UMKC student group hosting event at Tivoli

Hey everyone!

UMKC's student AIGA group is hosting an event at the Tivoli theater on this Friday, September 25. Tivoli is showing the movie "Art & Copy," a film about advertising. See the trailer here. They are meeting at McCoy's at 6:00 PM for a casual meet and greet with appetizers/drinks, heading to the theater across the street around 7:00 PM, and the movie starts at 7:30 PM. I believe ticket prices will be $8.50, unless you are an AAF member (previously Ad Club).

Let me know if you're interested in going. I am not able to go because I have a dinner rehearsal that night. I'm supposed to let Andrea, who is on the AIGA KC board, know how many students we think will be going. Comment on here if you think you'll be going.

I hope we have some students from our group that can go! It would be a good opportunity to meet some AIGA members from other schools, plus the film looks great.

drifting creatives

So, LinkedIn just sent me an updated discussion summary for the group AIGA Kansas City. Within, I was treated to a post from some creatives at Hallmark. You can see their post here. You will see that they talk about some pretty cool sounding guys who call themselves Drifting Creatives.

Although I think its awesome that they are taking their lives into their own hands and finding work doing graphic design, I do think it sucks that they are charging so little! I certainly hope to find a "permanent" job somewhere post-graduation because I can't resort to traveling across country and living outta a car. (*side note: I wonder how they'll count on the 2010 Census*)

Anyway, just an interesting story and a somewhat controversial way to make $ as a designer. You can check out their blog and see their work.

Enjoi~marie

Career Services Visit

Thanks to everyone who went with us on Monday to Career Services to get registered! For those who didn't, you can register on your own any week.

The three registration times are:

Tuesday - 11 am

Wednesday - 1 pm

Friday - 11 am

You should also know that Career Services has walk-in hours for resume help everyday from 4-5pm. The Fall Career Expo is Wednesday, October 14th from 1-4pm in the Multipurpose Building. Register (so you can have a fancy printed name tag-and bypass the line) by logging on to the Central Career Network from the Career Services webpage. Under "Events" find Fall Expo. On the right side there should be a "Go" button. Press it and it will confirm that you have RSVP'ed for this event.

Also, if you are thinking about changing your major, wondering what you can do with your degree and/or looking to job shadow, for an internship or job in the near future you should check out what Career Services has to offer. Keira Mann (who met us on Monday when we registered) is our Career Development Coordinator. You can reach her by calling 660.543.4596 or emailing her at kmann@ucmo.edu.

~Marie

Studio visits are arranged

On First Friday, October 2nd, we have 3 studio tours arranged in Kansas City! We can start arranging car pooling at the next meeting.

Here are the appointment times:

Willoughby Design Group - 11 am

Hammerpress - 2 pm

Design Ranch - 3:30 pm

Mark your calendars now for October 2nd and talk to your teachers if you need to be excused from class. It will be a lot of fun and a great opportunity! Plus, you'll already be in the city and can hang around for the First Friday events.

-Holly

Studio visits

Hey everyone!

I'm going to call some places to try and set up studio visits for October 2nd. So far I've heard that there's interest in visiting Hammerpress, Willoughby, VML, and Design Ranch. I talked to Suba to see if she had suggestions and contacts for us. She's also going to check the schedule for Blacktop to see if we could visit there. If we do visit Blacktop, it would have to be before noon because they leave early on Fridays. 

So comment on here and let me know where you guys want to visit and I'll give them a call. Of the ones I mentioned, let me know which ones you are most interested in. We will probably be able to fit 3 in one day. Let me know by today or Tuesday, if you can.  

Hope you all have a great labor day weekend!