Get the Most out of your Membership :: What you missed

Hey everyone tonight was awesome! Here is what you missed and what you may want to know about AIGA:

Seth Johnson & Kolean Pitner
Talk about AIGA membership….this is where its at people!
The Professional Assoc. for Design
Works to advance design as a professional craft, strategic tool, and vital cultural force.

You can connect with Design Firms, Advertising Firms, Corporate In-house studios, freelancers, print designers, interactive designers, etc. through being an AIGA member.  If you move away from the Minnesota chapter you can connect with people like these in your new AIGA chapter.

Stuff they do for Student Members:
Portfolio 1:1
StimuLatte
(seventh sin – interactive shop in MN)
(eight hour day – MN)
Cocktails with Creatives
Design Camp discounts
Design Show discounts
Access to job/intern listings

Stuff they do for Associate Members:
Quarterly lectures
Mentor Program
Access to list of annual salary survey
Workshops
Cocktails with Creatives

WHAT IS AIGA?
AIGA is its members. Not a building, not a board of directors, but its members.

JOIN BECAUSE:
Contacts: networking events, workshops, lectures, searching job boards, being on a committee
Continuing Education
Camaraderie: opportunities for networking with other designers, meeting new friends
Chance to Give Back:

NOT A MEMBER YET?
Become an annual member on your own for $75.
Become a member with a group of other students for only $50
You can get:
Your portfolio on AIGA’s website
Listing of jobs/internships
Committee membership
Annual Salary Survey
All chapter mailings
All national email mailings
Put it on your resume!

DISCOUNTS ON:
Health Insurance
AIGA local and national events
AIGA competitions and conferences
Lynda.com training libraries
Aquent Graphics Institute
Magazines & Books
FedEx & FedEx Kinkos: 20% off (go to website and sign up for program)
Adobe store: 15% off

MORE THINGS TO DO THROUGH AIGA
Portfolio 1 on 1:

Student portfolio weekend (Friday and Saturday)
Friday: Studio tours
Saturday: Workshops: resume writing, portfolio stuff then Portfolio review
Scholarship opportunities
Job opportunities

Design Camp:
Nisswa, MN
National Designers
Workshops
Cocktail Hour
Freebies

Design Show:
Juried show
Numerous categories
Discount on entrance fee

“Insights” lecture series:
Nationally/Internationally known design speakers

“So…” lecture series
Luncheons
StimuLatte
Cocktails with Creatives


{Poster designed by Katy Verbrugge, AIGA UW-Stout Vice President and Graphic Design Sophomore.}

MCAA seeking Logo

Ben Oswald, the head of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) competition team needs a logo and letterhead designed.

They've put together a full proposal, ranging from marketing, to the estimate, to a full project management plan. 

Please email ben for further information. 
oswaldb@my.uwstout.edu

BDP now accepting applications

Blue Devil Productions (BDP) is now accepting applications. For those who might not know who BDP is, they are the campus programming board who brings comedians, bands, speakers, movies, and etc to campus. It is run by Stout students. 
Also, it is a paid position! 
 
Blue Devil Productions website: bdp.uwstout.edu
Application webpage: http://bdp.uwstout.edu/a_jobs.html

***Note: Applications can be downloaded from the webpage and dropped off at the Student Organization Center (SOC) desk in the Memorial Student Center (MSC).
Here is the list of available positions:
    * Executive Producer
    * Art Director
    * Blue Devil Lounge Director
    * Comedy Director
    * Campus Marketing Director
    * Communications Director
    * Music Director
    * Multimedia Director
    * Public Marketing Director
    * Special Events and Films Director
 
Feel free to ask if you have any questions. Also, please come join BDP at our meetings every Monday 6pm in Northwoods Room, Memorial Student Center.

Jazz Orchestra seeking Logo Design

Geoff Peterson from the Eau Claire is starting up a community jazz ensemble called the Chippewa Valley Jazz Orchestra. He is looking for a logo for the band fronts, website, etc.

Please respond to:  PETERSGD@uwec.edu
Geoffrey D. Peterson
Associate Professor of Political Science & American Indian Studies

Cookie Decorating

COOKIE DECORATING TONIGHT!

Poster by Laura Howard, Graphic Design Senior and AIGA member

James Turrell and the Wolfsburg Project

Here in Germany there is no shortage of American art being represented. I recently went to an opening exhibition of the artist named James Turrell who strictly works with light and the way the eye and mind perceive it. In Germany and especially in Hildesheim at the HAWK people are very interested in Lighting Design. What is Lighting Design you ask? I was asking myself the same question. Lighting Design here is using light in ways that it is most efficient to light a space, or create a sense of emotion/feeling by using only lighting within a specified space. The HAWK is the only university in Europe that actually has a program specified only for Lighting Design and a few of the students organized this trip to Wolfsburg for the exhibition.

