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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Stoltze Design and AIGA Boston present Swissted Boston, an exhibit of music posters by Mike Joyce, of StereoType in New York City.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Hand lettering is a traditional craft that’s made a comeback. Join us for an evening panel discussion to find out why hand lettering has resurged and how it is impacting design today.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Hand lettering is a traditional craft that’s made a comeback. Spend a day working with experts Lara McCormick, Annica Lydenberg, Ryan O’Rourke, Juan Carlos Pagan and Chris Piascik to learn the craft of hand lettering.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ben Fry, the founder of Fathom, will give an overview to his studio's approach to data-driven design and touch on some of the company's projects over the past year.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The In-House design series is focused on the opportunities and the challenges of being an In-House designer.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Face the facts:
There are over 20 schools in New England offering degrees in Graphic Design. This means that nearly 400 seniors each year are looking for jobs in the design industry.
What's going to set you apart?
The AIGA Student Portfolio Review 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 about how to present yourself and your work. Here's your chance to: + have a professional look at your portfolio + distribute your resume + practice your interview skills + receive honest feedback about your work
Register now! Space is limited, this event will sell out!
$15 AIGA Student Members / $25 Non-Members

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Don't miss this presentation by Vancouver-based designer, typographer, writer, and illustrator Marian Bantjes. Renowned for her intricate patterning and delicate ornamentation, Stefan Sagmeister calls Bantjes “one of the most innovative typographers working today.” She worked for ten years as a typesetter before opening her own design firm, which she shuttered in 2003 to pursue projects described as “highly personal, obsessive, and sometimes just plain weird.” In 2010, she released the highly acclaimed book I Wonder, which was hailed by New York Times critic and designer Steven Heller as “a wondrous, if breathless, display of virtuosic craft.” Bantjes has designed work for Saks Fifth Avenue, Penguin Books, GRANTA, WIRED, Wallpaper*, and many others. Her graphic work is included in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent collection. For more information and to buy tickets for the event, please visit the ICA Website

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Design Weeks are popping up across the country, and it’s time for Boston to get in the mix with one of its own. But to make Boston Design Week a reality we need your participation, your excitement, and most importantly… your best ideas.

Join us for a town hall meeting and help us build the vision for a Boston Design Week that is relevant, impactful, and fun.

What should Boston Design Week look like? We’re not sure. What we do know is that we want it to be a citywide design festival stacked with cool events that bring together artists and creatives to talk, listen, see, learn, and celebrate.

Got an opinion but can't attend the town hall meeting?

Fill out our quick online survey and give us your best ideas for what Boston’s Design Week can be!

Online Survey >>

Monday, March 18, 2013

The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world. Designers have the chance to impact those interactions at almost every turn. Hear experts from IDEO and other professionals discuss what this means to our industry and your work.

Monday, March 18, 2013 — March 18, 2013
6:30pm - 8:30pm

Red Thread Learn More
22 Boston Wharf Road
Boston, MA 02210

The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body's interactions with the world. Designers have the chance to impact those interactions at almost every turn. Hear experts from IDEO and other firms discuss what tis means to our industry and your work.

 

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
6:30

TBD
Boston, MA

Ben Fry, the founder of Fathom, will give an overview to his studio's approach to data-driven design and touch on some of the company's projects over the past year. Developers and designers from Fathom will explain the process behind their most recent data visualization work, including iPad apps and interactive installations.

Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation group at MIT's Media Lab, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Ben's work has appeared in museums such as the Whitney, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Museum of Modern Art; in the films Minority Report and The Hulk; and in the journal Nature, New York Magazine, and the New York Times. In 2011, Ben won the National Design Award for Interaction Design and was selected as one of Fast Company's 50 Most Influential Designers in America.

Founded in 2010 and based in Boston, Fathom Information Design helps clients understand and express complex data through information graphics, interactive tools, and software for installations, the Web, and mobile devices. Their clients include the Gates Foundation, GE, Thomson Reuters, and Consumer Reports.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world. Designers have the chance to impact those interactions at almost every turn. Hear experts from IDEO and other professionals discuss what this means to our industry and your work.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

New England creatives take up the challenge and muse on the subject of ‘Graphic Advocacy’ in inspired by Pecha Kucha 20x20.

