AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS

Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders is a certificate course held each July for senior-level design professionals, which draws on the strength of Yale School of Management faculty to advance attendees’ business knowledge in one intensive week.

This time-honored competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers of the year. The juror-selections from the 50 Books | 50 Covers competition exemplify the best current work in book and book cover design.

Worldstudio launched it’s landmark college scholarship program in 1995 to address the lack of diversity in the creative professions and to foster social responsibility in the creative professionals of the future.

Through this initiative, Worldstudio partners with individuals, corporate sponsors and non-profit organizations to give scholarships in the name of the donor to aspiring artists and designers (areas of study: graphic design, illustration, and photography from underrepresented and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Awards are often tied to larger initiatives, meaningful engagements, or organizational goals.

Since 2005, Worldstudio has collaborated with AIGA, the professional association for design, to implement the program.

The medal of AIGA—the most distinguished in the field—is awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the field of design and visual communication. The contribution may be in the practice of design, teaching, writing or leadership of the profession. The awards may honor designers posthumously.

The AIGA Design Business and Ethics series outlines the critical ethical and professional issues encountered by designers and their clients.

The AIGA Design POV represents a broad set of research components including in-the-moment pulse check surveys, in-depth qualitative interviews, a robust online survey, and triangulation of data from various other sources to provide insights into the current topics impacting the design community and create resources that can be used to better understand needs.

This research is about the future of our industry. It’s about leadership and it’s more than our profession but how design interfaces with the world. Our mission is about bringing design to the world. We are celebrating the diversity of our industry and the social impact each and every designer makes to society.

Dialectic is a fully open access, biannual journal devoted to the critical examination of issues that affect design education, research, and inquiry into their effects on the practice of design. The journal seeks to publish scholarship, analytical study and criticism that will enlighten and inform a diverse audience of design educators engaged not only in classroom teaching experiences but also in differing forms of research and professional practice.