BoNE Show on The Road
Endicott College
Gallery hours: 9 - 5 p.m.
J. David Broudo Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts,
376 Hale St., Beverly, MA. On exhibit through March 31
The Best of New England (BoNE) Show highlights the best work from the creative community in New England. An exhibit of the work is travelling around New England as the BoNE Show on The Road. We are bringing the Best of New England to the Rest of New England! Gallery hours are 9 - 5 p.m., and no admission fee or reservations are needed to visit the exhibition.

GET TO KNOW YOUTH DESIGN BOSTON
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Ave, Boston, Tower Bldg, 11th floor Trustees Room
Please join us for a conversation with the program's Founder, Denise Korn, Director, Alisa Aronson, and some of the last year's mentor and intern teams. They're very excited to share their great YDB experiences with you and to plug you into this mutually fulfilling experience for our city's youth. There will be plenty of opportunity to meet and talk with a great community of people who are involved in helping to build awareness of the value of the design profession, while helping artistically talented city teens to get exposure to real-world professional design opportunities with a hands-on experience. Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 25 by emailing info@boston.aiga.org. This event is being sponsored by Continuum. Additional support provided by Harvard University Press and MetLife Creative Services.

ICA/AIGA DESIGN SERIES: MIKE MIGNOLA
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Mike Mignola is a comic book artist, writer, and creator of the Hellboy character, first published 14 years ago by Dark Horse and now an extremely successful franchise. Where will Hellboy lead Mignola next? Taking a look at current and upcoming projects, Mignola reflects on how he got here and what it means to take Hellboy and others to the big screen. www.boston.aiga.org

AIGA Boston Book Club
April 9, 2008, 7:00pm
The Audubon Circle Restaurant Bar, 838 Beacon Street, Boston
AIGA Boston's Book Group meets every other month in Boston to discuss a wide selection of design books. The group is run by volunteers and made up of 10-15 people. Books to be discussed are suggested by the members of the group, and then voted on and selected. Our group meets every other month on a Wednesday evening from 7:00 - 9:00 pm in Boston to discuss our books. These meetings are very casual and friendly. In addition to discussing the book, we exchange other ideas and information.

For more information on the book group, please contact Safoura Rafeizadeh at srafeiza@bu.edu. If you'd like to start and run a group in an area outside of Boston, please contact our VP of Community Development, Suzanne McKenzie, community_outreach@boston.aiga.org

AIGA Field report: Navigating The New Media Frontier
April 10, 2008, 7-9pm
WGBH Auditorium, One Guest Street, Boston, 617-300-2000
What is new media and how do you design for it? With the proliferation of new modes of communication available through the internet and mobile devices, designers are faced with an ever-expanding array of strategy, design, and technological challenges. How can designers take advantage of these new opportunities? What are the considerations when designing for these new outlets? How do you think up these crazy new ideas and then get clients to buy them? This fifth event of the Field Report Series will bring together three new media experts to discuss the recent developments in new media and designer's role in this developing field. As with prior AIGA Field report events this will be a panel format with a branding expert moderator. Panelist will conduct short presentations followed by a question and answer session with moderator and audience. David Small will moderate a discussion with panelists of the Barbarian Group and Firstborn.

FEEDING CREATIVITY LECTURE SERIES
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Phillips Library Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum
132 Essex Street, Salem, MA, (978) 745-9500
Details to be announced. Please check www.boston.aiga.org for more details.

Stefan Sagmeister Lecture
Friday, April 25, 2008, 6:30 PM
Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Astonishingly, Stefan Sagmeister has only learned twenty or so things in his life so far. But he did manage to publish these personal maxims all over the world, in spaces normally occupies by advertisements and promotions: as billboards, projections, light-boxes, magazine spreads, annual report covers, fashion brochures, and, recently, as giant inflatable monkeys. In this presentation Sagmeister throws his diary, a lot of design, and a little art together with a pinch of psychology and a dash of happiness into a blender and pushes the button.

