Welcome to Design Culture Now: a website, blog, and magazine for designers and creatives. Designers of any medium can come together, engage & collaborate! Our goal is to infuse designers with a community filled with new inspiration and compelling stories.
The name, Design Culture Now, originated from the fictional poster project prompted by the A.I.G.A. (American Institute of Graphic Arts), it was then that I knew this project had to become more than just a fictional event poster. We chose Design Culture Now, not for its originality, rather its familiarity. I wanted this to become a standard for designers of all mediums to create a poster, for one communal contest.
So I did my research and found no other event poster project to be as popular as this one! Only crazy fact was that it happened to be a fictional project! I thought that was nonsense, so I took on the project of making Design Culture Now not only a community for all designers, but a REAL event poster project.
The first annual Design Culture Now Event Poster Contest will be announced later this year and will be available here. Further details, prompts, and assets will be accessible through the provided link, nested in the official event & contest page. The purpose of this contest will allow designers to partake in a poster project which contains rigorous exercises that challenges the designer to include multiple text blocks that coincide in real-project scenarios.
Our mission here is to create a community of designers by the inspiration, magazine/blog articles, and contests we provide. Our acceptance of submissions for DCN’s website and Instagram page will allow us to further engage with the community, because at the end of the day, we’re all designers.
So let’s tip the hat to every designer for making this, and continuing to making this, the Design Culture Now.
