This afternoon, I reviewed portfolios at the annual AIGA-MN Portfolio One-on-One event. The event served me well when I was a student designer, and it makes me feel like I’m returning the favor when I’m invited to attend. The 4 portfolios I saw were very good, spanning the spectrum of design experience – from just [...]
The Emperor has no Clothes as they say. AIGA Minnesota has a new site up. It is refreshing to see them move to a site more open for public feedback, and open in it’s content. Feeling more weighty than before, and less “fluffy”. It’s caused a bit of stir in the anouncement, and as usual [...]
The AIGA is no longer American Institute of Graphic Arts. (Thanks to Darrel for the tip) Early in my career, I paid close attention to what the AIGA was doing. I was eager for their Experience Design initiative to make the organization relevant in this new more-than-print design world. As part of that kick-off I [...]
Danny Kastner, CEO, POPstick aka: “Danny from The Apprentice” Surprise Keynote Presentation http://www.exhibit-a.org Monday, June 6th, 2005 We’ve expanded our afternoon forum discussion to include a truly interactive presentation from Danny Kaster, CEO POPstick, contestant on NBC’s “The Apprentice.” Danny will present a cohesive e-marketing strategy so effective, it will allow fictitious client SkyAwry Inc. [...]
In a bold, internet-savvy move, the AIGA-MN is letting everyone critique the work for this years’ Exhibit A: Interactive Showcase. At the time of this writing, you could criticize a number of things: the lack of a background color on the website, that all the website entries are shown as static screenshots, that an entry’s [...]
Busy day in the Twin Cities design world and for me. During today’s daylight hours, I’ll be reviewing student portfolios at the AIGA-MN Portfolio One-on-One the rest of the day I’ll be attempting to scribble out a 24 page comic in the Minneapolis 24 Hour Comic Challenge 2005. If you’re at either, stop by and [...]
Blu Dot designs and manufactures modern furniture and furnishings. Its founding partners, John Christakos, Maurice Blanks, and Charlie Lazor—whose backgrounds range from architecture and art to marketing—created the company in Minneapolis with the desire to make quality modern design available to everyday people. Their humanist and populist approach to modern furnishings dovetailed with the democratization [...]
After a few unsatisfying stints designing for others, Paul Sahre established his own design studio, first in Baltimore and then in New York, where he has been since 1995. Consciously maintaining a small office, he has nevertheless established a large presence in American graphic design. The balance he strikes, whether between commercial and personal projects [...]
Daniel van der Velden is a graphic designer and writer based in Amsterdam who, since 1998, has been collaborating with Maureen Mooren on a variety of design and editorial projects. Among a new generation of influential Dutch graphic designers, they have developed a reputation for work that engages and challenges its readers by making aspects [...]
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger founded Antenna Design with the goal of making people’s engagement with technological objects and environments more exciting. They are achieving this ambitious objective through a combination of commercial and public projects that range from the redesign of the New York City subway cars and ticketing machines and the creation of [...]