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Dallas Design Week: Kick Off Party Monday

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:13:32 +0000

Join us Monday, April 11th at Design Within Reach’s Dallas location for a Design Week kick off party. We’ll go over the details of our first Design Week, pass out Golden Tickets to AIGA members, posters, and talk about AIGA’s national initiative to start an international day of dialogue about Design on April 13th.

Get tickets here: http://ddwkickoff.eventbrite.com/

Dallas Design Week: High Def Color

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:12:09 +0000

Join us Tuesday from 12-1:30 at ColorMark for an in-depth look at High Definition color printing, a look at their new Vu-Tech machine which prints on metal and a variety of other substrates, and a plant tour. Lunch will be provided.

Get tickets here: http://ddwhighdefcolor.eventbrite.com/

Dallas Design Week: Inhouse Design Panel

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:10:55 +0000

There are a number of unique challenges and opportunities that creatives face when practicing design in the corporate environment. AIGA recognizes the need to provide resources and opportunities for dialogue that cater to the inhouse designer.

As part of AIGA DFW’s Design Week, we invite you to join us for an insightful evening on Tuesday April 12th, for a discussion on what it takes to succeed on an in-house design team. Featuring creatives from Amon Carter Museum, Neiman Marcus Online, Sally Beauty and SouthWest Airlines Pilots Association.

*All Design Week events, like all other AIGA events are open to the public. AIGA members and Student members are always free.

Dallas Design Week: Inhouse Design Panel
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (CT)
Dallas, TX

Dallas Design Week: Clampitt Paper School

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:09:27 +0000

Join the DFW AIGA at Clampitt Creative Center, Wednesday April 13th, for a mini-Paper school hosted by Crystal Bryant of Clampitt. Lunch and paper will be served.

This event is SOLD OUT

Dallas AIGA Presents: David Kampa and Britton Upham

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:08:10 +0000

Join the Dallas AIGA Wednesday, April 13th, at Clampitt Creative Center for a visit from McGarrah Jessee creative director David Kampa and Director of Integration, Britton Upham. McGarrah Jessee does work for Whataburger, Shiner, Frost Bank and a ton of others. They are also Ad Age’s Southwest Agency of the year and featured in Communications Arts magazine recently as well.

Get tickets here: http://ddwmcgarrahjessee.eventbrite.com/

Dallas Design Week: Debbie Millman

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:06:17 +0000

Debbie Millman is the President of AIGA and the author of three books: How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007), Essential Principles of Graphic Design and Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design. (HOW Books, 2009). How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer is currently in its fourth printing and has been translated in four languages. Her fourth book, Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits, will be published by Allworth Press in Fall 2011.

While this event is free but you need to have a ticket, click here: http://ddwdebbiemillman.eventbrite.com/

Dallas Design Week presents Bill Gardner of Logo Lounge

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:02:49 +0000

Rockport Books Featuring Bill Gardner of LogoLounge

Join the Dallas AIGA Thursday night for a visit by Bill Gardner of LogoLounge. Bill will be giving away a membership to LogoLounge, and Rockport books, his publisher will be giving away some free books and bags. Bill will also have copies of LogoLounge 2 for sale to be signed also!

Get tickets here: http://ddwrplogolounge.eventbrite.com/

Dallas AIGA presents OBJECTIFIED

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:59:49 +0000

Join the DFW AIGA Friday Night at UT Arlington, in FIne Arts Room 148 for a screening of Objectifed, a film by Gary Hustwit, who directed Helvetica.

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis.

Get tickets here: http://ddwobjectified.eventbrite.com/

Featuring
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Tim Brown (IDEO)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Dan Formosa (Smart Design)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
David Kelley (IDEO)
Bill Moggridge (IDEO)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Davin Stowell (Smart Design)
Jane Fulton Suri (IDEO)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)

Dallas AIGA Fellows Awards Featuring Roger Black

Admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:57:32 +0000

Saturday 16th: AIGA Fellows Award dinner at the Pads at Aloft Dallas 6-9pm.
Honoring Doug May and Don Sibley. Special guest speaker Roger Black.

