Past Events
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Event September 17, 2008 Fort Point Arts Community Gallery
Opening Reception: POSTGIG -- A Compilation of Music Posters
A special week long exhibit including original posters by: Modern Dog, Aesthetic Apparatus, Patent Pending, The Small Stakes, Seripop, Hammerpress, The Decoder...
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Event August 21, 2008 The Portsmouth BreweryOuter AFTA
AIGA Boston Outer AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk in towns and states neighboring Boston. For each event, a different firm gets to...
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Event July 24, 2008 Local 121AIGA Boston Outer AFTA: Boston and RI chapter host
We’ve expanded our AFTAs to outside the Boston area! In addition to our monthly Boston-area AFTAs, we will include an Outer AFTA every three months. AIGA Boston Outer...
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Event June 26, 2008 The Institute of Contemporary Art/BostonAFTA Thank You to Volunteers
AIGA is powered by its volunteers so it's time for us to say thanks. Please join members of the Boston Chapter Board for a night at the ICA. We will be meeting at 6:30PM...
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Event June 19, 2008 Cloud PlaceAnnual Meeting and Journal Release Party!
We all make mistakes. Big ones, small ones, mistakes that happen over and over again (or is that habit?). Sean Adams, partner at Adams Morioka and president of AIGA,...
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Event June 14, 2008 Massachusetts College of Art and DesignHatch Show Print Letterpress Workshop: Session 1
This event is sold out. Get your hands dirty with AIGA Boston! We're offering two half day workshops with Jim Sherraden from Nashville's Hatch Show Print! The...
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Event June 14, 2008 Massachusetts College of Art and DesignHatch Show Print Letterpress Workshop: Session 2
This event is sold out. Get your hands dirty with AIGA Boston! We're offering two half day workshops with Jim Sherraden from Nashville's Hatch Show Print! The...
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Event June 13, 2008 pinkcommagalleryGourmet Typography
Back by popular demand! Ilene Strizver, Founder of The Type Studio, noted typographic consultant and designer will lead another intensive hands-on typographic workshop...
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Event May 15, 2008 Phillips Library AuditoriumThe Language of Poster Design
The Language of Poster Design: An Exploration of Process presented by AIGA Boston and the Peabody Essex Museum Sponsored by Deschamps Printing Explore the...
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Event May 10, 2008 Midway TheaterArt Institute of Boston Design Exposition
tag: we're it is this year's leading design gala. Graduating seniors from the Art Institute of Boston have organized a design exposition that will turn the design field...
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Event April 26, 2008 Trustees Room, Massachusetts College of Art and DesignAnnual Student Portfolio Review
Act fast--space is limited and this event will sell out! The AIGA Student Portfolio Event is a day-long event designed to give you--a graduating senior or graduate-level...
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Event April 25, 2008 The Institute of Contemporary Art/BostonICA/AIGA Design Series: Stefan Sagmeister
This event is sold out. Due to the overwhelming response to this event, Stefan Sagmeister has agreed to do a second show at 8:30 pm. He will sign copies of his books...
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Event April 10, 2008 WGBH AuditoriumField Report: Navigating the New Media Frontier
What is new media and how do you design for it? With the proliferation of new modes of interactivity (from web-based marketing games to interactive installations), designers...
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Event April 3, 2008 Institute of Contemporary Art/BostonICA/AIGA Design Series: Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola is a comic book artist, writer, and creator of the Hellboy character, first published 14 years ago by Dark Horse and now an extremely successful franchise. Where...
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Event April 1, 2008 Massachusetts College of Art and DesignGet to Know Youth Design Boston
So you've heard about our Youth Design Boston program, but have been wondering to yourself what is it all about? And interested in getting involved? . . . Well now's...
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Event March 6, 2008 Watch City BreweryAIGA Outer AFTA, Hosted by Hart-Boillot
A conversation is an opportunity to learn, understand, feel, enlighten, and create. Join us for a night of brain-tenderizing dialogues with Hart-Boillot and your peers...
