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Join us for the first TRIBEZA Experience, co-sponsored by AIGA Austin and celebratng the April Visual Arts Issue, which features the work of legendary photographer Dan Winters. Winters, who has captured telling portraits of everyone from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Angelina Jolie, will join us for conversation and a lecture, in which he will share his thoughts on his early work and his ever-developing sensibility behind the lens.

TRIBEZA Experience with Dan Winters
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
6 - 8 PM
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
1800 N. Congress Avenue at
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
3rd Floor

Lecture & Competition on Thursday, April 10th 6:30-8PM

LECTURE
Pre-register by selecting the appropriate option to the right, then join us April 10th at the UT Art Hall (Room 1.110) as AIGA Austin presents guest speaker Bill Gardner of LogoLounge, discussing the trends, significance and finer points of successful and effective logo design.

COMPETITION
Once you’ve pre-registered, submit your finest logo design from 2007. Gardner and a committee of jurors will judge the best local logos and present the top five with signed copies of LogoLounge 4. The first place winner will receive a one-year membership to logolounge.com and be eligible to appear in LogoLounge 5.

For more information about the Austin AIGA LogoLounge click here

The Pecha Kucha virus has spread to the Third Coast. Started in Tokyo, Pecha Kucha, a Japanese term meaning chit-chat, is a controlled creative convergence of designers, architects and other artists.

Presenters are invited to show their work in a very tight format - 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. And then the next one is up. It’s like speed dating but more fun. An evening will feature 10 or so presenters in an informal environment, watched by an energetic and imbibing crowd. Austin is joining a host of cities to celebrate, support and enjoy the work of local designers.

For more information go to:  http://pechakuchaaustin.org/

Yee-Haw Industries has been covering America with unique, art-like products since 1996. Partners Kevin Bradley & Julie Belcher opened up shop from a back-40 barn in Corbin, Kentucky, with salvaged, antique equipment previously put to rust. Their vibrant, folk art, wood cut prints of country music’s classic stars, such as Hank Williams, Sr. and Loretta Lynn, caught eyes and told stories. Handmade posters featured stranger-than-fiction characters, like ass-whooping grocer Cas Walker and daredevil icon Evel Kenevil. Soon, modern music acts, including Steve Earle, Buddy Guy, Trey Anastasio, Lucinda Williams and Southern Culture on the Skids began commissioning promotional posters and album art.

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There were brides kidnapped by brothers, a ball player named mickey, even magnificent cowboys and magical dwarfs. From whiskey to world wonders to sin, seven is what legends are made of, and now its our turn. Announcing Design Ranch 2007. We’re celebrating SEVEN years of re-inspiration with SEVENTY-TWO hours of creativity on SEVEN hundred acres.

Beyond workshops, Design Ranch offers the kind of entertainment you can only find in Texas. You can’t beat the live music, and requisite dancing each night (and some mornings), swimming and canoeing on the Guadalupe River just 100 yards or so from our workshops, golfing, hiking, tennis, jam sessions around the campfire (bring your guitar, drums, harmonica, or other musical fare), roping demonstrations, horseback riding, massage, facials, and good old fashioned jaw-jackin’ with the best bunch of folks you’ll ever want to share a weekend with. Not to mention all the great stuff we’re still cooking up behind the scenes!

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