AIGA/NY Fresh Grad / Edu Talks 2017: June 8 & 9, 2017

Thursday, June 8 – Friday, June 9, 2017
@Parsons, The New School

AIGANY Fresh Grad / Edu Talks 2017 is a jam packed two-day series of events celebrating design education.

Fresh Grad: Showcase, a two-part (two-night) event featuring graduate students from local and regional MFA, MA and certificate programs, now in its 8th year. The Fresh Grad Showcase will be accompanied by two morning events, Fresh Jobs, meet reps from NY’s creative organizations and Fresh Ed is a small panel discussion focused on the state and future of design education. Come with questions, join the conversation, prepare to leave impressed and inspired!

Thursday, June 8 / 9:30-11:00AM

Fresh Jobs: Mini-Job Fair

Are you a design student or a newly minted graduate? Join us for AIGA/NY’s first mini-job fair! Come by for coffee and breakfast sandwiches and introduce yourself. Meet reps. from New York’s top creative organizations, companies, agencies and studios and learn about the advantages of working at their company. Ask what a typical day is like for their designers, find out about all the office perks and hear what their creative directors look for when they hire new talent. You will what is unique about each situation and why you might want to work for one or more of these companies.

Joe Marianek, E Roon Kang and Aaris Sherin will co-host.

Location:
Parsons School of Design
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Room I202
Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street

Thursday, June 8 / 6:30-8:30PM

Fresh Grad Students #01

On June 8th, students from some of the most respected schools in the country will gather at the Parsons auditorium. Each student has five minutes to dazzle the audience and each other with wonders from their graduate projects.

Students presenting from the following programs: SVA, Masters in Branding, SVA, MFA Interaction Design, Pratt, MFA Communications Design, Parsons, MFA Design & Technology, Parsons, MS Data Visualization, NYU, MPS in Interactive Telecommunications, Cooper, Certificate Type Design, SCAD, MFA Graphic Design

Joe Marianek, E Roon Kang and Aaris Sherin will co-host.

Location:
Parsons School of Design
Tishman Auditorium University Center
63 Fifth Avenue Room U100

Friday, June 9 / 9:30-11:00AM

Fresh Ed: Panel

This year Fresh Ed asks whether one still needs a degree in graphic design to become a professional designer. Our panelists will consider whether degree programs adequately prepare students for an ever changing industry which includes user interface design, creating content for social media, VR and other emerging platforms. We will examine what competencies design programs should teach and what role non-degree granting institutions play in the continuing education of 21st century designers. Educators, students and industry professionals are invited to join the conversation and explore the varied modes of content delivery and the theoretical underpinnings informing design education today.

Panel
Jason Fox: Professor, Chair, Graphic Design Savannah College of Art and Design
Keetra Dixon: Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design
Mark Addision Smith: Assistant Professor, Art Department, The City College of New York

Hosted by Joe Marianek, E Roon Kang and Aaris Sherin, moderated by David Frisco.

Location:
Parsons School of Design
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Room I202
Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street

Friday, June 9 / 6:30-8:30PM

Fresh Grad Students #02

On June 9th, in the second night of this two part series, students from some of the most respected schools in the country will gather at the Parsons auditorium. Each student has five minutes to dazzle the audience and each other with wonders from their graduate projects.

Students presenting from the following programs: RISD, MFA Graphic Design, Yale, MFA Graphic Design, Cranbrook, MFA 2D Design, MICA, MFA Graphic Design, VCFA, MFA Graphic Design, Parsons, MFA Transdisciplinary Design, SVA, D-crit, SVA, MFA Design

Joe Marianek, E Roon Kang and Aaris Sherin will co-host.

Location:
Parsons School of Design
Tishman Auditorium University Center
63 Fifth Avenue Room U100

Bloomsbury Publishing Sponsors Design Incubation Educators Awards

Design Incubation is excited to announce a partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing for the Design Incubation Educators Awards.

Bloomsbury publishes books on various design education topics from academic research on the history and theory of the discipline through introductory textbooks to practical guides and manuals.

Bloomsbury Press Release

Bloomsbury will be sponsoring the 2017 Design Incubation Educators Awards competition.

 

Screening of Documentary on Paula Sher at the TDC

Paula Scher: Designer as Educator,” a documentary narrated by Debbie Millman, directed by Claudine Eriksson.

Date: April 25, 2017
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St New York, NY 10018

Design Incubation Fellowship Redux: Fellows Get Published

Meaghan Barry, Assistant Professor at Oakland University and Aaron Ganci, Assistant Professor at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design, two of our 2016 Design Incubation Fellows have recently published in the journal Design and Culture.

Barry’s Statement of Practice interview with designer, performance artist, and Cranbrook Designer-in-Residence Elliot Earls explores the many facets of Earl’s practice and the evolution of his thinking about design, education and performance over the last several decades.

Ganci reviewed John McCarthy and Peter Wright’s text, Taking [A]part: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in Experience-Centered Design.

Barry and Ganci continued their writing projects with the support of Design Incubation’s Fellowship Director, Aaris Sherin, to craft these articles.

For more information on how Design Incubation supports design writing and publishing see the Fellowship page on the Design Incubation website. Applications for the 2018 program will be accepted June 1, 2017 – September 1, 2017.

Recap of Teaching Type: A Panel Conversation

http://www.alphabettes.org/takeaways-on-teaching-type/

Read Amy Papaelias’ delightful synopsis of the panel discussion on Teaching Typography. Amy is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at SUNY New Paltz and was one of the distinguished panelists at this past Saturday’s event at the Type Director’s Club.

 

CAA Conference 2018: Call for Design Submissions

http://www.collegeart.org/news/2017/02/27/conference-submissions-for-caa-2018/

College Art Association (CAA) is accepting design submissions for the 2018 Conference in Los Angeles.

Although the stated requirement is that submissions come from members, CAA considers all submissions carefully and is especially interested in including design topics.

Questions can be directed to David Howarth, Chair of the Committee On Design, and subcommittee chair of Conference Content, Bess Williamson.

Required Reading: A List Compiled by AIGA DEC & Design Observer

Here is a great list of must reads for anyone keeping up with design research and studies…

http://designobserver.com/feature/required-reading/39497

 

Type Thursday Interview With Liz Deluna and Mark Zurolo

Read the interview with Thomas Jockin of Type Thursday, Liz Deluna and Mark Zurolo.

View at Medium.com