Eureka! We're done, with more to come!

REMEMBER WHEN: First of all, a huge - HUGE - thank you to everyone who participated in "Remember When"!! :D Each of the pieces were so unique and everyone pulled together to put on an event that was more successful than we had even hoped! We raised double the amount that we had set as our goal, as well as exceeding our goal for number of entries! I am so proud of all of us!! We ROCK!

Below is a letter from Mary Beth at Coyote Central:

"Jesse,

Thank you and thank the Graphic Arts Club for throwing the Remembering When.....event for Coyote. It was touching to see the turnout and the amount of artwork created by everyone. It couldn't have been easy, what with all of the other college life deadlines and responsibilities. Coyote is honored.

Your spirit - amazing! You went to incredible efforts to pull this off and we send great thanks.

Best,

Marybeth, Claudia Stelle, and The Board of Directors"

And the event is continuing!! Mark Livingston, the PR Director at AiS has offered us a booth at the Northwest Art Alliance Show!! It's great promotional and a really cool opportunity to keep this ball a'rollin'! We will have room for approximately ten to fifteen pieces. And it's due no later than November 8th! (yay! I mean....*pant, pant...Whew!) If you want to jump in with a random piece or two to add to the equation, please join us!

http://www.nwartalliance.com/events/Fall_2010_Best_of_the_Northwest/ (please note - this is an extra. If you can jump in, please do! If life, school, etc; gets in the way, no worries. )

And a huge pat on the back to Jesse Diaz for the highest bid of the event! He wins a $100 gift card to Paperhaus! Congrats, Jesse(1)!!


THE BURNLEY GALLERY: Every year the Burnley Gallery (that AiS' Gallery) does a student show, and we are invited to be in it! WOOT! So, if you have a piece you'd like to put in, you can take it (and an application which you can get from the front desk or at GD Club next week) to Mark Livingston's office on the 6th Floor NC to submit it! And for those of you with sold pieces from Remember When, if your buyer was willing to let you have it back for the Burnley Gallery, I have the waivers and I will bring them to GD Club next week!


NEXT QUARTER: GD Club meetings will be moved to Wednesdays at 4:30pm in room #704 - adjust your schedules accordingly!


AIGA: Only two days left to sign up with this super deal!! Get on it, folks!


POSTER ART CONTEST: Check this out: "Please find the attached pdf file outlining the first ever Poster Art Contest for the Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival. The winner will receive name recognition on 1500 posters and over 20,000 rack cards distributed throughout western Washington and be included in various festival press releases. The winning artist will also be featured on our website with a link to their home page, and will receive a $500 honorarium. I thought this might be a great opportunity for some of your students. - Tessa Gavin, PresidentCoupeville Festival Association"


And that's it, ladies and gents! See you all next week!

-Jesse

Remember When - a Fundraiser to benefit Coyote Central

Remember When - a Fundraiser to benefit Coyote Central: The Art Institute of Seattle's Graphic Design Club is stepping out to change their community this fall, one design at a time.

On October 21st, the Graphic Design Club will be hosting an art auction and raffle to raise money for Coyote Central, a local non-profit that brings hands-on art of all kinds to youth from across the city. The doors to Art on the Ridge (8005 Greenwood Avenue North) will open at 6pm, featuring student artists from the Art Institute of Seattle, a local jazz band and culinary delights. Local business are donating items that will be raffled off, so bring your change jar and be ready to win incredible prizes.

Join us for an evening of art focusing on a journey through childhood memories & fantasies, and help us bring art into the lives of the children of Seattle.




Art on the Ridge
8005 Greenwood Avenue North
(80th and Greenwood)
Seattle, WA

REMEMBER WHEN: is a GO!

I would like to apologize that it's taken so long to send this out; I've been trapped in Finals-land, like many of you, I'm sure. Hang in there, we're in the home stretch!!

So, here's the headlines:

REMEMBER WHEN: is a GO! We have the space, the backing, the support, the advertising, the promotion...(*whew)...now we need the art work. On October 5th we are meeting in room #704 at 4:30pm to show off our compositions that will be turned in to the Gallery. We're going to be accepting critique and taking pictures to send to the Gallery. So you have the next week to tell all of your fellow students and the whole break to get your art piece finished! (I can hardly wait to see what you are all going to do!)





