AIGA Atlanta Book Club
Reading List
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2024 BOOK CLUB MEETINGS – PENDING
Saturday, June 29, 2024 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the Atlanta High Museum.
Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design by Kaleena Sales
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2022 BOOK CLUB MEETINGS
Saturday, Nov 19, 2022 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the Atlanta High Museum.
Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the Atlanta High Museum.
The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
The Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza at the High Museum
Writing for the Design Mind by Natalia Ilyin
Saturday, May 14, 2022 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
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 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
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 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Online via Zoom
The Politics of Design by Ruben Pater
Saturday, October 9, 2021 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Sandy Springs Heritage Park Gazebo
Meeting Book List
Saturday, August 28, 2021 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST,Online via Zoom
Mastering Creative Anxiety by Eric Maisel
Saturday, July 17, 2021 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, 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 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Online via Zoom
Show & Share Edition: Design Icons
Saturday, April 24, 2021 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Online via Zoom
Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers and Students by Ellen Lupton
Saturday, March 13, 2021 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Online via Zoom
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto by Blair Enns
Meeting Book Recommendations
Saturday, January 23, 2021 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, 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
