AIGA Design Podcast

The official podcast feed of AIGA, the oldest and largest professional association for design in the United States.

We explore various facets of the design discipline, profession, and industry to help our listeners learn about the past and present and prepare for the future.

Step into the margins and discover the innovative frontiers of design with the AIGA Design Podcast! In 2024, our thematic focus revolves around “Margins,” where we delve into the realms of competitive edges, innovation in marginalized communities, embracing experimentation, and redefining success in entrepreneurship.

Join Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA, as he leads discussions on how design intersects with competitive markets, emerging practices, sustainable transitions, and civic engagement. From exploring the margins of error to mobilizing movements for change, each episode of the AIGA Design Podcast invites you to explore the diverse landscapes of design’s margins.

• Listen Notes Listen Score: LS 30
• Global Rank: TOP 5% (out of 3,405,637 podcasts globally)
• Listener Profile: designers

We’re looking for design-forward organizations to be partners—groups that are leading with, within, and through design—whose support is critical to building and sustaining programs, initiatives, and resources that champion a more contemporary and inclusive profession.

Sponsorship Categories

We offer a host of a la carte opportunities to best align with your needs for maximum brand exposure and requirement. Categories include:

• Content
  • Advertorial Content, Fireside Chats, Lectures, Panels, Pre-event seminars, Podcasts, Roundtables, Sponsored Content, Team Talks, Workshops, Webinars
• Conference & Event Exposure
  • Digital Swag, Keynote Address, Symposiums, Workshops, Virtual Booths
• Initiatives & Additional Brand Opportunities
  • Cohort Sponsorship, Research, Underwriting, Logo & Brand Exposure, Sponsored Initiatives

Partner with AIGA

AIGA has a diverse array of annual and ongoing conferences, events, webinars, podcasts, digital content and more that can elevate your brand.

Sponsorship Opportunities

• AIGA Command X
  • This exciting, live design competition—launched in 2007—allows up-and-coming designers to face off for the chance to break into the industry in front of design peers, heroes, and potential employers. The virtual competition runs on two consecutive days, with contestants tasked with completing an initial challenge in one week, and the second challenge in one day. Each night, the live audience votes for a winner to receive prizes, cash, and bragging rights for the year.
• AIGA Virtual Design + Business Conference
  • AIGA’s Design + Business Conference features the most notable, impactful, and innovative projects from the past year, uncovering insights to demonstrate what drove successful collaboration and communication, and explore the process and decisions that informed the final product. Each day caps off with a live unrecorded salon, hosted by our presenters, to dive deeper into the conversation, answer attendee’s burning questions, and create a true understanding of the ins-and-outs of client-designer relationships.
• AIGA Virtual Portfolio Festival
  • AIGA’s Portfolio Festival—a major weeklong virtual festival-styled, creative portfolio event—brings together an incredible roster of noted design leaders with students, emerging designers, and designers in the midst of professional/job transition, and features daily live-streamed keynotes and portfolio reviews, in-depth small group portfolio review sessions, private 1:1 sessions, and a range of complimentary webinars and workshops.
• AIGA Design Conference
  • The annual AIGA Design Conference, now in its 22nd year, is recognized as one of the most engaging and provocative events in the design world.
  • Participants will experience three days packed full of inspiring speakers, tours, practical advice, peer-to-peer connection, thought leadership, and introductions to new and exciting design-related products and services—in-person or from the comfort of their own home.
• Webinars & Podcasts
  • AIGA’s dynamic lineup of webinars and podcasts explore and highlight the practitioners, companies and communities leading by and through design. From AIGA’s Fireside Chat series featuring conversations between AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson in conversation with senior design leaders, to Design Futures Now—AIGA’s inaugural podcast exploring how design is changing as a discipline and profession, and how to face these opportunities as a community—we’ve got you covered!
• AIGA Design POV
  • AIGA’s Design POV research initiative began with a simple question—what does it mean to be a designer? From that single question, this research initiative has grown exponentially leading us down new paths of discovery. We are committed to enhancing designers’ relevance, leadership, and opportunities for success. One of the greatest challenges comes in finding ways to inspire and guide those inside and outside the profession to understand how valuable the character, training, and experience of designers can be in solving complex problems and bringing positive change to society.
• AIGA Competitions
  • This survey of book design represents perhaps the longest-standing legacy in American graphic design. Beginning in 1923, the Fifty Books of the Year competition was a yearly mainstay of AIGA. Known today as the 50 Books | 50 Covers, this time-honored competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers each year.
• AIGA Scholarships
  • AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships benefit underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students who are studying photography, illustration, and design disciplines in colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships are awarded annually to encourage social and environmental responsibility and cultural awareness in the next generation of artists and designers.
• AIGA Eye on Design
  • AIGA Eye on Design is an editorial platform that explores what it means to be a designer today. We cover the issues important to the global design world + elevate the voices of contemporary designers as a way to build a more engaged design community.

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