It's happening. It's happening fast. It's happening here, or there - really all over the planet and we're just plugging into it. It's a connected, dynamic, exciting forward-marching, never-looking-back time on this muddy ball, and there are lots of things happening. This is where we share it with you. |
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| May 23 | Seminar: Brian Collins Seminar will be held on Friday this week. Presentation will begin at 10 a.m. in the Los Angeles room at Portfolio Center. The public is invited.  |
| May 23 | Hatch Show Print, Jim Sherraden Lecture and Book Signing at Zoo Atlanta, 7-9 pm. This AIGA-ATL event is sponsored by Mac Papers. |
March 1 2006
Portfolio Center graduate Dave Werner's recently-launched digital portfolio, www.okaydave.com , has won 'SITE OF THE MONTH' from among all the sites around the world. Favorite Website Award, http://thefwa.com, recognizes the latest and best cutting edge website designs globally. Its audience of millions is made up web and graphic designers, web news editors, students, educational institutions, teachers and lecturers, flash masters, and general surfers.The selection is quite an honor, given its scope, as it takes into consideration all of Yahoo, Google, and Macromedia links. Congratulations once again to Dave for representing the best of Portfolio Center.
March 1 2006
From whatthebleep.com: "It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality."
March 2 2006
"Simply put, this is the most effective portfolio site I have seen in years." So says John Nack, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop, whose lively, intelligent blog addresses most all things creative: John Nack on Adobe
March 3 2006
Jonida Beqo (Gypsee Yo) is a native of Tirana, Albania. Already an internationally touring performer, an author of three books, and a feature of several anthologies in her native tongue, she continues to create as a poet and a movement actor, speaking up for those who don't speak English. She is the author of “The Women I Know,” an award- wining monodrama, and two spoken word CDs, “Kitchensinkdrama” and “Alien Anthem.” http://www.livejournal.com/users/gypsyo/
This event is co-sponsored by Georgia Writers.
March 13 2006
Search for long lost classmates, show off your baby pictures, or find your next boss. The Alumni Directory is just one of the ways Portfolio Center keeps you connected to each other and the industry.
April 6 2006
Francis Anderson is a Communication Strategist, who works with marketers and agencies in the search for fresh, revolutionary, relevant ways to get their message out beyond traditional media. He began his career in the UK as a founding member of PHD—a company known worldwide for its strategic media thinking, creative approach to planning, and innovative media solutions. There he worked closely with many of the leading creative agencies, including Chiat/Day, Rainey Kelly, Duckworth Finn, and St. Luke’s.
In 1999, he took a management role at Chiat\Day in New York and in 2001 was selected to be a founding member of the group formed to create TBWA’s new global initiative, Connections. (He co-authored a chapter on Connections in Jean-Marie Dru’s book “Beyond Disruption” in 2002).
After that, he went to work at Fallon New York in 2003, and also accepted the challenge of taking Connection Planning out to the Fallon worldwide network (including Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK). He was responsible for Fallon New York’s first foray into Branded Content in 2004, as executive producer of Virgin Mobile USA’s short film “No Plan.”
Last year, Francis started a consultancy practice, and has so far worked with Mother, Strawberry Frog, Publicis, and Amalgamated, as well as taking the role of launch consultant for Naked Communications.
His work has been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic, with several major planning awards in the UK (Campaign, Media Week) and in the US and Canada (Effies, AAAA).
April 7 2006
About Chelsea Rathburn:
Chelsea Rathburn earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a native of Miami, Florida. Her poems have appeared in the New Criterion, Hudson Review, Formalist and Pleiades, among other journals and anthologies. A freelance writer and producer, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, Brandon Arnold. The Shifting Line is Chelsea Rathburn’'s first full-length collection of poems. Chosen by poet Tim Steele as the winner of the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award, it was published in November of 2005 by the University of Evansville Press. www.chelsearathburn.com.
April 13 2006
Cameron was born and raised in Los Angeles, where he witnessed the handshake that formed Chiat/Day during a Dodger game, while inhaling a hot dog and sitting beside his father, Guy. Early exposure to creative mentors like his father and Lee Clow fueled Cameron’s fascination with felt pens, words, and the concept of combining the two for fun and profit. Cameron has held creative director positions at Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB/Needham, GSD & M, and BBDO. His awards include The One Show for print and television, as well as some ADDY’s. He has written ads for numerous high-profile accounts, such as Diesel Footwear, Rolling Stone Magazine, and Land Rover North America.
April 27 2006
May 4 2006
From the Avenue A Razorfish web site: "Avenue A | Razorfish is an interactive services firm that helps companies use the online channel as a marketing and business tool. We combine data, insight-driven design, leading technologies and rigorous optimization to build strong brands and improve relationships with customers, employees and partners."
Clients include Best Buy, Carnival Cruise Lines, Coca-Cola, Coors Brewing, Expedia, Microsoft/MSN, Nike, Office Depot, Ralph Lauren, Time Warner, Victoria's Secret, Visa, and Washington Mutual.
May 5 2006
Ginger Murchison, a Pushcart nominee, has poetry in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Atlanta Review and Atlanta Review's 10th Anniversary Anthology. She has published interviews in The Cortland Review, an award-winning online poetry magazine of which she is managing editor. She works full-time as associate director of Poetry At Tech.
Jennifer Wheelock holds a Ph.D. in English, from Florida State University and an MFA in Poetry from Georgia State. Her poems have been published in several journals, including The Comstock Review, Mississippi Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Atlanta Review. She is poetry editor at The Cortland Review.
May 11 2006
Tom Nynas grew up in Minneapolis and holds a bachelor's degree in visual design from the University of Minnesota. He is also a graduate of Portfolio Center. After school he had one interview and took a job at RBMM, the design affiliate of the Richards Group. During an eight year stay at RBMM, he did work that appeared in the Communication Arts Design Annuals, Graphis Design Annuals, Graphis Logo and Packaging books, The One Show, Print Regional annuals and case books, the Library of Congress, and his favorite prize, a judges choice in Type Directors Annual 25.
He's judged some shows as well, including the Philadelphia Art Director's Club and Logolounge vol.2.
He became a principal at RBMM and two years later ventured out on his own, only to be recruited by his favorite client two years after that. Suddenly he was the Director of Design at R&D Thinktank, an agency in Dallas built up and owned by Richards Group alum.
Very recently, R&D Thinktank dissolved into two agencies just seven months into his tenure. He now holds an identical position at the newly formed Cavalry Brand Development, a really nice place to work.
May 18 2006
Matt Rollins is Creative Director at ICONOLOGIC, a brand design firm in Atlanta. His newest client is Andre 3000.
His team's work for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games is on the cover of January's Communication Arts.
Matt used to run a small design firm called BASIS that did a whole lot of cool stuff but never made much money.
Before that, he spent eight years as Creative Director of EAI, a design firm in Atlanta (now called Unboundary).
Before that he was a designer at Frankfurt Balkind Partners in New York where he once spent a whole day designing a movie poster with Bill Murray. The poster turned out very poorly and it wasn't his fault: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/posters
He graduated from Portfolio Center in 1992.
June 2 2006
Lady Hardin is a regular performer in Atlanta and also hosts a number of spoken word events. She is the author of several chapbooks including "Soft Low Shoulder." She has given workshops in local schools, including working with Poetry at Tech in Athens. A regular at Java Monkey Speaks, her work has appeared in both anthologies. Don't miss this talented poet!
July 6 2006
About Bryony Gomez-Palacio:
For Bryony, life seems like one endless trip. She has lived in Mexico City, Atlanta, Chicago, and now New York. You can usually spot her as the one with the camera and the multiple questions. Curiosity, determination, and passion are what define her work and her unique approach. Creativity and the brain being key interests, she lectures and conducts workshops around the country. She is co-founder of UnderConsideration and the notorious Speak Up, as well as the design firm Nice. Currently, she divides her time in working for clients, pursuing her own ventures, and teaching. She has worked with clients of all sizes, from the local jeweler to Fortune 100 companies.
