Society & Environment

Center for Sustainable Design: The AIGA Center for Sustainable Design is dedicated to providing designers with a wide range of information regarding sustainable business practice...
The Living Principles for Design: The Living Principles form a framework to provide designers and their clients with an understanding of the core facets of sustainability and enable them to take action.
Disaster relief: AIGA has reactivated the DisplacedDesigner.com website to help designers whose lives may be disrupted by this year's hurricane season.
AIGA China: A partnership with Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in support of design education in China Building community Chinese-language editions...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text...

Design for Democracy: Design for Democracy applies design tools to increase civic participation by making interactions between the U.S. government and its citizens more understandable...
Symbol Signs: This system of 50 symbol signs, produced by AIGA and the U.S. Department of transportation, was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life.
Diversity: According to the 2000 census, by 2025 what are currently considered minority populations are predicted to be 40 percent of the U.S. population. By 2050,...
Urban Forest Project: The Urban Forest Project brings 185 banners created by the world's most celebrated designers, artists, photographers and illustrators to New York's Times...
Inequality Matters: Inequality of income, access to health and education, and access to markets for trade is trapping people in a cycle of poverty despite their best efforts...