AIGA Portland

Join us on Saturday, October 10 at 10 AM in SE Portland at Studio Sign Co. for a hands on workshop where attendees learn the basics of drafting and painting sign letters by hand. Led by a second generation sign painter, Nick Lee of Studio Sign Co. has over 20 years of sign industry experience. Nick learned from his father Melvin Lee who worked as a commercial sign painter for over 50 years.

🎟️ Get your tickets now: https://www.studiosignco.com/event-details/sign-painting-101-block-lettering-casual

📆 Check out the rest of the PDX Design Month calendar at https://www.aigapdx.org/portland-design-month.

What can design do for democracy? A panel conversation on design, power, and participation, part of 2026 Portland Design Month. Featuring Raphael Arar, Ron Bronson, Daria Loi and Andy Pressman.

📆 Thursday, October 15, 5:30pm
📍 Workers Tap, 101 SE 12th Ave (https://workerstap.wordpress.com/)
🎟️ Free, no RSVP

🎨 Visuals by Kris Blackmore (https://krisblackmore.com/)

📆 Check out the rest of the PDX Design Month calendar at https://www.aigapdx.org/portland-design-month.

How We Design for Feeling: A studio table conversation to explore ways we can build, support, sustain and design everyday creative practices.

Join Hakim Mikah at Studio GO: pdx (https://www.studiogopdx.com/) in SE Portland to connect, talk and get inspired to bring design, experience and feeling together on Wednesday, October 7 from 6PM to 8PM. Their studio table conversation is an open invitation for local communities of practice to gather and learn together.

🎟️ Get your tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-we-design-for-feeling-tickets-2001014613575

📆 Check out the rest of the PDX Design Month calendar at https://www.aigapdx.org/portland-design-month.

Let’s say hello to the new AIGA Portland Womxn Lead Chair: Giselle Patton (https://gisellepatton.com/)! ✨

With over 12 years of experience in design, Giselle is passionate about creating work that goes beyond aesthetics to tell meaningful stories and connect with people.

Her background spans branding, print and digital marketing, web design, and art direction, with a growing passion for UX/UI and the ways people interact with design.

We’re so excited to have Giselle join the AIGA Portland community. Welcome aboard! 💙

🎨 Post design by: Bianca Nakayama (https://imbianca.art/)

For… CAN DO! A Show About Cans! 🥫

🎨 This October, AIGA Portland is kicking off Design Month with something a little different: a celebration of the design work happening on beverage cans right here in Portland.

We're building a full lineup of can art from breweries, cideries, and beverage makers from across the city, displayed side by side. Attendees can vote for their favorites across a few categories. Winners take home an AIGA Portland Design Award. 🏆

📣 Here's where you come in: Do you know a local brewery or beverage maker with can art you love? Tag them or share this post so it reaches them.

Beverage makers can sign up HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMhlrwDliXaA2lHuvS8mIJvOPtptbeF2AzzyP8FGPl-p8ApQ/viewform ⬅

👟 Come kick off Portland Design Month (https://www.aigapdx.org/portland-design-month-2026) on Friday, October 2 from 6pm to 9pm at Kiln in SE Portland with the story behind this year’s brand identity from designer Emy Su (https://www.emy-su.com/), a look at what’s ahead this October and drinks with friends.

🎨 Also… CAN DO - an art show about cans - celebrating the design work happening on beverage cans here in Portland. We're building a full lineup of can art from breweries, cideries, and beverage makers from across the city. Attendees can vote for their favorites across a few categories. Winners take home an AIGA PDX Design Award. 🏆

⁉️ Do you know a local brewery or beverage maker with can art you love? Tag them or share this post so it reaches them. Beverage makers can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMhlrwDliXaA2lHuvS8mIJvOPtptbeF2AzzyP8FGPl-p8ApQ/viewform

There’ll be food, drinks, and plenty of time to catch up with old & new friends. We’ve got a lot planned for October… let's start it off with a little noise! 📣

🎟️ Register now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-design-month-opening-event-tickets-2001034387720

🤩 Are you getting excited for AIGA Portland's 2026 Design Month yet?!

Well, once you see the list of events, activities and amazing guest speakers that we have lined up you'll be just as pumped as we are!

🫟 Here are some of the events planned for the October design festivities:
- sign painting workshop
- zine symposium
- patch and decorate your own blazer
- optical illusions and happy hour with Figma
- a panel on how murals transform cities like Portland 🌇

This is just a taste, visit the calendar on our website to see everything we have scheduled so far: https://www.aigapdx.org/portland-design-month-2026

🦋 Post design and illustrations by Emy Su (https://www.emy-su.com/)

The PNCA Design Lecture Series welcomes a broad range of creatives who are breaking expectations of what design can be and do in the world. 🤩

To kick off their Fall 2026 series, the Design Lecture Series is welcoming in Marshall Wang on Tuesday, September 29 at 6:30 PM at PNCA at Willamette University. ✨

Marshall Wang Meixuan (b. 1999, Shenzhen) is a Chinese graphic designer and art director based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice spans moving image, installation, publishing, interaction design, creative technology, and visual systems. Working across aesthetics, simulacra, networked media, and identity, she creates synthetic yet intimate experiences that examine post-digital culture, technological infrastructure, and the politics of imagery.

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Hosted by the BFA Graphic Design program at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) since 2016, and co-founded with FISK, the PNCA Design Lecture Series welcomes in a diverse range of creative folks to explore the broad and vibrant potential of design. For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest College of Art has served as a dynamic creative center for emerging artists, designers, and creators. PNCA is part of Willamette University.

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Interested in collaborating with us? We want to hear from you! 🤩

💪 Here are some ways to team up:
- Hosting an Event
- Starting a partnership with us
- Getting involved in our Design Month event that happens every October

To collaborate with us, reach out to our President Ventura Castro at [email protected]. ✨

🎨 Graphic Credit to Peter Litster ()

📣 Are you hosting an awesome design event for the community and want to get the word out? We can help! With over 5600 IG followers AIGA Portland has a lot of reach! 💪

Submit your event here and we'll post it on IG, IG stories, LinkedIn, add it to our website calendar and include it in our newsletter! (to be included in the newsletter, please have info submitted one week prior to the 1st of the month) ✨: https://airtable.com/apphJb6kpm69hw8Uv/shrlIbqNM9dfouyV6

❗️Important❗️*Submitting a community event must be done at least two weeks before the event is held. We need time to process the request on our end, check links and sources and schedule.

🎨 Post design by: Peter Litster ( on Instagram)