The ventures: UnderConsideration Dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners; at times intangible, its purpose is to question, push, analyze and agitate graphic design and its practitioners. underconsideration.com
Speak Up The (in)famous online forum that has challenged the design profession with honest, daring and passionate dialogue. underconsideration.com/speakup
The Design Encyclopedia
A user-built source of reference material with the sole intention of defining, describing, chronicling and documenting the world through design in all its implications and manifestations, from the visual to the tactile, from the communicative to the evocative, and from the cultural to the commercial.
thedesignencylopedia.org
Nice A virtual design firm founded with Portfolio Center's very own Carmen Garcia.
July 7 2006
Laurel Snyder has recently published poetry in Post Road, Gulf Coast and Painted Bride Quarterly. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was awarded a Paul Engle Fellowship. Her commentary has appeared on All Things Considered, while her chapbook "Daphne & Jim" won the Burnside Review Prize. She has also edited "Half/Life", an anthology from Soft Skull Press about Jews who have intermarried. She has completed one children's novel and maintains the website JewishyIrishy.com
July 27 2006
Since 1994, Oklahoma City based S design Inc. has provided strategy and innovation for a variety of clients both statewide and regionally.
S design specializes in brand and corporate identities, brand programs, and sales and corporate collateral. They design lasting communications that help clients create and maintain smart, consistent messages that result in increased brand value. S Design works with a wide variety of clients ranging from government agencies to larger regional corporations to mom and pop establishments.
Who they are as a team is inextricably connected with who they are as individuals. The S Design team comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences with one shared passion: to create intelligent, relevant, honest and inspiring work that shapes the way people view and experience the world. In short, developing meaningful brands.
August 10 2006
Lisa Simpson is a graduate of the Norwich School of Art and Design in England. She began her career at Pearlfisher London, where she championed the global redesign of Diet Coke as well as playing an integral role in creating numerous award winning designs, including the global launch of Absolut Vanilia which won gold and best of show at the Food and Beverage awards.
She is currently the Creative Director at Pearlfisher New York and is responsible for the creative work for a variety of key accounts for the US market.
August 17 2006
Designer Matt Pashkow, better known as Pash, is a Los Angeles based creative director and design firm principal. The author of Inspirability, Pash is also a graphic design educator and lecturer, and he's on the Advising Board for the How Design Conference.
August 31 2006
Since 1991, Macquarium Intelligent Communications has offered innovation in the areas of Web development, interactive marketing, e-commerce, e-learning, animation, and more to world-class clients such as Bellsouth, Cingular Wireless, Delta, The Home Depot, UPS, and Yahoo.
September 1 2006
Join chapbook editor C. Cleo Creech, Theresa Davis, Lisa Allender and Franklin Abbott for an evening of poetry and awareness building at this special event, co-sponsored by Georgia Writers Association.
October 5 2006
PARISH KOHANIM’S passion, versatility, and commitment to photography has been the fundamental focus of his career for the last three decades. Winner of many national and international awards, he succeeded in building a reputation for his use of vibrant colors and stunning black and white imagery.
Parish has been a member of the Canon Explorers of Light since 1993. He recently was invited to join an elite group of five talented photographers to represent Canon Prograf Wide Format Printers. He is also working with Apple to help enhance and promote their new software program for professional photographers, Aperture, and is also on their Advisory Board.
Parish’s creative work is widely published and was featured on the cover of the February 2005 issue of Communication Arts Magazine, one of the world’s most prestigious photography journals. It also featured a ten-page spread on the inspiring story of Parish’s illustrious career.
The soon-to-be released GRAPHIS NUDES issue will also display a stunning nude by Parish on the cover, along with eight additional images of his within. Parish continues to reinvent himself through his art, imagination and love of beauty.
The Parish Kohanim Fine Art Gallery made its debut in 2003. Through this venue Parish produces exquisite fine art photographic images, while remaining committed to his commercial work. Parish continues to dedicate himself to his own vision and consistently challenges his creativity to produce new and beautiful art.
October 6 2006
No one has made dialect sound so regal, writes poet Daniel Roop. Creative Loafing describes him: a lanky African-American man with arms that stretch and sweep as his stories unfold. And this native Atlantan word musician, M. Ayodele Heath, has unfolded his stories of Southern identity on stages from Atlanta to South Africa. Ayodele, whose name means, a joy arrives in the house, has held fellowships at the Caversham Centre for Writers in South Africa and Summer Poetry at Idyllwild, California. Other awards include: WPBA Lexus Leader for the Arts, two-time Southeastern Regional Slam Champion, and Atlanta Bureau for Cultural Affairs Emerging Artist of the Year. Recently featured in TurnerSouths MySouth television ad campaign, Ayodele has also been featured at such venues as: the Turner Trumpet Awards, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the National Black Arts Festival, the University of Michigan, Music Midtown and the Alliance Theatre. Among Ayodele's publications: Crab Orchard Review, Mississippi Review, and Chattahoochee Review, and the anthology, Poetry Slam: the Competitive Art of Performance Poetry. He is presently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at New England College and holds one of the McEver Visiting Writer Chairs in Poetry at Georgia Tech.
October 19 2006
Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin Vit is a graphic designer and writer (and former Portfolio Center faculty member) now living in Brooklyn, New York. He has written for AIGA’s VOICE, Emigre, Eye, Creative Review, HOW and STEP magazines, among others. He has lectured on topics ranging from Typography to Branding, in locations ranging from San Diego to Berlin. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration and founder of the (in)famous Speak Up, and most recently The Design Encyclopedia. Currently, he spends his daytime working at Pentagram. Feisty behind the keyboard, Armin remains timid at heart.
October 19 2006
"To A T: T-Shirt Culture...Cute or Couture?" An exhibit featuring tee shirt designs from around the world, including our own PC students' Epidemik Coalition. Opening Thursday evening, October 19, 6-9 p.m, at MODA. After party immediately following, at The Globe, Tech Square.
For those of you who have Sylvia's class and those who can't get a date for the opening, you can still catch the show until January 13, 2007.
October 25 2006
Photographer Jay Maisel's career spans 40 years. His name has become
synonymous with vibrant color photography that uses light and gesture
to create unforgettable images for advertising, editorial, and corporate
communications. His images appear in countless books and art collections.
Included among his many awards for excellence are the Art Directors Club
Hall of Fame, American Society of Media Photographers' Photographer of
the Year Award, and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award.
Maisel is a modern Renaissance man and has on his premises large wood
and metalworking shops. He studied painting, drawing, and three-dimensional
design at Cooper Union and holds a painting degree from Yale. These days, he
continues his own education by teaching younger photographers--conducting
workshops, leading seminars, and lecturing around the world.
October 30 2006
From the Decoder Ring Design Concern web site:
Christian is busy. Has been since graduating from that lil' school with big ideas, Portfolio Center. He's interned for Michael Bierut at Pentagram NY; served as a founding member of John Bielenberg's experimental design collective, Project M; and worked for a number of prestigious firms— all within the lifespan of a good pair of Chuck Taylors (maybe two). This perpetual motion has earned him international awards from folks like The Art Directors Club of NY, Showsouth, and “Best of Show” at the 2006 Austin Addy Awards. Look for him in Communication Arts, Graphis, Step Inside Design, ID, Print, Metropolis or in person at your local dive bar. He’ll be the one standing— Christian doesn't sit down much.
November 3 2006
Delisa Mulkey is a PhD candidate at GSU and is shopping her first full-length book. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Nimrod, CAIRN, Rosebud, BOMB, The Literary Review, The Made Thing, and Orpheus & Company. She has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and published a chapbook, Peacock by Moonlight. In 2005 she won the Writer's Exchange contest sponsored by Poets & Writers.