And find the invite on Facebook, too!
(http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/event.php?eid=152544221441791&ref=nf)

NEW YORK: After the break we will be focusing on the New York trip - how we want to do it, how we can pay for it, and all the details we can get (we're hoping that the details will start sliding into place in the next few weeks.) So, be thinking about where you want to go (GD and Web Design firms, and fun stuff to!) and what you want to do so that we can ASK for it!

THIS WEEK: No club meeting. The next meeting will be on October 5th - bring your comps for Remember When!!


HAVE A GREAT BREAK!!

New York City & REMEMBER WHEN - Meeting of August 31st

NEW YORK CITY?: So, the New York City Trip is ON!! And here's the sitch: they only have room for sixteen people, they will take payments and they do not take monopoly money. I don't have ALL the details yet, mostly because they haven't been set in cement quite yet, but Aaron is on the case and will keep us informed. If you are thinking about a trip to NYC, please take a moment to hit up www.coverny.com and start researching which of the amazing GD Studios YOU want to visit! (It's also the place where you will be able to set up extra-curricular activities like eating hotdogs in Time Square, or going to a Broadway Show or hitting up the Empire State Building!)



REMEMBER WHEN - a fundraiser to benefit Coyote Central: "The Art Institute of Seattle's Graphic Design Club is stepping out to change their community this fall, one design at a time."

Folks, I cannot even tell you how amazing this week has been! We have secured the gallery (Art on the Ridge in Greenwood, across from Modern Dog - thank you, Catherine!), have set up a meeting with the Culinary Club, have spoken with the band (still in consideration), and have gotten a "you guys are amazing for pouring into your community!" from both Mark Livingston (Director of PR for AiS) and Mark Notermann (GA: Creative)! We also have four local businesses (so far) that will be donating items to raffle off!

However, we have bumped into the exact same concern over and over....and not in a "this won't happen" way...more in a "this is going to be your biggest challenge" sort of way, and it's not an unreasonable concern: students have a LOT of other things going on in their world and the event will be low on the priority list. And this may be true. But, the response from all of you has blessed my heart; not only are you guys excited about the event, you want to create a new standard for student accomplishment! I love it!

So, here's the plan:

NEXT WEEK:

* Bring in your sketches, and be prepared to talk about what composition you are going to enter.
* Let's talk about a prize for the item that gets the highest bid at the auction.
* We'll also be discussing how to get the word out to the rest of the students, and how to invite them to be a part of this amazing opportunity!
* And we'll start the after part plans! (hehehehe....oh, there's planning to be done, folks!)


:D I will be bringing chocolate chip cookies; if you need to have a serious discussion, there should be chocolate!


Have super holiday weekend and I'll see you all next week!

"Fly me to the Moon" - Meeting update from August 24th

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have learned a valuable lesson: Never hold a meeting where there is more than "hangin' out" happening at a local Starbucks. Great coffee! Couldn't hear a thing. :)

We had a good meeting this week; most of us left with a fire in our bellies and passing around ideas for the composition for "Remember When". The date has been pushed back to October 21st, officially, and I have some really cool news on that coming up next week! September 28th is the deadline for turning in compositions, so let's see what you've got!

The survey for poster design returned with the "Red Balloon" as the winner - it is being sent to several of our brilliant instructors for review and then posters, flyers and invitations will be on the way. I've also gotten some interesting news about our "Call to Action" posters, which I will share at this weeks meeting. Please, PLEASE come to this weeks meeting; we have a special guest who will be speaking directly to our up coming event.

There was also much discussion about visiting the gallery so that we can all see the location before we set up shop, as well as a potential outing to Pioneer Square to view all of the incredible galleries in the area. Anyone up for a first Thursday next week? Wander around Pioneer Square after class? Let's have that discussion this week as well!

