Shaping Designs Future: A Panel with the AIGA Board of Directors - AIGA Real Talk - March 17, 2025 AIGAdesign 2026-09-20 | Shaping Designs Future: A Panel with the AIGA Board of Directors - AIGA Real Talk - March 17, 2025
From the Archives: Matt Groening at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference AIGAdesign 2023-04-05 | In this episode, we present a clip of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, speaking at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference in Washington DC. This footage has not been seen or heard publicly for over 20 years. Groening shares a story he had never told before, explains why he values design conferences, gives advice to fellow illustrators, reveals the namesake of Homer Simpson, and divulges some of the things the Fox Network censored from his shows.Connect in person with your design community at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference, October 12-14 in New York City. Prepare to get inspired and re-energized while learning in community from designers at the cutting edge of today’s hot topics. aiga.org/design/aiga-design-conference
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders - Open House AIGAdesign 2023-02-17 | Join AIGA and Yale SOM Executive Education to learn more about Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders — a live online program developed by AIGA and Yale. Taught by Yale faculty, the 6-week program provides executive-level education to equip creative leaders to meet the challenges of management and give participants the skills and perspectives they need to reach the next levels in their careers. Learn more + register: https://go.som.yale.edu/bpcl/aiga/social #AIGADesign #YaleSOM #YaleBPCL #ExecutiveEducation #CreativeLeaders
AIGA Professional Design Certification Program AIGAdesign 2023-02-03 | The AIGA Professional Design Certification represents a commitment to the design profession and to lifelong learning. This new online design certification program is open to design practitioners at all every level who are committed to expanding their careers and the profession in all design modalities, including but not limited to graphic design, visual communications, interactive and web design, and UI/UX.Watch the interview between Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's Director of Design Content and Learning, and Wendy Nuttelman, Senior Editor at MindEdge to learn more about Part 1 of AIGA's Professional Design Certification.Get certified: aigadsgn.org/getcertified
Carin Goldberg receives the 2009 AIGA Medal AIGAdesign 2023-01-20 | Carin Goldberg receives the 2009 AIGA Medal, in recognition for her exquisite ability to join intelligence, craft and an eye for the evocative image in designing iconic pop-cultural and literary artifacts, and for her commitment to design education. AIGA Medalist Paula Scher presents the award.
AIGA Complete Guide to Personal Finance Certificate AIGAdesign 2023-01-19 | Introducing AIGA's Complete Guide to Personal Finance Certificate 💳To help the design community with financial education, we partnered with Gabi Slemer, CFA from Finasana to offer a certificate which will cover investing, budgeting, saving, getting out of debt, achieving financial wellness, and getting on the property ladder. Watch the interview between Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's Director of Design Content and Learning, and Gabi Slemer, Finasana's CFA to learn more about the new certificate.Get the new AIGA Guide to Personal Finance certificate: aigadsgn.org/personalfinance
AIGA Design For Democracy: Voter Advocacy From Neighborhood To Nation AIGAdesign 2022-09-30 | Hear what voices from across the country have to say about voter advocacy. Our panel includes Erika Anthony, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Cleveland VOTES; Dianna Williams, Organizing Manager of Texas Advocates for Justice; Maggie Bush, Programs and Outreach Director for the League of Women Voters of the US; and host Frances Yllana, AIGA Design for Democracy Committee Chair and AIGA national Board Secretary. Find out what the pain points are for voter advocacy leaders, what keeps them involved, and why civic engagement and voting are so important. We’ll also talk about how voter advocacy work can be community-centered and inclusive of people who are often marginalized in voter advocacy efforts. Design and share a poster: aigadsgn.org/gotv
Fireside Chat: Heath Ceramics AIGAdesign 2022-09-23 | AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson talks with today's leaders in design, business, and technology, focused around the topics of leadership growth, the future of work, and creating a culture of design. Join us in welcoming Robin Petravic, Co-owner and Managing Director of Heath Ceramics. Heath Ceramics is the 2022 AIGA Corporate Leadership Awardee. Founded in 1948 in Sausalito, California, is an American maker of goods for the home. The company is best known for its handcrafted tableware and architectural tile in distinctive glazes. Led by husband and wife, Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey, who are shaping the relationship we have to things we own, and the way we come to own them. This year's recipients of the #AIGAAwards will be recognized at the AIGA Design Conference in Seattle, October 20–22, 2022. Learn more about Heath Ceramics, register for #AIGADesignConf, and purchase your ticket to the AIGA Awards Reception: aigadsgn.org/heathceramics
One Designer, One Work: Yeohyun Ahn AIGAdesign 2022-09-22 | This virtual series features one designer showcasing a work that is personally meaningful. We'll hear what inspires, challenges and guides them. Expose yourself to new material by exploring with our guest, Yeohyun Ahn.
