Event Wrap-up: Back to Cool
The CADC’s Back to Cool events provided Connecticut’s creative community a chance to share a piece of recent work and catch up with their peers after the lazy days of summer.
The BTC North event, held at Hartford Fine Arts & Framing in East Hartford, had a fun crowd, good food and plenty of beer and wine to sustain guests for the night. Troy Monroe showed a game packaging by CO:LAB, designed for Hasbro, and Constanza Gowen-Segovia, also from CO:LAB, brought a board of photos from the Water for India Campaign done while at her time at the University of Hartford. The project, part of Design for Global Change, won third place in the AIGA ReDesign Awards ‘09, in the category of Student Social Responsibility.
Parker Hu, a designer who has also worked on Water for India, had this to say about the evening: “I really enjoyed talking to people at the CADC Back to Cool event. It was nice to meet people I’d been hearing about.”
The BTC South event, held at the Beach Cafe in Fairfield, also had a good crowd and particularly good appetizers.
On display was a direct mail piece for Mitchells of Westport, designed by David Cushman at WSAA, and a logo designed for the Melt sandwich shop, by Tracie Valentino of traciedesigns.
Dave Robinson, Account Manager at Preferred Printing in Trumbull, brought recent pieces from Conde Nast, Time Inc., Westport Country Playhouse, and Sacred Heart University that were printed by his firm. Dave offered a perfect summary of the night, “I had a nice time at the event last night. It was a good mix of talented, interesting people.”
Back to Cool was generously sponsored by Rena DeBortoli Design, LLC and CreativeNet Workgroup.
