The Savvy Designer’s Guide to Success

AIGA Idaho’s next event is coming up on Thursday, April 15th.  This event is titled The Savvy Designer’s Guide to Success and presented by Jeff Fisher.  From the event’s listing on the AIGA Idaho site:

The Savvy Designer

Jeff Fisher’s presentation will keep you moving toward the career track you want. You’ll learn to:

  • Market yourself and your business more effectively
  • Set pricing and master the all-important art of client communication
  • Choose a career path that will balance happiness and financial success
  • Improve your professional image and bounce back from mistakes
  • Putting yourself “out there” with books, articles and speaking engagements

“The Savvy Designer’s Guide to Success” is a practical — and sometimes daring — guide to turning your creative talent into a flourishing career in the competitive, ever-changing world of graphic design. Come prepared with your career questions for this 32-year design industry veteran.

The event will be held at The Watercooler in Boise, and is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m.

Cost is $15 for AIGA members, $25 for non-members, and $10 for students.

More details and how to register can be found on the AIGA Idaho site.

AIGA Event – Drink for Design

AIGA Idaho is once again holding a Drink for Design event.  This one is scheduled for Tuesday, March 23rd (sorry for the short notice).

From the AIGA folks:

Please come and enjoy our next Drink for Design event at the Modern Hotel & Bar, Tuesday, March 23rd at 6:00 pm.

All designers need to be hydrated to keep up with all that creative genius out there, whatever your choice of liquid may be, i.e, vitamin induced pump you up water, cola, beer, mixed drinks…Come and enjoy liquid refreshment together and refuel your creative juices*

*please no spewing

The event is scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m. and will likely go until everyone leaves or they close the bar, whichever comes first.

AIGA Event: Learnch – Designing Sustainable Packaging

AIGA Idaho Learnch: Designing Sustainable PackagingSorry for the short notice on this one.

The Idaho AIGA Chapter is presenting Learnch: Designing Sustainable Packaging.  This event, from 11:30 – 1:00 on Tuesday, February 9th, featuring guest speaker John Bernardo, will “focus on the triple bottom line benefits of sustainable operations, specifically sustainable packaging.”

More from the AIGA Idaho site:

AIGA Idaho welcomes John Bernardo as he discusses designing to meet the criteria for sustainable packaging as established by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. AIGA members have a tangible opportunity to cultivate and strengthen client relations by promoting sustainable operations. Bernardo’s presentation will focus on the triple bottom line benefits of sustainable operations, specifically sustainable packaging.

Triple Bottom Line benefits: People, Profit, and Planet
If you operate with your employees, client and community in mind, consider the impact of your operations on the environment, and work towards the highest return on investment for your clients, stakeholders and investors, you will succeed and sustain your business into the future.

The event is at Ha’ Penny Bridge in BoDo.

REMINDER: Typeface, the Movie

Just a reminder that AIGA Idaho’s presentation of Typeface is coming up this Wednesday, January 20th at 6:00pm.  Full details can be found in the original post.

AIGA Event: Typeface, The Movie

AIGA Idaho is presenting a screening of Typeface.

From the event’s description on their site:

Please join us on for this special screening of Typeface. Director Justine Nagan investigates how the value and purpose of older analog media have changed as our society has transitioned into a digital age in Typeface, Kartemquin Films’ (Hoop Dreams, Terra Incognita, At the Death House Door) latest documentary on art in society.

The screening will be held on Wednesday, January 20th, from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Boise State University Special Events Center in the Student Union Building.  Cost is $8 for members and $10 for non-members.

An AIGA Boise State Mix/Mentor event will take place immediately following the screening, in the Jordan Ballroom.