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Kurt Haiman Drew the Long Line Between Commerce and Art
For nearly three decades, advertising paid Kurt Haiman to look closely. He spent the rest of his life returning the favor - to young designers, to pen and ink, and to the small New Jersey museum he helped keep in public view.
VADA put a design studio inside a public high school
At Santa Barbara High School, about 225 students combine academic coursework with art and design. VADA’s new studio makes that arrangement tangible - and its funding and admissions reveal what it takes to keep it public.
The design agency where beginners belong
At UC Berkeley, Innovative Design pairs campus creative work with a place to learn. Its most useful lesson may be how to make room for people who are still figuring out what they can do.
ATypI and the trouble with “everything else”
A typography association once endorsed a system that squeezed most of the world’s scripts into a miscellaneous drawer. Its decision to reopen that drawer explains what ATypI is for today.
AIGA San Francisco Gets Designers Into the Room
A portfolio can show what you know. AIGA San Francisco helps you meet the people who can challenge it - through critiques, studio visits, mentoring and a design community built over four decades.
AIGA Los Angeles Wants More Designers in the Room
Founded by design heavyweights, AIGA Los Angeles now puts its connections to work through free events, public-school education and a community-built logo archive. Its most useful offering is a way into the profession.
AIGA San Diego Tijuana Has a Better Brief: Bring Two Cities Together
At AIGA’s only binational chapter, the work stretches from student portfolios to a shared design identity. The useful part is how much of it begins with people showing up for one another.
Priya Sathiyam Wants the Future to Pass the Child Test
She began in software, discovered design at 25, and has spent the years since teaching companies, children, and AI teams to notice the people behind the interface.
Julio Cotorruelo
Julio G. Cotorruelo is the co-founder and CEO of Domestika, the global online learning community for creative professionals. Starting in 2002 as a modest Spanish-language forum for designers in Madrid, Domestika grew under his leadership into a unicorn valued at $1.3 billion, with over 8 million members, 2,000+ courses, and a presence in six languages. A notoriously press-shy entrepreneur, Cotorruelo built one of the world's largest creative education platforms by championing affordable, pay-per-course learning and the belief that creativity is best learned through doing - not just reading.
Steve Schoger
Steve Schoger is a Canadian visual designer and partner at Tailwind Labs, best known for co-authoring Refactoring UI with Adam Wathan - a book and video course that generated over $2.5 million in sales by teaching developers how to design beautiful interfaces. He built a 127K+ Twitter following by sharing meticulous, practical design tips, and created widely-used free resources including Heroicons, Zondicons, and Hero Patterns. His work sits at the intersection of design education and developer tools, making professional UI design accessible to programmers worldwide.