Maudelle Driskell is completing her MFA at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and The Made Thing. She has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, awarded by Poetry magazine and the Modern Language Association. She has also been a featured reader at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, a winner of the Agnes Scott Writer's Festival, and has attended the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.
November 9 2006
Portfolio Center and AIGA Atlanta invite you for an evening with Chip Kidd, who will present his talk, “A Number of People,” on November 9, at 7:00 pm, in the Los Angeles Room at Portfolio Center.
Chip Kidd lives in New York City, where he has designed book jackets for Alfred A. Knopf for over 14 years. He has designed over 1500 book covers, for everyone from Michael Crichton to John Updkike, and has been called the greatest and most influential book jacket designer in history.
In addition to being a designer, Kidd is a writer whose articles and essays have been featured in such esteemed publications as Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New Republic, and The New York Times. He has authored and designed countless award-winning books, many about design, and is currently at work on his second novel.
November 13 2006
Come out and support your boys alongside Michael Knight from Project Runway, Season 3, Pecan Pie Couture, and celebrity stylist Billie Causieestko. The event is sponsored by MODA and Alternative Apparel.
To register, or for maps/directions, click
November 16 2006
Craig Frazier, Designer
Craig Frazier has owned his own design firm since 1978. He has designed trademarks, brochures, annual reports, packaging, posters and advertising. He has received numerous awards and has been recognized internationally for his design. His work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
He has been the subject of articles in Communication Arts (February 1991), Critique Magazine (Summer 1996, Autumn 1996), Graphis No.340 (July/August 2002) and Graphis No.348 (November/December 2003). He is a frequent lecturer and juror for design organizations and publications around the country. He has been an instructor at California College of Arts and Crafts, and a guest instructor at the Kent State Summer Graduate Program. He is on the Board of Advisors for The Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia and on the Board of the Illustrators Conference for 2005.
Craig Frazier, Illustrator
Craig Frazier's experience as a designer and communicator has contributed to his simple and conceptual style of illustration. Today, he is commissioned by national and international design firms, advertising agencies, and publications to create corporate and editorial illustrations. He is a frequent contributor to the NY Times Op/Ed page as well as Time Magazine, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Kiplingers, Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, Readers Digest, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Utne Reader and Atlantic Monthly. Amongst his corporate clients are Adobe, American Express, Boeing, Chevrolet, Deloitte, MasterCard, Navigant Consulting, Sappi Paper, The Royal Mail, U.S. Postal Service, and United Airlines.
Craig has designed three stamps for the US Postal Service. The “Nurturing Love” preprinted envelope was released in 2003,“Child Health” was released October 2005, and "True Blue Love" was released in January 2006.
Craig has published a 176-page monograph titled The Illustrated Voice, (Graphis Press June 2003.) He has published the children’s book Stanley Goes for a Drive (Chronicle Books) released Fall 2004 as well as Stanley Mows the Lawn (Spring 2005). The third Stanley book is scheduled for release in Fall 2006.
He is frequently published in the Communication Arts, American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators annuals. His illustration is featured on the cover of The Society of Illustrators Annual 41.
December 1 2006
Dr. Madelyn Hatter is the devious and charming alter ego of Megan Volpert, a queer intellectual stuck in the vulgarity of the nineties. Raised in the north suburbs of Chicago, she has been writing poetry forever and performing it since 2001. The love child of Joan Jett and Alix Olson, her witty left-wing banter and moderately obnoxious shenanigans have shared the stage with a wide range of poets: Ragan Fox and Buddy Wakefield, to Collin Kelley, Laura Mullen and Andrei Codrescu. The twenty-five year old Libra holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry and performance studies from Louisiana State, and lives in Atlanta with her partner, Cowboi Mindy.
December 21 2006
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January 5 2007
Cecilia Woloch is the author of three collections of poetry, Sacrifice (1997), Tsigan (2002), and Late (2003). She recently won the Tupelo Press Chapbook Prize for Narcissus, which will be published in Fall 2007. Active in the Los Angeles literary community for more than twenty years, Cecilia has conducted poetry workshops for thousands of children, young people, and adults in venues and institutions throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from public schools and universities to prisons and hospitals. She is the founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild. For more information, visit www.ceciliawoloch.com.
January 12 2007
January 18 2007
Erin Mills is a Recruiter in Hallmark’s Recruiting Studio for Creative Talent. After earning her BFA in Graphic Design from Iowa State University in 2004, she started her career at Hallmark in the Greetings Division. As a designer, Erin created Father’s Day, Easter, and Christmas product. Known for continually saying: “I enjoy people more than my computer,” she is thrilled to now be a part of the Recruiting Studio, recruiting other talented individuals for Hallmark’s many creative career opportunities.
January 25 2007
David Schimmel, President/Creative Director, And Partners
David Schimmel's talent and business acumen go far beyond his years. Considered one of the top American graphic designers under 30, he has been a design director at Young & Rubicam, launched his own firm at the tender age of 23, worked with many of the most world's most sophisticated clients and earned multiple awards for his work.
He graduated in 1998 from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in art and business and was immediately hired by Y&R Advertising in a new position of design director. In this role he extended brand imagery from advertising to other target-directed media including collateral, corporate literature and packaging. David enhanced and integrated communications for top Y&R clients such as AT&T, Sony, DuPont, and Citibank.
But David wanted to do more than just extend an existing image-he wanted to create the core brand essence itself. Thus, in 1999, And Partners was founded to provide branding, corporate identity, literature, and collateral for up-market consumer and professional-service companies. The firm has since enjoyed steady growth and recognition while expanding it's offerings into multi-media and environments.
David serves on the advisory board of Portfolio Center in Atlanta, one of the nation's premier design schools, and teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. A standing member of the New York City Board of Education's Advisory Committee in the area of occupational education since 1999, David was honored for his dedication to the Virtual Enterprise program.
He has been featured in industry-leading publications such as Communication Arts, Dynamic Graphics, Graphic Design USA, Graphis, HOW, I.D., PRINT and STEP Inside Design and was named among Graphic Design USA's "People to Watch" in 2003. In 2005, David was awarded a pencil from British Design and Art Direction, a Gold Pencil at the One Show and a gold ARC Award.
February 1 2007
Diane McKinnon is the VP of Integrated Marketing & Creative Services for SicolaMartin. She has more than 18 years of advertising, interactive marketing and design experience. Since joining the agency in 2002, Diane has expanded her role to oversee the creative, media and interactive departments. She leads these multidisciplinary teams in the development of integrated, high-impact brand communications and marketing strategies. Some of her recent client experience includes AMD, Blu-ray Disc, BMC Software, HP, Quark and Sybase.
Prior to joining SicolaMartin, Diane was the director of interactive marketing at Vignette Corporation, where she managed the development of all content, applications and marketing campaigns on the corporate website. She also oversaw the creation of videos, CD-ROMs and e-mail campaigns. Before Vignette, Diane was a producer at Human Code, where she focused on nurturing customer relationships, developing strategy, and managing project estimates, budgets and scheduling. She honed her multimedia developer experience at UT's MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and has a background in film and television art direction.
As part of the Young & Rubicam Brand, SicolaMartin leverages the support of an extensive global network of advertising and marketing agencies. They offer their clients the attentiveness and personal service of a smaller agency, as well as the capabilities and reach of a large one, for everything from advertising and brand development to e-marketing, interactive design, and media.
February 8 2007
Steve McGrew is a Creative Director at Philips Design. His current responsibilities include providing global creative direction for Philips Medical Systems, as well as overseeing internet and interaction design initiatives in North America.
Steve has focused his career on helping established brands extend their permission and equity in new ways through the use of digital media. This work has ranged from the experimental to strategic initiatives for fortune 500 firms, including HP, Sony, BP and, most recently, Philips. Prior to joining Philips Design, Steve worked for a number of design consultancies, including Studio Archetype, frog design, and Sapient.
