Join Blurb and a couple of our most experienced BlurbNation bookmakers for an introduction to BlurbNation, a community of creative entrepreneurs building book-related businesses around the Blurb publishing platform. We’ll show you how to build your own business designing professional-quality books for a wide range of clients.

Introduction to BlurbNation
January 8, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Thirsty Bear Brewing Company
661 Howard St SF, CA 94105

Register here: http://blurbnation.eventbrite.com

There will be tons of Blurb books for you to check out, plenty of Blurb folks to help answer questions, and of course, we’ll be providing food and plenty of drinks.
 
Some more information is pasted below – event will start at 4:30 and go until 6:30 or so. We’d love to see you there.
 
More on BlurbNation:

• Blurb provides everything you need to make books for your clients, including free bookmaking software, your own online bookstore, and a print-on-demand back-end that enables you to print professional-quality books in any quantity.
• BlurbNation helps you build a bookmaking business and market your skills to clients including businesses, non-profits, families, photographers, schools, and others in your community who have content ready to br put into books.
• Members are experienced designers, photographers, writers and editors – anyone who has the skill and experience to help clients create great books.
• Once you join BlurbNation, connect with the global member community for advice and support, and get access to marketing plans, case studies, rewards, and more.

Can’t make it? Then meet us for a 45 minute online webinar on Wednesday, January 14th at 11am PST. Register here:https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/828825424

Autograph, based in Emeryville, is a brand consultancy with an emphasis in Art Direction and Graphic Design. On their new website, Autograph features an online shop where one can purchase pencils and posters. All proceeds will go directly to AIGA SF’s Inneract Project which provides an outlet for inner city youth while introducing the discipline of graphic design.

Clos du Val means “small estate of a small valley” and is devoted to producing limited release, estate style wines of elegance, balance and finesse that express the terroir of the vineyards.

Clos du Val pioneered the Stags Leap District for the Bordeaux varieties, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, the cool Carneros appellation for the Burgundian Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Today, vice president of vineyard and winery operations John Clews joins Bernard Portet in continuing to produce artisanal and distinctive wines with an international reputation for excellence.

The Creative Group specializes in placing creative, advertising, marketing, web and public relations professionals on a project and full-time basis with a variety of companies. As a division of Robert Half International, the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm, we are backed by a history of excellence.
 
Businesses throughout North America turn to The Creative Group to fill their creative, advertising, marketing, web and public relations staffing needs. We represent a broad range of professionals, including Flash and InDesign experts, as well as experienced multimedia strategists and communications specialists. By working with us, businesses know they will be provided with highly skilled professionals who have been assessed using TalentMatch®, our proprietary evaluation process which includes a personal interview and skills testing.
 
Our staffing teams are composed of creative and marketing professionals, many of whom are industry award-winners. They make it their business to identify fellow professionals whose skills match our clients’ needs. Their industry backgrounds give them an in-depth understanding of an organization’s requirements, enabling them to quickly and efficiently supply individuals well-suited for each project.
 
In addition, our business relationships with well-respected industry organizations, including Adobe Systems, The Webby Awards, HOW magazine, iStockphoto and lynda.com reinforce our commitment to the profession and help us reach the most highly skilled creative professionals in the market.
 
Our experience placing thousands of highly skilled individuals with businesses each year has made us a respected authority on employment issues.  Through our industry-leading research on career and management trends, and complimentary advice booklets, including our annual Salary Guide, How to Check References When References are Hard to Check, and In-Spired! Bringing Out the Best in Your In-House Creative Team, we ensure that our clients receive a level of service and attention second to none.
 
For more information about The Creative Group, please call 888.846.1668 or visit us online at www.creativegroup.com.

Compostmodern is fertile ground for sustainability by design. Presented by the San Francisco Chapter of AIGA and the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design (CFSD), this interdisciplinary conference explores the range of design thinking necessary to create a socially and ecologically responsible society. Designers, manufacturers and business leaders come together to find inspiration, share knowledge and explore real world opportunities for transforming products, industries and lives.

Compostmodern 09 will be held at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on Saturday, February 21. This year’s conference demonstrates how sustainable solutions converge as design, ecology, social activism, business, and economics intersect. Speakers include Eames Demetrios of Eames Office, Allan Chochinov of Core 77, climate strategist Michel Gelobter, John Bielenberg and Pam Dorr of Project M and the HERO Housing Resource in Alabama, Emily Pilloton of Project H Design, and Autodesk Sustainable Design Program Manager Dawn Danby. GreenBiz editor and sustainability author Joel Makower will reprise his role as emcee.

