April 2010
1 post
Wall-to-Wall Studios: How to Design Your Way Out...
AIGA Kent and the School of Visual Communication Design present: James Nesbitt (co-founder and creative director) and Larkin Werner (partner and creative director) of Wall-to-Wall Studios, Inc.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 7pm-9pm Rm 202 Art Building, Kent State University
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http://www.walltowall.com/
March 2010
3 posts
Chris Allen @ Cleveland Institute of Art
Guest speaker Chris Allen is slated to present at the Cleveland Institute of Art this coming Tuesday on biomimicry and what’s needed from local biologists (researchers, faculty and students) to make the discipline of biomimicry come to life in Northeast Ohio. He comes very highly recommended. Allen is a part of the Biomimicry Institute. I have had the privilege of studying with their co-founders...
February 2010
3 posts
2010 METROPOLIS Next Generation Design Competition
CALL FOR ENTRIES: DEADLINE IS APPROACHING: JANUARY 29, 2010 Good design determines how well products, spaces and systems work from the beginning. We think that great design ideas can make things work even better. One Design Fix for the Future challenges you to prove us right — whether you are an architect, interior designer, product designer, landscape designer, graphic designer,...
December 2009
3 posts
Make/Think Videos Online
Some of the presentations from the Make/Think Conference are posted online. If you did not have the chance to go to Memphis this past October, this is the next best thing. Check them out.
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AIGA VCD Wall Space
Mission Statement: To provide students with a communal area for their communications and promotions in the art building. By doing so we eliminate fliers being scattered about and clean up the look of the art building.
Introducing a common area will also give the design community the chance for consistency in the presentation of materials, thus making it easier for everyone to find what they...
November 2009
10 posts
Millman interviews Sagmeister
A great interview between (AIGA President) Debbie Millman and fantastic designer Stefan Sagmeister.
Via Design Observer.
Tips for Lazy Designers from Michael Bierut
Tips for Lazy Designers from Michael Bierut
Great little Q/A with M. Bierut about being lazy. Good tips, and sugesstions. perfect for the end of the semester. Just kidding, Give your work that final push!
(via SwissMiss)
AIGA Center for Sustainable Design
AIGA Living Principles
This is some really interesting information regarding sustainability and design. Worth checking out.
good for grasshopper →
I found this website while researching a designer for my Typography brochure project. It’s a website where professional designers/professors/etc. give advice and answer frequently asked questions for students and young designers. I didn’t get much of a chance to check out how helpful it is, but the idea is interesting regardless.
Mihail Mihaylov
Really great simplistic work from Mihail Mihaylov.
NY Times Innovation Portfolio
This just surfaced on Fast Company. It is a collection of the interactive pieces that the NY TImes has been doing of the last few years. It’s really great to see all the pieces in one place. You can toggle the different types of graphics by using the top navigation. Really worth checking out. (Link)
T-shirt contest
Today is the last day for submissions for the t-shirt contest. Get them in by midnight, remember to check out http://alturl.com/tc6v for rules and submissions.
Great AIGA Article on Otto Neurath and Pictograms →
Check out Phil Patton’s article on Otto Neurath and his attempts to replace written language with systems of symbols. If you’re working on anything to do with diagrams (and so many of us are), this is a must.
You can also download a PDF of Neurath’s pictograms from his book Gessellschaft und Wirtschaft. You can find the link at the bottom of the article.
October 2009
11 posts
Upcoming CIA Events
Face to Face with Michael Bierut When: Friday, Nov 13, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m: cheese & mingling, 5:00 p.m: Program begins) Where: The Cleveland Institute of Art at 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland (Limited free parking is available in the Institute’s parking lot. Additional parking available throughout University Circle) MUST PRE REGISTER
AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2008 A showcase of...
leoburnett.com →
this is a really cool website. the interactive design is awesome, i ended up trying to draw pictures with the pencil that writes based on your movement around the page
HOW Poster Design
10 WINNERS WILL BE FEATURED ON HOWDESIGN.COM AND SCORE $150 WORTH OF HOW BOOKS PLUS A FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO HOW. Submissions by December 2, 2009: http://howdesign.com/posterdesignawards/
Registration Now Open for Seek, Student Design...