Fireside Chat: Rick Griffith AIGAdesign 2022-09-14 | AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson talks with today's leaders in design, business, and technology, focused around the topics of leadership growth, the future of work, and creating a culture of design. Join us in welcoming Rick Griffith, the 2022 AIGA Design Conference Chair, who will share his vision and the theme for this year’s upcoming conference in October taking place in Seattle, WA. Rick Griffith has been a full-time designer, occasional writer, teacher, activist and printer, who produces, collects and loves artifacts (often made of paper) that are sometimes qualified to be discussed as art. He also participates in a studio called MATTER, and every Saturday he works in the shop at MATTER; these are both enterprises and collaborations with his Partner Debra Johnson. Register for #AIGADesignConf: aigadsgn.org/3dsULs8
AIGA And Phaidon Present: ECAL Manual Of Style AIGAdesign 2022-09-09 | Free Zoom Webinar with Q&AECAL Manual of Style with Jonathan Olivares, American Designer & Writer and Alexis Georgacopoulos, Designer & Director of ECALFrom one of the most celebrated and creative design schools — Swiss university ECAL — comes an answer to the question: How should design be taught today?ECAL is widely considered to be among the leading art and design institutions of the past two decades. Now, for the first time, ECAL’s teaching methods are revealed to a wider readership. Join ECAL director Alexis Georgacopoulos and American designer and writer Jonathan Olivares in conversation with AIGA’s Lee-Sean Huang as they share stories about the school’s unique approach to design pedagogy: encouraging individual and personal styles, rigorously pushing students to develop into their most coherent forms, and encouraging them to be business minded as well as creative.Register here: aigadsgn.org/ECALmanualofstyle
2021 Design Conference Replay — Future Heritage AIGAdesign 2022-08-23 | Future Heritage: Evolutionary Design Trajectories to Generative Justicewith Audrey Bennett and Ron EglashThe phrase “future heritage” is a paradox, empowering movements from AfroFuturism to Speculative Design. Limiting our vision to fixed scenarios is never wise; we cannot know what designs are best for the future. However, we can create design trajectories, paths through the “space of possibilities” that work on principles that embed justice and sustainability into practices and products.👋 Enjoying the talk? You can join the action at this year's #AIGADesignConf October 20-22. Register by September 8 for a special early bird discount! aigadsgn.org/3dsULs8
One Designer, One Work: Adam Lucas AIGAdesign 2022-08-18 | This virtual series features one designer showcasing a work that is personally meaningful. We'll hear what inspires, challenges and guides them. Expose yourself to new material by exploring with our guest, Adam Swift Lucas. Adam Swift Lucas is a graphic designer, publisher, and educator. He runs Specific Ideas, a multidisciplinary creative practice which consists of two parts: the studio — a graphic design studio that seeks to create new structures for ideas through the meticulous arrangement of text and image; and the press — a small, independent publishing house that pursues a holistic creative process, providing care and consideration to the concept, design, typography, and production of each publication. Currently, Adam is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Kansas City Art Institute and one-half of NEW NEW NEW, an art and design initiative that he runs with his partner, Rachel Ferber.
▪️ 2021 Design Conference Replay — Mmuseum ▪️ AIGAdesign 2022-07-28 | Alex Kalman is a designer, editor, curator, journalist, and filmmaker. He is the founder of multi-disciplinary What Studio? and co-founder and director of Mmuseumm.In this talk he introduces a new kind of museum, one that is rather small, and an experiment in design, called Mmuseumm.👋 Enjoying the talk? You can join the action at this year's #AIGADesignConf October 20-22. Register by September 8 for a special early bird discount! aigadsgn.org/PortfolioFest
AIGA Portfolio Festival: Fireside Chat with Art Chantry AIGAdesign 2022-07-20 | Fireside Chat with design leader and 2017 AIGA Medalist Art Chantry and AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson. They discuss best practices and learnings from their career in representing yourself in your work and approaching graphic design as a language we all speak.
