AIGA Portfolio Festival
The AIGA Portfolio Festival, July 19–22, is a virtual event 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.
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About the Live Event
Keynotes and Live Reviews
All attendees will have access to view keynote talks from our Headliners. 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.
Virtual Attendee Networking
Attendees get exclusive access to our networking platform to connect, learn, and grow from fellow designers, portfolio reviewers, and headliners. Enjoy access from registration to one month following the Festival.
Announcing the 2022 Headliners
Gail Anderson
Rose Newton
Tala Safie
Louise Sandhaus
Pricing
View and Review
$79 nonmember
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews—and receive feedback in an intimate review session with a professional designer.
Registration Closed
View-only
$69 nonmember
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews.
View and Review
$59 member
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews—and receive feedback in an intimate review session with a professional designer.
Registration Closed
View-only
$49 member
Watch keynotes and live-streamed reviews.
Register for a View-Only ticket today!
2022 Reviewers + Mentors
Reviewers are members of the AIGA community, from across the country and from diverse professional backgrounds. See who will be joining us as portfolio reviewers in 2022!
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2021 Portfolio Festival Fireside Chats
Yocasta Lachapelle, Director of Talent, Collins
Albert Shum, CVP of Design, Experiences & Devices Group, Microsoft
Doug Powell, VP of Design, IBM
More AIGA Portfolio Festival
View keynote talks and live reviews from 2021 and 2020 on our Talks page.
2021 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.
J&J Design
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.
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