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. The series, entitled "Design Business and Ethics," examines the key concerns a designer faces in maintaining a successful practice and speaks directly to the protection of individual rights.

Authored by industry leaders from across the country, each brochure offers clear and concise information, as well as practical and specific directions for approaching design issues.

Revised versions of all the brochures were published in May 2007, available here as PDFs. We encourage you to download and reformat the information as part of your regular proposals to clients (giving proper attribution to AIGA).

New topics in the "Design Business and Ethics" series will be published periodically to build a basic library for designers and their clients. The intent of this series is to develop content that is useful to designers, as well as being a resource to educate clients on standard practices and legal requirements faced by design firms.

In addition, the AIGA Standard Form of Agreement for Design Services was also updated in May 2007. This agreement takes a modular approach to meet the needs of the diverse design community.