Design & Business: AIGA

Design & Business

Design Business and Ethics: AIGA has published a series of brochures outlining the critical ethical and professional issues encountered by designers and their clients... more »
AIGA Standard Form of Agreement for Design Services: This agreement allows you to create customized terms and conditions for different types of design engagements. Updated in May 2007, it is now modular... more »
Confidence index: In April 2005, AIGA began conducting a quarterly survey of design leaders to assemble an authoritative statement on the current conditions within the... more »
AIGA position on spec work: Clients may, at times, request you compete for an engagement on the basis speculative work—that is, work done for no cost. This sample letter is... more »

What every business needs: “What every business needs. And how.” explains for your client, whether in-house or external, the role designers and designing can play in... more »
Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design: Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design is dedicated to stimulating thinking at the intersection of design and business. Through rigorous case studies... more »
An ethnography primer: AIGA and Cheskin have produced a primer introducing the crucial role that ethnography plays in designing... more »