Filed under: Design Sessions
Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, Amphitheater
The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts presents a lecture by
Gail Anderson (BFA 1984 Graphic Design), creative director at SpotCo, a
New York City-based ad agency and design studio that specializes in campaigns for Broadway theater.
From 1987 to early 2002, she served as senior art director at Rolling Stone magazine. Anderson’s work, which has received awards from the Society of publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, AIGA, the Art Directors Club, Graphis, Communication Arts and Print, is in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and the Library of Congress. She is co-author, with Steven Heller, of Graphic Wit, The Savage Mirror, American Typeplay, Astounding Photoshop Effects, New Vintage Type and the upcoming Ornamental Type.
Anderson currently serves on the advisory boards for Adobe Partners in Design and the Society of Publication Designers. She is the recipient of the 2008 AIGA Medal for lifetime achievement.
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Filed under: Design Sessions
7:00-9:15pm
DESIGNISM 3.0
$30 Members, $40 Non-Members
Design activism deconstructed! Participate in an evening of discussion, debate, and presentations on Design Activism produced by Brian Collins, COLLINS, and Benjamin Palmer, The Barbarian Group.
A Designism Manifesto delivered by Allan Chochinov, Core77, is followed by IDEO who will share three design-driven projects that initiated real change. Six creatives present forward-thinking projects, and their results, in lightning speed—TAXI, Brainforest, MendeDesign, Avenue A|Razorfish, lettera27, and Brian Hurewitz with lolz. Milton Glaser shares his thoughts on Propaganda. Steven Heller moderates a discussion on the design of politics between Helen Walters, BusinessWeek Innovation & Design channel, Tony Hendra frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, Milton Glaser and surprise guests. ADC introduces its ingenious new tool to support the creative activist community with some additional tools for creatives doing pro bono work.
Join the ADC and the discussion over drinks, snacks, and hearty debate.
$30 ADC Members
$40 Non-Members
Opening Sappi Reception from 5:30-6:45pm is free to all who RSVP.
http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/events/calendar/
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