2021 AIGA Portfolio Festival
Join us this summer for a virtual festival supporting students, recent graduates, emerging designers, and those looking to refresh their portfolio. Focused on mentorship, collaboration, and learning, the Portfolio Festival features content from design practitioners, influencers, educators, and partners, who can help you tailor your portfolio to your next opportunity.
Fireside Chats
Join AIGA's Executive Director, Bennie F. Johnson, in conversation with design industry leaders and innovators. These conversations seek to inspire dynamic new conversations in and outside of the design community. All Fireside Chats will stream live on LinkedIn.
Yocasta Lachapelle, Director of Talent, Collins
July 13
Albert Shum, CVP of Design, Experiences & Devices Group, Microsoft
July 15
Doug Powell, VP of Design, IBM
July 16
What's Included
Keynotes and Live Reviews
All attendees will have access to view keynote talks from Jina Anne, Aaron Draplin, Kaleena Sales, and Zipeng Zhu. Each speaker will follow their talk with three portfolio reviews, conducted live on Zoom before an audience.
Private Reviews
View and Review ticketholders will be scheduled for an intimate review session with a professional designer. Our team will match reviewees and reviewers based on practice area and other factors, for the best fit and most helpful review.
Discord and Miro
During the month of July, a private Discord group for all attendees will be active. Attendees will have the chance to connect, network, and share tips and tricks. Additionally, all attendees will be invited to post work and to give and receive feedback using the platform Miro.
AIGA Portfolio Festival Reviewers
Attendees with the View and Review ticket will be paired with a professional designer for an intimate review session. Reviewers are members of the AIGA community, from across the country and from diverse professional backgrounds.
See Our Reviewers
Pricing
View and Review
$69 nonmember
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews—and receive feedback in an intimate review session with a professional designer.
This ticket type is available through June 29, 2021. Ticket purchase and work samples must be submitted by this day in order to receive a portfolio review.
View-only
$59 nonmember
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews.
View and Review
$49 member
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews—and receive feedback in an intimate review session with a professional designer.
This ticket type is available through June 29, 2021. Ticket purchase and work samples must be submitted by this day in order to receive a portfolio review.
View-only
$39 member
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews.
Limited review slots available!
Thank You to Our Partners
3M
VAS is an essential plugin and web app for analyzing the effectiveness of designs. This powerful AI emulates the human vision system. Scientific algorithms simulate how we see in the first 3-5 seconds and predict what is likely to get noticed at first glance.
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud for teams powers business creativity and continuity — anywhere. Creative Cloud for teams comes with 20+ industry-leading apps for design, photography, video, and web as well as digital document experiences. Plus, with added collaboration features with Microsoft Teams, Slack, and other business tools it’s easy to stay in sync — and with Creative Cloud Libraries, users can share colors, images, and more across your apps and devices.
Adobe Design
Adobe Design is a dynamic, cohesive, global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe’s three product lines: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud. We design the tools and services that our customers use to create and communicate. Visit adobe.design to learn more about our team and what we’re passionate about.
Datadog
Datadog is a monitoring platform for hybrid cloud and cloud native applications, providing full visibility into the health and security of an application. Designers on the Creative team design visuals that elevate the Datadog brand, from redesigning the company website to creating an identity for a new conference from the ground up. The Creative team is supported by a culture that sees design as an integral part of Datadog's success.
Johnson & Johnson
J&J Design, part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, works globally across the Company’s main business segments: Consumer, Pharma, Medical Device and Corporate. Through the power of design, we design and optimize new experiences for consumers, employees, healthcare providers and patients. JJD’s steadfast commitments include ruthlessly driving patient centricity, accelerating digital transformation and elevating brand experience and reputation. Our team works together to build a culture where we can all thrive both personally and professionally and we can currently be found at seven locations, including offices in New York City, Singapore and Los Angeles.
Become a Festival Partner
We offer a range of dynamic Portfolio Festival partnership opportunities tailored to highlight your company or help you build meaningful pipeline connections.
Get Your Portfolio Ready
Watch 2020 Keynotes
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Register to Attend
Register to attend in one of two ways: view-only participants have access to keynotes and live reviews; full-access attendees have all that plus the opportunity to have their portfolios reviewed.
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