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AIGA The Business of Design III

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:00:00 -0600

Start: 11/15/2006 - 1:00am

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Wednesday, November 15
AIGA The Business of Design III
The AIGA Business of Design Series is for design business leaders, creative directors, and senior managers who are invested in the growth of their design business. The sessions also offer value to those who are considering re-tooling or launching their own firm. The series promises discussion about profitable growth, finance, operations, business development, and career management.

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA Small Talk V

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:00:00 -0600

Start: 11/07/2006 - 1:00am

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AIGA Small Talk V
"Good Design For Good Reason." It's a great sounding slogan but as the driving force behind everything Firebelly creates, it's an even better feeling when it's achieved. Since 1999 Dawn Hancock, owner and creative director of Firebelly Design Corp., has channeled her design and the talent of her young team towards serving socially conscious causes, companies large and small, non-profit organizations and fund-raising galas. Attendance limited to 25 people.

6:00 pm
Firebelly Design Co.
2701 W. Thomas Street, 2nd floor
Chicago, IL
Price: Members $20, Non-Members $40, Students $10

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA Incite/Insight

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:00:00 -0500

Start: 10/26/2006 - 1:00am

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AIGA Incite/Insight
Incite/Insight is dedicated to how ideas spark the actions that spark ideas. Each year we focus on areas or aspects of design that have made a difference in our society, our culture, our times. Incite/Insight examines what is stimulating, provocative, fresh and new; and provides a launch pad for thought, a forum for discussion and the prompt for even better design.

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA Small Talk IV

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Start: 09/05/2006 - 6:00pm

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AIGA Small Talk IV
The publications office at Northwestern University provides writing, editorial, design, and print production services to the University. Each year the office produces more than 300 printed publications, including brochures, booklets, and periodicals, for Northwestern's administration, departments, schools, and centers. The office is also responsible for maintaining the University's identity standards. Attendance limited to 20 people.

6:00 pm
Northwestern University
University Relations, 555 Clark Street
Evanston, IL
Price: Members $20, Non-Members $40, Students $10

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA The Business of Design II

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:00:00 -0500

Start: 07/19/2006 - 1:00am

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AIGA The Business of Design II
The AIGA Business of Design Series is for design business leaders, creative directors, and senior managers who are invested in the growth of their design business. The sessions also offer value to those who are considering re-tooling or launching their own firm. The series promises discussion about profitable growth, finance, operations, business development, and career management.

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA Small Talk III

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Start: 07/18/2006 - 6:00pm

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An interdisciplinary studio with offices in Chicago and San Francisco, Studio/lab brings together a talented group of creative professionals with backgrounds in design, architecture, fine arts, photography, video production, and software development. The firm has a long history with AIGA. Team members have served on the Chicago Chapter board and Marcia Lausen, founder of the Chicago office, is currently on the national board. Attendance limited to 25 people.

6:00 pm
Studio/lab
1 East Wacker, Suite 3030
Chicago, IL
Price: Members $20, Non-Members $40, Students $10

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA Annual Members Meeting

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:00:00 -0500

Start: 06/15/2006 - 1:00am

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The Annual Members Meeting celebrates our accomplishments for the year. It is an opportunity to thank our board members, volunteers, and patrons for the invaluable roles they play within AIGA. We also honor esteemed members by awarding the AIGA Fellow Award and the AIGA Chicago Above and Beyond Award.

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA Learning from Legacy

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:00:00 -0500

Start: 09/21/2006 - 1:00am

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AIGA Learning from Legacy
Learning from Legacy will be a new event in 2006. It will balance our Fresh Talent event by inviting a renowned designer to speak in Chicago. The featured speaker will have big name draw, certain to attract a large and diverse crowd of designers.

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA Small Talk II

Fri, 26 May 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Start: 05/16/2006 - 6:00pm

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Rohner Letterpress was founded in 1997 to marry Old World letterpress techniques with current technology. Our mission is to preserve the rich tactility of this centuries-old printing process, while modernizing enough to allow large-scale commercial runs and nearly unlimited design range. Attendance limited to 25 people.

