On Saturday, July 31st, prepare to be blown away 3D-style at The Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac, MI.  The third annual Phonotropical musical mayhem will lift off in another dimension, thanks to the creative works of artist Dan DeMaggio (free 3D glasses for everyone).  Freshtight Designs has a handful of tickets to give away right here on our site, so let the contest begin!  Performances by: Dale Earnhart, Jr. Jr., Bars of Gold, Lettercamp, Bear Lake, The Victorious Secrets, Jessica Hernandez and many more.

To enter the ticket giveaway, become a fan of Freshtight Designs on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and leave a comment below explaining why we should pick you… it’s as easy as that!  Five winners will be chosen at random at 12:noon on 7/31 and we will see everyone Saturday at PhonoFest!

Also happening on Saturday is Freshtight Design’s featured artist, Jaclyn Schanes‘ first solo exhibition/performance called Show Pony, at the Re:View Contemporary Gallery in Detroit.  She is the epitome of “life as art” and “art as life” and has created everything herself from the soundtrack/score of the event to the watercolor paintings.  This is one exhibit you don’t want to miss.  One woman, two hours, a hundred layers of meaning.  Click here for more information.

At the center of the exhibit are approximately 35 small to medium watercolor self-portraits, which will be uniquely mounted and displayed in a strategic way as to facilitate performance by including the attendees into the experience. Schanes has recently embraced the often forgotten medium of watercolor, bringing both beauty and brutal directedness to her Neo-Expressionism influenced portraits, which will provide one layer of meaning in this two-hour art event.

Team Jellyfish, friends of Freshtight Designs, are training to participate in a half marathon as members of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training.

“We are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. We are completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line – a cure!”

Please make a donation, even $5 or $10, to support our team’s participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS’s mission.

Click here to visit the team’s homepage.

The Detroit hip hop scene has always been about originality, passion and dedication.  But today it’s being misrepresented.  Radio no longer looks to the streets to find a hit; they choose tracks based on what they can position in retail… and then they call it hip hop.

We’re flipping the scales so they weigh in favor of the artists… to represent ourselves, our culture and measure our own success.

Join us, every first Saturday of the month, as The Crofoot and Freshtight Designs combine forces and bring to you some of the most influential voices, minds and styles in the hip hop community.

Aug 7th
Detroit CYDI
Sidenotes
Almighty Dreadnaughtz
Stoopz ‘n Breeze
Of Mice and Musicians
live graffiti by SAM SRSLY

RSVP on Facebook for a chance to win free tickets

DJs, emcees, graffiti writers, breakdancers, artists, networking and more…

Check out past months’ photos and contact us to get involved.

Interfaces 2010 is an annual conference promoting game design, graphic design, and digital media industries.

The conference will consist of presentations and panels showcasing different aspects of game production, graphic design, and digital media; portfolio reviews, and exhibitor space. Freshtight Designs will have an exhibitor space showcasing some of our latest work.

In 2009, there were over 400 people in attendance, but expect 2010 to be bigger and better. Attendees last year included industry professionals, creative professionals, faculty from local and national colleges and universities, as well as students.

Interfaces Conference | May 22, 2010 | 9am-5pm
Troy Community Center
3179 Livernois
Troy, MI 48083
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www.iadtdetroit.com
(Discount tickets available for Students and Faculty)

This year’s speakers include:

Max Voelker – ZeeGee Games, Associate Producer
Brian Menze – Obsidian Entertainment, Senior Artist
Chris Arnold – Carbine Studios, Lead World Artist
Christian Allen – WB Games, Lead Game Designer
Greg Foertsch – Firaxis Games, Lead Artist
Adam Sparkes – Sparkes Photography
Rob Eckert – Ringside Creative Motion Designer
Dennis & Christina Jacobs – Perfect Laughter
Oliver Hoffman – Creative Director
Julie Lang – Campbell-Ewald, Design Director
Trevor Anulewicz – Vectorform, Creative & Experience Director
Peter D’Agosinto – DP & Company, Associate Creative Director

The Interfaces conference is built on student and professional needs in the area. Metro Detroit has a growing digital culture that is encouraging industry to start and grow here. The Michigan State tax incentives create a need for industry professionals and educators to update their skills, and students to prepare properly for a creative and digital career path.

We hope you can join us in this quest!

Sponsors: Garage Games, Cengage Learning, Pearson Publishing, and Target Direct Marketing!

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Join AIGA Detroit and Freshtight Designs for Celebrate Michigan Design, an exciting night of informative presentations and informal festivities. This is a unique opportunity not only to look back at our history for inspiration, but also to toast Michigan design as the magnificent force of innovation it continues to be.

Music by Jimmy Edgar, Silkscreening demo by Progress of Design, Gallery show by the Silent Giants, Michigan themed merchandise by Handmade Detroit and Angela Duncan, posters by Freshtight Designs, hors d’ourves and cash bar immediately following presentations.

Michigan hosts a world-class collection of artists and designers who are dedicated to producing great work in a great place. Now more than ever, we should celebrate design as a vital engine in our state’s on-going recovery. Designers are problem solvers. Whether it’s a city designer working to solve the issue of affordable housing, or a graphic designer bringing legitimacy to a non-profit through branding, the range of conflicts designers encounter is infinite. It’s no secret that Michigan has significant problems, however every challenge the state presents is an opportunity for innovation.

