AIGA CO Presents: Jennifer Morla November 4, 2009

33 designisms: a manifesto that questions what we do, why we do it and how to get it done.

6:00 PM Social Mix, 7:00 PM Lecture

Note: Ticket prices increase by $5 at the door.

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As designers, we often underestimate the impact we have on the world at large, and how our visual vocabulary is influenced by political, social and cultural events. 33 Designisms, a manifesto on design, questions what we do, why we do it, and how to get it done. Case studies will be presented that reinforce pragmatic applications of these truisms.

Jennifer Morla is President and Creative Director of Morla Design, San Francisco. With over 300 awards for excellence in graphic design, Morla Design’s work has been recognized by virtually every organization in the field of visual communication.

Clients include Levi Strauss, Wells Fargo Bank, Stanford University, and Design Within Reach. In 2006, she accepted an offer from DWR to serve as Chief Creative/Marketing Officer where she was responsible for all design including catalogs, advertising, and web. For her accomplishments, the company was awarded the prestigious AIGA Corporate Leadership Medal for the successful interaction between aesthetics and business pragmatics. She returned full time to Morla Design in 2009, where she continues to pair wit and elegance on everything from branding to textiles.

Morla Design’s work is part of the permanent collections of MoMA, SFMoMA, the Smithsonian Museum, the Denver Art Museum and the Library of Congress. She has been honored with solo design exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and DDD Gallery in Japan.

Ms. Morla lectures internationally, teaches at California College of the Arts, and is an elected member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), an international design organization based in Zurich. Ms. Morla served on the National Board of Directors of AIGA and has been on the Design Advisory Board for Architecture and Design at SFMoMA since 1995.

Official Website: http://www.aigacolorado.org/?id=165&event_id=102