"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

Who can take a Sunrise, sprinkle it with dew...

...clean up all posters and design a thing or two? The GD Cluuuuubbbb....THE GD CLUB CAN!

Okay, I'm done.

So, an update, for all of you amazingly talented folks who are feeling out of the loop, and for all of us who need a reminder:

The Graphic Design Club is hosting an event at the end of the quarter (assuming we get the space in time) that will be a huge fund raiser for a local non-profit that works with art programs for high risk youth! This will be a very high end event, inviting everyone from our friends, students, other schools, and heck, let's invite the mayor, too!

We are going to host a gallery opening complete with live music, champagne, hors d'oeuvres and an auction to raise money for the charity we choose. We want to have students enter graphic art, paintings, sculptures, etc; The theme is "Remember When" - a journey into childhood. Every piece must be a childhood memory (good or bad, light or dark) and have that imaginative quality that made us believe in magic when we were kids. Christina even suggested "Why not a series that finishes the sentence? Remember when...your imagination was your best friend? Remember when...you first got inspired? Etc..." How COOL is that?!?!

This will be an incredible opportunity to get your name and face out there, connect with the grownups that we all want to be someday, and better our little corner of the world.

Remember, anything that's "GREEN" is bragging rights, so make sure that you keep note of anything "found" or recycled that you use.

And lastly, just because you haven't made to a meeting doesn't mean that you can't be involved!! We want you here!! We need your brains, your art pieces (yes, you can make more than one) and your passion!!

What we need (for now):
(1) Poster ideas (even if it's just a sketch on a napkin, folks!)
(2) Invitation ideas
(3) a final decision on the non-profit that we want to support
(4) you to get started on your art piece(s) that you want to auction off

Other than that, we will see you on Tuesday at 4:30 - Room #704

The Journey of a Thousand Miles....

....and...something about a road....with weeds 'cause nobody's walked on it....hmmmmm...I may be mixing poderables again....


A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came to GD Club this week - we packed the place, ate ice cream until we were dizzy with sugar intake and took some serious steps toward summer goals. And here they are: (for all of you who desperately wanted to come and for whom life just got in the way!)

We had an introduction of the new President (that's me!) and a chance to meet a lot of AMAZING up and coming Graphic Designers - both new and nearly all grown up! We had a volunteer for Vice President - Mr. Matt "Fargo" Pernack, whose enthusiasm is sure to keep things rolling in whatever direction we point him in! And, Jesse (that's Jesse #1) Diaz has offered to take the position of Treasurer using all of his talents of persuasion to keep the fundage flowing!

We talked about plans for this quarter - the goal is that we keep it laid back, for the most part. We did, however, have a few ideas officially sealed in ink: We are going to do a contest where we all have to learn to work together as a team (in case you haven't noticed, Graphic Designers don't share very well - this will be an awesome growing experience!) And, yes, there will be a prize for the winner! (think money, people!)

We are also going to be hosting a huge event at the end of the quarter - a Gallery Opening! We are going to do a fund raiser to raise money for that ever so important charity of...um......something. AND, we're going to fill the Gallery with our own art pieces to auction off! This is going to be an amazing opportunity to rub elbows with the people who you are going to want to work for, to get our name out into the community (AiS' GD Club needs to be KNOWN, people!), get some awesome work into our portfolio's and give back to the community!
Here's what we need for next week (so be pondering): We need to pick a local charity that we are going to support. We need to decided how we want to do it and then start talking advertising. (I've got a lot of experience with these kinds of events. The people that we are going to be working for LOVE to be a part of giving back to the community - and they need a TON of planning and advertising, so we've got to get started!)

...*whew......worn out yet?

And lastly, (well, sort of) I would really love it if the entire club redesigned our posters together. Attached you can take a look at the ones that I threw together a few weeks ago - I think they're so much fun, but I don't know that the point I was attempting to make came through. (or maybe it did - feedback me, folks!) Either way, I'd love for us to do them together!

NEXT WEEK: Tuesday, 4:30pm - We'll be meeting at the fountain next to the Sculpture Park (thanks for the brilliant idea, Kyle!), grabbing some chai tea, iced coffee, or ice cream from the little deli and then finding a place to plunk and talk more about our projects for this quarter! Hope to see you there!!

-Jesse

Every New Beginning comes from some other Beginning's End

A hullo and a quick introduction from the new President of the Graphic Design Club AiS:

My name is Jesse Phillips (that's like Jesse James, only I am WAY cuter and a good deal more feminine than him....); I have some graphic design experience, am newer to the Seattle area (less than two years out of Chicago), am a swing and blues dancer and I can barely express how honored and excited I am to be a part of this amazing experience!

This is summer quarter, so we're going to take it a little easy this time around, but I have a few ideas and I can't wait to hear yours! I want us all to walk away from this quarter with some new friends, additions to our portfolios and some amazing experiences!

So, here's the plan: Tuesday, June 20th at 4:30pm, please join me in room #704 for root beer floats and a chance to meet each other, as well as make some decisions as a group on what we want to do this quarter!

Looking forward to meeting you all officially,
-Jesse

THE END OF ONE CHAPTER AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT...

Hey guys,

Hope you all are having a great summer break. It's well deserved, so enjoy and relax before the new quarter starts. We're finally getting some sun!!!

As you all know spring quarter was my last term as President. After four quarters - of laughter, memories and friendships - I just wanted to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to making my run such a memorable one; to ALL of my officers, advisers and supporters - I honestly couldn't have done it without any of you!!! It's been quite the experience and journey. Some believe all good things must come to an end... I, on the other hand, like to think of it as the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one. There is no "end" in growth, just simply change. And I've come to find change can be great.

Which leads to my next announcement... After searching and deliberating, I am proud to FINALLY announce the new President of the Graphic Design Club... drum roll please... JESSE PHILLIPS!!!
If you don't know Jesse, you will quickly take a liking to her. Her energy is infectious and you can feel her passion a mile away. Prepare yourselves club members, she is a firecracker (in the best possible way)!!! I'm so glad to be passing the paton to her. I feel she is going to be a great, new addition and will be able to take our club to the next level. So please welcome her with open arms. :)

I may not be the President, but I will definitely still be around, so please don't forget about me! haha However, I am taking summer quarter off, but will be back for my last quarter this fall. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, I will always be here for you guys. From this point forward if you want to reach me, you can contact me at my personal email: lee.johnny.j@gmail.com. Don't worry, I'm still going to be a part of club, whether you like it or not. Can't get rid of me that easy. ;)

Just a friendly reminder, club beings the SECOND WEEK of the quarter, like usual. And as of right now, it's still going to be TUESDAYS @ 4:30PM IN ROOM 704. Be on the look out for the new club posters on campus soon. They're great!

Alrighty then... That is all for now. This is not goodbye, but see you later. Last time signing out as your President...



Much love,

John J. Lee