AIGA Atlanta Book Club
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2022 BOOK CLUB MEETINGS

Saturday Nov 19, 2022 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the Atlanta High Museum.
Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success.
Our discussion will focus on graphic design’s ability to convey how power is effectively used and distributed, and justice is fulfilled. Based upon Glaser and Mirko’s book The Design of Dissent, the authors will discuss how today’s image makers and corporate shamans can use design to create the more beautiful and just world we all know is possible.

Saturday October 8, 2022 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the Atlanta High Museum.
The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics.
Join us for an in-person discussion at the Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the Atlanta High Museum. We will be sitting under the trees by the museum’s entrance. Look for the Atlanta AIGA pink sign.

Saturday, June 25, 2022 – 10:30am – 12:00pm
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the High Museum
Writing for the Design Mind by Natalia Ilyin

Saturday, May 14, 2022 – 10:30am – 12:00pm
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the High Museum
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Ellen Luptin, Jennifer Tobias, and more

Saturday, April 2, 2022 – 10:30am – 12:00pm
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the High Museum
Graphic Design for Art, Fashion, Film, Architecture, Photography, & Everything In Between by Andy Cooke

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2021 BOOK CLUB MEETINGS

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Saturday, November 6, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Online via Zoom
The Politics of Design by Ruben Pater

Saturday, October 9, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Sandy Springs Heritage Park Gazebo
Meeting Book List

Saturday, August 28, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Online via Zoom
Mastering Creative Anxiety by Eric Maisel

Saturday, July 17, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Online via Zoom
The ABC’s of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller

Saturday, June 5, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Online via Zoom
Show & Share Edition: Design Icons

Saturday, April 24, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Online via Zoom
Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers and Students by Ellen Lupton

Saturday, March 13, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Online via Zoom
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto by Blair Enns
Meeting Book Recommendations

Saturday, January 23, 2021 – 10:30am – 12:00pm, Online via Zoom
Show & Share Edition: Design Films & Books
Meeting Books & Films List

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2020 BOOK CLUB MEETINGS

November 14, 2020 – Online via Zoom
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant

October 10, 2020 – Online via Zoom
Creative Zing!: Spark Your Creativity – and Powerfully Present Your Ideas! by Sam Harrison

August 15, 2020 – Online via Zoom
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Minda nd Create a New One by Joe Dispenza

June 13, 2020 – Online via Zoom
Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity by Chris Risdon and Patrick Quattlebaum
Discussion with the Author, Patrick Quattlebaum

May 9, 2020 – Online via Zoom
Feck Perfuction by James Victore

April 4, 2020 – Online via Google Meet
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

February 22, 2020 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 by Alessandro Ludovico

January 11, 2020 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

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2019 BOOK CLUB MEETINGS

November 16, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Book Show & Tell
Meeting Book List

October 12, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures by David Crow 
Meeting Book List

September 14, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Start with Why by Simon Sinek 

August 10, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh
Meeting Book List

June 22, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Book Show & Tell
Meeting Book List

May 11, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Design is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton

March 30, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
The New Typography by Jan Tschichold

February 8, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier

January 5, 2019 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
Design, Form and Chaos by Paul Rand

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2018 BOOK CLUB MEETINGS

November 10, 2018 – Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center
I Wonder by Marian Bantjes

September 29, 2018 – The Boston Consulting Group
Seeing Slowly by Michael Findlay (09.29.18)

August 18, 2018 – Dancing Goats, Ponce City Market
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne

July 26, 2018 – MODA
Book Club Kick-Off Meeting