Welcome to our new enewsletter, redesigned by creative director Ilana Greenberg to be easier on the eyes and to provide more information for tens of thousands of our readers between editions of Graphic Design USA magazine and postings on www.gdusa.com.
Bill Bernbach, founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach, once stated: "All of us who professionally use mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can lift it to a high level." I saw this quote while at the Art Directors Club in New York for it's inspired and inspiring Designism event. Leading personages explored how creatives can use their talents for social change and betterment. For more, see the upcoming October issue of Graphic Design USA. Meanwhile, thumbs up to the likes of Milton Glaser, George Lois, Jessica Helfand and Stephen Heller for uplifting us with examples and commentary on graphic design for the public good, and to Executive Director Myrna Davis and Brian Collins of Oglivy's Brand Innovation Group for developing the idea. Thumbs down to panelist James Victore, self-cast in the all-too-familiar role of angry artiste, a self-declared anti-authorian, who chose to work out some daddy issues by vulgarizing the event with a hateful (expletive deleted) childish (expletive deleted) tirade against (expletive deleted) President Bush. I get it that George Bush makes alot of people crazy, everyone gets it. But here's a note to wannabe presenters at design events: Do not confuse alienation or rage at authority with having an actual insight worth sharing with the audience or the world, even if popping off gets a cheap laugh. It is bad for your profession, for yourself, and for the social fabric. Bill Bernbach clearly understood that.
New York NY: The Design Department of The Port Authority of NY & NJ created a moving fifth anniversary memorial program honoring employees killed on 9/11 and providing a keepsake for family members and survivors. Senior Designer Candace Bexell-Oukacine writes that the team included a poem written by Christine Ferer Levin, whose husband, Neil Levin, the Port Authority's Executive Director, was killed in the attack.
Chicago IL: Veteran brand and package designer Sam J. Ciulla is the new CEO and executive creative director of 40-year old MLR Design in Chicago. He had been a managing director and chief creative officer at the LAGA design consultancy, and has served many Fortune 500 clients. The firm is renamed Ciulla/MLR. www.mlrdesign.com
New York NY:Janet Froehlich, Issey Miyake, Nancy Rice, Bert Stern, Art Spiegelman and Nicholas Negroponte are the new inductees into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. The selection panel was headed by Ann Harakawa, partner in 212 Design, and included the likes of George Lois, Tony Palladino, Paul Davis, Eileen Hedy Schultz, Gael Towey and Cheryl Heller. The gala is October 12. www.adcglobal.org
Columbus OH: Ten United, one of the country's largest independent ad agencies, appoints Michael Bednar as chief creative officer. He leads a 50+ creative team and served in top creative management at the Cramer-Krassalt agency for nearly two decades. www.tenunited.com
Portland OR: Jeff Fisher of Jeff Fisher LogoMotives has been named to the magazine advisory board of the UCDA (University & College Designers Association). He has worked on graphic design projects for Williamette University, University of Oregon, George Fox University, Reed College and others. www.jfisherlogomotives.com
Gift cards will be a top gift choice this coming holiday season. Patricia Pao of Pao Principle in New York says that in this highly personalized era, more and more gift recipients want to choose their own gift, and many givers are happy to oblige since it is a time saving and a convenience.
Touring events are hot. Marketers are hitting the road to forge an emotional bond with consumers. An example is Ocean Spray, which has set up replicas of cranberry bogs at popular tourist sites. Others include the Planters Nut Mobile and the Green Truck Tour of Windstream Communications.
Emaciated fashion models are under attack. First Madrid banned superthin models, and now a British cabinet minister has proposed the same thing for shows in London. The measure is Body Mass Index, a height to weight ratio. The movement is expected to pick up speed, even faster than models do.
Speaking of fashion, Pantone is predicting the Top 10 ready-to-wear colors for Spring, featuring a greater variety of neutrals and several bright new hues. According to color expert Leatrice Eiseman, runways "will radiate with surprising neutrals and innovative splashes of corals, yellows and purples." See the choices at www.pantone.com/spring2007
October 6-8: AIGA Minnesota Design Camp 2006 at Grand View Lodge in
Nisswa,
www.aigaminn.org/designcamp
October 9-11: Sarasota International Design Summit sponsored by the
Ringling School of Art & Design at Ritz Carlton Sarasota in Florida,
www.sarasotadesignsummit.com
October 11: Opening of Poster Works of Rocco Piscatello at FIT in Manhattan, through November 16, 212.502.4734
October 14: Design In The Fast Lane, lessons in design business
survival with Michael Osborne at the Universities Center at Dallas,
ditfl.aigadfw.org or 212.915.1900
October 25: AIGA Design Legends Gala on October 25 at Chelsea Piers
in New York,
www.aiga.org/designlegendsgala
October 26-28: GAIN Business and Design Conference, at Roosevelt
Hotel in Manhattan,
www.gainconference.aiga.org
November 2: Boston Print Buyers Fall Conference at Westford Regency Inn in Westford, Contact: mdana@bostonprintbuyers.com
November 8: PDXpo, The Portland Design Expo at the Portland Center
for Performing Arts, creative services for Oregon designers,
info@portland.aiga.org
November 16: InSource, the corporate inhouse association, hosts Jeni
Herberger on The Business of In-House Design at Wyeth in Madison NJ,
www.in-source.org
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