Monthly news and updates for AIGA
members
August 2007
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Contents
Upcoming deadlines
Next:
AIGA Design Conference: Register by September 5
for
inclusion in directory
DUX07:
Conference on Designing for User eXperience:
Early registration deadline is September 5
Celebrate
your profession at the Design Legends Gala,
September 19
Don’t
miss the Champagne Celebration in Denver, October 10
News and information
Design Journeys archive and exhibition
board makes selections
National Endowment for the Arts awards
grant to AIGA
Modest decline in confidence of design
leaders
AIGA Design Educator Salary Survey is
now available online
Adobe offers 15 percent discount for
AIGA members
Take advantage of FedEx shipping discounts
Aquent webinar for members transitioning
from print to web
In the AIGA Gallery: 50 Books/50 Covers
of 2006
Recent contributions to AIGA
www.aiga.org
Voice: AIGA Journal of
Design
Opportunities for inspiration and professional development
AIGA
endorses IIT Design Research Conference as premier
research
event
Attend
the Icograda World Design Congress 2007
Resources
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Upcoming deadlines
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Next: AIGA Design Conference: Schedule a blast
of inspiration this fall!
The AIGA Design Conference is the largest
gathering of AIGA members and the most valued meeting place for the world’s
leading innovators and inspiring voices in design. Join us in Denver to
explore what lies beyond the edge of today’s ideas, share your passion
and knowledge with 2,500 attendees, and learn what’s new, what matters
and what’s next in great design.
Share your vision of what’s
next by adding it to the “Next”
online gallery.
In Denver, you’ll hear from Sean Adams, host Kurt Andersen, Gail
Anderson, Marian Bantjes, Janine Benyus, Alexander Brebner, Stefan Bucher,
Paul Budnitz, Brian Collins, Moira Cullen, Nick Currie (Momus), Meredith
Davis, Ed Fella, Tobias Frere-Jones, Stanley Hainsworth, Steven Heller,
Jonathan Hoefler, Maira Kalman, Daniel Libeskind, Ellen Lupton, Bobby
C. Martin Jr., Katherine McCoy, Noreen Morioka, Christoph Niemann, Emily
Oberman, Shel Perkins, Louise Sandhaus, Adrian Shaughnessy, Bonnie Siegler,
Jody Turner, Alice Twemlow, Jakob Trollbäck and Khoi Vinh.
Extend your conference experience by participating in pre-conference workshops
and design studio tours. Space is limited and you must register in advance.
Register by September 5 to have your name included in the attendee
directory! Visit designconference.aiga.org
for more information and to reserve your seat.
DUX07:
Conference on Designing for User eXperience: Early registration deadline
is September 5
Chicago
November 5–7
Social media and networks are creating new design challenges. How do we
inspire and enable people to contribute, create, personalize and share
experiences? How are design roles changing in the face of this shifting
landscape?
This conference is the premiere global forum dedicated to the exchange
of radical new user experience strategies, providing exclusive insight
and discussion about new design methods, and offering access to research
and design practitioners with a visionary perspective on the future of
the profession. Discuss current issues with other designers and strive
to define your own role in shaping user experience.
DUX07 is presented by AIGA, the professional association for design, the
Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM), SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI.
Register by Wednesday, September 5 for the best rates! For more information,
visit www.dux2007.org.
Celebrate
your profession at the Design Legends Gala
Make your plans now to attend the fourth
annual Design Legends Gala on Wednesday, September 19 in New York City.
Once a year, the design community gathers together, dressed in its finest,
to raise a glass in honor of those whose work ignites us, whose creativity,
inspiration, innovation and brilliant execution define the profession
and spark every young designer’s ambitions.
The evening honors the 2007 Medalists (Ed Fella, Ellen Lupton, Bruce Mau
and Georg Olden); Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Samsung Group, recipiets
of the 2007 Corporate Leadership Award; the 2007 Fellows; and the winners
of the 2007 Winterhouse AIGA Design Writing and Criticism Awards.
Special presenters include Kurt Andersen, Paola Antonelli, Bill Grant,
John Maeda, Scott Santoro, Paula Scher and Lucille Tenazas.
This is the third year that chapter Fellows will be included in the evening’s
celebrations. Their commitment and service to the community have been
recognized on a local level, and the Gala recognizes them nationally.
