Monthly news and updates for AIGA members
January 2002
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Contents
News and information
AIGA Medal awarded to Robert
Brownjohn and Christopher Pullman
365: AIGA Design Competitions draws broad, deep jury
Welcome AIGA Nashville!
Nominations have been submitted to the board nominating
committee
www.aiga.org
Remember to post new opportunities on Design Jobs
Advocacy updates
AIGA continues to advocate design interests
Coming soon
"Voice: AIGA National Design Conference," March 21-23,
Washington, D.C.
"Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference," October 25-27,
Minneapolis
"Grow: AIGA Professional Development Seminar Series"
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News and information
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AIGA Medal awarded to Robert Brownjohn and Christopher Pullman
The national board of directors has approved the recommendations
of the AIGA Awards committee, chaired by Jennifer Morla, for
the 2002 AIGA Medal.
The committee awarded the medal to Robert Brownjohn, the late, influential British art director, and early partner of Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, who was known in early years for his print work and in later years for his film titling (including "Goldfinger" and "From Russia with Love"). Architectural Forum noted that he "may have been the most talented student ever to have graduated from Chicago's Institute of Design." He personified the idea his teacher Laszlo Moholy-Nagy expressed in Vision in Motion, that art and life can be integrated: "The true artist is the grindstone of the sense; he sharpens his eye, mind and feeling; he interprets ideas and concepts through his own media."
Christopher Pullman of WGBH, Boston, was awarded the medal for sustained innovation in and unrelenting respect for communication design, even as the media have changed so dramatically over the past several decades. One of the aspects of his professional career that most impressed the committee was the role he has played as a mentor and teacher to many designers, both through his work at WGBH and at Yale.
Presentation of the Medal will occur on the opening evening of the "Voice" conference, March 21, in Washington, D.C.
365: AIGA Design Competitions draws
broad, deep jury
The jurors for this year's "365: AIGA Design
Competitions" have been chosen and promise to make the "365"
competitions among the most selective in the country. The discrete
competitions in "365" and their jurors are:
Typographic design: Barbara Glauber, Heavy Meta/New
York; Erik Spiekermann, San Francisco
Illustration: Brad Holland, New York; Leanne Shapton,
Toronto; D.J. Stout, Pentagram Design/Austin
50 Books/50 Covers: Richard Eckersley, University of Nebraska
Press, Lincoln/Nebraska; Carin Goldberg, Carin Goldberg Design/New
York; Richard Hull, Brigham Young University/Salt Lake City;
Jennifer Morla, Morla Design/San Francisco; Paul Sahre, Office
of Paul Sahre/New York; Barbara de Wilde, Martha Stewart Omnimedia/New
York
Editorial design: Luke Hayman, Advance Media/New York;
Lisa Naftolin/New York; D.J. Stout, Pentagram Design/Austin
Corporate communications design: John Bielenberg Design/Portland,
Maine; Lee Green, IBM/New York; Lana Rigsby, Rigsby Design/Houston
Information design: Nigel Holmes, Westport/Connecticut;
Kris Goodfellow, New York; Erik Spiekermann, San Francisco
Environmental design: Ayse Birsel, Olive 1:1/New York;
Steff Geissbuhler, Chermayeff & Geismar/New York; Emanuela
Frattini Magnuson, EFM Design/New York
Package design: Andy Dreyfus, Apple Computer/Cupertino,
California; Debbie Millman, Sterling Group/New York; Robyn Waters,
Target/Minneapolis
Design for film and television: Kyle Cooper, Imaginary
Forces/Los Angeles; Hillman Curtis, Hillmancurtis Inc./New York;
Joan Raspo, Stiletto/New York
Experience design: Lauralee Alben, California; Nathan
Shedroff, San Francisco; Gong Szeto, Form+Content/New York
Promotional design and advertising: John Bielenberg, Bielenberg
Design/Portland, Maine; Robyn Waters, Target/Minneapolis; Allison
Williams, Design M/W/New York
Brand and identity systems design: Andy Dreyfus, Apple
Computer/Cupertino, California; Neil Powell, New York; Ann Willoughby,
Willoughby Design/Kansas City
Comprehensive brand strategies: Lee Green, IBM/New York;
Nathan Shedroff, San Francisco; Ann Willoughby, Willoughby Design/Kansas
City
Make sure you submit your best work by the March 15, 2002 deadline. Entry forms are on the AIGA website, and the printed call for entries should arrive in your mailbox shortly.
Welcome AIGA Nashville!
Designers in Nashville have fulfilled all the basic
requirements to form a new AIGA chapter in that community, bringing
the total number of AIGA chapters to 45.
Nominations have been submitted to
the board nominating committee
The deadline for submitting nominations for the national
board of directors to the nominating committee, chaired by Janet
DeDonato of Methodologie in Seattle, was January 15, 2002.
Nominations are submitted to the nominating committee, which is made up of designers from around the country. The committee considers the needs of the board and develops a slate from the names submitted or from additional nominations that it may solicit to fill specific needs. The board approves the recommended slate for consideration by the membership at large. All professional members may then vote for or against the slate, through a balloting mechanism on the AIGA website. Balloting will take place in the March/April timeframe.
This nominating process is important as a means of keeping the board accountable to AIGA members across the country. If you did not submit a nomination this year, please make sure to do so next year!
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Remember to post new opportunities on Design Jobs
As the design profession continues to be affected
by the ups and downs of the current economy, make sure you help
your fellow professionals by listing any job openings in Design Jobs, AIGA's
online career center. There is currently no charge for posting
open positions.
