wednesday, august 11, 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 by myself and colleen wainwright, and come say hello!
between deadlines and launching all kinds of AIGA/LA programming, i’m buried in work and meetings. as evidence, i offer the one public event i’m hosting this week. cheers!
monday, august 2, 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, july 27, 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.
thursday, july 29, 7-9:30pm stimulatte [one drink minimum]. Come out and join us for a cup of coffee and some stimulating conversation at the Zephyr Cafe! This Month’s StimuLatte is being hosted by CSULA’s AIGA Student Group GAUGE. Thanks to Aileen Garrido! StimuLatte is a monthly networking event for held during the school year for Los Angeles area Design Students. come out, design students!
tuesday, july 27 – friday, july 30, 7-11pm each day Information Design: Transforming data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into stories, a week-long class at machine project.
tuesday, july 20, 5:30-7:30pm super summer valley business mixer at bokado in studio city. FREE!
thursday, july 22, 6:30-10pm moving from print to web, part 3 a three part How-To seminar series on demystifying the web for designers. free for aiga members, $15 for non-members.
this is the week for making the social rounds about town. my aiga involvement is taking me to a board meeting this week, so we can really dive into the inner-workings of how the organization operates. it’s time for the dumpling crew to convene over dumplings in san gabriel. and summer birthdays abound! but in all seriousness, there’s also work & networking to be done.
tuesday, july 13, 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.
wednesday, july 14, 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 by myself and colleen wainwright, and come say hello!
monday, july 12, 7-9pm mission critical design LA UX Meetup and IxDA Los Angeles are honored to welcome Mikkel Michelsen visiting from Denmark to present his insights into the exciting world of mission critical interaction design, where safety, security and protecting human life enters the realm of digital technology and user experience design.
wednesday, july 14, 6-9pm come in: a spatial intervention kickoff party at the architecture + design museum > los angeles FREE but open to museum members only. The commencement of the A+D Museum’s first official exhibition in its new permanent home will be celebrated with a kick off party for COME IN! A Spatial Intervention Wednesday, JULY 14th.
this week is full of work & holiday weekends. happy 4th of july, everyone!
it’s the summer solstice today! happy longest day of the year!
tuesday, june 22, 7:30am LA area chamber referral breakfast checking in with my LA area chamber network. FREE to chamber members or free as a guest of a member.
wednesday, june 23, 7:30-9pm 3×3: the long strange journey of a graphic design career featuring sean adams, tom devine and terry lee stone at art center.
saturday, june 26, 7-10pm deLab’s city listening II: stories about los angeles Join design east of La Brea for an evening of free expression and generous libation in celebration of LA’s design culture at large.
it’s get to work week after all that conference action. happy father’s day to all the dads this sunday!
tuesday, june 15, 7pm the page, an interactive exhibit of artists’ books FREE! Curated by Karin Lanzoni and Rachelle W. Chuang, the artist’s book is a little known creative genre in which an artist presents his or her ideas in the form of a book. For this survey exhibition, thirty-three artists from a broad range of studio art practices were asked to submit one page (as they define it) from one of their own artist’s books to mount on the walls of the gallery.
saturday, june 19, 8:30pm resonance FREE at betalevel featuring ok music, zotalayer, and sublamp.
sunday, june 20, 6-7:30pm you should judge a book by its cover $5 at UCB LA. NYC-based graphic designer and comedian Patrick Borelli presents YOU SHOULD JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER, a one-man multimedia show where he takes thirty of the oddest book covers and tears them a new one. The show also features videos of interviews Patrick conducted with Steven Heller, Chip Kidd and Rodrigo Corral.
tuesday, june 15, 7:30-9pm jeremy mende, mende design at art center. FREE!
wednesday, june 16, 7-9:30pm an evening with si scott at ucla.
thursday, june 17, 6-9pm aiga student portfolio review night at the bistro at the art institute of california, FREE with rsvp!
friday, june 18, 10am–2pm the art institute of california, los angeles, graduate portfolio show at the sheraton delfina, free for employers with an employer luncheon.
just wrapping things up in the studio so i can take off to denver for the creative freelancer conference june 5 & 6, immediately followed by the how design conference june 6-9. it’s going to be a grand-slam design conference marathon, and i’m going to blog about every day of it.
parlato design studio 