AIGA Baltimore is here to help you succeed in your design portfolio reviews and interviews! Here is a guide for creating a design portfolio and some tips on how to prepare for an interview.

Check out a comprehensive list of virtual design events you can attend right from your home throughout the month of October!

We recognize the importance and benefits of finding and engaging with supportive creative communities. This curated list of local and global creative associations, Facebook groups, community organizations and job boards was created for use during our 2020 AIGA Baltimore Ink & Pixels Roundtables event and will be updated from time to time.

“Futurism(s)” is a talk with three chapters: Italian Futurism, Afrofuturism, and the Cyborg Manifesto. Here, Ellen Lupton covers the futuristic movements in an effort to tell a more inclusive history of design.

The 8th annual AIGA Baltimore Design Week kicked off with a special Design & Dine with the legendary Debbie Millman. Founder and host of the Design Matters Podcast, Debbie has interviewed over 500 artists, designers, and industry experts. This special Design & Dine was no lecture. Instead, it was Debbie’s signature conversational interview style with 30 of Baltimore’s industry professionals. Had it been recorded, it could’ve been the next episode of Design Matters.

We are so excited to have Illiah and Rachel join us for Baltimore Design Week. Together, they bring us insights into creative communities with their In Perfect Harmony–Choosing Creative Communities event on October 24. Let’s get to know Illiah and Rachel a little more!

Taylor is a North Carolina-based multidisciplinary creative and community builder who’s passionate about people, design, and all the intersections in between. Read on and get to know Taylor – from how he got started in design to what he's digging right now. Then, join us in person during Baltimore Design Week!

By half day, Colin is an independent artist working on visual branding for businesses all around the globe. By the other half, he runs a platform with a group of lettering lovelies, dedicated to all things letterforms. How did he come about building Crayligraphy? Let's find out.

Understand what managers are looking for.

Can you teach yourself to be a graphic designer? Absolutely.

I can’t remember the exact age when that thought crystallized in my head, probably around first or second grade. It was a toxic seed that I unwittingly planted in myself. As I grew, so did that seed. Until it completely cut me off from the creative instinct inside of me. Luckily, that drive to create always bubbled right beneath the surface, and after several decades of my life I have been able to reconnect with something that I thought I lost long ago.

*pauses Netflix & gets off couch*