AIGA Connecticut Announces New Board of Directors for 2010-2011

AIGA Connecticut is pleased to announce its new Board of Directors for 2010-2011. AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly defined discipline, a strategic tool for business and a cultural force. AIGA is the place that design and creative professionals turn to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analyses and research, advance education, and uphold ethical practices.

Entering its third year as an established chapter of the national organization based in New York City, Connecticut joins 65 other national chapters. AIGA CT has had a remarkable start with events and quality programming that has included such names as Sean Adams, William Drenttel, Pam Williams, Alex Isley, Cummings & Good and Patrick Coyne.

AIGA Connecticut Presents A New Morning Series: Breakfast Epiphany - Creative Inspiration and a Cup of Joe.

We are pleased to announce a new morning series by AIGA Connecticut. Breakfast Epiphany is an open, intimate morning get-together with a top level graphic designer, creative or thought leader, and 10 new friends. Topics are designed to stimulate imaginative thinking and inspiration and will traverse the boarders of creative and business industries, and nonprofit organizations. Attendees can be assured of some eye opening discussions.

With an industry professional leading the way, these mini-events are hosted in prime locations throughout the state once a month. To keep it intimate, events are capped at a maximum of 10 guests. This is not a lecture series. Nor is it a workshop. This is an opportunity to start your day with inspiration and lively conversation.

IN THE PINK
A Celebration of Women’s
Strength, Beauty, and Healing
Artwork of Family, Friends and Survivors
of the Breast Cancer Experience

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Show runs: September 29 – October 23, 2010
Hygienic Art Annex Space
13 Golden Street
New London, CT

A call to artists to participate in a show of works that express the breast cancer experience and the healing process from the point of view of survivors or that of friends and family.
We welcome all to this celebration to begin Breast Cancer Awareness Month and enjoy the Hygienic Art Galleries and Art Park.

I was shattered. The editor had sliced and diced my copy into something unrecognizable. The article was to be an important piece for me. Of course, I know editors have a job to do, but the heartbreak came because I had not been consulted nor was the copy returned to me for correction prior to my seeing it in its published form. The real horror was that the editor had carved out chunks of text so that even the quotes from my interviewees were incomplete and connections between sentences were oddly missing. There were entire paragraphs that didn’t make sense. Yet, there it was in all its misery, published, engraved in stone . . . with my name attached to it.

Love. It’s what makes your heart sing. It’s rapturous moments of complete joy where everything seems perfect and the stars are all aligned. If we are creatives, we yearn to design, write, draw or paint with love too . . . but in the course of our days, the creative juju can get lost. We run our businesses, find ourselves more involved with paperwork, administrative tasks and a never-ending stream of meetings. We forget what it’s like to be deeply involved in the process of creation just for the love of it.

Sharing design love is the mission of founder, Troy Monroe, who along with founding members Rich Hollant, Constanza Gowen-Segovia and Brian Grabell created Design is Love.  With a gorgeous site design and welcoming language, Design is Love invites you to help share and shape a unique creative community with heart. But DIL isn’t just a meeting place for designers. If you are a non-profit, Design is Love can help you too by matching your needs and goals with a creative who believes in what you do.