2013 AIGA Student Portfolio Review

2013 AIGA Student Portfolio Review

I had a great time reviewing portfolios at the 2013 AIGA Central Pennsylvania Student Portfolio Review. The day kicked off with a great keynote presentation from Ray Nichols & Jill Cypher of Lead Graffiti. Lead Graffiti is a letterpress and bookmaking design studio based out of Newark, Delaware. Their 2,200 square-foot studio provides plenty of room to manage their press and type collections, offer workshops, and to think, work and play with letterpress and bookmaking.

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Photos by: Jeremy Drey Photography

The Photography of Laurie Frankel

The Photography of Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel's work occupies a place somewhere between carefully considered and playful happenstance, with compositions that are at once beautifully restrained and filled with exuberance. The warmth of Laurie's personality is evident in her photography. In each shot, her enthusiasm and her affection for her subjects come through. Whether photographing people or places, Laurie captures the romantic, the whimsical, the gritty, and the quirky in a genuinely fresh light.

Laurie’s background as an art director for various industries aids her ability to create dynamic, communicative, and novel work, whatever the genre.

For further information, please visit: lauriefrankel.com

Laurie Frankel Photography | Email: info@lauriefrankel.com | Phone: 415-282-7345

The Writing and Art of Austin Kleon

The Writing and Art of Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s the author of two best-selling books: Steal Like An Artist (2012) is an illustrated manifesto for creativity in the digital age, and Newspaper Blackout (2010) is a collection of poetry made by redacting words from newspaper articles with a permanent marker.

His work has been featured on 20×200.com, NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. New York Magazine called his work “brilliant,” The Atlantic called him “positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet,” and The New Yorker said his poems “resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead.”

He speaks about creativity in the digital age for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist.

In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter.

He grew up in the cornfields of Ohio, but now he lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Meghan, his son, Owen, and his dog, Milo.

For further information, please visit: austinkleon.com

The Illustration of Alex Robbins

The Illustration of Alex Robbins

Alex Robbins is an illustrator and graphic designer who graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, London. Now living and working in Berlin, he creates work for clients all over the world. These include WIRED, The New York Times, Stussy, TIME, The Guardian, ESPN and Dwell Magazine. He particularly enjoys experimenting with new processes, selecting the most appropriate materials to communicate the idea. Alex's projects have been featured in books published by Harper Collins, Laurence King and Die Gestalten Verlag. In 2010 he was named as an Art Director's Club Young Gun, one of the 50 most influential creatives aged under 30.

For further information, please visit: alexrobbins.co.uk

Alex Robbins Studio | Email: alex@alexrobbins.co.uk | Phone: +44 [0] 781 626 8775