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Design + Performance (New Season/Theme) with Gary Jaffe, Independent Filmmaker
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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
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
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
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
Design and share a poster: aigadsgn.org/gotv
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
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
ECAL Manual of Style with Jonathan Olivares, American Designer & Writer and Alexis Georgacopoulos, Designer & Director of ECAL
From 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
with Audrey Bennett and Ron Eglash
The 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
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.
In this talk he introduces a new kind of museum, one that is rather small, and an experiment in design, called Mmuseumm.
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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.
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).
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👋 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Adjacent
AIGA 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. Johnson
Bennie 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.
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.
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.
About AIGA Design Adjacent
AIGA 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. Johnson
Bennie 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.
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
Including 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.
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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
We 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
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, 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.
This 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
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
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From 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
Learn more & register: aigadsgn.org/PDS
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
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
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
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.
Friends of AIGA receive 15% off at Phaidon.com using code AIGA15: aigadsgn.org/phaidon
Jo will also be doing a workshop on intellectual property and Web 3.0 at the AIGA Design + Business Conference, May 4-6 (Online)
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
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
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