AIGA Philly Night Caps, Ep. 4: “Education & Experience”
with Christine Fischer and Ray Nichols
June 23, 2015 / By aigaphiladelphia
Season 2 welcomes esteemed guests Christine Fischer and Ray Nichols to discuss what is more valuable — Education or Experience? If you are debating on that graduate degree, or sifting through piles of resumes, this episode is for you.
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AIGA Philly Night Caps, EP. 3 “Self-Promo Tactics”
with Hilary Sedgwick, Britt Miller and Mario Zucca
June 26, 2014 / By aigaphiladelphia
In this episode we get attacked by aliens and discuss Self-Promotion tactics, Dribbble, Society6, chocolate brands, and other cool ways to promote your self as a creative.
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AIGA Philly Night Caps, Ep. 2 “Full-time to Freelance”
with Steve DeCusatis, Saul Rosenbaum and Jason Marziani
June 11, 2014 / By aigaphiladelphia
Looking to take the leap from working for the man to being the man? Learn how others successfully took the leap, and how they kept going years later.
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AIGA Philly Night Caps, Ep. 1 “How I Became a Creative Director”
with Jason Brantly and Bill Starkey
May 2, 2014 / By aigaphiladelphia
AIGA Philly Night Caps is a seasonal podcast/talk-show series celebrating the creativity and diversity of Philadelphia and recorded live at United by Blue coffeehouse in Old City. Each episode, host Mikey Ilagan, Editor-In-Chief at Geekadelphia, moderates a Q&A on the ins-and-outs of the design industry with regional creative leaders. Attendees are invited to participate. No prior experience or first-hand knowledge necessary. There are no dumb questions.
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The Yes Men
AIGA Philadelphia invited public performance activists and artists The Yes Men to discuss design, guerrilla anti-consumerism, and the power of the self-initiated project. The Yes Men have built a vocation addressing various social issues by impersonating specific organizations in a process that they like to call “Identity Correction.” The group designs websites and materials so convincingly mimicking their targets’ brands that they are invited to interviews, conferences, meetings, and summits to represent said entities. Since the late 1990′s, the group has carried out many pranks and projects, impersonating the World Trade Organization, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, The United States Chamber of Commerce, and this year, Shell, amongst others.
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Stick and Move
In a casual 50 minute interview, AIGA Philly and Stick and Move Duke it out!
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Big Spaceship: Michael Lebowitz
In this interview, Michael Lebowitz talks about his journey from being a film student to becoming the head of a digital creative agency, and the culture that fuels Big Spaceship’s success.
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Matteo Bologna and Roberto De VicQ Cumptich
In this interview, Matteo Bologna and Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich describe how they used Victorian-styled typefaces and quirky graphic elements to set the mood for Stephen Starr’s French brasserie, Parc.
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Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut discusses design’s rising status.
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Debbie Millman
AIGA President Debbie Millman talks with AIGA Philly about the need for designers to embrace technology, and how the AIGA can adapt to changes in the field through an active membership.
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Steven Heller
Steven Heller, Co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at The School of Visual Arts, speaks with AIGA Philly on the outpouring of posters for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Heller also compares today’s political graphics to the campaign posters of a previous generation, and the relationship between democracy and design.
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Liz Danzico and Jason Santa Maria
Liz Danzico and Jason Santa Maria discuss issues related to designers making the transition from print to digital, at AIGA Philadelphia’s first Pencil to Pixel, Spring 2010.
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Ellen Lupton
Liz Danzico and Jason Santa Maria discuss issues related to designers making the transition from print to digital, at AIGA Philadelphia’s first Pencil to Pixel, Spring 2010.
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Melissa McFeeters
For the past few years I’ve been drooling over the stunning illustrations in Philly’s premiere green pub, Grid Magazine. I recently had a chance to speak with the charming talent behind these images, Melissa McFeeters. Here, McFeeters discusses how her creative development has been nurtured by a peculiar blend of craft shows, commitment-phobia, and the wise words of N.P.R.’s Ira Glass.
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Martial Arts and Graphic Design
Some things just go together. Antony and Cleopatra, peanut butter and jelly, Franklin Gothic and Clarendon—but how about Martial Arts and Graphic Design? In this interview, Joel LeVan, a martial arts instructor, photographer, and Design Strategist bridges the gap between these seemingly unrelated disciplines.
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Mikey Burton
In this interview, Ohio-born Mikey Burton speaks with AIGA’s Craig Schlanser about finding creative inspiration in the Rust Belt, how he manages tight deadlines, and what his goals are for the future.
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Heart Work : Hard Work Video
Interview by Nick Prestileo, Video by Bob Sweeny, Film Partner: bobsweeney.tumblr.com or twitter.com/sweeney_bob
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Q+A with Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is an activist, author of a dozen books, founder of the far-reaching environmental grassroots campaign 350.org, and over the last couple of years has led the Tar Sands Action to defeat the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have carried 700,000 barrels of “dirty” tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico daily, had it been completed. He was the first popular writer to alert the world to the environmental crisis, in 1989’s The End of Nature. He has been called “the planet’s best green journalist” by Time Magazine, holds a dozen honorary degrees, was a past Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellow, and last year was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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