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Breakout sessions are held on Friday
and Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in smaller rooms, giving attendees the
opportunity to engage in dialogue with the speakers and participate
in heated discussions. Choose one session. Sessions are available
on a first-come, first-serve basis and space is limited. Please
have a second and third choice ready in case your preferred session
is full.
Def: Magazine, N., A Space in which Explosives
are Stored
Moderated by Chris Dixon
Featuring Fernando Gutierrez and Luke
Hayman
The magazine format can serve as a potent vehicle to critique and
comment on society. This session presents the work of two contemporary
art directors, selected for their original and powerful approach
to the content of their respective publications—Brill's
Content (Hayman) and Colors (Gutierrez). Even though
their audiences and distribution differ, each magazine successfully
merges editorial content and design to create a unique visual voice
that is welcome in the homogeneity of today's publishing landscape.
Massinform: Information Design for Mass Audiences
Moderated by Terry Irwin
Featuring Burkey Belser and Julia
Whitney
Take a look at two diverse projects that share the common objective
of informing large groups of users. Burkey Belser's Presidential
Award-winning Nutrition Facts labeling system that appears on more
than 6.5 billion products nationwide and WGBH design group's communications
solutions for the hearing and sight-impaired employed across a wide
variety of media including television and motion pictures.
What Else Can Go Wrong?
Moderated by Michael Bierut
Featuring Dana Arnett, Kali Nakitas and
Terry Swack
Join Michael Bierut and company as they discuss how thoughtful graphic
designers can do satisfying, fulfilling work in times of worldwide
turmoil and economic uncertainty. Learn practical tactics for dealing
with reduced budgets and ruthless competition. Add your own testimony
to those of your fellow designers. Or just complain; it feels great!
Models for Teaching and Learning
Featuring Frank Baseman, Leslie
Becker, Marcia Lausen, Elizabeth
Resnick and Donna Stanton
Using Writing in Graphic Design
By showing examples of student work, this presentation will demonstrate
the importance of verbal communication and how students have used
writing as an integral part of their graphic design projects.
The Resume as Experience Map
Exercises in experience mapping, research on typographic history
and usage, and readings on information design are utilized in the
process of developing a personal yet professional map of experience.
Encouraging Our Students to Use Their "Voices"
Three sequential curriculum-based assignments, influenced by literacy
and human rights initiatives and the "First Things First Manifesto,"
activate design students to contribute to culture in more meaningful
ways.
Mental Whiplash: The Subjects of Our Affection
How can graphic design educators teach their students responsible
representation?
Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Design
Learning
What should design educators do to create new interdisciplinary
models for learning in the studio, in projects and in collaboration
with other subjects? Non-BFA Graphic Design
Curricula
An examination of graphic design education in the context of current
pedagogy and a proposal for curricula that work in context with
liberal arts educational philosophies of Bachelor of Arts Degrees,
Associate Degrees and Certificate Programs in graphic design.
Intervention: Design and Politics/Politics and
Design
Moderated by Steve Heller
Featuring Robbie Conal, Siân
Cook and Teal Triggs of Women's
Design + Research Unit
Action and reaction by artists and designers to political and social
concerns has a long, and sometimes perilous history. This session
will survey the past and address the role of critical and polemical
art and design in the wake of 9/11. Steven Heller will provide an
overview about how graphic design is sometimes a means of critiquing
folly while other times perpetuating it. Nonetheless, the role of
the designer as political and social commentator (and icon-maker)
is essential to the health of a loyal opposition. In Robbie Conal's
"Guerrilla Etiquette: Art Attacks, Culture War Stories: A "Do-It-Yourself"
Guide, he talks about his fifteen years of midnight Art Attacks;
hundreds of images of ugly old white men in suits and ties (and
several scary women); clandestine conversations with large men in
dark uniforms with shiny accessories and other things that go bump
in the night; skirmishes with Jesse Helms; Rudy Giuliani's "Brown
Shirts;" televangelist pictorial pie throwing. (Plus a special
bonus: Hellcats of L.A. and the lowdown on a secret late night "black
op" in D.C.) And Women's Design + Research Unit's Siân
Cook and Teal Triggs discuss in "Actions Speak Louder Than
Words," Britains long-established reputation as a hotbed for
grass-roots political activity and tradition of protest graphics.
WD+RU will further examine the graphic language of political protest
in Britain, including the recent May Day celebrations, women's rights
and AIDS awareness campaigns plus other contemporary forms of DIY
protest. They ask: Why brand political protests? Does a concern
for aesthetics get in the way of the message? And, more importantly,
does the designer even warrant a role in sociopolitical communication?
Grub First, Then Ethics: Business Ethics and the Design Profession
Moderated by Judy Kirpich
Featuring Sam Shelton and Ann
Willoughby
Speculative work. Pro bono work. Smart business decision or opportunism?
Where do ethical lines blur? Should allegiance to professional standards
supercede personal business decisions? These are issues that a diverse
panel will discuss using real case studies to illustrate how they
dealt with the many shades of gray in business practice.
