Monthly news and updates for AIGA members
November 2001
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Contents
News and information
"Voice, More Than Ever"--March 2123, 2002, Washington, D.C.
Seeking nominations for AIGA national board
Call for AIGA medal nominations
Board member John Maeda receives National Design Award
AIGA board meets to discuss future
AIGA participates in New York New Visions
Aquent offers "FastCash" plan to AIGA members
www.aiga.org
Design Jobs, AIGA's online career and recruitment center
Complete your online profile to participate in improved directory
Advocacy updates
Design criteria for election reform legislation
NEA receives increased funding
Supreme Court supports creators' rights
Coming soon
Brand Scenarios white papers
AIGA Experience Design partners with SIGCHI to offer Forum
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News and information
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"Voice, More Than Ever"--March 2123, 2002,
Washington, D.C.
Now is the time for a conference that speaks directly
to the issues facing designers today:
- Finding new inspirations
- Celebrating great design
- Reaffirming the relevance of what you do each today
- Pursuing the role of design in enhancing cultural understanding and tolerance
- Advancing the role design plays in civil society and public discourse
- Determining how to sustain a business in the current economy
- Discovering design disciplines, both tried and new
- Rediscovering friendships and remembering their importance
- Sharing business, design, politics, culture and sometimes feelings with designers like you
- Advocating a stronger role for design in public life on Capitol Hill.
Speakers and activities, with your participation, will cover all these topics and more. The list of speakers is growing daily, and includes:
- Jonathan Barnbrook, designer of Mason and Exocet fonts and Damien Hirst collaborator
- Sue Coe, issues-oriented visual journalist
- Dave Eggers, designer, author and editor of McSweeney's
- Ken Garland, originator of the first "First Things First" manifesto
- Matt Groening, "The Simpsons" creator
- Sylvia Harris, design planner responsible for redesign of Census
- John Hockenberry, Peabody Awardwinning journalist and "Voice" moderator extraordinaire
- Alfredo Jaar, MacArthur Fellow Awardwinning artist, architect and filmmaker
- Natalie Jeremijenko, information visualizer, technoartist and educator
- Brenda Laurel, digital diva and author of Computers as Theatre
- James Nachtwey, legendary "anti-war" Magnum photographer
- Stefan Sagmeister, music graphics designer and body engraver
- Bill Stumpf, Aeron chair designer and industrial designer
- Shawn Wolfe, anti-branding graphic designer and Beatkit™ inventor
- Duke Ellington high school jazz choir and band
Visit www.voice.aiga.org to find out more about newly confirmed speakers. To suggest speakers and topics, please contact Alice Twemlow at 212 807 1990 x223 or at alice_twemlow@aiga.org
Register online at www.voice.aiga.org or call 212 807 1990 for a faxable registration form. Conference registration fees: AIGA member, $725; nonmember, $900; student member, $350
Seeking nominations for AIGA national
board
The national board nominating committee, chaired by
Janet DeDonato of Methodologie in Seattle, is looking for nominations,
to be submitted by January 15, 2002. Each nomination must be
accompanied by a bio on the nominee and a statement on the role
the nominee would like to play as a board member. Nominations
may be submitted by fax (212 807 1799) or e-mail (nominations@aiga.org).
Returning committee members are Steve Pattee (Pattee Design, Des Moines), Lana Rigsby (Rigsby Design, Houston). Meredith Davis (North Carolina State University), Joseph Michael Essex (Essex Two, Chicago) and one additional professional member will be appointed for a two-year term on the committee. The committee will prepare a slate of four names to be approved by the professional membership via web balloting next spring. Considerations will include geographic region, background and training, areas of expertise, etc. The committee is charged with developing a slate that complements rather than duplicates the attributes of existing board members.
Call for AIGA medal nominations
The AIGA medal is awarded to individuals in recognition
of distinguished achievements, services or other contributions
to the field of graphic design and visual communication. The
contribution may be in the practice of graphic design, teaching,
writing or leadership of the profession. The awards may honor
designers posthumously. In 2001, the medal was awarded to Samuel
Antupit and Paula Scher.
The deadline for nominations for this year's medalists is December 10. Send candidate names (along with a brief explanation for their nomination) to awards@aiga.org.
Board member John Maeda receives
National Design Award
AIGA national board member John Maeda received the
national design award in graphic design on November 11. The awards
are selected by a national jury designated by the Smithsonian's
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. This is the second year
the award has been given. AIGA members Lorraine Wild and Ed Fella
were the other two finalists.
This year's jury included current or past national board members Clement Mok, Lucille Tenazas and Lou Lenzi. AIGA is the only design organization that cosponsors the National Design Awards; other sponsors are Xerox Corporation, Ford Motor Company and the Mandel Foundation. AIGA's involvement provides a means of advancing public awareness of design, particularly in the popular press.
AIGA board meets to discuss future
The AIGA board met in New York on November 15 to discuss
three- and ten-year planning horizons for the organization. The
planning meeting resulted in board members assigning themselves
to three committees: membership satisfaction/experience; institutional
advancement; and professional advancement.
