Public Works Speaker Night #2

AIGA Chicago is committed to stimulating thinking about design and
actively seeks opportunities with the Chicago design community through
professional and public programming, community outreach, education and
partnerships with local designers and artists. 

Public Works is a series of shows and events that features artists who've spent years in Chicago working within the independent art and music communities.

Join us at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery, with the Public Works show as
a backdrop, for a lecture series involving prominent personalities in
the independent arts community.

The Public Works Speaker Series seeks to create a real, live
knowledge base for those making a life in the independent arts. We're
bringing in internationally recognized artists and creative
entrepreneurs to speak to what we know to be true: when art makes work
and work makes art, everyone benefits.

Our guests will discuss the creation and continued success of their
endeavor, introduce their work, share stories relating to the work and
their processes. Each speaker will talk for an hour followed by a
question and answer period. The night is meant to educate and inspire,
and to answer the basic questions What do you do?, How do you manage to do this?, and What does this bring to the community at large?

Chris Eichenseer - SOMEODDPILOT
Chris Eichenseer is a photographer, designer and musician. He has spent most of his life attending band practice, and this not only taught him how to be an entrepreneur, but determined the nature of his work. Chris founded Someoddpilot in 1999 and since then has built an internationally recognized body of work, including branding and designing the Pitchfork website, photographing musical luminaries such as RJD2 and Steve Albini, designing dozens of record covers for Consumers Research, Chocolate Industries, and Mush, and designing industry websites for Drag City, Windish Agency, Fat Possum, Mad Decent and many more. Someoddpilot calls Chicago home with an office located in the crook of the Ravenswood industrial strip on the city's North Side.

Jason Teegarden-Downs - Delicious Design League
Jason Teegarden-Downs is one half of Delicious Design League: a two-man duo fighting out of Chicago, Illinois that specializes in graphic design and illustration for the music industry. Mostly recognized for their limited edition hand screen-printed music posters, they also create a plethora of anything that can and should be designed, logos and identity design, retail and promo packaging, magazine illustration, and so on. Their growing clientele includes Jane Magazine, Clothes Optional Vintage Clothing Boutique, John Brown Citrus Publishing (U.K.), Cilichili magazine (Czech Rep.), Metro Chicago, The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza, Live Nation, Firebelly Design, Draft FCB, Mozilla, The Royal Order, and many bands such as, Gomez, Ben Kweller, Pelican, Office, Alla, and on and on. 

Justin Fines - DEMO
Justin Fines is an artist and designer. DEMO, Fines' freelance endeavour, was founded in 1997 in Detroit, MI. An award winning designer, Fines has worked in several design media, with projects ranging from record covers to corporate identity, tshirts, motion design and direction, skateboards, books and more. Recent projects include a line of snowboards for ROME, an artist series board for Zoo York, limited edition T-shirts for Nike, and a collaboration with Adidas and Chinatown Soccer Club. DEMO is headquartered on Rad Mountain at the Old American Can Factory, which is located in the beautiful Gowanus district of Brooklyn, NY.

This is a free event.
This event is co-sponsored by Someoddpilot, Andrew Rafacz Gallery and AIGA Chicago.
Printing donated by Dupli-Graphic.