$5 AIGA Members / $10 Non-AIGA Members
To RVSP and pay at the door, click here.
To purchase tickets online, click here.
Ticket Services donated by ticketweb.com

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Julie Lang

Julie is Associate Design Director at Campbell-Ewald advertising, dedicated primarily to the Chevrolet account. Through her 18 years in the industry she has worked as an illustrator, art director, magazine design director and as an independent in her own one-woman design firm. Her clients have included Herman Miller, Chevrolet and Detroit’s Epoch Restaurant Group. Her work has been recognized by publications and competitions including Communication Arts, AIGA, the ADDYS, the One Show and The Art Directors Club.

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Jody Levy

Jody Levy is an artist and designer. She has been with experience design firm o2 Creative Solutions since the company’s inception in 2001. Jody works with the multi-disciplinary team at o2 to create interactive and immersive experiences such as live theatrical productions, museum and gallery exhibits, non-traditional communications campaigns and more. Jody is an artist and travel writer. Her travel website, Native Nomad, features the best experiences in cities across the globe.

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Susan Skarsgard

Susan Skarsgard is an artist and designer known internationally for her original fine art works, site-specific installation art, graphic design, artist books, & calligraphy. Her work is widely collected by individuals and institutions which include the United States Library of Congress Rare Book Room; Newberry Library, Chicago, IL; University of Michigan Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library, and Smith College, Northampton, MA. As a lecturer and teacher, Ms.  Skarsgard has conducted workshops and presentations for numerous institutions, organizations, and conferences, traveling extensively throughout North America, Australia and Europe. She has worked for 15 years in the Industrial Design department at General Motors and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan.

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Photos by: Elaine Lok | Christy King | Lisa Lord | Jamie Karosa | Mo Traylor | Metromix Detroit

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HUGE thanks to all the designers that took the time to create these freshtight designs
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Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine at Revenge of the Book Eaters, Ypsilanti, MI

Michigan’s own Davy Rothbart (editor/publisher of Found Magazine) will be participating in the Emerge and See event, hosted by Freshtight Designs.  We are very excited to say that he will not only be there promoting his magazine, but also as a performing artist, getting up on stage and telling his stories.

Rothbart grew up in Ann Arbor, MI and graduated from the University of Michigan.  He is an established author, filmmaker, and most recognizably known for his role in Found Magazine.

He has contributed to This American Life, appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, and writes for GQ, The Believer, SLAM Magazine, Polite and The Sun.

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AIGA, the professional association for design, is the premier place for design—to discover it, discuss it, understand it, appreciate it, be inspired by it. It is the place designers turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis, and research and advance education and ethical practices. AIGA sets the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political, cultural and creative contexts.

Founded in 1914, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design. AIGA now represents more than 22,000 design professionals, educators and students through national activities and local programs developed by 64 chapters and 240 student groups.

AIGA serves designers with five critical functions:

• Information
• Communication
• Inspiration
• Validation
• Representation

AIGA is authoritative in promoting and communicating standards for ethical conduct and professional expertise and in collecting and analyzing information about the profession. It is stimulating in its provocative programming on critical issues facing design and in celebration of both effective and innovative design, a source of inspiration for many members. And it is open to new ideas, new professional disciplines and the ever-evolving nature of design.

AIGA supports the interests of professionals, educators and students who are engaged in the process of designing, regardless of where they are in the arc of their careers. The disciplines represented in the profession range from book and type design through the traditional communication design disciplines to the newer disciplines of interaction design, experience design and motion graphics. In addition, AIGA supports the interests of those involved in designing from other disciplines, professions and business who share designers’ commitment to advancing understanding of the value of design.

Through the relationships members develop within the community of designers, the information they share and the standards they develop for the profession, AIGA helps the profession to validate its own ethos and role in business and society. AIGA actively communicates the value of design to the business community and the public.

AIGA serves as a hub of thought-leadership and activity for the designing community. The association is committed to stimulating thinking about design through conferences, competitions, exhibitions, publications and websites. AIGA inspires, educates and informs designers, helping them to realize their talents and to advocate the value of design among the media, the business community, public agencies and the general public. While AIGA was created to advance the design profession, its members now place a higher priority on AIGA’s work in communicating the value of design to audiences outside the profession.

Emerge and See: a fusion of live local art & music
9-11-09 @ The Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac, MI

Live creation. Local art & music.
9-11-09 at The Crofoot Ballroom

THE NIGHT WILL INCLUDE:
- Live Painting
- Live Graffiti
- Bands and DJs
- Puppet Show
- Unique, Hand-crafted Photo Booth
- Art Vendors Selling their Work – photos, paintings, designs, arts and crafts, jewelry, clothing and more

MUSICIANS:
The Satin Peaches
Mick Bassett & the Marthas
SikSik Nation
Sharky and the Habit
Cudie Taa
Emily Rose
Michael Beauchamp
Laurel Premo
Jessika Carmichael
Nikolai Polcyn
Justin “el saco de toro” Bennett
2rok aka Justin Torok
DJ Mr. Busy

PERFORMING ARTISTS:
Davy Rothbart from FOUND Magazine
Megan Harris – Puppet Show
Kobie Solomon – Live Graffiti
Ryan Peoppe – Live Painting
Kady Meabrod – Photo Booth
Elaine Lok – Photo Booth

VENDORS:
AIGA – Detroit
Allure Sound Studio
Brennan Ware
Brooke Houghton
Christy King
Claudia Amato
Dan Kivikko
Dani Davis
Eclectic Underground
Epoca Vintage by Lauren Hanson
Erin Hanson
FOUND Magazine
Joe Schlaud
Kris Joesel
LMNOPrints by Lisa Norton
Lucy Olechowski
Matt Furman
Mutant Love by Lisa Lord
Pari Hatami
Repossessed by Sue Hanson
Sarah Gehani
Squid Graphixs by Ryan Peoppe

Taxi service provided by Metro Cars

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