50th Annual Design Exhibition - Judges' Reception
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at the Meredith Conference Core
Peter Yates | Peter Yates Design | peteryatesdesign.com
Prior to launching Peter Yates Design, Yates was the founding design Director of Condé Nast Publications’ Cargo. Yates was also Design Director of ESPN The Magazine. Yates’ expertise in magazine design spans the fields of fashion, travel, music, sports and media.
Dan Ibarra | Aesthetic Apparatus | aesteticapparatus.com
Dan Ibarra is interested in printmaking and music and began to build a groundwork of limited edition hand-printed concert posters that
would gain enough recognition nationally and internationally. His company, Aesthetic Apparatus has also created work for clients such as Blue Q, Stella Artois, Harper Collins, American Cancer Society and Criterion Collection as well as bands such as Cake, Frank Black, Spoon, The Hold Steady, The New Pornographers and more.
Sonia Greteman Lunch Presentation
Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the Botanical Center - Willow Room
President and creative director Sonia Greteman launched the Wichita-based advertising agency in 1989. Today, as one of Wichita's largest, full-service integrated marketing communications agencies, Greteman Group provides full branding support. Greteman Group serves a stellar list of national and international clients, from Miami to Montreal, Copenhagen to Costa Rica. Closer to home, you'll find them helping advance local economic development and tourism efforts, increasing market share for a growing bank, reaching potential foster and adoptive families for the state's sole adoption provider, and more.
Greteman Group enjoys a national reputation as brand-building specialists. Clients turn to them to reinvigorate their brands through results-oriented marketing strategies, advertising campaigns, corporate identity, marketing collateral and direct mail, public relations, web/interactive development, media buying, event planning and environmental design. Their work and business philosophies have been written about and published in such leading publications as Adweek, Advertising Age, Communication Arts, Print, Aldus, HOW, Graphis, Graphic Design America 2 and more than 100 books. gretemangroup.com
HELVETICA - a documentary film by Gary Hustwit
February 26, 2008 at the Fleur Cinema & Cafe
helveticafilm.com
Wink
January 17, 2008 at the Meredith Conference Core
Founded by Richard Boynton and Scott Thares in January of 2000, Wink is a multi-disciplinary design firm that aspires to not only impact commerce, but culture. To date, the Minneapolis-based firm has done work for clients such as Target, Macy's (formerly Marshall Field's), Nike, American Eagle Outfitters, Turner Classic Movies, Toys "R" Us, Chronicle Books, The Limited, Daub & Bauble and The New York Times. Their work has received recognition from publications such as Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, ID, HOW, Step Inside Design, the AIGA, New York Art Directors Club, and The Type Directors Club, among various others. wink-mpls.com
ADAI Kicked Off 2007-2008 With A Bit Of Fun
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at A.K. O'Connor's, West Des Moines
This was an opportunity for all members to enjoy a relaxing evening out with fellow colleagues. ADAI supplied two drink tickets to each registered ADAI member and an array of goodies to munch on. As an added incentive, a raffle for a $100 Apple Store Gift Card was held. Extra posters from the ADAI archive were available for $1 each. Money collected went to the scholarship fund.
Box of Books Luncheon by Peggy Johnston
Thursday, June 7, 2007 at the Central Library
At this workshop, attendees produced about 10 model booklets using a variety of simple binding techniques including folding, sewing and stab bindings. The basic techniques taught in this workshop provided a good foundation on which to build more bookbinding skills. Examples of books using the model techniques were available. An origami box was created to house the collection of book models which will serve as a reference tool for future projects.
49th Annual Exhibition and Awards Presentation
Saturday, May 19, 2007 at The Pappajohn Center
Awards of Excellence were given to every entry accepted into the exhibition. One entry in each of 19 categories was recognized with the Best of Category Award. One Best of Show Award was chosen from among the published Bests of Categories. ADAI provides one award to each entry accepted into the exhibition. Additional awards are available for an addition fee.
49th Annual Judges Reception
Monday, April 23, 2007
We invite three judges from around the country every year to come to Des Moines and judge our Annual Design Exhibition. This year we were graced with lots of talent as usual. While in town for only a short time, two of the judges spoke at our reception – each giving a reasonable, yet shortened talk about current design issues and their experience in the field.
John Pobojewski [ Thirst, Chicago - 3st.com ] is a designer / artist / musician who seeks to express humanity in design through communication. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication and a Bachelor of Music in Performance. At Thirst, in collaboration with Rick Valicenti, he has served clients including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Herman Miller, Wright Auctions, and many others.
