Design & Political Resistance in Chile

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA), AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for this online talk by Javiera Manzi and Nicole Cristi, from Chile. The event is part of AIGA Unidos’ Hispanic Heritage Talks 2021.

Manzi and Cristi will share their research about the two of the most prolific graphic collectives during the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1989): Agrupación de Plásticos Jóvenes (APJ) and Tallersol Cultural Center. The work of both groups was tackled from a perspective that focuses on the production process as a political practice, rather than only on the explicit political content of a graphic piece.

This presentation will be based on an article published by the authors in the Journal of Design History. It unravels a fragment of the history of the political posters in Chile that has been marginalized from design historical discourses and highlights a processual perspective for the study of the work of graphic activisms.

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo will host this program, our third event of a virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT
* The speaker will present in Spanish. Interpretation in English will be available.
1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

PRESENTED BY
Nicole Cristi is a researcher in design history and theory and material culture studies in Chile and Latin America. She is a designer and PhD(c) in Anthropology in Material Culture from the University College of London. Cristi is co-author of the book Resistencia Gráfica (LOM, 2016). Her work has focused on the study of productive processes in both graphic and industrial design from the perspectives of the anthropology of technique and decolonial thought.

Javiera Manzi is a sociologist and archivist at the University of Chile. Independent researcher and curator on the intersections between art/politics, visual culture, and social movements. Manzi is co-author of the book Resistencia Gráfica (LOM, 2016). As a researcher and feminist activist, she has published her work in books and magazines on political graphics, the feminist movement, and Chile’s October Revolution. She is currently the coordinator of Red Conceptualismos del Sur.

Latino Design Histories | Argentine Art and Design From the 1960’s

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore for this online talk by Wustavo Quiroga, a designer, cultural manager, institutional advisor, and researcher from Argentina. He is the president of IDA Foundation (2013) in Buenos Aires. Quiroga will share his experience as the editor of the publication “Material Ideas. Argentine Art and Design in the 1960s.”

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo will host this event, part of the virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

Thank you to AIGA Unidos, Stevenson University, and the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre for partnering with us on this event.

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT

* The speaker will present in Spanish. Interpretation in English will be available.
1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

PRESENTED BY

Wustavo Quiroga co-founded and directed the Foundation of the Interior and the Museum Under Construction (2005-2017) in Mendoza, and IDA Foundation (2013) in Buenos Aires. He has implemented measures to systematize patrimonial assets by creating archives, processing data, improving material conditions, and validating cultural capital. He has participated in curatorial and publishing projects, conferences, academic meetings, and biennials in Argentina and abroad. Quiroga has received awards for his research and professional career.

Fun fact: The typefaces we used for the event’s visual identity were created by Latin American Type Designers. Inge was designed by Fernanda Cozzi from 🇦🇷 Argentina and Anguita Sans was designed by Sofia Mohr from 🇧🇷 Brazil.

Extra Bold Design History: Feminist, Queer, Inclusive!

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA), AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for this online event with Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias, and Silas Munro. They are co-authors and contributors to the new book “Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021).

Part comic book, zine, manifesto, and survival guide, “Extra Bold” is filled with stories and ideas that don’t show up in other design histories. These authors will explore their playful and experimental approaches to writing design history.

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How to Attend

1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

About the Presenters

Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Her exhibitions include “Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master,” “Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence,” “How Posters Work,” and “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.” Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at MICA in Baltimore, where she has authored numerous books on design processes, including “Thinking with Type,” “Graphic Design Thinking,” and “Graphic Design: The New Basics.” Her recent books “Design Is Storytelling” and “Health Design Thinking” were published by Cooper Hewitt. She is an AIGA Gold Medalist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Jennifer Tobias is a scholar and illustrator. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York, an MLS from Rutgers, and a BFA from Cooper Union. She provided reader services at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design libraries. Her illustrations are included in “Health Design Thinking” and “Design is Storytelling”, both by Ellen Lupton.

Silas Munro is a partner of Polymode, a bi-coastal design studio in the U.S. that creates poetic research, learning design, artistic practice, and applied design with clients in the cultural sphere, innovative businesses, and community-based organizations, including Mark Bradford, MoMA, OCMA, and The New Museum. Munro’s writing appears in Eye, Slanted, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. Munro is an Associate Professor at Otis and Advisor at VCFA.

Latino Design Histories

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore for this online talk by Rafael Cardoso. As one of the leading historians of modern art and design in Brazil, Cardoso has authored numerous books and essays and curated major museum exhibitions. In his new book Modernity in Black and White, he provides a groundbreaking account of modern art and modernism in Brazil.

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo will host this event, part of the virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

Thank you to AIGA Unidos, Stevenson University, the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, and Blucher for partnering with us on this event.

Connect + Collect | Bmore Art at Baltimore Craft Week

Join BmoreArt and the American Craft Council (ACC) for a discussion of contemporary craft with three featured artists in ACC’s Baltimore Craft Week. Prior to COVID-19, ACC’s annual juried shows in Baltimore, Atlanta, St. Paul, and San Francisco featured thousands of professional artists working in metal, glass, wood, clay, and fibers and attracted a loyal following of more than 45,000 patrons. With Craft Week, ACC is moving their Baltimore event online, so this year we will spotlight a few of their talented artists about the shrinking divide between contemporary art and craft, the meaning of materials, and why living with artful, handmade objects is so important.

baltimore craft week joergelina lopez, nikki stokes, tracey beale

The Swiss Grid

Join the Society of Design Arts, AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for this online talk by Angelina Lippert.

