:: ] AIGA NEXT ][ My contribution to 20/20 [ ::
October 19th, 2007
At the AIGA Next conference there was a segment called 20/20. It was 20 young designers, each having been granted 1 min to talk or show what’s next. One of the designers, Geoff Halber, asked others to contribute to his presentation by submitting a version of an 08.
My domino version of the 08, already blending with the next version.
Thanks to Kelly Murdoch-Kitt for having taken the photo.
:: ] Needs for good graphic design? // Your head [ ::
October 17th, 2007
My father and I many times mused about graphic design and architecture. We conversed about the disciplines’ similitudes and differences. We evaluated how each of us could use our fields to impact the other.
Architecture can aid my understanding of balance (specially when it comes to grid work and the alignment of elements), it can fuel my understanding of the different ways my work will affect others, and it can be a catalyst for three dimensional explorations of a basically two dimensional area of study. Graphic design can influence him by improving his communications, by opening a space to create strategical standpoint for the conceptual exploration of aesthetic representations, and in providing a typographical groundwork on which to develop a new layer of expressive meaning.
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:: ] Sea level designer –still– reaches mile-high city ] AIGA NEXT [ ::
October 15th, 2007
Photo by Stu Alden
I spent this past week at the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ (AIGA) NEXT Conference in Denver, Colorado. For those of you who know me well, yes, this was the conference about which I rambled on all summer while I awaited the results of the selection process of a contest for designers under the age of 26. See the file I submitted as my application for the contest, called Command X. (I know that for many of you the summer seemed endless as I waited for the deliberation. Thanks for sticking with me.)
:: ] AIGA ][ 50 books / 50 covers exhibition [::
September 29th, 2007
Last week was the opening of this year’s 50 books / 50 covers exhibition in the AIGA National Center’s Gallery in New York City. Detrás del Silencio, Gilda Navarra’s Biography (and Editorial Revés’s first national award) was showcased as one of the 50 Covers. (Located at the far left of the photo.)