James Turrll

When we got to this exhibition is was so packed with people we could hardly move around in the lobby of the Wolfsburg Kunst Museum. We were given a short introduction in German of what the whole James Turrell Wolfsburg Project involved and why it was so special. Then we were released into the gallery where there were process pieces of his previous and present work.

Once we got to his main installation we had to wait in a line because there was so many people trying to get into this room. I would see people walking out and looking around in amazement, completely taken aback by what they had seen. I couldn't understand how this piece of work could be so completely mesmerizing to everyone who saw it. Then I got my turn to enter this room...

Everyone had to put little foot booties on so that all the shoes wouldn't ruin the white surface inside. The room was filled with this amazing magenta-violet-blue light that was constantly changing. I could hardly see a single corner of this huge space. And as I walked down this ramp that spanned from the entrance there was a wall in front of me that I could walk up to but wasn't allowed to go too close to. The wall looked like a huge screen with some kind of back lighting to it that made it glow with this unbelievable intensity. But I then found out that the reason no one was allowed to walk closer to this wall was because it was not a wall at all. The wall that was perceived to be only a meter away from me was actually 8 meters away from me and the edge where the wall and the floor met was actually a 130cm drop down into this other section of the room! It's impossible to describe this piece to get the full effect of it. I then walked out of the room and the rest of the museum seemed to be lit by these bright green lights and I realized that it was because my eyes became so adapt to the magenta color within the huge room that natural light became green.

James Turrell's Wolfsberg Project 2009 in Wolfsburg, Germany

All I can say is that I have never been so moved by a piece of art in my life. There was something about this work that seemed so tangent and real that it sparked emotion within every person who saw it. Unbelievable.

James Turrell has also done work for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis which some of the readers here might have seen before. Check out some more of James' work and be inspired. It is amazing how simple light can be used as a medium to inspire some complex and engaging ideas.

Sky Pesher by James Turrell created for the Walker Art Center in 2005

Glad that I could finally contribute something to everyone at home.
Happy regards from Germany!
Your fellow Stout Designer,
Jesse Lindhorst

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Help Spread the Word... AIGA can design just about anything for you or your business.

Posters designed by Kayd Mustonen, Graphic Design Senior and AIGA Marketing Director

Design Camp 2009 :: What you missed

This year 15 Stout AIGA members made it all the way up to Nisswa for Design Camp and had a blast!
From workshops, to dinners, to speakers and karaoke it's not possible to describe design camp to the full amazingness but I'll give it a shot.

Camp started at noon Friday morning. Nervous first-timers were immediately mixed with camp veterans who soon became friends and network buddies. The first interaction was a tough one... designing our camp shirts with potato stamps and paint. We giggled with some Canadian designers as we shared stamps and printing techniques.

The first speaker at camp was Aaron Draplin. Personally my favorite speaker of the entire weekend. To sum up his talk/life: Wanted to get out of small midwest town, Moved West to snowboard with his friends, found some sweet jobs that let him snowboard all day, Chilled all the time in his van when he didn't have a place to sleep, Moved to another state because he had a sweet offer, designed more sweet stuff, Loves his weiner dog Gary, Makes logos just for the hell of it, and Collects everything people would usually look at as old useless junk. Aaron was an extremely down to earth funny guy who doesn't let his success get to his head. 

This year the theme was "Make your Mark" and took on a whole different approach to a picnic. During some down time the Stout kids wrote our very own recipe:

Rutabaga-Starry-eyed Surprise

3 cups Stars, 2 cans Eyes, 1/2 cup Rutabaga (optional), 3 tbsps of sparkle, 3 large balloons, 1 package

lubricant to taste, 1/2 tsp

Mix love and balloons together in a large bathtub until fluffy. Then mix in some fricken confetti. Bring mixture to a boil and cook down until it resembles John Vorwald. Scrape into a 9x13 casserole. Bake until Sexy. Garnish with sparkles and serve. Your guests will giggle uncontrollably

Friday Night brough on the mixer, where vendors have a booth and tell you a bit about their services. Bill from Hamilton Wood Type Museum was a hit! Studio on Fire brought a mini-press for people to do their own sample of letterpress. Laser Plus was also there to showcase their beautiful laser designs. Great contacts to meet during this event and delicious cake.

The night wouldn't be complete without some Karaoke. 

 

 

We woke up Saturday morning to donuts and DJ Stout, a partner of Pentagram.  He went through his work and shared stories about logo ideation, client relationships, recycling logos and a lot about farming. Very interesting to learn more and to understand how Pentagram is organized and works. All us Stout kids jumped in the photo with him - he was proud to have a University named after him.

