Welcome to the New AIGA Website! /

by Kevin Berger

I’m delighted to welcome you to the new website for AIGA Seattle, a site that we hope will help connect all AIGA members in the Puget Sound region with each other and the larger design community here. 

AIGA as a national organization has been changing a lot over the past few years, expanding the resources and benefits it offers us. (For more about benefits you may not be aware of, please see our new Membership page). But today in AIGA, there’s also more and more emphasis on what goes on at the chapter level.

One of the main goals for AIGA right now is inclusivity: letting everyone know that AIGA isn’t just a print-oriented, graphic design organization, but a much bigger tent. We’re now made up of nearly every discipline connected to design.

We aim for this new site to be a place where we can have conversations about design (in that wider sense), point to resources you’ll find useful, and give you more timely information about events, people, and issues.

Unlike our old website, this site will be dynamic. Not only will the links to AIGA national and other content be updated constantly, but we as a chapter plan to add interviews, blog posts, and resources to the site, to make it more and more valuable to all of us.

I’d like to thank several AIGA board members who made this new site happen: first, many thanks to Jeff Barlow, outgoing President of AIGA Seattle, who oversaw the initiation of this project and cheered it on, in addition to helping think through its branding. Thanks to Dave Newman, our outgoing Web Director, for his early work on the architecture of the site, and to Greg Bear, our new Web Director for picking up the reins and leading the site to launch. Thanks to Steve Watson (our Brand Experience Director) for designing the look and feel of the site. And thanks to the original web and branding team who got it off the ground: Linda Norlen (content development), Mark Notermann, and Rosslyn Snitrak, along with Jeff and Steve.

Kevin Berger is the President of AIGA Seattle.