That’s where Lindsay Curicio, Attorney at Law and Adjunct Professor, New York Law School, can help clarify the process, identity common problems and mistakes and provide strategies on how best to navigate an at best anxious experience. If this sounds like you, you need to be at this last Breakfast Club of the season: your career depends on it!

Lindsay A. Curcio, Attorney
Lindsay  has practiced immigration law since 1990. She is a sole practitioner in Brooklyn, New York and an adjunct professor at New York Law School. Her practice includes employment-based and family-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas as well as waivers, removal defense, U.S. citizenship issues and naturalization. With Lenni Benson, Veronica Jeffers and Stephen Yale-Loehr, she is a co-author of Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies (LexisNexis). She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and serves on committees for the national office, New York Chapter and Rome District Chapter.  She was co-director of New York Law School’s Justice Action Center’s Safe Passage Immigration Project from 2007 to 2012. Lindsay has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Northwestern University, a juris doctor degree from IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law, an MBA (concentration in marketing with international business designation) from Fordham University and an LLM in Transnational Commercial Practice at the Center for International Legal Studies/Lazarski University. Lindsay may be reached via her Facebook page or Twitter @lindsayvisa.

To learn more about the specifics of the program, hear from current mentors and have all your questions answered, join us on Tuesday, June 10th for an information session.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Founded in 1993, the AIGA/NY Mentoring Program’s mission is to provide creative youth with opportunities and tools to achieve their goals. The program pairs volunteer chapter members with talented students from the New York City High School of Art and Design.

The Mentoring Program kicks off every fall and gives professionals the chance to make a difference in the life of an ambitious young artist. Mentors and students are asked to make a 3-year commitment — with pairs meeting in the student’s sophomore year and continuing through graduation. Mentor student pairs meet one-on-one with a goal of spending four hours together every month. Pairs are invited to participate in planned programming but are also encouraged to meet independently to develop a relationship that is uniquely suited to them. The program provides opportunities for students and mentors to attend unique events with leaders in the industry. Past partners have included, Debbie Millman, Michael Bierut, James Victore, Triboro Design, Etsy, The Green Patriot Poster project and World Studio.

The High School of Art and Design is one of New York City’s many specialty high schools. Students are accepted to the school after submitting a portfolio at the end of middle school. The students that elect to participate in the program are driven and excited by the arts. The high school has a wide range of majors from Graphic Design, to Illustration, Fashion Design and Architecture. The AIGA/NY Mentoring Program works with students in all majors.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

New mentor applications are due on June 30th, 2014. You can jump start the application process by filling out and submitting your application at the event.

RSVP HERE

At Carbone Smolan Agency, we believe big challenges are solved through design, and we pride ourselves on being an invaluable partner to the growth of great brands. For over 35 years, CSA has crafted identity and design systems that balance substance with style for a world class clientele.

Invitation design by: Carbone Smolan Agency

JUNE 4 MIX IS HOSTED BY:

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR!

Pecha Kucha-style, students from MICA MFA Graphic Design, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, Parsons MFA Design + Technology, Parsons MFA Transdisciplinary, Pratt MFA Comm-D, RISD MFA Graphic Design, SVA’s MFA Design, MFA Interaction Design, MFA Design Criticism, and MPS Branding, Cranbrook MFA Design, and Yale MFA Graphic Design will gather at the Parsons auditorium and take five minutes to dazzle the audience and each other with wonders from their graduate projects.

Jesse Ragan and Juliette Cezzar will co-host. This year, like the last four, it’s a date on the AIGA/NY calendar not to be missed!

STUDENTS PRESENTING:

Chiara Bajardi, SVA Design
Amy-Nicole Dosen, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Sameer Farooq, RISD
Su Hyun Kim, NYU ITP
Alejandro Largo, SVA Branding
Or Leviteh, Parsons Design & Technology
Martha McGill, Yale
Anne Quito, SVA D-Crit
Emma Sherwood-Forbes, MICA
Alexander Todaro, SVA IxD
Lauren Wong, Parsons Transdiciplinary
Diego Zaks, Pratt Communications Design

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Working within the art and culture sector, their multidisciplinary practice focuses on publications, custom typography, graphic identities, and websites. Recent clients include BOMB magazine, Cabinet magazine, Studio Voltaire, Studio Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Verso Books, and Futurepoem. In 2012, ‘Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine’ was featured in book and cover categories of Design Observer’s 50 Books / 50 Covers. Tom currently teaches a Senior Thesis class at Parsons, The New School.

OWNER AT SELF: ADAPTIVE AND INNOVATIVE DESIGN PRACTICES
Economic and technological upheavals of the last few years have challenged traditional notions of the design office. The Great Recession has made overhead a liability and long-term contracts less accessible; social media and the proliferation of image blogs allow designers to gain sizable followings overnight; and the desire to create meaningful and self-directed work has encouraged designers to look beyond billable hours to other forms of recompense.

