Icograda. Leading Creatively.
Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations) is the world body for professional communication design. Founded in 1963, it is a voluntary assembly of organisations concerned with graphic design, visual communication, design management, promotion, education, research and journalism. Icograda promotes communication designers’ vital role in society and commerce and unifies the voices of graphic designers and visual communicators worldwide.
SEGD
SEGD is the more than 1,600 members who work in the planning, design, fabrication, and implementation of communications in the built environment. SEGD is guided by a Board of Directors, which creates policies and programs to grow, enrich, and provide educational resources to the community. A strong network of Chapter Chairs represents SEGD at the local level, providing a vital liaison role between local members and the Board of Directors. A diverse professional staff implements Board initiatives, provides member support, and works to provide new services and resources for the SEGD community.
AIGA
AIGA, the professional association for design, is the premier place for design—to discover it, discuss it, understand it, appreciate it, be inspired by it. It is the place designers turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis, and research and advance education and ethical practices. AIGA sets the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political, cultural and creative contexts.
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) is a member-based organization of design professionals, educators, administrators,students and associates in communications, marketing, media and design related fields.
Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario
R.G.D. is the Ontario association of registered Graphic Designer. 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. The R.G.D. and Registered Graphic Designer designations are signals of quality and competence to the profession, the public, and the government.
ACID
Founded in 1948, the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers (ACID) promotes and represents the interests of its corporate and professional members to government and other international associations such as the International Council of Society of Industrial Designers (ICSID).
The Association is dedicated to increasing the knowledge, skill and proficiency of Canadian Industrial designers through maintaining close contact with its corporate members as it represents them on both a national and international level. The Association also promotes the use and value of industrial design to industry and the public.
The Interaction Design Association
Founded in 2003 by Rick Cecil, David Heller, Challis Hodge, and Jim Jarrett in response to Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini’s impassioned plea to the interaction design community to create a nonprofit professional association to address the challenges that interaction designers encounter in their professional lives.
The Interaction Design Association is the result of that early collaboration and efforts of various other steering committee members. We officially incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in late 2005 and today we continue to thrive as a member-supported community.
ARIDO
First established as the Society of Interior Decorators of Ontario, then Interior Designers of Ontario, the name was changed to the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario in 1984 when the ARIDO Act was passed in the Legislature of Ontario. The Act was amended by the passing of Bill Pr6 in 1999 to grant interior designers who meet ARIDO standards exclusive use of the title Interior Designer in Ontario.