One Designer, One Work: Archana Shekara AIGAdesign 2022-07-15 | Designing Pauses for Self-Reflection: Understanding oneself to understand, appreciate and respect the other. This virtual series features one designer showcasing a work that is personally meaningful. We'll hear what inspires, challenges and guides them. Expose yourself to new material by exploring with our guest, Archana Shekara. Archana will speak about cultural identity, cross-cultural awareness, cultural appropriation, and marginalization, as well as what inspired her to take up her research.
AIGA Livestream: Beat Kaspar Baudenbacher AIGAdesign 2022-07-12 | Join Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's Director of Design Content and Learning for a livestream with Beat Kaspar Badenbacher, Chief Creative Officer of loyalkaspar and author of the upcoming book, Somewhere Yes: The Search for Belonging in a World Shaped by Branding.Beat is known for designing the brand identities for Peacock, Paramount+, MTV, ESPN, Comedy Central, and many more over the entertainment and media space. The book is about how the tools of branding, which naturally bring people together, have been weaponized by our culture around ideals and causes that have put us on a dystopian trajectory... and they may be the same tools to help us recover from that trajectory. The book also isn’t walls of text either, or a dissertation on branding, it’s a visual exploration, blanketed with illustrations, photography, symbols, and design—inspired by the graphic sensibilities of Marshall McLuhan (The Medium is the Massage) and Paul Arden (It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be).
Design Adjacent with Dave Garrett AIGAdesign 2022-07-12 | "Dave Garrett, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer, drives PMI’s growth strategy by working across the organization to define, test, and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to create impact and propel change. Dave was the co-founder, President and CEO of ProjectManagement.com (formerly Gantthead.com), an online community for project professionals, established in 2000 and acquired by PMI in 2014. Since joining PMI, he has held several leadership roles, including dual role as Director of Digital Presence and CEO of ProjectManagement.com. Dave’s passion for project management led him to serve in multiple volunteer positions for PMI prior to becoming employed by the organization. Earlier in Dave’s career, he also created Project Pain Reliever, a just-in-time handbook for managing projects and has published and bylined dozens of articles related to project management, technology trends, and more."
▪️ 2020 Portfolio Festival Replay — How to Make the Perfect Portfolio ▪️ AIGAdesign 2022-07-06 | In this keynote presentation from Dan Mall, Founder and CEO of SuperFriendly, he shares "How to Make the Perfect Portfolio and Four Other Cheat Codes for Job Seekers"👋 Enjoying the talk? The 2022 Portfolio Festival is coming up July 19-22. Register by July 7 to have your portfolio reviewed during the event! aigadsgn.org/PortfolioFest
AIGA and ARTBOOK Present: Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now AIGAdesign 2022-07-01 | Join AIGA's Lee-Sean Huang in conversation with Cynthia Smith, Curator of Socially Responsible Design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, about a new Cooper Hewitt exhibition and book. How might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? Designing Peace is an intersectional snapshot of the actions—culturally diverse and wide-ranging in scale—that are currently in play around the world. Offering perspectives on peace through essays, interviews, critical maps, project profiles, data visualizations and art, this book conveys the momentum that design can gain in effecting a peace-filled future. From activists, scholars and architects to policymakers and graphic, game and landscape designers, Designing Peace flips the conversation: peace is not simply a passive state signifying the absence of war, it is a dynamic concept that requires effort, expertise and multidimensional solutions to address its complexity. Designers engage with individuals, communities and organizations to create a more sustainable peace—from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation. This publication aims to expand the discourse on what is possible if society were to design for peace. Use code AIGAMEMBER25 for 25% off the book at ARTBOOK. artbook.com/9781942303329.html
Design Adjacent with Steven Heller AIGAdesign 2022-06-30 | Steven is graphic designer, art director, design critic and author. He has held the position of senior art director at New York Times Book Review and is also a prolific writer, having authored and co-authored over 200 books about the history and practice of typography, illustration, graphic design, popular culture and propaganda. He also worked as an editor for the prestigious AIGA Journal of Graphic Design.He is the co-founder and co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he lectures on the history of graphic design and teaches a writing class in SVA Design Writing, Research and Criticism. He also was co-director for ten years of SVA’s Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design symposiums.With Seymour Chwast, he co-founded Push Pin Editions, a packager of visual books, including the forthcoming "Hell: The People & Places" illustrated by Chwast; and with his wife Louise Fili he has produced over twenty books and design products for Chronicle Books, PA Press and other publishers.Steven is the recipient of the Smithsonian Institution National Design Award for "Design Mind," the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, among other honors. And in 2017, the annual Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary was created to spotlight individuals who best exemplify the tradition of prolific writing and boundless curiosity.In Fall 2022 his book, "Growing Up Underground: A Memoir Of Counterculture New York" will be published by PA Press.
