AIGA Minnesota created or partnered with other organizations to produce 60+ programs in the past 12 months. Revisit past events below.

Virtual Event
Jan
12
12:00pm
2023

Now in its 42nd year, Design Camp® is AIGA Minnesota's premier event and historically the largest regional design conference in the country. Each year we bring together a diverse array of design professionals, students, and affiliated creatives from the Upper Midwest for an experience full of learning and inspiration from our industry’s leading thinkers and doers. [read more…]

Join friends and colleagues for a night of conversations and connections. Free and open to the public. [read more…]

Virtual Event
  • Virtual Event

Attend our next In-House Designers Committee virtual meeting on Friday, September 30 from 12-1pm. [read more…]

UXPA Minnesota & AIGA MN present See Things Clearly, a panel of four designers from a variety of backgrounds and organizations answer questions about what works and doesn't when design meets UX, development, and content. [read more…]

Virtual Event
Virtual Event

Join the AIGA Minnesota book club with a discussion of the book "Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers" [read more…]

Contact Leadership

Rich Higgins
Rich Higgins
President
Rich Higgins is the Creative Director at Parallel Retail Group. His background is as diverse as a platypus.

He started his own design studio, Oryx & Moth, doing branding, art direction and design for clients big and small. Meanwhile he was the chair of the Solopreneurs Committee for AIGA MN (2022-2023) and served on the Design Student & Alumni Board at the University of Minnesota (2010-2013). Prior to that he worked at TSG, a design agency in Robbinsdale, for clients including: Target, HealthPartners and Crate & Barrel. He's also had a short stint designing for financial institutions (PNC Bank, Citibank and BBVA Compass). He started out designing and art directing photo shoots for multiple national salon chains throughout the US and Canada. And has had mediocre hairstyles since.

His interests vary widely with the season but he always willing to chat about DIY projects, soccer, LEGO, minimalism, FIRE, AI, technology, saunas, traveling, camping, parenting, etc.