PAST EVENTS
WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Ted Booth
Almost three decades ago, Smart Design began practicing a multi-disciplinary approach to design, establishing ways to emotionally connect people with products and experiences. Today their strength is a unique ability to encode a brand's personality and values into every aspect of their work. The result is a design solution that builds bonds between companies and their customers.
TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2008 6:30 – 8:30PM
Diller Scofidio + Renfro / 2x4
The architectural firm Diller Scofidio+Renfro and the graphic design studio 2x4 both create very high-concept work that brings brainy and thoughtful into the public and commercial sphere. Architect Elizabeth Diller (at work on Lincoln Center and the High Line) and designer Michael Rock (at work on Prada, Vitra, Nike and MTV) will expose the track from theory to practice in an illustrated discussion moderated by Jake Barton,principal of Local Projects, a media design firm.
TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2008 8:00 – 9:30AM
BREAKFAST CLUB NO. 2: ASSESSING YOUR BUSINESS’S STAFFING AND OPERATIONS
brings us Emily Cohen, renowned business advisor, leading a discussion on matters of staffing and operations. What personnel pitfalls can you avoid with a little knowledge and planning? Are there strategies to make your office run smoothly—even pleasantly? The conversation is open to design practices of all sizes! Plus: coffee!
TUESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2008 9:00AM – 5:30PM
Future of Web Design
The Future of Web Design brings together leading talents from the world of contemporary web design to share their knowledge and insight. An audience of over 1000 professional creatives will listen to the people who designed some of today's most successful sites, including representatives from top global design agencies and design-leaders.
TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk NO. 2: Amit Pitaru
The work of Amit Pitaru cross-palliates among fields as far-reaching and far-flung as music, video games, dance, software, and education. Experimenting at the intersection of accessibility and play, Amit crafts experiences that inspire new or undiscovered ways of approaching the everyday.
WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Craig Mod
Craig Mod is a Tokyo based print designer and online developer. He is a cofounder of Chin Music Press, a independent press putting out beautifully made books on Japan.
TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2008 8:00 – 9:30AM
BREAKFAST CLUB NO. 1: The Blog As a Promotional Tool
It’s more than a diary to write about your pets. Join us for Breakfast Club NO.1 with Marc S. Levitt and Sheri L. Koetting, founders of MSLK of Long Island City. Sheri and Marc, who founded their blog, Reactions, in 2007, will speak on the matter of the blog as a powerful platform for getting the word out about your firm. Be ready to drink some coffee and explore some new ideas.
TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 1: Daniel Eatock
His first monograph, Daniel Eatock Imprint, has just been published by Princeton Architectural Press. Constantly oscillating between art and graphic design, each copy individually marked with his own thumbprint, this book is full of Eatock’s astute observations and eccentric obsessions.
WEDNESDAY 6 AUGUST 2008 7:00 – 8:30PM
Small Talk Summer Special: Si Scott
Join us for a last-minute summer addition of the profound new voice of Si Scott. In his first-ever New York appearance, Si reveals his obsession with pen and ink and the passion for illustrated typography that drives his UK-based Si Scott Studio. Seats will go fast in the intimate Bumble and bumble space so reserve now!
WEDNESDAY 16 JULY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Andrew Sloat
Andrew Sloat / Drainage Ditch (www.andrewsloat.com) is a graphic designer and videomaker. His video work began as part of his graduate thesis at Yale, exploring the relationship between the two-dimensionality of print design and the three-dimensionality of theater. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and is a certified NYC street-tree steward.
TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Spring Small Talks Extended:
Benita Raphan
GREAT GENIUS/PROFOUND STUPIDITY
Benita is the director, designer, and creator of documentary films'They Were The Future', a series about visionary scientists such as R.Buckminster Fuller and Edwin Land (first shown in The Museum of ModernArt exhibition "Outside of the Studio System" in 2007). She willintroduce these, and her latest film—premiering at The Tribeca FilmFestival in April, showing at The Walker Art Center until May, andbroadcasting on The Sundance Channel in 2009—and tell the story of hersearch for genius and Elvis Costello through The US, the UK and Europe.
WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Linked by Air
Linked by Air is the graphic design partnership of Tamara Maletic and Dan Michaelson. They often focus on the production of public space, both physical and online. Design and technology are intertwined inventive processes in their work.
WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Pictured/Prose: Assorted Comic Narratives
Bamboozled beauties, hunky heroes and eccentric side-kicks populate thequirky universe of graphic novels and comic books. Dazzling drawingselevate plot points while witty repartee illuminates characters. Come join this triofor a talk on crafting prose and drawn protagonists.
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Molly Wright Steenson
Molly Wright Steenson is a design researcher and architecturalhistorian who studies interactivity and responsiveness inarchitecture. She is pursuing a PhD in architecture at PrincetonUniversity. She also conducts research and develops design strategyfor mobile, web, and urban projects.
SATURDAY 17 MAY 2008 9:00AM – 7:00PM
Smart/Models: Business Principles for Design Principals
Five design firms. Five business models. Five departures from the expected. This one-day conference examines the overlap between smart design and smart business. Crossing the business divide requires designers to grow from steadfast practitioner to streetwise business person. And SMART/MODELS looks at design-minded businesses through the eyes of five firms: Jason Fried from 37signals, Matt Owens from Athletics, Joe Duffy and Eric Block from Duffy & Partners, Sylvia Harris from Sylvia Harris LLC, and Douglas Riccardi from Memo Productions. Join us Saturday, May 17 for a day moderated by Emily Ruth Cohen, a business consultant to creative firms world-wide.