Webcast Expands Conference Reach
For the first time, the event will also be webcast live and will be available for 90 days following, encouraging online participation and satellite events at AIGA chapters and educational institutions everywhere.

Partnership Opportunities
We invite businesses and organizations to partner with AIGA San Francisco and the Center for Sustainable Design in producing Compostmodern 09. The detailed information is available here. If you have any questions, please contact AIGA SF’s executive director, Donald W. Savoie, at 415.626.6008 or .

About the Center for Sustainable Design
The AIGA Center for Sustainable Design is dedicated to providing designers with a wide range of information regarding sustainable business practices. Through case studies, interviews, resources and discourse, the Center encourages and supports designers as they incorporate sustainable thinking into their professional lives.

For more information, please contact Don Savoie, AIGA SF’s Executive Director at 415.626.6008, or email at .

Aquent is the Official AIGA Sponsor for Professional Development, serving as a source for creative and design talent as well as providing access to great career opportunities for AIGA members nationwide. Through this multiyear alliance, Aquent partners with AIGA on national conferences, initiatives, exhibitions and events.

Aquent partners with AIGA on national conferences, initiatives, exhibitions and events. As part of ongoing support of AIGA members’ career goals, Aquent sponsors the AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries. This resource, which Aquent makes available to AIGA members as well as organizations that hire design professionals, establishes a common ground for discussing the costs and value of creative work. To find out more about the AIGA||Aquent Survey of Design Salaries, a print and online publication, visit Design Salaries.

Aquent also strives to support AIGA’s efforts to promote a lively and engaging exchange of ideas concerning the issues of greatest importance to the design community. In addition to actively participating in the conversation at national conferences and local events, Aquent also develops accessible, educational resources, including the “Design Thinking Out Loud” online video series. Click here to find out more about “Design Thinking Out Loud.”

About Aquent
Aquent is the only global staffing company dedicated to marketing and creative services organizations and the leader in helping companies increase marketing capacity by providing the right talent quickly. Our network of more than 400,000 marketing and creative services professionals gives us access to a diverse field of talent that includes graphic designers, copywriters, branders, managers and market researchers.

To learn more, visit Aquent or or call their offices at 877 2 AQUENT.

AIGA|Aquent Salary Survey: Design Salaries

Compostmodern is fertile ground for sustainability. Presented by the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design (CFSD), this interdisciplinary conference explores the range of design thinking necessary to create a socially and ecologically responsible society. Designers, manufacturers and business leaders come together to find inspiration, share knowledge and explore real world opportunities for transforming products, industries and lives.

Compostmodern 09 will be held at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on Saturday, February 21. For the first time, the event will also be webcast live (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM PST) and will be available for 90 days following, encouraging online participation and satellite events at AIGA chapters and educational institutions everywhere.

To sign up for the webcast, visit the Compostmodern website.

This year’s conference demonstrates how sustainable solutions converge as design, ecology, social activism, business, and economics intersect. Speakers include Eames Demetrios of Eames Office, Allan Chochinov of Core 77, climate strategist Michel Gelobter, John Bielenberg and Pam Dorr of Project M and the HERO Housing Resource in Alabama, Emily Pilloton of Project H Design, and Autodesk Sustainable Design Program Manager Dawn Danby. GreenBiz editor and sustainability author Joel Makower will reprise his role as emcee.

Want to Host a Viewing?
If you are interested in hosting a webcast viewing through your chapter on Saturday, February 21 or at a later date, email webcast@aigasf.org. The Compostmodern Seedpacket, a starter kit for producing your own satellite webcast event, can be downloaded from Compostmodern.org, or accessed at Compostmodern 09 Seedpacket.. In addition to technical details and logistics, the Seedpacket contains an email template for use in marketing and instructions for listing your event on www.compostmodern.org.

The organizers of Compostmodern would like to encourage students to participate in this event via our webcast interface. For information about hosting a webcast viewing for a group of students or an educational institution, email webcast@aigasf.org. Other questions? Email webcast@aigasf.org or check the resources on the conference website at Compostmodern.org.

24 Seven is the premier source for freelance and full-time creative talent in fashion, marketing, creative, interactive, beauty, retail, and more.  With multiple offices in the US and one in the UK, our scope is wide and our reach is broad.  Our internal staff has industry experience and professional contacts essential to finding exactly the talent you need for your company or the job you are looking for as the next step in your career.  Whatever the challenge, Talent is always the answer. 

Serving the Bay Area for more than a century, the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter (AIA San Francisco) is the third largest of the AIA’s 300 chapters. Headquartered in the historic Hallidie Building—one of the world’s first glass-curtain-wall-buildings, designed by Willis Polk and completed in 1917—AIA San Francisco is the Bay Area’s premier destination for architecture and design.

