The AIGA Student Membership Party was a blast! It was held on Saturday December 4 at 7pm at Big Studio in Atlanta.
Thanks to all the schools for coming out and thanks for your Juried Pin-Up Show entries! The jurors of the night Kurt Seidle of Grant Collaborative, Elise Thomason of Iconologic, and Albert Whitley of Whit Creative had a tough time coming to an agreement. The jurors began at 4:30 and didn't arrive to a decision until 8:00.
The winners of the Juried Pin-Up Show are:
1st Portfolio Center
2nd University of Georgia
3rd Georgia State University
The 1st place winner of the Juried Pin-Up Show will receive 1/3 gallery space at MODA.
The second competition, the People's Choice Pin-Up Show was a tough call as well but the winners are:
1st Stephen Mullinax, University of Georgia
2nd Nathan Pak, University of Georgia
3rd Melissa Lee, University of Georgia
UGA kept their winning streak from last year in this competition!
Congratulations to all competition submitters and winners as well as our door prize winners! All prizes were supplied by Binders.
Thanks to everyone who came out Saturday night! It was great meeting everyone!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
AIGA Student Membership Party
Tomorrow night is the AIGA Student Membership Party!
Join us for a night of good design made by AIGA student members!
There will be two ongoing competitions at the party: the Juried Pin-Up Show and the People's Choice Pin-Up Show. All submissions for the Juried Pin-Up Show is to be turned in tomorrow at 4pm at Big Studio with the statement copies. Members can submit one piece into the People's Choice Pin-Up Show. It can be anything that you have made.
People's Choice Pin-Up Show and door prizes will be provided by Binders.
Come for the great people, food, drinks, music, and prizes!
Everyone is invited: you, guests, members, educators, professionals,...etc.
Please pre-register at: register here
Payment is at the door and CASH ONLY. If you pre-register you get the discount at the door.
Join us for a night of good design made by AIGA student members!
There will be two ongoing competitions at the party: the Juried Pin-Up Show and the People's Choice Pin-Up Show. All submissions for the Juried Pin-Up Show is to be turned in tomorrow at 4pm at Big Studio with the statement copies. Members can submit one piece into the People's Choice Pin-Up Show. It can be anything that you have made.
People's Choice Pin-Up Show and door prizes will be provided by Binders.
Come for the great people, food, drinks, music, and prizes!
Everyone is invited: you, guests, members, educators, professionals,...etc.
Please pre-register at: register here
Payment is at the door and CASH ONLY. If you pre-register you get the discount at the door.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Letterheads!
I am blogging about another blog.
I came across Letterheady today by Shaun Usher who has scanned in copies of letterheads from companies, celebrities, and so on and so forth. They're pretty fun to look at!
Letterheady
I came across Letterheady today by Shaun Usher who has scanned in copies of letterheads from companies, celebrities, and so on and so forth. They're pretty fun to look at!
Letterheady
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Yale Goes Wiki
Yale School of Art's website is a wiki. A wiki allows users to edit pages live.
If you go on their site, you'll see that it's not like many art school websites online. Each page is unique, different, and fun and constantly changing.
For now, graduate students, alums, faculty, and staff are able to edit the pages on the site.
Dan Michaelson came up with the idea.
“We wanted the website to be a transparent window onto the art school,” Michaelson said, comparing the website to the School of Art’s physical location. “There’s no reason why the website shouldn’t be a space that belongs to the students as much as the building.”
Check it out!
Yale University School of Art
Taking wikis to a whole new level
Wiki.com
If you go on their site, you'll see that it's not like many art school websites online. Each page is unique, different, and fun and constantly changing.
For now, graduate students, alums, faculty, and staff are able to edit the pages on the site.
Dan Michaelson came up with the idea.
“We wanted the website to be a transparent window onto the art school,” Michaelson said, comparing the website to the School of Art’s physical location. “There’s no reason why the website shouldn’t be a space that belongs to the students as much as the building.”
Check it out!
Yale University School of Art
Taking wikis to a whole new level
Wiki.com
Friday, October 1, 2010
CHROMATIC: A Tribute to Color
CHROMATIC: A Tribute to Color
Saturday October 2 at 8:30pm - Sunday at 2:00am
The Goat Farm
1200 Foster Street: The Rodriguez Room
Atlanta, GA
Free event.
16 GRAPHIC ARTISTS. 1 SHOWCASE.
What happens when you gather works from 16 industry designers, talent from the likes of Armchair Media, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Portfolio Center, People of Resource, Sons&Sons, etc., put them together in a former cotton gin-factory and mix in music, drinks, and a photobooth?
