leaves in elysian park
monday, october 25 – wednesday october 27 adobe max at the LA convention center. join AIGA in our unconference room on tuesday, october 26, 12-5pm!
thursday, october 28, 5-7pm ProBono Design: Alissa Walker with Stephan Bucher, Project H Design @ PMCA free with pmca admission.
kale with raindrops
welcome, fall rain! even though design week ended yesterday, there are still all kinds of fun design things to do, check it out.
monday, october 18, 7-9pm AIGA LA monthly programming meeting FREE and open to anyone who wants to work with the AIGA LA programming committee. this month, we’re meeting at two west in hollywood. email me if you’d like to attend.
tuesday, october 19 robert glasper at catalina jazz club. tickets available through the catalina site, don’t miss glasper on his visit to LA!
wednesday, october 20, 5:30-8pm october 2010 biznik mixer at jerry’s deli FREE! join biznik and come down & hang with us!
saturday, october 23, 7-10pm an evening with michael doret FREE! join the graphic artists guild and hear from designer michael doret.
saturday & sunday, 11am-6pm artisanal LA $10 advance / $15 on-site at the cooper design space penthouse. learn about, try, taste & support artisanal foods from a great selection of local producers!
tuesday, october 19, 6-9pm content without borders or how to design beyond social media with advine. prices vary.
thursday, october 21, 7-9pm a night of conversation with margo chase FREE!
[chive blossoms in the garden]
it’s design week! all kind of fun, designey things happening, check it out at designweekla.org!
monday, october 11, 8pm soviet-unterzoegersdorf: adventure gaming, politics and future of the past FREE! johannes grenzfurthner of monochrom visits betalevel!
tuesday, october 12, 7:30-9am LA chamber referral breakfast FREE to LA chamber members, or attend as my guest [email me for info].
wednesday, october 13, 7-10pm Behance / AIGA October meetup at The Cat & Fiddle FREE with rsvp. join us at our monthly meetup during design week!
thursday, october 14, 6:30-9:30pm talkstory with jeni: going metro $10 for AIGA or A+D members, $20 for non-members. jeni herberger sits down with michael lejeune and matt raymond for a chat the creative team behind LA metro. then we mix & mingle over wine & cheese, with fantastic gifts & giveaways. come join us!
friday, october 15, 7-9pm panels: a comics panel. $10 AIGA members, $20 non-members. a panel of outstanding local artists who are inspired by both comic books and graphic design will gather at meltdown comics for a discussion on comics and design.
sunday, october 17, 12pm design week LA farewell brunch with kernspiracy
check the design week LA site for more fun things to do all week!
thursday, october 7, 6-9pm folded inspiration with kit heinrichs and trish witkowski by sappi paper FREE with rsvp. this inspirational & information folding demo is an amazing presentation. i saw it at the HOW conference this year, and i’m so happy that AIGA was able to help out with the LA leg of their tour. the event is currently sold out, but if they get any cancellations, sign up!
sunday, october 10, 10am-3pm cicLAvia los angeles! FREE & open to the public. LA’s first cicLAvia has a 7-mile route through hollywood. grab your bikes and explore the city on a blocked street route, 10-10-10!
friday, october 8, 11am-1pm constructing a revolution FREE! Christopher Mount will present an in-depth, critical survey of the buildings, books, posters, and art — as well as the politics and culture — of Soviet Constructivism. Among other exhibitions, Christopher has organized the Museum of Modern Art show of Russian movie posters by the Stenberg Brothers.
saturday, october 9, 7:30-10pm cut&paste digital design tournament $15 per person with group discounts available. The evening event features a live design competition of 16 digital designers competing in 2D, 3D and motion design to claim their place at the 2010 Cut&Paste Global Championship, a Converse audience design activity, Show&Tell live presentations on design process curated by Maxon and IDSA, and drink special by MediaTemple.
this past weekend was the 2nd annual printer’s fair at the international printing museum in torrance. the LA chapter of AIGA teamed up with the OC chapter and took a table to meet the attendees and let any designers, printers, and creatives know about what we do. the international printing museum has a great collection of print machinery for letterpress and linotype, bringing the history of printing to life for all audiences.
