About

Welcome to the Utah Graphic Artists Forum, a guild of local professional, amateur, and student artists. Our purpose is to promote and support the development and expression of the graphic arts and to facilitating and ecouraging conversations and interaction between graphic artists in Utah.

We welcome members involved in all forms of the graphic arts, including illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, typographers, user interface designers, and web developers. All are welcome and encouraged to participate, discussing current events and trends, historical topics, theory, techniques, technology, business, and/or employment.

The Utah Graphic Artists Forum is a community. We are a forum in the classic, Roman definition of the word: the main public square at the center of a town which served as the political, social, and commercial center and was surrounded by the most important governmental, religious, and cultural buildings.

Yes, we have a web-based discussion board (“forum”) but that is only one of many mediums for discussion that our members engage in. Other mediums and services include mailing lists, an IRC channel for chat, job announcements, RSS feeds, syndicated calendar events, monthly gatherings featuring speakers or workshops, and field trips. Membership is free and open to anyone interested.

Post to group through Google Wave

Thursday, 15 October 2009 @ 16:35

I have created a Google Group for us so that you may “wave” to everyone in the group via Google Wave. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a pretty URL or email address because they were already used and Google has a lame rule that they can only be used once, even if the previous instance has been deleted (which was by me, which makes it even more lame).

Visit the Google Group home page for more information. Join the group and then add the address “utah-graphic-arists@googlegroups.com” to your Google Contacts list. You can then add the group address to new waves and everyone will have access to it.

Note that Wave will bark that that user does not have a valid Wave account when you try to add it. Ignore that and simply strike the return key and the address will be added to your contact list.

LinkedIn group membership requests declined

Friday, 21 August 2009 @ 11:59

Some membership requests for our LinkedIn group were accidently declined. If that was you, please resubmit your request and it will be approved. We apologize for the inconvenience.