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Phoenix Design Week is coming!
Phoenix Design Week is coming. The conference line-up was posted this week. It’s going to be an incredible event. If you haven’t yet, register!
What
Phoenix Design Week 2009 is a celebration of the local design community. It will include a variety of exhibitions, open houses, workshops, presentations, activities, films and other community-growth oriented events.
When
October 21st to October 25th
Where
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday:
Terralever, Santy Integrated, The Clarendon, Kitchen Sink Studios - Wednesday Night: Terralever
- Thursday Night: Santy Integrated
- Friday Night: Madcap Theaters
- Saturday: Phoenix Convention Center
- Saturday Night: The Clarendon
- Sunday: Phoenix Convention Center
Who
Phoenix Design Week exists for print, web, motion, and interactive designers as well as those with an inherent appreciation for design. This incredible event is made possible with the support and expertise of AIGA Arizona, many local design agencies, and a large pool of volunteers.
Why
Phoenix Design Week is intended to unite and strengthen the Phoenix design industry by giving designers an opportunity to forge relationships, share experiences, expand their knowledge, and reignite their passion for their craft.
How…Much?
Through the support of the community we are able to bring this amazing event to everyone for only $40; compare that to other comprobable conferences typically priced above $300.
No comments. Posted by tanner in conference, featured, social change on 28 September 2009.
Fill/Stroke has a slightly different audience than some other places I’ve been writing about this lately, so I think it’s best to address this article in acknowledgment of that.
The three of us here are all from different parts of the country/world. I like to say I’m from Philly, even though I did a fair amount of growing up near LA. Adria is from Mexico. Tanner is from the midwest.
This, we think, makes us uniquely awesome as a team: tons of viewpoints, tons of angles to come at. However, there is one thing we can all agree on since we’ve been transplanted to the desert city of Phoenix, AZ:
This place is set to take off and be HUGE.
As far as design is concerned, you always hear about New York and LA and Austin and Chicago and Boston any other number of cities before you get down to Phoenix. Print and Communication Arts annuals always throw us in with Albuquerque and tag on the generic “Southwest” category.
Those of us in Phoenix know that’s complete shit though. Phoenix, for all its invisibility to other parts of the world, is about as great an environment for design as you can find in the world. Tons of people coming in from other parts of the country, ready to be part of this fast growing town. Different styles, ideas and ambitions, but all here, all interested and ready for this place to let itself be heard.
So, with that idea in mind, I wrote a letter to Phoenix creatives. Letting them know I was going to start something in motion that will be a way for PHX to announce its intentions to kick ass. There are great organizations here and they need more press, more ways to advertise themselves both to Phoenix and its surrounding suburbs and then eventually to the world. We’re a slightly disconnected set of designers right now, with a chance to join together and seriously mess your shit up.
Phoenix is full of interested, ambitious people ready to show off. Phoenix Design Week is going to let them do that, and its going to be huge.
Phoenix is greater than New York
Phoenix is greater than LA, Austin, Anywhere
Phoenix is greater than you know yet.
You’ll find out though, don’t worry.
An open letter to the Phoenix design community
1 comment. Posted by md in communication, featured, news, phxdw on 25 March 2009.
We recently were able to get ahold of the twitter username slash, which is a great because its short and easy to remember. We’re trying to find ways to make the twitter account useful to everyone and we invite you to follow us there and make any suggestions. I think it will be a mix of alerting followers to new posts, as well as some sharing of links that aren’t long enough for a whole blog post, and as a another way to communicate with readers.
So, if you want, head to twitter.com/slash and say hi.
No comments. Posted by md in f/s community, featured on 8 February 2009.
Wim Crouwel is exactly 55 years older than me.
Of course we have to post when Experimental Jetset does anything. Because it seems that anything they do is worth talking about. In this case, they updated their site. It’s great and simple and I’m really digging the archive section.
The cool thing for me though, was looking at the Wim Crouwel invitation they did, and seeing that me and Crouwel were both born on the same day.
Now if I ever run into him, I totally have my icebreaker.
UPDATE:
Adria got an email a few days ago from Experimental Jetset and told me about it after I’d posted this.
We’ve been working on this magazine on and off (mostly off) since July of 07. The next thing you know, the interview Experimental Jetset did in January 08 is a year old and we are still an unpublished magazine website. They said great things and understandably didn’t want to keep them hidden for much longer. (Hence the Feature Image)
So, they ended up posting their responses. You can read them here.
Other published responses include Eric Karjaluoto’s at ideasonideas
1 comment. Posted by md in featured, issue 1, portfolio on 1 January 2009.
A clock for identity designers
- Click for larger images
Last month, I wrote about the day I spent obsessively chronicling all the brands, logos, identities and symbols – all 1,035 – that I interact with throughout the day. This research was done for a project I was working on at the time in the Visual Communication Design program at Arizona State University under Professor Al Sanft. Read more. →
26 comments. Posted by tanner in branding, clock project, featured on 15 December 2008.
So, its the end of 2008, almost. We started collecting information, interviews, ideas, content for this magazine back in June of 2007. A year a half! But with school, jobs, life, we got behind.
But, we totally love this thing, as much as its broken and a collection of grand ideas and content. We don’t want to rush it, or fake it. We refuse to release it except in the best possible way (you know…except for money) and so we are declaring Fill/Stroke vaporware* for 2008, with the promise that it will happen in 2009.
The way its looking now, its going to be big. Book-like. People have said “Break it up into several issues!” and we said “No.” That simple.
We will give you a great magazine, whether you want it or not.
Keep reading the blog though! This is easier to keep up and we hope it has similar insight and intrigue as the magazine will upon completion.
Thanks everyone, and an early “Happy Holidays” to you all.
*Vaporware is a somewhat derogatory term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having exceeded the period of development time that was initially expected.
No comments. Posted by md in featured, issue 1 on 1 December 2008.
Ian Stevenson is an awesome London based illustrator. His work and vision make me smile. When we asked Ian if he always wanted to be a designer for Issue One he had a great response.
No comments. Posted by adria in featured, issue 1 on 23 September 2008.
(Click the crop above for detail.)
Aaron Horkey is a phenomenal illustrator and poster artist who grew up in rural Minnesota. His hand-drawn, obsessively detailed typography never ceases to amaze me. When we interviewed Aaron for issue one, he offered helpful advice about avoiding mistakes.
Don’t try a half cab flip right out the gate just because your high school crush happens to be watching – you will roll your ankle and end up in a shameful heap.
2 comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in art, featured, poster, profile on 18 August 2008.
Roughly two hundred pages of soon-to-be designed content. Getting to this point has been much more cumbersome than we originally anticipated, what with: near deportation, fifty percent face paralysis, family sickness and nuptials. The summer has been tough, to say the least.
Even so, we’re still on track for a fall release. Pictures of the progress after the jump, including shots of our new editor.
1 comment. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1 on 10 August 2008.
Dapper Pipes: Aggregating your job search.
What’s that you say? Dapper pipes sounds like fancy plumbing and you want nothing to do with this article now? Well, give it a second.
With how today’s economy is going, it’s increasingly difficult to find jobs. A lot of time and effort goes into the job search itself, and it’d be nice to have a easy way to check all those many job sites at once, making it easy for your unemployed butt to do more important things, like work on your website, or finish off that last row of oreos.
3 comments. Posted by md in advice, featured, interwebs, jobs on 27 July 2008.
