2009/2010 Past Meetings
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Bill GardnerMr. Logo Lounge www.gardnerdesign.com Thursday, May 20th 11:30 Lunch/Social Giveaway for Free Online Membership to Logo Lounge and book signing for any Logo Lounge Books you bring! (ArtCrank Poster Show on display as well) |
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Sussner Design AND 2nd Annual Chili CookoffJanuary 28, 2010 FREE CUSTOM POSTER BEST CHILI WINS A PRIZE |
Nathan Wright of Lava Row Thursday, October 29, 2009 Meredith Conference Core 5:30 Dinner/Social | 6:30 Speaker RSVP by October 28th!
Lava Row is a social media strategy, consulting and education firm based in Des Moines, Iowa. Lava Row helps businesses and organizations make sense of social media applications such as blogs, social networks, online communities, and more. Lava Row’s client base includes Cargill, Meredith, Greater Des Moines Partnership, Kum Go, Iowa Health, 80/35, Aviva, Civic Center of Des Moines.
Nathan has over 10 years of expertise in social media, web culture, emerging media, user interface design, branding and digital communications. He founded Lava Row in 2007 after serving as the Interactive Lead at The Meyocks Group, an integrated branding firm. Nathan is dedicated to fostering the creative capital within Des Moines and can often be found organizing/attending local TweetUps. In addition to this blog, Nathan also writes about web strategy for The Des Moines Business Record’s IowaBiz.com.
ADAI presents BARBque | Toast & Roast of Barb Gordon
Join us for a Toast & Roast of long time ADAI board member Barb Gordon. But, ssssshhhhhhhh! She doesn't know. We roast who we love and ADAI loves Barb for everything she has done for us. Anyone can have a shot at roasting Barb, but will need to donate an additional $3 to the ADAI Scholarship Fund (which Barb is the committee chair of). If you need some help with witty comments, we will have some extra jokes for you to borrow.
Thursday, Sept 24
6:00pm
Walker Johnston Park
Urbandale
Catered by Shane’s Rib Shack
2008/2009 Past Meetings
ADAI presents:
Poster Design Contest to benefit The Whitehouse and ADAI Elections
Whitehouse Poster Design Contest
ADAI will be dividing attendees into collaborative groups to concept ideas and then execute a final design (without the aid of a computer). The winning poster design will be picked by a panel of judges from The Whitehouse. ADAI will provide all paper and some pencils, markers, magazines, scissors, glue, etc. Feel free to bring your own Sharpie.
The Whitehouse is an AA clubhouse owned by the Alano Society and is used for AA meetings and as a safe house for alcoholics to socialize and hold sober events. For more information about The Whitehouse, visit whitehouseaa.com.
ADAI Elections
As per our bylaws, ADAI will hold the annual election of officers at this meeting.
The board of directors has approved the following slate of candidates. Nominations will also be taken from the floor. Only paid members in good standing are eligible to be nominated. Only paid members are eligible to vote.
President - Kelly Bittner
Programs - Matt Smith, Angel Modtland
Exhibition - Open
Membership - Summer Hines
Treasurer - Angela Johnston
Secretary - Samantha Hayen
Student - Jill Paisley
ADAI presents:
Joel Templin & Katie Jain of Hatch Design
Located in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, Hatch is a branding and design agency with a small and highly productive team of designers and an impressive client base. The firm has done work for Apple, Starbucks, Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola, Hilton, American Eagle Outfitters, JanSport and many other A-list companies.
Learn more: hatchsf.com
ADAI presents:
ADAI's 51st Professional Design Exhibition
@ Pappajohn Education Center
1200 Grand Ave., Des Moines
Saturday, April 18, 2009
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Open Bar & Heavy Hors d'oeuvres
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Award Presentation
8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Exhibition Display Viewing/Social
$25 for members & significant others
$35 for non-members
Join your fellow Design Scouts for this jamboree and learn who wins the most coveted merit badges in all of Design Scoutdom:
Awards of Excellence
Best of Category Awards
Best of Show Award
MERIT AWARDS
Bring your Design Scout merit pins earned throughout the year! Every pin you have will get you one entry into the drawing for door prizes to be awarded throughout the evening. (Please limit gloating to two minutes or less per door prize won.)
ADAI presents:
Meet this year’s judges!
