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February 9–February 15, 2014

1/ Breakfast Club: Contracts for Designers
Learn what to look for and what to include in your contracts for independent contractor, work for hire, consulting, employment, master services, and more.
When: Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 8am–9:30am
Where: General Assembly, 902 Broadway, NYC
Price: $5 AIGA members

2/ Typefaces as Strategic Point of Passage
Learn how to address typeface design and its role in the contemporary world, similar to how design and visual identity were formulated during the 1960s.
When: Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 6:30pm–8:30pm
Where: Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public

3/ Civic Service Forum
Are you a service designer? Do you want to learn more about the expanding service design industry? Join the growing community of 200+ service designers for networking, stories, good drinks, and general designer-ness.
When: Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 7pm–12am
Where: Tom & Jerry’s, 288 Elizabeth Street, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public

4/ WESHOULDDOITALL
WeShouldDoItAll, a New York based multi-disciplinary design studio, discusses the studio’s methods and shares work.
When: Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 6:30pm–8pm
Where: Bumble and bumble 415 West 13th Street, 3rd floor auditorium, NYC
Price: $10 AIGA members, $30 general public

5/ UX and Cultural Affordances
Much of the discussion about user experience design is focused on use, but there are additional issues to consider. In particular, issues of meaning. Learn the concept of Cultural Affordances—qualities of objects that help people to understand through the frame of their own past experience—and discuss the ways that we as designers can use cultural affordances to more effectively design for our audience.
When: Thursday, February 14, 2014, 6:30pm–8:30pm
Where: Moment Design, 13 Crosby Street, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public

6/ A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play
A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play features over eighty works arranged into a surprising chain of visual associations, the exhibition explores the many ways of interpreting a photograph and pays tribute to the unique role played by the creative collector. Each photograph in the exhibition’s “collective invention” shares a visual or conceptual quality with the piece to its left, another with the one to its right.
When: Thursday, February 14, 2014, through May 18
Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NYC
Price: Museum admission

7/ The New Yorker: Now and Again
Wyatt Mitchell will discuss the challenges and triumphs of refreshing The New Yorkers’s visual vocabulary and expanding it beyond its print origins.
When: Thursday, February 14, 2014
Where: Condé Nast Auditorium, 4th Floor, 4 Times Square, NYC
Price: $15 SPD members, $30 general public