We also encourage firms to post internships in the internships section of Design Jobs. Now is a great time to start recruiting for that summer intern. Recently, a member expressed a concern over our promoting unpaid internships, since it could be seen as undervaluing the professional contribution of even a young designer. We reconsidered our position, yet decided to continue to offer postings for interns, since it has such strong support among students and educators. Our position is that this an extension of the educational experience; it offers the opportunity for crucial mentoring of young designers; and that it should include some compensation or bonus, whenever possible.
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Advocacy updates
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AIGA continues to advocate design interests
AIGA continues to be active in advocacy efforts as
a means of demonstrating the importance of design in society;
encouraging designers to have a place at the table when public
policy issues are considered; and to create examples of effective
design applications that might then be models for business adoption.
AIGA is active as a sponsor of National Arts Advocacy Day as a partner with Americans for the Arts. This is an effort to increase the support for arts and humanities.
In a more mundane matter, AIGA is active in the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers in order to protect lower postage rates for nonprofit organizations, which helps both chapters and national efforts to keep members informed.
AIGA is renewing its Designing Democracy campaign, in preparation for gathering in Washington, D.C. in late March at the "Voice" conference. Designers like you have met with Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s staff in Chicago, Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta, Rep. Christopher Shays in Connecticut and Rep. Martin Sabo in Minnesota. We are urging that the conference committee on election reform include our language for graphic design criteria. We expect the conference committee to meet in February. Watch for more requests for help in this ongoing effort.
AIGA continues to be active in New York New Visions, the coalition of architects, designers and planners who are advocating a thoughtful, designed solution to the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. AIGA's role seems to be an important one in the governance of the coalition. The effort is justified as a means of reinforcing the respect for the role of the profession that we ought to have in all major public policy debates about the designed environment.
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Coming soon
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"Voice: AIGA National Design Conference," March
21-23, Washington, D.C.
"Voice," AIGA's ninth biennial National
Design Conference, is just two months away. Come to Washington,
D.C., March 21-23, and hear from culture-shaping critical
thinkers and visual practitioners as they debate the moral, social
and political dimensions in their work. Catch up with old friends
and colleagues, meet new ones, voice your opinions and discuss
the ideas and work presented by Joe Garden. Garden, staff writer
at Wisconsin-based satirical newspaper The Onion; The
Simpsons' creator Matt Groening, ubercool designer Stefan
Sagmeister, cult author Dave Eggers and socially-engaged artist
Alfredo Jaar. Author, journalist and media guru Pete Hamill will
be the keynote speaker, providing a contextual framework for
the conference and Peabody Award-winning journalist John Hockenberry
will moderate the proceedings.
On Thursday, March 21, before the conference starts, in addition to visiting Washington and Alexandria studios, you can register for "Voice Behind-the-Scenes Tours." Have you ever wondered how a 113-year-old brand can bring its legacy of stunning visuals and its standard of excellence to a new broadcast channel? What makes visual design essential to the success of radio production? What did people consider to be a well-designed book in 1501? AIGA takes you behind the scenes at The National Geographic Channel/National Geographic Magazine, National Public Radio, The National Gallery of Art Library, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and The Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections. Experience the inner workings and the role of design in these Washington, DC-based organizations.
Each March 21 "Behind-the-Scenes Tours" costs $35 and is limited to 20 attendees. Tours run concurrently, so please register for one only. Tours will assemble one hour prior to start time at Marriott Wardman Park Hotel for group departure; specifics will be available at the "Voice" registration desk.
National Geographic Channel/Magazine; 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
National Public Radio: 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
National Gallery of Art Library: 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Folger Shakespeare Library: 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 noon
Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections: 10:00
a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections: 2:00
p.m.-3:30 p.m.
For all conference updates, venue and registration information, visit www.voice.aiga.org
"Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference,"
October 25-27, 2002, Minneapolis
Register on the web for AIGA's fifth biennial business conference
and save $25.
AIGA members
Early bird rate (until April 1, 2002): $575 ($550 on the
web)
Regular rate: $725 ($700 on the web)
Nonmembers
Early bird rate (until April 1, 2002): $750 ($725 on the
web)
Regular rate: $900 ($875 on the web)
Speakers to be announced early in 2002.
Program chair: Bill Grant, president, Grant Design
Collaborative
Core advisory committee: Nancye Green, head, Global Branding,
Zurich Financial Services; Michael Jager, cofounder, Jager Di
Paola Kemp Design; Steve Liska, president, Liska + Associates,
Inc.; James Searing, director, Strategic Service Development,
Ernst and Young LLP; Ann Willoughby, president, Willoughby Design
Group.
For more details, visit www.aiga.org/content.cfm?Alias=business_conference_2002
Grow: AIGA Professional Practice
Seminar Series
AIGA, in partnership with chapters across the U.S.,
will host a series of "Grow" seminars with David C.
Baker from ReCourses, Inc. Each half-day session-specifically
tailored for design managers, studio principals, senior designers,
art directors and business development people-will be four hours
long and will feature topics to help grow your design business
responsibly.
Topics include: Taking Care of Clients; Positioning and Marketing Your Services; Being a Good Manager; and Monitoring and Benchmarking Your Practice. Attendance is limited to just 40 attendees per session.
March 1-2, 2002 - San Francisco CA
March 20, 2002 - Washington, DC
May 3-4, 2002 - Minneapolis MN
August 9-10, 2002 - Cleveland OH
September 27-28, 2002 - Los Angeles CA
December 6-7, 2002 - New York NY
For more information and to register, visit www.aiga.org/grow
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