AIGA Chico Announces Fall Workshop Series

November 5th | RSVP
Wayne Wade
Topic: Letterpress Workshop
Bio: Wayne is a letterpress expert and a CSUC faculty member. He will lead students through setup and production of their own letterpress pieces in an all-day hands-on workshop.

November 12th | Tehama 230 (on CSUC campus) | 10:30AM - 4:00pm | RSVP
Shasta Garcia & Arvi Raquel-Santos
Topic: "You Have a Great Portfolio, Now What?" Arvi Raquel-Santos and Shasta Garcia from Weymouth Design will share their individual work experiences, including what to expect after leaving the design school bubble. Arvi and Shasta will facilitate a workshop to stretch your design thinking and show how design can be more than just a logo or brochure.

Bio: Weymouth Design is a design firm for leading businesses, from Fortune 500 companies to pre-IPO start-ups. With offices in San Francisco and Boston, Weymouth Design focuses on visual communications, in print and online, from annual reports to full branding programs to immersive online experiences and websites. Their creative thinking and innovative work has helped launch remarkable companies, products, events and services, and has strengthened winning brands and reputations since 1973 in biotech, life sciences, financial services, high technology, music, and education.

November 19th | Tehama 230 (on CSUC campus) | 11:00AM - 4:00pm | RSVP
Henrik Olsen
Topic: "Designing for tablet based experiences". Erik will go over the fundamentals of designing visual user interfaces for multi-touch devices, such as the iPad. He'll be talking about behavior animations, usability issues, enabling technologies, and will present several of projects that Hot Studio has recently completed for Zinio, Palm, and Kno. Within the workshop students will go through a rapid ideation process in which they could brainstorm ideas for their own iPad app as well as group critiques and more.

Bio: Henrik Olsen is a Principal, and Creative Director at the San Francisco based interactive design firm Hot Studio, and has led the visual design discipline since 2002. Bringing his deep foundation of brand identity and online interaction design, Henrik has directed projects across Hot Studio’s full portfolio of clients. Recent client engagements have included SFMOMA, Dwell, eBay, California Academy of Sciences, Cisco, and Gap.

All workshops will be free to registered AIGA members and $5 to non-members. All events are open to designers of any skill level, creatives of all disciplines, and members of the public. To RSVP for any of the events this fall, click the RSVP links above, or email aigacsuc@gmail.com.