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January 9 – January 21, 2012

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1/ Kelli Anderson: Disruptive Wonder

Kelli Anderson will share the story of her design process, Disruptive Wonder. By incorporating an awareness of viewer expectations, Kelli believes we can either make things to confirm expectations of reality, or instead make surreal, absurd experiences that refuse to behave in the expected way.

When: Tuesday, January 11, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Where: Bumble and bumble, 3rd floor auditorium, 415 West 13th Street, NYC

Price: $20 AIGA/NY members, $10 student members, $30 general public

2/ The Judges Night: TDC Typeface Design Competition 2012

A panel discussion with Roger Black, Matthew Carter, Paul Shaw, and Erik Spiekermann. If you need to know anything else you probably shouldn’t be there.

When: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Where: The Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, NYC

Price: Free TDC members, and Cooper Union students, $15 student non-members, $20 general public

3/ Bob Gill, so far

Over sixty years ADC Hall of Fame laureate Bob Gill has created many of the key landmarks that make up the creative landscape of graphic design today. In his new book Bob Gill, so far, he guides us through that remarkable career from the first revolutionary designs and illustrations of the early 1960s to the graphic design and children’s books of recent years.

When: Book Signing, Thursday, January 12, 2012, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm; Exhibition ongoing January 9-13, 2012

Where: 106 West 29th Street, NYC

Price: Free and open to the public

4/ In The House 2: Living the Brand

Ever wonder what makes the best in-house creative departments really tick? Join Jeffrey Keyton, MTV, Sandra Monteparo, Victoria’s Secret Beauty, and Google Creative Labs, for a discussion on their modus operandi, including keeping creative fresh while staying within the Brand DNA, strategies for navigating corporate cultures and adapting to change while staying true the brand.

When: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Where: SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, NYC

Price: $20 AIGA/NY members, $10 student members, $30 general public

5/ TSI: Portland

Forensic font geek Thomas Phinney discusses and shows some of the cases of allegedly forged documents he’s been asked to investigate. Learn how errors with fonts, typography and output devices have ruined what could otherwise have been perfectly good forgeries.

When: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Where: TDC, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, NYC

Price: Free TDC members, $15 student non-members, $20 general public

6/ Frank Meo’s Mind Prints

Frank Meo has created an exhilarating collection of indelible mental flash cards that reflects the indomitable strength of mind. This show is a testimonial to the strength of imagination, the media and the mind.

When: Opening Night: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:00 pm – 8:30pm; Exhibition ongoing January 16-20, 2012

Where: ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, NYC

Price: Free and open to the public

7/On Bureaucratic Technologies and the Future as Dream-Time

The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort of redemptive future. Anthropologist and writer David Graeber asks how did this happen? One reason is the replacement of what might be called poetic technologies with bureaucratic ones. Another is the terminal perturbations of capitalism, which is increasingly unable to envision any future at all.

When: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 7:00 pm

Where: SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, NYC

Price: Free and open to the public