virtual design conference coming september 20
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a brief history of now
the professional association for design aiga.org
conference program
a brief history of now
Designers and design collaborators are constantly seeking to understand design’s influence on intimate spaces and systemic structures. So this year, we ask ourselves “what are the possible futures of design as both a cultural force and strategic advantage?” This year, the AIGA Design Conference will convene—virtually—a global audience representative of our connected world. We’ll ask questions like: How big is the influence of design and designers on our world? How can we be the collaborators we want to be— now—to impact our future positively? How can I create a unique path for myself that speaks to my individuality and talent in a plurality of ways? How is new design research uncovering new historical narratives, helping us to re-examine our traditional conceptions about design’s past? 1
Our speakers will share their own experiences answering some of these questions, sparking your ideas and imagination about what your design future holds for you. Together, we’ll embark on a multi-layered exploration of design in our changing world.
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daily schedule monday 9.20 Roundtables
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson & Frank Schulenburg
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
General Session
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Design Dates
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Drinks with Designers: Seymour Chwast and Steve Heller
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
tuesday 9.21 Curatorial Tour of the Push Pin Legacy
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Designing for First Glance Attention
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Design Writing 101: How Writing Is a Lot More Like Designing Than You Think
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Typography/Layout/Toolset with Dafi Kühne 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Symposium: Systems and Their Futures 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM Symposium: The Demand for Independent Research
12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Design Dates
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
AIGA Awards Celebration
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Archives Live: People’s Graphic Design Archive
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
wednesday 9.22 Roundtables General Session
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Design Dates
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Drinks with Designers: Aaron Draplin
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
thursday 9.23 Hand-Lettering Workshop
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Team Talk: Reimagining Value Through Regenerative Design
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Replace Your Clients Specifying for Success: Invigorating Your Creative Color Process from Inspiration Through Production Symposium: What We Make Symposium: Dreams of Contra-Colonial Futures Design Dates Drinks with Designers: karlssonwilker Archives Live: Hamilton Hang
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
friday 9.24 Roundtables Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Ravi Hampole General Session
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Design Dates
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Drinks with Designers: Design Observer
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Closing Night Party
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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speakers
Ahmed Ansari is an Assistant Pro-
fessor of Practice in Integrated Design and Media at New York University. His research and writing sits at the intersection of design studies and critical cultural theory, with a focus on decolonising knowledge production in design ethnography, history, and theory, and in cosmotechnicity and its promise for more pluriversal forms of designing. He also does educational consulting for design programs in Pakistan and is a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform.
Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton is an
Associate Professor of Graphic Design. She has taught graphic design at Southeastern Louisiana University and taught Typography at Loyola Marymount University. She is also a faculty in the low-residency MFA program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Arceneaux is the principal at Blacvoice Design, a studio specializing in branding, electronic media, identity, illustration, print, and publication design, for educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. The use of typography has a strong presence in her work—she is a type enthusiast who enjoys hand-lettering, typesetting, and deconstructing type through a combination of analog and digital processes. Arceneaux has exhibited work nationally and abroad, and in 2013, her work was featured in Idea: International Graphic Art and Typography magazine.
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Ashleigh Axios is an international
speaker, strategic creative, and an advocate for design’s ability to break barriers and create positive social change. She is the Chief Experience Officer and a Partner at Coforma (formerly &Partners), a digital consultancy and design studio that understands that technology, policy, and a critical eye to society’s challenges can help bring about equality and improve ways of life. As of July 2020, Axios is also chair of the national board of directors for AIGA, the professional association of design. Ashleigh is a graduate from, and an alumni advisor to, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She lives and works in Washington, DC with her husband, Nathaniel Axios, and their cat.
Naïma Ben Ayed is a London (UK)
based independent type and graphic designer from France, with Tunisian heritage, working with/in between the Arabic and Latin scripts. On-going interests and research are situated somewhere at the intersection of type design, language, archive and storytelling. She explores those connections through both her design practice and collaborations as well as through regular workshops she leads. She recently took part in L.i.P collective research and Against the Grain program curated by Futuress.
