WHAT
Toko has won over the Australian graphic design establishment since coming from The Netherlands 4 years ago. Now this renowned Sydney-based international duo is coming south to meet AGDA-ACT members and collaborate on a one-off design challenge wich involves YOU...
This is your chance to challenge/comment on AGDA in the ACT
and meet the Toko team.
HOW
The process is simple and the rules are few...
- Download the template poster below.
- Use the poster as your canvas to challenge/comment
on AGDA in the ACT.
- Use type only - no images.
- Return your poster and a short rationale before
Wednesday 12 May 2010.
All work received will be presented in the National Portrait Gallery foyer during the Toko event and displayed on this website.
WHY
- To give you a visual platform to express your local
creative/inspirational needs.
- To encourage a healthy debate on design in the ACT.
- To feed TOKO's presentation about passion and engagement
in design.
- To have YOU involved!
FAQ
- Question: Can I be critical?
Answer: Keep it constructive!
- Question: Can I submit my poster anonymously?
Answer: Sure.
- Question: Can I distort the template poster items and/or
change the colours?
Answer: Sure.
- Question: I have more questions, who do I contact?
Answer: Please use this link.
WHEN
Date: Friday May 14, 2010
Time: 6.30 pm
Cost: $15 Students / $25 Members
$30 Non-Member Students / $50 Non-Members
Location: National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace,
Parkes ACT 2600
RSVP: agdaevent@spiceandcodesign.com
Poster Submissions
Sander Egging (AGDA A.C.T. & National councillor)
Rationale: The statement reflects an underlying message that I picked up from some of the poster submisions. As an AGDA councillor the statement of my submission is a reminder to myself to continue pushing for more and better events, services, and support for our members in order to raise the profile of our profession and increase the value of becoming a member.
Georgina Carberry (Spice & Co.)
Alternative Reality ONE: These two posters represent two possible stories of AGDA. The collective membership is the Author of that story. When all AGDA members come together and participate in our events and activities, we can create a wonderful shared history. If we fail to create an environment of participation and collaboration, opportunities may pass us by, and become - a fiction.
Georgina Carberry (Spice & Co.)
Alternative Reality ONE: These two posters represent two possible stories of AGDA. The collective membership is the Author of that story. When all AGDA members come together and participate in our events and activities, we can create a wonderful shared history. If we fail to create an environment of participation and collaboration, opportunities may pass us by, and become - a fiction.
Georgina Carberry (Spice & Co.)
AGDA welcomes new faces and old friends to attend our events, and to get involved in the act design community.
Anonymous
Rationale: NA
Jeff Tomaz-Barnes
Rationale: ACT NOW! Get your ideas heard.
Lee Nicol
Rationale: ACT A DAG?
Is it only the rest of our nation who perceive that Canberra is daggie, or do the Canberra designers believe it?
The ACT is a sea of opportunity, filled with some of our nations greatest arts and culture projects. Shouldn't ACT designers be able to shift the perception of the nation through a commitment to outstanding work that is progressive and challenging? Are you happy to be considered a dag or are you willing to prove otherwise?
Anonymous
Rationale: NA
Michael Gleeson (UC)
Rationale: Its 2010 which means a new decade. Graphic Design, amongst many other creative industries, evolves over time. Is it time to think differently? (In a good positive and influential way)
Anonymous
Rationale: NA
Alexis Waller
Rationale: The merging of the two acronyms expresses AGDA's collaboration with the ACT, and how working together more closely would be beneficial for both parties.
Geoff Hinchcliffe (UC)
Rationale: Business imperatives, community interests, social responsibilities, design ideals... AGDA ACT does a great balancing act.
Alberto Florez
Time to act? or Time to act.
Australian's are working longer hours so in the weekly cycle of existence how do we find time to fit AGDA around life or is it life around AGDA? It's not sustainable.
Anonymous
Rationale: sometimes its best to learn about the industry from the people who are the industry.
Matt Tindale
Rationale: Can graphic design save the world? Can we be AGDA Action Heroes?
Bev Swifte
Rationale: what good is a poster without pictures
Matt Tindale
Canberra has a lot of creative professionals and students, but it seems really hard to get them in the same place at the same time. For example, on World Graphics Day you could count the people that came on one hand..
Clare Sorensen
To the use of Dafont in Graphic Design projects nation wide—AGDA says NO!
Written without authorisation by Clare Sorensen, Bruce ACT
But in all seriousness, far too many student projects use shit fonts sourced from dafont when we should really be learning the classic typefaces and once we have mastered that, create our own custom typefaces rather than use this crap!
Matt Tindale
When it comes to the graphic design industry, AGDA is the highest power (i.e. god). Is AGDA always right? Does the industry pay enough attention to the word of AGDA, in the form of codes of ethics and professional practice?
Anonymous
Rationale: NA
Trevor Brennan [VooDoo]
Rationale: Canberra has a stigma of bland/public-services-ness which I feel is unjustified.. It would be fantastic if AGDA had an agenda to help change that perception and bring to light the rich creative talent which hides in "The Berra" waiting to scrawl it's name across the country.
Clare Sorensen
My poster uses AGDA ACTORS as a metaphor for graphic designs and method design is a twist on method acting. I describe method design as the practice of creating design that matters based on our own personal experiences. Perhaps if we all did this we could cover all the issues affecting our communities and maybe one day save the world through design.
