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AIGA Portland
eNews | November
2005
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C O N T E N T S
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| Career Tools Workshop (series)
PDXPO | The Portland Design Expo
dMob
It's Coming...New Chapter Website
Upcoming National Events |
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on a National Level
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L O C A L / R E G I O N A L
 Career Tools Workshop Series
Working With Virtual Teams
Our first Career Tools Workshop was a sold-out success! Special thanks are in order for our volunteer event chair, Shari Chapman, without whom this event would not have happened. Many attendees had great things to say.
"It felt like a peer-to-peer conversation, not a presentation. I loved the small scale. The audience involvement felt like an extension of the discussion, rather than a Q&A. It illustrated the difference in the design community in Portland — personal, realistic, not star struck." Nami Bigos, Mercer Delta ELC
This series will continue with subsequent topics including legal/copyright/licensing issues, accounting for creatives (not to be confused with creative accounting!), career management, insurance, client relations, etc.
If you would like to chair an event such as this, we can always use help from our members. For detailed descriptions of various volunteer positions, please visit http://portland.aiga.org/involved/volunteer.html.
PDXPO | The Portland Design Expo
November 30
Portland Center for the Performing Arts
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Speaker: Erik Kiaer, Doblin, Inc.
Admission: Members $10, Non-members $20
Tickets available at the PCPA box office or by phone 503.432.2917
See what and who is new at the annual PDXPO. From ink to interface, the future of your business is cheering you on. Erik Kiaer, a left-brain/right-brain maestro who’s living the future of the design industry through his work at Doblin, Inc, will be sharing his insight, teaching you what to expect, and how to remain business savvy in tomorrow’s design-heavy world.
 dMob
Thursday, November 17th
6:30pm - 9:00pm
The Goodfoot Pub and Lounge
2845 SE Stark • Portland, OR
Attention Designers and friends: Looking for your design community? Network, renew past relationships, and make new ones. Join AIGA Portland at dMob on the third Thursday of every month. This social event is free and open to everyone in design and related industries. Look for an invitation in your email or visit the website for more information and photos.
It's Coming...An Improved Portland Online Community
Our goal is to keep Portland designers connected and informed of what is going on in our industry and on a local level. To help facilitate this goal, we will be upgrading our website by the end of this year. The new website will include new features such as:
- New Look and Content
- Event calendar (local and national events)
- Event Registration and Online Payment
- Local Discussion Forum
- Dynamic Content
- Search functionality
- And more...
We will continue to keep you updated on the progress of this project.
Look into the future and pitch in!
Take a look at the events we have planned for the upcoming year here at AIGA Portland. See anything you like? If so, and you have some spare time, please consider volunteering to help us make these proposed events a success. Without help from volunteers like you, these events would not be possible.
I NT H EC O M M U N I T Y
For more information on design-related events happening in Portland, be sure to visit the Community page at portland.aiga.org
N A T I O N A L
AIGA Design Conference 2005--More Than just a Tea Party
For those of you who couldn't be among the 2,500 who attended the Boston conference Sept. 15-17, AIGA offers a great resource: Listen to main-stage presentations from the conference wherever and whenever you want via podcasts available at the Design conference web site. The inspiration continues in exclusive back-stage interviews where presenters engage in a discussion that challenges new boundaries of design for professionals and the value of design to society. Also visit the following blog for independent coverage of the conference: http://www.kottke.org/order/aiga-2005
Next up: AIGA will present the next biennial design conference in the fall of 2007. Dates and location to be confirmed, but we have one hint: it will take place in a location with western sunsets and breathtaking views. Stay tuned.
Attn: Traveling Designers
If you're itching to get out of Dodge and looking for inspiration to act globally, design environmentally and work profitably, mark these conference dates on your calendar:
If you would like to be involved in a national task force on helping to develop a clear plan for the profession to gain, e-mail amy_dorfman@aiga.org. AIGA board member Brown Johnson is currently working with Ric Grefe on this issue. Even if you do not want to serve on the task force, send any thoughts you have to Amy.
J O B S
Get a job!
Take a look at Design Jobs http://www.aigadesignjobs.org to see what’s new. There are five recent job postings in Oregon.
C O M P E T I T I O N S
I.D. Annual Design Review
Deadline: December 1, 2005
Categories include consumer products, graphics, packaging, furniture, environments, equipment, concepts and interactive. Fee: $100 per entry. For more information, visit http://www.id-mag.com
TDC2 2006
Deadline: December 16, 2005
Submit your best typeface design to this Type Directors Club Competition.Fee: $30 for member single entry; $35 for nonmember single entry; $60 for member series; $70 for nonmember series. For more information, visit http://www.tdc.org
Second Annual UniKeep Design Awards
Deadline: December 31, 2005
Each month, contestants can create and submit a custom cover design for one of UniKeep's binders. The first 50 entries each month receive a product prize; each monthly category winner receives $100; the overall winner for each category receives $500; and the "Best of Show" receives $1,500. Categories are: Arts & Entertainment; Business & Professional; Education; Sports; and Hobbies & Recreation. For more information, visit http://www.unikeep.com
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