History Project

The history project was covered in the March/April STEP magazine. AIGA New Orleans will present HGD-SL at the 2009 AIGA national leadership retreat in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile…see what’s new on the history website at:

History of Graphic Design in South Louisiana Project

AIGA NOLA has embarked on a mission to chronicle, preserve and make available this rich history that our chapter has become. We are:

• working with the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, part of the Special Collections Department of the Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University.
• affiliated with The American Printing History Association Oral History Project.
• working with local AIGA board members and all members, current and past.
• working with former ADDA members.
• collecting materials for a permanent digital archive.
• collecting individual stories and oral histories from all commercial artists practicing in south Louisiana for twenty-one years or more.

If you have materials that you would like to donate and or a story you want to tell, please contact us.

If you would like to be trained in taking oral histories and help us collect them for this project, please contact us.

For more information: email Nancy Sharon Collins at nscstationer@earthlink.net, or call 917 392 1417.

Co-Chairs:

Christie Hackenberg
AIGA New Orleans Board Member, Emeritus

Nancy Sharon Collins
AIGA New Orleans Education Director

Committee Members:
Lacy Picou
Michelle Neuhoff
Amie Leicher
Brianna George

Board of Advisors:

Don Smith, president emeritus, ADDA New Orleans

Tom Varisco, Tom Varisco Designs; president emeritus and fellow, AIGA New Orleans

Kathleen Joffrion, Assistant Professor of Visual Communications at Delgado Community College

William Drenttel, partner, Winterhouse; president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, trustee, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, fellow, New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU; designer, publisher, editor, lecturer

Jessica Helfand, partner, Winterhouse; critic, MFA program Yale University, fellow, Jonathan Edwards College; graphic designer, educator, writer and theorist.

Steve Heller, senior art director, New York Times Book Review; editor, AlGA Journal of Graphic Design; chair, Design Writing MFA Program, School of Visual Arts, author (of more than eighty books about design), lecturer and AIGA Medalist