10_ AIGA GAIN Conference

Gaby Brink speaks at AIGA’s annual GAIN conference. She discusses the role of The Living Principles as it relates to the conference theme: how design can change the direction of businesses, provide fuel for economies and even change lives.

10_ Engage: AIGA Leadership Retreat 2010

Gaby Brink unveils livingprinciples.org, the online portal for The Living Principles framework, at AIGA’s annual leadership conference. The theme of the event, “Engage” challenges designers to engage not just with their community, but with the issues that affect us all.

10_ Green is Not the Only Color

Gaby Brink participates in a roundtable for the California Design Biennial 2010: Action / Reaction at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. The conversation focuses on the role of designers in driving social change, and the ways Tomorrow is committed to making a difference.

10_ California Biennial Exhibit

Tomorrow Partners’ work is featured in the 2010 California Design Biennial: Action / Reaction, hosted by the Pasadena Museum of California Art. The exhibition focuses on how California designers across all disciplines respond to economic, political and environmental challenges.

10_ BAVC Producers Institute

Gaby Brink speaks at the 2010 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, an intensive lab designed to build new storytelling models and interactive tools that deepen the impact of documentary film, and ultimately drive social change. Projects from the Producers Institute have been presented at the United Nations, Sundance Film Festival, Skoll World Forum, and numerous global venues.

10_ Earth Day at Autodesk

Gaby Brink presents the vision for the Living Principles for Design framework to the Bay Area design community. Held on Earth Day, the event encourages designers of all disciplines to join the sustainability conversation at livingprinciples.org.

10_ The Mohawk Show

Gaby Brink is a judge of the 10th annual Mohawk Show. Celebrating designers who make the complex communications of our culture concrete, and who go beyond the expected to make visuals extraordinary, this year’s show also adds the Sustainable Design Award.

10_ Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards

Gaby Brink judges the inaugural Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards, recognizing multidisciplinary design and architecture student projects that address pressing social issues. High school and college participants are encouraged to apply design thinking to problems that exist in their own communities.

09_ Aspen Design Summit

Gaby Brink and Nathalie Destandau collaborate with a select group of 60 designers, change leaders, NGOs, foundations and experts to demonstrate the power of design thinking in crafting solutions for large social problems, including global education and public health programs, at the Aspen Design Summit.

09_ The Spark Awards

Gaby Brink judges the tenth international Spark Awards. Spark is about Change—designed change. Change for the better: studied, researched, cognizant of criteria like sustainability, suitability, context, inventiveness, process, universality—and yes, beauty.

09_ Designers Accord Global Summit on Design Education & Sustainability

Gaby Brink and Nathalie Destandau join 100 educators, administrators, and thought-leaders at the Global Summit on Design Education & Sustainability. Hosted by the Designers Accord, the goal is to help integrate sustainability into design programs all over the world.

09_ The Living Principles for Design

Architects / authors Gaby Brink and Nathalie Destandau unveil The Living Principles in Memphis. The first comprehensive framework to merge design thinking with integrated sustainability provides designers and their clients with a common understanding and enables them to take action.

09_ Fine Art Stimulus

Jeff Iorillo’s Los Angeles solo art show includes his “fine art stimulus” response to the economy: a continuous 45-foot painting that was rolled out on the gallery floor. Priced by the linear foot, it is cut to order on the spot.

09_ Ideas that Matter

Gaby Brink judges the 2009 Ideas that Matter grant program by Sappi Paper. Awarded grants help designers contribute their talents to the causes they care about most, proving that design is a powerful force for social good.

09_ Sea Change: AIGA Leadership Retreat

Gaby Brink presents at AIGA’s Leadership Retreat on the behind-the-scenes planning and operations of Compostmodern – the San Francisco based sustainability conference that reaches a global spotlight through a dynamic web portal, dozens of spin-off satellite events, webcasts and on-going blogosphere discourse.

09_ AIGA Center for Sustainable Design

Gaby Brink becomes co-chair of AIGA’s Center for Sustainable Design, assuming the responsibility to help chart the 22,000 member organization’s long-term vision to promote the integration of sustainability strategies to design and business communities globally.

09_ Compostmodern

Gaby Brink is lead producer of Compostmodern for a second consecutive year. Tomorrow brands the event and TED-like website. And press coverage from the likes of Metropolis, Treehugger, GreenBiz.com, Dwell, and Core77 herald it as the preeminent gathering for sustainability programming in design.

09_ Adobe Sustainability Roundtable Discussion

Gaby Brink presents at “Designing for Sustainability”. The event gathers leaders of the software industry, design profession, and sustainability movement and uncovers the challenges and opportunities involved in making design more sustainable. Follow-up discussion with Josh Ulm.

