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DesignerID Ad Wins Design Award at AIGA Show.

The Ad that I designed and art directed for the designerID launch campaign was selected as a Design Merit Award in the 2007 AIGA Origination Design Awards. The show, which honored all selected entries, was held on May 24, 2007 and was well attended. I should also mention that designers Noel Martin (Noel Martin Design) and Gordon Salchow (University of Cincinnati) received AIGA Fellow Awards. It was great to hear Gordon talk about the evolution of design education and specifically how UC's Design, Art, Architecture & Planning program came to be so well recognized. The judges for this years competition were Michael Hodgson of phD (Los Angeles), Monica Little of Little & Company (Minneapolis) and Christopher Simmons of MINE (San Francisco).

Brian Goes To School (of Advertising Art)

I was asked to speak at the School of Advertising Art in Dayton, Ohio this past Friday about creating a 5-year career plan for soon to be graduates in design. In addition to my talk in the morning I took part in portfolio reviews and shared advice as part of a roundtable. I reviewed about 10 portfolios and level of quality was quite impressive. One student in my group had posted on designerID and credits it with getting freelance work by a firm out of New York. The roundtable (pictured above) included senior people with VMA, Real Art Design, LM Berry, David K. Burnap and others. It was an enjoyable time and I've already received a few e-mails from students thanking me for the advice. Good luck to those new grads in their job search. And thanks to Joanie Spain with the School for coordinating the event.

Need Motivation? Tony Robbins Delivers.

TED is a great web site and conference about people that make a difference in the world. Only 1,000 people can attend each year and is probably the most sought after conference to attend. They recently started posting talks that use to be only for attendees. This particular one is given by Tony Robbins who is without a doubt the most effective motivational speaker. Enjoy this video and thanks to TED for making them available.

The Business Card.

Funny video that the blog unbeige wrote about the other day and I thought I would share with you. It is a scene from the movie "American Psycho".