On Saturday night, May 31st, LWALA had its first “Artists for LWALA Auction” event at the Gallery Bar in NYC. It was a huge success, 20+ multi-talented artists contributed their pieces to help support L.W.A.L.A’s charitable efforts in Africa. A few of those artists included Ayelet Rand, Desi Sanchez, David Ter-Avanesyan, all great friends of mine. I was honored to also be one of the artists. You can view a full list of the artists and their bios here.
I’d like to give a personal special thanks to the wonderful LWALA team for letting me be a part of their team and for organizing this amazing event, their contributions will make an immense difference in the lives of others. To find out about their next event, please stay tuned at lwala.org
In celebration of Internet Week Web2Fem.com has teamed up with several other amazing tech meetups to co-host the Drinks4Startups networking party on June 3rd at the Gallery Bar. The other meetups attending include: BKLN 2.0, Wimlink, Web2NewYork, CenterNetworks and BigScreen LittleScreen.
Come have a drink and network with other start-ups, innovators, web designers, programmers, writers, videographers, bloggers, marketers and spark the connections that will help your company grow, while having a fun night out!
When: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Where: Gallery Bar
120 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
212.529.2266
This site offers a great community for designers that want to get their work out to professionals in the industry or want to share their work with other designers. I signed up about two weeks ago after meeting the lovely Karen Horton, the co-founder of design:related. After her invitation to sign up, I immediately set up an account and was pleasantly surprised at how clean and easy their interface was to use, adding portfolio pieces was a breeze and in minutes I added all of my friends that were already members to my network.
The site has a lot of great features, some of the few that I’ve used and really enjoy are: being able to mark other members as influential, integrating your flickr photo feed, maintaining a blog of inspirations, posting news entries that get pulled onto the homepage, and being able to sort content on the site by most influential, most viewed, newest, just added or simply via keyword tags.
If you’re a design professional or student, I definitely recommend you sign up to this wonderful site. It’s a great way to network with other talented designers, find inspiration and get feedback on your work. And once you sign up, don’t forget to add me to your network: http://www.designrelated.com
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Last night Michael Ian Kaye presented at AIGA in NY. It was an amazing evening of who’s who in the world of book jacket publishing. Carin Goldberg kicked off the evening with a haiku about Michael. Then Michael began his presentation which was composed of 10 main topics which had actually been selected via a poll on his website. He told many insightful stories about his work. During the presentation he expressed how he dislikes titles, for example giving himself the title of Creative Director, Advertising Guy or Graphic Designer, among others, because he simply considers himself a Visual Problem Solver.
Midway through the presentation there was an “Oprah” moment, while he was showcasing one of his latest book designs for the School of Visual Arts, he asked us to look under our chairs. Everyone in the audience received the book courtesy of SVA. In the end, we were all inspired by Kaye’s love, excellence and commitment to graphic design. He then invited everyone in the audience for drinks at the Black Door, his treat.
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Jessica Perilla will be teaching Dreamweaver in Spanish at the School of Visual Arts starting next week January 30th, 2008 as part of their new program ¿Hablas Diseño?. Below is the official press release.
The Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will offer a new series of advertising and graphic design courses, from beginning to advanced levels, taught entirely in Spanish. The faculty members, all native Spanish speakers, are practicing creative professionals who have lent their talents to such clients as Burberry, HBO, IBM, The New York Times, Nike, MTV Networks, Random House and Target, among others.
“With this program, New York’s Spanish-speaking community and those seeking heightened marketability within the growing Spanish-language media gain access to a choice of studio-based, career-enhancing classes taught by respected art directors and designers,” says Joseph Cipri, executive director of the Division of Continuing Education at SVA. José Luis Ortiz Tellez, a longtime SVA faculty member and award-winning design consultant, “This program reflects the global outlook SVA has always embraced, by aiding designers that are transitioning into the Spanish-language market, and those seeking an immersion into U.S. design culture.” (more…)
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Here is a blurb about the book:
Would you like an overview of the state of the art in web design in a specific field? Web Design Index by Content provides exactly that: every year, 500 new designs are selected and grouped in more than 20 categories, such as architecture, art, fashion, food, IT, music, photography, product catalogues, etc.
Two pages from each site are included: an opening page and a page representative of the nature of the site. The accompanying CD-ROM allows you to view the designs on screen and to access the entire sites online.
The Pepin Press/Agile Rabbit Editions web design indexes are international best-sellers, with about a quarter of a million copies sold worldwide.
Jessica Perilla will be teaching Dreamweaver in Spanish at the School of Visual Arts starting next week January 30th, 2008 as part of their new program ¿Hablas Diseño?. Below is the official press release.