 

Ellen Lupton was the third speaker of the weekend. You may  recognize her name from some of your design textbooks. Great talk - very funny. I just hope I'm not an easy bake oven. (don't get the joke? That's why this post is called 'Design Camp 2009 :: WHAT YOU MISSED) Before hand Ellen got all the students together for a free lunch! Last year at camp I would guess that there was only 40 students who attended. This year was quite surprising and overwhelming with over 130 students. 

 

The last speakers were Erik Karasyk and David Schwarz the founders of Hush.  It was awesome to see some of their past work and the work that they were currently working on. Hush is celebrating their 3 year anniversary as a company - it's insane to see how successful they have become in a short amount of time.

 

Each camper had their choice of workshops to attend between speakers. Nomatic Press was there to demonstrate Paper Marbeling, French Paper was there to educate more people about their product, there were workshops about photography, legality of runing your own shop and a few others. The above photo is marbeling that Katy did. Currently we're woking on having a workshop to teach this method. 

A huge thanks to all the students, designers and volunteers we met.  Design Camp was a blast. I think everyone that went would pass up Homecoming for it anyday. I already can't wait for next year. 

AIGA Members

Congratulations to our New, Old and Renewed AIGA National Members
It's very exciting that we have 96 members in our Graphic Design group, 52 of them are National AIGA members.  

Alyssa Miller, Amanda Harder, Andrea Manor, Anna Reseburg,Annie Kressin, Ashley Hohnstein, Brian Hildman, Brittany Kluz, Brittany Sweney, Caitlin Teague, Christen Shepard, Collin Syche, David Schreiber, Dena Hoewisch, Diane Witcher, Emily Brownson, Hannah Bergan, Hannah Helgerson, Hannah Hess, Jenna Lang, Jenna Wojan, Jennifer Traxler, Jesse Lindhorst, Jessica Brunette, Jessica Cihon, Jessica Donahoe, Jessica Thelen, Jessica Wilson, Joe Aliotto, Jon Daniels, Justine Goodrich, Kathleen Tolmie, Katie Wolff, Katy Verbrugge, Kayd Mustonen, Kayla Langhans, Kelli Fox, Kelsey Hansen, Kristie Wilson, Laura Howard, Lenn Soderlund, Lindsey Bock, Maddi Wichert, Megan Koschak, Melissa, Allen, Nate Koehler, Phillip Cahall, Sara Koller, Sara Pokorny, Staci Paul, Tegan Moersfelder, Tiffany Kroll

Resources [on & off campus]

In your Senior classes you'll be asked to be thinking beyond your design and more about the materials, inks and paper... but why wait that long? Your design will look so much better if you start early!

ON CAMPUS
-Screenprinting Lab 2nd floor (after you've taken 1 class just buy your own screen, inks, etc) for metallic inks, new effects, print on bottles, 3D packages... Paul Delong = screen printing professor
-2nd floor industrial/interior design labs- Large Format printers (free)
-3D printer in the industrial design department (ask Andrew Macintosh-print lab guy- for help) makes your file into a 3D object
-Process Lab, 1st floor - - get a mold done for packaging etc.,
-Print resource center- inkjet large format printers (use for projects with more graphics & typography-less imagery, rich colors)
-art metals room - sandblaster, woodburning (like burning a logo into a wood sculpture)
-3rd floor resource center: design books
-4th floor Library: Design books/art history -very cool
-instructional resources (library)--sell books to you for cheap
-packaging technology department (other side of the process lab): lab assistent can help you, lots of different packaging materials, help you with different folds, what kinds of materials are best for creasing/folding

STS - Stout Typographical Society >> sts@uwstout.edu
help you print just about anything
-coasters
-laser engraving on metal, plastic, wood etc...
-magnets
-vinyl
-stickers
-screen printing > new machine this year that can print full color images
-printing books
-window clings
-letter press plates
-large format up to 4 ft wide by however long you want
-tshirts
****if you think of it they work with you to make it happen- they do act as a business> give them some lead time, they can work with you and help with your design to get your project done the way you want

OFF CAMPUS
PAPER>>you should be collecting paper samples!!
-Paper Depot
-Paper Source
-French Paper Co.
-MoHawk
-Neenah
-Gilbert
-Gmund

PRINTERS
Service Center (MSC)--large format, buttons, printing
Knaack's Advertising Svc (Menomonie)--laser engraver, vinyl cutting, screen printing etc > go up broadway, take a right by taco johns
UPS (Menomonie)--by Walmart/Quiznos
Fedex (Eau Claire)
Ambiant Vision Inks (Menomonie)--(715) 491.0238
-In Downsville: take any design and turn it into vinyl so you can transfer it to basically anything (such as the type they put on the student gallery glass)...ask Jeff in the Furlong Gallery for more info *pretty cheap*

Any questions let us know! =)

Cenex Co-op seeking Logo

"Create the Co-op Logo" Contest
Are you artistically inclined?
Could you use $1000.00 in pocket change (or to pay bills)?
Enter the "Create the Co-op Logo" contest!

