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Graphic designer shares vision for TEDxSalem’s 2020 logo

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When your job is to envi­sion a theme like “Vision,” it’s a lit­er­al chal­lenge. Or rather, the chal­lenge is to not be too lit­er­al.

That’s what graph­ic design­er Von Glitsch­ka encoun­tered in his approach to this year’s logo.

“Many hear the term vision and imme­di­ate­ly think of eyes or sight,” he says. “So instead of fight­ing that, we made this char­ac­ter rep­re­sent vision as it asso­ciates with see­ing the future, see­ing poten­tial, pos­sess­ing a pas­sion and love for some­thing and let­ting that dri­ve to accom­plish it ele­vate you to the next lev­el in pur­suit of your vision.”

His goal with the logo was “to devel­op an iden­ti­ty that would com­mu­ni­cate with and with­out type that still cap­tured the core mes­sage.”

Glitsch­ka has been involved with TEDxSalem from the begin­ning, first as a speak­er and through the years as the logo design­er. He says the event has helped fur­ther reveal Salem’s cre­ative side.

“This is a some­what small­er town as cap­i­tals go, but I’m always sur­prised to find out about clever, cre­ative, and pas­sion­ate projects and paths peo­ple are work­ing on.”

But it’s the con­tent that brings him back year after year.

“The theme is always of course inspir­ing, but it’s the unique con­tent that new indi­vid­u­als give on each year’s theme that makes it engag­ing,” he says.

As the next TEDxSalem approach­es, Glitsch­ka wants you to see your­self (dare we say envi­sion your­self?) with­in the logo and allow it to inspire you.

“The char­ac­ter rep­re­sents the atten­der,” he says. “We all have or can have a pas­sion, and when that moment of inspi­ra­tion strikes, it sets ablaze a new vision, and as we pur­sue that, it ele­vates us and we love to share it with oth­ers, and that improves cul­ture for every­one and moti­vates oth­ers to do the same.”

TEDxSalem VII

TEDxSalem VII is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag. It takes place 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Jan. 4, 2020, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Tick­ets on sale now! Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com

TEDxSalem reveals this year’s theme

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For two lit­tle let­ters, re is pret­ty pow­er­ful.

The let­ters hold the ker­nel of trans­for­ma­tion for redeem, resound, rejoice, relapse and restore. TEDxSalem VI explores “re” with a day of talks, activ­i­ties and more Sat­ur­day, Jan. 5, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter.

The beau­ty of re is that it changes. In music, re, pro­nounced rey, is the sec­ond tone of a major scale. In chem­istry, it is the sym­bol for the ele­ment rhe­ni­um, a rare, sil­very-white met­al.

As a pre­fix, it can mean “back” or “again,” as in reimag­ine, recy­cle and regen­er­ate. Or going a dif­fer­ent direc­tion, there is rela­tion­ship, reversible and reverb.

Salem Graph­ic Design­er Von Glitsch­ka re-enlist­ed to cre­ate a unique design for this year’s theme. Glitsch­ka is the cre­ative force behind the TEDxSalem logos for Illu­mi­na­tion, Mox­ie, Fear­less, Rev­o­lu­tion and Through the Look­ing Glass.

This year, the let­ters are one con­tin­u­ous line, almost like a light tube for a neon sign.

“It’s very min­i­mal­ist in terms of visu­als,” he said. “The con­cept will come in how it’s placed in con­text.”

Like re itself, the logo shines when it’s placed in words like reverb, reimag­ine, rede­fine and relin­quish.

Vis­it us Jan. 5 to see how our 12 speak­ers reflect this year’s theme on stage. Artist-in-Res­i­dence Rebec­ca Shapiro is already work­ing to set the tone and con­vey the theme. Her con­cept is “Refram­ing the Jour­ney.” Come check it out.

 

TEDxSalem VI

TEDxSalem VI is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag. It runs 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Jan. 5 at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Tick­ets are on sale now for $55, $45 for stu­dents. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com.