Attending this event is your last chance to earn a Design Scout merit pin! Besides impressing your peers and aggravating your enemies, every Design Scout pin you earn will get your name into a drawing for door prizes to be awarded throughout the evening at the Professional Design Exhibition on April 18.
Professional Design Exhibition Judges:
Marty Amsler, Bailey Lauerman
Omaha, Nebraska | www.baileylauerman.com
The year was 1995. Following a record contract, two albums, and a European tour with his band, Marty Amsler was seeking a change. The question, “Is this what life is all about?” crept into his mind. The world of rock and roll had taken its toll and he realized it was time to hang up his bass and take a bath. With this change of direction, Marty began to see things more clearly and the answer to his question became obvious. Life…is about advertising. Thirteen years later, Marty has filled the spaces on his mantle previously reserved for Grammys with a slew of national and international advertising and design awards. Fans can currently find him performing as VP/Creative Director at Bailey Lauerman in Omaha. He accepts requests.
Shawn Hazen, Hazen Creative Inc.
Chicago, Illinois | www.hazencreative.com
Shawn Hazen is an award-winning brand communications designer. While living in California, he was an art director at Apple Computer, the founding designer for Dwell Magazine, and a designer for renowned publisher Chronicle Books. After moving to Chicago in 2006, he was Design Director at branding agency Remedy before opening his own studio, Hazen Creative, Inc. His work includes identity, editorial, packaging, retail, advertising, and interactive design, has been recognized by prestigious design competitions and magazines, and has been featured in numerous books. In addition, Shawn has taught courses in publication design, advanced typography, and identity design.
Benjamin Levitz, Studio on Fire
Minneapolis, Minnesota | www.studioonfire.com
Studio On Fire founder Benjamin Levitz received his BFA in Communication Design from the College of Visual Arts in 1998. After graduation, he went on to work at several design firms and agencies, honing his skills on national branding projects. Feeling an intense drive to bring a tactile sensibility and unique design vision to his creative work, he began the letterpress business in 1999 with a Chandler & Price platen press in the basement of his home. In 2006, Ben left the agency world forever to run the much expanded and fully staffed studio full-time. Studio On Fire’s current client list includes premier agencies, firms and individuals across the U.S. and world, with print and design work consistently appearing in award shows and publications of AIGA, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print magazine and Type Directors Annual. Ben has served as an adjunct faculty member at the College of Visual Arts teaching advanced typography course work. He lives in St. Paul, MN with his wife, three children and beloved bull terrier.
ADAI presents:
Design Ranch
Ingred Sidie and Michelle Sonderegger
Principals and Owners, Design Ranch
Kansas City, MO
The Design Ranch takes a holistic approach toward visual communication. Their audience-driven work is thoughtfully integrated and leaves a lasting impression with consumers. Since 1998, the Design Ranch has been collaborating in Kansas City with a group of talented graphic designers and with a wide network of nationally known artists, photographers and writers. The Design Ranch has won more awards than any other design firm in Kansas City and been recognized as one of the top design firms in the region.
The Design Ranch client work includes 360 Arcitecture, Amazon.com, BlueQ, Bo Lings, Buckle, Dell Computers, DermaDoctor, H&R Block, Hallmark Cards, Helzberg Diamonds, Lee Jeans, Nike, Payless Shoes, Peruvian Convention & SBC.
Don't forget to pick up your Design Scout pin. Each design pin you earn counts as an entry towards the grand prize giveaway at the ADAI Professional Exhibit in April.
ADAI presents:
Steve Walters of Screwball Press
@ The Gallery at the Elings-Wood Gallery Center for Art & Design Rasmussen Center
Since 1991, Steve Walters (under the moniker Screwball Press) has been printing posters, CD packaging, and a variety of other collectible items for Chicago's indie rock community and beyond. Recent clients include Wilco, Backstreet International Merchandise, Coudal Partners, Draft, and other agencies.
Walters' shop also functions as Screwball Academy, where he has trained and nurtured an entire community of screen printers in Chicago, many of whom have gone on to run their own successful studios.
His work, utilizing 'found' art in the style of Duchamp and Terry Gilliam, has been featured in Step by Step Graphics and Paul Grushkin and Dennis King's book, The Art of Modern Rock. His posters were also featured prominently in the 2000 film, High Fidelity.
Walters appears in Eileen Yaghoobian's 2008 Died Young Stayed Pretty, an independent film about rock posters.