Design Adjacent with Minal Bopaiah AIGAdesign 2022-06-30 | Minal is an author, speaker, and strategic consultant with more than 20 years of professional experience. Her areas of expertise include human-centered design, behavior change science, and the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion as they relate to media, marketing and communications, and organization design.As the Founder and Principal Consultant of Brevity & Wit, Minal is passionate about designing for equity. Her work includes working with NPR’s news managers to design a system for diversifying news sources. She is also the creator and facilitator for the DEI Executive Forum, a six-month cohort learning experience for general managers in public media that helps them become more equitable leaders and develop a strategic plan to accomplish their DEI goals.Minal’s previous work includes being an educational content specialist for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street and its international co-productions, and a press intern for Doctors Without Borders. She is a sought-after keynote speaker, and her thought leadership has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and TheHill.com.
Design Adjacent with Maurice Cherry AIGAdesign 2022-06-30 | Maurice is also a pioneering digital creator who is most well-known for Revision Path, an award-winning podcast which is the first podcast to be added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.Maurice’s projects and overall design work and advocacy have been recognized by Apple, Adobe, Blavity, NPR, Lifehacker, Design Observer, Entrepreneur, PRINT Magazine, AIGA, the Columbia Journalism Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and many other print and digital outlets.Additionally, Maurice is an educator, and has built curricula and taught courses on web design, web development, email marketing, WordPress, and podcasting for thousands of students over the past ten years.Maurice is a Maryland Institute College of Art 2021 William O. Steinmetz designer in residence, the 2018 recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from AIGA.Maurice holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Morehouse College and a Masters degree in telecommunications management from Keller Graduate School of Management.
Design Adjacent with Pek Pongpaet AIGAdesign 2022-06-30 | Pek is the founder of Impekable, a digital product studio that helps enterprise and B2B SaaS companies create better products through user experience design. Impekable has designed and created products for X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Adobe, Twilio, Pentair, two startups acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Impekable has been recognized as one of America’s fastest growing businesses on the Inc. 5000 list 3 times in a row.Prior to Impekable, Pek designed and developed next generation user interfaces at Accenture Technology Labs’ HCI group, and created interactive experiences for clients including Tesla and USAF at digital agency Roundarch Isobar.Pek loves helping startups and is a product mentor at accelerators and incubators including TechStars, 1871, and Bosch’s Chicago Connectory.He also has a design podcast called What is UX where he interviews design leaders from companies such as Tesla, Netflix and Youtube on the topic of user experience design.He helps enterprises and startups achieve their goals through product strategy, world class user experience design, software engineering and app development. He is also a mentor, helping others by sharing his story and offering advice to those in startups and product development.
Design Adjacent with Matt Mullenweg AIGAdesign 2022-06-29 | Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, the Open Source software used by over 40% of the web, including this site. WordPress is a part of who Matt is; he can’t not work on WordPress. The company celebrated 15 years in 2018. The project touches a lot of people, something he’s recently begun to appreciate and he considers himself very lucky to be able to work on something he loves so much.In late 2005, Matt left WordPress to found a company called Automattic, which is now the force behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, and many other products. The company’s mission—make the web a better place.
Design Adjacent with Lisa Sasaki AIGAdesign 2022-06-29 | Lisa Sasaki is currently the interim director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The new museum was established by Congress in late 2020 as part of the Smithsonian. Lisa was appointed interim director in March 2021and before joining the Smithsonian, she was the director of the Audience and Civic Engagement Center at the Oakland Museum of California. Lisa was the director of program development at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles from 2003 until 2012, where she directed major institutional projects. During her tenure at JANM, she supervised the museum’s curatorial, public programs, web, education and collections departments and managed and led the strategic planning for programs, exhibitions, audience development and fundraising.