We’ll find out on October 2nd, 2010 at 8:30 PM, since this unique graphic arts showcase highlighting the talents of some of Atlanta’s most influential designers hasn’t ever been done quite like this before. With only the parameter of “color use”, 16 of Atlanta’s most innovative, professional graphic artists broke free from marketing standards and art direction, pulled out all the stops, and are proud to present inventive works for a night dedicated to the celebration of design.
Participating artists include:
Duke Aber
Kevin Byrd
Branden Collins
Drew Dominey
Travis Ekmark
John Ferguson
Candace House
Petrika Janssen
Jeffrey Jarvis
Farbod Kokabi
Eric LaCombe
Ron Lewis
Elise Mattingly
Lee Summers
Wade Thompson
Joe Veazey
CHROMATIC will take place at the historic and atmospheric Rodriguez Room at the Goat Farm (1200 Foster Street, Atlanta, GA, 30318, near Star Provisions). In addition to dynamic artwork, the free event will also include a color photobooth by (http://www.suckerpunchphotobooth.tumblr.com/), drinks, DJ Chris Daresta and DJ Luis Ponce, and originals and prints for sale. For more information visit the official CHROMATIC page at http://www.cargocollective.com/chromatic.
Saturday October 2 at 8:30pm - Sunday at 2:00am
The Goat Farm
1200 Foster Street: The Rodriguez Room
Atlanta, GA
Free event.
16 GRAPHIC ARTISTS. 1 SHOWCASE.
What happens when you gather works from 16 industry designers, talent from the likes of Armchair Media, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Portfolio Center, People of Resource, Sons&Sons, etc., put them together in a former cotton gin-factory and mix in music, drinks, and a photobooth?
We’ll find out on October 2nd, 2010 at 8:30 PM, since this unique graphic arts showcase highlighting the talents of some of Atlanta’s most influential designers hasn’t ever been done quite like this before. With only the parameter of “color use”, 16 of Atlanta’s most innovative, professional graphic artists broke free from marketing standards and art direction, pulled out all the stops, and are proud to present inventive works for a night dedicated to the celebration of design.
Participating artists include:
Duke Aber
Kevin Byrd
Branden Collins
Drew Dominey
Travis Ekmark
John Ferguson
Candace House
Petrika Janssen
Jeffrey Jarvis
Farbod Kokabi
Eric LaCombe
Ron Lewis
Elise Mattingly
Lee Summers
Wade Thompson
Joe Veazey
CHROMATIC will take place at the historic and atmospheric Rodriguez Room at the Goat Farm (1200 Foster Street, Atlanta, GA, 30318, near Star Provisions). In addition to dynamic artwork, the free event will also include a color photobooth by (http://www.suckerpunchphotobooth.tumblr.com/), drinks, DJ Chris Daresta and DJ Luis Ponce, and originals and prints for sale. For more information visit the official CHROMATIC page at http://www.cargocollective.com/chromatic.
Monday, September 27, 2010
09/28 with Methane Studios
Methane Studios'
Mark McDevitt and Robert Lee
with Michael Ouweleen
SCAD ATLANTA
Tue, Sep 28 7 pm - 9 pm
This is a FREE event.
Register for this event online.
Methane Studios got its start in 1998 when Mark McDevitt and Robert Lee formed a partnership to produce silk screen posters for the East Atlanta club The Echo Lounge that featured some of the best independent bands in the late 1990s.
The roots of this partnership started in the mid 1980s at Columbus College of Art and Design located in Columbus, Ohio. Robert and Mark,both from small Ohio towns, majored in Illustration and bonded over bad 80s haircuts, corndogs, good music and creating art to form a friendship that would transcend into creating award winning artwork recognized worldwide. Our status as well-known designers has led us to win awards in design competitions in How, Print magazine, and the Graphis poster annual. In college we learned in a more traditional way which allowed us to explore techniques that we use today. We never let our posters look computerized. We use the computer like a pencil or paint brush. The computer has allowed us to speed things up and to explore more options for sure, but we still belly up to the drafting table often. We draw inspiration form many artists be it musical or visual and our work tends to have a vintage influence.
