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2005 Quick Links:
12/14/05 - Trigger | Projects Initiated by Graphic Designers
2005 - Hurricane Project | Poster Submissions
11/15/05 - Sensoria | Seminar
2005 - Displaced Designer Project
10/27/05 - Gary Baseman | Lecture
11/03/05 - World Usability Day
10/17/05 - Project M | Success in Philadelphia
2005 - Penn Humanities Forums: | Word & Image
09/23/05 - AIGA Local and National Hurricane Relief Effort
trigger: Projects Initiated by Graphic Designers
Trigger considers what graphic designers create from own interests and inspirations when they work without clients -- when the designer is the trigger. These projects demonstrate a range of possible modes for graphic designers: personal, political, artistic, entrepreneurial, curatorial and hypothetical. Within this wide divergence of self-initiated work, there are recurring concerns with language, symbols, information and subject matter that tends to be more public than private. 'In the service of commerce' describes how graphic design most often operates, but doesn't define what it is. By looking at what graphic designers develop on their own steam, trigger reveals something about the essential nature of design. The exhibit celebrates this uncommissioned work, broadening the rubric of design to include it.
Featuring work by: Elizabeth Beer / Peter Buchanan-Smith / Class Action / Stephen Doyle / John Emerson / Allan Espiritu / Carin Goldberg / Stuart Henley / Illegal Art / Brian Janusiak / Dan Michaelson / Josh On / David Reinfurt / Stefan Sagmeister / Paul Sahre / Paula Scher / Matthew McGuinness / Morgan Sheasby / Stuart Smith / Thomas Starr / Jon Sueda / Weikert Design / Worldstudio / Edvin Yegir
Curated by Jacqueline Thaw
Jacqueline Thaw is a graphic designer in New York City. She is an Assistant Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and a member of Class Action, a collective that creates design for social change.
When: December 14, 2005 to February 3, 2006
Reception: Wednesday January 18, 6 to 8pm
Where: Fordham University at Lincoln Center
An exhibition at the Center Gallery | Map of campus
113 West 60th Street (Corner of Columbus Ave)
More Info: Download PDF
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Hurricane Poster Project Submissions
THE HURRICANE POSTER PROJECT (THPP) has been conceived as a collective effort by the design community to unite and effect change through our work. In order for this project to be successful, we are counting on designer participation. Our goal is to raise at least $1,000,000 for the Red Cross through this project. Please spread the word. Please participate. www.TheHurricanePosterProject.com
THE HURRICANE POSTER PROJECT seeks limited edition sets of hurricane-related posters from high-profile and up-and-coming artists, designers, and firms from the United States and abroad. The donated posters will be sold online, and all profits will go directly to the Red Cross.
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Sensoria
Pomco Graphic Arts would like to invite you to attend Sensoria, an informative seminar highlighting ways in which paper and printing impact upon the success of graphic design. Learn about the importance of paper in design, characteristics of paper and their relationship to design, and the benefits provided by different printing and finishing processes.
The seminar will be a tactile, sensory experience as you examine a variety of text and cover papers manufactured by Beckett, Strathmore, and Via Papers while touring Pomco Graphic Arts, a unique facility with total printing and finishing capabilities under one roof.
This year's sponsored speaker is Debbie Mease from Mowawk paper. Her topic will center around paper and sustainable design in relation to the environment, wind power, and recycling. Read more about it HERE.
When:
Tuesday, November 15th 2005
9:00 am to 12:00 pm (lunch will be provided)
Where:
Pomco Graphic Arts
4411-27 Whitaker Ave. | Philadelphia, PA 19120 | Google Map
RSVP:
215-455-9500 or membership@philadelphia.aiga.org by November 9th, 2005
(attendance limited to 35)
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Displaced Designer Project
The Displaced Designer Project (www.displaceddesigner.com) is a resource for those in the creative industry recently displaced by the disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf States. The following designers are a part of the Displaced Designers initiative being lead by AIGA and supported by Chopping Block. Please extend your welcome to these designers from the Gulf Coast area. Any and all types of support are appreciated.
Below is the contact information for Displaced Designers in our area:
Taryn Kay
Philadelphia, PA
215.908.4915
tarynakay@yahoo.com
Skills: Art Director
Mike S. Henry
Illustrator
mike@thepencilpusher.com
(504) 931-6240
www.thepencilpusher.com | www.themapshack.com
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Gary Baseman
Pervasive Artist. Illustrator. Painter. TV/Movie Producer. Toy Designer. Humorist. Mr. Baseman is the three-time Emmy award winning creator and executive producer of "Teacher's Pet," the critically acclaimed animated television series and feature-length animated film. His artwork contributes to major publications such as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. His strong visual images have been commissioned by the corporate world with such international corporate clients as Nike, Chili's, Gatorade, Mercedes-Benz, Labatt, and Thomas Cook. Mr. Baseman is extremely proud to create the visual identity of the award-winning, best selling game "Cranium." www.garybaseman.com
When: Thursday, October 27 | 5:30 pm
Where: University of Delaware's Trabant Theater
Trabant University Center
Corner of South College and Main Street, Newark
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World Usability Day
You're invited! The first World Usability Day will be observed in the Philadelphia area with a free, major event on November 3rd at Drexel University. This is a great event for designers of interactive media, as well as developers, marketers, advertisers, and brand consultants. This is a regional observation of a global event being marked in 74 cities around the world.
