Triple Play with Maggie Macnab, Joel Nakamura, and John Langdon

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Join Maggie Macnab, Joel Nakamura and John Langdon for a half-day seminar that explores the fascinating relevance of symbolism to effective and engaging visual communications. Presented from three angles, this experiential event will educate attendees on symbolic influence in graphic design, illustration and lettering design from three experts who use it regularly. 

Attendees will also have an opportunity to start personal projects to complete outside the seminar.

When: Saturday, September 19th, 9:00am - 12:30pm
Where: Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe
624 Agua Fria St • Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

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The Complex is close enough to walk from the Rail Runner's Santa Fe Depot stop! Check the schedule.

AIGA members $15 / Non-members $25
AIGA student members FREE / Student non-members $8 
Please RSVP@newmexico.aiga.orgbefore Wednesday, September 16th.
Click HERE to pre-pay.

About our Presenters:

Decoding Design :: Maggie Macnab

Effective design begins with understanding connections. Join Maggie Macnab, identity designer, educator and author of Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication as she examines the significance of patterns and shapes we encounter in everyday life, and articulates their relationships to natural processes we all intuitively know. Exploring a spectrum of interdisciplinary practices that have common ground in design, this presentation offers the designer, creative professional, student, artist, or lay person a powerful and eclectic approach to creative process and understanding of how design impacts communication. Maggie speaks for national conferences, guest lectures for colleges in the US and abroad, and provides internal training for communications departments on the value of designed communications. Her presentation is mind-stretching, informative, and not like any you've seen before.

Visual Myth :: Joel Nakamura

Ever since the village went global, just about everything can be part of a cultural, visual, and ephemeral stew. The more digital and technological a society becomes, the more it longs for primitive imagery. The more automated, impersonal, convenient or abbreviated our lives get, the more we yearn for storytelling. We will examine visual story telling–the juxtaposition of ancient and modern through symbols and media. How can we use myth, fairy tales, pop culture as sources for communication and expanded creativity?

The Found Symbol :: John Langdon

The yin/yang symbol is arguably one of the most effective logos ever designed. Central to the ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism, the yin/yang symbol was the ultimate inspiration for my entire approach to art and design. This is especially the case for my ambigrams, which are linguistically representative of many of the universal concepts that yin and yang implies. My ambigrams employ bilateral, or mirror-image, symmetry as well as yin/yang’s rotational symmetry to  symbolize the physical makeup of the universe and the processes that keep it running. Plus ambigrams are fun.