The design was developed by the team at Brick Design, Inc., a new firm founded by Brian Jacobs, a past president of AIGA SF.

In creating our new site, we wanted to provide our members, and the design community at large, a more interactive experience and created four main categories:

Events are the lifeblood of AIGA SF and we wanted visitors to be able to search for events that would appeal to them. We also wanted to be able to archive past events and provide photos, podcasts and other moving images from those events.

The new Community section is a way to connect the design community in the Greater Bay Area. We will feature articles, announcements, polls and profiles that are of interest to our members and the greater design community. You may also offer comments on community posts, as well as upcoming and past events.

The Resources section gives our members access to local and national information that is important to their career and business needs. You can search for a designer in the national database, or find your next career move. Trying to find the name of that printer in your neighborhood? You can find it here.

AIGA SF is involved in many topics and the Initiatives section gives you information about these programs and the appropriate contact for each initiative.

Finally, we hope that you will find our new interactive site interesting and informative. You may send us comments on the Contact page, or sign up for our email list. To keep on top of all issues, please subscribe to the AIGA iCal and RSS feeds using the links provided.

Welcome to AIGA San Francisco.

AIGA San Francisco is celebrating our 25th anniversary. Founded in 1983 as the national organization began creating local chapters to decentralize leadership, AIGA SF is one of the oldest chapters. In the quarter century since our founding, we have grown to also be one of the largest and most active.

We’d like to recognize the original group of dedicated professionals who founded the chapter:

• Doug Akagi
• Leslie Becker
• Rich Burns
• Michael Cronan
• Barry Deutsch
• Jim Foelman
• Craig Frazier
• Kit Hinrichs
• Tom Ingalls
• Conrad Jorgenson
• Kate Keating
• Russell Leong
• Michael Manwaring
• Michael Mabry
• Harry Murphy
• Steve Reoutt
• Susan Roach
• Neil Shakery
• Jim Stockton
• Michael Vanderbyl

Last month we asked: “With the primaries in full swing, we’re curious to know which candidate’s logo appeals to your design sense. You cast your vote for the best primary candidate logo.”

Looks like a landslide…

In January, we closed out our round of polls related to our first AIGA SF Design Library book drive asking about your favorite postmodernist design tome…

In December we asked, “To keep my holiday conversations bright, I will be brushing up on my design history with . . .”

In October we asked: “The awesome power of the grid did not become mine until I turned the pages of . . .”

We asked which typography books held a place of honor on your shelf.