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AIGA Portland Presents
Socio12
Thursday, June 17, 2004
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Vault Martini
226 NW 12th, Portland
AIGA members free, non-members $10
R.S.V.P. to rsvp@portland.aiga.org
Sponsored by StoraEnso
Spend an evening with Portland's design community at Socio12, AIGA Portland's annual membership party. First drink is on the house, courtesy of our sponsor StoraEnso. Meet the incoming and continuing board members. Connect with your fellow members or learn more about AIGA. Sign up for upcoming AIGA Portland events and help set the agenda. Bring some business cards and make new friends. Enjoy martinis and appetizers in one of Portland's coolest venues. This will be the last event for the 2003-4 programming year; don't miss it!
Special thanks to Vault Martini for hosting us; to Pinball Publishing for postcard and ticket printing; to Mindy Fulton for promotion design; and to Jessica Bernert for event coordination.
Get Out the Vote 2004: The power of design in a democracy
In our presidential elections, barely half of those Americans who are eligible to vote actually make it to the polls. What are the reasons for voter apathy and lack of civic responsibility? And can design be used to help solve the problem?
The purpose of this Get Out the Vote campaign is to encourage voter turnout. We invite current AIGA members to create a poster that will be on display in the AIGA online gallery. This gallery will also allow visitors to download and print these posters. This gallery will available on July 1, 2004, at which time AIGA members will be able to upload posters to the site. Visit the national site for more information.
Roundtable Results
As part of a national initiative to make AIGA a more valuable organization, AIGA Portland held a roundtable in March to get suggestions and feedback from our members. To find out what this year's participants had to say about the role of AIGA on a personal, community and national level, download the PDF available at the bottom of our web site home page. We are always looking for suggestions and input on how AIGA Portland can better contribute to our community. Contact us at info@aiga.portland.org.
Design Collaborative Competition Call for Entries
Deadline: July 16th, 2004
Extended Deadline (fee): July 30, 2004
http://www.pdxdesigncollaborative.com
Multi-disciplinary design competition featuring environments, objects, graphics and cross-discipline design, with an awards show to coincide with the Design Festival in October.
AIGA Seattle Design Camp: Undergrowth
October 22-24, 2004
Sleeping Lady Lodge
Leavenworth, WA
Join AIGA Seattle in lovely Leavenworth, Washington as they discuss and celebrate the mysterious, fascinating aesthetic relationships that occur beneath the surface of collaboration, and how they result in compelling design. Confirmed speakers: Ellen Lupton, Jakob Trollbäck, The Clayton Brothers, Werner Design Werks and Yves Béhar. Register online today, this event will sell out.
AIGA Portland Community Bulletin
Visit our community events page and learn about local events of interest to the design community. AIGA Portland does not sponsor these events, but as your trusty hub for information on the design profession, we thought you ought to know about these things. If you have an event that you would like to have posted please contact events@portland.aiga.org. The programming chair evaluates all requests against our AIGA mission and if appropriate we will post the event to this section.
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Design:Business, May 2004
Each month, professional and associate members receive Design:Business, containing articles on the practical issues of running a design practice. This month's topic:
Proposals
Most design firms perform services for clients on the basis of a written proposal. When signed by both parties, the proposal becomes a binding contract. An appropriate set of terms and conditions should be included in order to avoid confusion about the legal and financial aspects of the relationship. This article offers practical advice on the process of preparing a proposal and it discusses some of the important issues to be addressed in the "fine print."
Members can find the full text to this article and past archives online.
Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference
AIGA's sixth biennial business and design conference is scheduled for October 1-3 in New York. "Gain" will demonstrate the value of designing as a strategic process that adds substantial value to business and organizations. Influential designers and visionary business leaders will describe how they have initiated fundamental change in their organizations, their industries, their product mix and their bottom line by making design part of their culture. Presentations will provide both designer and corporate views on the process and consequence of value created through fostering new knowledge, generating better ideas, cooperation, increased goodwill, effective problem solving, collaboration, community vitality, and, of course, beauty, effectiveness and ROI.
Register now! This conference is in the Equitable Center, which seats fewer than normally attend our business conferences, so seating will fill up early. Visit www.aiga.org/gain_conference_2004 for details.
A B O U TA I G A
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The purpose of AIGA is to further excellence in communication design as a broadly defined discipline, strategic tool for business, and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis, and research and advance education and ethical practice.
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S P O N S O R S
Without the support of these fine companies, AIGA Portland would not be able to present so many wonderful events and programs to the Portland design community. Support companies that support AIGA!
Current Sponsors:
International Paper
StoraEnso
West Coast Paper
AlphaGraphics
Appleton Coated
B&B Print Source
Fox River/Gilbert Papers
Fraser Papers
Lithtex
Paramount Graphics
Pinball Publishing
Premier Press
Print Graphics
Spicers Papers
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Interim President, Kim Malek
Treasurer, Chris North
Secretary, Marri-Beth Serritella
Membership, Amy Chan
A full listing of the AIGA Portland Board of Directors and contact information is available online.
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