He is also featured in the soon-to-be-released American Artifact, Merle Becker's film which chronicles the rise of the American rock poster since its birth in the '60s. www.americanartifactmovie.com
Screenprints from Screwball Press will be on display at the Gallery at the Elings-Wood Center for Art & Design, Grand View University, from January 5-23. Find out more about Screwball Press at www.screwballpress.com.
Steve will be doing a special poster for the event as well. Additional details to follow.
ADAI presents:
Jason Munn - The Small Stakes (Oakland, CA)
Jason Munn is originally from Wisconsin, but now calls Oakland, California home. Arising from a love of independent music, design, and making for the sake of making, his posters soon became a fixture in the local independent music scene.
He started The Small Stakes in the fall of 2003, and it has since unfolded into a successful independent design studio, producing nationally and internationally commissioned work in a range of print materials, including book covers, album packaging, T-shirt designs, screen-printed posters and illustrations.
Jason's work has appeared in Print, Communication Arts, Step Inside Design, Computer Arts Projects, Étapes, ReadyMade, and Creative Review. His work has also been featured in numerous exhibits and is part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
ADAI presents:
Bill Nellans - Photographer
@ East Court Atelier
307 East Court Avenue
Des Moines
Bill Nellans is a Des Moines based advertising photographer who has been working in the local market since 1980. His client list reads like a virtual who’s who of local, regional and national businesses. He has received numerous awards for his advertising and promotional work, as well as recognition for his artistic photos, which have been shown at the Des Moines Art Center and other galleries.
The meeting is going to be held at his relatively new studio at 307 East Court Avenue in Des Moines on Thursday, November 13th, 2008 with the food and social hour to start at 5:30 p.m. and the presentation to start at 6:30p.m. The name of the studio is East Court Atelier. Atelier is defined as a workplace for an artist.
Bill plans to make observations and talk about his many years of working with some of the top designers and art directors in the area. Making note of the changes that have taken place and of the things that seem to carry on, offering more questions than answers. He will offer rambling thoughts from a photographer’s point of view on the relationship between photography and design.
Don't forget to pick up our Design Scout Pin by attending the event. Collect them all and you'll be eligible for a giveaway at the ADAI Professional Exhibit in April, 2009.
For more information about the speaker go to eastcourtatelier.com
ADAI presents:
Clint! Runge of Archrival Design
Clint! Runge is the kind of guy who likes 7-11 Mountain Dew Slurpees and Velcro shoes. His saving grace is that he does great creative. As cofounder and creative director of Archrival, a distinguished youth brand strategy and design firm located in Lincoln, Nebraska, Runge kicks the tires and lights the fires for clients such as Red Bull, Facebook, SPAM, Colt 45, A&E Network, Walgreens and a host of entertainment brands. He's won as many awards as he's had all-nighters with numerous national gold Addy's, Art Directors Club, Young Guns, AIGA awards and One Show appearances including multiple One Show Pencils. His work has also been featured in publications like Communication Arts, HOW, Print, Graphis, STEP and the One Show Book. Most frightening of all, Runge teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the advertising college.
ADAI presents:
Eric Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Graphics
2008/09 ADAI Kick-Off Tailgate Party
7:30 p.m. Kelleys on Beaver
3606 Beaver Ave, Des Moines
Join us for tailgate-style food and festivities (including prize giveaways) following Eric’s presentation.
Founded in by Eric Rickabaugh in 1986 and located in Gahanna, Ohio, Rickabaugh Graphics’ creations have been featured in virtually every major design publication, been highlighted in numerous articles and appeared in over 100 design annuals.
Rickabaugh Graphics is best known nationally for their logo and identity expertise. The company has created memorable icons for national corporations, retailers, entertainment entities, sports teams and universities including Dave &l Buster’s, NFL, NBA, Toyota, The Limited, Coca-Cola, Clorox, The Ohio State University, Xavier University and Seton Hall University). In fact, they are widely considered to be the leading collegiate branding firm in the country with well over 100 university brands and over 500 collegiate logos designed.
ADAI presents:
Willoughby Design Group
ADAI presents:
50th Annual Design Exhibition - Judges' Reception
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.
ADAI presents:
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.
HELVETICA - a documentary film by Gary Hustwit
February 26, 2008 at the Fleur Cinema & Cafe
helveticafilm.com
ADAI presents:
Wink
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.