Design Adjacent with Catherine Clark and Paul McDowall AIGAdesign 2022-06-29 | In 2001, Catherine and Paul joined forces to create an original agency concept, built around the idea that true collaborative thinking and different perspectives can solve brand challenges holistically—and better. Together, with their talented team of brand architects, they partner with some of the world’s most forward-looking brands. Their strategic and creative guidance has helped brands better our world by tackling the important topics such as sustainability, health and wellness, and empowerment head on.Catherine sets the vision for the business and shapes the strategic direction for the work. Growing up in Paris as a child of parents who worked for the United Nations, she was brought up in an international community, steeped in colorful stories, beliefs, and values. That ultimately fueled her passion for entrepreneurship and the potential she sees in people and businesses to make our world better.Paul is the creative force behind the business. He grew up in Liverpool, UK, a hotbed of creativity with many musicians, writers and artists. His surroundings shaped his perspective and created a deep-seated curiosity to create, make and explore the potential in things. His guidance inspires new ideas and unlocks new ways of thinking.About AIGA Design AdjacentAIGA Design Adjacent is a monthly podcast series with AIGA’s Executive Director, Bennie F. Johnson, in conversation with industry leaders who are innovating and designing the future. These conversations expand beyond the design community, encompassing industries and areas that intersect with design and shift the ways in which we think about and interact with each other and the world around us.About Bennie F. JohnsonBennie F. Johnson is the Executive Director of AIGA, the professional association for design. Bennie thrives on the connections between marketing, technology, education, and innovation. With experience in strategic and consumer marketing, brand management, and innovation management, he is drawn to opportunities that allow him to lead and create new modes for business engagement. He has broad experience growing brands, businesses, and organizations with a special focus on venture launch and brand relaunch business environments.
Design Adjacent with Bret Recor AIGAdesign 2022-06-29 | Bret is an industrial designer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is the founder and director of the award-winning design studio, Box Clever, which is renowned for creating physical products and experiences that delight consumers and build category-leading brands. The studio is responsible for designing best-selling products including Away luggage, Caraway cookware, and July air conditioners.The San Francisco-based design practice operates at the intersection of industrial design, brand strategy, and investment. Bret’s expertise lies in balancing creative vision with real-world experience and engineering prowess. He understands the nuances of taking an idea from concept to market. Specializing in consumer products, and with focus on the creation of physical experiences that enhance human relationships, Box Clever operates under the belief that anything can be successfully designed.He is committed to executing a challenge to its most brilliant realization. To do this, he balances creative vision with real-world experience of industrial design, brand strategy, and business ventures.
Design Adjacent with Brandi Parker AIGAdesign 2022-06-29 | Brandi Parker is Head of Sustainability at Pearlfisher. Sustainability is fundamental to how Pearlfisher operates and creates, and is the foundation of the work of all of their teams. In her role, Brandi challenges Pearlfisher's designers to think about the end game at the start, and encourages their clients not to problem-solve based on ease, but on brand experience and environmental impact. She is revered by both for offering innovation and problem-solving, grounded in practicality, which comes from her many years of experience and expertise in technical realization.She firmly believes that the future of sustainable design does not just come down to materials – and managing waste – but implementing realistic and incremental change through a multi-disciplinary approach. By understanding changing culture, continuing to innovate with cutting-edge materials and processes, and joining this with the power of design, Brandi believes we can help change people’s behavior and encourage more sustainable actions and choices. This is where tangible, positive and long-term change will come from.