TUESDAY 6 MAY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 8: Barbara Glauber
OMNIVOROUS/PURSUITS
Polylithic Graphophilia and other Strategery with Barbara Glauber.
WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Classic/Contemporary: A conversation with Roger Black
Please join AIGA/NY and frog design for our next Classic/Contemporary evening on Wednesday, April 23, with legendary publication design consultant Roger Black.
SUNDAY 20 APRIL 2008 11:00AM – 1:00PM
Alphabet/City: A Walking Tour with Tobias Frere-Jones
New York's streetscapes have a definitive signature that has beencaptured in countless visual mediums. Lettering has been a centralplayer in forming these urban environments that seduce the eye...
WEDNESDAY 16 APRIL 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Lisa Naftolin
Lisa Naftolin is the creative director of Art + Commerce, an agency representing image makers including photographers, stylists, and creative directors. Her practice has been divided between cultural and editorial projects for the past twenty years.
WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 7: Alisa Grifo
LOCAL/GLOBAL
A look at KIOSK, the store for objects that celebrate local aesthetics, with Alisa Grifo.
SATURDAY 5 APRIL 2008 1:00 – 4:00PM
Art/Walk: a tour of Chelsea’s galleries with David Platzker
Chelsea’s bounty of art galleries and arts institutions is a treasure trove of inspiration for designers and creative souls of all stripes. Join us for a tour of Chelsea's galleries led by very special guide, David Platzker.
WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH 2008 6:30 – 9:00PM
Small Talk No. 6: Aaron Rose
CREATIVE/ADDICTS
Exclusive screening of documentary film "Beautiful Losers" (84 mins) with director Aaron Rose
TUESDAY 25 MARCH 2008 6:30 – 8:30PM
Rock/On: A casual talk about desire, drive and design
Michael Ian Kaye has designed books, magazines, identities,advertising, restaurants and a bunch of other stuff. In summer 2007 hestarted Mother Design, a new venture born out of Mother New York, anadvertising agency with offices in London and Buenos Aires. Prior tothat he was a senior creative director at AR, an agency with a fashionfocus where his clients included Brioni, Brooks Brothers, SalvatoreFeragamo and Banana Republic. Kaye was also creative director in Ogilvy& Mather's Brand Integration Group, working with such clients asBritish Petroleum, Levi's and Motorola.
WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Rosten Woo
Rosten Woo is the executive director and co-founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a non-profit organizations dedicated to creativeeducation about places and how they change.
WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Classic/Contemporary: A conversation with Tucker Viemeister
Please join AIGA/NY and frog design for our next Classic/Contemporaryevening on Wednesday, March 12 with Tucker Viemeister, Chief of theR&D LAB within the Rockwell Group.
FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2008 6:00 – 7:30PM
2008 Publikum Calendar
Debbie Millman, the 2008 Publikum Calendar curator, moderates a talkwith Chip Kidd, Luba Lukova, Matteo Bologna (designers featured in2008 edition) and George Mill & Nada Ray (Publikum Calendar founders).
WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris (number27.org) is an artist andstoryteller working primarily on the Internet. His work involves theexploration and understanding of humans, on a global scale, through theartifacts they leave behind on the Web.
TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2008 6:30 – 8:30PM
Stefan Sagmeister: Things I've Learned in My Life So Far
Astonishingly, Stefan Sagmeister has only learned a scant twenty things(or so) in his life. However, he has managed (amazingly) to publishthese hard-won maxims all over the world in a variety of spaces andformats.
WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Classic/Contemporary:
A conversation with Jim Sherraden
Join AIGA/NY and frog design for the second in our new series of intimate evenings exploring the line between Classic and Contemporary design. If you follow country music, or the history, art and culture of the American South, sooner or later you're bound to run into the letters, images and unmistakable "look" of Hatch Show Print in Nashville, TN. Jim Sherraden of Hatch will share his unique take on letterpress printing in the digital age.
WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 5: James Biber
2D/3D
The intersection of architecture and graphic design with James Biber.
WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
CLASSIC/CONTEMPORARY:
A CONVERSATION WITH LOUISE FILI
Join AIGA/NY and frog design for the first in our new series of intimate evenings exploring the line between Classic and Contemporary design. We begin with a true Design Classic – Louise Fili. Her passion for typefaces past has lead to classic designs for book jackets, food packaging and restaurant identities.
WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Jakob Trollbäck
A self-taught designer from Sweden, Jakob Trollbäck is the President and Creative Director of Trollbäck + Company. He leads an innovative and highly successful company, creates seminal and award-winning designs, and is an acknowledged industry leader in branding and motion graphic design.
SATURDAY 15 DECEMBER 2007 8:00AM – 6:30PM
Cause/Effect: Design As Change Agent
A one-day event that looks at the intersection of design and social responsibility in its current and historical contexts. When designers respond to local and global crises, design becomes their causal force and change their endgame.
TUESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 4: Christoph Niemann
PICTURE/BOOK:
A masterful celebration of illustration including children's books.
"> SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER 2007 6:00 – 10:00PM
DANCE/DANCE/DANCE: THE/NEW/BIGGER/ANNUAL/
AIGA/NY/HOLIDAY/DANCE/PARTY/
FUNDRAISER/SPECTACULAR
AIGA/NY will host a holiday fundraiser that's new, bigger, and spectacular! The evening will start w...
THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk surprise: Kenya Hara
MUJI/MATERIALIZED:
A look at the thinking, objects and writing of Kenya Hara, with introduction by Michael Bierut.
WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Rachel Abrams
Rachel Abrams is Creative Director of Turnstone Consulting, New York, a collaborative design practice, where she designs people-friendly, technology-mediated experiences for commercial spaces and public places.
WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2007 – THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2007
Future of Web Design
As a partner of Carson Systems, AIGA/NY is pleased to invite you to attend the Future of Web Design conference and the FOWD worksh...
TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 3: Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin
Happy/Marriage: Stories of partnership in life and art.
MONDAY 29 OCTOBER 2007 6:30 – 8:30PM
T/Style: JANET FROELICH AND STEFANO TONCHI
T’s creative director Janet Froelich and its editor Stefano Tonchi, will explain this brave, chic world in the new TimesCenter designed by Renzo Piano.
THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER 2007 6:30 – 9:00PM
Crouwel/Vignelli
Join us for a historic evening with two pioneers of Modernism, Wim Crouwel and Massimo Vignelli. In conversation with Alice Twemlow, the designers will share the anecdotes and insights that frame their iconic work and explain why, to them, design is not a career; it’s a way of life.
WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Jake Barton
Jake Barton is principal of Local Projects, a studio that creates media installations for museums and public spaces. Local Projects is partnered with Thinc Design to design the World Trade Center Memorial Museum. Recent work includes Interaction Design for StoryCorps, “Timescapes” for the Museum of the City of New York, a suite of films for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the new Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, with architecture by Maya Lin.
TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 2: Yolanda Cuomo and Neil Selkirk present a film about Marvin Israel
A showing of "Who Is Marvin Israel?," a film on legendary art director Marvin Israel, with introduction by Yolanda Cuomo and director Neil Selkirk.
SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2007 11:00AM – 1:00PM
ALPHABET/CITY: A Walking Tour with Tobias Frere-Jones
New York's streetscapes have a definitive signature that has beencaptured in countless visual mediums. Lettering has been a centralplayer in forming these urban environments that seduce the eye...
TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 1: Felix Sockwell with Steve Frykholm and Peter Bell
Three collaborators tell the story of how Herman Miller's "Be" product line came to be.
WEDNESDAY 15 AUGUST 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Stella Bugbee
Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in branding and publication design. After attending Parsons School of Design, Stella founded Honest with Cary Murnion and Jon Milott. After five years at Honest, she left to work for The New York Times Magazine and later, the Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy and Mather. Her self-published magazines are available through Printed Matter. Currently Stella is the design director for Conde Nast's Domino Magazine.
WEDNESDAY 25 JULY 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Project Projects
Project Projects is a design studio focusing on print, identity, and interactive work for clients in the cultural sector. Founded by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels, the studio's clients include Phaidon, Princeton Architectural Press, Steven Holl Architects, and White Columns. Project Projects also collaborates with architects, artists and writers on independent projects.
THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2007 6:30 – 9:00PM
Music/Man: Niklaus Troxler
Niklaus Troxler’s posters chronicle jazz with visual acuity and wit, exposing his own love affair with a singular musical genre. Live music by Bob Stewart on tuba and Craig Harris on trombone will accompany this 80-poster retrospective exhibition and presentation. Come see a virtuoso and witness exactly what true transcendence across art forms looks like.
WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: John Gruber
John Gruber writes and publishes Daring Fireball, a somewhat popular, strongly opiniona...
THURSDAY 31 MAY 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 8: Jason Fried
Jason Fried is the founder of 37signals, an influential Chicago-based web application design firm. 37signals' Basecamp Backpack (web-based personal information management), and Ta-da List (web-based to-do lists) products are used on a daily basis by tens ofthousands of people and small businesses in over 50 countries.
TUESDAY 29 MAY 2007 6:30 – 8:30PM
Fresh Dialogue 23: Designing Audiences
The 23rd annual Fresh Dialogue will look at graphic design through the fresh eyes of three designers: Stefan Bucher, Eric Rodenbeck and Katie Salen. In a user-centric world where Nike iD, Flickr and YouTube rule the roost, this trio has kept pace, designing not just for but with their audiences. Moderated by Ze Frank, online impresario, stand-up comic and creator of "the show."
MONDAY 21 MAY 2007 12:00 – 9:00PM
Tools/Trade: Design Resource Expo
Every profession depends on up-to-date information about the tools of its trade. The AIGA Design Resource Expo offers a crash-c...
WEDNESDAY 16 MAY 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Paul Matthaeus
UPDATE
Due to travel complications Paul Matthaeus is unable to speak at this event. (He's stuck at LAX) Speaking ...
TUESDAY 15 MAY 2007 6:30 – 8:30PM
Franciscan Signature Style Award
The recent AIGANY Design Conference BODY/LANGUAGE focused on the parallel practices in fashion and graphic design. Continuing t...
