Join AIGA Baltimore at Boordy Vineyards for a family-friendly Design on Tap on Thursday, September 28 from 4:30-7:30 PM. The event will coincide with Boordy's last Good Life Thursday event of the season. Families and children are welcome!

The Wire. The Ravens. The Riots. For folks around the country, ‚Baltimore™ is summed up in these few words or memories. We think it™s time to change that narrative. As a Baltimore native, chronic storyteller, and owner/ creative director at a Baltimore-based film studio, Alec Walker knows it™s about time we shift the story of Baltimore. Join AIGA Baltimore and Alec at Judge™s Bench in Ellicott City on September 30th for our second Fireside Chat! For this month's event, we're unpacking the question, Why Baltimore?"

As a designer, you produce new concepts, sketches, comps, and final artwork every day. Wouldn't it be nice if you had a simple, painless way to share that work with the rest of the world? Behance is the leading online platform for showcasing and discovering creative work. Instructor Brian Wood will show you how easy it is to share work directly from your favorite Creative Cloud apps, build your presence, create an online portfolio, find an audience and get noticed. This workshop is geared toward creatives of all abilities, however, knowledge of modern day mobile devices and apps will be helpful during this event.

Aesthetic, function and particularity of spatial experiences are crucial to evoke emotional and intellectual responses, as opposed to hyper-connected subjectivity or arrested sociality of rising spectacles. Join us for Design Week, where Udit discusses the role of UX in multi-functional spaces, where new materials, technologies, and media come together to create encounters, build connections, shape behaviors and explore relationships over hours, days and years

Join Natasha Jen of Pentagram and six local creatives as they explore the when, why, and how of the rebranding process. Natasha Jen kicks off the event, sharing insights from her work at Pentagram such as the Van Leeuwen Ice Cream rebrand and the Border City project. She will be joined by David Ashton of Ashton Design, Illiah Manger of C&V Creative Studio, Amber Schleuning and Melissa Chapman of the VA Center for Innovation, and Paul Bianco and Dustin Fritz of ORANGEHAT.

Join us for a sneak peek at Jack Kirby Unbound! at the Spur Gallery before it opens to the public. Exhibit will feature original art, comics, posters, and enlarged reproductions that celebrate the 100th birthday of the King of Comics! Includes a gallery talk by illustrator, designer, and Kirby enthusiast David Plunkert.

Join AIGA Baltimore and Bowie State University for as they host ex-Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers, Emory Douglass who will discuss the intersection of Design and Activism. Emory Douglas became politically involved at the age of 24 as Revolutionary Artist and then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther party. Mr. Douglas™s powerful images portrayed through the party™s newspapers, posters and pamphlets spoke to social injustices experienced by black and other oppressed people in the U.S. and around the world. While his works often address issues of race, it also exudes empowerment in the face of poverty, discrimination, and imperialism.