Here's a hint - our main color is red..... something that matches perhaps?

http://www.menomoniecenex.com/

We will pay...

• Winner: $1000
• 2nd Prize: $100
• 3rd Prize: $50

Contest Rules:

• Logo can be created with any readily copied media, digital or otherwise.
• In exchange for the winning prize money, the co-op will obtain and retain all legal rights to the logo.
• Artist will permit small changes in the logo to make it more user friendly and flexible for various media.
• Artist will use the name Cedar Country Co-op.
• Logo should be fairly simple and easy to recognize.
• Logo may reflect regional geography, history, community, cooperative values, customer service, etc.
• All entries due by November 1, 2009.

Submit hardcopy to:
Attn: Paul, Menomonie Co-op
PO Box 438, Menomonie, WI 54751

or drop off at one our locations in a sealed envelope.
or email to address below in PDF or JPEG format
Questions? Email pdiemert@menomoniecenex.com

St. Paul Art Crawl

If you haven't experienced the St. Paul Art Crawl here is your chance!
Hundreds of artists of all different types of media open their studios/living spaces to the public to share and sell their work. There are tons of great people to meet and get inspired by. The website has a map which tells you which artist studios are participating. 

Friday, Oct. 9, 6-10pm
Saturday, Oct. 10, 12-8
Sunday, Oct 11, 12-5

University Recreation Graphic Designer

Just a follow up to the post: University Recreation seeking Graphic Designer - Juniors you should really apply! Not only will it be a little extra cash in your pocket but it's a phenomenal way to build your portfolio.


Staci Paul,  a graphic design senior and AIGA member, currently works for the University designing recreation posters.
Below are just some of her pieces.
Also check out her website, flickr, and blog
 

Click Each image to enlarge for more details =] It should be a super fun time! If you prefer to send a check for registration there are paper forms located on the Graphic Design Bulletin Board in Applied Arts next to room 124.

The bus will be stopping in Menomonie to pick everyone up! Email us if you're going! We'll try to help you save money by letting you know other people you can room with!

Check out cool things & what people have done there including some of us! Hamilton Wood Type Museum

Stimulatte

Stimulatte!
with Katie and Nate from Eighthourday!

WHEN:
Thursday, October 22nd
6:30pm-8:00pm

WHERE:
Eighthourday's Studio
715 North Washington Ave
Suite 210 {SoHo Lofts}
Minneapolis, MN

WHAT:
This is a meet-up event for graphic design students from various schools around Minnesota and Wisconsin. In a fun, laid-back setting, students can mix and mingle with other students. The event has no schedule or agenda; just show up to socialize!

WHO:
All AIGA student members are invited to this event.
We usually invite a professional guest to join us; this time, Katie and Nate from Eighthourday have asked to host Stimulatte at their studio.
Directors of Education, Seth Johnson and Kolean Pitner, will also make appearances!

OTHER INFORMATION:
* For drinks, Java J’s is located right next door. It serves coffee and beer. Plan on eating dinner before.
* There is street parking available. I believe the meters are monitored until 6pm, but bring quarters just in case.

Please visit Eighthourday's website: http://eighthourday.com/

Let other people know if you're coming!:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=163259853456

AIGA Meeting 10.6.09

Don't forget we have a meeting tonight!

Tonight we will be going over some tools in Photoshop and learn more about photo editing.

AA 125 @ 5:45

 tutorial from Lunacore Photoshop Training

University Recreation seeking Graphic Designer

Please speak to Timothy Mertz if you are interested in the following job opportunity (this was sent out to all graphic designers through their email, if you did not get the email ask one of us)

University Recreation is looking to hire the best graphic designers on campus. There is a current opening for this fall semester, and there will be another opening for the Spring semester. University Recreation commonly produces posters, registration forms, videos, website design, t-shirts and special event promotions across campus. Our design office has excellent equipment and the experience is representative of real-world experience. We are looking for fun, dynamic and high energy designers familiar with the field of sports & recreation.
I am looking for students that are Junior status or above and proficient in at least 3 the following:
· In Design
· Photoshop
· Illustrator
· Adobe applications
· Photography

Daily Drop Cap : Jessica Hische

 
One of my favorite typographers is Jessica Hische - I blogged about here on her months ago but if you missed that post click here.

The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.

Check out her other work - everything is just lovely!