After the success of last year’s first member-only collaboration project, AIGA Dallas Fort Worth and Cartamundi USA have decided to take it to the next level. In 2018, members have the opportunity to express their creativity as part of AIGA’s own Tarot deck. With 78 cards to design, we have an even larger opportunity to showcase the amazing talent of our AIGA members in DFW.

We invite you to participate in this year’s project and show off your visionary creativity with a unique tarot card design. This is an exclusive opportunity to be a part of a truly creative finished product that will be fully functional and rich in symbolism.

Space is limited. Email membership@aigadfw.org to save your spot today.

Designed by masonbaronet

About Cartamundi USA

Cartamundi USA has partnered with AIGA Dallas Fort Worth to sponsor this unique community project for the second year in a row. In Latin, cartamundi means “cards for the world.” With almost 250 years of experience, 7 manufacturing facilities, 11 international branches, hundreds of agents and distributors in more than 50 countries, Cartamundi has established itself as the worldwide playing card leader! Learn more at cartamundiusa.com.

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Enhance your leadership skills and advance gender equity with this one-day professional development workshop designed especially for creatives. Sessions start with a dive into gender, empathy, and workplace issues that affect leadership progression and collaboration. From there, a range of high-energy interactive activities bust through biases to forge co-designed solutions.

The event is gender inclusive and capped at 25 participants. Breakfast and lunch are provided.

Location: The Dallas Center for Architecture // 1909 Woodall Rodgers Fwy

AIGA Members: $150 / Potential Members: $200

Register via ETOUCHES

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EVENT TAKEAWAYS
• Improve your understanding of gender-related cognitive biases and develop skills to overcome them
• Increase your negotiating and collaboration skills
• Develop enhanced communication and facilitation capabilities
• Develop empathetic understanding of gender-related workplace issues
• Improve your management style to be more inclusive and empowered
• Leave with an improved toolset to enact equity in your workplace

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OUTLINE
// Arrival :: 8:30 – 9 am //
// Morning session :: 9 am – noon //
• Introduction to behavioral bias and workplace equity
• Small group activity on issue and opportunity identification
• Leadership, empathy and storytelling activity
// Lunch break //
// Afternoon session :: 1 – 4:00 pm //
• Action and empathy mapping
• Co-design ideation session on reframing biases

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NOTE: Revenue from this workshop, part of a series across five AIGA chapters, supports a year-long gender equity project in collaboration with Disrupt Design. The result will be a toolkit to be made available to all AIGA chapters, and beyond.

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ABOUT OUR FACILITATOR : LEYLA ACAROGLU, PHD

Dr Leyla Acaroglu is a New York based Australian designer, sociologist, educator, sustainability provocateur and entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Un-School of Disruptive Design, and two design agencies; New York based Disrupt Design and Melbourne based Eco Innovators, both multidisciplinary studios focused on pioneering social and environmental change by and through design. Her award winning work spans a variety of locations, fields and mediums, and is driven by a strong desire to effect, create, and see positive social sustainability change in the world. She has just completed her PhD on how to make effective change.

Leyla is a well-respected international speaker, with over 1 million views of her mainstage TED talk, she has keynoted the AIGA Design Conference in 2012, and presented at a host of international events. She is a highly skilled facilitator and passionate communicator, with her writing being published in a host of design magazines and the New York Times.

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AIGA is planning a yearlong series of celebrations for the upcoming centennial year. This December, we begin with a competition for AIGA DFW’s best Windsor chair design! We asked lead creative agencies and designers to participate in designing a chair for our chapter, and are asking you to vote for your favorite design! The winning design will be displayed in New York during the National Centennial Day Celebration on January 21st, 2014.

The competition will run from Dec. 9th through the 15th at 10pm, so make sure to “Like” the chair design you prefer most and spread the word to your friends, colleagues and family members to do the same!