As a designer, John has received recognition from STEP 100, The Type Directors Club of New York, and Graphis, and his work has appeared in Print and I.D. Magazine. In 2006, he received recognition as one of Print Magazine’s “New Visual Artists: 20 under 30.” He has lectured at Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has judged design competitions including the TDC NY Annual 2007.
Keith Knueven [ roadf.com ] is a designer and educator in Los Angeles. He maintains an eclectic roster of his own clients along with a few studios throughout the LA area. His clients of branding, identity and printed work include AIGA, Dreamworks, the Eames Office, Liberation Yoga, LACMA, MGM, Motorola, Sony, Technicolor, and many others.
His work has been recognized by numerous publications and organizations including Communication Arts, Create, Graphis, How, Print and Step Magazines, and AIGA. In 2003, How Magazine noted him as 1 of 5 designers to watch. Today Keith enjoys teaching at Art Center College of Design. He is a former board member with the AIGA Los Angeles chapter.
John Harris [ a5, Chicago - a5inc.com] counsels clients on marketing and public relations issues, including strategy and positioning, message development, public relations and events. He also leads the creative team in the development of print and digital programs, including graphic identity, advertising, collateral and web development.
A former journalist for Forbes, the Milwaukee Journal and other publications, John joined The Marmon Group, Inc. (now a $6 billion organization) as director of communications in 1991. There, he consulted with Marmon’s 100-plus companies on marketing, communications and public relations issues in a wide variety of industries, including financing, consumer products and industrial products. After leaving Marmon in 1998, John served as a strategic communications consultant for VSA Partners, advising such clients as Steelcase, Landscape Forms and US West on brand development and brand management.
In his role as principal of a5, Harris has developed expertise in indoor and outdoor space, working with companies that design and produce products for home and office, as well as the industries of healthcare, education, non-profits, consumer products and finance, among others.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Steve Sikora is co-founder and creative director of the multi-disciplinary firm, Design Guys. Sikora, along with partner Lynette Erickson-Sikora, directs identity and branding, print, packaging, advertising, retail strategies, signage programs, websites, broadcast, merchandising fixtures and environments.
Both partners have strong social consciousness. Steve and Lynette believe designers are in a position to make a positive difference in the world and are duty bound to do so.
Steve studied painting and sculpture as a fine arts major at the University of Wisconsin and in the late 1970’s began applying his visual arts training in the form of graphic design while involved with experimental theater in Minneapolis.
Achievements include: launching the fledgling Aveda brand, serving as official design firm of The Guthrie Theater, brand packaging for Rollerblade, created extensive branding, packaging, marketing and fixturing for Target, including creation of the Michael Graves Design line, consulted on the development of the Apple Store and proposed and developed the Eames Paper Collection for Neenah Paper, Inc.
Design Guys’ work has regularly appeared in awards annuals as well as in Print, How, Adobe, Graphis, Communication Arts, Applied Arts, Boards and Critique Magazines. And has been honored by AIGA, The Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, Brand Design Association, Industrial Design Society of America IDEA Awards, Type Director’s Club, Ad Fed Addy Awards, Retail Advertising Council, The Society for Environmental Graphic Design, Summit Awards.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Michael Doret, a graduate of Cooper Union, opened his own design studio, first in New York City and later in Hollywood. An eight time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award, Michael is a specialist in logos and letterforms. His unique typographic vision blends elements of lettering, illustration and graphic design. The inspiration for his work came primarily from his early years growing up near the bright lights, signage and brilliant colors of Brooklyn's Coney Island, and later in life from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater marquees, enamel signs, and early to mid-20th century packaging.
In addition to designing many memorable covers over the years for TIME Magazine, as well as CD covers (from the infamous "Rock and Roll Over" for Kiss to his Grammy Award nominated design for the Squirrel Nut Zippers), he has created many familiar works including the NY Knicks logo and the Federal Eagle postage for the United States Postal Service.
In 2006 he invested some of his time in font design, opening "Alphabet Soup Type Founders" with the release of two fonts—”Orion” and “Metroscript” and one font family—”PowerStation”. Simultaneous with the release of his fonts he published limited edition serigraph posters celebrating the new font designs.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
John Bielenberg 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 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 has won over 250 design awards, was recently nominated for 2 National Design Awards from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, has served on the AIGA National Board of Directors, taught at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and has written articles on design for Communication Arts Magazine, Critique Magazine, “Looking Closer 2- Critical Writings on Graphic Design,” and “Design Issues- How Graphic Design Informs Society.”
