Education

Last October, AIGA Baltimore sponsored Create Don’t Hate with Worldstudio. Now the seven selected billboards are up in Baltimore!

To read more about the program, check out this post: AIGA Create Don’t Hate

As part of Stevenson University’s portfolio review this semester, I was asked to speak for a few minutes to the students tomorrow, so here is what I plan to talk about.

The economy will always have its ups and downs, but graphic designers can still find their way. Here are some tips for the new graduates for 2010.

Last October, AIGA Baltimore sponsored Create Don’t Hate with Worldstudio. This was a mentoring program for high school students in the Baltimore area. Graphic designers were matched up with students interested in visual arts from Patapsco and Patterson high schools. The groups worked together to create posters that later on could become billboards throughout the city. The program lasted four weeks, with students and mentors meeting once a week.

This past Wednesday at the Windup Space, Guy Arceneaux and I gave presentations for Aquent’s first roundtable discussion event. The evening was focused on a dilemma I think many print designers are finding. The print market is over saturated with designers, and the web market is in need for more designers. Based in print design, I have been transitioning more into web because of a need for my job and my own personal curiosity.

This weekend, I attended the conference Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World. There were many sessions to choose from, and I had a difficult time deciding which ones to attend. Even though the speakers were focusing on educators, it still gave me inspiration even as a professional in the field. Here is some of what I gleaned from the sessions.