AIGA Design Conference
October 9-11
Los Angeles | Westin Bonaventure
Join us for the 2025 AIGA Design Conference in Los Angeles, where we’ll connect, create, and support a resilient design community. Through inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, and meaningful collaborations, we’ll explore design’s impact and its power to shape a more inclusive future. Let’s make this conference a space for learning, connection, and support—because together, we design a better tomorrow.
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Conference Theme: Design + Performance
The 2025 AIGA Design Conference theme, Design + Performance, explores the dynamic intersection of creativity and execution. Great design isn’t just about vision—it’s about impact. Through storytelling, movement, and innovation, we’ll examine how designers craft experiences that engage, inspire, and perform in the world, shaping culture and driving change.
We're starting the conversation with a new season of the AIGA Design Podcast! Catch up here.
2025 Schedule Overview
All times US Pacific. Schedule subject to change.
Thursday, October 9
8 AM–5 PM - Registration Desk Open
9:30 AM–11:30 AM - Workshops*
11:30 AM–12:30 PM - Lunch on your own
12:30 PM–5 PM - Workshops (Breaks Included)*
5 PM–6:30 PM - Mainstage Welcome Session
*Workshops included in ticket cost. Pre-registration to launch prior to conference start.
Friday, October 10
8 AM–5 PM - Registration Desk Open
8 AM–9:30 AM - Continental Breakfast, Design Fair + Networking
8:30 AM–9:15 AM - Morning Breakout Sessions
9:15 AM–9:30 AM - Break
9:30 AM–11 AM - Mainstage Presentations
11 AM–11:45 AM - Refreshment Break, Design Fair
11:45 AM–1:15 PM - Afternoon Breakout Sessions
1:15 PM–2:45 PM - Lunch on your own
2:45 PM–4:15 PM - Mainstage Presentations
4:15 PM–5 PM - Refreshment Break and Design Fair
5 PM–6:30 PM - Mainstage Presentations
6:30 PM–7:30 PM - Happy Hour + Networking
Saturday, October 11
8 AM–9:30 AM - Continental Breakfast, Design Fair +
8:30 AM–9:15 AM - Morning Breakout Sessions
9:15 AM–9:30 AM - Break
9:30 AM–11 AM - Mainstage Presentations
11 AM–11:45 AM - Refreshment Break and Design Fair
11:45 AM–1:15 PM - Afternoon Breakout Sessions
1:15 PM–2:45 PM - Lunch on your own
2:45 PM–4:15 PM - Mainstage Presentations
4:15 PM–5 PM - Refreshment Break, Design Fair + Networking
5 PM–6:30 PM - Mainstage Presentations + Closing Session
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2025 In-Person Tickets
Member Last Minute
$999 per ticket
*Flash Sales now until October 3
Not Yet A Member Last Minute
$1,929 per ticket
Nonprofit/Gov't
$699 per ticket
Educator
$399 per ticket
Student
$299 per ticket
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2025 Conference Partners
AIGA LA
AIGA LA is a catalyst for and champion of design in Southern California. Our mission:
To advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force
To provide leadership in the exchange of ideas and information, to encourage critical analysis and research and to advance education and ethical practices for the design community of Los Angeles.
To connect, inspire, and support all design professionals throughout the arc of their careers.
CalArts
CalArts is a multi-disciplinary community of artists. Through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and the world. The Graphic Design MFA program at CalArts has historically encouraged experimentation and innovation in the field of graphic design, testing the boundaries of what professional practice might be.
We develop makers and thinkers who go on to shape design culture.As the only college devoted exclusively to graduate fine arts education, VCFA offers artists and writers a transformative educational experience and an inclusive creative community. The MFA in Graphic Design at VCFA is an innovative low-residency program built around students’ interests, values, and creative goals. Join our faculty and students in continuously rethinking the field of graphic design.
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Cella
At Cella our goal is to put passion to work by helping people create meaningful careers and partnering with companies to help them win. That’s what motivates each one of us to deliver an excellent service experience in every interaction with those looking for their next career move. Whether you’re a passionate creative, marketing, or digital expert, finding a fulfilling job on your own can be daunting. That’s where Cella comes in. We’ll find you a great opportunity at an organization where you can be a valuable—and valued—team member.
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Corita Art Center
Founded in 1997, Corita Art Center, an affiliate of the Immaculate Heart Community, preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice. Today, Corita Art Center supports exhibition loans and public programs, oversees image and merchandising rights, and serves as a resource and archive on her life and work.