Design Adjacent with Regina Bain AIGAdesign 2022-06-29 | Regina Bain is the Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM). She is an artist, leader, facilitator and program designer with over 16 years of experience building non-profit capacity for organizational growth. Before joining LAHM, she served as Associate Vice President of the Posse Foundation. Posse is a national leadership and college access program which helps to send teams of students or “Posses” to top colleges and universities. Regina is committed to social justice. She facilitates and trains others to facilitate conversations on social identity, leadership and group dynamics. She is currently the co-chair of Culture @3’s anti-racism subcommittee. She serves on the national advisory council of Urban Bush Women (UBW). UBW is a dance company that galvanizes artists, activists and audiences through performances, artist development and community involvement. She produces The Drama Podcast, leads the Yale Black Alumni Association and serves on the Yale Board of Governors.About AIGA Design AdjacentAIGA Design Adjacent is a monthly podcast series with AIGA’s Executive Director, Bennie F. Johnson, in conversation with industry leaders who are innovating and designing the future. These conversations expand beyond the design community, encompassing industries and areas that intersect with design and shift the ways in which we think about and interact with each other and the world around us.About Bennie F. JohnsonBennie F. Johnson is the Executive Director of AIGA, the professional association for design. Bennie thrives on the connections between marketing, technology, education, and innovation. With experience in strategic and consumer marketing, brand management, and innovation management, he is drawn to opportunities that allow him to lead and create new modes for business engagement. He has broad experience growing brands, businesses, and organizations with a special focus on venture launch and brand relaunch business environments.
One Designer, One Work: Christine Sheller AIGAdesign 2022-06-24 | This virtual series features one designer showcasing a work that is personally meaningful. We'll hear what inspires, challenges and guides them. Expose yourself to new material by exploring with our guest, Christine Sheller. Christine will speak about Keith Haring, and about how his work in reproducing and commercializing his art helped her understand what a career in design could be.
AIGA and Phaidon Present — Iro: The Essence of Color in Japanese Design AIGAdesign 2022-06-24 | Iro: The Essence of Color in Japanese Design with Rossella Menegazzo, Associate Professor of the History Explore Japanese design through the lens of Japan’s traditional color spectrum – a fresh take on a fascinating topic. The traditional colors of Japan have been in use since the seventh century, originally to indicate rank and social hierarchy but, over time, their significance has broadened to include all manner of designed objects. This landmark volume celebrates a curated selection of 200 colors (iro in Japanese), with each traditional shade illustrated by one or more items – ranging from 16th-century kimonos to contemporary chairs, humble kitchen utensils to precious ceramics – providing a unique route to a deeper appreciation of Japanese design. Expertly bound in a traditional Japanese style, this stunning book is a beautiful design object in its own right and is a must-have for all lovers of design. About the author Rossella Menegazzo is Associate Professor of the History of East Asian Art at the University of Milan, with a PhD in Oriental Studies from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She is the author of numerous texts on Japanese photography, graphic design, and traditional ukiyo-e art, including Phaidon's bestselling Wa: The Essence of Japanese Design, and curator of several exhibitions. Menegazzo is a regular contributor to national newspapers in Italy, writing articles on Japanese culture and art. In 2017 she was appointed with the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation. Use code AIGA20 for 20% off the book at Phaidon. phaidon.com/store/design/iro-the-essence-of-color-in-japanese-design-9781838665333
▪️ 2021 Portfolio Festival Replay — For the Culture▪️ AIGAdesign 2022-06-16 | For the Culture: How Identity Influences Design with Kaleena SalesIncluding new narratives in #design is critical to building a more inclusive future. With diverse representation comes a wealth of experiences and perspectives that elevate the #designindustry and the work we put out into the world.👋 Enjoying the talk? The 2022 Portfolio Festival is coming up July 19-22. Register today! aigadsgn.org/PortfolioFest
Open House: Career Success for Creative Introverts AIGAdesign 2022-06-09 | Introverts don’t need to pose as extroverts to succeed in creative careers. For this open house, we're learning about an online course from AIGA and Janice Chaka, founder of The Career Introvert. A self-identified introvert, Janice is a global HR professional, coach, entrepreneur, and podcaster. She helps introverts build their brand, get hired, and advance their careers. We developed this custom course for the AIGA Design community to go one step beyond the traditional certificates and online courses and engage with learners where they are in their career journey. Register to grow your design career: aigadsgn.org/creativeintroverts
▪️ 2021 Portfolio Festival Replay — Now is Wow▪️ AIGAdesign 2022-06-02 | Now is Wow with Zipeng ZhuWe live in a time where timing is everything. Creating work that's relatable and impactful has everything to do with time. Dazzle Studio founder Zipeng Zhu show us how to make work in response to our ever changing world.👋 Enjoying the talk? Register for the 2022 Portfolio Festival by June 13 for early bird rates! aigadsgn.org/PortfolioFest
AIGA + Phaidon Present: Design Emergency AIGAdesign 2022-05-27 | One Designer, One Work with Brockett HorneThis virtual series features one designer showcasing a work that is personally meaningful. We’ll hear what inspires, challenges and guides them. Expose yourself to new material by exploring with our guest, Brockett Horne. Brockett will be speaking about historical and contemporary pharmaceutical packaging.Brockett Horne is a writer, designer, and educator. She is a faculty member in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where she teaches studio, history, and theory courses.She has previously served on the AIGA Design educators Community steering committee.She is Co-Director of The People’s Graphic Design Archive, a crowd-sourced online platform that enables new and expanded stories about graphic design history.
