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Online Registration Fees:
AIGA Members: $175
Non-Members: $225
Student Members: $75
Mail/Fax Registration Fees:
AIGA Members: $200
Non-Members: $250
Student Members: $100
Registrations accepted on-line and via mail and fax through October 10, 2008.
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No submissions for papers or workshops will be accepted after July 15, 2008. Contact Ellen Lupton for more information.
Submissions are closed.
- Basics:
- What constitutes visual literacy today? What’s new in foundation teaching? What do students need to know about form? What are the bare-bones basics needed to prepare students for careers spanning multiple media and disciplines?
- Typography:
- What's new in typographic education? How are designers balancing the demands of tradition, self-expression, invention, and user accessibility?
- Collaboration:
- How do students and designers collaborate? With whom? What works, and what doesn’t?
- Activism:
- How are designers engaging in social change? What are you doing to help your students engage the community and the world?
- Sustainability:
- How is the next generation of designers confronting issues of waste, carbon load, materials sourcing, and more? What makes for a sustainable practice—ecologically, economically, and personally?
- Authorship:
- How are authorship and entrepreneurship changing the nature of contemporary design practice? How are you training students to initiate ideas?
- Craft and Making:
- What is the nature of craft and materiality in today’s design scene? How can theories of making inform design education? What is the role of physcial making in your classroom?
- Time and Interaction:
- How are your teaching interactive and time-based media? What new technical and intellectual skills are required for a satisfying career in design?
- Social Media:
- How are students, faculty, and designers using social media to promote, generate, document, and analyze their work? How are you using the web in your classroom as a teaching tool?
- Entering the Profession:
- How are students preparing to enter the profession? What social skills do they need? How do they communicate through their portfolios, their work, and through written and spoken language? How do they learn to make friends and influence people?
- Other:
- What matters in design education today? You tell us.
Submissions are closed.
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Submissions are closed.
In your proposal, specify the maximum number of participants, the required materials and facilities, and the desired educational outcome as well as describing the workshop activity itself. We invite proposals for workshops that address any medium or level of graphic design education.
MFA Panel Discussion
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MFA Panel
Submissions are closed.
How is your program organized? What projects are students working on? What are the driving issues and ideas? What motivates students to be in grad school? We invite proposals from graduate students who wish to represent their MFA programs.