Apply for Sappi’s “Ideas That Matter” Grant by 7/7
How can you help change lives and make the world a better place? By applying for an “Ideas that Matter” grant from Sappi by July 7: “Sappi’s Ideas that Matter grants empower great ideas—changing lives,...
View ArticleEvent Recap: Portfolio Review Tour 2017
Portfolio Days are an AIGA institution, both for AIGA Santa Barbara and the other 71 chapters around the nation. One huge day with seasoned professionals, confident (or anxious) students, and tons of...
View ArticleEvent Recap: AIGA Leadership Retreat 2017
For the fifth year in a row, I had the privilege of representing AIGA Santa Barbara at the national Leadership Retreat, hosted this year by AIGA Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas. AIGA’s Leadership Retreat is...
View ArticleHow Design Thinking Can Advance Business & Leadership
This past June’s AIGA Leadership Retreat in Dallas was a fruitful one for our delegates Keir DuBois and Rachell Newburn. It’s inspired them to write not one, not two, but three event recaps. The third,...
View Article#WeStandTogether: Designers, Use Your Craft to Speak Out
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Are you tired of the hate? Asking yourself “What can I do?” Tim Hykes, President of AIGA St....
View ArticleJoin the AIGA SB Board in 2018
Big changes are in store for AIGA Santa Barbara! In celebrating our 10th anniversary this month, we reflect on all that our chapter has accomplished—but also on new challenges that lie ahead. To take...
View ArticleVolunteer Opportunity: Cal Poly SLO Portfolio Day 5/5
Some of the best student work we see usually comes from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and their annual portfolio review is taking place Saturday, May 5th. This event is a very important event for Cal Poly...
View ArticleDiscovering AIGA Central Coast
Big changes are in store for AIGA Santa Barbara! We’ve been saying this a lot in the past year, but this time those changes will be literally transformative: in 2019, AIGA Santa Barbara will become...
View ArticleWhat is our Design Community Seeking?
We here at AIGA Central Coast are excited about the coming changes in 2019, because they are changes based on your feedback! As a Board, we will explore this further at our retreat in early February,...
View ArticleDesign is Dead. Long Live Design.
Welcome to the first in our “What About Design?” blog series, where our Board members share their thoughts on all things design. To kick things off, this is from our new AIGA CC President, Charmaine...
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