Graphic Design Organizations
Like any professional discipline, the graphic design industry boasts a wide range of organizations, networks, advocacy and support groups. Have a graphic design organization you'd like us to announce? Tell us about it here.
GAG - Graphic Artists Guild
The Graphic Artists Guild is a national union of illustrators, designers, web creators, production artists, surface designers and other creatives who have come together to pursue common goals, share their experience, raise industry standards, and improve the ability of visual creators to achieve satisfying and rewarding careers.We do this through democratic and egalitarian means (see our Mission Statement) within a structure open to all working artists. Every Guild member is guaranteed a voice and the opportunity to actively participate. (See our Constitution).
ACM Siggraph
ACM SIGGRAPH's Mission: to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM SIGGRAPH's Purpose: to foster a membership community whose core values help them to catalyze the innovation and application of computer graphics and interactive techniques.
AGDA - Australian Graphic Design Association
The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) is the national association for professional graphic designers. It was founded in 1988 to facilitate the advancement of the graphic design profession in Australi. Our goal is the establishment of fair and productive working relationships between graphic designers and their clients. We do this by providing designers with the tools and information to take control of their professional lives. We also work on increasing awareness of the value of graphic design in business. We manage a program of awards, exhibitions, seminars and professional development activities for our members. Many of these activities are also available to the wider design and business communities.
AIGA - American Institute of Graphic Arts
AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice. AIGA sets the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political, cultural and creative contexts. AIGA is the oldest and largest membership association for professionals engaged in the discipline, practice and culture of designing. Founded as the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1914 as a small, exclusive club, AIGA now represents more than 16,000 designers through national activities and local programs developed by 48 chapters and more than 150 student groups.
Icograda - Int. Council of Graphic Design Associations
The International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) is the professional world body for graphic design and visual communication. Founded in London in 1963, it is a voluntary coming together of associations concerned with graphic design, design management, design promotion, and design education. Icograda promotes graphic designers' vital role in society and commerce. Icograda unifies the voice of graphic designers and visual communication designers worldwide.
RGD - Registered Graphic Designs of Ontario
A Registered Graphic Designer and R.G.D. is a graphic design practitioner, manager or educator who has met the Association's qualification criteria and has been granted the right to use these professional designations. No one else may use the designations Registered Graphic Designer or R.G.D. Persons in Ontario who are not Registered Graphic Designers are not excluded from practising graphic design. The R.G.D. and Registered Graphic Designer designations are signals of quality and competence to the profession, the public, and the government.
Design Advocacy Articles
Online Logo Design - The McLogo Effect
While using the Internet to advertise a design firm is great. It allows people to work with top-notch designers that they'd otherwise never had the opportunity, and how graphic design firms will be advertised for the forseeable future, Alas, as competition has heated up, so has the rhetoric involved in the marketing of logo design services via the web. As clients wander from site to site, they're sure to bump into some seemingly impossible promises and sales pitches. Which ultimately leads to a deceptively simple question from your client - "why do you want to charge me $x, when I can find dozens of companies on the web who want to charge me $x/10 with unlimited revisions, 2 day turnaround, etc,".
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