As we try to cope with pandemics, politics and protests, our 57th Design Annual suggests that out of the crucible we can expect an even more influential graphic design profession to emerge.
Category: events
Van Jones Keynote’s Diversity Conference
CNN host and politcal commentator Van Jones is the keynote speaker at The One Club’s Global ‘Where Are All The Black People’ Diversity Conference taking place September 22-24.
Poster House Reopens!
Poster House, the nation’s only museum dedicated to the global history of posters, has recently reopened.
AIGA Unidos Hispanic Heritage Talks
Under the AIGA Unidos umbrella, and throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, Latinx and Hispanic Creatives are sharing their culture, contributions and best practices to move design forward.
AIGA Commemorates 19th Amendment Centennial
AIGA campaigns seek to increase voter engagement and commemorate the 100th anniversary of voting rights for women.
HOW Design Live (Re)set For October
New dates for HOW Design Live have been set. It’s October 26-29 in Atlanta.
LogoLounge Book 12 Call For Entry
Don’t miss the chance for unlimited submissions to the graphic design industry’s most respected logo competition.
Largest Paper Fashion Show Set For Denver
The One Club for Creativity Denver’s 16th Annual Paper Fashion Show, which features extravagant fashions and ensembles made by local designers, is set for April 30.
The One Club Partners With Spotify For Portfolio Night
The One Club for Creativity has announced a partnership with Spotify to serve as exclusive sponsor of the club’s 2020 Portfolio Night All-Stars program.
Sappi Ideas That Matter Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Sappi North America, Inc. has named 2019 recipients of its annual Ideas that Matter grant program. Celebrating its 20th year, the program provides funding to support the production and distribution of social impact print projects with integrated campaigns.
AIGA CT Launches Healthcare4ALL Design For Democracy Initiative
AIGA Connecticut Design for Democracy has launched an initiative asking creatives to submit their designs on why all Americans should receive healthcare.
PRINT 19 Names Wired’s Nick Thompson As Keynoter
PRINT® 19, slated for October 3-5 at Chicago’s McCormick Place North. Registration is now open for the industry’s most comprehensive and longest running event, and Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of Wired, will set the tone with a keynote address.
MAD Explores Visual Culture of Punk With Assist From Garrett and Saville
Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 is on exhibit through August at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. It originated at the Cranbrook Art Museum and features promotional graphics by Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville.
Paper Fashion Show Set For Denver
The ONE Club for Creativity Denver’s 15th Annual Paper Fashion Show, which features extravagant fashions and ensembles made by local designers, will be held on Friday, April 12 in Aurora CO. Papers are donated by Neenah, Mohawk, CTI Paper USA and more.
Lisa Strausfeld At MICA On March 11-12
Lisa Strausfield will be at MICA for two days in March as the Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence, starting with a public lecture on March 11 at 7 pm.
Jan Tschichold’s Influence Explored At Bard Graduate Center
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars is a Bard Graduate Center Focus Project on view now through July 7.
Gordon Kaye: The More Things Change…
Publisher Gordon Kaye on GDUSA’s 2019 People To Watch. And why, in this dumb and divisive time, he is feeling a bit better about where we are and where we are going.
Emotional Kindertransport Exhibition By C&G Partners
C&G Partners designed this exhibit, which illuminates the story of the effort to bring thousands of Jewish children from Nazi Germany to Great Britain between 1938 and 1939.
Red Hot Technologies Heat Up PRINT® 18
PRINT 18® is celebrating its inaugural Red Hot Technology Program recognizing game-changing print and design technologies. The tradeshow is set for September 30 – October 2 in Chicago.
Trailblazing Goldsholl Design Firm On Exhibit In Chicago
Northwestern University’s Block Museum examines the trailblazing Goldsholl husband and wife design team who had great influence on mid-20th Century advertising and design.
SVA Showcases the Best of Chinese Design
SVA presents Graphic Design in China, a juried biennial that aims to showcase the growth of Chinese graphic design to an international audience.
