AIGA Colorado Springs and AAF Colorado are proud to present an evening with Tad Carpenter. He will be sharing his creative wisdom, career stories, and most likely a few dad jokes. Tad Carpenter is an award-winning designer, illustrator, and author who hails from Kansas City. He and his wife, Jessica, own Carpenter Collective. Their clients include Sonic, Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Coca-Cola, Old Navy, Target, and Adobe. Tad is known for his weekly SUNday Suns project on Instagram—an illustration involving a sun, which has turned into a book. We would like to thank our sponsors for their generosity in helping to make this event happen. AAF Colorado | The Mining Exchange | The Sluice

RRCC Industry Interviews Event

AIGA Colorado is beyond excited to reveal our event collaboration with CEOLC and Death Over Drafts taking place April 26th at Town Hall Collaborative. We are looking forward to sharing space with each other and spending the evening with industry connecting activities. Opportunities of interactivity to choose from are: create your own ‘celebration of life’ mood board, design your own tombstone, draw your own life motto or tagline, and playing The Death Deck.

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 7,000 professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 29 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors. Everything we do is guided by our mission: To create a better world through the power of design. We believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone.

AIGA Colorado is offering students an opportunity to meet with Creative Agencies so they can see what the industry is like! Founded in 1990, Cactus has been growing brands that help people thrive for more than thirty years. You could say we are the O.G. purpose-driven agency. We've carved out expertise in Healthcare & Behavioral Health, Retail & CPG, Financial Services, Travel & Tourism and Higher Ed and provide the full gamut of marketing and advertising services, including Brand Strategy, Creative & Design, Media & Analytics and Digital Experience.

Made in Colorado, 1977 Karsh Hagan is a boldly independent, multi-disciplined marketing, design and technology company in Denver, Colorado. As a purpose-driven collection of makers, doers, innovators, and explorers of brave ideas, we believe brands have to transcend what they make or do, and stand for something bigger to make a lasting impact in the world today. We don't just do advertising. We don't just do design. We don't just build websites or mobile apps. We solve real-world business challenges with creative solutions that generate positive results and add lasting value to people's lives.

"Decades of experience in developing content for brands means our partners get solutions and insights that drive engagement in unprecedented ways. We are masters of searching for ideas that spill into exceptional content. It’s not enough to make stories people like, we craft content that people share. That kind of strategy catapults our clients’ visions forward. Our commitment doesn’t end with delivery. We’re constantly exploring methods to extend the reach of our initial splash. We aren’t just asking “what’s next?” We’re helping to define that."