AIA San Francisco represents more than 2,300 members in San Francisco and Marin County. Our mission is to improve the quality of life in the Bay Area by promoting architecture and design. We further this goal through community involvement, education, advocacy, public outreach, member service, and professional excellence.

Each month AIA San Francisco offers professional development and networking opportunities as well as public forums, tours, lectures, and gallery exhibitions that provide architects and design enthusiasts with many opportunities to explore the local built environment.

The visits would last approximately two hours, and would involve a researcher and 1-2 members of their product team coming to visit with you and talk about your workflow.

If you are able to have their team come to visit you, please contact Marisa Lenhardt, User Research Associate at , or at (408) 536-2255.

AIGA San Francisco and PaperSpecs have partnered to bring you this special offer. Exclusively for AIGA San Francisco Members new to PaperSpecs, use promo code “AIGASF” and receive a 25% discount on your membership fee.

Sign up today.

See Special Offers for AIGA SF Members.

In eight minutes, meet some of the people who make AIGA the premier association for design—to discover it, discuss it, understand it, appreciate it, be inspired by it.

Watch the short video.

• Flash Designers
• Interactive Art Directors
• Copywriters
• Flash Developers
• Motion Graphics Artists
• Web Designers/Developers
• Interactive Project Managers
• Art Directors
• 3D/multimedia artists
• Account Executives/Directors
• Graphic Designers/Art Directors
• Producers

For more information or, to RSVP,
contact Jennifer Leong-Chan at
Please bring your resume, portfolio and 2 forms of identification.

AIGA SF and Adobe hosted an Intro to CS Workshop on October 22 at Adobe’s offices in San Francisco. Workshop presenter Kelly McCathran has given us a copy of her presentation.

Download the PDF presentation.

Join Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery in celebrating the publication of their new book: Do You Matter? How great design will make people love your company.

Featuring special guest speaker Michael Bierut, this promises to be an evening filled with delicious food, cocktails, book signing, and great company.

Michael Bierut, a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, has produced an extraordinary body of critical writing and design. A Senior Critic in the design program at the Yale University School of Art, he is also the coeditor of the Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design book series and a cofounder of DesignObserver.com, a widely read blog focused on design and culture. Michael is the winner of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards 2008 Design Mind.

Do you matter? is a new business book about design by Ammunition founder Robert Brunner and corporate consultant and author Stewart Emery. Learn more about the book.

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It’s Showtime!
More than 70 Spark Design Awards have been selected, ranging from Bronze to Spark! They will be proudly displayed at the Autodesk Design Gallery, One Market Street, premiering October 3rd, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at the Spark Awards Celebration in San Francisco. All current and past Spark entrants and community members are welcome! Please send a note to to confirm your reservation.

More info sparkawards.com.

AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design are pleased to announce the fifth annual Architecture and the City festival, the nation’s largest architectural festival showcasing tours, films, exhibitions, lectures and more. Whether you are looking to become involved with the local architecture and design community or simply want to learn more about the city in which you live, Architecture and the City offers an unparalleled opportunity to experience San Francisco.

AIA is partnering with AIGA San Francisco to promote the Design Lecture Series on September 4, as part of the festival.

Please visit the AIA website for more detailed information.

The Inneract Project workshops are a chance for young people, parents, college students and practitioners to “inneract” with each other. Classes are used to educate and inform youth about design as a career option. Workshops are free to insure every kid has an opportunity to take part in IP classes. IP’s ideal students are middle school kids with creative interests either in art or other creative activities.

The First Inneract Project class in the Bay area will start on October 4 – November 8, Saturdays only, from 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM. The location will be anounced later. There will be 16 student spots available for this class. There will be an IP reception showcasing students work from this session on November 15th.

More information.

If you would like to volunteer to help the Inneract Project team, please send an email to with your name, telephone number, and particular interest(s).

In addition, your firm owns the memberships and can manage its investment. If a staff member leaves your employment, your designated contact person need only notify AIGA of his or her replacement, and the new person will immediately begin receiving the benefits of membership.

To get started:

• Download the AIGA Group Membership application form.
• You must designate one person to manage your group membership, i.e., be the contact person to receive dues, invoices and communicate all changes to your AIGA group membership roster.
• Fax the completed form to (212) 255-4410.

If you are enrolling more than three members, copy the application and fill in the information for each group member. If you want to include the designated contact person as a member, make sure you repeat his or her information in this section. You must provide a name for each membership you are purchasing.

The special group rate of $730 U.S. applies to the first group of three memberships; additional individuals are added at the group discount rate of $245 U.S. For more information, please visit the AIGA National site.