During his career, Steve’s work has been recognized through exhibits, awards, and publications, including the ID Annual Design Review, Print Magazine, Communication Arts, the New York Festival of Short Film and Video, and the Smithsonian Institute.
In 1891, Gerard Philips established a company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to 'manufacture incandescent lamps and other electrical products.' That company went on to become one of the world's biggest electronics companies.
After leading electronic innovation for over a hundred years, Philips remains at the leading edge of the digital revolution, introducing world-class products that are helping to improve people's lives in the 21st century.
February 15 2007
Luba Lukova is a renowned artist and designer working in New York. Her distinctive art utilizes metaphors, juxtaposition of symbols and economy of line and text to succinctly capture humanity's elemental themes. The Bulgarian-born Lukova has won many awards including the Grand Prix Savignac at the International Poster Salon, Paris; the Golden Pencil Award at the One Club, New York; Honor Laureate at the International Poster Exhibition in Fort Collins, CO; and ICOGRADA Excellence Award. She is widely regarded for her New York Times Op-Ed illustrations and has received commissions from the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Adobe Systems, Sony Music, Harvard University. Visually engaging and powerful, Lukova’s work is exhibited around the world. Her solo exhibitions have been held at UNESCO, Paris, France; DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan; La MaMa, New York. In 2007 her work will be on display at Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento, Italy and in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lukova’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Bibliotheque nationale de France. In April 2007 Clay & Gold Editions will publish the first comprehensive book about her art.
February 15 2007
Epidemik Coalition tees will be on display at Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge at 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 15. Come out and support EC.
February 22 2007
Quark was founded in 1981 in Denver, Colorado, and named after the subatomic particle believed to be the building block for all matter.
In 1987, with the introduction of QuarkXpress, the company revolutionized desktop publishing. Suddenly, precision typography, layout, and color control were accessible to designers everywhere, via their own computers, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional typesetting vendors.
Today, Quark has customers in over 100 countries worldwide and remains the industry leader by offering a product line that merges traditional print publishing with content management, personalization, and the tools for creating collaborative cross-media workflows.
Representing Quark, along with Davina Hicks, Scott Devore is a business development specialist for Education. He lives in Virginia and works with education customers in the Southeast. Previously, Scott worked as a digital imaging technician, customer service advisor, high school graphic communication instructor, and yearbook specialist. With his degree in Graphic Communications technology, Scott frequently presents at scholastic publishing workshops. Before joining Quark, Scott worked as a Herff Jones Yearbooks Publications consultant for six years.
Davina Hicks is a Technical Service Engineer, covering the South East territory, with eight years experience dealing directly with customers in the field, six of those years training, supporting and implementing desktop and enterprise solutions within the publishing industry. She has served in various capacities throughout her career at Quark since joining in 1998. In her current role, she works as a liaison with customers and directly with various levels of Quark's internal management team to help ensure that the customer’s voice is heard. In addition to training customers on new and existing products, she is also a regular presenter at tradeshows and events.
March 2 2007
Ann Fisher-Wirth is a poet and scholar who teaches at the University of Mississippi. Her books include Blue Window, The Trinket Poems, and Five Terraces. Ann's poems have appeared in many journals, among them the Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Southwest Review, Valparaiso Review and the Florida Review.
Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle, and was a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, and elsewhere. His books include The Lost Twin (Grey Spider 2000), and Saying the World (Copper Canyon 2003). What's Written on the Body is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in Spring 2007.
March 18 2007
Tania will read from her book Karaoke Funeral (Snake Nation Press, 2004), as well from her new manuscript, Nude Bowling at the Goodtime Boogie.
For more information or to get directions, go to JavaMonkey.
March 19 2007
March 30 2007
Join speakers Hank Richardson, Stefan Sagmeister, and others, as designers from all over the country convene at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego for this year's AIGA Y Design Conference. For more information, click here.
April 2 2007
We look forward to seeing your shining faces!
April 3 2007
From the Turkel web site:
As CEO of the successful brand management firm TURKEL, Bruce has been creating and working with valuable brands for over 25 years.
Born and raised in Miami, Bruce studied design at the University of Florida and rushed to NYC to start his career. Preferring the sun to the subway, he returned to Miami and opened his own advertising agency built on the belief that marketing should be well-designed, simple, and should make a client’s products and services more valuable. Using this straightforward checklist, Bruce has worked with hundreds of clients, written thousands of headlines, and designed even more print ads, television spots, websites, and campaigns.
Besides all that, Bruce is a husband, father of two and author of three books—his most recent is Building Brand Value. Oh, and he is an avid harmonica player. Bruce tours extensively, spellbinding audiences with simple yet powerful brand building techniques.
April 6 2007
Melissa Range is the recipient of a 2007 Discovery/The Nation Award and a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Image, The Paris Review, Poetry London (UK), and Western Humanities Review. She has been poet-in-residence at The Candler School of Theology at Emory University, the Emory University Ethics Center, and the Richmond Theological Consortium, as well as a fellow at Yaddo. Originally from East Tennessee, Range currently makes her home in Atlanta.
Jessica Hand is currently working on her MFA in Poetry at Georgia State University. She has appeared at various venues around the city, with featured peformances at Java Monkey Speaks, Art Amok and many others. She represented Atlanta at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX last year. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and the award-winning Java Monkey Speaks Anthology.
April 12 2007
Lorenc + Yoo is an environmental communications design firm with a thoroughly integrated approach and process. By utilizing the talents of every kind of designer from graphic to industrial, along with a diverse collective ranging from architects to strategists to marketing experts, they have produced award-winning design since 1978 for clients such as Habitat for Humanity, Georgia Pacific, Woodruff Arts Center, and Lifetime Television.
April 19 2007
By day, Portfolio Center alum John Givens is an art director for Underground Advertising. By night, he's a documentary filmmaker. Join us for a screening of his recent film, Working Title, followed by a discussion about the film and the creative process.
This from Working Title PR:
art·ist (ärtst) n.
1) One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts. One who creates a work of art.
2) A person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill: You are an artist in the kitchen.
3) One who is adept at an activity, especially one involving trickery or deceit: a con artist.
The definition seems so simple, but what does it really mean to claim the title “artist?” What does it mean to be an artist in a society that values easy classification, money as success, and a your–work– defines–you mentality? Who are you? I’m a lawyer. I’m a teacher. In this country, it seems the easier you fit into one box or the other, the better, but “artist” is a messy term, fraught with complicated judgments about what constitutes art, work, and success. If you’ve never sold anything, are you an artist?
Of course the struggle to define “artist” isn’t as simple as unraveling America’s complicated relationship with art, it is also an internal struggle, distinct to every individual that chooses to live and work under the rubric “artist.” Am I an artist? How do I know? How do I prove it (to myself and to others)? Working Title is a 55-minute digital video documentary that explores the complexities inherent in claiming the label “artist.” Following five diverse, self-proclaimed artists from a range of disciplines including music, painting, sculpture, and photography, the film seeks to explore how these artists relate to and challenge both their personal and cultural identities. All born and raised in the middle-class New Jersey suburb of Upper Montclair (the hometown of the filmmakers), the five artists share their personal narratives of growth and self-identification. Eventually the struggle of the filmmakers comes to light as they attempt to answer to the question themselves, “Am I an artist?”
Structurally, Working Title revolves around several themes that carry the narrative forward. Personal testimonials, quotes from famous artists, images of work from the featured artists, and secondary footage illustrating cultural definitions and societal pressures are woven together to create a holistic conversation between the artists.
May 3 2007
Alissa Walker has written about either design or Star Wars for Wired, Dwell, Fast Company, I.D., Metropolis, ReadyMade, Design Observer, the Los Angeles Times, HOW, Dynamic Graphics and STEP Inside Design. She is the gossip columnist for the California edition of The Architect's Newspaper and editor of the design blog UnBeige, which Newsweek named as one of 12 sites that "define cool." Alissa can be found on your iPod as the associate producer for the public radio show "DnA: Design and Architecture" and as a host of Core77's newly-launched Broadcasts. She has also appeared as a design expert on the HGTV show "Small Space, Big Style." Alissa lives and works in Hollywood, where she tends to a growing Gelatobaby and does not have a car. Seriously.