▪️2021 AIGA Design Conference Replay — Art & Financialization▪️ AIGAdesign 2022-05-26 | Art & Financialization: Lessons From 1958's Hottest NFT with Mitchell ChanThis talk discusses how #NFTs separate an artwork's display form from its commodity form, and how they trigger a long overdue discussion about the relationship between ownership and experience; and between financialization and appreciation.👋 Enjoying the talk? Register for the 2022 AIGA Design Conference by June 9 for early bird rates! aigadsgn.org/DesignConf2022
AIGA + Phaidon Present: Design Emergency AIGAdesign 2022-05-25 | Design Emergency: Building a Better Future with Paola Antonelli, Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art Discover the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide with curator Paola Antonelli and her new book, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future. In conversation with AIGA’s Lee-Sean Huang, Antonelli reveals projects by some of the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reconstructing our lives, enabling us to thrive. Through four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology – Antonelli presents a unique portrait of how today’s great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology. Paola Antonelli is a celebrated curator of contemporary architecture and design based in New York at The Museum of Modern Art. Her recent endeavors, include the online project Design and Violence and the exhibition Broken Nature. Learn more & register: aigadsgn.org/PDS
▪️ AIGA Fireside Chat Replay – Bennie F. Johnson + Kayo Roehm ▪️ AIGAdesign 2022-05-17 | Join us for a replay from the 2020 AIGA Design Conference. AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson speaks to 3M Design Officer for the Consumer Business Group Kayo Roehm for a conversation about leadership in design.Enjoying the talk? Register for the 2022 AIGA Design Conference by May 26 for early bird rates! Learn more: aigadsgn.org/DesignConf2022
▪️ 2020 AIGA Design Conference Replay — De-visualizing Data ▪️ AIGAdesign 2022-05-13 | De-visualizing Data: Nonvisual Approaches to Understanding and Creating Spatial Information with Chancey FleetFrom infographics to Youtube explainers to memes, knowledge and self-expression are increasingly delivered through ubiquitous image and video content. Nontextual content creates barriers for people who are Blind or who learn best nonvisually. This talk will explore approaches to making the creation and understand of spatial information accessible through modalities other than vision including tactile graphics, sonification and descriptive interpretation.Enjoying the talk? Join us for the 2022 AIGA Design Conference at early bird rates! Learn more: aigadsgn.org/DesignConf2022
AIGA Portfolio Development Studio Open House AIGAdesign 2022-05-12 | Join us for Portfolio Development Studio, a 10-week live online course aimed to help you understand the critical elements needed to have a portfolio that's right for the projects or jobs you're seeking. Featuring mentors Lee-Sean Huang, Director of Design Content & Learning at AIGA, Talia Cotton, leader of design & development of data-driven and algorithmic brand identities at Pentagram and instructor at Parsons School of Design, Jo-Nell Sieren, Assistant Director of Industry Relations at Columbia Chicago, Seth Johnson, design leader at IBM’s CFO organization, and Jessica Gardner, communication coach at Artglish. Learn more & register: aigadsgn.org/PDS
AIGA Design + Business Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Lynda Decker AIGAdesign 2022-05-07 | AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson talks with today's leaders in design, business, and technology, focused around the topics of leadership growth, the future of work, and creating a culture of design. Please welcome today's guest, Lynda Decker, President and Creative Director of Decker Design, Inc. There's still time to join us for the 2022 AIGA Design + Business Conference! Let us help you grow your design business, clientele, business-savvy, and inspire your next project. Join us: aigadsgn.org/D-BConf
AIGA Design + Business Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Michael Bierut AIGAdesign 2022-05-06 | There's still time to join us for the 2022 AIGA Design + Business Conference! Let us help you grow your design business, clientele, business-savvy, and inspire your next project. Join us: aigadsgn.org/D-BConf