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Exhibition March 4, 2008 Endicott CollegeBoNE Show on the Road at Endicott College of Art & Design
The Best of New England (BoNE) Show is AIGA Boston's design competition which takes place once every two years, and highlights the best work from the creative community in...
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Event February 28, 2008 WGBH AuditoriumGael Towey Lecture
Lecture by Gael Towey, chief creative officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. and founding art director of Martha Stewart Living. In 1990, Gael began working...
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Event February 27, 2008 28 DegreesAIGA AFTA, Hosted by Continuum
AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA...
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Event February 21, 2008 Art Institute of Boston50 Books | 50 Covers Selections 2007
Presented by The Art Institute of Boston Exhibit February 1 - March 8, 2008 Evening reception: Thursday, February 21st, 5:00-7:00 pm After careful and considered...
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Event February 21, 2008 Phillips Library AuditoriumCreative Salons: Japanese Aesthetics
Join graphic design professor John McVey and ikebana specialist Keiko Thayer for a lively discussion about the ancient art of flower arrangement, the part it plays in defining...
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Event February 20, 2008 Audubon Circle Restaurant and BarBook Group Meeting
AIGA Boston's Book Group meets every other month in Boston to discuss a wide selection of design books. The group is run by volunteers and made up of 10-15 people. Books...
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Exhibition February 7, 2008 The Gallery at Mount Ida College365: AIGA Year in Design 28
An exhibition of outstanding communication design produced in North America in 2006, which opened to the public in December 2007 at the American Institute of Graphic Arts...
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Event January 25, 2008 District LoungeJanuary AFTA: Celebr8 2008
Kick off 2008 at our AFTA New Year Celebration and get a peek at the '08 aiga boston events calendar. Mingle and munch at District Lounge with the creative community and...
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Event January 17, 2008 Boston University's College of General StudiesFinding the New Creative: a panel discussion
Convergences in Fine Art and Commercial Photography Presented by the Photographic Resource Center, AIGA Boston, and The Ad Club The PRC is pleased to present...
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Event December 13, 2007 Institute of Contemporary Art/BostonAIGA/ICA Design Series: Design Life Next
If you purchased tickets for this event, please note that due to inclement weather it has been postponed . We will try to reschedule the event in January. Please...
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Event December 12, 2007 The Audubon Circle Restaurant BarDecember Book Group Meeting
AIGA Boston's Book Group meets every other month in Boston to discuss a wide selection of design books. The group is run by volunteers and made up of 10-15 people. Books...
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Event December 6, 2007 Cloud PlaceHatch Show Print: An American Poster Shop
Join us for a night of letterpress show and tell, with Jim Sherraden of Nashville's Hatch Show Prints. If you follow country music, country music history, or the history,...
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Event November 28, 2007 The Liberty Hotel: 5th Floor RotundaNovember AFTA Hosted by the Advisory Board
Meet and mingle with the AIGA Boston Advisory Board and get a peek at the Liberty Hotel, Boston's newest hot spot. This special AFTA serves as the introduction of the...
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Event November 13, 2007 Massachusetts College of Art and Design2007 Fellows Award
Registration for this event is closed. Please join us for hors d'oeuvres, great conversation, and a celebration of 2007 Fellows Recipient Elizabeth Resnick A...
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Event November 9, 2007 Monadnock Paper MillsTour of Monadnock Paper Mills
This event is sold out. AIGA is on the road again. Jump in our van and join us for a tour of the Monadnock Paper Mills in Bennington, New Hampshire. Get an up-close...
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Event November 8, 2007 Phillips Library AuditoriumCreative Salons: Accidental Mysteries
Martin Venezky, graphic designer and author of It Is Beautiful… Then Gone , pairs with graphic designer, art collector and writer John Foster to explore their mutual...
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Event October 24, 2007 The Cloud FoundationAdobe Creative Suite 3 | Design Premium Workshop
This event has sold out. Experience the new Creative Suite 3 Design Premium! Let your ideas take flight in your choice of media, from print to web to mobile, using...
