Very excited to be speaking in Alaska later this month. A lunch round table and evening lecture hosted by AIGA Alaska. The focus will be on working somewhere not known for design, running a small business, building a solid client list, and making a difference.
Lunch Round Table on Action
Monday, March 27 // 12–1 PM
The Boardroom, 601 W 5th Ave
Anchorage, AK
Making This Design Thing Matter
Monday, March 27 // 7–9 PM
Cyrano’s Theater, 411 D St
Anchorage, AK 99501
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Design Alliance Omaha First Friday Discussion. Join us Friday, March 3rd to review an investigation of precedent and context into the idea of a design district in Omaha, NE. Talk with members of the community and leave us your thoughts on these questions:
Omaha by Design Gallery
618 South 11th Street
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Beer and wine served with light hors d’oeuvres.
AIGA recently implemented the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative at the national level. At the local level, our Nebraska chapter has begun a mission focused on education and community called Embrace & Engage & Empower. Led by friend and fellow designer Cathy Solarana, the plan is to collaborate with individuals from a variety of professions and cultural, ethnic, and racial perspectives to identify our biggest challenges.
I’ve often thought the design community as a whole is fairly oblivious to big issues like social responsibility, advocacy, and working to make social change happen. I’m very excited about what’s to come with these initiatives. It’s a start and I think they could lead to some substantive change when it comes to how the design profession exists in the larger context of community challenges and community solutions.
Since the inauguration, we’ve seen some powerful graphic design meant to spread the message of resistance. Here are just a few of my favorites:
Are there others? Please email links.
Now offering brand assessment services on a scale:
Quite Wonderful
Super Solid
Appropriate
It’s OK
Falls Flat
Hmmmmmmmmm
Not Even Average
Um, We’ll Get Back To You
Maybe As An Album Cover
Your Cousin Do This?
We will tell you it’s tremendous while winking
Week 4 Update: Backwards appears to be the course for America, at least for now. While resistance on the left grows and the movement to stand up to this administration strengthens, the battle to inform, inspire, persuade, and motivate will only get more intense. It will be important that progress continues to speak truth to power just like it always has. Old is new again and these posters will keep doing what they originally intended — to give power to whoever posts them.
