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The Los Angeles Chapter of AIGA, the professional association of design. http://aigalosangeles.org

To connect, educate, and inspire people who love design in Los Angeles.

09/23/2026

👀 Could your portfolio use some fresh eyes?
Join AIGA Los Angeles in partnership with Otis College of Art and Design for a day of portfolio reviews with creative professionals. ✨

Get fresh eyes on your work, talk through your projects, ask questions, and leave with ideas for taking your portfolio to the next level. Whether you’re a student, recent grad, or early-career creative, come ready to share your work and meet people from the industry.

🎤 We’ll kick off the day with a keynote presentation on career readiness, then lead into the portfolio review sessions!

📅 Saturday, October 24 📍 OTIS College of Art and Design
Review timeslots will be available by RSVP. Registration details coming soon!

GraphicDesign DesignCommunity LosAngelesDesign CreativeCommunity EmergingDesigners DesignStudents

09/21/2026

This feature has been in the making throughout the summer.
With Design Luminaries, we’ve always wanted to share stories not only about the work itself, but about what it takes to build something, sustain it, and help it grow. For women in the creative industry especially, those stories of building a practice, a team, and a world of one’s own are worth making visible.
As summer gives way to fall — a season for returning, building, and bringing ideas to fruition, we’re excited to share the story of Jolene Delisle and how she built a design world of her own, The Working Assembly.
In our latest Design Luminaries feature, we speak with Jolene about her journey, her practice, and the ideas and experiences that have shaped the world she continues to build.

07/30/2026

This Saturday! Join us at Tansy in Burbank for Coffee with Creatives. ☕️ ✨

A casual meetup for the creative community of Los Angeles to connect, share ideas, and enjoy a morning of conversation and inspiration. Handcrafted coffee from Kaleido Coffee will be flowing, so come grab a cup and say hello. See you there!

🗓️ Saturday, August 1, from 10AM–12PM PT
📍 Tansy | 2120 West Magnolia Blvd. | Burbank, CA 91506
🎟️ Free to attend! Register now! Link in bio.

07/11/2026

You don’t want to miss this! 👇

Build Your Brand Universe (a session for creative entrepreneurs)! 🌌

Your body of work isn’t a portfolio. It’s a world with its own distinct language, touchpoints, behaviors, and lore. This session reframes branding as far more than a visual system: it’s the ecosystem you build around your point of view. Robyn Young (.co), author of Build Your Brand Universe, breaks down how to move from a siloed presence to an ownable creative universe: one with a magnetic center of gravity that becomes your competitive edge.

Guests will leave with a framework for building a brand that doesn’t just get seen. It gets remembered.

📖 First 25 AIGA LA members to RSVP (and attend) receive a free signed copy of Build Your Brand Universe!

✨ About Our Featured Speaker:
Robyn Young is a brand strategist, speaker, author, and founder of Young & Co., where she helps fiercely independent founders and founder-led teams build layered brand worlds people recognize, trust, and return to.

Over the past decade, Robyn has helped launch or relaunch more than 100 brands, from emerging category leaders like NÜTRL and Verishop to established enterprises navigating high-stakes reinvention. She’s the author of Build Your Brand Universe, a #1 Amazon Hot New Release, and a frequent speaker on brand resilience, shaping an ownable identity, and what it takes to build brands designed for long-term relevance.

🗓️ Event Details
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Location: Helms Design Center ()

What to Expect: A networking mixer, keynote presentation by Robyn Young, audience Q&A, and a book giveaway!

07/08/2026

On June 27, we came together to celebrate the life, work, and enduring wisdom of Octavia E. Butler on her 79th birthday.

An afternoon drifting between creative conversations, performances, hands-on making, and time spent together, and all under the warm LA summer breeze. From speculative futures and sonic spaceships to clay, microbes, and Earthseed-inspired ideas, it was one of those very LA summer days: curious, creative, and full of unexpected connections.

