GAIN: AIGA DESIGN & BUSINESS CONFERENCE (NYC 2010)
Finally! Haven't updated in sooooo long because I moved to Brooklyn ("Brooklin," according to my mom) 5 months ago and have been busy fighting landlords, trying all sorts of exciting jobs, and meeting fantastic artists and designers from all over the world. I have so many things to put up that I figured I'd start with the most recent event I attended, the "Gain": AIGA Design & Business Conference 2010 which took place just last week in Manhattan. The AIGA brought fab designers from everywhere to give workshops and presentations on how the design world is constantly having to re-invent itself to stay relevant (like everything else, of course...although not everything moves as fast as design!). Some of the gnarlier speakers included Robert Hammond (co-founder/executive director of Friends of the High Line), David Droga (Droga 5), eating designer Marije Vogelzang, and Jonathan Harris (number27). Since I've been exploring the idea of "Connecting" for the past several months, the speakers Marije Vogelzang and Jonathan Harris woke me up to the reality of the importance of trying to get people to re-connect in a more animalistic, primitive way (i.e. the battle with and against technology):