AIGA Portland

Today, we're celebrating Jeralyn Medrano's AIGA anniversary! 🥳🎉

As a Portland State University alum and dedicated volunteer for our Marketing Team, Jeralyn has enriched our community with her design expertise and enthusiasm. Swipe to learn more about her background and see her amazing work. Here's to many more years together! 🤩

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Portland is weird by design, and Portland Design Month is showcasing the people who make it: creatives, makers, provocateurs, beautifiers … and you. Submit your event idea by Thursday, August 15, 2024, to join the studio tours, workshops, discussions, and social happenings that will make this month beautifully strange. 🤩

🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesxxcB-3St-nMiuDlvp5h-l6a3Xah7xwgyBli2RAShYl6tuw/viewform

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Join us at ADX Portland for a night of insights and connections with Writing is Designing: Words and the User Experience author Andy Welfle and fellow UX professionals. 🤩

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ux-book-club-writing-is-designing-tickets-967030001767

Portland Design Month is about you! 🤩 Submit your event before August 15, 2024, and celebrate a city that is Weird by Design. 🧑‍💻✨

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Today, we're spotlighting Grey Shawger, a local Portland artist and designer — and one of our awesome volunteers! ✨ Grey's work in logo design, branding, packaging, and illustration is innovative and colorful (swipe to see it!). When they aren't being a creative powerhouse, Grey is an avid motorcycle rider, cat person, and whiskey lover. Thank you for donating your skills and creative vision to our community! ❤️

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Our first Partner Spotlight is for the Portland Night Market! 🤩 The Portland Night Market showcases many unique businesses that call Portland home. Blending food, culture, music, drinks, and retail together for an adventurous evening in the Central Eastside. ✨

When asked why they wanted to participate in Portland Design Month, they said "From event design, the environments we inhabit to the clothes we wear, design helps build the framework of our lives. We're co-creating and designing the culture of Portland together and that is something worth celebrating."

📆 The Night Market will be October 4 + 5 at the Alder Block Building, 100 SE Alder Street, Portland, OR!

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✨ Sign ups are open for our September Work in Progress event. ✨

Work in Progress (WIP) is a fantastic opportunity for Oregon-based designers to give and receive feedback either on a specific project or a portfolio piece. We welcome high schoolers, college students, recent graduates, young professionals, mid-level, senior, creative directors and retired designers of all ages to join.

Reviews for feedback in each event are limited to the first three (3) people who sign up and attend – so be sure to register while there are still available spots!

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wip-work-in-progress-tickets-812682062927

Mark your calendars, here are the next three dMobs. Looking forward to seeing you there! 🤩📆

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📢 AIGA Portland is EXTENDING the deadline for Portland Design Month event ideas. 📢

Discussions. Exhibits. Workshops. Whatever. If it celebrates the weird beauty of our city, we want to amplify it. Nudge that last pixel, clean up your file, and share your event idea by Thursday, August 15, 2024. For real. ✨

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🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesxxcB-3St-nMiuDlvp5h-l6a3Xah7xwgyBli2RAShYl6tuw/viewform

📢 We still need more responses! The website survey will now be open through the end of August. Your opinion could directly influence how AIGA Portland builds its new website this year. 🧑‍💻✨

🔗 https://surveyheart.com/form/6669f5e523ab691a106f8ab6

Reintroducing Ryan Smythe! 🤩 Ryan has volunteered with our chapter in many ways for many years. He is currently the Web Co-chair tasked with the maintenance and enhancement of our chapter website. 💻

✨ You can find his portfolio at smythedesign.com

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Our first Design Month volunteer spotlight is for Derrick Lee (.small.corner.designs on Instagram), who created our "Share Your Ideas" post for Design Month. 🤩 Here is a little about Derrick:

✨ What type of design work do you do?
I specialize in branding and visual theme production, with a focus on projects that let me blend my illustrative skills and artistic vision. I have a passion for hands-on work—whether it's free-handing typography with ink-stained hands, painting lively patterns for digital conversion, or hunting for the ideal textures. My creative process thrives on exploring diverse approaches to crafting captivating visuals.

✨ Why are you volunteering for Design Month?
Design Month is a way to get our community of creatives buzzing and engaged. Being a part of creating conversation around innovation and ingenuity not only keeps us informed as creatives, it helps expose us to more and more voices with more and more perspectives.

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Ready to mix and mingle with Portland's finest graphic designers at our August dMob? ✨

Head to the Bye and Bye on Wednesday, August 14, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM for a night of creativity, camaraderie, and craft cocktails. Whether you're a pro or just starting out, everyone is welcome!