08_ Compostmodern

Gaby Brink spearheads the interdisciplinary conference dedicated to promoting sustainable design thinking. Keynote Alex Steffen described the roster of speakers as “a bright green, allstar line-up” and the day has been dubbed a watershed event for the design community. Event coverage / Podcasts_

08_ AIGA Center for Sustainable Design

Gaby Brink joins the advisory board of the CFSD and assumes the role of planning sustainability focused speakers for all major AIGA conferences. The Center provides the design community with tools, resources and discourse to help incorporate sustainable thinking into professional practice.

08_ Academy of Art University, San Francisco

Tom Rosenfield is currently serving as guest instructor, teaching classes in photo concept, photo illustration and portraiture for students in the Bachelors and Masters photography programs.

08_ Palazzo Hotel, Las Vegas

Jeff Iorillo delivers four original paintings commissioned for the Las Vegas luxury hotel. Jeff’s paintings are also showcased in West Hollywood gallery Kevin Barry Fine Art.

07_ The Designers Accord

Tomorrow is an inaugural member of the global coalition of design and innovation firms committed to reducing negative environmental impact by inspiring industry change towards sustainable strategy and design practices. Find out more > Become an adopter_

07_ AIGA San Francisco

Gaby Brink presents a prestigious Fellow Award to design icon Michael Vanderbyl on behalf of the AIGA San Francisco board and the Bay Area design community.
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07_ Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Gaby Brink judges the world’s premier higher education design and film competition. The awards celebrate the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world’s top higher education institutions.

07_ California College of the Arts, 3+3 Lecture

Gaby Brink presents at her alma mater, CCA, at an all-day event showcasing the work of three design alumni and three current design faculty.

07_ AIGA Salt Lake City

Gaby Brink delivers a lecture called Protosynthesis illuminating her studio’s creative process to the Salt Lake City design community.

06_ HOW Design Conference, Las Vegas

Following the international release of Two-Color Graphics, Unlimited Design Solutions, Gaby Brink gives a presentation on the same topic to a crowd of 2,000 at the largest of industry conferences in Las Vegas.

06_ AIGA San Francisco

Gaby Brink joins the AIGA SF board of directors as Environment Chair and participates in the 2006 Leadership Retreat, a gathering of members from all 52 AIGA boards that sets the agenda of the coming year’s top priorities for the national design community.

06_ New Graduates Portfolio Review

Gaby Brink participates in the annual AIGA student event that gives hundreds of new graduates unique exposure to Northern California’s design professionals and attracts students from as far as Sacramento and Santa Barbara.

06_ Academy of Art University Spring Show

06_ L.A. County Fair Wines and Olive Oil Competition

Nearly 100 international experts converge in LA to participate in judging the prestigious competition that attracts thousands of wine and spirits submissions from around the globe. Gaby Brink serves as a packaging judge, identifying a few dozen winners across six categories.

06_ Columbus Society of Communicating Arts

Gaby Brink speaks to a local audience of designers, writers and art directors in Columbus, Ohio.

05_ AIGA San Francisco

Gaby Brink is a presenters in the speaker series F*in Design, a candid talk about the professional F-words we all struggle with, but seldom truly address: Faith, Fear and Foolishness. Chapter president Christopher Simmons opens the stage wearing a full-body chicken suit, a first by all measures.

05_ AIGA Las Vegas

Gaby Brink presents to the local chapter of AIGA and judges the 2005 Las Vegas Work Show along with Michael Osborne and Jamie Koval of VSA Partners.

05_ AIGA Y Conference

Gaby Brink presents Experience + Explore + Expand at the tenth annual Y Conference in San Diego.

05_ New Mexico Ad Federation

Gaby Brink is invited to present her talk, Letting Audience Relevance Guide the Creative Process in Albuquerque.

05_ AIGA Santa Fe

Gaby Brink delivers her presentation, Letting Audience Relevance Guide The Creative Process to the Santa Fe chapter of AIGA.

04_ Dottie Awards of Northern California

Gaby Brink judges Northern California’s website design competition, selecting winners in 16 different categories, Top Dot and a People’s Choice Award.

04_ London International Awards

Gaby Brink joins a worldwide jury panel to judge the annual advertising, design and new media competitions.

03_ Kansas Addy Awards

Gaby Brink sits on the judges' panel to select Kansas’ best 2003 advertising.

02_ Art Directors Association of Iowa

Gaby Brink is invited to deliver a keynote presentation.

02_ Communication Arts Illustration Annual

Gaby Brink judges the most prestigious competition for creativity in illustration. Selected by a nationally representative jury of designers, art directors and illustrators, the winning entries are published in the 2002 Illustration Annual.