In addition to showing their work, the designers featured in Owner at Self will share the adaptive and innovative strategies they’ve developed that allow them to make the work they want to make. Some initiate their own projects while others form geographically dispersed partnerships; some seek out alternative funding sources while others adapt their professional lives to their personal ones; all are taking the entrepreneurial risk to build practices that new conditions require.

THIS SERIES IS PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH:

Red Hook team
Presenting: Alicia Cheng and Anke Stohlmann (designers)
Community Partners: TBD

Rockaway team
Presenting: Danielle Aubert (designer) and Daniel Latorre (community engagement strategist)
Community Partners: Sophia Skeans (Rockaway Artists Alliance) and TBD (Rockaway Youth Task Force)

Seaport team
Presenting: Yeju Choi (designer) and Francesca Birks (community engagement strategist)
Community Partners: Catherine Hughes (Community Board 1) and Sheri Signer (South Street Seaport Museum)

DESIGN/RELIEF INITIATIVE IS SUPPORTED BY:

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Snøhetta is currently working on a number of educational, civic and cultural projects in North America including the expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California, the Westchester Branch Library in the Bronx and Far Rockaway Public Library in Queens, and the redevelopment of Times Square in New York City, currently under construction.

Balance is a primary principle of Snøhetta’s practice. For corporate clients, national cultural institutions, and international brands, Snøhetta’s output in architecture, print, branding, wayfinding and environment design reflects a classically Scandinavian path from concept and outcome, an equilibrium between form and function, work and life. The office’s engaging hands-on dialog with clients is a critical, unique part of their methodology.In this Small Talk during NYxDesign Week, Stian Krosby and Anne Lewison from Snøhetta New York will unpack the office’s design philosophy and introduce highlights of Snøhetta’s design projects.

Stian Krosby is Project Director for Brand Design at Snøhetta, New York. His clients include World Trade Center, Queens University, Royal Norwegian Consulate, Norwegian Postal Service, The Norwegian Opera, Veidekke, Visit Voss, Visit Lillehammer, Wilh. Wilhemsen, WWL, Hydro, Rottefella, Jøtul, Telenor, Norske Skog, Innovation Norway.

Anne Lewison AIA is the senior architect and Project Manager for the WTC Museum Pavilion by Snøhetta, New York. She directed the team on all aspects of this project from 2007 to the public opening in May of 2014. Other projects with Snohetta include SLAM – Streb Lab of Action Mechanics. She also is a Board Member of cultureNOW.org Museum without Walls, an award winning cultural mapping app.

Interest in type, typefaces, typography and fonts has grown far beyond the graphic design community, yet few truly understand how and why these vital components of design are created and applied. This exhibition, organized by Monotype and designed by AIGA Medalist and Pentagram partner Abbott Miller for the AIGA National Design Center, celebrates 100 years of type as a constant influence in the world around us.

Gathering rare and unique works from premier archives in the United States and London, “Century” will serve as the hub of a series of presentations, workshops and events held at the AIGA gallery as well as the Type Directors Club and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at Cooper Union in New York City. The “Century” exhibition features a range of artifacts representing the evolution from typeface conception to fonts in use. Typeface production drawings by the preeminent designers of the last 100 years, proofs, type posters and announcement broadsides are supplemented by publications, advertising, ephemera and packaging.

PARTNERS
Exhibiting and event partners for the exhibition include Monotype, AIGA, Pentagram, Mohawk Paper, The Type Directors Club, Condé Nast, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, The Type Archive, The Herb Lubalin Study Center at Cooper Union, Alan Kitching and The Museum of Printing.

EXHIBITION DESIGN: Abbott Miller, Pentagram

SEE THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition is on view from May 1 at the AIGA National Design Center in New York City. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

GALLERY HOURS
Monday through Wednesday: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*Please note: The gallery will be closed on Thursdays from 1:00–6:00 p.m. for pre-registered and private tours

AIGA National Design Center Gallery
164 Fifth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets)
New York, NY 10010
212 807 1990

OPENING RECEPTION
AIGA members and the public are invited to view the exhibition at a reception in conjunction with NYCxDesign on Wednesday, May 14 from 6:00–8:00 p.m. at the AIGA National Design Center.

RELATED EVENTS
During the exhibition, a series of related workshops called “Century Expanded” will take place at the Type Directors Club and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at Cooper Union in New York City.

