{"id":1243,"date":"2011-03-10T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T20:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2016-03-06T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:44:00","slug":"it-began-in-noho-thank-you-art-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"It Began in NoHo: Thank You Art Institute!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I gave a talk to a capacity crowd at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinstitutes.edu\/hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Institute of California \u2013 Hollywood<\/a>. A big &#8220;THANK YOU&#8221; goes out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/john-judy\/a\/b3b\/99\" target=\"_blank\">John Judy<\/a>, the Academic Director of Graphic Design and Foundation Studies who planned the evening, and set it all up.<\/p>\n<p>I tailored my hour-long talk &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1080\" target=\"_blank\">It Began In Brooklyn<\/a>&#8221; to what I expected would be a mostly student crowd, but many professionals showed up as well. The school opened up their space to a triple\u2013wide room with three screens and three projectors\u2014an unexpected layout which actually worked quite well. Afterwards we had a Q&amp;A where I tried to answer some great questions from students and professionals. We then raffled off a Wacom tablet, a 1 year subscription to Lynda.com, several signed event posters and a CD of the complete <a title=\"The Complete Alphabet Soup Font Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\/metroscript-options\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet Soup Font Collection<\/a>. I must say that it was really gratifying to see the high interest level displayed by many of the students. All in all it was a great evening. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did! Below, a few photos taken by John Judy after the talk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1244\" title=\"IBIB-AI-1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-1.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-1.png 750w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-1-300x186.png 300w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-1-481x300.png 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-2.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1247\" title=\"IBIB-AI-2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-2.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-2.png 750w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-2-300x186.png 300w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-2-481x300.png 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-3.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1248\" title=\"IBIB-AI-3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-3.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-3.png 750w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-3-300x186.png 300w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-3-481x300.png 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-4.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1249\" title=\"IBIB-AI-4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-4.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-4.png 750w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-4-300x186.png 300w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBIB-AI-4-481x300.png 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I gave a talk to a capacity crowd at Art Institute of California \u2013 Hollywood. A big &#8220;THANK YOU&#8221; goes out to John Judy, the Academic Director of Graphic Design and Foundation Studies who planned the evening, and set it all up. I tailored my hour-long talk &#8220;It Began In Brooklyn&#8221; to what I expected would be a mostly student crowd, but many professionals showed up as well. The school opened up their space to a triple\u2013wide room with three screens and three projectors\u2014an unexpected layout which actually worked quite well. Afterwards we had a Q&amp;A where I tried to answer some great questions from students and professionals. 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