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AIGA100: A Century of Design - MFA & BFA Graphic Design Majors visit MODA

Thanks to all the Junior and Senior Graphic Design majors for attending the visit to The Museum of Design Atlanta yesterday.  It was an amazing turnout with 42 graphic design majors present. Also present were two of our MFA students/GTA's Ricky Warren and Carrie Brown as well as Professor Elizabeth Throop!  A great big "Shout Out" to Doug Grimmett, Founder and creative director of Primal Screen (and current President of the AIGA Atlanta chapter)  for giving us such an amazing tour of the exhibition which he co-curated  with AIGA national president Sean Adams. Also a huge "Thank You" to Laura Flusche, Executive Director for MODA, for allowing GSU to visit the museum on Monday when the museum is usually closed to the public.  Great visit!  Great inspiration!

Kudos to Doug Grimmett, president of Atlanta-based animators Primal Screen, who came up with the concept, worked with past AIGA president Sean Adams to select the artifacts, and designed and financed the show. - See more at: http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-aiga-century-of-design/#sthash.BxnuxIA0.dpuf

Take a look at the review by ArtsAtlanta:
http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-aiga-century-of-design/

Kudos to Doug Grimmett, president of Atlanta-based animators Primal Screen, who came up with the concept, worked with past AIGA president Sean Adams to select the artifacts, and designed and financed the show. - See more at: http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-aiga-century-of-design/#sthash.BxnuxIA0.dpuf

Doug Grimmett, president of Atlanta-based animators Primal Screen, who came up with the concept, worked with past AIGA president Sean Adams to select the artifacts, and designed and financed the show. - See more at: http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-aiga-century-of-design/#sthash.BxnuxIA0.dpuf

Doug Grimmett, president of Atlanta-based animators Primal Screen, who came up with the concept, worked with past AIGA president Sean Adams to select the artifacts, and designed and financed the show. - See more at: http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-aiga-century-of-design/#sthash.BxnuxIA0.dpuf

Doug Grimmett, president of Atlanta-based animators Primal Screen, who came up with the concept, worked with past AIGA president Sean Adams to select the artifacts, and designed and financed the show. - See more at: http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-aiga-century-of-design/#sthash.BxnuxIA0.dpuf

Article below courtesy of NeighborhoodNewspapers.com
Author Bobby Tedder.

The Midtown venue’s “AIGA 100: A Century of Design” is a retrospective that appears to pay homage to that realm’s reverential past while acknowledging the depth of contemporary contributions and the benefits of forward thinking.

“This is probably one of the most visually stunning design shows you’ll ever see,” said curator Doug Grimmett. “This is not an award show. … It’s made to delight and engage you.”

The titular entity at the heart of the exhibit, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, gets its just due by way of text and images. Framed iconic posters featuring the handiwork of the renowned designers it nurtured. Artifacts and a meandering timeline noting historical and pop culture flashpoints collectively serve to balance and stylize the endeavor.

The museum’s leaders acknowledged embracing the daunting task of chronicling the last 100 years of design.

Grimmett, a museum board member and owner of the firm Primal Screen, spent nearly a year painstakingly poring over archival materials to piece together the continuum expressed in the show.

“You have to put a box around it,” he said. “A hundred years ago, the word [‘design’] didn’t exist. … Generally, when you’re in a movement you don’t know what it’s called until you look back.

“The AIGA is a particularly good lens for the whole development of the field on the world stage. We have great examples of work [in the exhibit] that’s never been seen. … I don’t know if you’d want to go to a show to see stuff you’ve already seen a million times.”

The craftsmanship of design titans past and present adorn the walls and virtual gallery in the museum — from Paul Rand to Milton Glaser to Chip Kidd — as part of the exhibit. The instantly familiar work of other notables is just as aesthetically illuminating, ranging from a nutritional value label attached to food products to the CBS network’s seeing-eye logo.

“I think that one of the important things the exhibition conveys is that graphic design is everywhere and it does everything with us, for us,” said museum Executive Director Laura Flusche. “It solves so many of our problems, … helps us figure out which exit to take, warns us not to take too much medicine.

“So it’s not necessarily something that is just decorative. It allows us to function better in our day-to-day lives. I think you see a lot of that in this particular exhibition — you start to understand that.”

Read more: Neighbor Newspapers - MODA celebrates 100 years of design

 

Also take a look at the article by

http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-aiga-century-of-design/

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Derek Jeter: The Celebratory Campaigns

Derek Jeter – who is one of baseball's biggest stars – is retiring from the sport at the age of 40. He's broken more records than an angry DJ and has been a superstar for nearly half his life, and this touching tribute focuses on the respect he's been accorded by colleagues, opponents and fans who doff their caps to him when he walks out to bat. Among those paying tribute are Jay-Z, Spike Lee, Billy Crystal, Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. Agency: Wieden + Kennedy (New York) Director: Matt Aselton

Pin Up Revisited for AJMF and New Deadline (Wed October 8th)

Here's the plan for the next few weeks:

Monday September 29th: Meet at MODA at 3pm for a tour of the AIGA100 exhibition

Wednesday October 1st: The Final Pin Up Discussion and work in class

Monday October 6th: Work in Class and Discussion of PSA Assignment

Wednesday October 8th: Russell Gottshalk in Class for AJMF Critique

Monday October 13th: Teams discuss their PSA concepts in class
 

MODA Visit: AIGA100: A Century of American Design - Monday September 29th at 3pm

All images courtesy of MODA, Primal Screen and AIGA Charlotte

All the Junior and Senior Graphic Design majors will be visiting the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) on Monday September 29th at 3pm. It's the first time the entire group of graphic design majors have gathered in one place... so it should be fun. The faculty and graduate students are also invited to join us.

This will be a private tour of their new exhibition "AIGA100: A Century of Design" which was co-curated by Doug Grimmett, Founder and President of Primal Screen. Doug will be there to give everyone a tour himself and speak of the past 100 amazing years of American Design. The museum is usually not open on Monday so this is a special event for only us.

I've been asked to tell you that absolutely food or drinks will be allowed in the museum due to the nature of the archival materials presented. 

Everyone is expected to meet out front close to 3pm on Monday. 
Please don't be late. 
The best way to travel is MARTA railway since the Arts Center station is across from MODA.  

Admission will be at a reduced price of $5/person. You're lab fees will pay for this visit.
I'll pay for everyone all at once. You are not expected to pay. 

Doug Grimmett, Founder and President of Primal Screen and also co-curator of this exhibiton.

   
  

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