AIGA Design + Business Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Katrina Alcorn AIGAdesign 2022-05-05 | As General Manager of Design at IBM, Katrina Alcorn is responsible for leading one of the largest design practices in the world. IBM’s 3,000+ designers create software, hardware, brand, and web experiences enjoyed by millions worldwide. Alcorn’s team is also responsible for IBM’s enterprise design thinking practice which has trained close to 400,000 people inside and outside IBM and is considered the industry gold standard in driving innovation through human-centered design practices. There's still time to join us for the 2022 AIGA Design + Business Conference! Let us help you grow your design business, clientele, business-savvy, and inspire your next project. Join us: aigadsgn.org/D-BConf
AIGA Fireside Chat Replay–Bennie F. Johnson + Mark Madrid AIGAdesign 2022-05-04 | We are celebrating and empowering small business owners to celebrate Small Business Week. Join us for a replay of "Empowering Designers to Start, Grow and Scale Small Businesses" from the 2022 AIGA Design Leadership and Advocacy Conference. AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson speaks to Mark Madrid, Associate Administrator for the US Small Business Administration, about how customer-centric design principles are enabling the SBA to better assist design small businesses start, grow, and scale.As the largest professional membership association for design, AIGA offers you deep personal connections with your community. We invite you to join us for access to resources and community to help grow and scale your design business: aigadsgn.org/join-community
AIGA + Phaidon Present: Design Emergency AIGAdesign 2022-05-03 | Design Emergency: Building a Better Future with Paola Antonelli, Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern ArtDiscover the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide with curator Paola Antonelli and her new book, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future. In conversation with AIGA’s Lee-Sean Huang, Antonelli reveals projects by some of the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reconstructing our lives, enabling us to thrive.Friends of AIGA receive 15% off at Phaidon.com using code AIGA15: aigadsgn.org/phaidon
Design Future Live with JoAnn Holmes on Intellectual Property and Web3 AIGAdesign 2022-04-28 | Join us for an interactive livestream with JoAnn Holmes, an IP and digital asset attorney and host of the "Your Business Ally" podcast. Jo helps creators develop smart Web3 strategies to monetize intellectual property. Her expertise helps clients navigate a range of IP and Web3 topics, including , NFTs, blockchain tech, regulations, taxes, and contracts. Jo will also be doing a workshop on intellectual property and Web 3.0 at the AIGA Design + Business Conference, May 4-6 (Online)
AIGA One Designer, One Work with Vinicius Lima AIGAdesign 2022-04-20 | This free virtual series features one designer showcasing a work that is personally meaningful. We'll hear what inspires, challenges and guides them. Expose yourself to new material by exploring with our guest, Vinicius Lima As the largest professional membership association for design, AIGA offers you deep personal connections with your community. Your membership dues are an investment in yourself, your profession, and a network of creative changemakers, problem solvers, and professionals. Learn more: aiga.org/membership-community/aiga-membership
Portfolio Development Studio with Lee-Sean Huang AIGAdesign 2022-04-13 | Are you stuck in a design portfolio rut? We want to support designers like you put their best foot forward and build confidence in presenting work. Join AIGA's Director of Design Content and Learning, Lee-Sean Huang, for our inaugural cohort of the Portfolio Development Studio. Lee-Sean will be joined by portfolio mentors Talia Cotton of Pentagram, Jo-Nell Sieren of Columbia College Chicago, and Seth Johnson of IBM. This live, online 10-week course will help you understand the critical elements in a portfolio needed to land your dream job. Each week, group crits and activities help you curate your best work and craft your professional story. Explore the course: aigadsgn.org/PDS
AIGA Conference Replay: Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson + Scott Belsky AIGAdesign 2022-04-06 | From the 2021 AIGA Design + Business Conference, AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson talks with Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President of Adobe Creative Cloud. At Adobe, Scott leads product management and engineering for Creative Cloud products and services, Adobe Spark, and Behance, Adobe’s community of 10 million creatives. Liking this content? Join us at the 2022 AIGA Design + Business Conference. Learn more: aigadsgn.org/DandBConf2