Hope this week went smoothly and that none of you have lost your minds with the end of the quarter creeping up on us! See you all on Thursday!
-Jesse

Cast YOUR vote!

Vote for your favorite poster for Remember When (remember, these are rough drafts which will need some honing, but at least we will have a better direction for the theme!)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WP2FGHV

Call to Action! Ba-ba-da-DAAH!

I hope you all are having a great week and that your Midterms came back WAY better than you thought they would! We've got a couple of things to give you a heads up on, not the least of which is that we still need seven people to sign up for AIGA! Take your envelope with $50 cash in it to Accounting (make sure it has your name, ID number and email address on it for reference. Otherwise it's just "lunch on the house" for some lucky staff) and it's due this week!! Otherwise we lose the opportunity to get this good of a deal on Membership! Scrape those pennies together, folks - it's worth it!

And now for the meat of the matter:

(btw, I've got the song "Let's Get It Started" by the Black Eyed Peas running through my head every time I think of this event...)

THE EVENT:

We got a few things down in wet cement this week, at least as far as "Remember Me" is concerned. The whole club is excited with the prospect of this adventure, but we all wanted to agree that the most important factors of this project are 1) that we all have fun; 2) that we invest back into our community; and 3) that the Graphic Design Club of AiS starts getting their name out into the community as well! Once that was settled, the rest started to fall into place!

So, tentative dates and needs:

AUGUST 24th: Next Tuesday bring your "Call to Action" ideas to GD Club (or email them to me if you can't make it). These posters should say something along the lines of "Attention fellow artists! The Graphic Design Club will be hosting a Gallery Opening in October to raise funds for Coyote Central, a local non-profit that brings art into the lives of high risk youth in our community. We need your help! The theme for the event is "Remember When" - and the idea is that each composition brings with it a memory of childhood, whatever that may be. If you are an artist (graphic design, glass blowing, oils, acrylic, fashion, furniture, underwater basket weaving, whatever!) and you have a composition that you would be willing to have auctioned off to a good cause, please come and be a part of this event! For more information go to aisgdclub.blogspot.com or ask the Graphic Design Club student next to you! All compositions are due no later than September 28th." ....Or something like that. :)

Also, if you would like to submit a poster idea for Remember When, please send it to me at jessetheswingdancequeen@gmail.com no later than Friday, August 20th so that we can vote on it! Please and thank you!

SEPTEMBER 28th: Will be a workshop day. We will bring in ALL of our finished compositions for the show (if it's too big to haul into the classroom, just bring pictures.) and your vintage picture frames for painting. Spray paint will be provided, and we will all go out back where there is open air to avoid getting any higher than we want to....HAVE to. Sorry. :)

OCTOBER 7th (tentative): My responsibility this week is to track down and finalize the gallery that we are going to use. We have decided to see if we can partner with First Thursdays down at Pioneer Square, and if that doesn't pan out, we will try to partner with the Grand Opening of Coyote Central's new location the following week. So, the location is a little up in the air, but have faith. With a little fairy dust, the right conversations and some ruby slippers, we should be good to go!

So, that is all she wrote for the event at this time. Just FYI, my personal email is jessetheswingdancequeen@gmail.com. I welcome any and all suggestions and feedback, and would love to hear your ideas as well!

Next Tuesday, Room #704 at 4:30pm. Bring your spare change, and let's take a walk up to Starbucks!! Mmmm.....field trip....

See you then!

-Jesse

And the hits just keep on comin'....

I am in awe - yes, AWE - of how each of you in the Graphic Design Club! I know it's only been three weeks, but the more I have gotten to know each of you, the more impressed I am with the talent, ambition and passion that this club has! Thank you all for being a part of Graphic Design Club! I can't WAIT to see what happens next!

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Take a look at the posters below and head to Facebook to vote for our new GD Club poster! (please note that some of these are still in the rough draft stages, but that's okay - we have brilliant minds filled with enough imagination that we can visualize the comps. Vote quickly - we're making it official next week!)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106523186069565&v=photos#!/group.php?gid=106523186069565

P.S. If you don't have a facebook, email your vote to me jessetheswingdancequeen@gmail.com