Events

• Creating the Perfect Design Brief July 23, 2009 | IIT Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
  A one-day seminar in the DMI Professional Development Program. A design brief, also often called a creative brief, is the most essential ingredient for any major design project. However,...
• Image Space Object 6 : Tools for Transformation August 6-9, 2009 | Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver, CO
  Creating compelling products, services, brands and interactions with people-centered design research methods. At “Image, Space, Object,” small teams of participants and studio...
• Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference October 8-11, 2009 | Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis, TN
  What is designing today? And how do designers define their own influence within the dichotomy of making versus thinking? These questions form the basis of this year’s conference, “Make/Think,”...
• AIGA XCD 2009 Design Expedition October 17-31, 2009 | China, Beijing, China
  See. Be Seen. Discover. Share. AIGA XCD’s 2009 Design Expedition to China. Join the AIGA Center for Cross-Cultural Design (AIGA|XCD) this October as we travel into the heart of...
• Xin: Icograda World Design Congress 2009 October 24-30, 2009 | National Centre for the Performing Arts (National Grand Theatre) and The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Bejing, China
  Under the theme Xin, the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 in Beijing will explore the capacity of design to integrate with other media, to transcend national, cultural and economic confines,...

Exhibitions

• Voices: An Exhibition of Darfuri Children’s Drawings June 18 - July 24, 2009 | AIGA National Design Center, New York, NY
  In cooperation with Waging Peace, the AIGA National Design Center presents a selection of drawings by Darfuri children depicting vivid memories of violent attacks. Collected as part of a 2007...