The history behind the chair comes from when AIGA was founded, members were required to buy their own Windsor chairs to participate in meetings and events. Inspired by this historical detail and the powerful resonance of the chair as an object of design, all chapters will customize 67 Real Good chairs (donated by Blu Dot) representing the vibrancy of our nationwide network.

If you are interested in getting involved with our yearlong celebration, please contact us!

*Photo courtesy Walker Arts Center

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
6PM Gather / 7PM Balls
Fair Oaks Field #10 / 7621 Fair Oaks Ave / Dallas, TX 75231

BALL BRAWL was conceived over a few beers, a few diet cokes, and a few wooden tables. No one remembers how the conversation came about. Maybe it was a few inquiries about a design-firm softball team, then talks of a bowling league … however it was born, the infant idea quickly grew into an epic championships series involving balls that get smaller as the size of your competition does the same.

Yes. Shrinking balls. Narrow margins. A dirty joke that you’re forced to keep repeating. It’s a design community’s dream. Quicker than we anticipated, a few notable firms heard, and grabbed a good hold of the idea quickly.

All BALL BRAWL team spots are taken for the Fall games. But we have a great cause to support outside of heckling your friends: AIGA DFW Design Camp 2014. So, come join the brawl.

The twelve teams advancing to the next round on Oct. 10th: The Hurt Lockers, The Big House: Cell Block 2, Death from Above 2, Black Death Scorpions, The Big House: Cell Block 4, Cannon Ballers, CMYBALLS, White Lightning, MatchBallerz 2, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Gutter, MatchBallerz 1, Best Dressed: TBD.

Member and nonmember hecklers $5 each. Hecklers needed to vote for the best dressed.

Buy your tickets here.

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The 2013-14 year starts off with BIG events like DESIGN:BIG WEEK from September 21–27 and October 5, 2013, and the fun of BALL BRAWL which is already underway. And we’ll keep things rolling all year long with special speakers, mentoring opportunities, joint events with other creative organizations and more.

Download the calendar, and make your plans to link up with your fellow AIGA members all year long.

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We’re looking for 8 teams to participate in AIGA DFW’s very first Ball Brawl competition. Put your pencils aside, and get ready to compete for a trophy with another meaning for “annual” attached to it.

The first Ball Brawl happening in late July/early August will see (at least) 8 teams compete in a game involving — obviously — balls. For August, our balling of choice will be bowling.

The Ball Brawl Final Four competition will be in late September/early October, with the 4 winning teams from Ball Brawl competing to play for the two spots in the Ball Brawl Fall Championships in late November/early December.

Winners will be crowned. An inappropriate trophy will be awarded. All proceeds will go to developing AIGA DFW’s Kiddie Design Camp Program for summer 2014.

If your shop/group of buddies is interested in being one of our (8 minimum) teams for the first Ball Brawl, or if you’d like help putting a team of single players together, contact frances@aigadfw.org.

Thanks to our friends at BrandCory for designing our Ball Brawl logo + materials.

PS:

We’re excited to announce the following shops have already signed up to brawl:

• Matchbox Studio
• Caliber Creative
• Switch Creative Group
• Squires & Company
• Tractorbeam
• BrandCory

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Back after popular demand, AIGA DFW, along with PK Dallas put on another night of creative people giving creative presentations. Let’s celebrate our city and our neighborhoods with answers to the theme: “This Is My City.”

Our speakers include:
Lily Smith-Kirkley
Stefan Reddick
Tom Dennis
David Hopkins
Angela Mondragon
Catherine Cuellar
Cone Johnson
Robbie Good
Jenn Dunn
Alan Lidji
Jim Hart
Fred Holston

$10 members + nonmembers
$5 students + emerging designers

Lakewood Theater
1825 Abrams Rd  Dallas, TX 75214

Guests will also be able to vote on our Neighborhood Postcard Contest finalists. Finalist art will be displayed for voting at the event and online.

