March 2010

3/10
Design Business for Breakfast Series: Follow the Green

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 7:30 - 9 a.m.
Il Fornaio, Pacific Place
600 Pine Street, Seattle

Whether youre a freelancer, an in-house designer, or working at an agency or studio, you can never know too much about the business side of design. And in todays tough economy, you need that business edge even more.

In this three-part breakfast series, David Sherwin of frog design will host professionals from the Seattle design community, each of whom has deep experience in client service, project management, and design studio management. David and his co-presenters will give you a fresh perspective on professional practices and provide you with tips and tools that you can start using right away.

Follow the Green
Learn how design businesses make money: follow a designers earned income for a project, for a month, and over the course of an entire working year. Aimed at working designers and agency professionals. Led by David Conrad, Partner/Studio Director of Design Commission, an interactive design agency in Pioneer Square.

Registration
Single Event | includes presentation, light breakfast, and materials
AIGA Members: $25 | SOLD OUT
Nonmembers: $35 | SOLD OUT
 
Full Breakfast Series | all three events:
Connect With Your Clients (1/13)
Structure Your Projects and Process (2/10)
and Follow the Green (3/10)):

includes presentation, light breakfast, and materials

AIGA Members: $60
Nonmembers: $90
Advance ticket sales for the full event series are now closed. Additional tickets will be available at the door of each event, please arrive 15 minutes early.

3/16
Open Board Meeting

Thuesday, March 16, 2010 | 7 p.m.
School of Visual Concepts
500 Aurora Avenue North, Seattle

Once a year we welcome all of you to our monthly Board of Directors meeting, where we announce which Board positions are about to open. You’re invited to listen in on the discussion, ask questions, and test whether you’d like to join us as a director. If you’d like to apply for one of these positions or one of our newly created chair positions, or get involved with AIGA Seattle in any way, I’d like to personally invite you to bring your passion and your ideas to the meeting.

Why serve on the AIGA Seattle Board?

• It’s good for AIGA — We need your talent and fresh ideas to move us forward.
• It’s good for you — You’ll build your connections, expand your leadership skills, and feel the satisfaction that you’re making a positive difference in the design community.
• It’s good for the design industry — With the strength of 22,000 members joined together, AIGA is increasingly giving our professions a voice on the national stage. Help us feed and influence that movement.

Joining the AIGA Seattle Board is your chance to help steer the organization and the profession into an even more enriching and empowering direction.

If you’d like to chair an event or lead an initiative but don’t want to commit to a two-year Board position, please consider a one-year Chair position, which we’ve added this year for the first time. We feel it’s a great way to expand our capacity to offer better programs to the members while also growing the network of member volunteers in AIGA Seattle.

We look forward to meeting you!

3/18
HIVE.mobile

Thursday, March 18, 2010
Doors open at 6 p.m.; programs promptly at 6:30
POP
1326 5th Avenue, Seattle

Now that internet-enabled devices are in nearly every pocket or purse, design and development for the mobile platform has rapidly become a key sector of interactive design. Join us for an evening focused on the design and development of applications, websites, and experiences for mobile devices.
 
Leaders from companies in both the design and mobile sectors will host discussions on process, concepts, and execution of interaction design for mobile platforms. This HIVE event will be organized in a new format with smaller groups to allow for a more intimate exchange.

Registration
AIGA Student Members: SOLD OUT
AIGA Professional Members: $10 | SOLD OUT
Student Nonmembers: $5 | SOLD OUT
Professional Nonmembers: $15 | SOLD OUT

3/20
Typography Boot Camp

Saturday, March 20, 2010 | 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
School of Visual Concepts
500 Aurora Avenue North, Seattle

Are you feeling too thin or too heavy? Does your ascender look big in that typeface? Is your kerning all gappy? Does a river run through your body copy? Well, tighten up your leading, because AIGA Seattle Typography Boot Camp is for you. This intense, hands-on, crash course in typographic fundamentals will expose you to the core principles that will help whip your portfolio into shape and give you rock-hard ABCs. We’ll put you through your paces with a concentrated three-hour program consisting of introductory dos and don’ts, followed by a series of quick typographic workouts, each with a slightly different focus: Type Literacy Sprints, Typesetting Crunches, and Grid & Composition Burpees.

The event will be open to 45 people. Each workshop will be limited to 15 people; everyone will be able to take two workshops.

Workshop 1
Typography and its anatomy, classification, context, and history will help you become more discriminating in selecting typefaces and customizing logotypes. Led by Juliet Shen, Shen Design.

Workshop 2
Typesetting 101, covers kerning, leading, scale, headlines, and body copy. Led by Bryan Mamaril, Turnstyle.

Workshop 3
Grid & Composition, explains how geometric systems underlie the visual relationships that make for good design and offers you a step-by-step approach to typographic composition. Led by Jeff Barlow, Jelvetica and President of AIGA Seattle.

Registration
AIGA Student Members: $25 | SOLD OUT
AIGA Professional Members: $35 | SOLD OUT
Student Nonmembers: $40 | SOLD OUT
Professional Nonmembers: $50 | SOLD OUT

3/25
Design Social

Thursday, March 25 | 6-8 p.m.
Grey Gallery & Lounge
1512 11th Ave, Seattle

Stop by and make connections with other Seattle designers (of all kinds) at our casual gatherings. The last Thursday of each month we get together to swap ideas, vent about impossible deadlines, share inspiration, and have a laugh. This time we’ll meet again at Grey Gallery & Lounge on Capitol Hill. Enjoy their great food, espresso, or something stronger to drink — with people who get what design is about.

No reservation needed, no cover charge. We’d love to see those of you who joined us at Grey Gallery last time, and we’d also really like to see new faces — everyone is welcome (including nonmembers, student members, and members under 21)!