no. 29
From the Editor
Keep Up the Good Work
As
most of you know, after almost 13 years, I have stepped down as the executive director of SEGD, and am retiring to Galisteo, New Mexico, a little village of 260 near Santa Fe, where I have lived for seven years. Before I disappear from an active role in SEGD, I want to say thank you to each of you who together are the members and staff of this terrific organization. Thank you for the opportunity to enrich SEGD, and to learn from so many creative and imaginative people. How fortunate I have been!  The field that has come to be known as environmental graphic design is healthy, vital, and exuberant. I believe this vibrancy is a result of you, the creatives who are working at the intersection of graphics, architecture, communication, city planning, branding, narrative and interpretive design, landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design. This diversity has always been the strength of EGD, and will continue to be. To build on this, I have established a restricted fund within the SEGD Education Foundation to encourage interdisciplinary design studios and research at the academic level. It is our intent that a grant will be awarded annually to a school or faculty member to initiate an interdisciplinary design project or studio. I have made an initial contribution of $5,500 to establish this grant, which the SEGD Board has agreed to match, and to which individual board members and staff have already contributed funds. We believe it is important to the future of this field to encourage these interdisciplinary projects in our academic institutions. I invite you to join in supporting this initiative. Tax-deductible contributions can be made to this fund, the Leslie Gallery Dilworth Fund for Interdisciplinary Studies, through SEGD. Smart, creative, imaginative, original, careful, thorough, serious, clever, conscientious, concerned, fun, and dedicated are just some of the adjectives I would use to describe the members of SEGD. I will miss you. Please continue your good work!
Leslie Gallery Dilworth, FAIA
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Contributions to the Leslie Gallery Dilworth Fund for Interdisciplinary Studies can be sent to: SEGD 1000 Vermont Ave. NW Suite. 400 Washington, DC 20005. For information, call 202.638.5555.