AIGA Student Portfolio Event
Saturday, April 26, 2008, 9:30am - 3:30pm
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Trustees Room,
Tower Building, 11th Floor, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
The AIGA Student Portfolio Event is a day-long event designed to give you--a graduating senior or graduate-level student about to embark on a career in the design industry--advice, insight, and useful information about how to present yourself and your work. Here is your chance to have a professional look at your portfolio in a no-risk, non-competitive environment. You can practice your interview skills and get honest feedback about your portfolio and resume.
Act fast--space is limited and this event will sell out! Online registration begins soon. Keep checking the website www.boston.aiga.org for updates! Questions? Heather Shaw at education@boston.aiga.org

Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media conference
Friday, April 4, 2008 - April 6, 2008
Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston
"All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage."_- Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage. McLuhan's prophetic words from 1967 concisely describe the state of graphic design education in the age of dynamic media. No aspect of our field-pedagogical, theoretical, technical, or social-is unaffected by dynamic media. Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media conference will gather a diverse group of presenters and attendees from around the world for a provocative conversation on how graphic design education is being affected by dynamic media. Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, multiple-track speaker sessions, a working lunch, and a breakfast roundtable, we will focus our discussion on five key subject areas: pedagogy; practice; theory; future history; and the institutional. www.massagingmedia.org

IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference
Thursday, May 22 - 23, 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
220 East Chicago Ave.
IIT Institute of Design, AIGA's Leading Collaborating Partner, will hold its annual Strategy Conference, an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage. As part of its strategic partnership with AIGA, IIT is offering a $450 registration discount to all AIGA members! Just use the discount code "AIGA" when you register and select the lower price option when you check out. Registration deadlines: Regular: April 1 (discounted: $1,650), Late: May 10 (discounted: $2,500) trex.id.iit.edu

Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders
July 27 - August 1, 2008
Yale School of Management
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders will draw on the strength of the Yale School of Management experience to help creative leaders discover opportunities within the forces transforming the business environment. The knowledge gained here will enable you to assume the complex task of leading and making a difference in a world where change has become the only constant. Ideal candidates include principals or senior creative leaders in mid- to large-sized studios or in-house design departments whose counsel to clients (external or internal) extends beyond the creation of artifacts; senior mangers in advertising, public relations or other firms who retain, hire or work closely with designers; vice presidents, directors and managers in corporate design or communication departments. Enrollment in Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders is limited to a select group of senior executives who have high-level involvement in design and strategy projects. Apply now at www.aiga.org. Early applicants can benefit from a reduced rate of $7,000 for the program until March 31.

National's GAIN Conference
October 23 - 25, 2008
Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
When design and business work together, brilliant things happen. At "Gain," hear today's success stories from a select group of business and design leaders from a variety of industries, who will team up to share their innovative approaches to generating greater return on investment, fostering emotional connections and providing positive brand experiences for customers. Build value for your brand and strengthen your business practice at "Gain," where the broadening role of design in business strategy, leadership, process and product will be explored. Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO, returns to once again serve as moderator of this experience alongside diverse and inspiring speakers.
gainconference.aiga.org
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Portfolios wanted for publication opportunity
Contact: Danielle Currier, Associate Professor, Graphic Design: lvolk@endicott.edu
Visual Communications Department, School of Art & Design
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Student portfolios are needed as examples for a book about portfolio design and development. This book will be published by Focal Press to be distributed in bookstores and online. We are interested in showcasing portfolios from a wide selection of schools and geographic locations. We are looking for student and/or professional portfolios that fit the following criteria:
1. A visual statement with a specific branded "look and feel".
2. A custom made book (no generic portfolio cases please) and/or designed portfolio website.
We are also looking for additional portfolio materials as part of an overall comprehensive package (resumes, business cards, promotional mailers, etc).

Down:2:Earth Symposium on Sustainable Design
March 28-30, 2008, 1:00 - 5 PM
Hynes Convention Center, Boston
Sustainable Design: At the crossroads of art, policy & science is a joint program of D2E, Goethe-Institut Boston and the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. This Symposium will bring together important voices in arts and science who advocate sustainability in their work. They will explore sustainable design in the context of art, science and policy and showcase methods and materials for the design and creation of environmentally responsible products and places. Key speakers are artist Michael Singer, internationally known for his commitment to sustainable practices, and Ursula Tischner, founder of econcept in Cologne, Germany, which supports companies, consumers and other organizations on their path to a more sustainable, future-oriented way of producing, consuming and thinking. Teresita Cochran of Smit Design, Boston/New York will be a panelist and Terry Swack, Founder/CEO of Clean Culture will moderate the discussion. Bryan Glascock, Director of the Environment Department of the City of Boston will give introductory remarks. Organized by the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, in partnership with D2E and the Goethe-Institut Boston. www.d2eboston.com
Friday night special for AIGA members: Friday night, March 28, 5pm - 10pm, the first 100 AIGA members to come to D2E will get in for free!

