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by Jodi Vautrin photo by Ben Gebo   more photosWe hope you had a chance to join us on May 24th for the Designing with Web Fonts panel discussion in Cambridge. If not, we hope to see you next time! In the meantime, here are some discussion highlights and resources that...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  June 7, 2011  |  Comments (2)

by Matt Budelman "It's not what you look at that matters, It's what you see." —HERBERT MATTER photo: Ben GeboAfter arriving at swissnex Boston | Consulate of Switzerland, for the screening of The Visual Language of Herbert Matter, I was pleasantly greeted by welcoming hosts and a wonderful crowd of...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  June 1, 2011  |  Comments (2)

by Kathleen Byrnes Director of Events, AIGA Boston So, you'd have to be living under a rock to not know that the Royal Wedding is this Friday. I haven't received my invitation yet, but you know how the U.S. post office can be. I am sure my invite is just...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  April 27, 2011  |  Comments (1)

by Kathleen Byrnes Director of Events, AIGA Boston A couple of weeks ago, I made my way down to New York City to attend the AIGA Bright Lights event. Previously known as the Design Legends Gala, the newly renamed Bright Lights preserves the legacies of designers who have led the...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  April 20, 2011  |  Post a comment

by Kathleen Byrnes Director of Events, AIGA Boston Milton Glaser is as much of an intelligent and articulate artist as he is a person. He has spent a lifetime creating art that informs and delights and, if possible, art that can even effect positive social change. We all know Milton...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  March 19, 2011  |  Post a comment

by Matt Budelman "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Dr. Carl Sagan I recently came across this quote, and it struck a chord with me. As much as I was satisfied in my own delusion...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  November 21, 2010  |  Comments (2)

Ten lucky AIGA members will win exclusive, private tours of the studios of Pentagram and Milton Glaser this month. Raffle tickets are on sale through Wednesday, November 10th. Purchase tickets now. For a glimpse of what you'll see, check out this video......   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  November 5, 2010  |  Comments (1)

by Jason M. Rubin Matthew Carter was part of a small group of ambitious and visionary people who left Linotype to found Bitstream in 1981 as the world's first independent digital type foundry. Prior to Bitstream, customers bought type from their equipment vendor. Linotype fonts worked only on Linotype machines....   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  September 7, 2010  |  Comments (3)

The AIGA BoNE Show at MassArt on June 11th drew the largest crowd yet in the history of this event. A total of 49 local designers were awarded bones. And a few lucky attendees went home with their own sculpted letter. Did you attend? What did you think?...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  June 16, 2009  |  Comments (25)

For a lot of industries and organizations, going green is easier said than done. This is also true for the design industry where paper, it seems, grows on trees and green is Pantone 348C. The 2008 issue of AIGA Boston's The Journal - the theme of which is waste...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  May 2, 2009  |  Comments (1)

Perhaps you've read about the failure of the package redesign for Tropicana orange juice. The new look was unveiled just last month and is being discontinued because of strong backlash from consumers, who in blogs and emails have called the new look "ugly" and "stupid", and who say it makes...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  February 27, 2009  |  Comments (12)

This Tuesday is voting day, and we encourage you to get yourself to the polls and have your say! Last month, we held an AFTA where we handed out copies of AIGA's Get Out the Vote posters. A juried set of 24 posters were professionally printed and distributed nationally. The...   continue

Posted by boston in General  |  November 2, 2008  |  Post a comment