The Swiss Grid

The Swiss Grid explores the development and impact of the International Typographic Style, considered one of the most important movements in graphic design history, through a selection of posters and ephemera. Influenced by the Concrete art of the Bauhaus and Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography, the practitioners of this style streamlined compositions through an adherence to geometric grid structures. The results were pared down, harmonious, instantly comprehensible designs—masterpieces of communication—that have stood the test of time. To complete the story of Swiss poster history, companion exhibitions in adjoining galleries will celebrate over 100 years of Swiss design, from illustrational posters of the prewar period up through the “Swiss punk” movement of the 1970s and beyond.

About the Presenter:

Angelina Lippert holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in theology and art history from Smith College. Prior to working at Poster House, Angelina served ten years as a poster specialist at a leading New York City leading auction house. She has produced dozens of auction catalogs and articles, as well as The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA and The Cooper Union. She is a member of AAM, AAMC, AIGA, and is on the Board of Directors for The Ephemera Society of America. Her research interests include German Expressionism, Soviet film posters, and the history of food and wine in advertising.

How to attend the event:

1) This event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

Accessibility

If you need any accommodations to fully access the event, please get in touch with us 1 week before the event at info@baltimore.aiga.org.

Code of Conduct

AIGA Baltimore expects that all attendees treat each other with respect, openness, and adherence to the guidelines specified in AIGA’s Code of Conduct, which can be found here: Code of Conduct.

Notes on being a DOMINICANYORK

Join the Society of Design Arts, AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for the online talk “Notes on being a DOMINICANYORK” by Ramon Tejada.

Tejada will present his work and exhibition featured in Stevenson University’s School of Design gallery. As a graphic designer, Tejada rarely encounters Dominican design and Dominican aesthetics, even in NYC, home to the largest Dominican community outside of the DR. “One can argue that Design rarely represents anything but Western Design with its roots firmly planted in a Bauhaus, modernist lineage.” His current practice is focused on what he calls “puncturing;” bringing (inserting the Dominican) narratives and voices that Graphic Design has ignored, neglected, and undervalued into the conversation and point of view.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Ramon Tejada is a New Yorkino/ Dominican/ BIPOC American designer and educator based in Providence, RI. As an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), he works in a hybrid design/teaching practice focusing on collaborative design models. Tejada’s design interests lie in the disruption and puncturing of the Design Canon, inclusivity, diversity, collaboration, and the expansion of design narratives and languages.

Instagram Live with Jess Langley of White Coffee Creative

Grab your phone and jump on Instagram at 1:00 PM ET on Thursday, October 29th for a live interview with Jess Langley of White Coffee Creative! Hear how the designer and muralist got started, lessons learned from starting a business, how she approaches mural projects, and more.

About White Coffee Creative

Purpose-Driven Design and Murals
White Coffee Creative is an inclusive, woman-owned studio in Baltimore, MD creating design and murals with sustainability in mind.
Learn more: whitecoffeecreative.com

Meet Jess

Jess Langley is the founder and artist behind White Coffee Creative. She started the business to make an impact and help others do the same. The three words she uses to describe her style: colorful, simple, and cohesive. A self-taught muralist, her work can be found inside of Spark Baltimore, on the walls of Christopher Schafer Clothier on Aliceanna Street, and on the storefront of Sharp Dressed Man just to name a few.

Baltimore Mural Hunt

This Instagram Live event is being held during our Baltimore Mural Hunt: a weeklong challenge to close out Baltimore Design Month 2020! October 25th-31st, take a self-guided tour of the city’s public art and share your mural photos and selfies with us by tagging @aigabaltimore and #BmoreMuralHunt20. The art hunter who visits the most murals between October 25th and 31st will win a specially curated prize!
Join the Baltimore Mural Hunt

Baltober Art Challenge with MWCA

Monument Women’s Creative Alliance and AIGA invite you to join us for Baltober (Inktober with a Baltimore spin). From October 18-24, we will be posting daily prompts to inspire your work. Draw your Baltimore take on the prompts and share using #Baltober. We will share some of our favorite submissions on social and more!

Here are the prompts for Baltober:

  • Day 1: Mr. Trash Wheel
  • Day 2: United
  • Day 3: Harbor
  • Day 4: Crabs
  • Day 5: Hon
  • Day 6: Neighbor
  • Day 7: Bromo Seltzer

Baltimore Mural Hunt

Tired of staring at your screen? Itching for a new view during your daily quarantine walk? We get it. Join the Bmore Mural Hunt this October 25th-31st to gain a new appreciation for the walls around you. Browse the Baltimore mural map and take a tour of the city’s public art by the likes of Ernest Shaw, Megan Lewis, Nether, Iandry Randriamandroso, Stephen Powers, Amy Sherald, GAIA, and many more.

Murals can be local landmarks, cultural statements, business and branding tools, or simply beautiful! There’s something to see in every corner of Baltimore, with new pieces popping up daily.

How To Participate:

  1. Take a self-guided tour of the city’s public art. Browse the Baltimore mural map
    and Annapolis murals for ideas.
  2. Share your mural photos and selfies with us by tagging @aigabaltimore and #BmoreMuralHunt20
  3. The art hunter who visits the most murals between October 25th and 31st will win a specially curated prize (including a gift Skillshare subscription)!

Artists, show us your work! Post photos of your murals, street art, and hand-painted signage with #BmoreMuralHunt20, and be sure to tag the location so mural hunt participants can find it.

Check out these artists’ work and start searching:
@eshaw_art
@jessieandkatey
@urbanhipsta
@gaiastreetart
@whitecoffeecreativeco
@eckerdesignco
@steveespopowers
@pablomachioli
@6reg6annon
@nether410