All proceeds benefit the Urban Ecology Center.
About footPRINT
Celebrate Wisconsin culture, the environment and artistic talent with AIGA and 88.9 Radio Milwaukee at the footPRINT exhibit on April 14 – Milwaukee Day. A creatively vibrant, diverse and growing metropolis, Milwaukee will play host to an event designed to stoke artistic passion and community appreciation. Using their surroundings as inspiration, talented local designers will create graphics that capture their neighborhood, the city, natural environment or a favorite hangout. All entries will be featured in a permanent online gallery available for download to the public, while select works will be displayed at the Milwaukee Day footPRINT exhibition and party. The most creative and compelling entries, as scored by judges, will be sold as posters or postcards to benefit the Urban Ecology Center. The event will also serve as the launch for AIGA Wisconsin’s “Design for Good” initiative, part of a new national campaign to harness designers’ talents to galvanize social change in communities.
About the Jurors
Amy Decker, Design Juror
Amy Decker founded Dig Design in 1996, and has earned a reputation for her common-sense approach to helping clients achieve their communications objectives. Amy has worked with a broad range of clients, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies with internationally known brands, including: Mattel, Inc., Sunkist Paramount Farms, and Knowledge Adventure.
Amy is the founding past president of AIGA Wisconsin, the professional association of design, and she has earned multiple design industry awards for creativity. Currently, Amy is an Associate Lecturer at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Amy also studied advertising and graphics at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado.
Dwellephant, Arts Juror
dwellephant moved to Milwaukee in 2003 with 11 friends to continue publishing a magazine they created. Seriously.
Since then, he’s put his illustration skills (and Ad/Design degree) to good use, making a variety of things for a variety of clients, including Brach’s Candy, Milwaukee Film, Stacy Adams, 91.7 FM WMSE, Milwaukee Art Museum, Heavy Rotation and more. He’s been a part of group art shows at LUCKYSTAR studios, hot*pop, Rogues Gallery and others; has performed live art everywhere from Made In Milwaukee to The Metro in Chicago; illustrated a kids’ book called Missing The Boat; and even taught elementary school for two weeks as a visiting art instructor.
Tarik Moody, Community Juror
Tarik Moody is a well-known DJ and Digital Manager with 88.9 Radio Milwaukee and is co-host of the award-winning “The Rhythm Lab” on Minnesota Public Radio. Tarik, a graduate of Howard University in Washington DC, got his first taste of the music industry back in the mid 90′s as an intern for a cable access music video show called Sonic Ignition in Washington D.C.
In 2003, he became one of four hosts for KFAI’s “Local Sound Department.” He currently hosts the award-winning “The Rhythm Lab” with longtime DJ partner Don Cuco on Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current (89.3 Twin Cities). The show features “rhythm diaspora: soul, neo-soul, funk, hip-hop, jazz, nu jazz, world beat, go-go, latin, broken beat and reggae.” At RadioMilwaukee, Tarik will also continue work with that show, which will be jointly produced by Minnesota Public Radio and Radio For Milwaukee.
Tom Strini, Culture Juror
Tom Strini served The Milwaukee Journal and then the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as dance critic, critic at large and music and dance critic for almost 27 years. He took a buyout and left the paper July 31, 2009, as the Journal Sentinel downsized. Check in with Tom’s “Culture Desk” often for his take on a broad swath of Milwaukee’s artistic life, from classical music to dance, theater and even cooking and the zen of daily living.
Questions? Please contact events@wisconsin.aiga.org