Art Directors Club of Tulsa Presents

Orion Tait, Creative Director, Buck

Orion Tait is a co-creative director and partner at Buck. With a background in filmmaking, fine arts and graphic design, his award-winning work has spanned a variety of disciplines.

Specializing in design-driven creative, Buck’s directors and artists use animation, visual effects and live action to collaborate with clients, from concept to delivery, producing work that is visceral, innovative and diverse.

From offices in New York and Los Angeles, Buck works with a broad range of clients in the advertising, broadcast, retail and entertainment industries. Some of those include Toyota and Scion, NIKE, TV Land, Cingular and EA Games.

Don’t miss this mind-meld of 3D, broadcast, cel, character, commercial and live-action work from one of America’s premier motion studio creative directors. And ADCT’s opening act of our 40th year.

See you Thursday!

Thursday, September 18
Location: Tulsa Little Theatre
1511 S. Delaware, Tulsa OK

Social 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Orion Tait 7:30 – 8:30 PM
Members: Free | Students $10 | Non-members $25

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It’s that time of year again. Time to put up the shorts and flip-flops and get serious again. Well… at least to rejoin your creative community as a member of one of America’s oldest independent Art Directors Clubs. Shorts and flip-flops always welcome. See you in September back at TLT, no matter what you’re wearing. And no, you’re not crazy. That really is Jay Shuster from PIXAR in November. Score.

New this year: fill out your membership applications online or download a printable pdf.

It’s been a great year, from the opening session with doodles, an iPhone giveaway and James Farr looking like Where’s Waldo and regaling us with tales of talking to Steven Spielberg from the dog food aisle at Wal-Mart. All the way through to Graphex 39 in the high-class digs of Gilcrease with Hosty Duo making music and fun of us.

Thanks again to all of our sponsors this year: Unisource, ResourceOne, Quik Print, RoArk, and Western Printing. We truly couldn’t do it without you.

Next year we intend to make your membership even more valuable, with a fresh slate of speakers, the return of Visual Aid in October, and whatever else we can think of between now and September.

Have a great summer until we spam you again with a shameless membership solicitation.

Your 2007-2008 ADCT Board

Graphex 39 Awards Ceremony @ Vista Room, Gilcrease Museum: May 8th

Join us at the historical Gilcrease Museum for an evening that will showcase the top creative work in the region.

ADCT had a record number of entries across the board this year with over 100 students submissions and over 300 professional submissions. This year we plan on giving away $5,000 in student awards to students from all over the region. Thanks to everyone’s creative support, this year has been a great success.

The Graphex 39 Exhibition & Awards Presentation will be held Thursday, May 8th, beginning with cocktails at 6:30 PM at the Vista Room of Gilcrease Museum, 1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road in Tulsa.

All winning work will be on display. The awards presentation will award both professional winners and student winners. Our band and emcees for the night will be the Hosty Duo.

Tickets to the ceremony are $25 per person with reservations. Please email Carly Sullivan at csullivan@littlefield.us to reserve your ticket, payable the night of the ceremony. Tickets are $30 without reservation. We will accept cash, check, Visa and Mastercard at the door.

May 8th, 2008
Location: Vista Room, Gilcrease Museum
1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Cocktails 6:30 | Awards Presentation: 7:30
Reserved Tickets: $25 | Tickets without Reservation: $30

Five (or seven – who’s counting?) speakers. Ten minutes. A lifetime of enlightenment.

Art Directors Club is proud to bring 5×10 back again this year, with 5 presentations from local heroes. Don’t miss this last regular meeting of ADCT this season, which is free and open to the public.

Libby Bender- writer-Littlefield
Carl Brune-designer
Scott Raffe-photographer
Lori Walderich – Idea Studio
Bill Derrevere – Artist and teacher TCC
Kim Doner – Illustrator
Michelle Martin Artist and teacher TU

*This event is FREE and open to the public*

Location: Tulsa Little Theatre
1511 S Delaware Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Social 6:30 – 7:30 PM | Lecture 7:30 – 8:30 PM

Tiffany joined Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) in 2002. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, she packed her bags and headed to Coconut Grove for the one interview she wanted. She showed up on the doorstep of CP+B, talked her way in, and was hired the same day after 9 hours of interviews with the entire Creative Department.