The committees will be making recommendations for consideration of the full board concerning actions needed to maintain the relevance of AIGA into the future and to strengthen its value to members. The board will then present its recommendations to chapter leaders at the AIGA Leadership Retreat in Seattle in late June 2002.
AIGA participates in New York New
Visions
AIGA has been working with 15 other design organizations
in New York City to develop policy guidelines for elected officials
planning the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. AIGA has taken a
leadership role in crafting the messages and in presenting them
in print and digital form. See www.newyorknewvisions.org
for the proposed recommendations, which will be available in
mid-December.
Aquent offers "FastCash"
plan to AIGA members
Aquent, the Official AIGA Talent Agency, offers a
financial service--FastCash--to address the cash flow and invoicing
needs for freelancers and small studios. AIGA members nationwide
can submit their invoices to FastCash and receive payment in
two business days. (All client information is strictly confidential).
Learn
more about FastCash.
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Design Jobs, AIGA's online career and recruitment center
Design Jobs, AIGA's online career and recruitment
center, is now open to all. Anyone may post an available opening-full-time,
part-time, even internships. There is currently no charge to
post an opening. www.aiga.org/designjobs
Complete your online profile to participate
in improved directory
Early in January, new search criteria will be added
to the online Designer Directory that will allow potential clients
to search for members by areas of practice. The search mechanism
for the directory won't find you based on these criteria unless
you complete your profile now!
In addition to specifying your areas of practice, you can now elect to receive Communiqué and other AIGA e-news as text rather than HTML, indicate that you agree to adhere to the AIGA Standards of Professional Practice and include a personal statement for people to read when they find you in the directory. Go to www.aiga.org/profile You will need your AIGA login and ID (use the "Send my login information" link if you can't find yours).
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Advocacy updates
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Design criteria for election reform legislation
Election reform legislation is now moving in both
houses of Congress. We have met with the staffs of the sponsors
in both the House and Senate and currently plan to advocate the
addition of AIGA's language on information design criteria for
ballots to the measure in the conference committee, which may
occur before the Christmas recess.
NEA receives increased funding
Arts and humanities advocates, including AIGA, were
successful in persuading Congress to pass funding increases for
NEA, NEH and the Office of Museum Services. NEA will receive
$115.2 million, a $10.5 million increase over last year's level
and President Bush's request for this year. President Bush has
nominated Michael Hammond, currently Dean of the Shepherd School
of Music at Rice University, to be the next chairman of NEA.
Supreme Court supports creators'
rights
The U.S. Supreme Court has let a federal court of
appeals decision in favor of freelance photographers stand.
The National Geographic Society had originally paid a photographer for certain photographs and received a copyright release allowing the Society to publish those photographs in its magazine. Subsequently, however, the Society incorporated those same pictures, along with a great deal of other information, on CDs. The appellate court held that CDs were in essence a new product and therefore the prior copyright release was not sufficient to protect the Society. An important element of the case was the addition of music, advertising and other information on the CD that were not in the original magazine. This case may reinforce the protection of designers' rights in similar situations in which their work is republished on CDs without negotiating those rights.
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Coming soon
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Brand Scenarios white papers
The AIGA Brand Design community of interest is a group
of design professionals, designers, strategists and managers
who are interested in how brands and branding are changing-and
what this means to the business of brand design and strategy
as we know it. The group is involved in initiatives to define
"brand" and "branding," imagine and strategize
how brands will change in the future and communicate their understandings
to the world of design.
Approximately 30 people gathered in San Francisco on November 9 and 10 to participate in a workshop designed to imagine possible brand futures.
The outcome of this event will be an AIGA white paper on the future of branding, outlining possible and likely scenarios, including a listing of all participants, with quotes, photos and proceedings. The results will be published on the website early in 2002. The community also hopes to hold similar events in other cities in spring 2002.
AIGA Experience Design partners with
SIGCHI to offer Forum
The AIGA Experience Design community is co-sponsoring
CHI2002|AIGA Experience Design Forum with CHI2002, April 21-22,
2002, in Minneapolis.
The Forum is dedicated to exploring how the knowledge and skills from each community contribute to current thinking and innovations in the world of human-computer interaction and experience design. The Forum is an independent two-day event and will take place immediately preceding the CHI2002 technical program and does not require attendance at other CHI2002 events.
The Forum will explore the intersections of the SIGCHI and AIGA design communities, including design and evaluation methods and methodologies, philosophy of design, and design artifacts. The program will include well-known speakers from the design community, panels, and in-depth case studies. The Forum will offer plenty of opportunities to interact with fellow design practitioners of all kinds.
The Forum committee is currently seeking case study submissions of recent design projects that represent current thinking and innovations in the world of human-computer interaction.
For more information, download the Call For Papers/submission instructions from http://www.formandcontent.net/chi2002/forum.htm or http://www.sigchi.org/chi2002/
The accepted cases will launch the AIGA Experience Design
Case Study Archive, the goal of which is to finally establish
a literature for the community. Find
out more about the AIGA Experience Design community.
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