The last Sunday magazine

Admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:52:43 +0000

ISN’T the new cover of The New York Times Magazine “the design that Ruth Ansel tossed in 1979?” I asked in a tweet today. The alert blog The NYT Picker immediately asked me to explain, and I answered that this first cover recalls the magazine of the 60s, with a flush-left logo, black-and-white photo and some white space. Ruth Ansel, former art director of Harper’s Bazaar, came in around 1979 and ushered in the new use of color with an all-bleed cover and a big New York Times Magazine logo across the top. Her approach was to make the magazine an antidote to to the gray grittiness of the big Sunday paper, and the readers loved it. So now, no bleed, and no color on the cover. But it looks good!

Inside, they evidently revived R. Hunter Middleton’s typeface Karnak, a black slab-serfied font that goes back to the old composing room. I’ve missed the Karnak since Paula Scher mistakenly subbed Stymie or Beton for it in an otherwise elegant redesign ten years ago. Gradually most of the old fonts from the metal era disappeared from the newspaper. Ludllow versions of Cheltenham, Bookman, Latin Elongated as well as Karnak were reassembled in the hot-metal composing room to become centerpiece of the robust, versatile typography of the great Lou Silverstein, the first designer AME at the paper. He added only Franklin Gothic.

There is still some Franklin, as well as the Intertype Imperial text left in the newspaper, but new versions of Cheltenham replaced the others, blanding it down. On one level that makes a logical typographical consistency for the Times, but I miss the variety and the strength of Silverstein’s mix.

So it’s reassuring for an old reader to see the Karnak again. Then, they added a new face which I don’t recognize, a bold condensed old style with bracketed serifs. Not an obvious historical mix for the Times magazine—I mean, hey, a Cheltenham bold condensed would have worked better, looked more like the rest of the paper, and you could have had Matthew Carter in for a quick update. (He did the other Chelts.) Nonetheless, it’s an interesting font, and adds some original personality.

There should be some tension in designing a Sunday supplement: You want to make it fresh and original, but it is nevertheless part of the whole paper. I think Janet Michaud achieved that with the smaller, slighter Washington Post Magazine. But at least the Post still has a Sunday supplement, so the Times doesn’t actually have the last.

But what’s the story with the text font? It’s a generic contemporary Roman in the tradition of Minion—forgive me if I don’t recognize it either. Why not go back to the print text font, Imperial, which is also used on the iPad app and the HTML Skimmer, thanks to Typekit. Seems like it would work better for the rotogravure printing—less spindly and contrasty.

The design of the magazine, nevertheless, make a lot of sense for the direction of the magazine. It just looks more interesting than the previous design. (It would have been nice if the editor had credited the designers in the explanatory note.) It’s better suited for the small page size and the short takes in the front and back.

All in all this magazine rethink argues for the continued existence of print. Look what a better experience it is on paper, as compared to the app version, or the New York Times Reader version, or the web. Some day we will get to the richness and browsability of print in the digital world, but we are not there yet. When Abe Rosenthal interviewed me to take over after Ruth left, he asked me what I thought the magazine was. I said it was the reward you got when you took on the whole Sunday New York Times.

Abe said, “No, no! It can’t be an additive. There is already too much in the paper. It has to be the antidote!” Abe was always right.

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Lecture Series: Nessim Higson, Interactive Designer @ Spacketaker

Admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:10:20 +0000

February 24, 2011 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Spacetaker @ Winter Street Studios
2101 Winter Street, Studio 11 Houston, TX 77266

Please join us for a social afterwards @ Beaver’s
2310 Decatur St Houston, TX 77007-7519 (713) 864-2328
Light munchies will be served.

Nessim Higson of iamalwayshungry.com and IAAH, will be discussing how interactive thinking is not and should not be limited to the screen and demonstrate the benefits of applying interactive methodology over to other mediums.