John is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International) and is Vice President, and on the Board of Directors, of the PopTech Institute in Camden, which explores the impact of technology on people.
For years John Bielenberg has impacted the design industry by challenging our ways of thinking and countering our inclination to develop patterns that limit our thought process. Thus his dogma — Think Wrong! He maintains that the human brain tends to think along pre-determined linear thought pathways. Such linear thinking can inhibit true innovation and creative exploration.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Gary Baseman. Pervasive Artist. Painter. TV/Movie Producer. Toy Designer. Humorist. Mr. Baseman is the three-time Emmy award winning creator and executive producer of “Teacher’s Pet,” the critically acclaimed animated television series and feature-length animated film. His artwork contributes to major publications such as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. His strong visual images have been commissioned by the corporate world with such international corporate clients as Nike, Chili's, Gatorade, Mercedes-Benz, Labatt, and Thomas Cook. Mr. Baseman is extremely proud to create the visual identity of the award-winning, best selling game "Cranium." The National Portrait Gallery in D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art in Rome feature his work in their permanent collections. He continues to have solo gallery exhibitions with his paintings in New York, Los Angeles, Rome and Tokyo. Mr. Baseman continues to lecture international venues such as the School of Visual Arts in NY, the Royal College of Art in London, and Art Center in LA. His limited edition art toys are in the forefront of this new Art Toy movement, selling out around the world. Entertainment Weekly Magazine named Baseman as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment. His 352 page book of his art, titled “Dumb Luck” was just published by Chronicle Books.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Field Paper Company presents Fall Into Paper
cosponsored by ADAI
@ Foxboro Conference Center
Trade Show, Buffet Lunch and Featured Speaker:
Wayne Geyer, Write More Good: Copywriting for Designer
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Tim Frame's 20 year career in visual communications spans a broad range of experience that includes the design of corporate identity systems, retail graphic programs, environmental graphics, advertising, packaging, and publication design. His work includes projects for such clients as: Bob Evans, Borders, Donatos, Eddie Bauer, Frito Lay, Healthtex, Hasbro, Lands' End, National Lacrosse League, Procter & Gamble, Target and Universal Studios Hollywood.
Tim has been recognized for excellence in the areas of graphic design, publication design, and environmental graphics by leading organizations and publications including: @issue, Communication Arts, Graphic Design USA, Graphis, How, and Print Magazine. His work has also been featured in numerous publications comprised of outstanding work in the areas of graphic design and packaging. These honors include a selection to the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
www.logolounge.com
www.timframe.com
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Art Chantry has won hundreds of design and advertising awards, including a
bronze lion at Cannes, and the Poster Laureate of the Colorado International
Invitational Poster Exposition. His work has been collected and exhibited
by some of the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world: the
Louvre, The Smithsonian, The Library of Congress and the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame to name a few. In 1993 The Seattle Art Museum honored him with a
one-man retrospective of his work and this past summer (June-August 2003)
PS1, in association with the Museum of Modern Art, did the same. His work
has been published in hundreds of books and magazines and in 2001 Chronicle
Books published the monograph of his work , Some People Can't Surf, written
by Julie Lasky. In fact, there is even a book about Chantry's work
published in China and written entirely in Chinese...though nobody knows
what it REALLY says.
During his time working in Seattle, Art somehow managed to carve out a style
that took hold of the popular underground music scene in the early 1990's.
Dubbed "grunge" by culture mavens, it actually was a look developed at an
alternative newsweekly named The Rocket, where Art began as art director in
1984 and continued to be involved off and on for over ten years. During
that time, the magazine became a virtual hub on the wheel of Seattle's music
and culture scene. Soon his ideas extended beyond The Rocket to the
fledgling record label, Sub Pop, where it became history. His ideas found
further nuance in his work for the garage rock record label, Estrus Records,
where his style found a perfect home.
Through his work with the staff of The Rocket and the classes he taught at
the School of Visual Concepts, Art influenced an entire generation of young
graphic designers in the northwest, and eventually across the county. He
has lectured extensively and traveled to present his work all over the
world. He has contributed writings to a number of books about graphic
design, and his own book, Instant Litter, Concert Posters from Seattle Punk
Culture, is considered a classic in it's field. To this day, his hard-edge
scrappy look can be seen everywhere from punk rock record covers to
corporate annual reports.