6:00 pm
Rohner Letterpress
3759 N. Ravenswood
Chicago, IL
Price: Members $20, Non-Members $40, Students $10

AIGA 20/20

Fri, 19 May 2006 02:00:00 -0500

Start: 05/19/2006 - 1:00am

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This event will be modeled after the National Conference’s 20/20 Series where 20 designers each get 60 seconds to relay a message (totaling 20 minutes of presentations). We will define a theme and allow a limited number of members to sign up to present. This event will be an excellent opportunity to relax and socialize with members of the community.

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

Design Slam

Fri, 19 May 2006 02:00:00 -0500

Start: 05/19/2006 - 1:00am

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Friday, May 19
Design Slam
We all know that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent Presentation. That’s the idea behind AIGA Chicago’s first annual Design Slam. Here’s your chance to let your thoughts fly on one of today’s biggest questions for our members:

How does design impact our culture?

To qualify to participate, we’re looking for your 60-second presented response. Show us. Tell us. Wow us. Sell us. Straight or twisted. Written, memorized or mimed. Designed and visualized, put to music, put to death - any way you want to put it is up to you. The idea is to rock the house with your profundity.

Send your response, or description of your presentation, to our judging panel at info@aigachicago.org, subject: SLAM by April 15, 2006. We will select the best 20 entries based on originality, relevance to the membership and our judges warped sense of fun. Judges decisions are final. Each participant will be given exactly 60 seconds to present their Slam response. Then the hook comes out, the microphone power goes off. It’s that raw, er, simple.

Would you rather be the slamee than the slammer, come on out and cheer on your colleagues to their 60 seconds of infamy. Schmooze. Relax. Carouse. You know, like designers.

AIGA events

AIGA Fresh Talent

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Start: 04/20/2006 - 6:00pm

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Thursday, April 20
Fresh Talent
Speaker: Strange Attractors

Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop are the founding partners of Strange Attractors Design, an international studio specializing in typography and brand communication for print, motion and interactive media. They have collaborated with a range of clients (FSI Fontshop International, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo Lab, Studio Dumbar, Museum Boijmans) to produce design solutions and products which represent distinct messages and experiences. Their work has received numerous awards, most recently ID Magazine’s ID Forty 2006. Strange Attractors’ design has been featured in many publications and exibitions worldwide (ADC Global, Type Directors Club).

Along with their professional work, the studio also initiates autonomous projects, including Broadcasting Tongues, a study of graphic dialects, and gives workshops and lectures worldwide. They are judges for ADC Young Guns 5 and will be teaching a course called ‘Design in Motion’ for VIDE, The Hague, this summer.

Pescatore Frisk has an MA in Type Design from the The Royal Academy of Art, an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design. Van Middelkoop is on the national board of directors of the BNO (Association of Dutch Designers), and has an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a Degree in Graphic & Typographic Design from The Royal Academy of Art and a propaedeuse in Art History and Archeology from The University of Amsterdam.

Fresh Talent puts the spotlight on unexpected, emerging design talent. Firms with unique, sometimes quirky, occasionally irreverent, and often brilliant perspectives—talent representing the future of our profession.

strangeattractors.com

6:00 pm
The Alliance Francais
54 West Chicago Avenue (at Dearborn)
Price: Members $20, Non-Members $40, Students $15

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents

AIGA The Business of Design I

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:00:00 -0600

Start: 03/29/2006 - 1:00am

Timezone: Etc/GMT-6

Description:

The AIGA Business of Design Series is for design business leaders, creative directors, and senior managers who are invested in the growth of their design business. The sessions also offer value to those who are considering re-tooling or launching their own firm. The series promises discussion about profitable growth, finance, operations, business development, and career management.

http://www.aigachicago.org/content.cfm/currentevents?eventdetail=1

AIGA Small Talk I

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:00:00 -0600

Start: 03/21/2006 - 6:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-6

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Arc Worldwide is a marketing services agency focused on developing big campaignable ideas across multiple channels, most notably interactive, retail, promotional and direct. Arc is headquartered in Chicago with clients including Cadillac, P&G, McDonalds, Nestle, Purina and Diego.

6:00 pm
Arc Worldwide
35 W. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL
Price: Members $20, Non-Members $40, Students $10