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overview | AIGA Los Angeles
Founded in 1983 by design legends Deborah Sussman, Saul Bass, Jim Cross, and others, the Los Angeles chapter continues to connect LA’s varied creative industries through extensive programming, events, communication and social outreach. AIGA/LA is recognized as a civic leader for its celebration of local design, partnerships with cultural and media organizations, exceptional support of educational institutions, and a dedication to nurturing the diversity and independent spirit unique to the Los Angeles creative community.
  President | | MetroMichael Lejeune is currently Creative Director for Metro (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority). Metro’s 20-person Design Studio creates all things visual for the nation’s third-largest transit agency, including advertising, wayfinding and environmental graphics, timetables, maps, fare media and customer information, bus and rail fleet design, websites and merchandising.
Prior to joining Metro, Michael was Project Director at KBDA, an award-winning design studio in West Los Angeles. He managed projects for Acura, Nike, 3Com, UCLA and Hilton Hotels, as well as writing for the City of Monterey, La Opinion and MicroTherapeutics. Before joining KBDA he was Creative Director for the 32-member in-house marketing agency of City of Hope Cancer Center.
Michael graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a degree in Communication Studies. He has been a speaker at AIGA/LA’s inaugural Shop Talk series, at STEP Inside Design’s bi-annual conference, and at AIGA/LA’s first Inside the Industry series. He recently completed the AIGA/Harvard Business School “Business Perspectives for Design Leaders” program. Michael lives with his wife, Jennifer Bedford, and children Helen and James in South Pasadena.
 Vice President | | atmoAnn started her Los Angeles-based consultancy, atmo, in 1998 to provide business resources to small companies and entrepreneurs. Her clients include designers, writers, photographers and artists.
Atmo’s work focuses on generating the ideas and subsequent programs that support and strengthen the company’s business. Programs include: identifying new business opportunities, structuring account management, developing business plans and budgets, assessing staff roles and negotiating proposals for new projects.
Ann began her working life at the office of Charles and Ray Eames, leaving to become an exhibiting ceramic artist in a studio in Berkeley. She learned about selling art in New York, assisting Stanley Moss with his collection of Old Master paintings. Her journey continued in Singapore, becoming a retail buyer of art and crafts for Robinson’s department store and then founding a spice blend company called “Singapore Spices”. Eventually she returned to the design world as board director of Addison Design and then moved to London as director of business development for the Partners and Lloyd Northover Citigate. She teaches a class called “Creative Livelihoods”.
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