Spring Break: Austin, Texas 2011

Good food, good times, good memories. We were in Austin for 4 days, 3 nights, and we were just in time for SXSW. We were able to hit flatstock 2011 while we were there, and it was fantastic. We toured at the Livestrong headquaters, Pentagram's Austin branch, and Sanders/Wingo. It was a very inspiring trip. You should be able to view more photos by visiting the album I made on facebook.

Indicia Studio Tour 3-10

Chapter Meeting

AIGA Meeting

- A7 on the horizon

- entry forms are going up online next week

- it's a good way to get work out there and meet professionals

- officers can deliver the work

- submit A LOT of projects, never know what the judges want

- About $10 per project entry

- This year's judges will be online

- Interview Chain

- starting this weekend

- starting two or three at a time

- basic, no pressure interview

- Lance and Kelsey volunteer to kick us off

- post feedback to blog or e-mail 

- ask questions you want based on who you're talking to

- remember MUST break out of grade level

Studio Tour

- 360 Arch. was useful, nice space, tour guide loved what he did, they did lots of stadium design, they also do signage for the buildings, they think about how fans or visitors interact with their structures

- Up next it Indica? Indisha? It's on the 10th, Thursday at 3:00 pm, be at studio at 2:30 - 2:45

Wednesday Night Design Chat

- wasn't online last Wednesday?

- school firewall may not allow the stream through 

- at 8 pm on Wednesdays

General AIGA Thoughts?

- make it to the lectures the judges for A7 give. they're insightful. 

- Jamie has previously hosted a roundtable in the past, but you must propose to get in, space is limited

- DIY by Design, first friday at Liquid 9, people create a custom poster. 

- Revinylize, Marty is the contact person. She's looking for volunteers for this weekend. Sunday at the KCI VML location. Starts at 1 pm. Bring industrial scissors if you  have them. If you want to carpool, meet to leave at 12:30. 

360 Studio Tour

Studio Tour Monday!

Hey all, we're meeting up at 2:30p in the design gallery on Monday the 28th in order to carpool / caravan to our studio tour with 360 Architecture! Be there or be square!

Don't forget to RSVP on our facebook page :)

Cheers,
Abigail

AIGA: Behance Workshop Night (2-21)

Luke was kind enough to be our demonstrator this evening at the AIGA Online Portfolio Night. We got a bunch of people signed up on behance.net and had some fun while we did it!

Austin Studios: Potential Studio Tours

The ones in BOLD/underlined are tours that can be promised thus far.

McGarrah Jessee:
http://www.mc-j.com/#

Decoder Ring:
http://www.thedecoderring.com/

Studio Pryor and Gehring Co:
http://www.pryorgehring.com/

Envision Creative group:
http://www.envision-creative.com/

GSDM:
http://www.gsdm.com/

Sanders Wingo:
http://www.sanderswingo.com/people/

MilkShake:
http://www.milkshakemedia.com/

Dog Dive Creative:
http://www.dogdivecreative.com/work/

Pentagram:
http://pentagram.com/en/new/austin/

Creative Suitcase:
http://www.creativesuitcase.com/

Frog Design:
http://www.frogdesign.com/contact/austin.html

Ok Paper:
http://okpaper.com/