Nessim Higson runs IAAH, which functions on the core belief of good design = good business, and that design has a responsibility to not only contribute to the economic market but also to the social fabric of society. The studio has been recognized nationally and internationally by organizations including, but not limited to, Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, DGV; and was named a young gun by the Art Directors Club of NY.

Pricing:
$10 AIGA Member
$15 Non-Member

For more event information or questions, please contact
Denise Madera, Finance Chair, finance@houston.aiga.org.

Multimedia Design and Development Adjunct Faculty Position

Admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:33:45 +0000

DeVry University is seeking talented adjunct instructors for their Associates degree program in Web Graphics Design and their Bachelors degree program in Multimedia Design and Development.

Masters degree is preferred, as is a minimum of two years teaching at a post-secondary level is preferred (or related business and industry experience). Must have expertise in graphic design, web design and/or multimedia (and solid conceptual understanding of form, function, space and color, with knowledge of digital imaging). Applicants must have outstanding written and oral communication skills as well as excellent motivational and instructional skills in a diverse and non-traditional learning environment.

To see the complete job listing, apply, please go to:
https://devryuniversity-devry.icims.com/jobs/intro

Jimmy Ball Scores with Graphic Design USA Entries

Admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:03:53 +0000

Nice way to start off the year for Jimmy Ball, president of the Dallas AIGA chapter: 3 GDUSA American Graphic Design awards. Click the following link to see the work:

http://www.gdusa.com/contests/agda/10/winners/types/se.php?x=bro2139-edi2140-edi2141

Goodbye to an Old Friend

Admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:42:55 +0000

Chuck Ramirez

April 28, 1962 – November 6, 2010

Memorial service

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
1400 South Alamo Street [map]

6:30 – 10:00 pm, Thursday, November 11th

Enter from Probandt Street next to Big Tex Granary and across from La Tuna. Valet parking will be available.

Photos of Chuck from the Flickr pool will be shown during the service; feel free to upload your own.

Bring objects or images for an ofrenda honoring Chuck that is being coordinated by Andy Benavides and Blue Star. Pink candles are recommended. Items may be dropped off Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The ofrenda will be on display through the next week for “Arts and Eats” on Nov. 17th.

Bike procession to memorial

Organizer requests that those participating in procession wear a helmet and use bike lights. Begins at The Compound (517 Stieren near S St Mary’s) at 6 pm. Route travels north on S St Mary’s, left on S Alamo to Probandt. Left on Probandt, entering Blue Star across from La Tuna (just before Cevallos intersection). [map with route]

TexasDesign iPhone App

Admin — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:28:27 +0000

Own an iPhone?

Download the FREE TexasDesign iPhone app though the app store. Follow TexasDesign , the AIGA, and other design related sites. Click here to download:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=353795696&mt=8&ign-mpt=uo=6

Roger Black : A Narrative Design Studio

Admin — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:06:34 +0000

There is something about the energy of Flipboard that makes you really feel good. It takes the random stuff from Twitter and Facebook and lays it out like the old front-of-the-book in Time magazine.

The randomness is the key. Usually I just dip into my Twitter home page or Facebook “news feed,” read a few things off the top, and leave, knowing I am missing a lot. The Flipboard iPad app scoops up all of this, in no apparent pattern, and puts it into fresh templates, where I can “discover” it. Nice! (Okay, it does use Helvetica.)

The design and the, uh, serendipity of the layout puts stuff in front of me that I otherwise miss. Plus, it makes my own tweets and mentions look really important, so that makes me feel good.

Now Flipboard has introduced Flipboard Pages. Partnering first with a small list of publishers, they’re offering special versions of articles in nice clean templates with a bit of each publisher’s look-and-feel. I immediately set up a Washington Post Magazine section in Flipboard to check it out. The first stuff comes up in regular Flipboard style, but if you click on “Read Article” it goes to the page layout. Nice! No scrolling: Pages. And full-page ads.

Presumably, if a link to one of a partner’s articles shows up in your Twitter stream, then Flipboard will direct you to their customized pages. The page layouts are simple, charmingly like Treesaver pages. That is, they page!

