The 2012 AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries

How you can use the salary survey

The 2012 AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries is a useful tool for students: It allows you to compare compensation across different positions, company sizes, organization types and geographic locations. Log in to designsalaries.aiga.orgto see industry trends, use the members-only salary calculator and learn what designers are earning across the country.

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AIGA | Justified Competition: 2012 Selections

AIGA’s “Justified” competition recognizes case studies that demonstrate the value of design in a clear, compelling and accessible way. Effective design will nearly always reflect the powerful emotional draw of creativity, inspiration and simplicity; and yet today, for design to be truly effective, it must also serve the client’s very specific needs.

Designers’ unique capacity for seeing problems from unexpected angles—as well as designers’ creativity and empathy with human experience—is in high demand. AIGA believes that a competition built around the case study format, rather than one built around the selection of artifacts, offers a more effective means of revealing how designers have approached clients’ problems, with all of the attendant constraints. With this in mind, the 2012 “Justified” competition honors 18 exemplary case studies of design solutions, each of which successfully demonstrate the value of design.

To learn more about the competition and the selection process, read the jurors’ comments.

AIGA | Justified Competition: 2012 Selections

30 Reasons 2012

30 Reasons is gearing up for 2012.

They’re enlisting 30 designers to each create a poster that represents a reason to re-elect President Obama. Starting on October 8th, we’ll reveal a new poster on 30reasons.org every day until the election. Join our mailing list, and we’ll email you each poster so you can share them with fellow supporters or undecided friends.

Back in ’08 we featured posters by some of the best designers and artists in America. We reached hundreds of thousands of registered voters, and are upping the ante for ’12. This year we’re providing powerful visual messages and the facts to back them up. Let’s stop the misinformation and give voters 30 reasons to vote for Barack Obama in November.

30 Reasons

2012 Poster Competition | Recyclemania!

RecycleMania’s 2012 Poster Contest
Coordinated by the RecycleMania Poster Review Committee
As part of RecycleMania, Inc. (“RecycleMania”)

All entries must be uploaded by 3:00 pm Eastern Time on Monday, October 22, 2012

2012 Poster Competition | Recyclemania

All The Pretty Gradients Mapped Out in Three Big Books: The RGB Colorspace Atlas

The full atlas is a compilation of three books, each of which resembles a solid cube of gradients from afar, as they measure a perfect 8 x 8 x 8 inches. Each volume contains the entire visible spectrum and the spines slice the RBG cube in different directions: vertically, horizontally, and from front to back.

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Voters Annoyed by Hard-to-Read Ballots

In New York City, you may want to bring a magnifying glass.

Voters who trekked to the polls for Thursday’s primary races were handed ballots with candidates’ names printed in an eye-straining 7-point type, akin to the ingredient list on the side of a cereal box.

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SF State Web-design Opportunity for Students

We are seeking creative, computer-savvy students to create a website for our student-led sustainability campaign here at SF State. It's called The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) and it's been wildly successful at other campuses nationwide.

This is a great opportunity to add to your portfolio while contributing to the campus community and working with students from different departments who are all united by a passion for sustainability, social equity, and improving our school. You don't need to know anything about sustainability - we'll fill you in! There are no set hours and we'll do all we can to make the task as easy for you as possible. You have a valuable skill we need.

This is not a paid position, but time spent building the TGIF website could potentially be used towards volunteer/internship requirements or just as a chance to work on your web-design skills and take on a fun, fulfilling challenge. Additionally, if the TGIF campaign is successful, it may eventually be used to establish a paid student web-manager position - that could be you!

We welcome all and any SF State community members to join our team, and not just web-designers. There's something for everyone, even if you can only spare twenty minutes or just want to become informed about green happenings on campus.

Interested students should email TGIF.SFSU@gmail.com for more info.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Yael Ofer
Campaign Manager, The Green Initiative Fund at SFSU
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