Event Overview
One vibrant community. One beautiful room. One stimulating night.

In Chicago, we mix business and pleasure with uncommon flair. On June 9, Lincoln Park’s legendary Park West will bring the two together, taking design-minded enlightenment to new heights.

As the high-wattage climax of Chicago Design Week, the AIGA Chicago Annual Members Meeting will be equal parts inspiration and celebration. From compelling speakers and awards to cocktails and live music, our design community will gear up and party down as one. 

Renowned user experience pro and instructor Liz Danzico will share her wisdom as our keynote speaker. Local favorites Herculaneum will provide jazztastic tunes. And everyone who’s someone will be there—including you.

Breaking the Frame
Our frames are broken. Where once only authors or artists shaped a frame, now that frame has expanded, allowing all with something to say, something to express, to fully enter it, creating a primary platform for expression. What is possible now that the frame is broken? The book, as one example, gives way to marginalia. No longer just a one-way conversation between a reader and an author, the notes readers leave in their Kindle eek out beyond their text and are viewable to all. A dialog. As designers, we are exploring the edges, designing for the edges. Where are the edges, and what possibilities might there be?

About Liz Danzico
Danzico is part designer, part educator, and part editor. She writes part of her time on design, education, and culture at Bobulate.com.

Liz Danzico is an independent consultant, working with businesses to explore the relationship audiences have with their products and services through design research, information architecture, and design leadership. Recent projects have included Holton Media, MIT Technology Review, The TED Prize, and The Washington Post.

Liz is co-founder and chair of the MFA in Interaction Design Program at the School of Visual Arts. Liz is columnist for Interactions Magazine and Core77, creator of the Dot Dot Dot Lecture series, lectures widely, and serves on the advisory boards for the Austin Center for Design, CreativeMornings, and desigNYC.

Liz has been user experience director at Happy Cog, editor-in-chief for Boxes and Arrows, co-founder of A Brief Message, and an advisory board member for Rosenfeld Media, Design Ignites Change, the Information Architecture Institute, adjunct faculty at the New School University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. In the past, Liz directed experience strategy for AIGA, Before that, she directed the information architecture teams at Barnes & Noble.com and Razorfish New York. She has a BA from Pennsylvania State University and an MA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Liz has written for Adobe ThinkTank, AIGA Journal of Design, A List Apart, Boxes and Arrows, Business Week, Core77, Eye Magazine, Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design, Interactions Magazine, UX Matters, and writes ongoing for Bobulate.com.

Win a HOW Conference Pass
One pass for the HOW Conference ($1295 value, HOWConference.com) will be awarded at the Annual Members Meeting on Thursday, June 9.

Pre-Registration
$30 Members
$45 Members of Design Week Partner Organizations
$60 Non-members
$15 Students

Registration at Door
$40 Members
$55 Members of Design Week Partner Organizations
$80 Non-members
$20 Students

Ticket price includes 2 drink tickets.