She has created effective, award-winning work for Burger King, ‘truth’, Volkswagen, MINI, Method, Victoria’s Secret and many others. She currently heads American Express OPEN.

Tiffany’s work has received many awards, including the Grand Prix Lion for VW GTI and a Titanium Lion for MINI Counterfeit at Cannes, as well as top honors in the One Show, Andys, Clios, and British D&AD.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Location: Tulsa Little Theatre
1511 S Delaware Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Social 6:30 – 7:30 PM | Lecture 7:30 – 8:30 PM
Members: Free | Students: $10 | Non-Members: $25

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS MARCH 28

You’ve worked hard this year. Now’s the time to show off your best creative work in the competition that showcases the top creative work in the region, Graphex 39. Take a chance. Live in the moment. Enter Today!

For more information on how to enter, download the Call for Entries (PDF).

Download Links:
Entry & Tracking Forms (PDF)
Student Entry Form (PDF)

Calling all Students:

The 2008 Jim Gibbs Student Scholarship Competition awards student scholarships to Best Portfolio (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place), Best Logo Design, Best Advertisement, Best Packaging Design, Best Illustration, and Judges’ Choice Awards. Last year, ADCT gave $6,600 in scholarships to student winners from several different schools. For more information on how to enter see the Student Resource section on artdirectorsoftulsa.org or download the Call for Entries (PDF).

Student Portfolio Review
FREE TO ALL STUDENTS
The University of Tulsa, Phillips Hall (5th & College)
Friday, April 4th, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – noon

Students will be allowed one-on-one reviews with Graphex 39 judges. To sign up please email Teresa Valero, teresa-valero@utulsa.edu. Be sure to include Student Portfolio Review in the subject line. Please also include your area of study in your email, (i.e. design, interactive, photography, etc.)

NOTICE: A limited number of students will be allowed to attend. Placement will be given to the first 20 students that sign up.

Hammerpress was founded in 1994 by Brady Vest after attending the Kansas City Art Institute. With a fascination of letterpress and a completely motorless Chandler & Price Platen Press, he began printing CD and LP packages for poor and penniless art school rock ‘n roll friends.

Now, with several presses (all of which have motors, thankfully) and hundreds of drawers of lead type, Hammerpress operates with a small crew creating everything from wedding invitations to custom artwork for national restaurant chains, CD packaging, corporate identity, posters and art prints, as well as an ever-growing line of letterpress stationery products. Don’t miss your chance to see them all.

Thursday, February 21st
Location: Tulsa Little Theatre
1511 S Delaware Ave, Tulsa, OK
Social 6:30 – 7:30 PM | Lecture 7:30 – 8:30 PM
Members: Free | Students: $10 | Non-members: $25

Just imagine. Hanging out with 140 Bohemians in the hellacool Circle Cinema, a free T-shirt draped over your shoulder, drinking some fine beverages and talking about eMacs, iPhones, Epson printers, OS9, Fogo de Chao, dogs, and the artistic way of life.

Then sitting among those same friends watching people talk about a 50-year-old font for an hour and a half. And getting teary-eyed over it.

Yep, we’re freaks. If you haven’t already joined us, it’s never too late. Four great chances left this year!

HammerPress

This highly renowned little printing company in Kansas City creates “various hand printed ephemera” with a slightly irreverent approach to the traditional craft of letterpress. Their work has appeared in logolounge, Typography 25 and 26, Masters of Poster Design and more. Don’t miss them:

Thursday, February 21
Tulsa Little Theatre
1511 S Delaware Ave
6:30 – 7:30 Social
7:30 – 9:00 Film
Members Free | Students $10 | Non-members $25