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Event October 18, 2007 Worcester Art MuseumOctober Outer AFTA
We’ve expanded our AFTAs to outside the Boston area! In addition to our monthly Boston-area AFTAs, we will include an Outer AFTA every three months. AIGA Boston Outer...
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Event October 17, 2007 The Audubon Circle Restaurant BarOctober Book Group Meeting
AIGA Boston's Book Group meets every other month in Boston to discuss a wide selection of design books. The group is self-running and made up of 10-15 people. Books to be...
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Event September 27, 2007 Institute of Contemporary Art/BostonICA/AIGA Design Series: Design Life Now
AIGA Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston invite you to the opening event of Design Life Now , the inaugural touring exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution/Cooper-Hewitt’s...
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Event September 26, 2007 BambaraSeptember AFTA with Proteus
Come join Proteus on Boston's Left Bank for the September AFTA. AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different...
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Event August 16, 2007 Portsmouth BreweryMulti-Chapter AFTA
We've expanded our AFTAs to outside the Boston area! In addition to our monthly Boston-area AFTAs, we will include an Outer AFTA every three months. AIGA Boston Outer AFTA...
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Event August 2, 2007 Concord's Haunted Colonial InnOuter AFTA with Lemon Magazine
The new edition of Lemon will be handed out at the event. AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different...
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Event July 26, 2007 Les Zygomates Wine Bar & BistroCatapult Hosts the July AFTA
AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA...
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Event June 7, 2007 MassArt2007 BoNE Show Awards Ceremony
Awards Rest of Show: Students Student: Emily Chionchio Project: Series of 3 limited edition Vespa promotional posters Student: Yvonne Fu Project: Herb Lubalin...
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Event May 30, 2007 Millennium GraphicsJournal Release Party / Annual Meeting
We're celebrating the completion of our latest issue of the Journal (designed by Adam Larson) and hope you'll join us at Millennium Graphics for a sneak peek of it. Come...
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Event May 23, 2007 Red SkyMay AFTA
Come share our delight May 23 at the Red Sky Restaurant and Lounge with the people who make our chapter fabulous! AIGA Boston is hosting this AFTA to celebrate our volunteers...
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Event May 9, 2007 Institute of Contemporary Art/BostonDebbie Millman + Antenna Design
Debbie Millman, host of the radio show Design Matters and partner at Sterling Brands, interviews Antenna Design’s Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger about their...
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Event May 5, 2007 Trustees Room, Massachusetts College of ArtAIGA Annual Student Portfolio Review
SOLD OUT! Waiting list spots only. The AIGA Student Portfolio Event is a day-long event designed to give you—a graduating senior or graduate-level student about to...
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Event May 4, 2007 The Cloud FoundationProfessional Development: Gourmet Typography II
Registration for this event has sold out. Take control of your type instead of letting it control you! Gourmet Typography Training teaches the typographic skills...
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Deadline April 30, 2007 BostonTim Moore Scholarship Deadline
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson AIGA Boston is honored to offer a...
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Event April 26, 2007 VesselField Report: Branding the Next
What is next in brand design? How is the next created in this age of viral marketing—where branding has moved out of the office, off the shelf and into the cultural...
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Event April 25, 2007 33 Restaurant & LoungeApril AFTA: Hosted by Modernista!
AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA...
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Event April 19, 2007 Simmons CollegeWhat Makes Target, well, Target?
This event is SOLD OUT. Connie Soteropulos, Group Creative Manager for Target, will be speaking about “What makes Target, well, Target?” As Group...
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Event April 12, 2007 Phillips Library AuditoriumCreative Collaboration: PEM
Use photography to create branding that “says it all,” conveys your mission, is a work of art in itself. Three architects of PEM ’s brand discuss the intersection...
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Event March 28, 2007 Institute of Contemporary Art BostonRick Poynor and Michael Rock
This event is SOLD OUT. No tickets available except for reserved. Between Art and Commerce: a Design Paradox The Institute of Contemporary Art and AIGA Boston...
