Design Ignites Change

The Aspen Design Summit, a partnership of AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, was held in November 2009 at Aspen Meadows with support from The Rockefeller Foundation.

Executive director Richard Grefé discusses design’s role in improving social conditions at home and abroad and how AIGA is involved.

The Living Principles form a framework to provide designers and their clients with an understanding of the core facets of sustainability and enable them to take action.

Culture is everything people in a design business do that supports the process of making work happen. Culture can create joy for designers, while improvements in process can facilitate profit.

From pitch to launch, what transpires between designer and client is often unseen and little-talked about, the details known only to a privileged few. But what if we could have a seat at the table? Be flies on the walls in the conference rooms of design presentations between designer and client? With “One + One,” we can!

Recently, FL2 and Modernista! partnered to create a site to bring visitors into the nearly 400 protected parks in the United States.