AIGA Design Conference

Name: AIGA Design Conference 2023 · New York City
Start: 2023-10-13
End: 2023-10-14
Location: New York City

AIGA's national design conference, gathering designers and creative leaders around the practice, business and future of design.

Design LeadershipProduct DesignDesign EducationFuture of Design

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Latest edition

October 2025

Location

United States

Format

Hybrid

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

AIGA

About AIGA Design Conference

The AIGA Design Conference is the national gathering staged by AIGA, the professional association for design in the United States. It draws designers, educators and creative leaders to consider the practice of design, its wider cultural role and the direction of the profession.

Programming spans mainstage keynotes, fireside chats, panels, dialogues and workshops, with themes that have included Margins in 2024 and Design plus Performance in 2025. The event has run both as an in-person gathering, such as the 2025 edition in Los Angeles, and as a fully online conference in 2024.

Its scope reaches beyond visual craft to questions of leadership, inclusion, experimentation and the changing conditions of design work, which distinguishes it from more narrowly technical events.

Editions

2025
9–11 Oct
Los Angeles
15 speakers
2024
10–12 Oct
United States
24 speakers
2023
13–14 Oct
New York City
40 speakers
Speakers in 2023Speakers at AIGA Design Conference 2023
13–14 OctNew York City
Alberto Rigau
Alicia Cheng
Museum Design: The Whitney and the Met
Alisa Wolfson
Still Working: Design Stories from Chicago
Allison Connell
Image of the Studio: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Amedea Tassinari
Amedea Tassinari of Angel City FC
Bobby C. Martin, Jr.
The View from Here (Conference Chairs)
Cynthia Pratomo
Case Study: Launching Threads
David Tantrum
Debbie Millman
Mainstage Host / in-Conversation Interviews
Emily Oberman
Pentagram 50
Erika Lee
Building a Hyperlocal Creative Community: Ourspace Hawaii
Forest Young
Navigating a Career in Design: An Interview with Forest Young
Giorgia Lupi
Pentagram 50
Hilary Greenbaum
Museum Design: The Whitney and the Met
Ivy Ross
Fireside Chat with Ivy Ross and Debbie Millman
Jennifer Kinon
The View from Here (Conference Chairs)
Joi Fulton
From 2D to 3D: An Interview with Joi Fulton
Juan Carlos Pagan
Juan Carlos Pagan of Sunday Afternoon
Kelsy Postlethwait
Leslie Parker
Lisa Babb
Mainstage Host / Moderator
Lorilee Rager
Marina Willer
Pentagram 50
Mark Sanders
Our Histories: From the Past to the Future
Matt Owens
Image of the Studio: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Michael Bierut
The View from Here
Morgan Searcy
Our Histories: From the Past to the Future
Natalia Ilyin
Natasha Jen
Pentagram 50
Neville Brody
The Shock of the Newest
Nick Heller
Nicolas Heller
Welcome to New York: The Daily Heller and New York Nico
Patricia Childers
Paula Scher
Pentagram 50
Ramon Tejada
Rechung Fujihira
Building a Hyperlocal Creative Community: Ourspace Hawaii
Sasha Tochilovsky
Image of the Studio: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Silas Munro
Our Histories: From the Past to the Future
Steven Heller
Welcome to New York: The Daily Heller and New York Nico
Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton
2022
20–22 Oct
Seattle
18 speakers
2021
20–24 Sep
72 speakers
2020
9–14 Nov
13 speakers