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5 Big Ideas From the 2021 AIGA Design Conference

5 Big Ideas From the 2021 AIGA Design Conference

After living through 18 months of an ongoing pandemic, our social and professional interactions have significantly changed since “The Before Times.” For many of us it’s been a period of isolation that has forced us to learn how to find social connection within virtual spaces or shift to remote work

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A Year of Learning

Obviously, Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the world and countless lives this past year. We all know someone who caught the virus or died from it, or we were infected ourselves. We tried to do our part by staying home to limit our exposure to other people. We stayed away from our loved ones to protect them and to slow the spread. To keep ourselves occupied, many of us took up baking, cooking, knitting, or exercising. I started on what would become a yearlong path of learning about whatever interested me.

YouTube as a Gateway to Knowledge

Video site YouTube saw an explosion in traffic from people bored in lockdown. I was one of them. At first, I was simply trying to learn how to optimize my work-from-home setup. Channels such as Podcastage and Curtis Judd taught me about microphones, and I upgraded my audio setup.