AIGA Center for Cross-Cultural Design (AIGA XCD) Number of members: newsletter circulation 4,000+, Facebook membership 867+ Year started: 2002 AIGA XCD is an AIGA community of interest established to foster greater communication between designers across cultures, and highlight the interwoven experience of design and culture in our lives. Consequently, we are committed to engaging AIGA membership in the global design community and marketplace. Like AIGA Center for Sustainable Design, we believe we add value to AIGA membership by creating a forum for issues that cannot be limited to geographic boundaries. In the past we have organized a variety of travelling exhibitions, travel tours abroad, presentations and a design competition. We are currently focused on growing our online presence and social network, to facilitate the dialogue about design and culture within AIGA chapters. 1. What is AIGA XCD's proudest recent accomplishment? We are proud of all our accomplishments! In the spring, we…
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AIGA Baltimore Number of Members: 382 Year Founded: 1989 1. What is your Chapter’s most proud recent accomplishment? Our Pulp Ink and Hops event last year was a success, even in this economy, bringing approximately 20 design vendors and hundreds of designers together to review the latest and greatest in designer's tools from printers and paper samples to job resources and design information. Photos available here. 2. Tell us about your Chapter's Mentorship Program. Our chapter recently worked on the Create don't Hate mentorship program which brought together members of the design community and schoolkids to create messages about stopping the ongoing violence. The program involved approximately 20 mentors and two schools here. In the mentorship timeline the mentor groups developed 24 billboards of which seven have been chosen to be displayed around town. We feel promoting this message was a particularly important endeavor in which to undertake given the problems of gun violence in…
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AIGA Connecticut Number of Members: 113 Year Chapter was founded: 2008 1. What is your Chapter’s most proud recent accomplishment? Every conversation about AIGA Connecticut’s purpose circles back to the importance of building a collaborative community rooted in a shared professional ethos and the openness to look at our individual differences with encouragement and appreciation. This attitude of working together to honor camaraderie over competition has become a bit of a mantra for us and we hope—with enough repetition—it will continue to catch on with all of the creative folks throughout the state. With this goal, we took on a project with another local design organization—Connecticut Art Directors Club. We put together a shared event, “Defining Connecticut: LEGENDS of Design”, an evening conversation with 5 visionaries (including AIGA Fellow, Peter Good) who were pivotal in shaping the creative voice of our region. The two organizations worked…
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AIGA Salt Lake City Number of members: 197 Year Chapter was founded: 1988 1. What is your Chapter's proudest recent accomplishment? Last June, our chapter was part of the Utah Arts Festival for the first time. The festival is one of the largest in the country with over 80,000 patrons over the four day event. AIGA Salt Lake City was asked to host an interactive workshop and booth during the festival that people could participate in. We developed the Revinylize Project where we reclaimed thousands of square feet of vinyl and gave it new life in the form of unique vinyl bags. We held daily workshops where participants created their own vinyl bags, as well as, sold pre-made messenger bags and wallets. Throughout the event, we encouraged social awareness through the power of creativity and the value that AIGA has in our community. The Revinylize Booth quickly became the most popular of the entire festival. With enormous lines for each workshop, we had people of all ages learning about AIGA…
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AIGA Austin Number of members: 262 Year Chapter was founded: 1997 1. What is your Chapter’s most proud recent accomplishment? AIGA is a volunteer organization driven by leaders who work to advance our profession. The success of our organization and the impact and resources we can offer are driven by our leadership. Who is our leadership? It is members who volunteer and dedicate their time to help build our community. Since those members choose to become leaders, they are bestowed upon as where it starts to make things happen and to act as role models. A position of leadership is a position of serving. This is why AIGA Austin is most proud our new Board of Directors who selflessly work to improve our community and encourage membership participation and contributions. 2. Tell us about the best event your Chapter has put on this year? Design Ranch is a singular bi-annual event that draws designers from around the country for an extended weekend of hands-on experimental workshops. Only…
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