Student Call for Entries

Communicate: An Exhibition of Michigan AIGA Student Groups
Western Michigan University is pleased to present an opportunity for you to participate in a fall 2008 design exhibition sponsored by the WMU AIGA Student Group.

This is a POSTCARD show. Pieces are to be created and mailed to WMU, where they will be exhibited in September. We will accept ONE composition per student. Read More

THEME
Communication

WHO
+ Graphic design students, AIGA membership is irrelevant

WHAT
+ 5” X 7” postcard, double-sided
+ Heavyweight material (Bristol, high stock paper, etc)
+ Any medium that is mail-able without packaging (3D, 2D, screen printing, photography, graphic form, drawing, etc.)

WHERE
+ Pieces will be exhibited in September 2008 in conjunction with the AIGA national exhibition 365. There will be a closing reception we encourage all participants to attend.

WHEN
+ DEADLINE for submissions: Postmarked by MARCH 31, 2008 to the following address:

Design Center
Gwen Frostic School of Art
Western Michigan University
1903 West Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

This exhibition is our first step in creating a network for design students in Michigan—it’s up to you to make it successful!

AIGA Detroit Student Portfolio Review 2008

This years portfolio review is Saturday March 29, 2008 at Eastern Michigan University Student Center: 900 Oakwood, Ypsilanti, MI Read More

9:00am - 10:00am
Registration and Breakfast

10:00 - 11:30
Keynote Speaker: Armir Vit (founder of underconsideration.com)

11:30 - 12:30
Lunch

12:30 - 4:00
Reviews: two per student

The cost is $10 for AIGA members and $15 for Non-members
Car pool sign up will begin at Tuesday's meeting. Please let us know if you are willing to drive.

Presenting Chip Kidd

Grand Valley State University's Art & Design Department is thrilled to present Award-winning Graphic Designer and Best-selling Author, CHIP KIDD Tuesday, MARCH 18th, at 7:30pm in the Louis Armstrong Theater, inside the Performing Arts Center on GVSU's Allendale campus.

Graphic design pioneer Chip Kidd is credited with changing the way modern books are packaged. With THE LEARNERS, the fascinating follow-up to his debut novel The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd again shows that his writing is every bit as original and memorable as his celebrated book jackets. This time, Kidd conjures up a remarkable story about advertising, electro-shock torture, suicide, a giant dog, potato chips, and the Holocaust.

For THE LEARNERS, Kidd re-created the infamous Milgram psychology experiments, down to the very words found on historical tapes and transcripts. Originally designed to determine how much one individual would hurt another when given orders by an authority figure, the experiments have fresh currency today, when each news cycle reveals fresh details of horrific war atrocities. Ridiculed in their own time, Milgram and his team were the first to learn just how little we each would question authority, even in dire circumstances—a lesson we’re re-learning on a daily basis.

This event is free and open to the public.

Parking is available in Lots H & K, or at metered spots adjacent to the Arts Center