Archive for April, 2009

  • Posters Galore!

    FOURTH CHAPTER MEETING

    Jay Ryan

    THURSDAY 2ND APRIL. 8:00pm. GCC Room 201

    JayRyanjay-ryanBy David Elfving; “Even if you don’t know his name, you know his work. Jay Ryan’s posters have been plastered all over Chicago – in record stores, coffee shops, music venues and in bedrooms, art studios and cubicles. His distinctive illustrations and handwriting grace his work and give his posters that edge, the kind that makes you want to tear down the poster even though the show advertised isn’t over yet, just so you can have a piece of his work.”

    The AIGA chapter had the pleasure of an informal Q&A with Jay Ryan. Jay also showed more of his huge poster collection and answered a variety of questions from the 20 or so members who attended the meeting.

    The second part of the meeting involved more information about our collaboration with the Student Green Electronics Campaign to help them promote awareness of their electronics recycling event at the end of this semester.

    There are three things they want from us:

    1. Posters (larger size, from the Activities Office) – Simple, black and white graphics, no shading because of the printer – use information from #3 event campaign flier DUE: May 6th (study day)

    2. Teaser campaign fliers – use shocking image, attention getter – why recycling electronics is important – brought to you by the Student Green Electronics Campaign DUE: Thursday, April 23rd Amount: 100

    3. Event campaign flier – Saturday, May 9th – 10 am – 2 pm – Geisert Patio – Recycling for Illinois – Take anything with a plug! – Examples: curling irons, radios, TV’s, computers, etc. DUE: Thursday, April 30th Amount: 100

    Leah Moran is our contact from the SGEC. She will be sending us the copy to use on the posters. She will also take care of the printing. We just need to give her a hard copy of the posters. If anyone has questions, feel free to email her or Gary.

    Here are people who signed up to do each poster during the last meeting: 1. Jessica Cwik, (Sarah Kelly) 2. Rachel Frantini, Jordan Philbrook 3. Meghan Miller, Aaron Schleichkorn We could still use some more people to work on these posters. We would like as many people as possible to come up with multiple ideas so we can choose which designs will work the best. Email me or anyone on the exec. board if you would like to help with a poster. Also if you would like to email sketches or designs to the whole group we can give each other feedback as well. Thanks! – Renee Kimpel (Executive Committee Member).

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