AIGA St. Louis would like to announce its upcoming 20th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Meeting!
Date: Thursday, May 7th
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Place: Ferguson & Katzman Photography 2745 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO
*Free and Open to the Public
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It's the time of year again to recognize and honor our Local Legends and Fellows at the Annual AIGA meeting. However, it's not every year that our St. Louis chapter turns 20! So, to celebrate this special anniversary, AIGA St. Louis is adding some exciting elements to this year's event that we're sure you'll enjoy too.
Recognition of this year's Fellow Awardee, Cherie Fister, and Local Legend Awardees, Buck Smith, Sarah Birdsall, and John Heaney, will be featured speakers for the evening, offset by happy hour mingling and the special 20:20 Project.
What is the 20:20 project, you ask?
Well, to celebrate our 20th year, we've invited 20 local designers, illustrators, and photographers to create a custom piece that incorporates the idea of "20," "St. Louis" and/or "AIGA." With that in mind, they've created 20 reproductions of their custom commemorative design. Lucky you... that means that there will be over 400 works of art available at the event, so that each attendee will be able to take home one featured artwork as an added benefit of attending. No need to be an AIGA member... just join the celebration!
Selected contributors include: Designers from Firecracker Press, Toky Branding + Design, Kuhlmann Leavitt Inc, Creativille, Cheree Berry Paper, Fleishman-Hillard, DesignLab, Phoenix Creative, EmDash, Mammal, The Bungaloo, and other independent designers; Illustrators include John Hendrix, Dan Zettwoch, Linda Solovic, DB Dowd; Photographers include Mark Katzman, Gregg Goldman, and Brian Cummings
Between letterpress posters, silkscreened bags, xerox transfer illustrations, photographs, and curiosity boxes, there will be plenty of work to chose from! So come ready to see a vast selection of creativity from your local design community.
Due to the nature of the event, work will be chosen based on order of arrival. A few lucky people will be able to raffle their way up in the selection process, but zones for choosing work will be dependent on arrival time -- so come early, grab a drink and some food, listen to our awardees speak, and take your favorite work home to remember it all by!
Event schedule:
6:30-7:30: Happy Hour and 20:20 Artwork Viewing in Gallery
7:30-8:00: Fellow and Local Legend Awardee Speeches
8:00-9:30: Give-Away of 20:20 Artworks
We look forward to celebrating with you!
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AIGA Fellow 2009
The AIGA Fellow award program is a means of recognizing mature designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as in their local AIGA chapter. The areas of education, writing, leadership and reputation, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring significant contribution. www.aiga.org/content.cfm/fellow-award
Cherie Fister
MFA, graphic and interactive design program director, Maryville University
Nominated by Caren Schlossberg-Wood
Cherie always intended to pursue a career in ceramics; along the way, however, she discovered a love for all things graphic design. Following years of full-time professional work, including co-ownership of a creative consulting firm, she joined the faculty of Maryville in 1995. Two years later, she launched the University’s Graphic Design program.
“When we first started, it was entirely print-oriented. Anything we produced was printed no matter if it was two- or three-dimensional, including packaging, publications, posters or corporate design work.” Now every graphics student also studies web design and the interactive design majors specialize in electronic design.
“Design is really a way of thinking, it’s a way of problem-solving. Visual communication – making information accessible in a persuasive, logical way – is necessary whether one is working in education, in commerce, in politics or the not-for-profit sector.”
Prior to Maryville, Cherie curated exhibits for First Street Forum gallery in St. Louis, which is when she met her husband, René Michel-Trápaga. Together they created Little Green Heron Studios, a creative arts consulting company. During that time she worked with the international architecture firm HOK in developing the Living World exhibit at the Saint Louis Zoo, co-curated Anheuser-Busch’s corporate art collection, and curated a traveling exhibition of Puerto Rican santos (religious icons).
Cherie has also made significant contributions to the design community through her activity in the St. Louis chapter. A board member since 2000, she has provided leadership in many areas and taken on positions of education director, vice president, president and co-president, and most recently student design conference chair. She was also a key member of the executive team that hosted the AIGA National Leadership Retreat in St. Louis in 2004, which brought over 200 design leaders from around the country to our city to focus national attention on the local design community. Cherie has been a strong voice for our chapter exchanging knowledge with a national body of design educators and practitioners.
But even a teacher can never stop learning. Taking horseback riding lessons for the first time at age 48 inspired her on many levels.
