co-published by New Riders and AIGA, taps into designers’ goodwill “Don’t just do good design, do good” is author David Berman’s timely message, which has resonated with designers from around the world who want to make a positive impact. Since Do Good Design was published in December, students and professionals alike have come together to pledge more than 38,000 hours toward making a difference through their practice. To read more about the pledge, visit Berman’s website. AIGA members receive 30 percent off this and all AIGA Design Press titles through Peachpit Press. |
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Invest in your future with “Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders” AIGA’s highly regarded executive education program will take place the week of July 26–31 this year. Developed by Yale School of Management and AIGA, “Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders” uses case studies, lectures, guest speakers and study groups to give creative leaders a more complete understanding of business and design through the eyes of business executives. The program is taught by Yale School of Management faculty, who are regarded as among the world’s most experienced business scholars and teachers. Enrollment is limited to a select group of senior executives who have high-level involvement in design and strategy projects, and is subject to the approval of the admissions committee. Registration fees increase by $1,000 after April 15, so begin preparing your application now. |
365: AIGA Year in Design available for pre-orders, with discount for AIGA members Current members received a copy of the Pentagram-designed 365: AIGA Year in Design 29, co-published by AIGA and Chronicle Books last month, and many have asked how to order additional copies. The full-color 8 x 10-inch book will be released officially in March, and pre-ordering is available now at Chronicle Books. AIGA members receive a 20-percent discount (plus free shipping in the United States) on unlimited copies when using the AIGA promotional code during checkout. |
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Benefits support members in a tough economy Learn more about exclusive member benefits being offered by AIGA’s strategic partners especially for you! Remember, AIGA offers member discounts to DMI seminars and conferences, APDF business practice workshops, Adobe products, F+W magazine subscriptions, shipping discounts from FedEx and now, access to Interactions magazine, and Aquent Graphics Institute training seminars. |
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New York The “365: AIGA Design Competition 29” exhibit at the National Design Center will be closing soon, and moving on as a traveling exhibit in cities across the United States. See all the selected designs from this annual competition before the show closes on February 27. Can’t make it to New York by then? All the work on display is also available online at designarchives.aiga.org. For more information, visit www.aiga.org/exhibit-365-29. |
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San Francisco Time is running out to register for Compostmodern, the preeminent interdisciplinary design conference devoted to sustainability, which will be held in San Francisco on Saturday, February 21. For the first time, the conference will also be webcast live, encouraging online participation from anywhere in the world without the impact of carbon emissions from traveling to the conference. For more information and to register, visit sustainability.aiga.org.
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Chicago A joint partnership between AIGA and Adobe Systems, AIGA Future History 3 will explore current and future curricular challenges and innovations and their relationship to traditional frameworks of design education. International main-stage speakers and breakout sessions will cover curricular models and issues addressing graduate and undergraduate design education in three tracks: Curriculum, MFA Thesis Projects and Design Research. For more information and to register, visit www.futurehistory3.com.
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Denver Curated by the AIGA Associate Curator Darrin Alfred, “The Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters from the San Francisco Bay Area, 1965–71” includes works by the psychedelic poster movement’s major contributors. Take a trip back in time with approximately 300 psychedelic posters—as well as album covers, underground newspapers, and other items—from the late 1960s and early ’70s, an era of free love, rock music and experimental design. For more information, visit www.denverartmuseum.org. |
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“The Psychedelic Experience” at the Denver Art Museum |
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By Ralph Caplan Why is the legacy of Sister Corita Kent so uplifting? Caplan recalls how this devoted designer delighted him with her gift and wisdom. |
“What Can Design Do to Help Fulfill Government’s Promise of Change?” By Ric Grefé Richard Grefé outlines what AIGA is doing to advocate on behalf of designers and how we can make “change” more than just a campaign slogan. |
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“Web Design as Foreign Language” By Steven Heller Is it ever too late for a print designer to learn the language of the web? Heller hopes not. |
Join in the discussions and submit ideas for future issues at voice.aiga.org and gain.aiga.org. | |||
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