Finding the New Creative: a panel discussion
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 6pm
Location TBA. Reception: PRC, 832 Commonwealth Avenue (BU West T-stop) Boston
The Photographic Resource Center, AIGA/Boston, and The Ad Club invite you to a panel discussion that will bring together advertising, photography, and design professionals to discuss the topic of "Finding the New Creative": Convergences in Fine Art and Commercial Photography in conjunction with its current exhibition AD | AGENCY. Panelists:
- John Goodman, world renowned photographer
- Adam Larson, award winning designer and Founder/Creative Director of Adam&Co and author of the blog www.artvscommerce.com
- Kevin Moehlenkamp, Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer at Hill Holiday
- Kathryn Tyrrel, Photographers Representative, Stockland Martel
Moderated by Gary Leopold, President and CEO at ISM Marketing. For more information and panel location, please visit www.prcboston.org/adagency.htm

365 Show at Mt. Ida College
February
Details to be announced
After careful and considered review of more than 4,700 entries, the jury of "365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 28" selected a group of 103 examples of outstanding design produced in 2006. The show will travel to AIGA chapters, student groups and galleries throughout the country during 2008.

GAEL TOWEY LECTURE
Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:30pm
Location TBD
Lecture by Gael Towey, chief creative officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and founding art director of Martha Stewart Living. Come hear Gael talk about how design is a way to create value and energize a business and how in order to be a designer at Martha Stewart Living you have to love designing cupcakes.

Design Life Next: Ellen Lupton with Ben Fry, Chip Kidd, and Toshiko Mori
NEW DATE to be announced (event was cancelled in December due to weather)
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA
AIGA Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston invite you to an event inspired by Design Life Now, the inaugural touring exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution/Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Triennial. Discover the new and unexpected voices in design as these four give picks from their respective fields. Lupton, a writer, curator, and graphic designer, co-founded the trailblazing studio Design Writing Research. Kidd, a graphic designer, best-selling author, and editor, is well known for his book and cover designs. Mori is the principal of Toshiko Mori Architect and a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Fry is known for his work in combining computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization. Admission: $12 general admission, $8 AIGA Members. Sign up now. Limited availability. Register at www.icaboston.org or call 617-478-3103 (call for AIGA member discount). For more details, visit boston.aiga.org

AIGA LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS: DEBBIE MILLMAN
Thursday, January 10, 2008 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Windows on the River, 2000 Sycamore Cleveland, OH 44113
Debbie Millman has been in the design business for the last 20 years fulfilling her dream of working in branding and furthering the meaning, purpose and stature of brands in our culture. Debbie is a Partner and President of the Design division at Sterling Brands, one of the leading brand identity firms in the country. Debbie is a board member of the National AIGA, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. She is also an author on the design blog Speak Up, a contributor to Print Magazine and she hosts a weekly internet talk show on the Voice America Business network titled Design Matters. Her book, "How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer," (Allworth Press) is available now.

Topic: Why We Buy Things: A historical look at branding ourselves, the world around us, and how it influences the products we buy and why we live the way we do.
RSVP by January 4
$10 // professional members_$30 // non-members $5 // student members_$15 // student non-members Cocktails and light food from 6-7, lecture starts at 7 p.m.

Design for Design's Sake-Design Authorship in Experimental Publications
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus McNeal Hall Room 274
Design professor Steven McCarthy will give an illustrated presentation on works from the Goldstein Museum's graphic design collection. Centered around the concept of design authorship-where designers' roles are expanded from professional service providers to socially, culturally and politically engaged communication initiators - the collection spans 70 years of innovation. Among the notable publications are early 20th century journal PM (eventually A-D), the complete set of Émigré Magazine from the late 20th century, and issues of Push Pin Graphic, Octavo: A Journal of Typography, Portfolio, Fuse, News of the Whirled and others. Artifacts from the collection will be on display.

About Steven McCarthy: Steven McCarthy has an MFA in design from Stanford University, and a BFA in sculpture and drawing from Bradley University. He is a professor of graphic and interactive design at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, and faculty advisor of the U's AIGA Student Chapter. Steven's graphic design work, artists' books and interactive digital narratives have been published, collected and reviewed around the globe. He has participated in numerous innovative curatorial projects and has made several international scholarly presentations. The Goldstein Museum of Design is part of the University of Minnesota and housed in the College of Design. Museum staff are devoted to the teaching, research, and exhibition of design, and the collection's emphasis is on art and design closest to people's lives.

6:00 p.m. exhibit 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. lecture 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Q&A and refreshments AIGA members, free; nonmembers, $10; nonmember students, $5.

Design Remixed: Jakob Trollbäck
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Apple Store, Soho, NYC 103 Prince Street
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.

A self-taught designer from Sweden, Jakob Trollbäck is the President and Creative Director of Trollbäck + Company. He leads an innovative and highly successful company, creates seminal and award-winning designs, and is an acknowledged industry leader in branding and motion graphic design. Currently in its eighth year, Trollbäck + Company has successfully expanded its creative output to film titles, TV-commercials, publication design, environmental design, music videos and short films, for clients including CBS, HBO, Nike and Jaguar.

Admission The Design Remixed Series is open to the public.

Moveable Mixer: January
Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Maine AIGA
You're invited to attend the AIGA Maine chapter's Monthly Movable Mixer. Talk, discuss, think design. Who should attend: Anyone who wants to learn more about AIGA Maine.

COMPOSTMODERN
Saturday, January 19, 2008
San Francisco Academy of Art University Morgan Auditorium
Compostmodern is an interdisciplinary design conference dedicated to promoting sustainable solutions within the design community at large. We hope you'll join us for a day of turning idealism into actual business practice as we explore solutions for making the world a better place (and further define design's place in it). AIGA San Francisco and the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design will present the third biennial Compostmodern on January 19th in San Francisco. For more information, visit compostmodern.org