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Westwood College OnlineAIGA Student Group
April 2, 2009
We are now up to 299 members from WOL and other Westwood Campuses!! - 233 with an actual AIGA membership
Membership Drive: Will be coming up this summer (July). Please start getting the word out to your classmates who are not already members.
March 2009 Term Update
www.wolaigagroup.org
Take time to submit your best piece of work so it can be profiled on the website!!
Submit this information to Tawnya DeHerrera ([email protected]) or Crystal Green ([email protected] )
Your Group Website
What Should You Do?
Add some of your work to the AIGA website:
www.aigadesignjobs.org/groups/westwood
www.aigadesignjobs.org/public/individual_browse.asp
Once each term (All times are 6pm MST)http://learn.westwood.edu/design/
January 22, 2009 April 02, 2009 June 11, 2009 August 20, 2009 October 29, 2009
Meeting Schedule
AIGA Y14 Conference
“Powerful. Persuasive. Problem Solving. That’s Creative Energy – That’s YOU – And that’s Y14”
San Diego, CA March 26, 27, 28, 2009 ThinkShops – A group of 10-15 individuals
with a professional designer. Really, really, REALLY excellent
speakers!!!
AIGA Y14 Conference
Debbie Millman – Moderator Partner and President of the
Design division of Sterling Brands.
Began hosting first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet, “Design Matters with Debbie Millman”
How to Think Like a Graphic Designer and Essential Principles of Graphic Design.
AIGA Y14 Conference
Speakers: Shel Perkins – Shel Perkins &
Associates: Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers.
Dan Formosa – Smart Design: 6 People and Baseball Field Guide
Nikolai Cornell – Obscura Digital: Intersection between physical space and interaction design.
AIGA Y14 Conference
Speakers: Yolanda “Yo” Santosa:
Creative branding of … Roshi Givechi – IDEO Shawn Wolfe – Shawn Wolfe
Studio Andrea Pellegrino & Mark
Randall – World Studio
Upcoming Events Make/Think: AIGA Design
Conference October 8–11, 2009 • The AIGA Design
Conference heads to Memphis from October 8–11, 2009 to celebrate design excellence and stimulate thinking about design issues.
Events Calendar
Competitions
Make/Think AIGA National Conference Westwood wants to send two
students. Must be Active and in Good
Standing during the March 2009 term.
Submit an one page essay on why attending would benefit you from a career perspective and one piece of professional quality work.
Deadline: May 8th at 5 pm MST to [email protected]
Design a logo for Westwood Online’s Activities Team, SWAT!
Theme: Parties, get-togethers, corporate functions, socializing, team building, etc.
Submit to: [email protected] Basic Rules:
One logo per entry, one entry per student. Nothing inappropriate Deadline for entries is Midnight, April 30th, 2009 Mountain Time (11pm Pacific, 1am Central, 2am
Eastern). The winner will receive a $50 Best Buy Gift Card. The winner will be announced by the middle of May.
Competitions
Westwood College Online now has a master graduate portfolio – a place where you can have some of your work displayed, and be viewed by employers in your degree area. This website will be used to showcase some of our top Westwood graduate’s work and provide you the opportunity to be viewed on a high-traffic, public-facing website.
Requirements: You must possess a final GPA of 3.0 or higher in your
degree area Your three (3) best pieces of work need to be submitted A review committee will evaluate the quality of your work
for possible selection. [email protected]
Master Graduate Portfolio
Stay Connected . . .
All correspondence about group events and competitions will be made via e-mail, through inCircle, and on the website. Make sure you stay involved with your group and look for ways to volunteer. Your involvement will guide our success.
Check your e-mail regularly!
How Can You Help?
Guest Speaker
And now, our feature presentation!