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Event March 22, 2007 Pho RepubliqueMarch AFTA
AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA...
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Event March 9, 2007 The Foundation LoungeBoNE Show '07: Meet the Judges
THIS IS YOUR LUCKY DAY Don't waste that wishbone hoping to meet the distinguished 2007 BoNE Show judges in person — your wish is already granted! Join us at...
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Deadline March 5, 2007 BostonBoNE Show '07: Late Deadline
IT AIN'T LUCK! The AIGA doesn't throw a BoNE to just anyone. It takes skill and smarts to win at the Best of New England (BoNE) Show. Only the highest-quality examples...
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Event February 28, 2007 CromaFebruary AFTA
AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA...
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Deadline February 26, 2007 BostonBoNE Show '07: Call for Entries Deadline
IT AIN'T LUCK! The AIGA doesn't throw a BoNE to just anyone. It takes skill and smarts to win at the Best of New England (BoNE) Show. Only the highest-quality examples...
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Event February 23, 2007 The Cloud FoundationProfessional Development: Gourmet Typography
Back by popular demand. We're offering Gourmet Typography again on May 4th. Take control of your type instead of letting it control you! Gourmet Typography Training...
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Event February 15, 2007 Phillips LibraryCreative Collaboration: Marcos Chin
See how illustration can play a leading role in a national ad campaign. Marcos Chin graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1999, in Toronto, Canada. Since...
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Exhibition February 8, 2007 The Gallery at Mount Ida College365: AIGA Year in Design 27
Straight from the AIGA National Design Center in New York, don't miss the first stop as this exhibition of outstanding communication design, produced in North America in...
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Deadline January 31, 2007 AIGA BostonCall for Submissions: AIGA Boston Journal Showcase 2007
Submit your best work to journal@boston.aiga.org for a chance to be selected for AIGA Boston's Journal Showcase section, an overview of our chapter's best creative work...
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Event January 26, 2007 Gypsy BarAIGA Boston New Year's Celebration
Come Celebrate 2007, the Year of the Pig, with AIGA Boston. Good folks. Free munchies. Cash bar. And a special chance to mingle and to see what’s coming up for our...
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Event January 25, 2007 Simmons College LibraryStephen Doyle: The Truth about Visible Language
Come hear the truth from Stephen Doyle about words and their dreams of becoming real. Romp with him through the language of color making moods, enchantment, seduction and...
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Event December 20, 2006 Elephant & CastleDecember AFTA with Weymouth Design
AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA...
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Event December 14, 2006 Phillips LibraryCreative Collaboration: Tim Cawley
Focus on the donut, not the hole… AIGA Boston and the Peabody Essex Museum present Tim Cawley, one of the masterminds behind the current Dunkin’ Donuts...
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Event November 30, 2006 RedlineAFTA with the Harvard Design Group
Harvard design and communications professionals invite you to park yourself at a bar in Harvard yard. AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area...
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Event October 26, 2006 Cloud FoundationProfit is Not a Four Letter Word, Even in a Design Firm
The assumption in a lot of creative firms is that if you do great work, profit will follow. Not necessarily, says Jim Ahern, a CFO of Continuum. http://www.dcontinuum.com...
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Event October 26, 2006 Phillips Library AuditoriumCreative Collaboration: Kevin Grady & Colin Metcalf
Drawing upon their experience as creators of the critically lauded pop culture publications GUM and Lemon , Colin Metcalf and Kevin Grady will discuss design authorship...
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Event October 19, 2006 Vox PopuliAFTA: hosted by Continuum
Great design has a VOICE, and it is that of the people Let's get together and hear what each other has to say. AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form...
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Event October 11, 2006 Cloud FoundationTim Moore Commemorative Scholarship Dinner
To honor the memory of the late Tim Moore, beloved member of Boston's creative community, AIGA and PPCNE are joining together with Jan Moscowitz and Tim's many friends to...