The chapter fellows are Meryl Epstein (Arizona); Brad Copeland (Atlanta);
Mike Hicks (Austin) Elizabeth Resnick (Boston); Joseph Michael Essex (Chicago);
Gordon Salchow and Noel Martin (Cincinnati); Sheila Hart and Eric May
(Cleveland); Connie Asher and Robert Morehouse (Colorado); Aaron Marcus
and Henry Steiner (Center for Cross-cultural Design); Stephanie Sabato
(Kansas City); Archie Boston, Michael Hodgson and Petrula Vrontikis (Los
Angeles); Tim Larsen (Minnesota); Mary Scott and Michael Vanderbyl (San
Francisco); Shelly Langton and Anne Traver (Seattle).
This special black-tie event offers an opportunity for designers to contribute
to the ongoing celebration of design excellence. Funds raised through
this year’s Gala will benefit the American Design Archives at the
Denver Art Museum, Worldstudio AIGA scholarships, diversity initiatives
to make the profession more inclusive and diverse, and the Legacy Fund,
an endowment to secure the future of AIGA. Secure your seat at www.aiga.org/events-gala.
Tickets
Patron $1,000
Friend $350
Tables
Leadership $10,000
Benefactor $5,000
Don’t miss
the Champagne Celebration in Denver
Honoring recipients of the AIGA Medal
Wednesday, October 10, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
On the night before “Next,” come and mingle, celebrate, admire,
toast, honor and generally bask in the glow of AIGA’s medalists.
Raise a glass with Michael Bierut, Jean and Patrick Coyne, Ed Fella, Kit
Hinrichs, Ellen Lupton, Katherine McCoy, Deborah Sussman, Michael Vanderbyl,
Lorraine Wild and other industry legends while you enjoy sweeping views
of the Denver skyline and Rocky Mountains at one of Denver’s most
scenic venues.
More
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News and information
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Design Journeys archive and exhibition
board makes selections
The AIGA Diversity archive and exhibition board
of advisors met at AIGA headquarters on Monday, July 30 to select designers
to be featured in an online archive and traveling exhibition entitled
Design Journeys. This archive will include the stories of designers
from non-white, immigrant or nonconventional backgrounds who have succeeded
as designers. It is intended to demonstrate to young people who might
not choose to enter design as a profession that many who have succeeded
have followed their passion and achieved personal, professional and creative
goals. Board members Gail Anderson; Rafael Esquer; Steve Jones; Ellen
Lupton; Victor Margolin; Rebeca Méndez; Chris Myers; Bennett Peji;
Samina Quraeshi; Michele Washington; and Maurice Woods attended the daylong
meeting moderated by Steven Heller.
The board began the day by reviewing and revising criteria for inclusion
in the archive. They went on to review each candidate against the criteria.
The group selected 24 designers to be researched first and included in
the launch of the archive, which is expected to take place this winter.
The archive will continue to grow over time, as researched subjects are
added. The board selected 112 designers to be featured in total. Research
will now begin on those selected candidates, through a questionnaire being
developed by board members. Work on the exhibition will begin in 2008.
National Endowment
for the Arts awards grant to AIGA
For the expansion of the AIGA Design Archives, the National Endowment
for the Arts (NEA) has awarded a grant in the amount of $22,000 to AIGA.
With support from the NEA, selections from graphic design exhibition catalogues
from 1925 to 1980 including American book illustration, books, book covers
and commercial printing will be scanned and included on its searchable
website. AIGA will launch this online collection in the summer of 2008.
AIGA Design Archives, an online collection representing selections from
AIGA’s annual juried design competitions, reflects the quality of
work being created and the shifting aesthetics or sensibilities of the
designers of the day. The collection will continue to grow by 200-300
selections each year as selections from AIGA’s annual competitions
are added. The award-winning interactive resource is accessible online
to audiences worldwide and allows searches using a variety of criteria,
currently for selections from AIGA competitions from 1980 to the present.
designarchives.aiga.org
Modest decline
in confidence of design leaders
The Design Leaders Confidence Index for the most recent quarter revealed
a modest decline over the past two quarters. While most respondents believed
general business conditions and demand within the design economy would
be either the same or moderately better over the next six months, this
revealed a slightly less optimistic approach than we had seen in each
of the quarters since last July. The Index was at 94.24 in July 2007.