Glitschka Studios

Von Glitsch­ka is the cre­ative direc­tor and own­er of Glitsch­ka Stu­dios, a small bou­tique design firm in Salem. Its diverse range of illus­tra­tive designs have been used by some of the most respect­ed glob­al brands. The stu­dio cre­ative­ly col­lab­o­rates with ad agen­cies, design firms, cor­po­rate art depart­ments, and small busi­ness­es to pro­duce com­pelling illus­tra­tive design. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Glitsch­ka at (971) 223‑6143 or von@glitschka.com

An ode to the annual event t‑shirt

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If you’ve been with TEDxSalem since the begin­ning, you’ve prob­a­bly noticed some­thing that occurred to me the oth­er day:

I’m build­ing up an impres­sive col­lec­tion of t‑shirts.

Not just reg­u­lar t‑shirts, obvi­ous­ly, but TEDxSalem offi­cial swag t‑shirts.

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We accu­mu­late t‑shirts all our lives. High school clubs, col­lege mas­cots, sum­mer camp uni­forms, fundrais­ers, fam­i­ly reunions, home­com­ing theme days, some­times even Hal­loween cos­tumes.

Some peo­ple purge these extra­ne­ous pieces of cloth­ing with clock-like reg­u­lar­i­ty. Oth­ers have decades of his­to­ry buried deep in their clos­et, unearthed in a wash of nos­tal­gia dur­ing a move or rig­or­ous spring clean­ing. I’ve known cer­tain crafty folks to stitch their shirt col­lec­tions into quilts; the ulti­mate trib­ute to mem­o­ry.

When I grad­u­at­ed from col­lege, I had enough spir­it­ed appar­el for at least two weeks of out­fits. I kept only a pair of sweat­pants and, of course, a cou­ple t‑shirts.

We’re now four years deep into the grow­ing TEDxSalem tra­di­tion, and we’re grow­ing the t‑shirt col­lec­tion that goes along with it.

There’s some kind of mag­ic with these shirts. Each event had its own swag out­side the shirt: Cof­fee mugs, bags, pens. But there’s a per­ma­nence to the sym­bol and the sto­ry you lit­er­al­ly wear on your back.

Maybe you wear them to oth­er TED events, to proud­ly rep­re­sent from where you came. Maybe you wear it to the gym or to sleep in.

With­out them, would you remem­ber the themes and logos of pri­or years? Would you still be able to trace the nar­ra­tive of an evolv­ing TEDxSalem, from new­born Illu­mi­na­tion to sopho­moric Mox­ie and swag­ger­ing Fear­less?

If last year’s Fear­less was our junior year, grow­ing in con­fi­dence but not quite estab­lished yet, then we come into senior year, tri­umphant, with Rev­o­lu­tions. Our vic­to­ry lap. Only, we aren’t fin­ished yet. Next year we’ll have anoth­er TEDxSalem, with anoth­er theme and anoth­er logo.

And anoth­er t‑shirt.

Get your tick­ets for TEDxSalem 2017

Tick­ets are on sale now for Salem’s annu­al TEDx event Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 7, 2017. Tick­ets are $50, $40 for stu­dents. The all-day event includes talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.us.

Revolutionary Summer Reading

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July 14, 2016 by Ste­fanie Knowl­ton

Aww! No TEDx Salem until Jan­u­ary? Don’t wor­ry, we have 10 books to get you ready for rev­o­lu­tion by win­ter.

TEDxSalem asked sto­ry­tellers and speak­ers to share their favorite read­ing based on this year’s theme: Rev­o­lu­tions. The beau­ty is that it can mean any­thing from a polit­i­cal upris­ing to rethink­ing pover­ty. Two read­ers rec­om­mend­ed books by an author renowned for spread­ing peace, a rev­o­lu­tion­ary idea indeed.

Check out their rec­om­men­da­tions, and feel free to share your own.

A hole in the flag1.  The Hole in the Flag: A Roman­ian Exile’s Sto­ry of Return and Rev­o­lu­tion by Andrei Codres­cu.

Codres­cu tracks his jour­ney as a self-exiled Roman­ian liv­ing in New York back to Roma­nia just days before the 1989 rev­o­lu­tion. Roma­ni­ans from all walks of life came togeth­er and top­pled the Ceause­cu regime. Codres­cu is wit­ty, artic­u­late, sen­si­tive and exam­ines not only how the rev­o­lu­tion hap­pened but how Roma­nia found itself in a state where rev­o­lu­tion was absolute­ly nec­es­sary.

Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem speak­er Gina Ochsner, an award-win­ning author and writer in res­i­dence at Cor­ban Uni­ver­si­ty

2. The Pover­ty Indus­try: The Exploita­tion of America’s Most Vul­ner­a­ble Cit­i­zens by Daniel L. Hatch­er

Hatch­er sug­gests that the prob­lems plagu­ing pro­grams such as fos­ter care and Med­ic­aid are deep­er and more trou­bling than most real­ize. Hatch­er, is also a pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Baltimore’s School of Law. In today’s protests for #Black­Lives­Mat­ter most activists focus on the root caus­es of pover­ty and state-sanc­tioned dis­crim­i­na­tion.  This book seems to sup­port sev­er­al the­o­ries and expe­ri­ences of those most vul­ner­a­ble lead­ers on the front line.
Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem speak­er Ter­es­sa Raiford, a con­tem­po­rary civ­il rights leader and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­er

 hunger games

3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

It is a great dystopi­an sto­ry that blurs the lines of good guys and bad guys. It’s dis­turb­ing but also pret­ty real­is­tic in the sense that there’s a lot of nuance in the issues of our days. Even the peo­ple who appear to rep­re­sent you might have cyn­i­cal motives to attain pow­er. Also, Kat­niss Everdeen is a great, com­plex char­ac­ter who helps you under­stand post-trau­mat­ic stress.

Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem sto­ry­teller Saerom Yoo, an award-win­ning jour­nal­ist

 4. The Mind­ful­ness Rev­o­lu­tion: Lead­ing Psy­chol­o­gists, Sci­en­tists, Artists, and Med­i­ta­tion Teach­ers on the Pow­er of Mind­ful­ness in Dai­ly Life by Bar­ry Boyce

This is a col­lec­tion of essays on mind­ful­ness, explain­ing what it is as well as how and why we should prac­tice it in dai­ly life.

 5. The Art of Pow­er by Thich Nhat Hanh

This book does not men­tion rev­o­lu­tion, and yet it is about per­son­al pow­er and that is where the rev­o­lu­tion begins!

Num­ber 4 and 5 rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem speak­er Jer­ry Braza, For­mer pro­fes­sor, Bud­dhist teacher, author and con­sul­tant

 peace is every step6. Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh

Some­times a rev­o­lu­tion doesn’t erupt in a crash of mor­tar fire or artillery shells. Some­times it’s the qui­et shift­ing of every­thing inside a sin­gle per­son. This book was that rev­o­lu­tion for me. It’s where I final­ly under­stood that peace doesn’t come from the absence of suf­fer­ing, but in the face of it. Zen mas­ter Thich Nhat Hanh shares sim­ple ways to prac­tice mind­ful­ness in every­day life.

Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem sto­ry­teller Ste­fanie Knowl­ton, award-win­ning jour­nal­ist and bel­ly­dancer

7. Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe

Sev­er­al crit­ics have sug­gest­ed that Howe is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing British poet­ry by includ­ing strong ele­ments from Chi­na (she has an Anglo-Chi­nese back­ground). The selec­tion of this book for the T.S. Eliot Prize ear­li­er this year has been chal­lenged by some in a male-dom­i­nat­ed estab­lish­ment. A num­ber of women (and men) have come to her defense in response. These gen­der dynam­ics, tloop of jadeoo, remind us of the rev­o­lu­tion with­in the lit­er­ary estab­lish­ment as more women join men as poets, crit­ics, and prizewin­ners as we gain more con­trol over our life choic­es.

Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem speak­er War­ren Bin­ford, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Law at Willamette Uni­ver­si­ty, Direc­tor of the Clin­i­cal Law Pro­gram

 

 

 

8. The Book of Float­ing: Explor­ing the Pri­vate Sea by Michael Hutchi­son

I have bTEDxSalem book covereen inter­est­ed in sen­so­ry depri­va­tion tanks, (float­ing) for at least 5 years, but did­n’t try it until last fall just before my first 10-day silent med­i­ta­tion retreat. Float­ing takes away all of your sen­so­ry inputs and helps you focus your mind inward. When you’re float­ing in 800 to 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt and water that’s the same tem­per­a­ture as your body while in com­plete dark­ness, you quick­ly lose where you are in time and space. It sounds kind of woo woo, but it is tru­ly an amaz­ing and unique expe­ri­ence. This book talks about all the ben­e­fits float­ing has on your mind and body. It has a ton of sci­ence, too, so that helps legit­imize the woo-woo fac­tor. One float shop has opened in Salem this year and anoth­er is open­ing in August. It is def­i­nite­ly start­ing to become a rev­o­lu­tion!

Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem co-cura­tor Bri­an Hart, half of the dynam­ic duo that brought TEDx to Salem

 

9. Jonathon Liv­ingston Seag­ull by Richard Bach

I believe that this book rev­o­lu­tion­izes the way we think. It encour­ages mankind to find a bet­ter world through knowl­edge. It teach­es us that it is impor­tant to pur­sue your pas­sion no mat­ter what, even if it makes you an out­cast. It is through this love of learn­ing and explo­ration that we reach enlight­en­ment and bet­ter under­stand who we are and what we are meant for. I rec­om­mend this book because it inspired me to think in dif­fer­ent ways to face the prob­lems I encounter.

Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem speak­er Megha Joshi, stu­dent and inven­tor

  1. The Art of Ask­ing: How I learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Let Peo­ple Help by Aman­da Palmer

Aart of AskingAman­da Palmer is an incred­i­ble, cre­ative per­son and her book is just a small look into the life of an artist. Snip­pets of music fills the space between chap­ters and sto­ries in the audio book, mak­ing this more than just a “read­ing” expe­ri­ence. I found myself wak­ing ear­ly for my morn­ing walk and los­ing myself rapt in her words. I felt like she was speak­ing to me, singing for me, play­ing at me. There were days my walks went extra long just because I did­n’t want the book to stop, and when it came to the end, there was almost a sad­ness that it was over because it tru­ly was one of those moments you just want to go on for­ev­er.

Rec­om­mend­ed by TEDxSalem co-cura­tor Car­lee Wright, the oth­er half of the dynam­ic duo that brought TEDx to Salem

 

Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Read­ing

1 The Hole in the Flag: A Roman­ian Exile’s Sto­ry of Return and Rev­o­lu­tion by Andrei Codres­cu 2. The Pover­ty Indus­try: The Exploita­tion of America’s Most Vul­ner­a­ble Cit­i­zens by Daniel L. Hatch­er

  1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  2. The Mind­ful­ness Rev­o­lu­tion: Lead­ing Psy­chol­o­gists, Sci­en­tists, Artists, and Med­i­ta­tion Teach­ers on the Pow­er of Mind­ful­ness in Dai­ly Life by Bar­ry Boyce
  3. The Art of Pow­er by Thich Nhat Hanh
  4. Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
  5. Loop of Jadeby Sarah Howe
  6. The Book of Float­ing: Explor­ing the Pri­vate Sea by Michael Hutchi­son
  7. Jonathon Liv­ingston Seag­ull by Richard Bach
  8. The Art of Ask­ing: How I learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Let Peo­ple Help by Aman­da Palmer

TEDxSalem

TEDxSalem will be held Jan. 7, 2017 at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Dis­count­ed advance tick­ets go on sale Sun­day, Aug. 7, 2016. Reg­u­lar tick­et prices begin Aug. 21.. Watch the blog for details. E‑mail partners@tedxsalem.us to learn about spon­sor­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties or Mindie@tedxsalem.us to vol­un­teer.

What is TEDx

About TEDx, x = inde­pen­dent­ly orga­nized event

In the spir­it of ideas worth spread­ing, TEDx is a pro­gram of local, self-orga­nized events that bring peo­ple togeth­er to share a TED-like expe­ri­ence. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speak­ers com­bine to spark deep dis­cus­sion and con­nec­tion in a small group. These local, self-orga­nized events are brand­ed TEDx, where x = inde­pen­dent­ly orga­nized TED event. The TED Con­fer­ence pro­vides gen­er­al guid­ance for the TEDx pro­gram, but indi­vid­ual TEDx events are self-orga­nized. (Sub­ject to cer­tain rules and reg­u­la­tions.)