One breathless blogger, Sarah Perez in ReadWriteWeb says that “this is an iPad app done right.” Well, it’s pretty cool, but what happens after you’ve finished with the article you found, what happens? It just stops. You have to go back to Flipboard to get the rest of the publication. (That can be fixed, of course, along with other UI rough spots.)

Flipboard Pages was last week’s New Thing. There was much excitement, since we all tend to get carried away with the new, and we always forget that the new thing does not always (if ever) shove aside the old thing.

Flipboard is a well-designed solution for getting content digitally on the iPad, and the iPad is the today’s Holy Grail for publishers. It’s one answer to the tablet content app problem, but not the only answer. It falls under the general category of aggregation, where you get stories from a variety of sources filtered by tags, or your social network, or by some algorithms.

Perez asserted:

Outside of a few publications read religiously, for the most part, news finds us via our friends. Flipboard makes Twitter and Facebook the jumping off point for accessing news, and the result is a news magazine we actually want to read.

That may be true… some of the time. Other times we like to get our content directly from the source—the writer (or the photographer or videographer). Sometimes we find it via a link. Sometimes we go to Google to find it. Sometimes we follow links on blogs and in link lists on other sites. Sometimes we just hear about it and guess the URL. And sometimes we seem to get it just by chance.

That serendipity doesn’t happen as easily on the web as it does in print. That’s because the web was designed for information transactions via hypertext—not a continuous browsing experience. A stack of magazines seems to invite browsing. With the web you tend to get in and get out.

RSS readers were an effort to aggregate content from different web sites. Flipboard’s appeal is that it puts a nice visual layer on top of aggregation. What their Pages venture misses is the chance to let us go beyond a single article and continue reading through an entire vertical publication. They could add that, and/or someone else will.

These two content modes, aggregation and edited publications, do not cancel each other. The challenge for the media world is to find a way to bridge the modes and to offer different kinds of users experiences according to the reader’s own mode (or mood). And not just for the iPad, but to an increasing number of platforms.

Somehow I think we will see some other solutions very soon.

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Improving Content : Share-ability – Whiteboard Friday

Admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:22:50 +0000

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Integrated Marketing Summit Thursday December 2

Admin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:29:51 +0000

Dan Sturdivant, a content marketing expert and general manager of Creative Support, a Dallas-based Digital Content Marketing Agency, will be speaking at the Integrated Marketing Summit in Dallaso December 2 , 2010

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DSVC December Meeting: Eddie Opara

Admin — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:39:35 +0000

DEC 1 – DSVC is pleased to introduce the prolific new partner at Pentagram New York, Eddie Opara.

Eddie was born to Nigerian parents in Wandsworth, London in 1972. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his career as a designer at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as a senior designer/art director at 2×4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office, in 2005.

He joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in October 2010.

Opara is a multi-faceted designer whose work encompasses strategy, design and technology. His projects have included the design of brand identity, publications, packaging, environments, exhibitions, interactive installations, websites, user interfaces and software, with many of his projects ranging across multiple media.

Paula Scher says: “Eddie represents the new generation of graphic designers for whom all forms of media and all dimensions of design are not separated from the initial concept but are an integral part of the total thought.”

Lisa Strausfeld adds: “Eddie is the ideal next generation Pentagram partner. He is a traditionally trained graphic designer and a self-taught software developer with a perfectly tuned eye and keenly strategic mind. He is what every client needs.”

We hope you’ll join us Wednesday, December 1st, for a night of drinks and laughs with all your Dallas creative friends, and say hello to our special guest, Eddie Opara.

(HELLO graphic concept by Luke Hayman)

2011 Mediocrity: “Designers” (Extended)

Admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:15:24 +0000

Very funny parody on reality (redundant?). Take look at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3V5S7NhvcA&feature=player_embedded

PROCEED AND BE BOLD!

Admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:15:03 +0000

PROCEED AND BE BOLD! is the story of Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., who at 40 years of age abandoned the traditional American Dream to follow his own. Unsatisfied with his comfortable, middle-class life, Amos traded in his computer for a printing press and his white collar for a pair of overalls. Armed with life, liberty, peanuts, and a meager yearly income of $7,000, Amos cranked out a new, mutinous declaration of independence. http://www.20kfilms.com/filmsites/proceedandbebold/index.php

This screening is part of AIGA Houston’s CONNECT{ED} event, which starts at 6:00pm the same evening. Feel free to show up before the film to mix and mingle with Houston’s future design leaders!

For more information, visit www.AIGAHouston.org

THURSDAY, November 18, 2010. Screening begins at 8pm @ DOMY Books
1709 Westheimer, Houston map it!

FREE for Members & Students (Non-student non-members $5)
Click Here to register

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding

Admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:43:53 +0000

“What’s So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding” is a unique art print show inspired by music, featuring several talented Texas based letterpress and silk screen print artists at Arlington’s fabulous Studio 204. Music has and will be a powerful force for visual artists, and these wonderful hand made prints will show you just how inspiring music and positivity can be. Please join us the evening of Saturday, November 13th for some groovy times and groovy affordable art.

Saturday, November 13 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Studio 204
204 East Street
Arlington, TX

Ctrl+Art+Create Art Festival & Call for Artist

Admin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:52:20 +0000

AIGA Houston’s 1st Annual Art Festival

Come enjoy a beautiful Sunday afternoon outdoors with AIGA Houston as we showcase arts & crafts from local graphic designers and artists!

WORKSHOPS for children and adults throughout the day inside Heights Theater
LIVE MUSIC including local Houston band Wheel Workers out doors
RAFFLES & GIVEAWAYS enter for you chance to win an iPad
A DAY OF FUN & INSPIRATION! {ALL AGES}

Pricing at the Festival
FREE to the Public
Feel free to bring blankets/lawn chairs to enjoy the beautiful outdoors and live music.

*Art festival is outdoors. A board member will be in contact with all artists 5 days prior to festival with a detailed layout of venue and projected itinerary of event.

Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010
11:00 a.m. – 5 p.m. festival
Location: Heights Theater
339 W. 19th St. Houston, TX 77008 map it!

DSVC Meeting Nov 3- Designer & Illustrator Matt Stevens

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:39:42 +0000

NOV 3 – DSVC is pleased to welcome creative director, poster designer, illustrator, fake national brand designer, and semi-pro Layer Tennis player, Matt Stevens.

At his day job, He is the creative director for HAWSE (a Brand Agency) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Away from work, he has made a name for himself with after-hours design endeavors like Nike illustrations, fine art printing, donut shop rebranding, and the occasional game of Adobe’s Layer Tennis.

Matt will talk about how his hard work has turned a bit of internet fame, real opportunities with Facebook, The Salvation Army, Inksie (design and culture), some top secret sneaker projects, and a speaking gig at the oldest and largest independent design club in the country

We aren’t Matt’s only fans. His work has been featured on: abduzeedo, Blogrocious, Brand New, quipsologies, Coudal’s Fresh Signals, DesignWorkLife, The Donut Project, Draplin, ffffound, Grain Edit, Graphicology, Northcoast Zeitgeist, Nalden, Signalnoise, and Sneaker Freaker.

We hope you’ll join us Wednesday, November 3rd, for a night of drinks and laughs with all your Dallas creative friends, and our special guest, Matt Stevens.

TEDxSMU Featuring Roger Black

admin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:42:44 +0000

For more than 35 years, Roger Black has worked with magazines like Rolling Stone, newspapers like The New York Times and websites like Bloomberg.com, developing ways to communicate content more effectively. A partner in the Font Bureau and Danilo Black, both founded in 1989, Roger and his teams have redesigned Reader’s Digest, Esquire, The Nation (Bangkok) and the Los Angeles Times, to name a few. Last year he redesigned The Washington Post newspaper and the news website for MIT. Currently, Roger is putting the finishing touches on a new design for the Scientific American’s website and magazine. Recently, he helped launch four new companies: Webtype, Treesaver, Ready?Media and Nomad Editions.