AGI impressions // Oct 1, 01:50 PM
AGI student conference just ended. While we (a group of 11 from Kent) were not able to stay for the closing and lecture by Paula Scher, we did make it to the first Deborah Sussman mini design history lecture.
I wish Sussman had delivered a lecture proper at the during the main conference schedule instead of the workshop. Her personal design history with Eamses is fascinating. I wish we could have seen more of her environmental graphic design work.
Troxler’s poser work for Jazz Willisau is amazing but didn’t really yield additional insights besides what you can glean from the archives on his website.
Christoph Niemann delivered perhaps the most engaging and entertaining lecture of them all.
One thing we haven’t seen represented is much interactive media. Granted AGI is a print-focused organization but it also makes it evident that AGI has become sort of a dinasour. In the afterrmath of World War II, professional designers in europe were few and far between. Being able to get together and celebrate what you do, as Valicenti pointed out, in incredibly rewarding. However, Today we celebrate what we do every day in snippets on twitters, tumblogs, via podcasts and videocasts, RSS feeds, and so on. The web savvy may have seen variations of same lectures on the web already.
Sappi has a little writeup on the event as well.
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