1. Westwood College Online AIGA Student Group April 2, 2009

2.  We are now up to 299 members from WOL and other Westwood Campuses!! - 233 with an actual AIGA membership  Membership Drive: Will be coming up this summer (July). Please start getting the word out to your classmates who are not already members. March 2009 Term Update

3. www.wolaigagroup.org  Take time to submit your best piece of work so it can be profiled on the website!!  Submit this information to Tawnya DeHerrera (tdeherrera@westwood.edu) or Crystal Green (crystalgreen01@student.westwood.edu )tdeherrera@westwood.educrystalgreen01@student.westwood.edu Your Group Website

4. What Should You Do? Add some of your work to the AIGA website:  www.aigadesignjobs.org/groups/westwood www.aigadesignjobs.org/groups/westwood  www.aigadesignjobs.org/public/individual_bro wse.asp www.aigadesignjobs.org/public/individual_bro wse.asp

5. Once each term (All times are 6pm MST) http://learn.westwood.edu/design/  January 22, 2009  April 02, 2009  June 11, 2009  August 20, 2009  October 29, 2009 Meeting Schedule

6. AIGA Y14 Conference  “Powerful. Persuasive. Problem Solving. That’s Creative Energy – That’s YOU – And that’s Y14”  San Diego, CA  March 26, 27, 28, 2009  ThinkShops – A group of 10-15 individuals with a professional designer.  Really, really, REALLY excellent speakers!!!

7. AIGA Y14 Conference  Debbie Millman – Moderator  Partner and President of the Design division of Sterling Brands.  Began hosting first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet, “Design Matters with Debbie Millman”  How to Think Like a Graphic Designer and Essential Principles of Graphic Design.

8. AIGA Y14 Conference  Speakers:  Shel Perkins – Shel Perkins & Associates: Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers.  Dan Formosa – Smart Design: 6 People and Baseball Field Guide  Nikolai Cornell – Obscura Digital: Intersection between physical space and interaction design.

9. AIGA Y14 Conference  Speakers:  Yolanda “Yo” Santosa: Creative branding of …  Roshi Givechi – IDEO  Shawn Wolfe – Shawn Wolfe Studio  Andrea Pellegrino & Mark Randall – World Studio

10. Upcoming Events  Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference October 8–11, 2009 The AIGA Design Conference heads to Memphis from October 8– 11, 2009 to celebrate design excellence and stimulate thinking about design issues. Events Calendar

11. Competitions  Make/Think AIGA National Conference  Westwood wants to send two students.  Must be Active and in Good Standing during the March 2009 term.  Submit an one page essay on why attending would benefit you from a career perspective and one piece of professional quality work.  Deadline: May 8 th at 5 pm MST to tdeherrera@westwood.edutdeherrera@westwood.edu

12. Design a logo for Westwood Online’s Activities Team, SWAT!  Theme: Parties, get-togethers, corporate functions, socializing, team building, etc.  Submit to: slynott@westwood.eduslynott@westwood.edu  Basic Rules:  One logo per entry, one entry per student.  Nothing inappropriate  Deadline for entries is Midnight, April 30 th, 2009  Mountain Time (11pm Pacific, 1am Central, 2am Eastern).  The winner will receive a $50 Best Buy Gift Card.  The winner will be announced by the middle of May. Competitions

13.  Westwood College Online now has a master graduate portfolio – a place where you can have some of your work displayed, and be viewed by employers in your degree area. This website will be used to showcase some of our top Westwood graduate’s work and provide you the opportunity to be viewed on a high-traffic, public-facing website.  Requirements: You must possess a final GPA of 3.0 or higher in your degree area Your three (3) best pieces of work need to be submitted A review committee will evaluate the quality of your work for possible selection.  dvaughan@westwood.edu dvaughan@westwood.edu Master Graduate Portfolio

14. Stay Connected...  All correspondence about group events and competitions will be made via e-mail, through inCircle, and on the website. Make sure you stay involved with your group and look for ways to volunteer. Your involvement will guide our success. Check your e-mail regularly! How Can You Help?

15. Guest Speaker And now, our feature presentation!