DESIGN REMIXED
Join AIGA and Apple for the series, “Pro Sessions: Design Remixed,” and hear how professionals today are redefining their creative process. Featured speakers will share their insights into the changing landscape of design and discuss how design has evolved and creativity has diversified beyond any single discipline.
THURSDAY 17 JUNE 2010 6:30 – 8:00PM
COLLABORATION: KARIN FONG OF IMAGINARY FORCES
Join Karin Fong, founding member of Imaginary Forces and renown title designer, as she discusses the collaborative nature of designing cinematic experiences in its many roles.
TUESDAY 15 JUNE 2010 6:30 – 8:30PM
MEMBERS SERIES: MY DOG AND PONY: FRESH BLOOD!
A whole new crop of younger-techier-faster-stronger grad students are about to be unleashed on the city. What are they thinking? What have they done? What do they know that we don't know?
THURSDAY 13 MAY 2010 6:30 – 8:00PM
COLLABORATION: MIRKO ILIC AND DANIEL YOUNG
What happens when a designer and a former lawyer decide to take on the problems of the world? Mirco Ilic and Daniel Young have teamed up to be Ralph Nader, Robin Hood, Mother Theresa and maybe even Don Quixote, all rolled into one.
TUESDAY 13 APRIL 2010 6:30 – 9:30PM
AIGA/NY COMEDY NIGHT: FEATURING AN EVENING OF BAD (LIKE, REALLY BAD) BOOK COVERS
AIGA/NY is excited to have Patrick Borelli perform his one-man multimedia show, "You Should Judge a Book by Its Cover," where he takes thirty of the oddest book covers and tears them a new one.
THURSDAY 1 APRIL 2010 6:30 – 8:00PM
COLLABORATION: THE HEADS OF STATE
Whether working 3,000 miles apart on a silkscreen for Sonic Youth, or 3-feet away on an illustration for The New York Times, this duo collaborates on nearly every detail.
Please join us for an evening of posters, books, illustrations, broken pencils, heavy metal guitar techniques, marriage counseling, and these crets to everlasting creative collaboration.
TUESDAY 16 MARCH 2010 6:30 – 9:00PM
MEMBERS SERIES: JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO AND YOU / THE ART OF ROCK BAND INTERFACE DESIGN
You thought web interface could get complicated? And storyboarding three-minute spots could get dense? Watch and learn.
THURSDAY 11 MARCH 2010 6:30 – 8:00PM
COLLABORATION: PABLO MEDINA / PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
On Thursday, January 28th, Pablo Medina gave a tough assignment to the 15 students in his Experimental Typography class at Parsons...
TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2010 6:30 – 8:00PM
MEMBER SERIES: THE REEL WORLD: NEW YORK
Call it Poetry in Motion—those short-form bursts of tightly choreographed type and compressed narrative that create our first impressions of a movie or TV show. And though they’ve been around since the advent of commercial cinema, never before have title sequences been as much in the limelight as they are today. “The Reel World: New York”offers up a rare opportunity to see the Big Apple’s greatest motion-graphics gurus on the same stage describing the methods and meanings behind this ever-evolving art form.
THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2010 6:30 – 8:00PM
COLLABORATION: GLEN CUMMINGS / MTWTF
Join us in that swanky and intimate theater at MAD to discuss collaboration with Glen Cummings of MTWTF. The evening will focus on graphic design and urban planning as well as graphic design and architecture.
THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2010 6:30 – 8:00PM
COLLABORATION: DRESS CODE & FRIENDS
G. Dan Covert and Andre Andreev of dress code will take the stage at MAD to discuss how they collaborate . . . with music. The talk will be technical at times and casual at others, much like their work.
TUESDAY 12 JANUARY 2010 6:30 – 9:00PM
MEMBERS SERIES: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Come and hear our tales of woe, and see the work that never saw the light of day. Everyone has a favorite project on the hard drive that never made it out the door for some reason, good or bad… and sometimes it's even our very best work! Come and commiserate with four designers who will share with you the one that (sob) got away.
THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER 2009 6:30 – 8:00PM
MEMBERS SERIES: COLLABORATION, TOBIAS WONG & JOSEE LEPAGE
In a rare and exclusive speaking engagement, artist/designer Tobias Wong and curator Josee Lepage share the stage to address the importance of collaboration, contradiction, contemplation, and the unexpected.
MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2009 6:30 – 8:30PM
MEMBERS SERIES: THE TYPE IS RIGHT
Are you crazy for Courier? Gonzo for Garamond? Mad for Meta? Does your quick brown fox jump over your lazy dog?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then come on down to“The Type is Right,” AIGA/NY’s first-ever typographic game show at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2009 6:30 – 8:30PM
MEMBERS SERIES: PRINT TO WEB 101
The web is a medium that changes constantly, which can be daunting to designers who want to try their hand at making websites. Hear from designers who have seen it all — whether in print, digital design or both. You’ll come away (jargon free) with the basic theories and practices behind designing for the web.
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2009 7:00 – 8:30PM
MEMBERS SERIES: MY DOG AND PONY II
Back by popular demand, (OK, uprising) we offer yet another chance to be a fly on the wall during other designer's presentations. They say,"Nothing succeeds like success," but we think, "Nothing succeeds like success when it is properly presented!"
