T-shirt Design Contest- Help Haiti!

DESIGN MAKES A HUGE IMPACT on people- and we’re ready to show how it can be used as a force for good!  We’ve teamed up with the Volunteer Service Board and LDSSA to provide donations and supplies for Haiti crisis victims. We believe that with everyone’s help we will be able to reach our goal of raising $500 for Haiti relief efforts.

WHAT CAN $500 DO? A lot!  According to Doctors Without Borders, a $500 donation is enough to supply a medical kit containing basic drugs, supplies, equipment, and dressings to treat 1,500 patients for three months.

SUBMIT YOUR AWESOME WORK Help AIGA make a difference—Submit your T-shirt designs/illustrations by Monday, February 8th at noon. We need your talent to make sure we have the coolest shirt possible! Art must be in one color, fit in an 8.5 x 14 area, and be sent as a PDF to lindseyward1@u.boisestate.edu.

Possible phrases you might use, but are not limited to, are:

• Haiti Relief 2010
• Hatian Quake Relief- BSU 2010
• Help Haiti
• Raise Up Hope for Haiti
• Aid Haiti 2010
• BSU Supports Haiti

GET A SHIRT FOR YOURSELF Stop by the SUB on February 19th to get a unique t-shirt that we will be screen printing ourselves—or order one in advance by bringing $10 to Stephanie Bacon, John Francis, or Jennifer Wood.  For every t-shirt sold we will be donating $5 to the relief effort!

We will post the exact location within the SUB, as well as the exact time as soon as they are made available.

Remember: The deadline is Monday, February 8th, at noon!  Good luck!

Mix Mentor & TypeFace!!! January 20th

Mix Mentor is back! All design students should REALLY take advantage of this opportunity. We will be viewing a great new documentary called Typeface first in the SPEC at 6:30. You do not have to be a member to come to the screening, but Mix Mentor is for members only.
Immediately after the film, we will be moving to the Jordan Ballroom to enjoy light refreshments and mixing/ mentoring! We will pair students and professionals for 1 semester. Your professional member will meet with you several times over the semester to talk about the design industry, what they do, portfolio reviews, and to discuss any questions that you might have as a student.

This can be an incredibly valuable experience and a chance to meet professionals in the Boise design community.

You can register for the event by going to this link REGISTER!

A Blog to Follow

We are always looking for new inspiration to keep us refreshed- here is a blog I found that has lots of links to interesting stuff—check it out.

http://www.inspiredm.com/

AIGA NNU!!!

Thank you to the new NNU chapter of AIGA for hosting the holiday mixer last night! There are a lot of fun new things happening and we are excited to hear about student design enthusiasts in Nampa.

Oops, The time was wrong for the Idaho Stew Student Workshop!

The Student workshop will be at 12:00 on Wednesday November 18th in the FA Building. I hope everyone can make it, we will be screen printing an awesome design by our very own Nichole Rowley. Bring whatever you want to print on. Thank you to everyone else who submitted designs!

“More Stew Please”

I hope everyone has seen my blasts about the Idaho Stew Student event, but they will be here for 4 days so you guys are all invited and encouraged to take full advantage of them while they are here! Check aigaidaho.org for all of the other information and to register for the professional chapter events. There is a discounted price for students to attend. Yes the lectures will be different so go to whatever you can make it to. Hope to see you all there, and DON’T FORGET TO GET YOUR DESIGNS IN FOR THE CONTEST BEFORE NOVEMBER 9TH!

Idaho Stew

Hello student members!

so we have a HUGE event coming up in a couple of weeks.

November 18th: Student Chat and Screen Printing workshop
November 19th: Professional Chapter Lecture at the Watercooler
November 20th: Professional Chapter Screen Printing Workshop

Keep checking out our website for times and updates!

OK HERE’S THE SUPER AWESOME PART!:

What will be screen printing? It could be YOUR DESIGN. This is an excellent chance for a really cool portfolio piece that will be recognizable to everyone in AIGA and in the design program.
ALL students are invited to design an AIGA Boise State Student Group T-shirt design. These designs need to be submitted to me by Monday November 9th and I will be taking them to the professional board meeting on Tuesday, November 10th for judging.
If your design is chosen, it will be sent to the masters at Idaho Stew and they will create a couple of screens of it for the demo.
Then, everyone who attends the demo is invited to bring their own t-shirts, bags, pillow cases or whatever you want to print on and they will all have your amazing design embedded in their wardrobes.

Requirements:

1. Though you will have the option to print in several colors, this design needs to be a ONE COLOR design.
2. Please send me an Illustrator or Photoshop PDF of your masterpiece.
3. It can have ANYTHING you want on it but somewhere it needs to say AIGA BSU or AIGA Boise State Student Group
4. Have fun with it! We love randomness, illustrations, type illustrations or whatever you can come up with.

Also, all submitted designs will be showcased on our website so even if you don’t win, everyone will get to admire your awesomeness!!

Let me know if you have any questions

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