About

A practical resource, support network and platform for the Orange County design community.

About AIGA OC

The chapter

About and missionWhat the chapter is and what we stand for.BoardThe volunteers who run AIGA OC.Code of ConductHow we treat each other, in person and online.

Get in touch

Contact usReach the right person at the chapter.Community SlackAsk for feedback, share a job or find a printer.NewsletterHear about events first.
A speaker and an audience at an evening talkThe peopleMeet the board

Events

Talks, workshops and meetups from AIGA OC, plus community and national events worth your evening.

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Calendar

UpcomingWhat’s next on the chapter calendar.Past eventsWhat members printed, read and talked about.Submit an eventRunning a show or workshop? Tell us about it.AttendingAccess, parking and refunds.

Programs

ProgramsRecurring ways to learn and connect.MentorshipPair up with a working designer.Portfolio reviewsSpecific notes from designers who hire.
Stone paths and sculpture at California ScenarioPast eventJune Community Meeting: Noguchi Gardens

Membership

Join AIGA, choose Orange County as your chapter, and get a local network to go with the national one.

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Membership

Why joinA local network to go with the national one.Options and ratesFind the membership level that fits.How to joinJoin AIGA and choose Orange County.

Take part

Find an eventSee what’s on the calendar.Community SlackFree and open to everyone.VolunteerGive your time, skills or ideas.
An orange tree heavy with fruitJoinBelong to your local design community

Get involved

There are many ways to contribute to Orange County’s creative community. Pick one that fits your week.

All ways to help

Give time

OverviewPick a way to help that fits your week.VolunteerGive your time, skills or ideas.Board opportunitiesHelp lead the chapter.

Give support

Support AIGA OCHelp sustain a volunteer-run chapter.Partner with usMeet Orange County’s creative community face to face.
A printer holding up a silk screenVolunteerGive your time, skills or ideas

Resources

Find national tools and useful connections closer to home.

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Work and learning

OverviewNational tools and connections closer to home.JobsOpen roles and AIGA’s national job board.Students and educatorsWhere emerging creatives connect.

Find more

OC creative resourcesA guide to useful local connections.National resourcesProfessional tools from AIGA National.
Bronze and white sculptures outside LCADLocal guideExplore Orange County’s creative community

Updates

Event recaps, member stories and chapter news.

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News

All updatesEvent recaps, member stories and chapter news.Past eventsPhotos and notes from past gatherings.

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NewsletterHear about events first.InstagramFollow the chapter on Instagram.LinkedInFollow the chapter on LinkedIn.
An evening walk through a stone sculpture gardenEvent recapA summer evening at California Scenario

Your OC
creative
community

Meet designers, illustrators, art directors and students working from Fullerton to San Clemente. Come to an event, show what you’re making, and leave knowing people who do what you do.

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What’s happening

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AIGA OC

AIGA OC Welcome Back Mixer

November 12, 2026, 6:00 PM. Costa Mesa, CA.

Details and registration

AIGA National

2026 Civic by Design

November 21, 2026, 11:00 AM. Brooklyn, NY.

Details and registration

Community

Have an event to share?

Running a show, talk or workshop for OC creatives? Send it our way.

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Every sneaker drop, game launch and surf brand you know has a designer behind it, and a lot of them live here. We’re not a smaller LA or San Diego.

AIGA OC is where this county’s creative worlds meet and get to work.

What you get
from AIGA OC

A local network of people who care about type, color and craft, and regular reasons to meet them in person.

Events near you

Talks, studio visits, print nights and meetups in venues around the county.

A community Slack

Ask for feedback, share a job or find a printer. Free and open to everyone.

Hands-on nights

Print parties, book clubs and workshops like the ones in our archive.

A national network

AIGA membership adds national resources, events and a job board.

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Creatives talking around a long studio table at a meetup, with paper bunting overhead

What we stand for

How we show up for each other at events, in Slack and in the work.

A group of friends taking a selfie outdoors

Everyone gets a seat

  • Students
  • Freelancers
  • In-house teams
  • Studio owners

You all share the same table.
Bring work at any stage and ask anything.

Printer pulling a squeegee across a screen

Craft first

  • The idea
  • The type
  • The medium
  • The tools

We talk about how the work gets made.
Leave your title at the door.

A laptop on a wooden desk showing a designer’s portfolio website

Share what you know

  • Teach a workshop
  • Review a portfolio
  • Pass along a job lead

Members who give their time keep this chapter going.

Designers reviewing a wall of printed layouts together

Show up in person

  • Studios
  • Galleries
  • Print shops

We meet around the county. You’ll leave with a few new names in your phone.

Our
backyard

This county is full of places that feed creative work: Noguchi’s sculpture garden and OCMA in Costa Mesa, the Artists Village and mural alleys of Santa Ana, Laguna Beach’s century-old art colony. You’ll find us out in them, next to the artists, printers and studios who keep them going.

Stone paths and sculpture at California Scenario

California Scenario, Isamu Noguchi, Costa Mesa

Ferris wheel at the OC Fair at dusk

OC Fair, Costa Mesa

Bronze and white sculptures outside LCAD

Laguna College of Art and Design

A building covered in a bright cartoon mural

Murals, downtown Santa Ana

The white tiled facade of OCMA

Orange County Museum of Art

Photo: DarkNight0917, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and color graded

Hand-lettered graffiti on a concrete wall

Yost alley, Santa Ana

Photo: NerdyPirateGirl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and color graded

Laguna Beach coves under palm trees

Heisler Park, Laguna Beach

A large poster-style mural on a building wall

Street murals, Orange County

A person in an orange jacket under the Huntington Beach pier
Arcade cabinets glowing in a dark room
A surfer on a wave, black and white film
Two skateboarders on old Kodak film
Two designers reviewing a print together
A speaker presenting to a full room
A student studying an illustration at a table

Made in
Orange County

Game studios, surf and skate brands, agencies, in-house teams and schools. AIGA OC puts the people behind that work in one room.

From the archive

Print parties, book clubs and garden walks from past seasons. Drag to browse.

Past events
Hands setting wood type in a letterpress bed

CZAR Press Summer Printing Party

An evening walk through a stone sculpture garden

June Community Meeting: Noguchi Gardens

Curved sheets of paper in rainbow colors

January Creative Community Meeting: Show Some Stuff

Wood type letters in a wooden tray

Los Angeles Printers Fair 2019

Decorated cookies cooling on a rack

April Community Meeting: Play, a cookie decorating workshop

Wooden letters scattered on an orange surface

May Community Meeting: #FABAS Book Club

A speaker addressing a group in a brick loft

August Community Meeting: So You Say You Want to Volunteer

A row of dark beer bottles

November Community Meeting: The Bruery

A chapter built by its community

AIGA OC is a volunteer-run organization supporting local creative professionals and communities.

About the chapter
A hand pulling metal type from a case
Paper color swatches
Lettering on tracing paper
A screen printing press with yellow ink
Hands drawing in a sketchbook
A loupe on a color chart
Wood type blocks
A print resting on an old press
A printer holding up a silk screen

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Ask for feedback, find a freelancer, or hear about the next event first. The Slack is free and open to everyone, and the newsletter brings event dates to your inbox.

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