“I discovered it was important for me to be in a learning situation that sometimes made me nervous. It was a brand new environment – the barn, the arena, the pasture, 1100 lb. horses – it was enlightening as a teacher to remember what it’s like to be “really green.”
From her trainers, she learned that being positive is a key element in success.
“There is nothing to be learned from being impatient or negative. You have to be calm and balanced because the horse picks up on everything. It’s an evolving relationship with your horse, one that reminds me to take the temperature of my classroom each day because we’re not the same people we were two days ago. I’ve been reminded to be sensitive to that dynamic.”
We’re sensitive to your incredible commitment and passions and we’re honored to present you with the highest honor our chapter can bestow. Congratulations.
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AIGA St. Louis Local Legends 2009
The AIGA St. Louis "Local Legend" award is unique to the St. Louis chapter. The recipient of the AIGA St. Louis "Local Legend" Award is recognized as a designer or design services professional who has made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within the local community as well as the local AIGA chapter, and who provides services that support local social, cultural or charitable institutions above and beyond contract work.
Buck Smith
Senior Vice President / Senior Partner, Fleishman-Hillard Creative
Nominated by Melinda Love
With humble beginnings at PGAV, Buck's impressive tenure at Fleishman-Hillard along with his community outreach commitments make him the perfect candidate for this award. During the course of his career, Buck’s work has received almost 80 awards from such highly reputable affiliations and publications such as AIGA, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, and the Addy’s among others. While this recognition is honorable in its own right, many have come to admire Buck for his own personal style of leadership.
Notedly respectful, he'd rather credit his team than single out himself. He’s mentored many successful designers and continually devotes time to review student portfolios. But his most worthwhile accomplishments may have nothing to do with design. Buck is the executive director of St. Louis Challenger Baseball, a nonprofit organization that provides a social and sports outlet for kids and adults with disabilities. An honor recognized by a proclamation from the St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay.
Way to go, Buck. You make us all proud.
Sarah Birdsall (Spurr)
Associate Professor of Art, Communication Design, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Nominated by Steve Hartman
In 1986 Sarah joined the faculty at Washington University School of Art in the graphic design program. Over the years she has worked to build on the legacy of the department, making significant changes in curriculum and student experience. Her focus on the academic strengths of her students has influenced her pedagogy and provided challenging and innovative learning opportunities. Her infectious passion for design has touched the lives of many students. These alumnae are engaged in the practice of design, attending graduates schools, teaching and involved in the AIGA locally and nationally. In 1999 she was awarded the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award.
Sarah was one of the founding members of our chapter. As chair of the Education Committee she began what is now known as the AIGA St. Louis Student Conference and was engaged in community outreach through the St. Louis public Schools with programming aimed at exposing high school students to career opportunities in graphic design. She was a part of an AIGA national initiative to increase racial diversity in the field and spearheaded the publication of, Can You be a Graphic Designer? With the Museum of Contemporary Art she helped establish New Art in the Neighborhood, a program for underserved high school students providing art and design experience.
Your students would give you an ‘A’ for your energy and dedication. We’ll give you an ‘A+’.
John Heaney
Vice President of Sales, The Advertisers Printing Company
Nominated by Caren Schlossberg-Wood
Enthusiastic. Supportive. Committed. There are many more words we could use to describe John, but these fit the moment. Not only did he spend several years as AIGA St. Louis' Board Treasurer, his long-standing dedication to the chapter continues as he's been instrumental in donating services for chapter events, sponsorships, and environmentally responsible print practices presentations and workshops.
With his leadership, Advertisers Printing has become the region's first FSC-certified printer, measuring and offsetting their energy footprint with emission-free process inks, fountain solutions and expanded use of wind power. These efforts have made them a model for environmentally responsible print production in St. Louis.
John continues to find opportunities and collaborations which educate the design and print communities on the importance of environmentally responsible design and print practices. And he continues to support the design education community by talking with students about the paper industry, “green” print practices, and offering on-site plant tours for designers entering the workforce.
What more could we ask for in a valued partner like John? The word 'friend' comes to mind.
Thanks to our supporters for making this event possible!
501creative, inc.
Advertisers Printing
The Composing Room
Computer Solutions
Ferguson & Katzman Photography
Kuhlmann Leavitt, Inc.
Mohawk Paper
ProWolfe Partners
TOKY Branding + Design
Traci Moore Graphics
Trio Printing
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