Rebeca’s poster design for 2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer Nicolas Negroponte has been selected (from over 4,300 entries) as one of 255 design works to be part of the AIGA 365: Year in Design 29. The poster becomes part of the AIGA Design Archives now housed at the Denver Art Museum, and will be published in the AIGA annual ‘365: AIGA Year in Design.’ The collection will be in exhibition at the AIGA National Design Center Gallery in New York City, opening on December 10, 2008.

Rebeca Méndez received a Gold Award from Graphis, The International Journal of Visual Communication, for her poster design for OPEN: A Gathering of Open Source Users, Advocates and Developers. A workshop led by UCLA, D|MA professor Casey Reas.

Rebeca Méndez and Adam Eeuwens invited Amsterdam-based collective MACHINE to give a lecture and workshop at UCLA, D|MA, culminating on a VJ and DJ performance on Thursday, May 1. Lecture: April 28, 2008. 5:30PM. VJ Performance: May 1, 5:30 – 10PM. Special Guest Lecturer Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman. Info at: www.dma.ucla.edu

Hosted by GAUGE, the AIGA Student Group, in conjunction with the exhibition The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965-2005, at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, on the campus of Cal State L.A. Moderated by Jon Beaupre. Location: Choral Room: MUS149, Music Building, Cal State L.A. 5151 State University Drive, L.A., CA 90032

Adam and I have been awarded an art residency at the Gunnar Gunnarsson Klaustri∂, located in Skriduklaustur, in the Fljotsdalur Valley, East Iceland. The residency takes place from June 20 through July 11, 2008. We will be continuing the About to Happen artwork series we began last year in Iceland and we will share our work with the community through lectures and exhibitions.