Thank you to everyone who gathered, shared, made, and imagined with us 💫

Presented by  Curated by .house  Co-sponsored by .co  Hosted at

06/26/2026

A new chapter begins. 🎉

At our first board meeting with our incoming members, we welcomed three incredible new faces to the AIGA LA family:

Victor Fong, VP of Finances

Chiany Dri, DEIA Director

David Mayes (), Partnerships Director

We also celebrated Joseph Soto () stepping into the role of President after a year as President Elect.

And we sent our deepest gratitude to the board members completing their terms. Thank you for everything you gave this community:

Paul Woods (), President

Alexis Caban (), Development Director

Michelle LeClerc (), DEIA Director

This past year was nothing short of incredible. A look at what we built together:

🎟️ 20+ AIGA and community events

☕ The launch of our Coffee with Creatives series

🎤 A spot at the AIGA National Design Conference

💰 Tens of thousands raised in sponsorships, donations, and partnerships

🎨 Participation in the Apprenticeship Program

🔠 A rekindled partnership with TypeThursday LA ()

🎓 The return of student scholarships

Founded in 1983, AIGA LA remains one of the oldest chapters in the country, a nearly all-volunteer 501(c)(3) committed to celebrating LA design and nurturing the diverse, independent spirit that makes this city one of a kind.

To everyone who built this year with us: thank you. To our new board: let’s go. There is so much more to come. 👀

06/15/2026

What happens when design practice, design history, and personal curiosity begin to inform one another?

In our latest Design Luminaries feature, reflects on his journey from Pentagram to co-founding .design.nyc , the evolution of and how preserving design history has become an active part of shaping its future.

The conversation also explores independent pursuits such as Second Hand—a publishing project born from an archive of overlooked book covers—and his latest venture into an entirely new territory: building a wasabi pea brand from the ground up.

A thoughtful discussion on process, conviction, authorship, and the value of continuing to explore beyond the boundaries of one‘s established practice.

Read the full feature below.

Design luminaries is an ongoing series that highlights designers shaping contemporary practices through their ideas, perspectives and ways of working. For more, please visit link in bio.

05/18/2026

We’re excited to share the latest conversation in Design Luminaries series, featuring .
Thomas was one of the first designers we reached out to when we began this series, and we’re grateful he took the time to share his thoughts with such openness and generosity.
In this conversation, Thomas reflects on the path that has shaped his practice, from his experiences at Sweetgreen, COLLINS, and Wolff Olins to co-founding .work with Emily Morris.
What stood out most in our exchange was how grounded and candid his perspective felt. Behind a body of work many designers admire is someone who speaks thoughtfully and modestly about growth, uncertainty, collaboration, and the ongoing process of finding your own way through design.
We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.

05/11/2026

42 years.

That is how long AIGA Los Angeles has been here, gathering the people who shape how this city looks.

For our 42nd, we are making a book. It is called IN-COMMON PRACTICE: LA. An archive from across our community, designed not in isolation, but through shared practice.

A logo is rarely one hand’s work. It is shaped by the friend who reviewed your sketches at midnight, the client who pushed past your first idea, the city itself bending how you see. This book is a living record of that network.

Most logo books get built from proximity, from who knows who. We are building this one differently. An open call, because the LA design community is bigger and more textured than the rooms most archives are made in. Emerging voices alongside established names. Client work, self-initiated brands, personal pieces, experiments.

→ Non-members: up to 3 logos

→ AIGA LA members: unlimited (yep, that’s right!)

Submission link in bio. Tag a designer who should be in this book.

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2026

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05/04/2026

We are pleased to introduce Design Luminaries, an ongoing spotlight series by , dedicated to recognizing designers whose work contributes to the evolving conversation around contemporary practice.

Conceived as a platform to share perspectives, uncover processes, and strengthen connections within the design community, the series is presented in a Q&A format that brings together the ease of conversation with the depth of an interview.

We’re excited to share the first published conversation in the series, featuring , whose perspective helps set the tone for what’s to come.

This initiative is made possible through the collective efforts of the social team and the generosity of the design luminaries who have chosen to share their voices with us.

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