Design Camp^®

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Character.

A typography seminar, you ask?!

No. I’m speaking of the very essence of who we are as people, as designers—our individual character.

It’s time to flush it out and mark it as our own.
It’s time to explore how your personal character can help you survive.

Protect your career and take your networking skills to the next level.

Join us for Design Camp 2011.
September 30–October 2 at the historic
Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, Minnesota.

About Design Camp^®

Since 1980, Design Camp^® has been AIGA Minnesota’s premier event and the largest regional design conference in the country. Held annually in late September/early October at a lodge in northern Minnesota, this event sets the standard for design conferences across the country.

Design Camp provides an atypical conference structure, mixing indoor and outdoor activities with both educational and social events.

Camp lasts for three days. Campers arrive Friday morning for registration and depart Sunday afternoon. Five keynote presentations set the tone for camp, while small-group workshops and creative sessions follow each presentation. Attendees (referred to as “campers”) stay in lakefront cabins or golf-friendly condos and meet in the main lodge for events and meals. Friday and Saturday nights offer much socializing and tend to run late into the night.

Camp averages 315 total attendees, including campers, speakers, presenters, sponsors, and vendors. Campers come primarily from Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, and Canada. Most campers are graphic designers and art directors or involved in the graphic arts (photographers, illustrators, educators, copywriters, etc.)—but all are welcome.

In past years, Design Camp has included speakers such as: Erik Spiekermann; Robert Valentine; Milton Glaser, founder of Pushpin Studios; Doyald Young, California; Lyn Severance; Paul Sahre; Jim Sherraden; Hatch Show Print, Tennessee; DJ Stout, Pentagram Austin; and Dana Arnett, partner, VSA Chicago.

With speakers and events like these, it’s easy to understand why many in the design community consider Design Camp to be the event of the year. This is truly an ideal setting in which to meet the leaders of the design community.