THURSDAY 3 MAY 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk Surprise: Vince Frost
Vince Frost has played a leading role in the international design community for the past two decades. In the early 90s, he became Pentagram London’s youngest Associate Director. After five years, he set up Frost Design. In 2004 he made the move to Sydney, Australia, where Vince continues to work with a broad range of clients, including New York-based Rizzoli Books, the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue (Zürich), Deutsche Bank Asia and Seoul International Finance Centre.
WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Giampietro & Smith
Giampietro+Smith is a design studio based in New York City focusing on cultural, editorial, and nonprofit projects for a wide variety of clients including Gagosian Gallery, Knoll, Topic magazine, the United Nations, and the NYC2012 Olympic Bid.
TUESDAY 10 APRIL 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 7: Douglas Riccardi & Florent Morellet
Florent Morellet is a leading NYC social activist and restaurateur. He has made his renowned Restaurant Florent a springboard for grassroots activism. Since 1986 designer Douglas Riccardi has worked with Florent to develop the restaurant's branding and to create announcements for political rallies and events.
FRIDAY 6 APRIL 2007 6:30 – 9:30PM
A/Z: Helvetica
Come see the gamut of supporters, detractors and observers at the New York premiere of "Helvetica," a full-length documentary by Gary Hustwit.
SATURDAY 24 MARCH 2007 10:00AM – 8:30PM
Body/Language: Fashion Meets Graphic Design
Advanced registration has ended. On-site registration begins at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday 24 March.
Speakers include Isaac Mizrahi, Andy Spade, Ruth Ansel, Yolanda Cuomo, Abbott Miller, Alexander Brebner and many more. Moderated by Debbie Millman.
TUESDAY 13 MARCH 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 6: Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagramsince 1990, ten years after beginning his career in New York as adesigner for Vignelli Associates. He was president of AIGA's New YorkChapter from 1988 to 1990 and the president of AIGA National from 1998to 2001. In 1989, Michael was elected to the Alliance GraphiqueInternationale, in 2003 he was named to the Art Directors Club Hall ofFame, and last year he won the AIGA Medal. Michael is a senior criticin graphic design at the Yale School of Art, co-editor of the anthologyseries Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design and co-founder of the online journal Design Observer. His book 79 Short Essays on Design will be published by Princeton Architectural Press later this spring.
TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 5: Steven Heller
Steven Heller, a senior art director at the New York Times and co-chairof the MFA Designer As Author and co-founder of the MFA in DesignCriticism programs at the School of Visual Arts, is the co-author of“Stylepedia: Graphic Design Quirks, Conceits, and Mannerisms” and“Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations inModern Graphic Design.” His is currently writing “Iron Fists: Brandingthe Totalitarian State,” a study of henious regimes and their equallydasterdly graphic design campaigns. He is the recipient of the 1999AIGA Medal.
TUESDAY 16 JANUARY 2007 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 4: Emmanuelle Linard
Emmanuelle Linard is the Executive Director of Edelkoort, Inc. With a background in creative production and public relations, she spent 10 years with the European office developing trend forecasts, directing production and lecturing in the U.S., Canada, Europe and South America.
THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER 2006 – FRIDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2007
365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 27
Now in it's 27th year, 365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition is a juried selection of the most accomplished design produced in 200...
TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 3: Arkle & Goldwasser
Peter Arkle and Amy Goldwasser live together in one apartment on Avenue C and work together in the apartment next door. Peter and Amy often end up having completely different experiences working for the same clients, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, ID, Absolute, Lexus, Pentagram, and Sullivan.
SUNDAY 3 DECEMBER 2006 5:00 – 8:00PM
Collaborate/Celebrate
In the spirit of Charles and Ray Eames, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Bogart and Bacall, twenty-two virtuoso couples have co...
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 2: Marc Joseph
Photographer Marc Joseph will be speaking about his new book, Marc Joseph: New and Used, a collection of photographs of an increasingly-endangered species: independent book and record shops.
SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2006 9:30AM – 6:00PM
Passion/Payoff: Student Conference
What exactly is a designer? And why do you want to be one anyway? Straight talk for students on why and how designers keep designing. Join us and see if you are, in fact, a designer.Moderated by Steven Heller and featuring a roster of speakers you won't believe.
WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2006 6:30 – 9:00PM
In/Between: Todd St. John
Todd St. John's projects exude a focused simplicity and a distinct point of view as they manage to crystallize a wide range of interests. Todd will talk about this and about the value of doing things the hard way.Co-presented by Parsons The New School for Design and The Department of Illustration
SATURDAY 28 OCTOBER 2006 3:30 – 6:30PM
Walk/Don’t Walk
The Wooster Collective will take a small group through the streets of Soho, Nolita, and the Lower East Side highlighting street a...
THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER 2006 – SATURDAY 28 OCTOBER 2006
Gain
As business shines a spotlight on design, "Gain" provides shining examples of design’s impact on business success. Featuring cas...
WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2006 6:30 – 10:30PM
Design Legends Gala
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TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 1: Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman was one of the web's first designers, teachers, and bloggers. He publi...
SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2006 12:00 – 12:00AM
Holiday/Everyday
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WEDNESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2006 6:30 – 8:30PM
Your AD Here
From iPod to Target to BMW–s Mini, design has become essential to consumer appeal and forward-thinking. Advertising agencies are realizing the value of design in developing successful, multi-platform campaigns. Designers are increasingly joining the ranks of advertising agencies—and some are even starting their own—to meet marketers– demands for truly integrated marketing solutions.
THURSDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2006 – WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2006
AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2005
Since 1923, the "AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers" competition has recognized excellence in book design and production. The entries include...
THURSDAY 31 AUGUST 2006 12:00 – 12:00AM
Looking for Signs
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THURSDAY 10 AUGUST 2006 – SUNDAY 13 AUGUST 2006
Image, Space, Object 3: Above Brand
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TUESDAY 20 JUNE 2006 – FRIDAY 23 JUNE 2006
Aspen Design Summit
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THURSDAY 15 JUNE 2006 – FRIDAY 18 AUGUST 2006
The Graphic Imperative
A select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters, the 121 posters on display endeavor to show the social, political and aesthetic concerns of many cultures. Themes include dissent, liberation, racism, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy and tolerance—collectively providing a window to an age of great change.
WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2006 6:30 – 8:30PM
Fresh Dialogue 22: Making Magazines
This year's Fresh Dialogue presents three young publishing gurus who are reinventing how magazines are made. Representing the next generation of publishing kingpins, we have: Tod Lippy, creator of Esopus; Lisa Farjam, the force behind Bidoun; and David Haskell editor-in-chief of Topic magazine. And to moderate: magazine industry mover, shaker and supreme tastemaker, James Truman.
WEDNESDAY 24 MAY 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 8: Paola Antonelli
Design Pusher
Paola Antonelli is, in a biographical sense, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design for MoMA. The title however, merely begins to reflect her quest – and ongoing conquests – to establish design as an intrinsic, momentous and delightful ingredient of culture and everyday life. Get a glimpse of Paola’s vision of design.
FRIDAY 19 MAY 2006 – SATURDAY 20 MAY 2006
MOVE3: Under the Influence
This design summit for motion-based artists and designers will explore the fascinating sources of inspiration behind work that ...
WEDNESDAY 19 APRIL 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 7: Amy Franceschini / Futurefarmers
Amy Franceschini is a new media designer with a conscience and an impossibly cool and vibrant approach to design – “working,” as she says “with notions of community, sustainable environments and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature.”
SATURDAY 25 MARCH 2006 9:00AM – 6:00PM
GROW: Design for Sustainability
Join industry leaders at this one-day summit and deepen your understanding of sustainability and green design beyond the realm of recycled paper and soy inks. Learn how some of the biggest corporations in America are making sustainability a strategic priority and embracing sustainable products and business processes to grow their business.
THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 6: Juan Delcan
Sense Manipulator
Juan Delcan is an internationally experienced Live Action Director, currently at the helm of New York-based Nola Pictures as its Creative Director. His heart-thumping sequences have served television networks from Germany to Spain to the U.S.’s PBS Kids and NBC. Come watch, hear and feel for yourself.
FRIDAY 10 MARCH 2006 6:00 – 10:30PM
Audio/Visual: Troxler and Jazz
Niklaus Troxler and Jazz
Niklaus Troxler is recognized as one of the greatest poster designers of his generation....
WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 5: Michael Worthington
Paradigm Disrupter
Michael Worthington is the full package: He is a practicing designer, a Partner in Los Angeles-based design firm Counterspace, customizing typography in its most evocative manifestations for the benefit of print and screen; an educator, shaping students’ understanding of design as full-time faculty member at CalArts; a rampant lecturer and writer, challenging our conception of design theory and practice; and his work and ideas are poignantly published and exposed around the world. Unless you are afraid of leaving with a novel appreciation of design, please join us.
THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Students: Job Hunting 101
Spring is in the air and graphic design seniors’ heads are filled with visions of sweet seats at plum firms. Surely they wi...
TUESDAY 31 JANUARY 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
MOVE: Rewind
Adobe Production Studio Demo
Join us for an exclusive follow-up to last year’s MOVE conference and be the first to see a software solution that will c...
WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY 2006 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 4: Syrup
Work Revolutionaries
Syrup is a multidisciplinary firm with offices in New York and Helsinki and a work philosophy like no other. Based on a live/work premise – the firm and its members allow their lives to permeate their work: “Friends hang out, clients stop by, wives drop off kids, and kids make us drop everything.”
WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 3: Charles Wilkin
Image Sampler
Charles Wilkin brings a collagist's sensibility to bear on design and illustration for clients all across the cultural-corporate spectrum. His evocative re-imaginings of Americana are constructed from the photographs, scraps, and old magazines he finds while trawling flea markets and yard sales — in essence graphic design's waste materials.
WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2005 – SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2006
365: AIGA Annual Design Competition/Exhibition 26
Now in it's 26th year, 365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition is a juried selection of the most accomplished design produced in 2004. The selections on display, chosen from nearly one thousand entries, represent the state of graphic design across many fields and disciplines.
SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 2005 12:00 – 7:00PM
Fourth Annual Holiday Sale
A huge “Thanks!” to all who donated items for the annual fundraising sale and to everyone who came and shopped. It was...
WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2005 6:30 – 8:30PM
ReVealed: Rick Valicenti
Spend an evening with the Midwest’s own Rick Valicenti. He will talk about his work and his life, but he also wants to answer your questions – the later half of the presentation will be devoted to a semi-moderated dialogue.
THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2005 9:00AM – 5:30PM
MOVE: Rewind
Apple Motion 2 Workshop
Remember the breakthrough effects and stunning animation you saw at AIGA NY’s annual MOVE: Stories in Motion Conference?
WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2005 6:30 – 8:30PM
Draw: PrettyUgly
PrettyUgly looks at the work of three young illustrators, Aya Kakeda, Tara McPherson and Souther Salazar, exponents of the so-called New Weird America aesthetic. Delicate and deranged, homespun and psychedelic, they are confidently situated among the high/low, illustration/design/art pigeonholes. Moderated by Laurie Rosenwald.
THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2005 6:30 – 8:30PM
Lorraine Wild: Full Stride
Lorraine Wild – designer, writer and historian – will be traveling from the West Coast to walk us through the creative gamut of a career that, to this day, remains in full stride. She will talk about the many things that make up her long-standing practice: book design, exhibit design, writing, and more.
WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 2: Joshua Davis
Code Whisperer
Joshua Davis is an artist, itinerant conference speaker, educator, programmer and designer. Praystation and Once-upon-a-forest&mda...
WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 1: Paul Budnitz
Character Collector
The Small Talks series of intimate evenings features speakers from the entire visual culture spectrum. At the first Small Talk of the season, hear how Paul Budnitz opened the Kidrobot store in 2002, designs the toys along with world-renowned artists, and continues to crest the urban vinyl, 12-inch action figure, and plush toy craze.
TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2005 6:30 – 8:30PM
Design Business: Art of the Pitch 2
Back by popular demand, we’ve lined up three designers and teamed them with their clients to discuss what it takes to land, and keep, that new client. You’ll learn business practices that can be applied to any size design firm and that are imperative to growth or even just remaining afloat.
THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER 2005 6:30 – 8:30PM
Design Students: Evening Discourse
The New York Chapter of the AIGA and the FIT/SUNY AIGA Student Chapter treated well over 100 students to an evening of design, boo...
THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2005 – TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2005
AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2004
Since 1923, the AIGA Fifty Books/Fifty Covers competition has recognized excellence in book design and production. The entries include books and book covers designed between January 1 and December 31 of 2004, judged in 2005. Categories range from trade, reference and juvenile books to university and museum publications and include limited-edition and special-format books.
SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2005 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Misguided Tour: Coney Island
Guided tours, food and fun at the Nation’s most wondrous amusement park.Join us for a glorious afternoon of processed meats, freaks, geeks, mind-altering guides and belly-bursting rides. Come one, come all! But don’t dilly-dally because space on the bus (to and from Manhattan) is limited to 50 scalawags.
THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2005 – SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2005
AIGA Design Conference 2005
Test....
WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2005 6:30 – 10:30PM
AIGA Design Legends Gala 2005
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THURSDAY 28 JULY 2005 9:15AM – 5:00PM
Leadership in Paper and the Environment
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WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2005 – SUNDAY 24 JULY 2005
TypeCon2005
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MONDAY 11 JULY 2005 – FRIDAY 15 JULY 2005
Summer Design Institute
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THURSDAY 30 JUNE 2005 – FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2005
Grown In California
Twenty years ago the California chapters of AIGA banded together and gave identity to their accomplishments by presenting a competition open only to California designers and dedicated to recognizing the unique qualities that make design done there so special. Now, twenty years later they have just hosted a second statewide design competition to see how their imagination and inspiration continue to shape the “California Dream.”
FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2005 6:30 – 8:30PM
Fresh Dialogue: Friendly Fire
Camouflage and sleds are not a traditional focus for graphic designers, yet Fresh Dialogue 2005 will use peripheral vision to bring very disparate work into focus. The 62 and Crye Associates will discuss what makes them similar, what makes them very different and the large gray area in between. Moderated by James Victore.
THURSDAY 19 MAY 2005 6:00 – 9:00PM
Branding in China
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MONDAY 16 MAY 2005 6:00 – 8:00PM
Henry Wolf Memorial
Robert Benton, Ivan Chermayeff and Milton Glaser invite you to a memorial service celebrating the life and work of legendary art d...
WEDNESDAY 4 MAY 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 8: Hoefler and Frere-Jones
type paleontologists
Type designers Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler have created some of the most visible and culturally resonant typefaces in ...
Friday 29 & Saturday 30 April 2005
MOVE2: Stories In Motion
How did the creatives at Crispin Porter + Bogusky transform a quaint car from across the pond into the sexy Mini Cooper? Wh...
Friday 29 & Saturday 30 April 2005
MOVE Opening Reception
How did the creatives at Crispin Porter + Bogusky transform a quaint car from across the pond into the sexy Mini Cooper? Wh...
TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2005 11:30AM – 2:00PM
Business Series No. 3: Shift Gears
strategic skills
Your’re a mature professional, regarded a success in the industry, but how do you transition to the next stage of your bu...
WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 7: COMA
craftspeople
Cornelia Blatter and Marcel Hermanns are COMA, an interdisciplinary art and design firm with studios in Brooklyn and Amsterdam. Recent examples of their thoughtful and meticulous work include the monograph Hella Jongerius (Phaidon, 2003,) the AIGA 2004 annual, and the luscious art direction of international interiors magazine FRAME.
