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AIGA board nominations due December 15 The 2008 Nominating Committee, chaired by Clement Mok (San Francisco), requests nominations for five seats on the AIGA board to be submitted by December 15, 2007. Every member should consider nominating at least one candidate—even yourself! Self-nomination is permitted. What does it take? |
Design Legends Gala raises $160,000 for special initiatives The fourth annual Design Legends Gala was held on Wednesday, September 19 at Chelsea Piers in New York City. The evening bestowed the profession’s highest honor on Ed Fella, Ellen Lupton, Bruce Mau and Georg Olden. Selected video presentations are now available. |
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Purchase your CarbonCool certificate AIGA offers members a new choice in practicing sustainability. Offset your carbon footprint by purchasing your very own CarbonCool certificate. Through AIGA CarbonCool, members can now counter their carbon dioxide emissions. Offset purchases support renewable energy, energy efficiency and native growth reforestation projects. |
AIGA and Denver Art Museum select AIGA Design Archives curator On October 13, at the biennial AIGA Design Conference in Denver, AIGA Executive Director Richard Grefé and Denver Art Museum Director Lewis Sharp announced the appointment of Darrin Alfred as the AIGA Assistant Curator for Graphic Design. |
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AIGA co-publishes Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election Design From the confusing butterfly ballots of the 2000 presidential election in Palm Beach County, Florida to the misaligned punch card layouts of Cuyahoga County, Ohio just four years later, design counts in our elections. Marcia Lausen’s Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election Design illustrates real solutions that are poised to improve elections across the country in 2008 and beyond. |
AIGA and Oregon’s chief election official select an AIGA Election Design Fellow Matthew Goodrich, a recent graduate of the University of Washington, has been selected as the 2007–2008 AIGA Election Design Fellow in Oregon. |
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to your future: For those of you who are on a calendar-year tax cycle and plan to make contributions to your preferred charities before the end of December, remember the role AIGA, as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, can play in advancing your future and the success of subsequent generations of young designers. |
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In the AIGA gallery: 50 Books/50 Covers 2006 AIGA’s most popular annual exhibition, “50 Books/50 Covers,” is in the gallery through November 21. On the mezzanine: “Norman Ives, American, 1923–1978” Register
for DUX07: Conference on Designing for User Experience Don’t miss this premier global forum dedicated to the exchange of radical new user experience strategies. Featured speakers include Adam Greenfield, adjunct assistant professor at New York University; Steven Johnson, contributing editor at Wired magazine; David Pescovitz co-editor at Boing Boing; Thomas de Zengotita, contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. For more information and to register, visit www.dux2007.org.
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Register for Compostmodern ’08 San
Francisco Join designers from across the country for a day of turning idealism into actual business practice. Former Sierra Club president Adam Werbach describes the challenges inherent in moving Wal-Mart into the 21st century. Wine industry scion Jean-Charles Boisset demonstrates how biodynamic farming practice and non-traditional product packaging work in tandem to transform the wine industry. For more information and to register, visit www.compostmodern.org. Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media Boston Join a diverse group of presenters and attendees from around the world at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston, for a provocative conversation on how graphic design education is being affected by dynamic media. For
more information and to share your ideas for the conference,
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An Interview with John Berg By Paul Nini
When music was served on vinyl platters in 12x12 sleeves, John Berg oversaw some
of the format’s greatest hits. Nini asks this iconic art director about his
long-playing career. Get
a Life
What do Marian Bantjes, Janine Benyus and Maira Kalman—all
speakers at the 2007 AIGA Design Conference—have in common?
In Lupton’s words, they rock. | |
 An Interview with Fred Seibert By Steven Heller
Where do you go after propelling the most influential television networks in popular culture? Why, the internet, of course. Heller looks ahead with a true media innovator. Join in the discussions and submit ideas for future stories at voice.aiga.org and gain.aiga.org. |
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