Save Me: Plazm Workshop
Featuring Joshua Berger, Sarah
Dougher and Pete McCracken of
Plazm
Plazm will present examples of the work they have done in pro-bono
and commercial spheres and then lead a workshop that will address
the day-to-day practices of activist designers. How does a designer
fit into the larger community? How do designers create community?
How can designers achieve balance in their professional lives between
pro-bono and commercial work? Come to this session to talk about
the kinds of projects you already do, share strategies and learn
new tools and approaches.
Start Something: Worldstudio Workshop
Featuring Mark Randall
In this participatory session, you will learn how to use your creative
talents to tackle the social, political or environmental issues
that concern you most. Take simple steps to create powerful solutions
and learn to realize your ideas through action. This session outlines
a framework from which you can develop your own socially oriented
projects from concept to conclusion.
Being Heard: Designing Sound and Listening to Design
Moderated by Ben Rubin
Featuring Tina Blaine, Gideon D'Arcangelo,
Golan Levin, George Lewis, and
Beth Urdang
Immersive and hot, sound is the medium that is best able to capture
the physical imprint of the human voice. Sound can transmit not
only content and message, but also layers of identity, emotion and
evidence of a specific place and time. Locating the field of sound
design at the nexus of music, documentary, technology, acoustics
and perceptual science, this session will explore ways of leveraging
the communicative power of sound from diverse perspectives.
Graphic Attack: The Polemics of Pictures
Moderated by Nicholas Blechman
Featuring Steve Brodner, Ward
Sutton and Seth Tobocman
Most illustrators take a passive role in the articles they illustrate,
accommodating the point of view of the author, while others bravely
assert their own opinion. In the hands of veteran satirist Stephen
Brodner, young blood Ward Sutton and radical comic artist Seth Tobocman,
the pen becomes a sword, as they use their work to launch attacks
on everything from free trade to environmental decay. These aren't
benign illustrators in the Norman Rockwell tradition of pretty paintings,
but graphic warriors of unswerving conviction.
Emerging Voices
Moderated by Louise Sandhaus and Peter
Bergeron
Featuring Michael Beebe, Dakota
Brown, Lisa Cahoon,
Bethany Koby, Jeff Miller, Sun
Min Lee and Jonathan Santos
A breakout session featuring the fresh voices of designers newly
emerged from school. Some of the AIGA student medallion winners
of 2000 will share their experiences about life beyond campus walls
now that they're out working in the real world. Hear about the trials
and tribulations of launching careers and check out their great
work.
News from the Future
Moderated by Peter Hall
Featuring Hal Aronow-Theil,
Steve Duenes and Mario
Garcia
Our means of getting daily news have transformed and multiplied
with the arrival of new media technologies. Faced with the resulting
information onslaught, we increasingly seek news formats that are
quickly digested and often predominantly visual. Compared with the
text-heavy formats of the early 20th century, the 21st century news
menu–websites, zipper signs, TV crawls, information graphics
and images upon images–is heavily dependent on the skills of
graphic designers to communicate effectively. Three panelists–an
esteemed designer of over 400 newspapers, a broadcast graphics designer
from ABC News and an information graphics designer from the New
York Times–discuss the importance of existing news design
hierarchies, current visualization technologies and the possibilities
for the future.
Practical Matters: Designing History and Criticism
Moderated by Joanne Leigh George
Featuring Peter Bil'ak, Stuart
Bailey
In the last 18 years, much attention has been paid to graphic design
history and criticism—why each is important, how they should
be written, what methodologies should be adopted, who is qualified
to write them and how each should be taught. What has been too often
overlooked are the practical aspects of historical and critical
enquiry. What processes are involved? What institutions and organizations
own graphic design collections? Join this international medley of
historians and critics as they share their stories of the unique
challenges and rewards of practicing graphic design history and
criticism.
Design Authorship and Contemporary Book Design
Moderated by Cheryl Towler Weese
Featuring Jonathan
Barnbrook, COMA and J.
Abbott Miller
How can you design a covetable artifact that still works as a functional
tool? How do you preserve the integrity of content while allowing
your voice to be heard? Where does the concept of design authorship
figure in the complex collaborative interdependency between author,
publisher and designers(s)? Join these innovative book designers
for a soul-searching look at the conflicting demands of contemporary
book design.
Designing the Voter's Experience: AIGA Election Reform Initiatives
Featuring Sylvia Harris,
Marcia Lausen, Susan Roth and
Bob Zeni
The 2000 election was a wake-up call for participatory democracy
that clearly demonstrated a need and a role for designers in the
election reform process. Whats happened in the past year? In this
session, the AIGA Voting Design Taskforce and the AIGA Chicago chapter
will present initiatives to improve the election process through
design.
Mouthing Off
Featuring members of Class Action
In this workshop, members of Class Action will present a cross-section
of its work and discuss its process, which includes studying and
responding to social events and conditions, creating form and content
symbiotically, considering specific audiences, finding venues and
resources, negotiating and collaborating within a collective and
situating this work within individual practices as professional
graphic designers and teachers.
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