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Upcoming Events
Womxn Lead: Connect and Create
April 22, 2025
🍹 Join AIGA Womxn Lead at Hey Love for Connect and Create on Tuesday, April 22 from 6–8 PM—an evening of creativity, community, and fun! 🤩
You'll get sketch paper and drawing utensils to design your dream drink—mocktail, cocktail, or something totally wild.
No art skills needed, just imagination! Connect with fellow creatives, unwind, and let your ideas flow. Stay for a quick sketch or hang out all night—it's up to you! Come as you are, leave with new connections and a custom-crafted creation all your own. Let’s sip, sketch, and celebrate the power of creative women together! ✨
🎟️ Only 25 spots! Secure your tickets now!
What is AIGA Womxn Lead Portland?
AIGA Womxn Lead Portland stems from the AIGA Womxn Lead Initiative which is committed to empowering womxn in design and advancing the vital discourse on issues facing professional womxn today without generalizing or segregating womxn designers. Instead, Womxn Lead aims to address persistent biases and inequities inclusively and constructively through programming around three goals:
1. Celebrate the achievements of womxn in design.
2. Cultivate awareness of gender-related issues, while building knowledge and leadership skills.
3. Connect by facilitating relationships within and beyond the design community.
Making Creativity Profitable: When Your Work Is Used Without Permission
May 1, 2025
While imitation may be a sincere form of flattery, unauthorized use of your creative work can diminish, even destroy, its value. For works protected by copyright, the law grants you exclusive rights over its display, distribution, and duplication—but what happens when someone else uses it without permission?
The Oregon VLA is hosting a free, virtual workshop on May 1st at noon PDT to discuss what you can and should do.
This workshop will explore a range of legal and business options for protecting and profiting from your creativity, including:
- How to respond when someone uses your work without authorization
- Choosing the right approach—legal enforcement, licensing, or other strategies
- The costs, benefits, and risks of different enforcement methods
- Proactive steps to strengthen your rights and maximize your work’s value, even in cases of unauthorized use.
May WIP - Work in Progress
May 1, 2025
The next Work in Progress is Thursday, May 1st at 6:00 PM PST. Reserve your spot as a presenter or reviewer!
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!
You are also welcome to join in to provide feedback or just listen in. No matter how you would like to participate, please click "Register" to receive the Google Meet link information.
Showing your design drafts and hearing opinions is an integral part of the design process. Work In Progress is an opportunity to engage in that collaborative process. Improve your communication skills, learn to receive constructive feedback, get fresh perspectives on your work, and hone your presentations skills in a welcoming environment.
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2025 AIGA Design Conference
The AIGA Design Conference is a different experience; we push the design profession forward by asking provocative questions and challenging designers to think about the future. From intriguing mainstage presenters to in-depth symposia that allow attendees to dive deeper into topics facing our industry, we entice the community to imagine the future.
WIP – Work in Progress
An opportunity for designers to give & receive constructive feedback on creative work prior to showing their team/client/stakeholders.
dMob at Ground Kontrol
Join us for dMob at Ground Kontrol! Connect with Portland’s creative community while enjoying classic arcade games, great music, and good vibes. It will be held April 9 from 6-8 PM—we’d love to see you there!
Portland UX Book Club: Author Event with Christian Crumlish
Join us for an exciting discussion with author Christian Crumlish about his book, Product Management for UX People: From Designing to Thriving in a Product World.
You do not need to read the book to join! We'll discuss the intersection of UX and product management, career transitions, and ways UX practitioners can collaborate effectively with product teams.
Womxn Lead: Sketches & Coffee
Womxn Lead is back for another Sketches & Coffee! A place to network, sketch, and enjoy a cuppa joe.
Create and Connect: AIGA Co-Working
Join AIGA Portland for a co-working session at Co-Working PDX at Fox Tower in downtown Portland! Whether you're looking to focus, collaborate, or simply connect with fellow designers, this is a great opportunity to work alongside like-minded creatives in an inspiring space. Drop in, bring your laptops, and get some work done with the AIGA community!
dMob at Birdie Time
Drinks, design, and a little friendly competition?
March’s dMob is landing at Birdie Time Pub in SE Portland on Wednesday, March 12 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, where the craft beers flow and the mini-golf is on point. Come hang, sip, and connect with Portland’s creative crew. See you there!
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