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March 23–March 29, 2014

1/ Bringing Together User Experience and Web Analytics
Do you need to quickly get data about how users move through your website? What they’re searching for and what they find? “Hard numbers” to convince stakeholders that a problem is worth solving? Learn why web analytics should be an important tool for user experience professionals to add to their toolkit.
When: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 6pm–9pm
Where: RAPP, 437 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, NYC
Price: $10 UxPA members, $5 students, $20 general public

2/ Lisa L. Cyr: Using Exploratory Processes to Create Imaginative Works
This highly visual lecture will explore the development of imaginative, fantasy-inspired works of artist and author Lisa L. Cyr using a content-driven, mixed-media, multidisciplinary mindset. Throughout the lecture, exciting two-dimensional and three-dimensional mixed-media techniques will be shown, providing an extensive array of visually-stimulating possibilities for artists to explore!
When: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 6:30pm–9pm
Where: Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NYC
Price: $15 SI members, $10 students, $20 general public

3/ Alfalfa Studio
Alfalfa Studio partner, Gabriela Mirensky, will talk about Alfalfa Studio’s business practices, including building client relationships, managing growth, and achieving work/life balance.
When: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 6:30pm–8pm
Where: Noble Desktop, 594 Broadway, Suite 1202, NYC
Price: Free Spark members, $25 general public

4/ Inside Artsy
A look into how Artsy, a company that’s aiming to put the world’s art online, got to be where it is today as a product and as a business.
When: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 6pm–8pm
Where: School of Visual Arts, MFA Interaction Design, 136 West 21 Street, 3rd Floor, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public

5/ Culture, Connectivity and Content
Brands influence us in every aspect of our lives, from the technology we crave, to the content we discover, to the way we share our take on the world. The New York Times, Apple and Instagram speakers talk about how their design teams work everyday to make these connections seem effortless and essential to our daily lives.
When: Thursday, March 27, 2014, 6:30pm–8:30pm
Where: Tishman Auditorium, Parsons, 66 West 12th Street, NYC
Price: $10 AIGA members, $30 general public

6/ Feminist Legacies in Contemporary Art
An intergenerational conversation about the impact of feminism on contemporary art and preserving the legacies of feminist artists and spaces in New York City.
When: Thursday, March 27, 2014, 7pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Price: Museum admission

7/ Ellen Lupton, Design Fictions
Ellen Lupton will talk about new and recent projects, and explain how the art of narrative has come to dominate her understanding of design practice. She will draw examples from her work as Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, as well as from her projects as an author and educator at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
When: Thursday, March 27, 2014, 7pm
Where: School of Visual Arts, MFA Design Criticism, 136 W 21st Street, 2nd Floor, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public

8/ Designing + Making: Traditional Skills in the Contemporary Environment
What role do traditional “craft” skills and the handmade play in today’s contemporary landscape of design and production? Join a conversation with leading US manufacturers and designers to explore case studies in the adaptation of traditional skills to the contemporary environment.
When: Thursday, March 27, 2014, 7pm
Where: Museum of Arts an Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NYC
Price: Free with museum admission

9/ Dare2Draw
90 minutes of dynamic figure drawing with live-action models and props
plus the signature Quick Draw contests.
When: Thursday, March 27, 2014, 6pm–9:30pm
Where: Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NYC
Price: $15 SI members, $10 students, $20 general public

10/ Envelopes & Mail Art: A Slide Lecture with Barbara Calzolari
A special evening with Italian penman extraordinaire Barbara Calzolari. Barbara’s slide lecture will feature hundreds of her swoon-worthy envelopes and the stories behind them. She’ll talk about making one-of-a-kind envelopes and why we need to listen to our passion to make it come through our work
When: Friday, March 28, 2014, 6:30pm–8pm
Where: SVA Annex, 214 E. 21st Street, Room 701A, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public

11/ Your First (Typographic) eBook
eBooks need designers! It’s time to bring your typographic skills to bear on the future of publishing. This one-day workshop will teach print-based graphic designers how to make a (typographic) eBook.
When: Friday, March 28, 2014, 8:30am–4:30pm
Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street #603, NYC
Price: $275 TDC members, $350 general public