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Event September 28, 2006 Cloud FoundationManage Color, Manage Expectations
Register Now This two-hour workshop takes designers into the mysterious world of color management and busts many of the myths of color management. We'll show you how...
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Event September 28, 2006 MassArt AuditoriumAlexander Isley: Sustainable Design
Join Alex for a discussion of how his firm addresses issues relating to sustainable practices in their work. He'll show examples from the areas of graphic, signage and exhibit...
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Event September 13, 2006 Design studios in BostonAIGA Boston's Creative Drive - Studio Tour & Party
Come join AIGA Boston for Creative Drive, a studio tour and after-party combo that gets you familiar with some of the great local studios and creative community in the Boston...
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Event August 30, 2006 The AsgardAFTA with the Zen Kitchen
WHAT'S AN AFTA? An AFTA is an agenda-less free-form gathering of area creative folk, named "AFTA" in a play off of the New England accent of AFTA ("After")...
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Event July 27, 2006 Beacon Street TavernAFTA with Stellio
AIGA Boston AFTA events are agenda-less, free-form gatherings of area creative folk. Each month a different firm gets to pick the place and play host for the evening; AIGA...
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Event June 29, 2006 McSwiggins Irish PubAFTA on the North Shore!
Hosted by North Shore Designers . Please join us at this AFTA, a monthly-ish, agenda-less, free-form gathering of area creative folk. Each month (or so) a different firm...
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Event June 15, 2006 City Hall in Portland MaineBoNE on The Road - opening at City Hall in Portland, Maine
Future dates and locations and will be posted here and at www.boneshow.org . A catalog of the 2005 BoNE Show is available for $15. If you would like a copy, please mail...
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Event May 25, 2006 DillonsAFTA with Arnold Worldwide
AIGA Boston is proud to announce the long-awaited return of AFTA, a monthly-ish, agenda-less, free-form gathering of area creative folk. Each month (or so) a different firm...
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Exhibition May 25, 2006 Northampton Center for the ArtsBoNE on The Road - opening at Northampton Center for the Arts
Future dates and locations and will be posted here and at www.boneshow.org . A catalog of the 2005 BoNE Show is available for $15. If you would like a copy, please mail...
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Event May 23, 2006 Cloud PlaceAIGA Boston Annual Meeting
The practice of design has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. Designers are now strategists, programmers, ethnographers, planners – thinkers. As a way...
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Event May 6, 2006 Massachusetts College of Art
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Event April 27, 2006 Millennium Graphics
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Event April 20, 2006 The Cloud Foundation
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Event April 13, 2006 Nebo
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Event April 10, 2006 Simmons College
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Event March 16, 2006 The Cloud Foundation
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Event February 23, 2006 ICA , Boston
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Event February 9, 2006 The Foundation Lounge
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Event January 24, 2006 The Art Institute of Boston
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Event January 24, 2006 The Cloud Foundation
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Event January 23, 2006 Massachusetts College of Art
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Exhibition January 19, 2006 The Art Institute of Boston
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Event January 19, 2006 The Cloud Foundation
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Event December 15, 2005 Vessel
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Event November 7, 2005 University of Connecticut
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Event November 1, 2005 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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Event October 27, 2005 Studio of Jordan Silverman Photography
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Event October 20, 2005 The Cloud Foundation
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Event October 18, 2005 Massachusetts College of Art
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Event October 6, 2005 RISD Design Center
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Competition June 6, 2005 Bakalar Gallery at the Massachusetts College of Art
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Event April 16, 2005 Massachusetts College of Art - Trustee Room
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Event April 12, 2005 The Boston Foundation
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Event March 15, 2005 The Raytheon Amphitheater
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Event March 11, 2005 SaintMeet the BoNE Show Judges
Meet the Judges of the 2005 BoNE Show! Chat with David Carson, Ophelia Chong, and Tony Calcao as they prepare to judge the 10th anniversary of the Best of New England...
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Deadline March 4, 2005 Please send entries to: