Happy Hour – PosterFest Design for Good Competition

Join us for happy hour Thursday, March 22 at Bousa Brewing – a chance to mix & mingle and get to know your local design community! Also, if you’re interested in the PosterFest Design for Good Competition that we’re running with The Wolfsonian, this is an opportunity to learn more about the challenge (and the role that designers can take in advocating for change in society). We’ll discuss the design brief together and answer your questions about the project.

6:00 – gather, mix & mingle
7:00 – Rundown of the PosterFest Design for Good Competition
7:15 – Silvia Pease (FIU) discusses Design for Good
7:30 – networking

Bousa Brewing is offering 20% off total bill for all AIGA Miami guests!

Brief details on PosterFest Design for Good Competition:

We invite you to design a poster that helps educate the public in South Florida about the reality that homeless women face. Designers should strive to create compassion, challenge misconceptions, and motivate action around the issues of homelessness, particularly among women. The posters should be informative and evocative, bringing to light the reality and challenges homeless women and children face and breaking down the fallacies surrounding them.

Judges: Steven HellerLuba LukovaConstance Collins (Lotus House Executive Director), Gisele DeVera (Lotus House Board Member), Sarah Brooks (AIGA National Board).

Grand prize (valued at $1,000.00 USD): A year membership at to AIGA at the Supporting level; A year membership to the Wolfsonian at the Diplomat level; A year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud

Exhibition: All entries will be exhibited in an online gallery of submissions at miami.aiga.org following the close of the competition. Finalist designs will be displayed at the Wolfsonian–FIU on Miami Beach during PosterFest event (April 21, 2018).

When & Where
Thu, Mar 22, 2018 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Bousa Brewing
7235 Northeast 4th Avenue
Miami, FL 33138