| Here you’ll find a selection of essays and articles of interest to AIGA NY members, including profiles of speakers and various texts written by members and friends. If you have written or published a piece you'd like to suggest to us, let us know. |
In this essay, excerpted from the book Reinventing The Wheel, designer and critic Jessica Helfand offers an in-depth look at these unique artifacts, which are not only clever and amusing but, Helfand argues, relevant as a model for modern interactive design. More...
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Abbott Miller is a designer and writer whose books, exhibitions, identities and magazines chart new territory in design as well as pioneering new ways of working with curators, editors, and institutions. In this interview with John L. Walters, excerpted from EYE magazine, Abbott discusses the close collaborations involved in some of his best projects. More...
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Philip Gefter is fully aware that the careful balance of words and images on this 22-by-13.6 inch sheet of paper will be scrutinized by readers, among them the most prominent leaders and thinkers of our time. More...
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I moved to Los Angeles from London in 1982. Although I'd never been here before, the city was instantly familiar to me, for somewhere deep inside me lurked the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West. Indeed, the biggest surprise to me, upon arrival was that the city existed in glorious full color and not in black and white... More...
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For Chantry, graphic design is a folk art whose best practitioners are often anonymous and whose best examples may be deceptively rough or naive. Packed with meaning that is fully transparent only to a discrete slice of culture, such work nevertheless has an energy and directness that slicker souls find irresistible.More...
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Merz to Emigre and Beyond is an historical survey of avant-garde cultural,
art and political magazines and journals from the early twentieth
century to the present day. It examines the publications that were at the
forefront
of graphic design throughout the century and which challenged typographic
convention, providing a platform for dissemination of the ideas of
the most radical art, design and political movements of the last hundred years. More...
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In this excerpt from the Princeton Artchitectural Press publication
Make It Bigger, AIGA medal recipient Paula Scher skewers both
the academic and business symposium views of design and reminds that
accomplished work is a precarious balance between clients and savvy
practitioners.
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Peter Saville is the kind of designer people build legends around. For the past two decades he has been making work that excites us in unique and surprising ways. Most know him through his designs for the record industry, but his new projects extend his wit and style far beyond that arena, with work that few of us have had a chance to see. AIGA NY was happy to have Peter as the first speaker of the 2001-2002 season. More...
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Born and raised in México City, Rebeca Méndez has overseen more than 1500 Art Center projects, designing award-winning books, publications, and exhibition materials. Rebeca also created the short films "The Malady of Death" and "Orpheus Re:visited" and hopes to reclaim her title as best player of the Women's Flag Football League. Planned as the first AIGA NY Small Talks of 2001-2002, she'll now be here next spring. More...
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He hasn't spoken at an AIGA NY event recently, and he doesn't even live in New York. But when we were planning the "Mayday" event last year, we couldn't think of a better inspiration for re-inventing yourself than this essay about what design has been, is, and can be. Chris Pullman is design director of PBS affiliate WGBH in Boston, where he works with a team of designers to produce broadcast and web design projects. More...
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As a founder of the design collective Grapus, Pierre Bernard fought the idea that culture is elitist, that unionism is out of fashion and that politics are dirty and useless. Now Pierre and his studio Atelier de Creation Graphique apply the same philosophy to professional graphic design. His inspiring lecture "Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible" was one of the highlights of the 2000-2001 AIGA NY season. More...
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