AIGA Colorado Speaker Series: Rich Tu

Creative Director behind FIFA's 2026 Poster, WNBA, and SVA Faculty talks career and craft with an audience Q+A moderated by Rick Griffith. $10 student | $15 Members | $25 non members We’re back at the Denver Art Museum for the signature AIGA CO Speaker Series. This month we welcome Rich Tu who will share a working designer’s honest account of a non-traditional career path. As Partner and Executive Creative Director at Sunday Afternoon, Tu has put his creative fingerprint on some of the most visible names in our culture — Nike, MTV, Paramount, HOKA, FIFA World Cup, WNBA — building his career with an approach that defies convention and creates lasting impact. A Robust Q+A After his presentation, Tu sits down for a live Q+A moderated by Rick Griffith, the creative mind behind MATTER — Denver's design studio, manufactory, and bookshop — who will guide the post conversation. Audience questions are encouraged, so do a little Rich-search and come ready to participate. But there is more Before Sunday Afternoon, Tu built his chops in-house — leading creative at Jones Knowles Ritchie, MTV Entertainment Group, and Nike. The industry took notice: an ADC Young Guns award, the Paul Manship Medallion, and honors from D&AD, Webby, and CLIO. He'll be the first to tell you the path there was anything but a straight line. He also earned his MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts, where he now teaches. He hosted First Generation Burden, a Webby-honored podcast that gets honest about identity, intersectionality, and what it actually costs to be "the first" in a creative career. And he co-founded COLORFUL, an awards and grant program with The One Club for Creativity built to fund early-career BIPOC creatives — because talent finding its way in shouldn't depend on who already knows someone. Don't miss it. Join us for a discussion translating a non-traditional path into work that's shaped culture. This is the kind of night you build your week around, not squeeze in after everything else. Instagram: @rich_tu and @wearesundayafternoon