AD 20/21: Art and Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries Complimentary Weekend Show Admission
April 4 - 6, 2008
The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston
Show Hours:
Friday: 1pm - 9pm
Saturday: 11am - 8pm
Sunday: 11am - 5pm
The AD 20/21 show takes place April 3-6, 2008 with a Gala Preview opening night benefitting Boston Architectural College. The show's producers are happy to offer complimentary admission (standard admission is $15/person) to the weekend show, April 4-6, 2008, to AIGA members and any guest they wish to bring. Members can gain admission to the show by either presenting an AIGA membership card or presenting the attached digital pass. For more information: www.AD2021.com or call 617-363-0405

ERIK SPIEKERMANN lecture hosted by Society of Printers
April 9th, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
The 34th Annual Dwiggins Lecture
Rabb Hall, The Boston Public Library, Boston
ERIK SPIEKERMANN is an information designer, author, and type designer. His studios in Berlin, San Francisco, and London specialize in complex design systems for international clients. He'll talk about some of those projects that involve envisioning complex information, rewriting client briefs, and, often enough, creating dedicated typefaces. Free and Open to the Public

Graph_COMM 08
Thursday, April 10, Boston Marriott Copley Place
attendance is free to print buyers/media specifiers
Graph_COMM 08 is a one-day symposium of information exchanges for marketing and communications leaders in advertising, health care, financial services, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, information management, higher education, non-profit organizations, and other institutions, foundations and organizations where stratgetic investments of marketing and communications resources are critical. Our event includes educational seminars, networking opportunities, entrance to an exhibit hall with nearly 50 print service provider exhibitors, and a luncheon with keynote speaker Jim Mikol, executive vice president, director of print management at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Pre-registration is required for all attendees. Luncheon tickets cost $30. iwww.pine.org

Third Annual @issue: Business & Design Conference
April 29, 2008
The Times Center, New York, NY
This series of business success stories will illustrate the role of design in increasing market share and profit while improving the quality of life. Sponsors:_The Conference is sponsored by Sappi Fine Paper and Whirlpool Corporation, and is offered by Corporate Design Foundation. Media Sponsor is BusinessWeek. www.cdf.org

Save the Planet! Kirkwood Printing Seminar
May 1, 2008, 8:30 am continental breakfast
Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA. Limited space available
Kirkwood Printing will be hosting a seminar on the morning of May 1st, with the help and support of our friends from Mohawk Paper, Monadnock Paper, Sappi Paper, M-Real Paper, Finch, Neenah, and New Page, among others. The program will include important information about sustainability, fair trade and ecological sensitivity for printers and print buyers. We will explore the history and progress of the Forest Stewardship Council program and will talk about the best ways for us, as buyers and manufacturers of print, to improve the world. If you'd like to attend (or know someone who would be particularly interested in the program) please contact your Kirkwood sales representative or Robert Brown, rbrown@kirkwoodprinting.com

Lesley University Senior Design and Illustration Showcase for Employers
Thursday, May 8, 2008, 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University (AIB), 700 Beacon Street, Boston
Graphic design and illustration employers are cordially invited to attend the Senior Design and Illustration Showcase for Employers to review the portfolios of graduating students in graphic design and illustration. Sponsored by the AIB Design Department, AIB Illustration Department, and Career Resources Center. To register or for more information, send name and company's name to Francis Alix at alix@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8550. FREE to the public. Refreshments will be served.

HOW Design Conference
Sunday, May 18 - 21, 2008
Hynes Convention Center, Boston
The 2008 HOW Conference program includes more than 50 sessions in a variety of tracks, including Creativity & Inspiration, Design Disciplines, Career Development and more. As part of the strategic partnership between AIGA and HOW, AIGA members can save up to $120 off the regular registration rate* by registering at the special AIGA Rate. Just enter coupon code "AIGA8" when you register online to apply your discount. Register by March 28 to receive the early discounted rate of $955. Regular discounted registration rate is $1,035. *AIGA Rate may not be used in combination with any other discount offers, including student rates, combo rates and past attendee coupons. www.howconference.com