Today we exist as a two man studio creating package designs, logos, and posters for clients such as Turner Broadcasting, Honda, Liberty mutual, Blue Q, Dave Matthews and many other of your favorite bands. Recently featured on CNN, you can also find our work in many books that feature designs relating to t-shirt, music packaging and of course posters. We dig David Stone Martin, Jasper Johns, Ralph Bakshi, Mort Drucker, Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol, Edward Ruscha, Push Pin, Alex Steinweiss and countless others. Our goal was always to tell a story, convey a message, and to make someone stop and think a little with our designs. We have a sense of humor as well and it's important to not take ourselves so seriously all the time.
Michael Ouweleen, co-host of POLITELY DISRUPTIVE on WMLB, is Sr. VP, Creative Director of Cartoon Network On-Air, and writer-creator of HARVEY BIRDMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Mark McDevitt and Robert Lee
with Michael Ouweleen
SCAD ATLANTA
Tue, Sep 28 7 pm - 9 pm
This is a FREE event.
Register for this event online.
Methane Studios got its start in 1998 when Mark McDevitt and Robert Lee formed a partnership to produce silk screen posters for the East Atlanta club The Echo Lounge that featured some of the best independent bands in the late 1990s.
The roots of this partnership started in the mid 1980s at Columbus College of Art and Design located in Columbus, Ohio. Robert and Mark,both from small Ohio towns, majored in Illustration and bonded over bad 80s haircuts, corndogs, good music and creating art to form a friendship that would transcend into creating award winning artwork recognized worldwide. Our status as well-known designers has led us to win awards in design competitions in How, Print magazine, and the Graphis poster annual. In college we learned in a more traditional way which allowed us to explore techniques that we use today. We never let our posters look computerized. We use the computer like a pencil or paint brush. The computer has allowed us to speed things up and to explore more options for sure, but we still belly up to the drafting table often. We draw inspiration form many artists be it musical or visual and our work tends to have a vintage influence.
Today we exist as a two man studio creating package designs, logos, and posters for clients such as Turner Broadcasting, Honda, Liberty mutual, Blue Q, Dave Matthews and many other of your favorite bands. Recently featured on CNN, you can also find our work in many books that feature designs relating to t-shirt, music packaging and of course posters. We dig David Stone Martin, Jasper Johns, Ralph Bakshi, Mort Drucker, Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol, Edward Ruscha, Push Pin, Alex Steinweiss and countless others. Our goal was always to tell a story, convey a message, and to make someone stop and think a little with our designs. We have a sense of humor as well and it's important to not take ourselves so seriously all the time.
Michael Ouweleen, co-host of POLITELY DISRUPTIVE on WMLB, is Sr. VP, Creative Director of Cartoon Network On-Air, and writer-creator of HARVEY BIRDMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Spirited Calligraphy: Texts Marks and Meanings - East & West
October 7 - November 19, 2010
Drawing and calligraphic mark-making are as essential in Western art as they are in Eastern art. Evident in the works of early American abstract expressionists, calligraphic mark-making continues to be a significant component in contemporary art across all media produced in the East and the West. Today American, Asian and European artists employ drawing and mark-making methodologies outside the formal, figurative, and representational art approaches and aesthetics. Some integrate new media and digital technologies while others consider more direct applications using a variety of media, materials and production processes. Explore contemporary interdisciplinary and multimedia drawing and mark-making applications in this exhibition.
October 7 - Opening Reception & First Thursday's Downtown Arts Walk
5:00 pm - 8:00pm in the Welch Gallery Lobby
10 Peachtree Center Ave. Atlanta GA 30303
October 8 - Calligraphy in Action Performance & Symposium
11:00am – 2:30pm in the Alumni Hall Auditorium
30 Courtland St. Atlanta GA 30303
Speakers:
Kevin Hsieh - "Origin and Stylistic Development of the Chinese Writing System"
Craig Drennen - "The East West Fusion"
Calligraphy Performers:
Tsai YuLung (China) - "Heart Sutra"
Michiko Hamazaki (Japan) - "Taichee-Integrated Calligraphy"
Sogen Hirano (Japan) - "Sumi Ink & Brush Performance"
Moderator: Junco Pollack
All gallery events are FREE and open to the public. Free evening event parking in the United Way bldg. @ Auburn Ave & Courtland St.
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
Drawing and calligraphic mark-making are as essential in Western art as they are in Eastern art. Evident in the works of early American abstract expressionists, calligraphic mark-making continues to be a significant component in contemporary art across all media produced in the East and the West. Today American, Asian and European artists employ drawing and mark-making methodologies outside the formal, figurative, and representational art approaches and aesthetics. Some integrate new media and digital technologies while others consider more direct applications using a variety of media, materials and production processes. Explore contemporary interdisciplinary and multimedia drawing and mark-making applications in this exhibition.
