Hatchet Design Recently took a short business trip to visit our old alma mater for the student-run, graphic design symposium: Ligature! This was the nineteenth year that the graphic design college has held the event and every year numerous professional designers come judge the student work and share some insight, their work, and more than likely a few drinks. Check out the student work on the ligature website. It is all so good! Bright futures ahead for our fellow gator-designers (designers that are UF gators not some kind of mutant half-gator, half-designer).
This year Debbie Millman, design big-wig of AIGA presidenthood and Sterling Brands designer, shared some of her latest research on the origins and permutations of the branding process throughout human history (whew!). Following her came Emily Anderson out of Minneapolis. She has worked at such noteworthy magazines as American Craft and Dwell. She is doing some cool experimentation based on the craft painted plates of her grandmother’s. I thought this was a particularly interesting aspect of her presentation. It is really awesome to me to carry on the traditions of our families and modify them to our time and taste. Its a unique balance of old and new. Finally we saw Nikolay Saveliev. He has worked at Landor and Wolff Olins since graduating from RISD. Not too shabby! His work was totally rad and a great example of doing personal work in the vein of what you would like to do professionally definitely happens!
We had a great experience talking/listening/drinking with these designers and are excited to see where our studio brothers and sisters go after graduating. Just stay out of Orlando… That’s our town! Just kidding… not really.
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