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SEEK DESIGN CONFERENCE
Only $25 – $30
Saturday / November 21 (all day)
@ NIU in DeKalb

Speakers: Massimo Vignelli, Jakob Trollbäck, Bob Faust, Dawn Hancock, Steve Ryan, Cheryl Tower-Weisse, Jim Misener & Ken Fox.

Seek is a one-day, student-run design conference sponsored by the Northern Illinois University student chapter of the AIGA. It is held once a year at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. In the past years, Seek has been host to widely recognized designers including Paula Scher, Chip Kidd, Stefan Bucher, Kyle Cooper, and Joshua Davis. Seek is one of the only conferences of its kind in the midwest, and provides an excellent opportunity for design students and professionals to interact and learn from each other.

UNIMARK INTERNATIONAL
presented by STA and AIGA Chicago
$20 – $40
Friday / December 11 (6pm)
@ Film Row / Columbia College

Unimark International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design is the first book to document what was once the world’s largest design firm, with Chicago as corporate headquarters.

The book is based on interviews and research by author Jan Conradi and is designed by Kevin Rau (who created the Unimark exhibition, from materials in John Rieben’s archives, that STA hosted in 2004). Welcome the author, designer, and Unimark co-founder Massimo Vignelli in this one-time historic event!

Books will be available for purchase at the event.