AIGA Raleigh and Designbox Gallery invite you to attend the opening reception for the "re|THINK Our Environment in the Carolinas" poster exhibition.  The reception is part of Raleigh's First Friday Gallery Walk and takes place on Friday, April 4, 2008, from 7-10pm at Designbox Gallery.  The twenty posters selected by the re|THINK judges will be on display, and a screen projector will display all 121 submitted poster designs and the re|THINK animated commercial.  Copies of the 20 printed posters will be available for ~$10 each.

AIGA Raleigh has a second art opening that night: "Intercollegiate Student Exhibition Opening Reception" at the FISH MARKET student gallery.



Address:
Designbox Gallery
323 W Martin St
Raleigh, NC 27601 

Parking:
Limited street parking is available near the gallery, and two parking garages are close by.  View the First Friday map for more info.

Websites:
Designbox
Raleigh's First Friday Gallery Walk
All 121 Submitted Posters (Flickr)
20 Posters Selected by Judges (Flickr)

Questions:
rethinkposters@gmail.com

AIGA Rethink Poster Competition Promo on YouTube.

Judges

Amy Chapman Braun of Raleigh, NC, is the award-winning designer and creative director for the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. Under her design direction, the Nicholas School's Dukenvironment magazine and interactive Web site have received national recognition for excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Braun, who focuses most of her work on nature and the environment, holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Appalachian State University and has a background in ad agency design. A batik artist and fine art photographer, Braun has been featured in Coastal Living and Our State magazines and her personal artwork graces the hallways of the new five-star hotel, The Umstead in Cary, NC.

Michael Salter is an associate professor of digital arts at the University of Oregon. Previously Salter taught at Mount Olive College and lectured at East Carolina University, the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Peace College and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Salter's art work has shown nationally and internationally in Berlin, New York, London, Amsterdam, Miami, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago. Throughout his career as an artist, Salter has made a commitment to the support and success of Lump Gallery/Projects, an alternative art space dedicated to exhibiting challenging work by emerging artists. Michael Salter's work is a massive and in-depth response to visual culture. A self proclaimed obsessive observer he culls through the avalanche of mass media and corporate branding to find poignant, absurd and baffling pieces which become part of his work. His work bridges all disciplines from product and toy design, to kinetic sculpture, logotypes, animation, and signage. He is currently interested in cognitive behavior and its relationship to particular visual stimuli, and the continued construction of Styrofoam robots.

Noah Scalin is a lifelong activist and founder of the award winning, socially conscious design and consulting firm Another Limited Rebellion. Noah's work via ALR has been featured in dozens of international books and magazines and in 2004 Noah was named one of the Top Forty Under 40 successful young professionals who give back to the community by Style Magazine in Richmond, VA. Noah also founded the community supported agriculture group Sprout and is an adjunct faculty member in the graphic design department at Virginia Commonwealth University where he teaches Design Rebels, a course on socially conscious graphic design. Noah is currently in the midst of the year long art project called Skull-A-Day.