October 7 - Opening Reception & First Thursday's Downtown Arts Walk
5:00 pm - 8:00pm in the Welch Gallery Lobby
10 Peachtree Center Ave. Atlanta GA 30303
October 8 - Calligraphy in Action Performance & Symposium
11:00am – 2:30pm in the Alumni Hall Auditorium
30 Courtland St. Atlanta GA 30303
Speakers:
Kevin Hsieh - "Origin and Stylistic Development of the Chinese Writing System"
Craig Drennen - "The East West Fusion"
Calligraphy Performers:
Tsai YuLung (China) - "Heart Sutra"
Michiko Hamazaki (Japan) - "Taichee-Integrated Calligraphy"
Sogen Hirano (Japan) - "Sumi Ink & Brush Performance"
Moderator: Junco Pollack
All gallery events are FREE and open to the public. Free evening event parking in the United Way bldg. @ Auburn Ave & Courtland St.
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
Sunday, September 19, 2010
ITC Legacy
The University of Georgia's Professor of Art Ronald Arnholm's ITC Legacy Square Serif Pro font has recently been nominated for the Federal Republic of Germany Design Award 2011. This prestigious award is one of the highest to receive for design excellence in Germany.
Inspired by Nicolas Jenson's 1470 Eusebius typeface, Arnholm designed a revival of that typeface for his MFA thesis. In the early 1980's, he revisited his design and began to expand the original to become ITC Legacy. The family was first released in the early 1990s, and Arnholm has added more to the family since.
The family includes sans, serif, and square serif as well as serif condensed with each including several weights.
Arnholm is a graphic design professor at the university. He received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA at Yale where he studied with Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Alvin Eisenman, and Herbert Matter.
Nomination for German Design Award
ITC Legacy
Inspired by Nicolas Jenson's 1470 Eusebius typeface, Arnholm designed a revival of that typeface for his MFA thesis. In the early 1980's, he revisited his design and began to expand the original to become ITC Legacy. The family was first released in the early 1990s, and Arnholm has added more to the family since.
The family includes sans, serif, and square serif as well as serif condensed with each including several weights.
Arnholm is a graphic design professor at the university. He received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA at Yale where he studied with Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Alvin Eisenman, and Herbert Matter.
Nomination for German Design Award
ITC Legacy
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Michael Bierut
Just a reminder that Michael Bierut will be at Portfolio Center tonight - Open to the public!
Portfolio Center | 125 Bennett St. | Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: 404.351.5055
Portfolio Center | 125 Bennett St. | Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: 404.351.5055
Friday, February 5, 2010
STUDENT VIDEO MEETING @ Portfolio Center
Hey Guys,
Just a quick reminder that our meeting is tomorrow @ 1 pm.
-Spencer
Just a quick reminder that our meeting is tomorrow @ 1 pm.
-Spencer
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
AIGA Letterpress Event
Sign up for Letterpress Finesse!!
It will be held Saturday February 20th, 4-8 pm @ Atlanta Printmakers Studio
The cost is $15 for Student members and $20 for Non Student members. This will cover the cost of the space, paper, ink, light food, and drinks.
It will be a great night of creativity and fun with students from the Atlanta Area! Come ready to work (no nice clothes) and play!
Please go to http://www.aiga-atl.org to sign up today!
For more information please e-mail jgerjet1@yahoo.com
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Portfolio Day at GSU!
Please come help plan our upcoming Portfolio Day to be held at GSU (on Saturday, April 17).
Take Marta to Five Points Station, or park at M-Deck. ($6)
additional Maps at http://www.gsu.edu/map.html
The meeting location is in room 468 of the Arts and Humanities Building (building 2 on the map) at the corner of Gilmer St. and Peachtree Center Avenue.
If you are unable to make the meeting, but want to continue to be notified about Portfolio Day planning, let Liz Throop know as she will be heading this up lthroop@gsu.edu
Thanks!
Take Marta to Five Points Station, or park at M-Deck
additional Maps at http://www.gsu.edu/map.html
The meeting location is in room 468 of the Arts and Humanities Building (building 2 on the map) at the corner of Gilmer St. and Peachtree Center Avenue.
If you are unable to make the meeting, but want to continue to be notified about Portfolio Day planning, let Liz Throop know as she will be heading this up lthroop@gsu.edu
Thanks!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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