WE DISSENT Exhibit of Feminist Design Set For Cooper Union
A new exhibition at Cooper Union in New York City offers a timely reconsideration the women’s movement through graphic design and diverse artifacts.
PRINT® 18 Is All About Learning
For creative and marketing professionals, PRINT 18 promises fresh ideas for ‘wow’ print marketing, impactful digital techniques, seminars and hands-on design labes, and a better understanding of the fusion of digital and print technologies. Visionary Seth Godin, above, delivers the keynote.
C&G Partners Designs ‘Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11’
The emotion of the crowd is the inspiration for C&G Partners’ design of “Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11,” a new special exhibition opening soon at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
In Memoriam: Susan Jackson Keig (1918-2018)
Susan Jackson Keig, an internationally noted graphic designer and art director for over seven decades, has died. She was active to the age of one hundred.
Designing To The MAX With Tad Carpenter
Tad Carpenter, designer illustrator, author and educator, is returning to the Adobe MAX Conference 2018 for the third time as a speaker this year. Registration for the event is now open.
AIGA To Honor Five Medalists and Google
2018 AIGA medals go to Susan Kare, Arem Duplessis, Victor Moscono, Karin Fong and Aaron Douglas at this year’s gala while Google is Corporate Leader.
Marketing and Publishing Guru Seth Godin To Keynote At PRINT 18
PRINT 18 will take place September 30 – October 2 at McCormick Place in Chicago, and the keynote session with Seth Godin is included with registration.
Margo Chase’s Creative Drive On Exhibit at Texas A&M
Margo Chase: Chasing the Bright Light runs from March 23 through May 2 in Dallas; the exhibit celebrates her drive and passion to create.
Designing Playful Cities Exhibit Opens At MODA
Designing Playful Cities opens at the Museum of Design Atlanta and makes a strong case for designing for play into urban environments.
HOW Design Live Embraces Convergence of Design and Marketing
Register now using Promo Code GDUSAWEB for $100 off HOW Design Live. And learn more about the related HOW Marketing Live conference.
AMPL!FY Partners Designers With Social Justice Non-Profits
Worldstudio and Make Art with Purpose have launched AMPL!FY, a public art and design initiative that partners designers with social justice organizations to create thought-provoking posters.
AIGA/NY Invites You To Meet The Moderns
Tom Geismar, George Lois and Rudi Wolff will address the impact of Modernism on American Graphic Design and usher in a new book on the subject by Steven Heller and Greg D’Onofrio.
Strathmore Exhibit Tracks Evolution of American Graphic Design
A new exhibit of Strathmore Archive, sponsored by Mohawk, tracks the role of paper in the evolution of American graphic design.
Visual Connections Returns to NYC on October 25
Visual Connections returns to NYC on October 25 to stage another free discovery, networking and education event for graphic designers and other art and photography buyers. GDUSA readers can register for free.
REACH Conference Focuses On Successful Creative Leadership
The organizers of How Design Live bring you REACH, a new conference about being a successful creative leader in an era that demands it.
Debbie Millman Curates Text Me Exhibition At MODA
Museum of Design Atlanta is hosting Text Me, an exhibition about typography today curated by Debbie Millman.
Frank Baseman Exhibition Combines Interests In Rebuses and Letterpress
Frank Baseman’s long term interests include letterpress printing and rebuses; these combine to produce a playful upcoming exhibition at Penn State University.
Hopscotch: A New Kind of Conference
Hopscotch Design was conceived by Matthew Muñoz and Jonathan Opp from New Kind to merge with the annual Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh NC. Here’s a report on the fourth edition.
Print 17 Announces 44 ‘Must See’ Technologies
PRINT 17, the most comprehensive graphic communications gathering in the Americas, announces its 2017 MUST SEE ’EMS. The show takes place Sept 10-14 at McCormick Place South in Chicago.