AIGA SF | Design Lecture Series 2008

The San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, the professional association for design, presents the 2008 Design Lecture Series. This year's DLS will be comprised of four lectures, sponsored and held at Adobe San Francisco.

One of the oldest and most important lecture series dedicated to the convergence of technology, art and design, this year's series continues a tradition of bringing world-renowned professionals to one of the world's great creative capitals.

This year's lineup showcases different avenues in which creativity and design influence our culture with each speaker bringing a unique perspective to the conversation. The evening will begin with a reception and will feature complimentary wine and refreshments. Come early and mingle with members of the design community.

Adobe Creative Exchange
Still trying to become familiar with Adobe CS3 software? It’s conceivable that you’re not aware of InDesign features that can save you a lot of time. Perhaps you’d like to learn how to use Adobe Bridge to share assets between applications? Or maybe you want to find out how to import Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash and publish to web and mobile?

Bring your questions – even your files – to the Adobe Creative Exchange room, and experts will be on hand to help you get the most out of CS3.

Upcoming DLS 08 Dates:
June 5, 2008 | Yves Béhar
Sept 4, 2008 | Tronic
Dec 4, 2008 | Ben Watts

Upcoming: June 5, 2008

Yves Béhar Behar

Yves Béhar was born in 1967 in Lausanne and grew up in Switzerland. He studied industrial design in Europe and the US, and holds a B.S. of industrial design from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. From 1992 he worked three years at design firm Lunar and three before that at Frog Design in the Silicon Valley, developing product identities with clients such as Apple computers, Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics. In 1999 in he founded the design studio ’fuseproject’. Recent clients include Birkenstock, Herman Miller, Swarovski, MINI, Nike, Toshiba, Hussein Chalayan and Hewlett Packard. His designs have been recognised with numerous awards, such as the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award in 2004 as well as the IDEA/Business Week Gold Excellence Award in 2003, just to name a few. Currently the San Francisco MoMA exhibits a solo show of Béhar’s diverse work, a "futurespective" which spans products, fashion, graphics, packaging, environments, and strategy.

03/06/08 - Stefan Sagmeister Number 17

Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world working today. Since 1993 Sagmeister Inc., has focused on all things printed, including posters, brochures, books, and graphics and packaging for music clients. Sagmeister’s award-winning work has been recognized in national publications such as The New York Times, Time, Rolling Stone, and Wired. He’s created iconic album covers for Lou Reed, the Talking Heads, and the Rolling Stones. Born in Austria, he now lives in New York City.

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