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Darden Studio
Darden Studio is a collective of individuals who like working together, some of the time. Studio membership signifies an affinity for the brand started by Joshua Darden and continued by Joyce Ketterer. Most members have multiple projects in multiple places but regard the studio as a kind of second home. We pursue typography that is the result of earnest inquiry, suited to contemporary technical and design expectations, and rooted in the values and practices of five centuries of typefounding. Founded by Joshua Darden, we publish work that we want to experience in the hands of others and to use ourselves. Good typography withstands the whims of fashion. It is aware of its time and place but functioning far into the future. To begin a conversation, please get in touch with us and tell us what you’d like your type to say about you.
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Figma
Figma is the leading collaborative design platform for building meaningful products. Design, prototype, and build products faster—while gathering feedback.
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ImagineArt
ImagineArt is the ultimate platform for creators, bridging imagination and technology to redefine artistic expression. Our mission is simple: to empower creators everywhere by putting the most advanced AI tools at their fingertips.Get the complete toolkit for creativity, including Photogen, Videocraft, Imagine Sketch and Music Studio. Whether you’re a designer, filmmaker, or storyteller, our platform offers a seamless experience that makes creativity accessible, intuitive, and limitless. Trusted by over 100 million users across mobile and web, ImagineArt is the future of content creation.
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
With over 171,000 graduates, the Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) is the biggest online design school globally. Their courses cover the entire spectrum of UX design from beginner to advanced. It's the IxDF's mission to help democratize UX Design education by making it more affordable and accessible worldwide!
In partnership with the AIGA Design Conference, IxDF is offering three months of free membership to attendees!
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MATTER
MATTER is the design consultancy founded with printing presses, who then opened a bookstore for designers, revolutionaries, and other thinking persons—and now—offers frameworks for ethics, models for change, and change-thinking for design’s role in the communities where we live and work. We are pro-labor, pro-queer, and pro-body autonomy. We work with organizations and individuals who are values-aligned.
We are genuinely excited to work with people who are starting something or trying to make a change. This is just a small part of our story. Tell us yours.
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Paradiso
Paradiso isn’t a conference. It’s a creative retreat, a celebration, and a world we’re building together. It happens from March 4th to 8th 2026 in Mérida, Yucatán—but really, it begins the moment you say YES.
There’s no front row or back row. No VIP wristbands. Everyone’s in the middle of the experience. Five days of deep conversations, shared meals, honest learning, late-night memories, and creativity that flows into every part of life.
Paradiso is what we think paradise feels like—not a place, but a state of mind. A space where ideas don’t compete, they collide. Where creativity isn’t a job, it’s a shared language. Where showing up as you are is more than enough.
Come as a stranger. Leave part of something bigger. This is Paradiso.
Peak Promo
Born during a time when the world needed connection more than ever, Peak Promo by Hornsby Creative originated as Connection Kits to bring tangible touchpoints into virtual spaces. While our branded event toolkits continue to turn both in-person and virtual audiences into raving fans, our scope has broadened. We're now honed in on propelling businesses in the craft beverage, outdoor industry, education, the trades, and healthcare to their peak performance through carefully curated promotional merchandise.
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PRINT (founded 1940) is where creative people gather to inspire and build design dialogue. Perpetually curious about everything design, we report on, curate and celebrate visual culture, the makers of that culture and the expression of graphic design in all its forms and mediums. In late 2019, the PRINT brand and Printmag.com were acquired by PRINT Holdings LLC, comprised of industry veterans Debbie Millman (Design Matters), Steven Heller (The Daily Heller), Jessica Deseo (CoolWish), Deb Aldrich (D’NA Company) and Laura Des Enfants (D’NA Company).
Together, this team is committed to carrying the brand forward in innovative new ways while honoring its deep legacy.
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Stash
Stash Media showcases exceptional motion design, animation, and VFX projects and the people who create them. The goal is to provide creative resources that professional and fans can rely on to stay inspired and informed.
The STASH PERMANENT COLLECTION is the only streaming platform dedicated to design, animation, and VFX. It provides subscription based access to 1000s of outstanding motion projects plus behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews. Stash subscribers include a global community of studios, agencies, broadcasters, brands, schools, and creatives.
STASH MAGAZINE provides creative and production teams with a daily source of inspiration and insight into the talent, trends, and techniques powering the motion design industry.
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