Cast your vote! Select your new executive team, and catch-up with your friends in the design industry.
Join us as we balance out a year of great events with our annual AGM. Importantly, its your chance to have your say on who sits on the executive team, but its also much more besides. Michael Strassburger (of Modern Dog fame) is going to talk about his design process and inspiration, there’s going to be live music, catered food and a cash bar. All-in-all a fantastic social evening a wonderful opportunity to find-out what your friends in the design community have been up-to.
Interested in becoming part of our executive? You can review a partial list of available positions at gdc.net and contact President Elect Marga Lopez to get your nomination started. For you the AGM could well be the start of a more direct contribution to the Society’s efforts.
Guest Speaker Michael Strassburger
Michael Strassburger, co-founder of Modern Dog, started doing design at the ripe old age of 7. With dreams of becoming a professional magician, he designed his own promotional posters and business card.
Michael's 8th grade humor is responsible for our 11 year relationship with Blue Q head honcho, Mitch Nash. Mike and Mr. Nash have collaborated on such products as the best selling Cat Butt and Mullet brand series (magnets, gums, car air fresheners, and bath products), George Bush's Dumbass Head on a String car air freshener, Handz-off Anti Masturbatory and "Does this gum make my ass look big?" gum packaging, among many others. He also has on on-going relationship with Adobe Systems, Inc., working on everything from poster design to advice regarding their software.
Michael is considered to be one of the world's top digital designers by Publish Magazine, and is a featured artist in "Photoshop Masters" and "Photoshop Studio Secrets". He has received hundreds of awards and recognition from every major U.S. design publication/organization, including Graphis, AIGA, Type Directors Club, American Center for Design 100 Show, and Communication Arts. His work is represented in the permanent archives of the Smithsonian Institute's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Library of Congress, Experience Music Project and the Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg Germany, among others.
Michael currently teaches digital design courses at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
He has a dog named Rosie.
