Design Ranch is an intimate, three-day, hands-on, workshop-driven design retreat in a rustic setting on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Central Texas hosted by AIGA Austin.

This isn’t one of those conferences: No slide presentations, no lectures—just small groups (20 or less) gathering up close and personal with workshop leaders. It’s about putting down your mouse, getting your hands dirty and reviving your creative spirit.
The 150 folks lucky enough to attend spend quality time with workshop leaders and fellow attendees and get to bring home new ways of making and a fresh take on design.

Between sessions, rub elbows with workshop leaders in ways most conferences can’t deliver … next to the campfire and on the dance floor with live Texas tunes and ranch-style shenanigans.

Design Ranch’s goal is not to teach you the latest fad or tech trick. Our workshops will rekindle your creative spark as they guide you through every facet of design and creative thinking. What your clients and business needs more than ever is you, at full creative power, doing your best work. We’ll send you back home with a fire in your belly, renewed passion for work and a fresh take on design that can only be achieved by unplugging and gettin’ a little dirty.

So come on out, learn something new, two-step under the big Texas sky, and who knows? Maybe even save your creative soul.

Beware: This intimate weekend retreat has a maximum capacity of 150 attendees, and a bad habit of selling out. So the sooner you register the better.

Early Bird Rates Until February 4, 2011.

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