AIGA Miami Presents, " Never Sleep: Graduating to Graphic Design" May 21, 2009

On May 21, AIGA Miami presents the “Never Sleep: Graduating to Graphic Design”. For the this event, award winning design duo G. Dan Covert and Andre Andreev, of Dress Code will discuss their new book “NEVER SLEEP: Graduating to Graphic Design.”

There is a major disconnect between the life of a design student and the transition to being a design professional. To demystify this transition, they will share the failures, successes and surprises from their years in college to starting our own studio dress code. Never sleep includes what they learned about self-promotion, interview, internships, monetary problems, personal relationships, prison time, first jobs and the all around hustle of making it happen.

The event is FREE and open to the public. AIGA invites anyone curious about creativity to be part of the conversation, especially students and those new to the industry looking for insight from award-winning professionals.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
G. Dan Covert is Ohio. Andre Andreev is Bulgaria. They is dress code. At the combined age of 51 their work has been recognized by shiny awards, appeared in lots of magazines, coffee table books and 3 museums. They met while studying graphic design at California College of the Arts. Then moved to New York and got jobs with MTV working in motion and print, before stupidly leaving their dream jobs to start a studio of their own.

They also co-teach Design, Type and New Media classes at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Their book about transitioning from school to work in the field of graphic design, entitled Never Sleep will hit stores in April.

Check them out at www.dresscodeny.com, www.neversleepbook.com

Official Website: http://miami.aiga.org/events/2009/05/29882542