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AIGA BALTIMORE MOVES TO ENGINE PERFORMANCE BUILDING
Professional Association For Design To Share Space With Creative Services Firm
Baltimore/August 17, 2009…AIGA has leased offices for its headquarters in the Engine Performance building at 407 North Charles Street, announced Thomas Christopher (Chris) Jones, AIGA’s president; and Scott Robertson, founder and principal of Engine Performance, a creative services and marketing recruitment company. AIGA will be in its new offices this month.
According to Robertson, the move was a natural. “We have built a very strong community of creative and professional talent here and just recently launched Engine Studios, which brings together designers and marketing professionals in shared space to stimulate greater creativity,” Robertson says. “AIGA Baltimore’s arrival will only strengthen the growing creative community here.”
AIGA Baltimore is a branch of AIGA, a professional association for design, now representing more than 22,000 designers through national activities and local programs developed by 60 chapters and 240 student groups. AIGA has been advancing the value of design since 1914, acting as the collective voice of the profession and providing numerous resources to members.
“By coming into Engine Performance’s space, we can collaborate to reach out to a larger number of professionals,” Jones says. “Our primary goal is to provide professional enrichment and educate designers and clients about the role that design plays in shaping the messages of tomorrow's advertisements, campaigns, websites and brochures. This will help us reflect a diversity of specialties and people who represent the profession in a way that is unique to Baltimore.”
Founded in 1986, the Baltimore chapter communicates the message of design relevance and furthers the cause of design education. Information is available on the association’s Baltimore-- http://www.baltimore.aiga.org/ and national-- http://www.aiga.org web sites.