Event highlights include:
- Keynote address by Tom Tullis, Fidelity Investments Senior VP for Human Interface Design
- Usability testing demonstrations
- Free, professional reviews of your website
- Demonstrations of designs that are either very easy, or very awful to use
- Great networking opportunity
- Free refreshments served!
Presentation: Bias in Usability Testing
Speaker: Carolyn Snyder
When: November 3, 2005 | 5:00 - 7:30pm
Where: Drexel University, Bossone Hall
On Market Street, between 31st and E 32nd Streets
Enter at the revolving door on the ground floor
Registration Fee: FREE! (RSVP required.)
RSVP: You must RSVP to attend. RSVP to FerraraJC@acm.org
For more information about this event, go to www.UsabilityDay.com.
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Project M: Success in Philadelphia
Donations were made to the Project M(bulance) on Monday morning, October 17th, 2005.
Click HERE to see all the pictures from the event.
Project M is an initiative led by John Bielenberg, member of the AIGA National Board of Directors and teacher at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco since 1991. Bielenberg is co-founder of the innovative C2, The Creative Capital Company. He is also director of Project M, a summer program in Maine that is designed to inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world.
The purpose of Project M is to inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers in America by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world.
In response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Project M purchased an ambulance to drive down the coast collecting graphic design supplies from various East Coast cities. The final destination: New Orleans.
Thanks to the following companies and individuals who made donations from Philadelphia:
Vishay Intertechnology
Paragraph
Krista Fawber (StoraEnso)*
Robert Whyte
Stick and Move
Kelsh Wilson*
Allan Espiritu and the Rutgers students
Jyll Capcino (Philly.com)
Lisa Richards (Central Lewmar)*
* monetary donation
If you are still interested in contributing, you can send your donations to:
Material Donations
Lori Reed, AIGA NOLA President
c/o Pamlab
4099 Highway 190
Covington, LA 7043
985-867-5788
Monetary Donations
AIGA NOLA
c/o Lori Reed, President
PO Box 902
Mandeville, LA 70471
PICTURES:
Click HERE to see all the pictures from the event.
Many Gulf Coast designers have been devastated by impact of hurricane Katrina and Rita. The Project Mentor team will drive the Mbulance from Maine to New Orleans, passing through 10 cities with AIGA Chapters picking up donations to help those designers get back on their feet. Download the PDF for more specifics.
To learn more about ProjectM, visit:
www.bielenberg.com
www.aigalosangeles.org/features/archives/001047.php
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Penn Humanities Forums: Word & Image
When the verbal and the visual collide, new meanings spring into being. Check out this year's program on Word & Image!
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/calendar.shtml
The Penn Humanities Forum was launched with a "Celebration of Philadelphia Writers," a spring weekend in 1999 in which sixty local novelists, poets, and scholars assembled in historic and cultural venues throughout the city. Over 2000 Philadelphians attended the readings, walking tours, performances, and lectures, and thousands across the country saw these re-broadcast on C-Span. The Celebration epitomizes the Forum's mission: to use humanistic knowledge and expertise to promote an ongoing cultural conversation involving the range of university disciplines and the general public.
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AIGA Local and National Hurricane Relief Effort
In response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, AIGA Philadelphia will be organizing a collection at the Edward Tufte lecture, Beautiful Evidence on Friday, September 23. All donations will be sent to the American Red Cross.
Currently, AIGA National is assessing members' needs in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. AIGA National's first priority will be to help members communicate with each other; a simple form has been posted at www.aiga.org/reliefeffort to collect information from those in need of assistance and from those who can offer it. National is focusing on the power and fellowship of the design community to carry it's members through this time.
If you have space, jobs, housing, or even schooling (colleges and universities in Minneapolis and Chicago are offering to enroll student victims), please visit the national site. Some AIGA members are also offering to donate design services to businesses affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Two sessions will be added to the AIGA Design Conference program: one on how to be most effective in aiding relief in the Gulf Coast area and a second on what this dreadful experience suggests in terms of the power of design to aid emergency procedures and evacuation. Ideas on how the design community can help in future disaster relief efforts can be forwarded to relief@aiga.org.
For more information about the American Red Cross, visit www.redcross.org. Or visit the local American Red Cross headquarters at www.redcross-philly.org and volunteer to help.
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