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Distance and Dial-ups:  How We’ve Survived 26 Years as a Distributed Team

Distance and Dial-ups:  How We’ve Survived 26 Years as a Distributed Team

My job has disappeared. My IBM PC is in the trunk of my car. It’s August 1993.
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Josh Freeman
Design Thinking: Powerful Practice or Powerful Bullshit?

Design Thinking: Powerful Practice or Powerful Bullshit?

“Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the…
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AIGA Los Angeles
Maximizing Influence: How AI Will Help Us Create Lasting Experiences

Maximizing Influence: How AI Will Help Us Create Lasting Experiences

When thinking about the greater implications for design, AI seems to provide an opportunity for designers to maximize their potential.
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AIGA Los Angeles
Poster Recipes: The Art of Visual Flavors by Byoungil Sun

Poster Recipes: The Art of Visual Flavors by Byoungil Sun

Byoungil Sun’s works are a remarkable blend of the Eastern artistic traditions and the principles of European graphical arts.
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AIGA Los Angeles
Writers and Designers, For Designers

Writers and Designers, For Designers

When a designer asks me, “How do I work with a Copywriter? The most obvious answer comes to mind, how do you want to work with them?
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Paul Elliston
Gratitude Through Art Therapy: The Most Powerful Antidepressant

Gratitude Through Art Therapy: The Most Powerful Antidepressant

Nowadays, people are bombarded with constant stress and digital stimuli. Approaching deadlines from work, distracting emails that need a…
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AIGA Los Angeles
Design in Mind

Design in Mind

Giotto drew a perfect circle on a page without moving anything other than his wrist. The act was the result of stillness, a steady hand…
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AIGA Los Angeles
Capturing the State of Mind

Capturing the State of Mind

In recent years, we have been witnessing an undeniable shift in how we look at and talk about mental health in our culture. Yet, the…
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AIGA Los Angeles
Poster Recipes: Think first, design later by Lex Drewinski

Poster Recipes: Think first, design later by Lex Drewinski

As I’m sure it is for most artists, it all starts with an IDEA. Without a good idea, there is no reason to even begin …
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AIGA Los Angeles
Branding: Beyond the Visual

Branding: Beyond the Visual

When we think about branding, we typically conjure up images like the Coca Cola logo or the Target bulls-eye mark. While this makes total…
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Michelle Jolliffe
Graffiti to Graphic Design: The Pathway From Illicit to Commercial

Graffiti to Graphic Design: The Pathway From Illicit to Commercial

Graphic designer by way of graffiti seems to be a natural progression today within the world of Graphic Design, and in particular to the…
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AIGA Los Angeles
Mike Drop with Errol Gerson

Mike Drop with Errol Gerson

Born and raised in Apartheid in South Africa, Errol Gerson left for the United States in 1966. Here, he received an MBA in Finance and…
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AIGA Los Angeles
Poster Recipes: “poster-with-the-lowercase-p” by Peter Bankov

Poster Recipes: “poster-with-the-lowercase-p” by Peter Bankov

The Recipe series allows us to get an inside look into the processes, practices, and routines of creatives worldwide.
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AIGA Los Angeles
Why I Accepted a Job Offer at OpenTable.

Why I Accepted a Job Offer at OpenTable.

I recently took a position at OpenTable as a Lead Experience Designer, and accepting the offer wasn’t as easy as I thought.
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Ashley Baker
Why Perceptual Skill Will Save Designers from Design

Why Perceptual Skill Will Save Designers from Design

The business of design demands always scanning outward for what’s “new” but that pales in comparison to what’s “within”
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Jod Kaftan
The Incredible Life of Good Girl.

The Incredible Life of Good Girl.

The year was 1999…
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AIGA Los Angeles
7 Ways to Unlock Your Creativity

7 Ways to Unlock Your Creativity

Actionable advice from Los Angeles design scene experts.
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AIGA Los Angeles
Girl, Disrupting

Girl, Disrupting

With Women’s History Month coming to an end, these designers remind us that their voices should be echoed throughout time and across…
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AIGA Los Angeles
‘BASIC SPACE’

‘BASIC SPACE’

We had the opportunity to briefly chat with the creative design team behind the forward thinking influencer e-commerce shopping app ‘Basic…
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AIGA Los Angeles
How do you use Space in Creativity? — Carlos Gutierrez

How do you use Space in Creativity? — Carlos Gutierrez

Carlos has been the Creative Director at Chocolate Skateboards in Los Angeles for several years now. Chocolate Skateboards has always been…
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AIGA Los Angeles
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