Designer Nikki Villagomez will proudly share her triumphs and failures as she takes the audience on a 10-step journey through the lessons she has learned in her last 18 years of in-house design, freelancing, educating, and being stay-at-home mom. These real-life lessons can be applied no matter what stage you're at in your career.

Join AIGA West Michigan in welcoming nationally recognized typography speaker, Nikki Villagomez, as she takes a look into how culture affects typography and decision-making processes in everyday life.

Are you finding it difficult to devote enough time to your creative resolutions? Does your portfolio need some attention, but you can’t seem to focus? Come work the Night Shift with AIGA WM and get some of your time back. The Night Shift is a group of creative professionals who burn the midnight oil together in an open, collaborative environment. There's no cost to attend, just bring your computer, your sketchbook, or whatever else you need to make something awesome.

Design Week is coming and we need your help! WMDW is made possible by volunteers, partners, and companies from across Michigan. Help us as we expand our efforts. There are many ways to show your support in addition to attend the scheduled events. Click below to find out how you can help.

As we approach our 150th anniversary we have started to gather and reflect on past printed materials and promotional items. Seeing everything together, we knew this collection was too cool to keep to ourselves and that we had to bring the collection back to the people that made it all possible. With that, The French Paper Road to 150 Tour was born. An exhibit made up of 30 plus years of historical items will be traveling around the country, piloted by the French family themselves. City by city, the Road to 150 Tour will bring new meaning to the term work and turn.

Throughout the most of the 20th and the 21st century beauty has gotten a bad reputation: Most respectable designers claim not be interested in it, the contemporary art world has almost completely abandoned it and you can sit through hours of lectures on architecture without hearing the term uttered once. But a beautiful environment not only changes how we feel, it also changes how we behave.