Digital Arts Conference:
Studio Strategies & Techniques
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 9 am - 4pm
Maggie Macnab, UNM Continuing Education instructor and one of our workshop presenters for the Digital Arts Conference on March 1, 2008, recently attended the 2007 Icograda World Design Congress in Havana, Cuba.
As Maggie reports, “Over 600 designers, teachers and related professionals gathered from 57 countries to discuss the current state of design, how we teach and how we learn. Cross-pollinating ideas between peers always infuses creativity, but Cuba provided the unlikely backdrop of international connections within a communist country.”
The other distinctive quality was a setting with no visual pollution from advertisements — no storefronts other than a few bars, restaurants and hotels — no McDonalds, Starbucks, or Gap. Read more in Maggie’s online article about her eight days in Cuba: “La Revolutión Interior.”
Maggie has been an identity designer for over 25 years and has had her work published in Communication Arts, Graphis, Step by Step, and Print. She has taught logo design and symbolism as visual literacy for designers for over ten years with UNM Continuing Education, and is past president of the Communication Artists of New Mexico. Her new book, “Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication,” is published by HOW Design Books and will be released worldwide in January 2008. For more information, please visit Maggie’s website at macnabdesign.com.
Stay tuned for additional updates on the exciting features of the Digital Arts Conference in March, and how it can benefit you as a working creative design professional.
Register online for the Conference here.
Learn more about the Conference here.
Digital Arts Conference:
Studio Strategies & Techniques
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 9 am - 4pm
Use course # 55800 RQA to register by other methods.
Questions?
Contact the Digital Arts Program Supervisor at digitalarts@dce.unm.edu.