May 4 2007
STEPHEN BLUESTONE was born in New York City. His recent volume "The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity" was nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry. "The Flagrant Dead," his latest book, has been called original and beautiful by Gerald Stern. Bluestone has won The Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, The Thomas Merton Prize, two Hopwood Prizes, and second prize in the Robert Penn Warren Competition, in addition to an NEH Award and a Pushcart Prizes Special Mention. He teaches English and film in the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer University.
MIKE DOCKINS poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Paragraph, The Greensboro Review, Faultline, The Cream City Review, and many other journals. A recent Pushcart prize nominee, Mike currently lives in Atlanta where he co-founded and co-edits Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. His first collection of poetry "Slouching in the Path of A Comet" is now available from Sage Hill Press. Dockins work was also selected by editor Heather McHugh for the 2007 edition of Best American Poetry.
May 4 2007
There will be a showing of student work at Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge, beginning May 4 and continuing through the end of the month. The opening reception will be May 11 at 7 pm.
May 31 2007
Maureen is Associate Director, Package Design, for Aveda. She will discuss some of the lessons she's learned while at the company, about life choices and how being a creative shapes her decisions. The focus will be on "green" living and designing--how doing what's right isn't always what's easy.
June 1 2007
Travis Wayne Denton - Mr. Denton is the Associate Director of Poetry at Tech, and his poems have appeared in Greensboro Review, Rattle, The South Carolina Review and many others.
Katie Chaple - Ms. Chaple teaches at the University of West Georgia, and her poems have appeared (or are forthcoming in) Antioch Review, 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review and many others.
June 4 2007
June 10 2007
The Creativity, Business & Technology Conference for Graphic Designers will be held in the beautiful Hyatt Regency, right here in our own backyard of downtown ATL. June 10-13, the city will be alive with the likes of us. Go to be inspired, go to learn, go to make friends. Just be sure to go.
For information and registration, visit www.howconference.com.
June 11 2007
Location: Woodruff Arts Center
Date: Mon, Jun 11
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Members: $75 / Student Members: $45
Non-Members: $100
For more information, click here.
July 2 2007
July 6 2007
A night of political and moving poetry from two nationally recognized poets. Sheema Kalbasi is an Iranian poet and activist now living in America and fighting for the right of oppressed women in her home country. Theresa Davis is Atlanta's own outspoken poet who writes about love and politics with a razor sharp accuracy. You don't want to miss this evening of poetry! Open mic sign up begins at 7 p.m.
July 19 2007
Portfolio Center President Hank Richardson will present an encore presentation of his How conference speech on building the perfect portfolio: THE BOOK ACCORDING TO HANK. This is a must-see for anyone who missed the conference, whether you're a student or a professional.
Seminar begins at 10 a.m. in the Los Angeles room at Portfolio Center. The public is invited.
August 9 2007
Prior to founding her company, Elizabeth Benator spent 10 years gaining experience on every side of the fashion industry. A designer by training, she was the fashion design career advisor at Parsons School of Design from 2003-2006, acting as a liason between the students, alumni and industry hiring managers. She has specialized in recruiting designers for the fashion industry for the past 8 years.
Following her design career, Elizabeth's design recruitment experience began in house at Abercrombie & Fitch. After Abercrombie, she gained executive search experience at two New York City-based creative recruitment firms before moving into her role at Parsons. In her own practice, she takes care to approach her partnership with candidates and clients in a hands-on, boutique way, paying special attention to the unique needs of the designers and design teams. She considers the time she spends with each designer critical to her understanding of their professional needs.
August 23 2007
Tribal DDB Worldwide has helped build Brand Demand for some of the most popular companies in the world, including Pepsi, Volkswagen, Johnson & Johnson, and McDonalds.
Matt Smith is an Associate Creative Director for Tribal DDB Dallas. In his role, he oversees the creative and strategic development of every interactive initiative for Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and all subsequent brand extensions. Since becoming a part of Tribal DDB in 2005 as a senior creative, Matt has helped craft, expand and define the online presence of Pepsi, culminating in 2007 with the largest interactive campaign ever created for the beverage giant.
August 30 2007
Luba Lukova is a renowned artist and designer working in New York. Her distinctive art utilizes metaphors, juxtaposition of symbols and economy of line and text to succinctly capture humanity's elemental themes. The Bulgarian born Lukova’s has won many awards including the Grand Prix Savignac at the International Poster Salon, Paris; the Golden Pencil Award at the One Club, New York; Honor Laureate at the International Poster Exhibition in Fort Collins, CO; and ICOGRADA Excellence Award. She is widely regarded for her New York Times Op-Ed illustrations and has received commissions from the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Adobe Systems, Sony Music, Harvard University. Visually engaging and powerful, Lukova’s work is exhibited around the world. Her solo exhibitions have been held at UNESCO, Paris, France; DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan; La MaMa, New York. Currently her work is on display at Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento, Italy and in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lukova’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Bibliotheque nationale de France. This year Clay & Gold Editions will publish the first comprehensive book about her art. At her lecture Lukova will present the newly published 2008 Social Justice calendar featuring her socio-political posters. The calendar will be available for sale at the venue.
August 30 2007
From the Breather website:
Breather brings together artists, architects, interior designers, graphic designers, landscape architects, and other individuals concerned with design and its effects. The unique benefit comes from the interdisciplinary cross-pollination in both the audience and the presenters. Members of the design community are invited to "take a Breather in Decatur," to be stimulated outside their usual routines, and to benefit from the ideas and practices of other design disciplines.
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October 11 2007
Make your reservations now for the AIGA Next conference in Denver, October 11-14. Join designers from all around the world as they convene to explore the value of design and seek to answer the question, What's next?
Incidentally, three of our alumni are speaking at the conference--Ally Lack, Pam Zuccker, and Alissa Walker, as well as a former teacher and current spouse-of-alum (he's married to Bryony Gomez-Palacio), Armin Vit.
Students, don't miss this opportunity to expand your design knowledge and network with your fellow designers. The experience will be invaluable to your education--and more fun than you can imagine. To offset the cost of attending, consider volunteering; that way, you can give as you get.
October 13 2007
Candler Park Fall Festival, October 13-14. Come out and support recent PC design grad and artist Mary Campbell at her first art market since finishing Portfolio Center.
October 19 2007
Please join us Friday night at 7:30 as we celebrate the graduation of the spring and summer 2007 classes.
October 26 2007
Portfolio Center graduates will show their work from 11:00 am - 7:00 pm at the Center for Architecture.
October 27 2007
POETRY ATLANTA PRESENTS THOMAS LUX, TRAVIS DENTON & TANIA ROCHELLE AT WORDSMITHS BOOKS IN DECATUR. Poetry Atlanta begins a new quarterly series of readings in partnership with Decatur's Wordsmiths Books, 141 E. Trinity Ave. in downtown Decatur. Hosted by Collin Kelley. Event begins at 2:00 pm.
November 8 2007
John is a partner and co-founder of C2, in San Francisco, with Greg Galle and Erik Cox, and founder and director of Project M, a summer program in Maine that is designed to inspire young designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world.
Since 1991, John Bielenberg has produced an ongoing series of projects under the pseudonym Virtual Telemetrix, Inc. that address issues related to the practice of graphic design and Corporate America. Projects have included the “Quantitative Summary of Integrated Global Brand Strategy” booklet and video produced for the 1998 AIGA Brandesign Conference, the 1997 Virtual Telemetrix Annual Report satire of corporate branding and “ceci n’est pas un catalog” which parodies designer products. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired 6 of the VT projects and staged a Virtual Telemetrix exhibition and mock IPO (Initial Public Offering in 2000.
