More than 16,000 of your colleagues have joined AIGA for the benefits of community, information, inspiration, education and representation.

AIGA has been advancing the value of designers for more than 90 years through member resources and as the collective voice of the profession. When you join AIGA, you are committing yourself to a high standard of professional ethics furthering your professional development, and advancing the value of your profession. Join today. You will be welcomed by 16,000 of your colleagues.

Community
Through 47 local chapters and 150 student groups nationwide, AIGA members participate in local events and explore professional challenges with their colleagues in the design community. Many members consider relationships they build through AIGA to be the most valuable and lasting of all the organization's benefits. AIGA's member directory is the largest directory available and helps you keep in touch with your colleagues and friends.

Designers interested in specific disciplines find that AIGA communities of interest offer a non-competitive approach to communicating with colleagues and competitors who are actively solving similar problems across the country.

Information
"Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference," October 1‚3, 2004, New York

AIGA CommuniquÈ, a monthly e-newsletter covering national news and activities. Members may access an archive of past issues.

AIGA Design:Business, a monthly e-newsletter with tips on professional growth. Members may access an archive of past issues.

AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries, mailed to professional and associate members and available on the web.

Voice: AIGA Journal of Design is now online and contains authoritative, lively and often controversial articles on design, drawing from both contemporary and historical voices.

Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design , published online, is targeted at an audience of corporate decision-makers to explain the role of interaction and experience design in strengthening customer service in the new network economy.

AIGA Transitions, a monthly e-newsletter on the transition from school to work. E-mailed to student members and educators. Members may access an archive of past issues.

Inspiration
AIGA National Design Conference is the nation's largest creative conference, bringing designers together for a sense of community and inspiration every other year. The next AIGA design conference will be held in September 2005 in Boston; the last conference was "The Power of Design" in Vancouver, British Columbia.

AIGA Design Forum, where AIGA members can come together to find resources and engage in discussions on their favorite topics relating to design.

365: AIGA Design Competitions celebrate excellence within the profession, and offer examples of effective design that AIGA uses to explain the value of design to professional and general audiences. AIGA's juried competitions are among the most selective in the world. Members may enter at a discounted fee. Deadline: March 5, 2004

365: AIGA Year in Design, AIGA's definitive annual review of American design. This 365-page, all-color reference is free to professional members, and available at a discount to other members. The most recent annual, designed by COMA, will be mailed to professional members in May 2004.

AIGA Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the profession, awarded since 1922.

Education
Loop: AIGA Journal of Interaction Design Education is an academic journal serving an educational community that is developing curricula for interaction design. Loop is published as a webzine with Virginia Commonwealth University?s Center for Design Studies.

Representation
AIGA coordinates campaigns using design as a means of addressing community problems. All of these initiatives are open to AIGA members, in terms of participation and in initiating new projects. Recent projects include literacy, design in the schools, voter participation and community development. AIGA is active on federal and state legislative issues, as well as court cases that can benefit designers' intellectual practices and businesses.

Design for Democracy campaign, to increase the effective use of design in election reform, tax reform, Social Security, the Census

Business services
AIGA is able to offer limited health insurance options. AIGA publishes or co-publishes a wide variety of books, available in our member bookstore

AIGA affinity card, gaining visibility for AIGA and design

FedEx offers AIGA members discounts through its Association Advantage Program. Send an e-mail with your name and AIGA member number to fedex_code@aiga.org to obtain the special code and FedEx telephone number.

A special arrangement with Airborne Express offers AIGA members significant savings. For information on Airborne Express discounts, call 800-MEMBERS with your AIGA membership ID number.

Long distance telephone preferred pricing is available with Broadwing Communications. AIGA members may obtain discounted rates on long-distance, 800 services, calling-card and international dialing. For information, call 800 342 9287 with your AIGA membership ID number.

National design center
AIGA's national headquarters building, located on lower Fifth Avenue in New York City, hosts a variety of programs and exhibits in an effort to lead the media, business and general public to a better understanding of the value of graphic design.

The selections from juried competitions are documented in exhibitions appearing in AIGA's Fifth Avenue street-level gallery, where narrative all captions tell a story about the quality and value of current design. In addition, AIGA curates exhibitions that emphasize in special ways the value of design excellence.

All members are welcome and encouraged to visit. Members may also make an appointment to use the library.

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