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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Please join us for the first of this new 3-part series, Design Spectrum, featuring Criswell Lappin, Creative Director of Institute of Play, a nonprofit NYC design studio that designs experiences to make learning irresistible by pioneering new models of engagement.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
6:30PM

World Chess Hall of Fame Learn More
4652 Maryland Avenue
St Louis, MO 63108

Each Tuesday in March, AIGA Minnesota and the Walker Art Center present talks by some of the world's most adventurous graphic designers. Each lecture is streamed live on the Walker Channel, and we are bringing it to you! Grab some friends and come over to the World Chess Hall of Fame — we'll dial up the Walker Channel, have a beer and tune in free to watch this year's fourth talk, on Tape, Markers, and Post-its, with Luna Maurer from Amsterdam.

About the Speaker

According to the Conditional Design manifesto,

Luna Maurer is interested in logic-based design as a tool to understand the ungraspable. Her work with interactive media bridges the divide between digital and analogue systems, often relying on deceptively simple rules to create complex organic artworks.

She is especially known for her participatory experiments in which she designs a process which requires the participants to implement—often in humble materials such as tape, markers, and sticky notes—algorithmic explorations of group thought that expose the process of making. Her work explores the relationship between people and technology and she has created such projects as an exhibition of 400,000 photos of the Amsterdam sky to a website designed in Microsoft Excel.

Based in Amsterdam, her three-person studio Moniker balances applied commercial projects with self-initiated experiments. Maurer is a visiting critic at Yale University School of Art and teaches interaction design at the Gerrit Reitveld Academy in Amsterdam.

Via AIGA Minnesota

Program

6:30 pm - Happy Hour
7:00 pm - Live Broadcast Begins, followed by QA session*

* Tweet any questions you have for the speakers at #insights2013 any time during the lecture and a moderator will select a few questions to be read aloud to the speakers. Mention in the tweet you are watching the session from Saint Louis.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

An intimate look inside local creative studios Design Ranch and Whiskey Design, both located in KC's Westside.

Saturday, March 23, 2013
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Michigan State University, Erickson Hall View Map
620 Farm Ln
East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Your adventure into the professional world begins here. The design job hunt is no easy task; being prepared with an amazing portfolio, expert advice, and moral support can help your journey into the wild kingdom of design go smoothly.

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At this year’s annual portfolio day expedition you will...

BE AMAZED WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER MARIA JANOSKO
Designer and Illustrator Maria Janosko of Sockeye will share her work and words of encouragement. She will be reviewing portfolios as well! Check out her portfolio here: mariajanoskodesign.com

PRACTICE YOUR HUNTING SKILLS
Share your portfolio (any state of progress is acceptable) with local design professionals to get priceless feedback and advice.

SURVEY THE SAVANNA
Gain valuable tips about developing an impressive resume, building a portfolio, and graduate school applications and programs in several breakout sessions.

ROAM WITH CREATIVES
An important survival technique in the wild kingdom of design is to know your fellow designers! Meet your peers from various area programs at the fun after-party!

FEAST
The expedition will be sure to make you hungry. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, as well as light snacks throughout the day!

Sponsored by Michigan State University’s, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Michigan State University’s AIGA Student Group

Registration for this event is not open at this time.
Please watch here for updates and join the Facebook Event Page!

 

 

 

Friday, March 22, 2013

Entry Deadline
AIGA St. Louis, Design Show 18

Turning 18 is about more than making it another year, it’s about evolving. Growing and learning through faith and failure and tenacity. The same goes for good design. To make something truly powerful, something special, we must all go through an evolution; fighting to free our ideas from ourselves as we long to realize the creative sparks which fuel them.

Join AIGA Saint Louis and your fellow designers beginning May 10 for the Design Show 18 where we will honor those sparks — those works by your peers that move us with their creativity, their messaging and their power.

To submit your own work, visit the 18 Show’s site to learn more (entries due March 22*). With a new and improved online submission system, entrants can submit their work easier than ever before.

Pricing
Professional, member — $35 per entry
Professional, non-member — $50 per entry
Student, member — $10 per entry
Student, non-member — $20 per entry

* This is a firm deadline. No late submission will be accepted.

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Thank you to our sponsors and supporters:
2e Creative
Top Graphics
Shaughnessy Paper
The Saint Louis Egotist
COCA

Friday, March 22, 2013

Where does your sense of design come from? Discover for yourself at the Y-Conference, a nationally recognized conference hosted by AIGA San Diego. The Y is two days of community and creativity and includes leaders in design and the always-popular Thinkshops, hands-on workshops with usually less than 25 people.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Join AIGA San Francisco and leading international visionaries in exploring pathways to innovative solutions. Artists, visual, interaction and product designers, brand strategists, architects, futurists, sustainability consultants, intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs from across the public, private and nonprofit sectors for an in-depth exploration of the role of design in creating a more resilient and regenerative world.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Join us the night before the Y-Conference for a screening of Beauty is Embarrassing, a movie by Y speaker Wayne White. This is a separate event from the Y. So, even if you are not attending the Y, you can still purchase a ticket! Members $5.00 Non Members $10.00 (If you are a Y attendee, you have to buy a separate ticket to see the movie.)  

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
6:30PM

Fred Sparks Learn More
3711 South Kingshighway Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63109

Each Tuesday in March, AIGA Minnesota and the Walker Art Center present talks by some of the world's most adventurous graphic designers. Each lecture is streamed live on the Walker Channel, and we are bringing it to you! Grab some friends and come over to Fred Sparks' office — we'll dial up the Walker Channel, have a beer and tune in free to watch this year's third talk, on Alphabetic Exhuberance, with Job Wouters from Amsterdam.

About the Speaker

Job Wouters—better known as Letman—is a practitioner of the lost art of psychedelic, delirious penmanship, a letterer who’s precisely honed technique hides behind a world of unbridled alphabetic experimentation. Creating wildly unique work that nods to the past but transcends vernacular nostalgia, Wouters operates between illustration,graffiti, painting, and graphic design.

The Amsterdam-based designer has worked for clients such as New York Times Magazine, Audi, Tommy Hilfiger, Heineken, and Duvel, creating editorial illustrations, fabric prints, posters, typefaces, site-specific murals, and even body-paint designs. He is the recipient of numerous design awards and his first monograph was released by Gestalten publishing in 2012.

Wouters will perform his hand-lettering technique live during the Insights lecture and is also creating a specially-commissioned mural for the Walker Art Center.

Via AIGA Minnesota

Program

6:30 pm - Happy Hour
7:00 pm - Live Broadcast Begins, followed by QA session*

RSVP on Facebook

* Tweet any questions you have for the speakers at #insights2013 any time during the lecture and a moderator will select a few questions to be read aloud to the speakers. Mention in the tweet you are watching the session from Saint Louis.

Monday, March 18, 2013

The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world. Designers have the chance to impact those interactions at almost every turn. Hear experts from IDEO and other professionals discuss what this means to our industry and your work.

Monday, March 18, 2013 — March 18, 2013
6:30pm - 8:30pm

Red Thread Learn More
22 Boston Wharf Road
Boston, MA 02210

The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body's interactions with the world. Designers have the chance to impact those interactions at almost every turn. Hear experts from IDEO and other firms discuss what tis means to our industry and your work.