In addition, John was recently nominated for 2 National Design Awards from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, has served on the AIGA National Board of Directors, and is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
John is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International) and is Vice President and Director of the Pop!Tech Institute, which explores the impact of technology on people.
November 15 2007
Scott Hull, founder of Scott Hull Associates, carries business cards that read "Visual Ambassador," and that's how he introduces himself. For over twenty years, Scott has looked beyond the traditional artists’ rep model, choosing illustrators not only for their artistic finesse, but also their professional demeanor.
A designer-turned-entrepreneur, Scott understands both the demands of creativity and the importance of interpersonal relationships in a working partnership. That's why the 25-plus illustrators on Scott's team are customer-focused professionals who are as skilled with people as they are with images.
Scott Hull Associates is proud to provide innovative visual storytelling in partnership with global advertising agencies, design firms and Fortune 500 companies. SHA artists have appeared in Time and Barron’s and contributed to books such as the “Harry Potter” series. In addition, SHA artists have worked on CDs and video games and developed environmental graphics for museums, restaurants and major league ballparks.
Clients range from start-ups to well-known brands like Target, Microsoft and Disney. SHA serves clients with national needs like Leo Burnett or Dreamery Ice Cream and those with a local or regional audience such as Whole Foods or the Children’s Museum of the East End.
Scott is an involved member of the AIGA and American Association of Museums, and frequently acts as an advisor to colleges and universities. He is also a contributor to such books as Fresh Ideas in Promotion, Artist’s and Graphic Design Market, and The Power of Logos.
November 17 2007
Food, fun, and the work of local artists. PC instructor Anne Elser's hand-bound books will be featured at the sale, from 1-6 pm at 434 Superior Avenue, Decatur Avenue.
November 22 2007
December 13 2007
Check out Jon Selikoff's recent post featuring packaging projects by Portfolio Center students and recent graduates Mary Campbell, Claire Courtade, Audrey Gould, Adam Jesberger, Jason Puckett, Rachel Strubinger, and Katie Vinci.
The Dieline, the web's leading package design blog, is a great resource for professional designers, design students, or anyone with a passion for packaging.
December 17 2007
School will be closed December 17-31.
January 3 2008
Welcome new and returning students. Here's to a great winter quarter at Portfolio Center.
January 3 2008
Do your part to help promote Atlanta's graphic design community. Click here for more information.
January 10 2008
Joe Duffy, Principal and Chairman
One of the most respected and sought after creative directors and thought leaders on branding and design, Joe has led awarding winning branding efforts for some highly admired companies including BMW, Coca-Cola, Sony, McDonald’s and Starbucks. His work is regularly profiled in leading business, marketing and design publications and has been exhibited around the world. Joe has served as founding chair of the Environmental Committee of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and on the boards of the AIGA, the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul MN, and the Minnesota State Arts Council. He is a member of the board of The One Club and has led their student design competitions in China for the past five years. He has been awarded the Legacy Medal from the AIGA for a lifetime of achievement in the field of visual communications and his first book, Brand Apart, was released in July 2005. In 2006, Joe was featured in Fast Company as one of the “fast 50” most influential people in the future of business.
Joseph Duffy
Joseph graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the College of Visual Arts in 2000, after which he spent several years working at Fallon in their Art Production and Interactive Design departments on accounts such as BMW USA, BMW Motorcycles, Timex, EDS, The Islands Of The Bahamas, and Purina. At this time he also worked for Duffy on design projects when they needed additional help.
When Duffy decided to split from Fallon in 2004, Joseph was asked to jump ship and follow the family name. As one of the designers on staff, he has worked on numerous accounts, including Aveda Men, V.I.O., Kerzner, The One Club China, 501FIT, Pioneer Brand, and Brown-Forman.
Joseph’s work has been recognized for design excellence by Communication Arts in 2001, 2004 & 2007 as well as in Print’s Regional Design Annual in 2005 & 2006. His work on V.I.O., SeaFire, and The Kerzner Marine Foundation will also be featured in the 2008 Graphis Logo Annual which is due out later this year.
January 24 2008
Herman Ellis Dyal, of fd2s, Austin, is a designer, strategist, and registered architect with more than 30 years of experience. Prior to founding fd2s (originally Fuller Dyal & Stamper) in 1985, Dyal worked as an architect for Philip Johnson & John Burgee, Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He received a master of architecture degree from Tulane University and a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He has served as a Visiting Artist at the University of Houston School of Art and a Visiting Critic at the Rice University School of Architecture.
Dyal's work has received numerous honors and has been published in Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, How, Texas Architect, and various publications of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He has been twice recognized by the American Center for Design.
His recent work at fd2s includes overseeing the development and implementation of wayfinding strategies for world-class institutions such as the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the creation of identities and environmental graphics programs for major retail and mixed-use projects in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.
Dyal is the Austin director of Pecha Kucha Night, the Tokyo-based forum for architects, artists, and designers.
January 29 2008
David Butler, Vice President, Design, The Coca-Cola Company
David is responsible for global design at The Coca-Cola Company. This includes setting the global standard for design, building a global design function and strengthening Coke’s internal design culture and reputation. He began his career as a graphic designer developing identity systems and print communications and then focused on digital media with the rise and fall of the dot-com era. He went on to build a global design planning group with Studio Archetype/Sapient. Clients and collaborations include the International Olympic Committee, UPS, Gucci, CNN, Cartoon Network, Bank of America, Catepillar, United Airlines and AT+T. David is a frequent lecturer, adjunct professor and member of the Board of Advisors at Portfolio Center. His work has been recognized by leading design and business publications including Communication Arts, AIGA, The Type Directors Club, The One Show, ADDY awards, Design Management Journal and Time Magazine. He holds a BA in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida.
January 31 2008
We look forward to an exciting and dynamic line-up of seminar speakers for Portfolio Center's winter quarter. The roster, so far:
January 10 Joe and Joseph Duffy, Duffy & Partners, Minneapolis
January 17 David Butler, Coca Cola NA, Atlanta
January 24 Herman Dyal, fd2s, Austin
January 31 Jose Reyes, metaleap, Atlanta
February 7 Rick Cusik, Hallmark, Kansas City
February 21 Ken Carbone, Carbone Smolan, NYC
February 28 Andrew Tesnar, LPK, Cincinnati
January 31 2008
Jose Reyes founded the Atlanta firm Metaleap Design in 2002. His impressive client list includes Aflac, Delta, Dixie Crystals, and Paste Magazine--for which his work has earned him several national awards, including recognition in Communication Arts. Jose doesn't like to limit himself to the label 'Designer,' preferring instead to be considered "the visual-arts equivalent of a soundtrack composer," synthesizing words, information, and ideas.
February 7 2008
Rick Cusick was born in Stockton, California and began his professional life designing illuminated signs for Ad/Art, Inc., who provided much of the signage for casinos in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno. He studied lettering with James Lewis at San Joaquin Delta College and Mortimer Leach at Art Center College of Design. He has worked for Hallmark in Kansas City since 1971 as a lettering artist and book designer, and is presently Manager of Font Development there. In 1996 he designed the typeface Nyx for Adobe.
Cusick was design and editorial consultant to TBW Books of Woolwich, Maine, where he was responsible for With Respect...to RFD, a festschrift for Chicago calligrapher Raymond F. DaBoll; a collection of essays and calligraphy by influential Reed College professor Lloyd J. Reynolds, and The Proverbial Bestiary, featuring drawings by Warren Chappell with Cusick's calligraphy. He has taught at the University of Kansas and in 1992 began a ten-year stint as art director of Letter Arts Review. Cusick is also proprietor of Nyx Editions; is a member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the American Printing History Association, and a corresponding (honorary) member of Bund Deutscher Buchkünstler.
