Professional Resources

AIGA Standards of professional practice
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These standards define the expectations of a professional designer and represent the distinction of an AIGA member in the practice of design.
Cross-cultural Design
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AIGA XCD is where design and culture intersect, both globally and locally. These articles look at the ways we communicate across cultures.
AIGA|Aquent Salary Survey
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This annual survey offers the most comprehensive document of compensation data for the communication design profession.
Why design?
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What designers offer to clients is a way of thinking. The “Why” booklet outlines the role of design in business strategy...
Designers Accord
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AIGA has endorsed the Designers Accord, a nonprofit coalition of design and innovation firms focused on creating positive environmental and social impacts...
Kyoto Design Declaration 2008
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AIGA has endorsed the Kyoto Design Declaration, focused on designers’ global responsibility for building sustainable, human-centered, creative societies...
Design for User Experience
The Design for User eXperience (DUX) conference in 2005 resulted in an archive of case studies intended to build a teachable and learnable body of knowledge...
Information Design
Information design makes complex information easier to understand and to use. These articles inform, inspire and define the rapidly growing discipline...
Typography
This forum is for the passionate. It’s for those who are crazy in love with type, absolutely hate the problems fonts can cause, have an uncontrollable...
Get a Design Job!
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Whether you are a student or a designer eager to get a better job, this book by RitaSue Siegel can help you.
In-house Design
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This online forum offers articles with the objective to inspire and support in-house designers and design team managers.
Center for Practice Management
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AIGA Center for Practice Management provides resources to help designers with the day-to-day maintenance of their studios.
Design:Business newsletter
AIGA Design:Business contains articles on the practical issues of running a design practice, based on the advice of nationally recognized consultants...
AIGA production partners
The following corporations have partnered with AIGA regularly on a variety of projects. Due in part to the generosity of these companies, AIGA is able...
A Concise Guide to Archiving for Designers
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This guide is an English version of a text by the Dutch Archives for Graphic Designers (NAGO) that offers proper ways to store and describe your collections.
Professional Practices
These articles focus on important issues designers face daily, from the pragmatic matters of management to the pursuit of design excellence and integrity...
Illustration
Though illustration remains a powerful and versatile communication tool, it often plays a lonely role in the graphic arts. These articles explore the evolving role illustration plays...