The AIGA Design Conference brings the design community together to experience provocative speakers, local culture, nightly networking receptions, competitions, exhibitions, professional development sessions, and face-to-face roundtables with your design heroes.

Design Jobs is an exclusive job board for AIGA members. Look here to find your next design job—or design hire!

AIGA maintains its position against speculative work while recognizing that the decision on whether to take the risks of speculative work is up to individual designers.

AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships empower college students from disadvantaged backgrounds to realize their creative dreams. The application period for the 2021/2022 academic school year opens in February 2021. Deadlines are in April 2021. Follow @AIGAdesign for updates.

As AIGA’s Official AIGA Sponsor for Design Solutions, Adobe creates innovative programs that give members a voice and engage the creative community in dialogues about design and technology.

AIGA chapters around the country are committed to providing mentors to local high school students, college students, emerging designers, and seasoned professionals.

These standards define the expectations of a professional designer and represent the distinction of an AIGA member in the practice of design.

Designers at Google, Microsoft, Autodesk, IDEO, Artefact, Teague, Lunar, HUGE, New Deal, and fuseproject envision the new design jobs of the future.

If you’re embarking on a design career, a good mentor can act as an adviser, motivator, counselor and invaluable guiding force. Ram Castillo, founder of a resource site for design students and recent design graduates, outlines the tangible benefits of career mentorship and offers tips on how to find and make the right mentor-match.

For those of you that set up a LinkedIn profile way back and left it to languish, below are some tips to make sure that your LinkedIn profile is doing everything it can to promote your career or design practice.

The architect-turned-entrepreneur talks about dropping out of grad school and treating staff like a soccer team.

These days, there's a dangerous trend toward clients expecting more work for less pay. So how do designers and creative professionals go about getting paid what we're worth?

AIGA Blue Ridge asks a lawyer/chapter member how to draft a contract that prevents against late payments, and protects you when it happens.

Freelancers don’t have to take work because it’s in front of them. Here’s how to make sure the client is someone you want to work with.

This agreement allows you to create customized terms and conditions for your design engagements.

Whether you’re hiring a designer for your department, expanding your design studio or looking for a freelancer, AIGA is the place employers turn to first for qualified candidates. Here’s what you need to know.