The basis was 100 in April 2005. Last quarter it was 98.46.
www.aiga.org/confidenceindex
AIGA Design Educator
Salary Survey is now available online
The results of the second-annual AIGA Design Educator Salary Survey are
now available on the AIGA website. This survey provides the most complete
compensation data available for education professionals in the communication
design disciplines in the United States. Although there are other educator
salary surveys, none differentiate this important and rapidly growing
field of educators. The survey results are available for download at www.aiga.org/salary-survey-design-educator.
Adobe offers 15 percent
discount for AIGA members
AIGA’s Official Partner for Design Solutions, Adobe Systems, offers
a 15 percent discount on anything in the Adobe store including Adobe products,
third-party plug-ins, training and more. To take advantage of your 15
percent savings at the Adobe Store, visit the members-only section of
the site. www.aiga.org/members-only
Take advantage of
FedEx shipping discounts
AIGA and FedEx provide deep discounts on select FedEx ® shipments
to AIGA members. FedEx Express®: save up to 21 percent on select services;
FedEx Ground®: save up to 20 percent on select services; FedEx international
shipments: save up to 18 percent on select services. Savings from this
program can quickly cover the cost of your AIGA membership. This valuable
member benefit requires no cost and no shipping minimum. For more information
or to enroll and begin saving, call a FedEx Association Advantage customer
specialist at 800 345 6227. www.aiga.org/memberbenefits
Aquent provides
assistance to members transitioning from print to web
AIGA’s Official Partner for Professional Development, Aquent, is
offering a free webinar to members, identifying the key obstacles in the
challenging transition from print to web. Learn how to approach this transition
with effective campaigns in print and online channels and complete the
transition on budget.
For more information and to register, visit www.aquent//webcastsept07.
In the AIGA
Gallery: 50 Books/50 Covers of 2006
September 19 through November 21
Since 1923, the “AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers” competition has
recognized excellence in book design and production. The entries included
books and book covers designed between January 1 and December 31, 2006.
Categories range from trade, reference and juvenile books to university
and museum publications and include limited edition and special-format
books.
Exhibition and collateral design: Pure+Applied, New York
www.aiga.org/national-design-center
Recent
contributions to AIGA
AIGA can only advance the interests of all designers based on the commitment
of its members and the generosity of those who support our broad mission
and activities. AIGA thanks the following people for demonstrating their
commitment through generous contributions:
AIGA Legacy Fund
Meghan Hurley
Michael McErlean
Lance A. Rutter
Cindy Saavedra
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Voice: AIGA Journal of Design
If you’re not reading Voice, you’re
missing out on engaging, thoughtful articles on design. Be sure to keep
up with an ever-growing anthology of timely interviews, essays and articles
on visual culture.
“Snag”
By Ralph Caplan
If a metalsmith works with metal and a goldsmith crafts from gold, what
exactly does a wordsmith make? Nothing without ideas, says Caplan.
www.aiga.org/noahs-archive-snag
“The People’s Font: An Interview with Franz Hoffman”
By Randy J. Hunt
When it comes to type design, is yielding control to the masses a good
thing? Hunt answers with an emphatic yes, thanks to the democratizing
software Fontself.
www.aiga.org/the-peoples-font-an-interview-with-franz-hoffman
Join in the discussions and submit ideas for future issues at voice.aiga.org.
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AIGA
endorses IIT Design Research Conference as premier research event
Chicago
September 21–22
The Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Institute of Design
will hold its Design Research Conference September 21–22 in Chicago.
Learn the latest advanced methods and approaches to design practice to
share insights on the challenges and successes of implementing new research
methodologies in organizations. As part of its strategic partnership with
AIGA, IIT offers registration discounts to AIGA members.
The Design Research Conference is North America’s leading forum
on user-centered design research conducted in some of the world’s
most forward-thinking corporations and academic institutions. Attendees
will hear from Dan Buchner of Innovation and Design at Design Continuum;
Steve Herbst of Motorola Consumer Experience Design; Chuck Jones of Whirlpool;
and Darrel Rhea of Cheskin.
Take advantage of the discounted conference rates that are available to
AIGA members. For more information about the conference, or to register,
visit www.designresearchconference.com.
Attend the Icograda
World Design Congress 2007
Havana, Cuba
October 20–26
The Icograda World Congress will celebrate fresh perspectives on the intersection
of contemporary culture and the evolution of design. The congress will
address the influence culture has on design, how design shapes urban identities
and the opportunity to use design as an economic development tool.
Havana will become the international capital of graphic and communication
design in October—a place for designers, consultants, design managers,
buyers of design services, educators and students to gather, share and
learn.
www.havana.icograda.org/web
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