Two black-and-white portraits of Mimi Blanchard and Michael Jovel are positioned in the foreground against a textured gray background featuring "Bmore Design Week 2026" event details.

AIGA Baltimore

General Admission

Spend an evening with Baltimore&#39;s creative community at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, with time to explore, connect, and dig into two conversations about navigating creative work in the age of AI and what comes next. 📅 Date:&nbsp;Tuesday, October 20, 2026🕰️ Time: Museum Access 4 - 6 p.m. Sessions 6 - 8:30 p.m.📍 Location: Baltimore Museum of Industry, 1415 Key HwyBaltimore, MD 21230, USA 4 - 6 PM &bull; After Hours Museum Access and Light RefreshmentsCheck-in, explore, connect, and enjoy some light refreshments at the Baltimore Museum of Industry before the evening programming begins. 6 - 7 PM &bull; Be the Lighthouse: Lead With Clarity, Warmth, and Teeth with Mimi Blanchard&nbsp;Designers need tools for ownership, direction, and momentum right now. In this lively, high-impact session, multimedia designer MiMi Blanchard shares a practical reset for the fear, bitterness, and noise draining the creative industry. Through client dynamics, campaign development, and the three essentials of analytics, context, data, and creativity, MiMi shows how designers can protect their judgment, establish professional boundaries, and turn insight into work that creates health, wellness, play, and profitability. The session also considers emerging tools, including AI, as part of a broader practice of discernment and creative leadership. This talk equips students, educators, and working designers to build sustainable practices, strengthen their communities, and start leading with clarity, warmth, and teeth. 7 - 7:30 PM &bull; Break&nbsp; 7:30 - 8:30 PM &bull; Why Designers Have an Advantage in the Age of AI with Michael JovelAI is changing how creative work gets made, but designers might be more ready for that shift than we realize. We already know how to work through ambiguity, question assumptions, explore different directions, and learn by making.As AI makes it easier for anyone to generate ideas, content, prototypes, and code, the real advantage is not just being able to make something. It is knowing what is worth making. This talk looks at why designers&rsquo; judgment, taste, empathy, and curiosity matter more than ever, and how we can use AI to experiment more freely, learn faster, and push our work further. About Mimi BlanchardMiMi Blanchard is a multimedia designer who builds vibrant, empathetic visual systems that help brands and communities have fun again. Her work spans brand strategy, campaign development, 3D illustrations, and motion graphics, turning research into memorable experiences. Driven by data and empathy, MiMi works alongside clients and creative teams to identify audience needs, solve communication problems, and build visual solutions that strengthen connection, health, wellness, and play. Guided by Solve et Coagula, she treats design as a collaborative practice of dissolving fear and making room for possibility. Her work helps teams sharpen their message, build customer relationships, and support the revenue that funds their next chapter. Outside the studio, she reads Scientific American, repaints Dollar Tree trinkets, and catches a baseball game when she can.<a fr-original-style="" href="https://mimis-method.com/" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://mimis-method.com/</a><a fr-original-style="" href="https://linktr.ee/mimi.designs.gfx" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">&nbsp;https://linktr.ee/mimi.designs.gfx</a> About Michael JovelMichael Jovel is a product designer and digital experience leader at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he spends much of his time untangling complicated systems and making them easier for people to use. His work spans product strategy, UX, technology, and the occasional conversation about why something can&rsquo;t simply be &ldquo;fixed with a pulsating button.&rdquo;Having worked across both design and development, Michael is especially interested in what happens when AI makes it possible to build almost anything. He believes designers are well-positioned to lead this next chapter, not because they have all the answers, but because they&rsquo;re trained to ask better questions, make thoughtful judgments, and keep actual humans in the picture.<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjovel/" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjovel/</a><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.fda.gov/" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.fda.gov/</a>

Spend an evening with Baltimore's creative community at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, with time to explore, connect, and dig into two conversations about navigating creative work in the age of AI and what comes next. 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2026🕰️ Time: Museum Access 4 - 6 p.m. Sessions 6 - 8:30 p.m.📍 Location: Baltimore Museum of Industry, 1415 Key HwyBaltimore, MD 21230, USA 4 - 6 PM • After Hours Museum Access and Light RefreshmentsCheck-in, explore, connect, and enjoy some light refreshments at the Baltimore Museum of Industry before the evening programming begins. 6 - 7 PM • Be the Lighthouse: Lead With Clarity, Warmth, and Teeth with Mimi Blanchard Designers need tools for ownership, direction, and momentum right now. In this lively, high-impact session, multimedia designer MiMi Blanchard shares a practical reset for the fear, bitterness, and noise draining the creative industry. Through client dynamics, campaign development, and the three essentials of analytics, context, data, and creativity, MiMi shows how designers can protect their judgment, establish professional boundaries, and turn insight into work that creates health, wellness, play, and profitability. The session also considers emerging tools, including AI, as part of a broader practice of discernment and creative leadership. This talk equips students, educators, and working designers to build sustainable practices, strengthen their communities, and start leading with clarity, warmth, and teeth. 7 - 7:30 PM • Break  7:30 - 8:30 PM • Why Designers Have an Advantage in the Age of AI with Michael JovelAI is changing how creative work gets made, but designers might be more ready for that shift than we realize. We already know how to work through ambiguity, question assumptions, explore different directions, and learn by making.As AI makes it easier for anyone to generate ideas, content, prototypes, and code, the real advantage is not just being able to make something. It is knowing what is worth making. This talk looks at why designers’ judgment, taste, empathy, and curiosity matter more than ever, and how we can use AI to experiment more freely, learn faster, and push our work further. About Mimi BlanchardMiMi Blanchard is a multimedia designer who builds vibrant, empathetic visual systems that help brands and communities have fun again. Her work spans brand strategy, campaign development, 3D illustrations, and motion graphics, turning research into memorable experiences. Driven by data and empathy, MiMi works alongside clients and creative teams to identify audience needs, solve communication problems, and build visual solutions that strengthen connection, health, wellness, and play. Guided by Solve et Coagula, she treats design as a collaborative practice of dissolving fear and making room for possibility. Her work helps teams sharpen their message, build customer relationships, and support the revenue that funds their next chapter. Outside the studio, she reads Scientific American, repaints Dollar Tree trinkets, and catches a baseball game when she can.<a href="https://mimis-method.com/" target="_blank">https://mimis-method.com/</a><a href="https://linktr.ee/mimi.designs.gfx" target="_blank"> https://linktr.ee/mimi.designs.gfx</a> About Michael JovelMichael Jovel is a product designer and digital experience leader at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he spends much of his time untangling complicated systems and making them easier for people to use. His work spans product strategy, UX, technology, and the occasional conversation about why something can’t simply be “fixed with a pulsating button.”Having worked across both design and development, Michael is especially interested in what happens when AI makes it possible to build almost anything. He believes designers are well-positioned to lead this next chapter, not because they have all the answers, but because they’re trained to ask better questions, make thoughtful judgments, and keep actual humans in the picture.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjovel/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjovel/</a><a href="https://www.fda.gov/" target="_blank">https://www.fda.gov/</a>

AIGA Baltimore

Day 4 – A Night at the Museum: Design and AI

1415 Key Hwy

General Admission

$20