February 14 2008
BRUCE CROCKER Design Director Modernista
Since 2003, Bruce Crocker has been the Design Director at Modernista, a full-service advertising agency with offices in Boston, Detroit, and Amsterdam. Bruce works with a team of 12 designers that have created a wide range of design solutions for companies including HUMMER, Cadillac, TIAA-CREF, Napster, Gap, Budweiser, Product (RED), Converse, and BusinessWeek magazine.
In 1986, Bruce founded Crocker Inc., an award-winning design firm and brand think tank based in Boston. Bruce has also held Art Director and Creative Director positions at both large and small advertising agencies including BBDO/NY, Cipriani/Kremer and Altman & Manley. His responsibilities have included print, broadcast and multimedia productions.
Bruce has provided a full range of services including strategic planning, direct mail, advertising, product/package design and development, web design, corporate identity, annual reports, and magazine design. He continues to consult with companies and organizations to help them build their brands through strategic design.
Bruce’s work in support of his clients has won many national and international awards from such organizations as The Boston, San Francisco and New York Art Director’s Clubs (including gold awards), Communication Arts, Graphis International, The American Center for Design, The Clio Awards, and Best of Show AIGA Brand Design.
He has lectured to numerous business organizations and educational institutions on brand design and creative brainstorming and has taught advertising and design at the Art Institute of Boston. He has also been chosen to judge many notable design competitions.
Bruce’s interests include vintage sports car racing, too many used books, and drumming.
February 21 2008
From the Carbone Smolan Agency web site:
Ken Carbone is among America’s most respected graphic designers, whose work is renowned for its clarity, intelligence and longevity. He has built an international reputation creating outstanding programs for world-class clients, including Tiffany & Co., W.L Gore, Herman Miller, PBS, Christie’s, Nonesuch Records, the W Hotel Group and the Clinton Administration. His clients also include celebrated cultural institutions such as the Museé du Louvre, The Museum of Modern Art, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art.
These clients are evidence of his multi-disciplinary experience with large scale, complex projects and expert knowledge of art, architecture, retail merchandising, entertainment, music, science and technology. Often international in scope, these projects have also enabled him to hone the cross-cultural sensibilities necessary to work successfully in today’s global business environment.
In addition, Ken is the author of The Virtuoso: Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents , published by Stewart Tabori & Chang. The book’s emphasis on human achievement in all walks of life reflects his wide-ranging curiosity.
He frequently speaks to audiences across the country about the value of strategic design and communications in the corporate, consumer and cultural sectors. He has presented at events sponsored by Inc. Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, HOW Magazine, the American Center for Design, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the Luxury Marketing Council, and has lectured at both top business schools and art colleges. He is currently an adjunct professor in the MFA Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.
Ken is a member of the prestigious Alliance Graphique International (AGI), and of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). His work has been recognized by the AIGA, Print, Graphis, Idea, Communication Arts, ID, the New York Art Directors Club, and is included in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. In addition to his design career, he has been an avid guitarist for over 40 years.
February 29 2008
A total of 10 scholarships will be awarded each year: 5 in March and 5 in September. Applications must be received by 5:00pm Friday, February 29, 2008; the scholarships will be awarded at the first Student Board meeting following each application deadline, and winners will be notified by e-mail. A student may only receive this scholarship once, regardless of amount of scholarship.
March 1 2008
José Reyes, Creative Director of Metaleap Design, gave a seminar at PC last week, speaking about his life, his work, and the idea of "3rd place"—a social surrounding separate from the two usual social environments of home and work. Where José spends most of his time outside of home and work, is in starting the new arts series Fringe. The next Fringe concert is coming up, Saturday, March 1st at 8pm. Student tickets are only $5 in advance, $10 at the door, and are available via FringeAtlanta.org.
Fringe is about art—about crossing social, cultural and ethnic divides through music by purposefully melding different worlds to create something entirely new. Each concert is a jam-packed arts event, including live chamber music, DJ, visual art gallery, independent short film and documentaries of the performers.
"[Fringe] reminds young audiences that classical is kick-assical." —Paste magazine "Chamber music for the iPod generation!" —Georgia Music magazine “One of the most radical classical groups in the country.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We hope you will take the opportunity to experience this unique mixture of the arts, right here in Atlanta. Buy your tickets in advance, as the concert is expected to sell out.
FringeAtlanta.org
March 3 2008
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March 4 2008
From the AIGA-ATL website:
The Buzz is going Trivia in March. We are kicking-off a trivia night version of the Buzz at Manuel's Tavern!
Are you the one everyone calls on to name that font? The go-to guy/gal for solving that CSS mystery? A gold mine of design "little known facts"? A design history groupie? This night is for you! Grab your friends and design knowledge superstars - it's time to show your skillz and bask in the glory. Sign up now to take the prize this Tuesday night!
See you there!
March 10 2008
March 10-14. Schedules are posted.
March 14 2008
March 15 2008
April 3, Tom Wright, Neenah Paper:
Tom Wright is the senior director design and advertising for Neenah Paper, a leading manufacturer of premium uncoated writing, text and cover papers. Neenah Paper has helped define some of the world’s most recognizable identities and was named one of Graphic Design USA’s Top 100 Designer Friendly Companies. It is credited with many industry firsts, including introducing the first mill brand watermark; the first Writing, Text and Cover paper to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and introducing a radically different paper
April 10, Melissa Jun, New York Times:
Melissa Jun is Design Director for the New York Times, where she created their first in-house design group to oversee branding and marketing, as well as established and developed brand guidelines, advertising campaigns, event, product, online and consumer marketing. Before joining the New York Times, Melissa worked with Michael Bierut at Pentagram Design, where clients included the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and McGraw-Hill Publishing.
April 17, Chip Kidd:
Chip Kidd has worked for Alfred A. Knopf since 1986 and is considered one of the best and most influential book jacket designers in history. Besides being an award winning designer, he’s a writer who has written about design and popular culture for publications such as Vogue, the New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly and has authored several books and a national bestselling novel, Cheese Monkeys.
April 24, Victor John Penner:
Photographer Victor John Penner has been recognized regionally and internationally in Applied Arts, Communication Arts, Graphis, PDN, Photo Media, the Mead Show, the One Show, and the Black Book's AR 100 Show, among others. Penner co-created the Jones Soda brand for Urban Juice & Soda, which has been shown at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography in San Francisco and at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York City.
May 1, Rei Inamoto, AQKA:
Rei Inamoto is one of the most award-winning professionals in the interactive marketing industry today, having won multiple golds at Cannes Cyber Lions, Clio Awards, and One Show, to name a few. In February 2008, Rei was named in "Creativity 50," one of the most innovative and influential individuals in the creative industry. Rei is Global Creative Director at AKQA an international digital advertising agency. His global clients include Nike, Xbox, and Coca-Cola.
May 5 (Monday evening), Jay Maisel:
Jay Maisel's photography career spans 40 years. His name has become synonymous with vibrant color photography that uses light and gesture to create unforgettable images for advertising, editorial, and corporate communications. His images appear in countless books and art collections. Included among his many awards for excellence are the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, American Society of Media Photographers' Photographer of the Year Award, and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award.
May 8, Joseph and Nancy Essex, SX2:
Nancy Denney Essex, co-founder and Design Director for Essex Two, is a visual communicator and designer. Extremely active in AIGA, during her three-year term as president of AIGA/Chicago, Nancy guided the chapter in tripling its membership. She has served a term as chair of the President’s Council on AIGA’s national board. In 2002, AIGA/Chicago awarded Nancy its Above and Beyond Award for exceptional volunteer service. She is also Secretary of the board of directors for Evan’s Life Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to reaching out to at-risk children.