Thursday, February 28, 2013
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Massachusetts College of Art and Design View Map Learn More
Tower Building
11th Floor – Trustees Room
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

The Lecture
New England Creatives take up the challenge and muse on the subject of ‘Graphic Advocacy’ in the form of a Pecha Kucha* presentation, delivered in under 7 minutes each. Confirmed speakers include: Alisa Aronson, Matthew Budelman, Kristen Coogan, Michael Hendrix, Fritz Klaetke, Denise Korn, Natacha Poggio, Heather Shaw, Thomas Starr, Jason Stevens and Clif Stoltze. Elizabeth Resnick will introduce the presenters. Be sure to visit the exhibition, the gallery will be open from 12noon-6pm and 8-9:30pm on the day of the event.

* Pecha Kucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. Pecha Kucha nights are fun, informative and entertaining!

The Exhibition
The third exhibition in a trilogy focusing on socially conscious posters*, this time with a concentrated look at how new technologies have influenced posters agitating for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression for our increasingly wired world. Graphic Advocacy features 122 poster works from 32 countries.

Ready access to broadband and mobile communications and to digital production technologies has expanded the poster’s role well beyond the limitations of the printed surface, and in its wake has created a modern tool for support and protest. With its mix of both low-tech and high-tech, of old and new, the poster, in all its forms, is still a core component of 21st century advocacy.

The exhibition was curated and organized by Elizabeth Resnick, Professor, Chair, Graphic Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The exhibition will be on display in the Stephen D. Paine Gallery, South Hall at MassArt until March 2.

* Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005; Graphic Intervention: International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 

Posters for the Digital Age, by Elizabeth Resnick, will be published by Vivays Publishing Company, Ltd. London in Fall 2013

 Register Today

Free to Mass Art's community (with ID)

$5 to Student Members

$10 to AIGA Members 

$20 Non-Members

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The CharlesMark Hotel - Upper Lounge Learn More
655 Boylston Street
Boston, MA

What's an AFTA?
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 partners for their ongoing support... and the local creative community gets to drop by "afta" work and hang loose!

Want to host one?
Hosting an AFTA is easy, cost-free, and it's a great way for a firm of any size to connect with the design community. Contact Elizabeth Brenke, AFTA Chairperson, event_coordinator@boston.aiga.org

Monday, February 25, 2013

Ben Fry, the founder of Fathom, will give an overview to his studio's approach to data-driven design and touch on some of the company's projects over the past year.

Friday, February 22, 2013 — February 22, 2013
6pm - 8pm

Clery's Boston View Map Learn More
113 Dartmouth St.
Boston, MA 02116

MEET THE JUDGES at Clery's Boston. The 2013 Best of New England show jury will be on tap to meet and mingle with the New England design community. The evening includes judges' presentations, performance, a raffle and more...the makings of a night to remember!

http://www.boneshow.org

http://www.clerysboston.com/

Thursday, February 21, 2013
6:30p.m.

The Charlesmark Lounge View Map Learn More
655 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

POSTPONED: April Date to be Announced

AIGA's Design for Good, a national initiative, is about the intersection of design, social change and its impact on our community.

Join us for this Open Forum to see how we can get this started in our chapter.

More details to come!

Monday, March 18, 2013 — March 18, 2013
6:30pm - 8:30pm

Red Thread Learn More
22 Boston Wharf Road
Boston, MA 02210

The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body's interactions with the world. Designers have the chance to impact those interactions at almost every turn. Hear experts from IDEO and other firms discuss what tis means to our industry and your work.

 

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
6:30

TBD
Boston, MA

Ben Fry, the founder of Fathom, will give an overview to his studio's approach to data-driven design and touch on some of the company's projects over the past year. Developers and designers from Fathom will explain the process behind their most recent data visualization work, including iPad apps and interactive installations.

Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation group at MIT's Media Lab, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Ben's work has appeared in museums such as the Whitney, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Museum of Modern Art; in the films Minority Report and The Hulk; and in the journal Nature, New York Magazine, and the New York Times. In 2011, Ben won the National Design Award for Interaction Design and was selected as one of Fast Company's 50 Most Influential Designers in America.

Founded in 2010 and based in Boston, Fathom Information Design helps clients understand and express complex data through information graphics, interactive tools, and software for installations, the Web, and mobile devices. Their clients include the Gates Foundation, GE, Thomson Reuters, and Consumer Reports.