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A Couple Notes from Marian Bantjes talk for the AIGANY
For the majority of people in attendance last night, Marian gave the perfect talk. It was effortlessly paced, she balanced personal observations with real work and inspired a lot of …
AIGA Conference Notes #makethink: Saturday 1.5 (Redesigning Design, Creativity, Art Direction and Jill Greenberg)
Over the next couple of days I’ll be updating these posts with more contextual notes Redesigning Design, David Butler (vice president of global design, The Coca-Cola Company) Nick Law Art …
AIGA Conference Notes #makethink: Friday 2.0 (Communities, Google, RGA, Facebook and Design Business)
Over the next couple of days I’ll be updating these posts with more contextual notes Wisdom of Communities; Inspiring Communities: Jim Coudal, president, Coudal Partners; Liz Danzico, chair, MFA Interaction …
Walking to work in 60 Seconds, my 20/20 at #makethink AIGA Design Conference 2009
I survived the opening of #makethink AIGA Design Conference 2009 relatively well, met some smart people and had some good food. Not much more a designer could ask for when …
I’m likely not going to be live blogging from #makethink AIGA Design Conference 2009, I will be taking notes
While in the past I’ve had my issues with the AIGA, I’m actually pretty excited to be heading down to Memphis for the Make/Think AIGA Design Conference. I tend to …
Quotes from AIGA NY: MY DOG AND PONY II #AIGAconnect
The above image captured some of the more memorable quotes that I heard last night at the successful AIGA NY MEMBERS SERIES: MY DOG AND PONY II. Each of the …
Link Drop (7·31·09)
This week’s version of Link Drop has a healthy does of me at the beginning. When I read about other bloggers and their exploits, sometimes I think it’s cool to …
Link Drop (7·10·09)
July is here and with that comes the Tour de France. I’ve found a number of bike and tour related stuff that is shows the sport in perhaps a slightly …
Link Drop (6·12·09)
It’s been a crazy blog week for me and because of that my Link Drop is three days overdue. The High Line opened which I was happy to experience first …
AIGA makes a turn for the better hopefully
I was happy and proud to hear via twitter that Debbie Millman has become the new President of the AIGA. This is a kind of make it or break it …
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