Past Event
Friday, February 14 2025
2:00–6:00 pm
Job Fair
For Early and Mid-Career Professionals
Friday, February 14 2025
2:00–6:00 pm
Job Fair
For Early and Mid-Career Professionals
Are you a design student, recent graduate, or early to mid-career professional looking for a new role?
Dive into AIGA NY’s annual job fair. This year, in person! Meet and connect with leading New York creative agencies and studios, gain insights into the daily experiences of their designers, and discover what they seek in upcoming talent. Our AIGA NY board members will also be at our Advice Booth to offer career guidance.
Seize this opportunity to advance your design career. Remember to check out the FAQs below and save the date!
Join us and step confidently into your design future!
If your company is interested in participating you can register here.
Tickets
We are committed to keeping events accessible to all participants. Your ticket supports AIGA NY and costs associated with events productions costs and venue fees. If ticket cost is a barrier, please contact Stacey@aigany.org.
Job Fair Refund Policy
There are no refunds for the Job Fair
Schedule
- 2:00 pm Doors open & check-in
Tickets
- Non-members $10.00
- AIGA Members $5.00
Participating Companies
More companies to be announced!
Strategy-driven and design-obsessed, CASE creates, recharges and activates iconic beauty, lifestyle, and wellness brands. Since 2004, we’ve partnered strategically with global brand leaders and disruptive indie founders to understand their audiences, articulate their unique points of difference and define their identities. From mega brands like The Shiseido Group, The Estée Lauder Companies, and Johnson & Johnson, to indie darlings like OUAI and Summer Fridays, to unicorns like e.l.f. Beauty, we love helping brands launch, transform and connect with their consumers around the world.
Cycymymy designs experiences that amplify story. We are a purpose-driven studio focused on experiential, interactive design and media production. Our visual approach is divergent and infused with joyful and childlike wonder.
Evie Porwick, RISD graduate and former graphic designer, brings a unique insider perspective to the creative job search as a seasoned recruiter and career coach. With over 25 years of leadership experience in the business of design and recruiting, Evie specializes in placing talent at all levels—from entry to executive—across branding roles for agencies and in-house organizations.
Beyond recruitment, Evie is dedicated to educating the next generation of creatives. With guest speaking engagements at RISD, and part-time faculty at Parsons, she delivers impactful lectures and workshops that equip students with essential job search skills, including research, LinkedIn optimization, networking, interviewing, and portfolio presentation. Her sessions are enriched with actionable insights into industry trends, market shifts, and employers’ evolving needs, preparing participants to navigate the ever-changing design landscape with confidence.
Welcome to HelloCreatives! Your go-to Career Services + Career Coaching Center. Whether seeking inspiration, mentorship, or practical strategies to market and showcase your talent, we’re here to help. Our mission is to support you in navigating your unique career journey and help you position yourself for the success you deserve. Let HelloCreatives! be your partner in achieving your career goals.
We’re optimists building brand and digital for the most impactful companies of today and the founders defining tomorrow. Website: Koto Studio
Selman is a massively helpful design studio that specializes in brand identities and campaigns.
SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company that makes new human and business value for the Now, Novel, and Next. Dissatisfied with the status quo, we collect unorthodox perspectives and uncommon ways of framing the future. By seeking better answers, and pushing for more purpose, we’re solving the most consequential business challenges of our time—always inspiring, inciting, and provoking progress.
Team is an independent strategy and design studio. We build brands and transform organizations to deliver lasting impact.
Turner Duckworth are behind the brand identities for some of the world’s most iconic brands; Coca-Cola, Amazon, McDonald’s, Samsung and Levi’s – to name a few.
It’s almost impossible to go a day without experiencing our work. You’ll find it onshelf, online, on-the-go, in home, out of home and sometimes in your pocket.
We build brands that are approachable, charming and have genuine personality, ones that are easy to understand but also intriguing, ones that tell a story or make you think. We help brands to become utterly distinctive and deeply embedded in culture.
We define strategies, visual identities, assets, and expressions for how brands behave in any channel, at any time, in any market. As brand partners with over 30 years of experience, we believe that whatever you make, make it like nothing else.
Important FAQs
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.
Can I attend 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, they will provide contact information. We do ask for your website/portfolio when you register. Your information is then shared to all participating companies.
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 arrive?
The Job Fair will be open from 2-6pm. Feel free to come anytime during the fair, but do know you will probably not have enough time to visit every booth. We encourage you to visit the companies that interest you first.
What should I wear?
The Job Fair is a casual event with no need for formal wear. Just be yourself!
Should I do any preparation?
Yes! Before attending review the participating companies and come prepared with questions for the companies you would like to go to first.