AFTA: hosted by Harvard Design Group
Thu Nov 30th, 6:30-9 pm at Redline, 59 JFK Street, Cambridge, Free
Add a little crimson to your palette! Harvard design and communications professionals invite you to park yourself at a bar in Harvard yard. AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA Boston gets to thank one of our generous sponsors for their ongoing partnership; and YOU get to drop by “afta” work and hang loose with the local design community! Watch your email inbox or www.boston.aiga.org for details to come.

IDSA Boston Green Design Conference
Sat Nov 11th, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm at MassArt, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston, $40 online and $60 at the door for non-IDSA members, $10 online and $20 at the door for students
The second annual Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Boston Green Design Conference is a one-day conference on sustainable design being held at the Massachusetts College of Art on Saturday, November 11, 2006. This year’s event continues our focus on showcasing sustainable design in practice. The IDSA Boston Green Design Conference emphasizes sustainable design happening now in many different forms and contexts. For more information, visit www.idsaboston.org

DESIGN2.0: Discussions on Design Strategy and Innovation
Wed Nov 15th, 1-6 pm at Vessel, 125 Kingston Street, Boston, tickets are $125 until Oct 31st, $175 after, with a $25 discount for AIGA members (not applicable to $50 student price)
As products and systems become smarter and more technologically imbued, the mandate of the designer is thrown into question. If we can make anything, what should we make? And if all of our activities have consequences — environmental, economic and social — what are the opportunities for moving positively into the future? How can we balance serving interests with setting agendas? Join Core 77 for a panel discussion on the front lines. Panelists include: John Maeda of the MIT Media Lab, Natalie Jeremijenko of UCSD and ITP, Bill Cockayne of Change Research, and Jason Pearson of GreenBlue. For more information, visit www.core77.com/design2.0. To receive the $25 AIGA member discount, email Erin Wells at communication@boston.aiga.org for the promotion code.

“Jan Tschichold, Designer: The Penguin Years” Lecture and Book Signing by Richard Doubleday
Thu Nov 16th, 7 pm at Barnes & Noble at Boston University, 660 Beacon St., Boston, Free
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, and following the success of it’s paperback re-branding, Penguin Books made the bold decision to completely redesign its publications. Their subsequent choice of designer would not only lead to the creation of an iconic brand but also a revolution in typographic conventions. By the time Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) arrived at Penguin Books in 1947, he had already established himself as an innovative and highly talented typographer and graphic designer. His previous prolific design experience helped him tackle the Herculean task presented to him: to create a uniform design that could be applied to mass production. The resulting Penguin Composition Rules and King penguin standard grids represent one aspect of the typographic revolution that Tschichold masterminded at the publishing house. This lecture presents an overview of the design contribution of Jan Tschichold to the Penguin imprint, looking especially at his exploration of ideas of ‘classical’ typography. It also serves to introduce Richard’s book, Jan Tschichold, Designer: The Penguin Years, which explores the theme in greater depth. For more information, visit http://www.bu.edu/

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