THURSDAY 31 MARCH 2005 – FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2005
The Push Pin Graphic
The exhibition chronicles the pioneering experimental periodical issued by Push Pin Studios from 1957 to 1981. This is the first time the graphic has been so collected. A precursor to the self-published design zines and promotions that followed its lead, its historical significance is undeniable.
TUESDAY 22 MARCH 2005 6:30 – 8:30PM
Gary Panter: Divine Comedy
Three-time Emmy winner for “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,” and recipient of the 2000 Chrysler Award, Gary Panter has drawn inspiration from diverse vernacular and classic arenas to continually redefine his influential work, both commercial and personal.
Advance registration has ended. Purchase remaining seats at the door, which opens at 6:15 p.m.
THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2005 8:00 – 11:00AM
Business Series No. 2: Sustain Momentum
leadership skills
You knew your blossoming business would give you more responsibility and income, but no one ever told you how hard it would be ...
WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 6: Dan Nadel
design writer
Dan Nadel (and Peter Buchanan Smith) just won a Grammy for their package design for the Wilco album “A Ghost Is Born.” He is director of PictureBox, Inc., a visual-content studio and publishing house, The Ganzfeld. He’ll tell the story of the making and publishing of the The Wilco Book, and expound more generally on the nature of music books, visionary comics, and writing about visual culture.
THURSDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2005 5:30 – 8:30PM
Business Series No. 1: Get Started
presentation skills
Starting a business means putting yourself in front of strangers—groups of strangers; a horrifying thought. After death and disfiguring accidents, people are afraid of speaking in front of an audience more than anything else. But it's unavoidable—and critical to your success in the design business.
WEDNESDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 5: Doug Lloyd
fashion provocateur
His enviable low-key coolness and his ability to intuit the visual sensibility of a season are what make Doug Lloyd one of fashion...
WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY 2005 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 4: Dee Dee Gordon
trend spotter
Dee Dee Gordon knows what's up. A New Yorker profile singled her out as the prototypical cool hunter and she's been leading the pack ever since. She recently launched Look-Look magazine as an uncensored creative showcase. Find out what's new in spotting what's next.
THURSDAY 16 DECEMBER 2004 – FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2005
365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 25
AIGA’s yearly competition is widely recognized as the most ambitious statement in communication design. It extends a legacy ...
SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER 2004 1:00 – 5:00PM
Holiday Sale
We need your donations! We know you have stuff you no longer have room for; and your fellow designers would covet it. Let go! Purge! Bring us your donations and then come to the holiday sale and buy more.
WEDNESDAY 1 DECEMBER 2004 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 3: Swoon
street artist
Twenty-six year old artist Swoon uses the walls and doors that line the streets of New York as canvas for her larger-than-life-size depictions. She makes intricate paper cutouts and hand-pulled block prints in the studio, plasters them on walls by night and waits for the elements to add their own flourishes.
TUESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2004 6:30 – 8:30PM
The Push Pin Influence
The name Push Pin has come to define both an aesthetic and an era of graphic design that has left a lasting mark on the profession...
THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2004 6:30 – 8:30PM
Doyald Young: Art of the Letter
Over a five-decade career California typographer Doyald Young has been both doer and teacher, combining his design practice with ...
9 November - 15 February - 7 June
Three Theater Nights
Allen - Mamet - Chekhov
Seating
The intimacy of the 160-seat Atlantic Theater guarantees every attendee will be face to face with the actors. ...
THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2004 6:30 – 8:30PM
Draw: No Discipline
Graphic artists are once again challenging the traditional division between illustration and design. This fourth annual Draw event will feature four virtuoso artists whose work embodies the idea that illustration and design are most robust when practiced together.
WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2004 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 2: Patrick Li
campaign director
Work in Progress, the firm led by Patrick Li along with Suzanne Koller and Ezra Petronio, works with the most prominent names in b...
WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2004 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 1: Paul Bacon
jazz & jacket man
In the late 1950’s Bacon invented the bestseller book jacket, as we know it. Catch-22, Portnoy’s Complaint, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—his jackets are bold, resolutely commercial, and genre-defining. Dig it.
FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER 2004 – SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 2004
Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference
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1 October 2004 or 4 October 2004
The Brand Gap
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THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2004 6:30 – 9:30PM
Design Legends Gala
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MONDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2004 7:00 – 9:00PM
GAY-I.G.A.
How Gay Is Design?
From “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to the announcement of Viacom’s new gay network LOGO, this past year has shown a dramatic evolution in gay imagery and themes in television, advertising and design. But do these images change people’s ideas or reinforce stereotypes?
Please note: New event start time
WEDNESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2004 – WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2004
AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers
Beginning in 1924 AIGA has held competitions to select the best designed books and covers of the year. This exhibition will feature the selections of 2004, from books published in 2003.
SUNDAY 15 AUGUST 2004 – FRIDAY 20 AUGUST 2004
Business Perspectives for Design Leaders
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SATURDAY 7 AUGUST 2004 – FRIDAY 13 AUGUST 2004
Image, Space, Object
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TUESDAY 8 JUNE 2004 6:30 – 8:30PM
Hell Yes!
