Creative Collaboration: Marcos Chin
Thu Feb 15th, 6:30-8 pm, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA, $5 Members, $7 Students, $10 Non-members
See how illustration can play a leading role in a national ad campaign. Marcos Chin graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1999, in Toronto, Canada. Since then, his work has appeared on book covers, advertisements, CD covers, fashion catalogues and magazines, such as Time, Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated. He has received a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, and has had his work published in award annuals such as Communication Arts and American Illustration. Perhaps most recognizable amidst his portfolio are the illustrations which he has done for Lavalife's international advertising campaign; appearing on subways, billboards, print and online. Marcos currently lives in New York City and teaches Fashion Illustration at New York's School of Visual Arts. For more information, please visit http://boston.aiga.org/events/2007/02/10152137.

Professional Development: Gourmet Typography
Fri Feb 23rd, SOLD OUT!
Advance registration for the Gourmet Typography Training is now closed.
This event has SOLD OUT!

BoNE Show Call for Entries
Mon Feb 26th Deadline
It takes skills and smarts to win at the Best of New England (BoNE) Show. Only the highest-quality examples of design work from skilled professionals and practitioners throughout the region make the grade. So if you want to be lucky, go hang a horseshoe. But if you want to put your best (rabbit's) foot forward, then enter your most exceptional work to be judged by our distinguished panel of judges, including Stefan Bucher and Luba Lukova. Remember, it's not about your charm, it's about your talent. And when you're full of talent, you're never out of luck. A new website will be up-and-running soon at www.boneshow.org providing more information. If you see a car towing a trailer, you're looking at the old site, so check back in a day or two.

Afta
Wed Feb 28th
This month’s agenda-less, free-form gathering 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 boston.aiga.org for details to come.

Schools of Thought 3
Mar 9-11th, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA,
$115 Members, $165 Non-members, $50 Student Members
This conference aims to incite and inspire dialogue - discussions among rather than tales from-and to make an explicit connection between making, thinking, writing, innovating within design education. Southern California is a center for communications media. These ubiquitous industries coupled with branding concerns and ever penetrating advertising (to say nothing of an emerging "do-it-yourself" ethic) is dramatically changing the terrain that graphic designers navigate. In such a territory, discreet disciplines that generate the work - graphic design, advertising, interactive and motion design, environmental and exhibition design, and even writing content - seem increasingly difficult to discern. How is education meeting these challenges? Specifically, what belongs in a graphic design curriculum, or is a graphic design curriculum becoming a quaint notion? For more information, please visit http://superstove.blogs.com/schoolsofthoughts3/SoFTS3_index.html.

Look/Listen
Sat Mar 10th, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
"Look/Listen" will include a presentation by designer Niklaus Troxler on his work, an exhibition and reception featuring Niklaus' posters, and a jazz performance by Cecil Taylor and John Zorn's band, Masada. Proceeds will benefit Common Ground, a humanitarian organization aiding victims of Hurricane Katrina. For more information, please visit www.aigany.org/events.

Body/Language
Sat Mar 24th, Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute, NYC
"Body/Language" is a day-long conference featuring virtuoso designers and thinkers from the combined worlds of Fashion and Graphic Design, including Issac Mizrahi, Andy Spade, Abbott Miller, John C Jay, Yolanda Cuomo, Ruth Ansel, Alexander Brebner, Paul Boudens, Tim Holmes, and Etienne Mineur. Debbie Millman will moderate. There will be a party at the end of the day in the top floor of the building, overlooking Midtown Manhattan. For more information, please visit www.aigany.org/events.

Y12 AIGA Design Conference
Mar 30-31st, San Diego, CA, $375 Members, $425 Non-Members
Good design is a creative process that benefits from a push. Achieving an efficient, refined and creative solution not only requires insight and forethought, but also the courage to push toward that extraordinary solution. Push your own creativity to new heights by joining the momentum of AIGA San Diego's 12th Annual Y Design Conference. You'll be part of one of the most intimate, informative and invigorating design conferences in the country. For more information or to register, please visit www.y-conference.com.

Brave New Web: Connect. Contribute. Collaborate.
Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX)
Feb 7th, 7:30 am - 4 pm, The Colonnade Hotel, Boston,
$150 Non-MITX-Members, $25 Students
The power of the web has transformed the way we connect, contribute, and collaborate, reshaping our world and allowing us to reach far beyond our traditional scope. Businesses can revolutionize their communities and customer interaction by using technologies that have barely been tapped. The possibilities are limitless. MITX will tell you all about it at this year's workshop. For more information, visit www.mitx.org.

Job Fair 2007
Boston Society of Architects (BSA)
Sat Feb 17th, 9 am - 1 pm, Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Center,
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Free
Are you looking for the right firm to start your career in design? The BSA is hosting a firm marketplace where job seekers can meet representatives from Massachusetts architecture firms. A series of workshops on topics related to building an architecture career in Massachusetts will run concurrently beginning at 9:30 am. For complete program details and registration, visit architects.org/jobfair.

New Insights on Quantifying Design's ROI Webinar
Design Management Institute (DMI)
Tue Feb 20th, 1 pm, $175 Non-DMI-Members
"Can design be quantified?" "How should it be done?" "What will management do with the results?" These are some key questions in measuring design's ROI. Over the past decade, Rob Wallace has applied data from more than a dozen major CPG brand identity and package design projects to one of the most effective ROI methodologies - now, with updated findings. Rob Wallace has been called "one of the founding thought leaders of design's ROI." He will share how to empirically prove design's paramount effectiveness in generating profit. For more information, visit www.dmi.org.

Synesthesia Brand Workshop
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
Thu Feb 22nd, 7 pm, MassArt, Boston, $25 Non-IDSA-Members, $10 Students
Join IDSA Boston and Stage Branding for the Synesthesia Brand Workshop. Synesthesia is a neurological disorder that results in the confusion of the senses. Through a sort-of "murder mystery game" we'll explore how most brands do not make use of all the senses when creating a brand experience, and show how strong brands, in effect, promote a positive form of synesthesia. For more information, visit www.idsaboston.org/Events/.

2nd Annual Interactive Industry Career Fair
Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX)
Thu Mar 1st, 12 pm - 5 pm, Back Bay Events Center, Boston
This one-day event will bring together a pool of college seniors and recent graduates from over 30 Massachusetts educational institutions who are interested in learning about careers in interactive media. Students will have the opportunity to speak with agencies, online publishers, marketers and technology providers about potential internship and entry level positions, and hear from real life professionals about their jobs, and take advantage of complimentary resume review. For more information, visit www.mitx.org

Print Magazine Regional Design Annual Call for Entries
Thu Mar 1st Deadline
Print Magazine is now accepting entries for the 2007 Regional Design Annual. All of the winning work will be organized by region and featured in the November/December 2007 issue of PRINT. For more information, visit www.printmag.com