AIGA/NY is proud to celebrate design in the city, this May and every day. We are preparing an amazing showcase of AIGA/NY’s special initiatives at the new venue of Industry City in Sunset Park, invited by our friends at Wanted Design. Here is what our presence will cover:

DESIGN/RELIEF INITIATIVE RESULTS UNVEILED

SAT MAY 17, 5PM, at Industry City, Building 2, we will feature a special program with our Design/Relief team members in dialog with their community partners to discuss the transformative power of design in making those communities more visible, legible and navigable places. The conversation will address how design has impacted the places, the people, the dynamics between various groups in those places. RSVP to come soon.

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS MADE VISIBLE

This is the time and place for graphic designers to be visible, and be part of the city-wide festival of design, which has historically be more driven by the furniture design industry. While the national AIGA celebrates its 100th Anniversary, the NY chapter features on its 32nd birthday an incredibly thriving community of designers, active participants, engaged curators and impresarios of design in the city. Let’s celebrate AIGA/NY’s design impact, demonstrated by the way we:

- Connect professional designers and students with ideas, information and each other
- Advocate for design within the civil and cultural life of New York City
- Lead collaborative projects with local communities
- Champion excellent work and sharing innovative practices.

MAKING PLACE
Exhibit Design: Nikki Chung of Once & Future
Exhibit Curator: Laetitia Wolff, Program director
Production: Stacey Panousopoulos, Director of operations
Designers: J’aime Cohen and Carolyn Louth
Project intern: Taylor Kuhn
Special thanks to Wanted Design and to our Design/Relief super resilient teams!!!

About Industry City
IC, Brooklyn’s premier destination during NYCxDESIGN, is teaming up with WantedDesign for 11 days of events, exhibitions, installations and conversations. Industry City is a historic, 30-acre manufacturing and innovation complex on the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Starting May 10, Industry City will host the kick-off party for NYCxDESIGN celebration. By involving local artists, designers and makers, and bringing original international group exhibits, Industry City promises to be not only a meeting point in the heart of Brooklyn, but New York City’s not-to-be-missed new destination during NYCXDESIGN 2014.

DESIGN/RELIEF INITIATIVE IS SUPPORTED BY:

The panel will be moderated by Stella Bugbee, Editorial Director of New York magazine’s the Cut.

PANELISTS
Roanne Adams, RoAndCo
Roanne Adams opened her design studio, RoAndCo, in 2006 after being awarded ”New Visual Artist (20 under 30)” by PRINT magazine. With a keen eye for style and skill for zeroing in on the most succinct way to visually capture a brand’s personality, Roanne is trusted and respected by clients and collaborators alike. In 2010, she was named by T Magazine of the The New York Times as one of six of the city’s most “outstanding up-and-coming design professionals” and in 2011, she was among the winners of The Art Directors Club’s esteemed ADC Young Guns 9 award. The studio continues to garner renown for its intrepid ability to build successful brands in the fashion, beauty, luxury and lifestyle realms, and remains committed to creating fresh, sincere and compelling brand messages that engage and resonate.

Andy Spade, Partners & Spade
Andy Spade started his career in advertising working on brands such as Coca-Cola and Lexus. In 1993, he and his wife Kate founded the iconic Kate Spade and Jack Spade fashion lines, which grew to 26 stores across North America and Japan, and earned the couple the CFDA award for excellence in design. In addition to launching the branding and design studio Partners & Spade, Andy has produced a number of award-winning short and feature films, and was named one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company.  In 2013, Sleepy Jones was established with long-time collaborators Anthony Sperduti and Chad Buri to create a collection of sleepwear and not-quite-ready-to-wear for men and women inspired by the lifestyles of artists.

Matthew Williams
Matthew Williams began his career as Lady Gaga’s artistic director, helping guide her meteoric rise to fame with his thought provoking costume, visual, and set design. Matt then spent two years as art director at Nick Knight’s famous SHOWstudio, collaborating on campaigns for brands such as Hermès, Armani, and Range Rover. Matt himself has stepped behind the camera to photograph and direct fashion films and editorials for the likes of VMagazine, L’Officiel, Purple, Interview, and GQ. Currently Matt is shaping the artistic message of Kanye West’s empire as creative director of GOOD Music and GOOD Brands.

MODERATOR
Stella Bugbee, The Cut
Stella Bugbee is editorial director of the Cut, New York magazine’s fashion and lifestyle site, which she helped relaunch in August 2012. She oversees all editorial and visual content, including original reporting and photo shoots as well as social initiatives.
Previously, Bugbee had served as a creative director at fashion agency AR New York, and the design director at Domino Magazine. She has worked on every kind of project over the span of her career, from small identities, to national magazines and global advertising campaigns for multi-national companies. Bugbee has taught publication design and typography at Parsons, and been a visiting reviewer in the Yale MFA program. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design.

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