Featured – AIGA Upstate New York https://upstatenewyork.aiga.org Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:55:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.6 https://upstatenewyork.aiga.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-aiga-logo-32x32.png Featured – AIGA Upstate New York https://upstatenewyork.aiga.org 32 32 2021 Emerging Designers’ Portfolio Review https://upstatenewyork.aiga.org/2021-emerging-designers-portfolio-review/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:01:34 +0000 https://upstatenewyork.aiga.org/?p=92464 You’re invited to participate in AIGA Upstate New York’s annual portfolio review event! Due to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s portfolio review is being conducted completely online during the weeks of April 5-16, 2021.

For emerging designers, this is a great opportunity to share your portfolio with Upstate design professionals and receive important feedback. Please fill out and submit the following form at your earliest convenience.

Sign up to be reviewed

For industry professionals, we need you to sign up to review portfolios and provide thoughtful feedback and help our next generation of designers! Even if you’ve only been working as a designer for a year or two, your input is really helpful to folks who are just starting out, and your experience getting that first job is fresh in your mind.

Volunteer to be a reviewer

This review is open to all emerging designers, whether you are in school, or self-taught, a recent grad, in a bootcamp, switching careers, etc. If you are job hunting for your first design job, or will be soon and need feedback, this event is for you!

Once we’ve paired up reviewers with emerging designers, we’ll contact you with additional information.

Sign up to have your work reviewed: https://forms.gle/Fi7SaYhu1nKrkMfN8

Volunteer to be a reviewer: https://forms.gle/HfJzSHuHL678nwLp6

The deadline for signups is March 31st, 2021. You will be contacted about your pairings by April 3, 2021. The reviews will be scheduled on an individual basis with your reviewer, and will be conducted over Webex, Zoom, or whatever video platform you feel most comfortable using.

Please reach out to shauna@upstatenewyork.aiga.org with any questions or connect with our volunteer leaders at aigaupstateny.slack.com.

]]> Less of the Same: Reconsidering the Design of GOTV Campaigns https://upstatenewyork.aiga.org/less-of-the-same-reconsidering-the-design-of-gotv-campaigns/ Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:15:50 +0000 https://upstatenewyork.aiga.org/?p=90376 Hand-me-down wisdom proclaims that Get Out the Vote campaigns rarely impact the turnout in any given election. It is probably true, but not because there is a problem with the media. Rather, the fault is in the content. Join Dr. Ofer Berenstein – a voter encouragement consultant – in a discussion about the visual elements that work well, or less, in encouraging political engagement by different types of citizens. In the course of this talk, we will look into the logic behind certain demographics’ preferences of pictograms and symbols, models, color schemes, typography, and artistic traditions. By the end of this talk, participants will have a basic working knowledge and understanding of five key elements that can take the effectiveness of GOtV campaigns to the next level.

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