Joseph Michael Essex is co-founder of Essex Two. He has received hundreds of awards from major communication publications and organizations in the US, Europe and Asia, including medals from the New York Art Directors Club. The AIGA / Chicago presented him its Above and Beyond Award for his extraordinary service to his profession and the organization, and its highest honor, the Fellow Award for significant personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within the design community. His fine art and commercial posters are in museum collections throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
May 15, David Hewitt, Sapient:
David Hewitt is the Group Creative Director with Sapient Interactive, the largest independent interactive agency in the world, whose clients include top brands like AT&T, Coca-Cola, Motorola, MTV Networks, and Sprint. His work has been recognized in numerous publications, including Wired Magazine, Print, and Communication Arts, and his experience spans all mediums from print to interactive and motion. Most recently, David has led work in the mobile industry, designing prototypes for emerging devices as well as helping to launch Sprint's new mobile broadband service XOHM.
May 22, Brian Collins:
Before starting his own experiential design firm, Collins, which is part of the Interpublic Group, Brian Collins was the Chairman and CCO of the Brand Integration Group, Ogilvy and Mather, in NY. His work for Ogilvy included the design for the Hershey store in Times Square, the design of the new Motorola brand, the new Kodak logo, and the redesign of Sprite for Coca-Cola. Collins's numerous honors include being named one of five "American Masters in Design" by Fast Company in 2005, and receiving the National Organization for Women's 2006 Image Award for the work his team did on Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty.
April 2 2008
John Colasanti, CEO Carmichael Lynch, Tues., May 13 @ Manuel's Tavern, 6-9PM. Click to register.
The Atlanta Ad Club Silver Medal Awards Luncheon, with featured speaker John Boone of Boone Oakley/Charlotte, Tues., May 20 11:30-1:30, at 103 West. Click to register.
The Four A's is hosting a seminar on April 2, "How To Provide Non-Traditional Marketing Solutions To Clients." Should be righteously good. For more details, click.
April 3 2008
Tom Wright is the senior director design and advertising for Neenah Paper, a leading manufacturer of premium uncoated writing, text and cover papers. Neenah Paper has helped define some of the world’s most recognizable identities and was named one of Graphic Design USA’s Top 100 Designer Friendly Companies. It is credited with many industry firsts, including introducing the first mill brand watermark and creating the first Writing, Text and Cover paper to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
April 10 2008
Melissa Jun is Design Director for the New York Times, where she created their first in-house design group to oversee branding and marketing, as well as established and developed brand guidelines, advertising campaigns, event, product, online and consumer marketing. Before joining the New York Times, Melissa worked with Michael Bierut at Pentagram Design, where clients included the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and McGraw-Hill Publishing.
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April 23 2008
From the AIGA-Atl website:
Astonishingly, Stefan Sagmeister has only learned twenty or so things in his life so far. But he did manage to publish these personal maxims all over the world, in spaces normally occupied by advertisements and promotions: as billboards, projections, light-boxes, magazine spreads, annual report covers, fashion brochures, and, recently, as giant inflatable monkeys. In this presentation Sagmeister throws his diary, a lot of design, and a little art together with a pinch of psychology and a dash of happiness into a blender and pushes the button. It tastes surprisingly yummy. Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world working today. Since 1993 Sagmeister Inc., has focused on all things printed, including posters, brochures, books, and graphics and packaging for music clients. Sagmeister’s award-winning work has been recognized in national publications such as The New York Times, Time, Rolling Stone, and Wired. He’s created iconic album covers for Lou Reed, the Talking Heads, and the Rolling Stones. Born in Austria, he now lives in New York City.
April 24 2008
Victor John Penner has NEVER been convicted, but has been recognized regionally and internationally in Applied Arts, Communication Arts, Graphis, PDN, Photo Media, Print and award shows for British Design & Art Direction, Fox River Paper, Graphex, The Mead Show, Potlatch, The One Show and the Black Book's AR 100 Show where Victor's work has been voted "Top Ten Photographed" 17 times and has garnered a coveted "Judges Award."
In addition, the Jones Soda that Victor co-created for Urban Juice & Soda has been shown at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography in San Francisco and at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York City, as well as being included in the book "lovemarks" by Saatchi & Saatchi CEO, Kevin Roberts.
Victor is a frequent guest speaker and occasional workshop leader, his "scared straight" approach will make you second guess your career choice.
May 5 2008
Portfolio Center is sponsoring a blood drive with the American Red Cross on May 5, from 10am-3pm. If you are eligible to give blood, we really need you. As if the thought of doing a good deed weren't enough incentive, prizes and gift cards in excess of $700 have been donated by the following local businesses:
Binders
Black Bear Tavern
Central City Tavern
Chic-Fil-A
Fellini's
Image Link
Mellow Mushroom
Octane
Sam Flax
Vita
And to further sweeten the deal, refreshments will be provided by Panera, Firehouse Subs, and Piece of Cake.
Just email liz@portfoliocenter.com to sign up for a time slot in 15 minute intervals from 10am-3pm. Please spread the word to any PC outsiders who you think may be interested as well. We really want this drive to be successful and need your help!
Also, if you can't give blood but you can give time, student volunteers are needed to man the canteen. Again, email Liz.
May 5 2008
Jay Maisel's photography career spans 40 years. His name has become synonymous with vibrant color photography that uses light and gesture to create unforgettable images for advertising, editorial, and corporate communications. His images appear in countless books and art collections. Included among his many awards for excellence are the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, American Society of Media Photographers' Photographer of the Year Award, and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award.
May 6 2008
The Modern Atlanta Home Tour focuses on showcasing exemplary examples for living modern through lifestyle, architecture, interior design, and landscaping. Homes range from the classic postmodern to the state-of-the-art contemporary.
Find all the info here.
May 8 2008
Essex Two is a Chicago-based design and branding consultancy founded by Nancy Denney Essex and Joseph Michael Essex.
Nancy Denney Essex, Design Director for Essex Two, is a visual communicator and designer. Extremely active in AIGA, during her three-year term as president of AIGA/Chicago, Nancy guided the chapter in tripling its membership. She has served a term as chair of the President’s Council on AIGA’s national board. In 2002, AIGA/Chicago awarded Nancy its Above and Beyond Award for exceptional volunteer service. She is also Secretary of the board of directors for Evan’s Life Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to reaching out to at-risk children.
Joseph Michael Essex is co-founder of Essex Two. He has received hundreds of awards from major communication publications and organizations in the US, Europe and Asia, including medals from the New York Art Directors Club. The AIGA / Chicago presented him its Above and Beyond Award for his extraordinary service to his profession and the organization, and its highest honor, the Fellow Award for significant personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within the design community. His fine art and commercial posters are in museum collections throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
May 15 2008
David Hewitt is the Group Creative Director with Sapient Interactive, the largest independent interactive agency in the world, whose clients include top brands like AT&T, Coca-Cola, Motorola, MTV Networks, and Sprint. His work has been recognized in numerous publications, including Wired Magazine, Print, and Communication Arts, and his experience spans all mediums from print to interactive and motion. Most recently, David has led work in the mobile industry, designing prototypes for emerging devices as well as helping to launch Sprint's new mobile broadband service XOHM.
May 23 2008
Before starting his own experiential design firm, Collins, which is part of the Interpublic Group, Brian Collins was the Chairman and CCO of the Brand Integration Group, Ogilvy and Mather, in NY. His work for Ogilvy included the design for the Hershey store in Times Square, the design of the new Motorola brand, the new Kodak logo, and the redesign of Sprite for Coca-Cola. Collins's numerous honors include being named one of five "American Masters in Design" by Fast Company in 2005, and receiving the National Organization for Women's 2006 Image Award for the work his team did on Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty.
May 23 2008
All attendees will receive an original, event-specific Hatch print with admission! Lecture and Book Signing at Zoo Atlanta, 7-9 pm.
This AIGA-ATL event is sponsored by Mac Papers. Books and original Hatch prints will be available for purchase. Cash only.
AIGA Student Members: $10 AIGA Members: $15 Advance / $25 At-Door Non-Members: $25 Advance / $35 At-Door
Doors 6PM, Lecture 7PM
For more information, please contact Beta Vitale at: beta.eldridge@gmail.com
