Every month we post brief updates to projects, events, and initiatives we are working on at AIGA Raleigh. If you have any questions or ideas to share, email us at leadership@raleigh.aiga.org. Want to volunteer? Email volunteer@raleigh.aiga.org and let us know how you’d like to get involved.
Homegrown Series
- June Homegrown with Content Matters: Create Meaningful Sites with Content Strategy with Michael Gowen recap is posted.
- The Homegrown series will be on hiatus for the summer, we will be back in the fall with some amazing new speakers.
- We are actively looking for volunteers to help organize this monthly series. Contact volunteer@raleigh.aiga.org if you are interested.
Design For Good
- Next Design For Good meeting: Saturday, June 29, from 10:15-12:00 at the Cameron Village Library meeting room 202.
- Share your ideas on the Project Work Space on the Triangle Wiki.
- We are working on the AIGA Raleigh Design For Good Blog, stay tuned for a launch date. We are looking for people to contribute to and/or share their DFG work on the blog. Send ideas to dfg@raleigh.aiga.org.
- We’ve introduced The Window Project, a challenge to effect positive social change in your immediate surroundings through creative thought. It’s meant to encourage everyone in the creative community to take a more active role in addressing the social needs of our neighborhoods.
- The National AIGA Design For Good Initiative is in the early stages of forming a partnership with GOOD Magazine.
- AIGA National has a great list of DFG resources.
Film Series
Studio Tour
- We are going to try to schedule the Durham tour for the Spring.
- Raleigh tour will be in the fall, probably in September.
Pursuit Fund
- We are in the early stages of organizing the next Pursuit Fund round. Start thinking about what project or goal you’d like to submit to receive a grant from AIGA Raleigh.
Annual Meeting (to be renamed)
- Event will be in September and will be renamed.
- Will be a Design For Good-centric event with short presentations ranging from DFG at the national, local, and individual level.
- We are currently recruiting a team to help produce this event. If interested, please email volunteer@raleigh.aiga.org.
Adobe Workshops
- The AIGA partnership with Adobe makes workshops available to chapters. Adobe provides an expert presenter and the chapter books a venue and promotes the event to your local community.
- We would love to bring these events to you, so we are looking for volunteers to produce the event, which entails selecting a date, booking a venue, and promoting the event. If you are interested in putting on one of these workshops, please volunteer@raleigh.aiga.org.
- Current workshops available are:
- “Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition Workshop.” In this workshop, you will learn everything you need to know to design and prepare an iPad app for submission to the Apple App Store—without writing code!
- “Creative Cloud™ Workshop for Designers.” Create and deliver compelling designs to more audiences in more places than ever.
- “Learn to Build a Website in One Day.” Adobe® Muse™ software, available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud or single app membership, enables graphic designers to create HTML websites for desktop and mobile devices, without writing code.
