As the new incoming President of AIGA President for 2010, I have a questions all the Portland designers out there: What would you like to see AIGA Portland do?

From our round table a few months ago we heard people requesting more crafts and government involvement. We heard that we're doing well with sustainability (SHIFT) and design inspiration (Designspeaks). That said, turn out at the round table was small - so weigh in and post a comment below and let us know what you would like to see us do.

ONE NEW FACE JOIN THE AIGA PORTLAND CHAPTER BOARD

After a rigorous review of nominees last week, the Portland chapter welcomed Billy Huys and Shona Lepis to the board. Lisa Holmes was also reelected to continue her great work as current and continuing Sustainability Chair. These highly accomplished design professionals will serve a three-year term beginning July 1st, 2010.

-an excerpt by Megan Clark of StudioM

Last night I joined the creative masses heading downtown to Ace Hotel’s venue space, The Cleaners, for another installment of AIGA’s Designspeaks series. This time with Frank Chimero.

Instead of telling us his story, in his presentation called The Shape of Design, Frank told us about the idea of story, squishy stuff and delight. Here are just a few thought nuggets from these three categories. (He talked about other things, too, but these were my favorite.)

http://studiompdx.blogspot.com/2010/05/squishy-stuff-story-delight.html

Did you miss the Feb. 18th SHIFT event? Were you too busy re-filling your beer mug and missed what David Vanadia said about shaving? View videos of each presentation on Vimeo.

Presentations from the ReSource event are now available on Slideshare!

Wednesday, January 13th was our first Green Salon Meetup Event. This is a chance for designers to talk about what sustainable design means to them. A member of the AIGA Portland Green Team, Martha Koenig, attended the lunch and these are her observations.

We want your B-sides. You know the projects we mean: You came up with a great idea, but they chose the design equivalent of filler jingles written by Ringo. They picked not your anthem to white space, but the graphical version of a boy band: tolerated by all, but loved by none.

Let your creative genius be known! Give those unwittingly discarded designs their day in the sun - unfettered by realities like budget, timelines or the committee meatgrinder.

A new program aimed at promoting sustainable practices within the design industry has been launched by AIGA Portland. To assure the degree of emphasis needed to significantly move the program forward, a new Sustainability Chair position was created on the Board. Lisa Holmes, the current Secretary, was named to the position.