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AIGA DFW continues our mission to call attention to the people who helped shape DFW’s design aesthetic, community and strength with our Seasoned Pros speaker series. Each season, we’ll be hearing from those with the expertise, experience, personality and style that helped shape our city’s design community. For the Spring Seasoned Pros speaker, we are honored to have Doug May of May & Co. share his wisdom:

Uncertainty warrants creativity.

For over three decades, Doug May has worked on design assignments for numerous clients ranging from The Washington Opera to Zebco Fishing. He and his firm May & Co. have received numerous awards for creative excellence from professional organizations and international competitions, including Communication Arts, D&AD and Graphis, CIO Magazine, CA Interactive, Graphis New Media, the Web Marketing Association. A native Texan, Doug holds design degrees from the University of North Texas and Art Center College of Design. He began his career in New York in 1980 before returning to Dallas to eventually open his own design office. Doug was honored as an AIGA Fellow in 2011 by the DFW Chapter, for his contribution to the North Texas design community.

Join us as at our next Seasoned Pros AIGA/DFW talk, as Doug examines how it has become more challenging today for a communications design practice to innovate and add economic value in this age of uncertainty. Doug says, “Our design community must strive for a more complete understanding of its value. Creative minds have much more to offer business and society at large than aesthetics alone. We need to identify and address the obstacles that are restricting the creative community’s full economic potential”.

$10 Members / $20 Nonmembers / $5 Students & Emerging Designers (Membership ID Required)

Blanks Printing & Imaging / 2343 N Beckley Ave, Dallas, TX

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
6:00 PM : Reception
7:15 PM : Talk

A special thanks to Big Box Little Box and Blanks Printing & Imaging for helping us put on our Seasoned Pros series.

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AIGA DFW wants to show the people who live here, and the people who don’t live here yet, just how cool, colorful and creative DFW is by producing a set of 12 postcards celebrating DFW and its cities, districts, and neighborhoods. This first set will include postcards for the following:
– DFW : (the whole Metropolitan area)
– The city of Dallas
– The city of Fort Worth
– Downtown district
– Fair Park district
– Oak Cliff district
– Deep Ellum neighborhood
– Lakewood neighborhood
– Uptown neighborhood
– Oak Lawn neighborhood
– West End neighborhood
– “You Call It”

From your entries, our judges will pick their top 5 postcards from each neighborhood, and everyone will be asked to vote for their favorite postcards by “liking” their favorite cards on our facebook page, and in person at our May PechaKucha event at the Lakewood Theater. The winning postcard for each neighborhood will be produced and included in our DFW Postcard set that will be shared at our future events and national conferences.

A special thanks to our judges ahead of time for helping us narrow down the postcard entries:
Christine Allison, President of D Magazine
Brent Brown, Founding Director of bcWorkshop and Dallas CityDesign Studio
Jason Roberts, co-Founder of Better Block

Each winner will receive 5 sets of DFW Postcard set and a full-week pass to Design Week 2013 where their blown up artwork will be displayed at DW13 events.

To enter:
1. Register for the neighborhood(s) you’ll be designing a postcard for (at the bottom of the registration form).
2. Design your postcard in illustrator or photoshop at 5×7 300 dpi.
3. Send your postcard design(s) to frances@aigadfw.org by midnight on May 1.

Entries are free for members and nonmembers, and you can enter as many postcard designs as you want.

Thanks to M&S Graphic Arts, Millet and Ussery Printing for producing our postcards!

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(1) custom made Warstic baseball bat (engraved name and choice of color) : Hon Mok
(3) pairs of tickets to a Dallas Stars game : Chester Sikorski, Ryan Short and Jimmy Squires
(1) $100 gift certificate to Ocean’s Prime : Cheryl Mendenhall
(4) pairs of full-week passes to Design Week 2013 (September22-28) : Clifton Caster, Kimberly Daniels, Tabitha Salazar & Zack Davis

Are you one of our winners? Click here to arrange to pick up your prize.

Wondering what other benefits you can receive the whole year round by being a member? Watch the 60 second video below, or email whitney@aigadfw.org.

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