What happens after you send your files to the printer? Now you can get all the answers at an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour. Baltimore Color Plate has been providing outstanding offset printing, digital printing, mailing, digital photography, and prepress services for over 25 years and now, they have agreed to open their doors and let you come and see first hand how it’s done. Please join AIGA and Baltimore Color Plate for a casual evening with food and drink, where you can get answers to all the questions you have. This as an event you won’t want to miss!
October 6th, 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Baltimore Color Plate
1030 Cromwell Bridge Rd
Baltimore, MD 21286
This event is FREE for AIGA student members, $10 at the door for non-members. Space is limited. Please email Stacy Ross at education@baltimore.aiga.org by October 3rd to reserve your spot.
Create! Dont Hate is a partnership program between AIGA and Worldstudio. Our goal is to connect graphic designers with high school students interested in visual arts and have them create slogans/posters that could become billboards throughout the city. Topics include domestic violence, stopping crime, love your city, take care of sidewalks, etc.
The program lasts four weeks, volunteers will meet will the students once each week. You can either participate on your own or team up with other designers.
Location:
Advertising & Graphic Design
Arts & Humanities Academy
Room 231
Patterson High School
100 Kane Street
Baltimore, MD 21224
410 746 9478
The dates scheduled are:
1. October 2nd 9:30-10:30am
2. October 9th 9:30-10:30am
3. October 23th 9:30-10:30am
4. October 30th 9:30-10:30am
The deadline to get involved is September 30th. If you are interested, we will send you detailed information.
This program will showcase the power of design to ignite change to the general public and business community so please join us in this exciting initiative!
To see other programs that are happening in other cities, visitwww.designigniteschange.org
For more information emailviviana@baltimore.aiga.org. oralissa@baltimore.aiga.org
Dolphin Press & Print is a unique collaborative print studio that is designed to bring visual artists and writers together to work with students, producing limited-edition letterpressed books, broadsides and editioned prints in a variety of print media.
The Dolphin Press Internship Program provides MICA students with curricula-based professional development skills and allows students to interact with one another and with the Visiting Artist Programming connected with the press.
Working collaboratively with peers and seasoned professional printers, solving complex problems and administering business and marketing duties at the press are the primary focus of this internship.
The internship program is administered by Co Directors Whitney Sherman, Chair of the Illustration Department and Gail Deery, Chair of the Printmaking Department at MICA.
The Dolphin Press & Print website can be visited at http://www.dolphinpressandprint.com
Interns will report weekly to the Dolphin Press Coordinator and the Paper Studio Coordinator.
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2009 Semester. Four positions are available. Each student will receive three credits and is expected to work 8 hours per week.
Application Procedure:
Applicants will electronically submit their completed applications with a cover letter, resume and class schedule by 5:00pm on Monday, September 14, 2009 to printmaking@mica.edu. Applicants may then be interviewed.
You can download the application here.
intern_application_2009
The Wall Street Journal is currently featuring an article with a preview of Sweet Tooth, the new Vertigo series written and drawn by Canadian artist Jeff Lemire and colored by Jose Villarrubia. You can read more about it in the following link:
Wall Street Journal - Sweet Tooth