Investigate how graphic design, visual persuasion and the media will influence the 2004 election. Speakers include Rob Corddry of “The Daily Show,” Milton Glaser, political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, Lizz Winstead of Air America Radio and a special appearance by Billionaires for Bush. Introduced by Steven Heller. Moderated by John Hockenberry.
FRIDAY 28 MAY 2004 – SUNDAY 30 MAY 2004
The Normal Heart
“The Normal Heart” is the opening chapter of what became the AIDS epidemic. In 1981 young men are dying in increasing...
FRIDAY 28 MAY 2004 – TUESDAY 24 AUGUST 2004
Sensacional!
Mexican Street Graphics
“Sensacional de Diseño Mexicano” includes images of vernacular visual vocabulary seen around small towns, highways and cities of Mexico, as well as a selection of flyers, labels and comic books. The common denominator of this work: its authors don’t follow rules dictated by academy, plastic compositional conventions or current trends.
WEDNESDAY 26 MAY 2004 6:30 – 8:30PM
Fresh Dialogue: 20th Anniversary
Five talented and eloquent designers (Alice Chung, Karen Hsu, Agnieszka Gasparska, Rodrigo Corral and Alan Dye) from the disparate worlds of fashion, publishing, web, advertising and art will unleash a dialogue about their work. They will be kept in check by design’s inky colossus, the always unpredictable Chip Kidd.
THURSDAY 13 MAY 2004 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 8
Deb Bishop: Art director
Deb Bishop brings her astounding magazine background (Rolling Stone, among others) to Martha Stewart Babies and ...
SUNDAY 9 MAY 2004 2:00 – 7:00PM
Sight Unseen
“Sight Unseen” is the story of a world-famous artist (Ben Shenkman) and his battle with an ex-lover (Laura Linney) ove...
FRIDAY 7 MAY 2004 – SATURDAY 8 MAY 2004
MOVE: design for film + television
ou’re invited to sit back and survey the some of the best work and current trends in the fields of broadcast, advertising, music v...
THURSDAY 8 APRIL 2004 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 7
Ayse Birsel: Product innovator
Born in Izmir, Turkey, Ayse Birsel came to New York to attend Pratt as a Fulbright Scholar. Ayse’s firm Olive 1:1 turns the expected on end. Some results: a reinvented cubicle for Herman Miller and for TOTO Japan, a reinterpreted toilet seat.
WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH 2004 6:30 – 8:30PM
Design Business: Art of the Pitch
Special note: moved to larger venue
You studied the project brief, researched the company, analyzed design scenarios and pitched the proposal; yet the client picked someone else for the job. We’ve lined up three designers and teamed them with their clients to discuss the pitch process and what it takes to land that new client.
TUESDAY 30 MARCH 2004 6:00 – 8:00PM
Misguided Tour: Volvelles
The Magnificent Art of Circular Charting
AIGA members are invited to attend a special evening viewing of The Grolier Club exhibition: “Volvelles: The Magnificent Art...
THURSDAY 25 MARCH 2004 – FRIDAY 14 MAY 2004
Masters of Graphic Design
UCLA Catalog Covers 1990-2004
Opening reception
Wednesday 24 March 2004
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Members have been mailed invitations th...
THURSDAY 11 MARCH 2004 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 6
Rafael Esquer: Design nomad
A native of Mexico’s Sonora Desert, Rafael designs everything from uniforms for Olympic athletes (with Eiko Ishioka) to CD co...
THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2004 7:00 – 9:00PM
Misguided Tour: AIGA On Ice
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WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2004 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 5
Luke Hayman: Magazines and much much more
Currently the creative director of Travel + Leisure, Luke Hayman has put his mark on every magazine that's stopped you in y...
THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2004 6:30 – 8:30PM
Mr. Abbott Miller: Twice Removed
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THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2003 – FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2004
365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 24
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Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Niemann, Paul Sahre
Fresh Dialogue 1
New Voices in Graphic Design
Each year, The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts shines the spotlight on three emerging graphic designers...
Kevin Lyons, Warren Corbitt, Matt Owens, and Susan Parr
Fresh Dialogue 2
New Voices in Graphic Design
In a time when stripped-down minimalism seems to substitute for creative ideas, the work of designers Kevin Lyons, one9ine, ...
BASE, HONEST, HunterGatherer, STILETTO
Fresh Dialogue 3
New Voices in Graphic Design
Fresh Dialogue Three brings together the work of four young and innovative studios who share the distinction of being selec...
Jason Fulford, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Leanne Shapton
Fresh Dialogue 4
New Voices in Graphic Design
<i>Fresh Dialogue Four</i> brings together the work of three young and innovative graphic designers who have been sel...
the 62, Crye Associates
Fresh Dialogue 6
New Voices in Graphic Design: Friendly Fire
Beginning in 2000 Fresh Dialogue has been documented in a publication issued by P.A.P. The latest in the series features the work ...
Alice Chung, Karen Hsu, Agnieszka Gasparska, Rodrigo Corral, Alan Dye
Fresh Dialogue 5
New Voices in Graphic Design
Five years ago, the American Institute of Graphic Arts launched Fresh Dialogue, a series aimed at bringing together emerging desig...
Stefan Sagmeister
Things I've Learned in My Life So Far
"Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far,” published by Harry N. Abrams Inc, documents typographic statements conceived of a...
