Graphic Design and Typography

AIGA is the profession’s oldest and largest professional membership organization for design—with 70 chapters and more than 25,000 members—we advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force. From content that defines the global practice to events that connect and catalyze, we work to enhance the value and deepen the impact of design across all disciplines on business, society, and our collective future.

an international community of researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers, scientists, and business professionals who share an interest in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

The Graphic Artists Guild primary purpose is to help our members build successful careers by equipping them with the skills and support needed to compete more effectively in an ever-changing field.

Guild members are creative professionals and those studying to become creative professionals. We serve graphic and interactive designers, illustrators, animators, web programmers and developers.

The AIC was founded in 1967 by eight national color associations and includes the Inter-Society of Color.

We are the global, multidisciplinary community of professionals who plan, design, and build experiences that connect people to place. We are graphic and information designers, fabricators, architects, exhibition designers, technology integrators, interaction designers, brand strategists, students, wayfinding specialists, teachers, and others who have a hand in shaping content-rich, experiential spaces.

Founded in 1983 and incorporated twenty years later, the Society of Illustrators, Artists and Designers (SIAD) is a not-for-profit professional organisation that exists to promote excellence in all areas of visual media, to provide an online resource for the promotion of its members, and to promote the protection of the intellectual property rights of its members.

SIGCHI is the premier international society for professionals, academics and students who are interested in human-technology and human-computer interaction (HCI).

We are also graphic designers, typographers, new media artists, calligraphers, sign painters, printers, software developers, illustrators, writers, and photographers. We are professionals and amateurs. We are students and teachers. We are historians and visionaries. We are all of these things, and more. The members of The Society of Typographic Aficionados have any number of things in common, but one in particular — a passion for type and typography.