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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.