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-dmob-bye-and-bye-tickets-952805836907

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✨ 7 DAYS LEFT to sign up for our August Work in Progress event. ✨

Reviews for feedback are limited to the first three (3) people who sign up and attend – so be sure to register while there are still available spots!

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wip-work-in-progress-tickets-812679364857

Our last spotlight is for Sara Rosario, another recent PCC grad, she's also known as Sparky! 🌟🎓

She has a passion for branding, logo design, typography, and storytelling. She loves using her creativity to craft compelling visual identities and enjoys exploring new ways to incorporate her craft skills. You can catch her at .design on Instagram. She is also open to work! 🤩

Our next spotlight is for Grace Howard, a new PCC grad! 🤩🎓

Grace has a lot of love for creating unique brand identities, hand-drawn illustrations, bold typography, and engaging editorial design. She's open to work and can't wait to grow her skills as a designer. You can catch her at on Instagram. ✨

We're so excited to feature new grads this month! 🎓✨

Our first spotlight is for one of our own volunteers Violet McLemore (.design on Instagram)! Violet is interested in creating eclectic visual identities and is passionate about copywriting, branding, and handmade lettering. She's a recent PCC grad and is open to work! 🤩

Join VOLUMES this weekend, July 27 and 28, for A Celebration of Publications at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)! ✨

Get ready for entire weekend of events including a book fair featuring some of Portland's best booksellers, an opportunity to upload your favorite magazines to The People’s Graphic Design Archive, a panel discussion, and an installation with hundreds of publications to interact with! 🌟

📆 July 27th + 28th, 12 pm - 5 pm
📍 Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
15 NE Hancock St, Portland, OR 97212
🔗 www.volumesdesignlibrary.org

As PDX Design Month approaches, we are so excited to showcase the vibrant creativity of our community. 🤩

To make this event truly amazing, we need your help. We're looking for volunteer designers to help us create posts for our social media channels! If you are interested in helping out, please reach out to [email protected]. 📧

✨ Sign ups are open for our August Work in Progress event. ✨

Work in Progress (WIP) is a fantastic opportunity for Oregon-based designers to give and receive feedback either on a specific project or a portfolio piece. We welcome high schoolers, college students, recent graduates, young professionals, mid-level, senior, creative directors and retired designers of all ages to join.

Reviews for feedback in each event are limited to the first three (3) people who sign up and attend – so be sure to register while there are still available spots!

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wip-work-in-progress-tickets-812679364857

🤩 Just a few more days until our July dMob at Paymaster Lounge this Wednesday, July 10, from 6-8 PM! We can't wait to see you there!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/july-dmob-paymaster-lounge-tickets-938791008177?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Mark your calendars for Wednesday, July 10th, for our July dMob event! 📆

Grab a drink, make new friends, and join us at Paymaster Lounge (). See you there! 🤩

dMob is AIGA’s monthly meetup for creatives of all kinds to mix, mingle, and explore different Portland bars and eateries.

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/july-dmob-paymaster-lounge-tickets-938791008177?aff=oddtdtcreator

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our June dMob at Holy Ghost! 🎉 We had a blast connecting with other creatives in a spooky and eclectic setting! We hope to see you at our next one! ✨

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Creatives! Do you have some thoughts to share with our new grads? 💬

Whether you’ve been in your industry for a year, 5 years, or 10+ years, they'd love to hear your advice! Share in the comments below 📝

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✨ ONE SPOT LEFT for designers seeking feedback for our July Work in Progress event. ✨

Reviews for feedback are limited to the first three (3) people who sign up and attend – so be sure to register while there are still available spots!

Secure your spot NOW!

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WIP - Work in Progress An opportunity for designers to give & receive constructive feedback on creative work prior to showing their team/client/stakeholders.

Womxn Lead is back for another Sketches & Coffee! A place to network, sketch, and enjoy a cuppa joe. ☕️

Join us for a sketching session filled with networking, inspiration, and design talks with creative womxn in the Portland design community. 🤩

📆 Our next Sketches & Coffee session is on Sunday, July 14 from 12-2pm at Madrona Hill Cafe.

🎟️ Only 10 tickets are available. Secure your spot now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womxn-lead-sketches-coffee-tickets-924767954847

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🌟 Please fill out our 5-question survey by July 1, 2024, to help our website committee understand what the community needs to inform our new site. What do you currently use on the website? What features do you think a new site should include? We appreciate your thoughts! 💭

🔗 https://surveyheart.com/form/6669f5e523ab691a106f8ab6

Thank you for joining us at Pictures & Pints! 📸🍻 We had an awesome time getting to know other creatives at Steeplejack Beer and getting our headshots taken by the amazing Jay Fram ( on Instagram)!

Here are some of the headshots Jay took during the event. 🤩

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