the vendors who sell at this fair are split between those with equipment and supplies to sell to people who would like to do their own printing or supplement their collections, and those who do printing and design, selling products or services. much of the work was so nice to experience, the combination of great design and the elegance of letterpress makes most print designers want to buy everything in sight.
some of the vendors combined personal crafts with print matter, such as michelle moode, who created many handmade books with some application of printed material, sewn stitching, and typographic ornaments. these books were designed as journals with blank paper, but i know i’d have trouble making the move to write in it.
i have always been interested in the letterpress process, so it’s great to know i’d have an option to shop for a press one day. for now, i’m still just a customer.
it’s a short week for me, since myself and the superbunker are heading up to san francisco for arse elektronika thursday – sunday. it’s scorching hot today, so i’m running away to the beach!
sunday, october 3, 3pm green is not the only color: the sustainable design rainbow FREE with admission to the pasadena museum of contemporary art. Sustainable design. Sounds green, but what does it mean to graphic design? Use less paper? Make a banner about trees? Create a community? Use your skills to change a social condition? Confusion still abounds, so let’s get a better understanding of the many ways and forms in which sustainability might take place in design — or even become a design practice.
i’m taking most of the week off for deadlines and wind-down from last week, but if you do catch me, it’ll be at the print fair.
saturday, september 25 9am-5pm 2nd annual LA printers fair at the international printing museum in carson. only $5 to attend! visit the AIGA booth D55!
friday, september 24, 8pm colin dickey on the ss normandie at machine project. FREE with rsvp.
wednesday – friday, september 22-24 opportunity green business conference. The 4th annual Opportunity Green Business Conference, held September 22 – 24 at Los Angeles Center Studios in partnership with the UCLA Anderson Price Center for Entrepreneurship, is a convergence of the most innovative and successful design, technology and business leaders driving today’s green economy.
thursday, september 23, 6-9pm the mad men of los angeles. While New York has its Mad Men, the west coast counterparts were found along Wilshire Boulevard, and attended meetings of The Advertising Agency Production Men’s Club, now known as APALA. Learn about the early years of APALA and the Los Angeles advertising and graphic industry firsthand from professionals who actually lived and breathed the business during those amazing early years.
i am thoroughly amused by my gradient manicure of flat neutrals and cold colors for this week. on a week as busy as this one, it’s the little things. ha.
monday, september 13, 7pm AIGA/LA monthly programming meeting at betalevel. open to anyone interested in working with the los angeles chapter of AIGA on awesome events for the design community all across the southland. you must email me to attend.
tuesday, september 14, 7:30-9am the LA area chamber referral network. my bimonthly breakfast to connect with my fellow chamber members is FREE to chamber members, but you can drop in as my guest if you’d like to check it out. at this meeting, i’ll be presenting on how to take the “labor” out of labor and make the workday fun!
wednesday, september 15, 5:30-8pm LA’s longest running biznik mixer at jerry’s famous deli in the marina! FREE to biznik members, join biznik for free to promote your business and then rsvp to our super-fun mixer, hosted this month by myself and helen gould, and come say hello!
friday, september 17 all day park[ing] day LA! check out the installations all around los angeles!
saturday, september 18, 5-7pm gordon edgar discusses and signs cheesemonger: a life on the wedge, with cheese tasting at skylight books. FREE!
sunday, september 19, 2pm & 3pm and the whale said moby dick puppet show at machine project with linda wei and nicole antebi. FREE! i’ll be doing some character voices and puppet manipulation and hopefully making people laugh.
thursday, september 16, 7-9:30pm designing for the ipad, FREE with rsvp at ucla extension.
kicking off post-labor day september with some great events. this week, AIGA is partnering with the behance network for our first-ever joint meetup!
thursday, september 9, 8pm lecture on ghost ships with jason brown at machine project, part of the ongoing shipwreck exhibit, FREE!
friday, september 10, 6-9pm AIA/LA design awards at the A+D museum, FREE with rsvp. the opening night includes a conversation with the juries of the awards followed by a reception.
thursday, september 9, 7-10pm behance / AIGA LA meetup at beechwood, FREE to behance and AIGA members with rsvp. come out and meet the greater los angeles creative community! note: this event will move to various locations around town on a monthly basis.
parlato design studio 