Registration is now open for Seek, the student Design Conference hosted by Northern Illinois University, taking place Saturday, November 21, 2009.
http://www.seekconference.org/ This year we are excited to announce that our keynote speakers are Massimo Vignelli (www.vignelli.com), an AIGA gold medalist, winner of the first ever Presidential Design Award and member of the New York Art Directors...
Next Committee Meeting
Our next committee meetings will be held this Tuesday October 19th at 5:00 p.m. in room 111. Hope to see you all there!
Cocktails with Creatives
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Crave in Downtown Akron 57 E. Market St. Akron, Ohio 44308
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Come out to say “Hi” at Crave in Downtown Akron
Meet up with other designers & creative professionals to chit-chat and relax in an informal atmosphere.
Amy Hawk, Secretary will be hosting this event. She’ll be wearing red flair that simply says “hi”… walk up and introduce...
VCD T-Shirts
AIGA Kent wants to help you display your love for VCD with a t-shirt. The only problem: you haven’t designed it yet.
Interested? Here’s what to do: Develop a design to be printed on a t-shirt. It can be funny, witty, clever, serious…you name it. Just keep it appropriate. E-mail it to AIGA.Kent@gmail.com by November 2nd, and you can check out the competing designs at...
Design Work Needed
For those of you who are interested, we will be showing student work from our Visual Communication Design program at local schools in the near future. If anyone is interested in submitting work (it doesn’t need to be hardcopies, photos will work perfectly) please contact Hilary (hdemko@kent.edu) or Ian (imccull2@kent.edu) with pictures as well as a brief description of the project: Year...
Our next meeting
Good morning everyone.
It is that time again. The next group meeting is here. It is Tuesday at 5 in room 111 as always. I hope to see everyone there.
September 2009
8 posts
Buy some fonts!
As we all know, fonts are CRAZY expensive. But to deter the illegal trading of fonts, AIGA and Adobe have teamed up together to create a HUGE package of fonts available for just $150 to students.
Click this, and begin your typography library…
I don’t know about you guys, but this is goin’ on my Christmas list.
Type Site!
A few typography websites you should check out!
Typophile
FontFont
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Behance Network →
Creative Portfolios, Projects, and Collaborations. A new platform for the creative professional community. Showcase your work, gain exposure, and possibly advance your career on Behance Network! Check out the Gallery to appreciate new and fresh ideas!
Sunday Mentoring
Just a reminder that every Sunday 12pm–3pm mentoring is offered in room 108. If you are having trouble with your VCD classes, come hang out and work on homework and projects together. I wish this was offered when I was in the basic classes. Take advantage of this opportunity!
Art Chantry Carpooling
Hey everyone. Just dropping in to remind everyone to drop us a line at aiga.kent@gmail.com to let us know if you are going to Cleveland on the 24th. We will be carpooling so let us know if you need a ride or can take a few extra people. The Cleveland chapter loves it when there is a good student turnout.
Just for fun!
I thought to start a list of Design blogs/websites that people frequent. The bookmarks folder on my browser for Design is far too long, so I decided to just put down the first 5 blogs/ websites that I have under that folder. Maybe next week I’ll post 5 more. Then 5 again that following Sunday..and again…
Design-Milk
ilovetypography
It’s Nice That
Many Stuff
Booooooom!
AIGA KSU on Twitter! →
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Art Speaks, Posters Yell! With Art Chantry
Thursday, September 24, 2009 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Windows On the River 2000 Sycamore Cleveland, Ohio 44113
Rock poster legend Art Chantry’s works are gritty, inventive and sometimes startling. For Chantry, poster design is folk art and his approach: low-tech. Chantry is known for subculture posters and album covers he designed for Nirvana, Hole and The Sonics which rivals the...