Past Event
Friday, February 25 2022
12:00–4:00 pm
AIGA NY
Virtual Job Fair
Friday, February 25 2022
12:00–4:00 pm
AIGA NY
Virtual Job Fair
Meet creative companies helping you take your first steps in the design industry.
Are you a design student or new graduate? Join us for AIGA NY’s 6th annual mini job fair, now virtual!
Meet reps from New York’s top creative companies and studios. Find out what a typical day is like for their designers and hear what creative directors are looking for in new designers like you.
Log in, introduce yourself, and discover where to take your first steps in the design industry. We encourage you to read the Important FAQ’s below.
If your company is interested in participating all information is here.
Even Series: Mixers, Job Fairs, and Workshops
AIGA NY Virtual Job Fair is part of the Mixers, Job Fairs, and Workshops event series. These events are focused on community building, networking and exposing new working environments.
Event graphics: Troy Vasilakis
Tickets
We are committed to keeping events accessible to all participants. Your donation supports AIGA NY and costs associated with events such as speaker honorariums, interpreter and transcription services. If ticket cost is a barrier, please contact Stacey@aigany.org.
Schedule
- 12:00 pm Virtual Job Fair begins
- 4:00 pm Virtual Job Fair ends
Tickets
- Current students $5.00
- Recent graduates $5.00
Participating Companies
More companies to be announced
Alternatives
Alternatives is a full-service branding and creative agency, specializing in building brands, companies and organizations through creative design and strategic marketing across all forms of brand communication.
Architecture Plus Information PC (A+I)
A+I is Architecture Plus Information. We are a strategy-led, integrated design agency. We build more than architecture.
We use information and creativity to better the changing world we inhabit, aligning vision, people and space to create the places where people thrive.
Beardwood&Co. LLC
Beardwood&Co. is a fully integrated branding agency focused on strategy, design and innovation. Through our work we aim to make brands a force for good. We are relentlessly optimistic and driven to make a better workplace, better work, and better brands for a better world. We value progress over perfection. We are passionate about cracking juicy challenges for powerful, positive impact.
Learn more about us: beardwood.com
LinkedIn
Deel
Hire anyone in a new country in minutes and automate onboarding, payroll, and compliance. It’s a world-class experience for your business and entire international team.
Website: Deel
CASE
Creating disruptive indie darlings. Transforming global mega-brands. Activating audiences with campaigns that convert. Design-obsessed and strategy-driven, CASE collaborates with the most iconic beauty, wellness and lifestyle brands to connect with consumers around the world.
Champions Design
Champions Design is a branding and design agency formerly known as OCD | The Original Champions of Design. For more than a decade, we have crafted meaningful brand strategy and visual identity systems for some of the world’s best brands.
Day One Agency
Fresh Thinking. New Energy. Every Day. 2020 Creative Agency of the Year. 2019 Agency of the Year. This is Day One.
Day One is a creative communications agency with the ambition of stopping the world in its scroll with stories that earn a place in culture. Our Shape, Share, Fuel approach to storytelling is founded on the belief that no one shares “content,” they share stories.
Combining the best of PR, digital, and social agencies, we have attracted world-renowned brands to the agency including Abercrombie & Fitch, American Express, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Comcast, Facebook, Ferrara, H&M, Motorola and Nike. Day One has topped the list of the industry’s fastest growing independent agencies since we were founded in 2014.
Gallagher & Associates
Experience Design. We are the multidisciplinary design firm equipped to bring your project from idea to reality.
GHD Partners
We design purpose-driven experiences that inspire the way people live and work. For over two decades, we have collaborated with clients to solve their specific business challenges using strategic insight and innovative design. At GHD, we integrate research, technology, category expertise, and transformative design into actionable strategies that support both brand and business growth. Our long-standing relationships with some of the world’s strongest brands are a testament to our commitment to design excellence
Hairstory
We are reinventing the way we clean our hair to restore and respect our bodies’ natural balance.
We are reinventing the way we make and package products to protect our planet’s natural balance.
We are reinventing the way products are sold to allow hairdressers to participate in e-commerce and profit from their influence.
We are committed to quality over quantity with sustainability central to everything we make and do.
Website: Hairstory
ITHAKA + JSTOR
We help make higher education and access to knowledge more affordable; we improve outcomes for students and researchers; and we preserve knowledge for future generations.
Website: Ithaka.org
Kettle
We’re a digital-native creative agency with offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. We’re a team of makers, doers, and passionate problem-solvers with a simple mission: using design and technology to make the world feel more human. We ask the tough questions, because that yields the strongest solutions and best designs. We use the latest tools for our creations, and if a tool we want doesn’t exist yet, we build it! Our strengths are creating user-centric products, keeping it simple, and telling great stories.
Website: Kettle
Lippincott
Lippincott is a creative consultancy specializing in brand and innovation. With the acumen, rigor and preparedness of a premier business consulting firm, and the spirit, courage and imagination of a world-class design agency, we help our clients grow their businesses by creating meaning in their customers’ lives.
System
Welcome systems thinkers. System builds software to help the world see and solve anything as a system. We are a Public Benefit Corporation driven by purpose and shaped by values.
Team
Team is a strategic design studio.We transform brands and businesses with a focus on clarity, meaning, and emotion. We build brands and experiences to help clients define their identities.
We work with cultural institutions, startups, and multinational corporations alike — to transform them with a focus on purpose, clarity, meaning, and emotion.
We design intelligent brand identities that often signal a new direction. This includes tone of voice and expression, digital and physical interactions, design systems, collateral for launch, and ongoing brand stewardship.
ViacomCBS
We are Velocity, ViacomCBS’s branded content studio. #knowyourvelocity @viacomcbs
linktr.ee/viacomvelocity
Wix - Resource
The Wix Playground Academy is a 5-week intensive online program for new designers looking for the perfect reason to focus on developing their creative identity and building a stand out personal brand.
More info: Wix Playground Academy
Important FAQ's
What should I expect?
The purpose of the Job Fair is to meet and connect with people who work at a variety of different companies and learn about their design culture. You should expect company reps to go over hiring practices and be prepared to answer some basic questions. AIGA NY will also have an Advice Breakout room staffed with talented designers and educators for attendees to ask general career advice. There is also a Meetup Breakout Room for you to meet your own peers! Each room will be labeled with company names for easy access.
How do I log into the virtual booths?
On the day of the fair you will see all the different companies and their Breakout Rooms. You will be able to access them in the event.
Can I log in if I’m not a student or recent graduate?
You’re more than welcome to attend but do know that the event is geared towards our student and emerging designer community.
Will I be presenting my portfolio?
In short, no. The purpose is for information gathering and not a time to pitch to companies. You are welcome to follow up with the representatives afterwards, so it’s good to have a personal website prepared! All contact information will be provided by the company representative.
No portfolios? What will be discussed in the booths?
We encourage you to bring questions for the representatives. Common topics include hiring procedures, timeframes, and qualities the company looks for in a designer.
What time should I log in?
The Virtual Job Fair will be open from 12-5pm. Feel free to come anytime during the fair, but do know you will probably not have enough time to visit every virtual booth. We encourage you to visit the companies that interest you first.
What should I wear?
The Virtual Job Fair is a casual event with no need for formal wear. Just be yourself! Please be prepared to have your video on.
Should I do any preparation?
Yes! Before attending review the participating companies and come prepared with a list of questions for the companies you would like to go to first.