You had me at Llamas
A new post by Doug on designer's promotions at the T-U Design Blog.
05.30.11 Posted in: Features
A Sign of the Times
A blog post by Doug on New York State's beautiful historic markers.
05.06.11 Posted in: Local
FPO
We're really pleased to have our recent release of "Slay the Scary Monsters" featured on @UCLLC's FPO.05.02.11 Posted in: Recognition
#1D4D
Follow AIGA's One Day For Design conversation today on Twitter at #1D4D. Join the conversation.04.13.11 Posted in: Features
The Best Student Designers...
The Best Student Designers in the Capital District are here.04.10.11 Posted in: AIGA | The Professional Association for Design
Attn: Design Students
The Upstate NY Chapter of AIGA invites the 2011 graduating graphic design students of New York to our 3rd Annual Student Portfolio Review, this year in 3 locations: Albany, Rochester, and Syracuse.
THE EVENT:
The review is a chance for you to practice your interview skills and get valuable feedback from local professionals about your design work and resume in a no-risk, non-competitive environment geared at preparing you for the professional interviewing process.
You will receive objective advice and thoughtful one-on-one commentary and criticism of your design work from local design educators, professional designers, and potential employers. While this event is not a job fair, some reviewers may be looking for potential employees or interns. This event is a great way to discuss your work, network and become aware of who's who in your local design community.
Students: The review is open to college seniors, 2010 graduates, and MFA candidates (maximum capacity of 50 students per location)
Reviewers: The review is open to local art and design professionals and educators.
Questions: email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The Albany-area UPSTNY AIGA Student Portfolio Review is proudly sponsored by Mohawk Fine Papers.
03.21.11 Posted in: AIGA | The Professional Association for Design
Writing for Designers
Come out and join the Upstate NY Chapter of AIGA for 'Writing For Designers' with design educator and author Jason Tselentis this Weds night 3/16 at 7pm in Cohoes at The Foundry. Details, here.03.14.11 Posted in: AIGA | The Professional Association for Design
If You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkeys.
id29's Doug Bartow chimes in on the spectre of spec work and crowdsourcing in design on today's Times-Union Marketing & Design blog, here. (hint: Doug doesn't like it)03.04.11 Posted in: Features
Writing for Designers
Please join us and the Upstate NY Chapter of AIGA for:
Writing For Designers With Jason Tselentis
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7pm
The Foundry for Art Design + Culture 119 Remsen Street Cohoes, NY 12047
We've heard the adage "designers don't read", and we know it's not true. In fact, designers do read, and rely on reading in order to improve their craft, creative process, business operations, and critical thinking. Moreover, designers have been writers themselves for generations, journaling about their own work, critiquing their peers' work, and commenting popular culture in general. From a business perspective, many design firms go to great lengths to craft written creative briefs and assessments about a client problem before they begin any visual explorations at all. But what about writing in the journalistic sense? Or crafting something more ambitious, like a book?
Since most designers work with text on a daily basis, that should qualify them to be writers in the journalistic, or book sense. And because designers are thick-skinned individuals, accustomed to taking and making revisions around the clock, the editing and revising process should come naturally, almost pain free. Well, maybe. It turns out that those preconceptions could get a designer, who is also an aspiring writer, into a lot of trouble. Or up to their eyebrows in work. Then again, doesn't that happen to us as designers anyway?
Join Winthrop University Assistant Professor Jason Tselentis, author of the forthcoming “Type, Form & Function,” as he talks about the parallels between designing and writing, and the issues that designers should be aware of before giving up their day jobs.
Tickets: Free to all AIGA Members in advance | $10 non-member professionals | $5 non-member students with ID | $5 AIGA Members & Student Members at door
Please register in advance, right here.
03.02.11 Posted in: Features
Get the Message!
New blog post: id29's Doug Bartow reviews the exhibition Graphic Design: Get the Message! at the Albany Institute of History and Art, here.02.25.11 Posted in: Local