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speakers
Kate Bingaman-Burt mostly draws,
letters, documents, and collects, but she also does a lot of other things that involve energy, conversation, and exchange. Kate is a full-time educator and makes illustrations for all sorts of clients all around the world. Since 2008, she has worked at Portland State University and is the Associate Director of The School of Art + Design and a Professor of Graphic Design. She opened Outlet in 2017, which hosts workshops, pop-up events and a fully operational risograph print studio. Kate loves creating spaces that make people want to MAKE!
Sabrina Blowers leads Digital Trans-
formation for the Accenture Federal Services Digital and Customer Experience capability. She has an extensive background in federal, commercial, non-profit, and small business transformation, leading disparate groups within organizations of all shapes and sizes – pure-play digital startups to Fortune 50 - to becoming customer-centric, high performance teams laser-focused on increasing client satisfaction and retention. Her work over the past few years at the Accenture Federal Services and its federal clients has focused on human-centered design and, most recently, sustainability. Her mission and purpose – simplify to clarify.
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Archie Boston is a nationally known
art director, designer, author, business owner, and educator. He was chair of the Graphic Design Program at California State University Long Beach for 12 terms during his 33 years and was named Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2004. He has also operated his design-consulting firm, Archie Boston
Graphic Design, since 1972. He served two terms as president of the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles.
Considered one of the nation’s leading design instructors and a highly respected graphic designer, Boston was featured in Graphic Design: USA magazine as one of 35 design pioneers. In 2002, Boston published Fly in the Buttermilk: Memoirs of an African American in Advertising Design & Design Education, which described his experiences as a minority in the creative community. Prof. Boston has been a consistent award winner in distinguished shows as: The New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles Art Directors Club shows, Communication Arts and Art Direction Magazine shows, Western Art Director’s show, Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual, The Type Directors and the AIGA shows, Graphis Annual and Typomondus 20, International Exposition of the “Best Graphics of the 20th Century.” Prof. Boston was the first African American recipient of the prestigious AIGA Fellows Award from the Los Angeles Chapter of AIGA in 2007. The Fellow award recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to raise the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community.
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speakers
Audrey Bennett is an inaugural Uni-
versity Diversity and Social Transformation Professor and Director of the MDes in Integrative Design program at the University of Michigan. She is a former Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and a former College Art Association Professional Development Fellow. She studies the design of images that, through interactive aesthetics, can permeate cultural boundaries and impact the way we think and behave. Her research publications include: Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images, Towards an Autochthonic Black Aesthetic for Graphic Design Pedagogy, and The African Roots of Swiss Design. She is the co-editor of the Icograda Design Education Manifesto 2011, a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Image and Text (South Africa) and New Design Ideas (Azerbaijan), and a member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association.
Tony Brook is from SPIN, the creative
output of a London-based studio, which has been rotating between the poles of art and design since 1992. This revolution has so far been televised, animated, printed, photographed, pixelated and painted, but rather than offer singular or static solutions, their vision is for an ongoing dialogue between a conceptual practice and its many applications in the real world. SPIN partners, Tony Brook and Jonas Zieher lead the creative team. taking responsibility for the strategic and creative direction of the studio.
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Pierre Bowins is Assistant Professor
in Studio Arts at UMES. His twenty-plus years in the field of design have provided him with a broad view to prepare students for the future of emerging trends in Art and Design’s contemporary practice. Pierre is a lifelong maker, educator and self-proclaimed design historian. His design and teaching methods utilize research-based theories to assist in the discovery of personal, cultural, and historical identities while implementing design ideas within analog and digital media. His research largely focuses on exploring the history of graphic design and investigating the omission that exists within design history. Pierre holds a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. He has been an active member of his local Americas Institute of Graphic Arts, College Arts Association, and University and College Designers Association.
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