photo by aprilchild, ©2007.Tonight, I went to the AIGA Legends Gala together with my creative director. The head of Global Design for J+J had bought a table, and he invited all four of the creative directors, who each brought a design director.
This is the second year that I went — last year I went with Maria from Neenah Paper and for the reception part I was a big wallflower standing in the corner feeling like a freshman at college orientation. In fact, some guy whose name I know forgot, came over to talk to me, specifically because he said I looked like I knew no one. That was not true, exactly (I did know people but that would mean I had to actually walk up to them and start a conversation.), but I was grateful for the pity conversation. At least, to others, it made me look like I was someone.
This year, I was I felt like a sophomore, which means that I no longer cared about whether anyone would talk with me during the cocktail hour. I wore a green dress and was one of like four people who did not wear black. The moment I walked in, I happily bumped into Lara and Yael, and proceeded to end my mingling right there. We spent about 45 minutes catching up (the highlight of my day!), and then had to unfortunately part ways so that we could each sit with our respective organizations.
The dinner was much better this year (for some reason, last year's main course of fish was really terrible — and I am so willing to give leeway at these events where they are serving like a million people.), despite the server telling Chris and I that the main course was habilut. We both were like, "huh?!" (I was thinking, oh man, they are serving some sort of reindeer-y kind of meat?) until I saw the server's cheat sheet and realized that he meant halibut. I had the opportunity to talk with some of my work colleagues whom I don't always get to chat with, and I sat next to Chris (the head of our office), which was the other highlight of my evening.
Oh, and the third highlight was that John Maeda (!!!) was there, to introduce Samsung for one of the two AIGA Corporate Leadership Awards. I find his incredible geekiness rather scintillating, and found his anecdote about the cafeteria at Samsung (mentioning that they only get 10 minutes to eat and no one is allowed water) fascinating in a very irrelevant sort of way. Martha was droll as usual, managing to throw in her "when I was jail,' phrase and also somehow managed to mention her pets, PETA and how her fur coats are now blankets. And Ellen Lupton is just a truly lovely person in every way. Every time I hear her speak, its like I don't want her to stop — I could listen to her talk about design + life (aren't they one and the same) forever. I have considered taking one of her classes so that I can have this opportunity.
This is the second year that I went — last year I went with Maria from Neenah Paper and for the reception part I was a big wallflower standing in the corner feeling like a freshman at college orientation. In fact, some guy whose name I know forgot, came over to talk to me, specifically because he said I looked like I knew no one. That was not true, exactly (I did know people but that would mean I had to actually walk up to them and start a conversation.), but I was grateful for the pity conversation. At least, to others, it made me look like I was someone.
This year, I was I felt like a sophomore, which means that I no longer cared about whether anyone would talk with me during the cocktail hour. I wore a green dress and was one of like four people who did not wear black. The moment I walked in, I happily bumped into Lara and Yael, and proceeded to end my mingling right there. We spent about 45 minutes catching up (the highlight of my day!), and then had to unfortunately part ways so that we could each sit with our respective organizations.
The dinner was much better this year (for some reason, last year's main course of fish was really terrible — and I am so willing to give leeway at these events where they are serving like a million people.), despite the server telling Chris and I that the main course was habilut. We both were like, "huh?!" (I was thinking, oh man, they are serving some sort of reindeer-y kind of meat?) until I saw the server's cheat sheet and realized that he meant halibut. I had the opportunity to talk with some of my work colleagues whom I don't always get to chat with, and I sat next to Chris (the head of our office), which was the other highlight of my evening.
Oh, and the third highlight was that John Maeda (!!!) was there, to introduce Samsung for one of the two AIGA Corporate Leadership Awards. I find his incredible geekiness rather scintillating, and found his anecdote about the cafeteria at Samsung (mentioning that they only get 10 minutes to eat and no one is allowed water) fascinating in a very irrelevant sort of way. Martha was droll as usual, managing to throw in her "when I was jail,' phrase and also somehow managed to mention her pets, PETA and how her fur coats are now blankets. And Ellen Lupton is just a truly lovely person in every way. Every time I hear her speak, its like I don't want her to stop — I could listen to her talk about design + life (aren't they one and the same) forever. I have considered taking one of her classes so that I can have this opportunity.
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