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Kaity Butcher is a Creative Producer at the Microsoft Brand Studio, where she uses design and technology to make a positive impact on the world. Sven Seger is a General Manager of Global Creative at Microsoft, where he shapes the vision for how the Microsoft brand shows up in the world and strengthens connections with the billions of people that the company empowers. Dyslexics possess a unique way of seeing the world that is leveraged in design. People with dyslexia are highly creative, think outside the box, and are not afraid to take risks and push boundaries. Join us for monthly webinars to inspire your best work, grow as a leader, and connect with designers across the world. Join today to access networking through your local chapter and a wide variety of local and national programs and events.
Running a design business isn't easy. AIGA is here to help.
This new online design certification program is open to design practitioners at every level who are committed to expanding their careers. AIGA Membership offers a dynamic community through the virtual AIGA Community platform and local events. Network with peers, share insights, and tackle career challenges together while building a professional network to help you excel in your career. Join us for the AIGA Design + Business Conference, a virtual conference that brings together freelance designers, agency owners, business leaders, and subject matter experts to help you thrive. From legal and HR to client communication, we want to provide accessible information to current and aspiring Design + Business leaders. Ben Evjen began teaching as an adjunct instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia in 2015.
Print Your Own Letterpress: Wood Type Poster Edition
We will explore moments of change—from the individual- to the system-level—and the critical questions that precede them. We will ask you to interrogate your power, position, and expertise, and we’ll discuss how you might use the answers to navigate and drive change across disciplines and sectors. With teaching experience at Creative Studies and Upper Iowa University, Huang's creative vision extends beyond academia.
Amazon Design Studio Tour and Meet the Team
Jenny Price is a design leader, designer, strategist, educator, manager and has extensive experience leading large-scale distributed design teams and program initiatives within enterprise digital technology, healthcare innovation, and higher education. She serves as DesignOps Lead and Manager for the Transformation & Operations team at IBM. Nadia Lung is Combo’s Design Director at Combo, and one of the studio’s longest running team members. Nadia leads and mentors a team of designers through the inception and execution of many of Combo’s most iconic client partnerships. Over the course of seven years at Combo, Nadia has built impactful brands and design systems for the likes of Saie Beauty, Nike, For Freedoms, GEM, The Webby Awards, Burdock Media, Boll & Branch, and many more.
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Cristina Reina is an EVP, Global Executive Creative Director, and Head of Art McCann North America, with more than a decade of experience developing award-winning campaigns and leading creative teams through a variety of projects across different platforms. Throughout her career Cristina has proven her ability to bring her artistic vision to every project she has worked on, always striving to deliver memorable and groundbreaking campaigns. Parsons, a globally top-ranked design school, offers courses and lectures from practitioners at the top of their fields. Seize this opportunity to learn something new, polish up your portfolio, and revamp your career.
Tour of the Metropolitan Opera
We’ll find you a great opportunity at an organization where you can be a valuable—and valued—team member. Join us for an exclusive studio tour at Mythology, where you will experience our unique approach to design. Nakita M. Pope is the Chief Chick and Principal Brand Strategist of Branding Chicks, a boutique branding agency in Atlanta, GA with clients all over the United States. Nakita helps clients narrow their focus, gives their brands a voice, slingshots their confidence, and clarifies their message so that it resonates directly with their audiences. She also helps businesses large and small to brand or re-brand to attract and grow customer bases for new products and professional services through custom, creative, relevant brand-promoting strategies. He is currently an Assistant professor of Graphic Design at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Born in Hong Kong, raised in Georgia, Nadia honed her design style and skills at the School of Visual Arts, as well as stints with Mother Design and Doubleday & Cartwright before joining Combo. Wael Morcos is a graphic designer and type designer from Beirut, Lebanon and a partner at the New York based design studio Morcos Key. Wael has been featured in Print Magazine’s 15 under 30, was named a Young Gun by the Art Directors Club and an Ascender by the Type Directors Club. He has also designed cover art for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Variety. In 2017 Juan co-founded Sunday Afternoon, a hybrid creative design studio & artist management agency. Penina Laker is a designer, researcher, and educator at Washington University in St. Louis.
She has worked as a Graphic Design Professor at Elon University and as a professor at The Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham, Temple University, and Moore College of Art & Design. She also likes immersing herself in the art world in the Triangle, selling her jewelry, illustrations, and photographs. Andrea Marks is a Professor of Design at Oregon State University and a faculty member in the College of Business, where she teaches classes in design management and design thinking.
Our new AI for Creativity and Leadership Certificate will take you through what it means to be a creative professional and to lead an organization in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). There is value in AIGA membership, including discounts to the AIGA Design Conference. Use our Convince Your Boss letter to advocate for your professional development (and don’t forget to put in a good word for your colleagues too!). Join our friends at Times Square Alliance for a tour of the Times Square Broadway pedestrian plazas and the Red Steps! The Times Square Alliance, founded in 1992, works to improve and promote Times Square — cultivating the creativity, energy and edge that have made the area an icon of entertainment, culture and urban life for over a century. In this in-person workshop you will be assisted in producing a wood type poster edition using our 1960s Vandercook presses and our giant collection of antique wood type fonts.
Meena Khalili is a professor of design and interaction who makes daily drawings of things. Her research explores her experience as an Iranian-American and daughter of a small business owner, new media in design, cultural identity, and generational storytelling. She has received consecutive International Design Awards and the National Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design by the Southeastern College Art Conference.
2024 AIGA Design ConferenceOctober | VirtualGet ready to redefine the boundaries of creativity at the 2024 AIGA Design Conference! Grif aka Shane Griffin is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Dublin, Ireland. Most recently, he was named on the Louis Vuitton's '200 Visionaries' list, and has exhibited work globally. His high-level execution blurs the lines of reality, creating worlds with thought provoking concepts, surreal visuals, and encapsulating cinematography.
Through her research, Penina applies an interdisciplinary and community-engaged approach to co-create and implement design solutions that make complex public health-related information accessible to wider audiences, locally and internationally. She is also broadening the scope and access of design education to young people in Uganda through DesignEd workshops and My African Aesthetic podcast which she co-hosts. She is a co-editor of The Black Experience in Design, published by Allworth Press in 2022. Penina earned an MFA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University and a BA in Art from Goshen College.
Morgan Searcy is building The People’s Graphic Design Archive, Silas Munro is developing the BIPOC Design History Course, and Mark Sanders is in progress on co-authoring the 7th edition of Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Together they have a lot to teach us about where we came from and where we are going as an industry. Join a thought-provoking panel discussion on the convergence of AI and creativity. The panel will delve into Generative AI's impact on creativity, shedding light on its transformative potential. The conversation will explore the symbiotic relationship between AI and human creativity, because while AI advances, human involvement remains pivotal. Our speakers will explore the continued significance of the human touch in shaping emotive and meaningful creations.
