AIGA Initiatives
Over the past two years, AIGA has been reorienting its own mission. One critical revision to AIGA's course is that it is focusing on promoting the value of the designing process rather than solely individual designers and their artifacts. While we will continue to honor great and effective design, we will also engage with “Designing” as a way of thinking.
In today's world, complex problems are usually those defined by a complex context. And increasingly, as noted in the Kyoto protocols, the Johannesburg conference on sustainable development, the global tensions surrounding cultural terrorism or revulsion, and a stumbling of economic growth, the context involves economic, environmental and cultural dimensions.-
Design for Democracy
Design for Democracy applies all the tools of design to make voting more efficient, more accessible, more convenient, more practical and more gratifying for election officials, for communities and for individuals.
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The Urban Forest Project
This summer The Urban Forest Project will plant 200 banners by designers, artists, photographers and illustrators from around the world in New York's Times Square.
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AIGA disaster relief planning
AIGA is currently supporting designers from all disciplines displaced by the recent disasters in the Gulf Coast. AIGA is working in collaboration with Chopping Block to support Displaced Designer, extending the reach and effectiveness of this initiative so that no designer is left behind.
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Inequality Matters
The posters in the “Inequality Matters” series illustrate how much disparity there is in the world even in the fundamental human condition. Halving extreme poverty by 2015 is doable but will not happen unless government and civil society act to close the ever-widening disparity—between countries and within countries. Spread the word by distributing the posters.
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Process of designing
This new website brings the "Why" brochure to life with a dynamic presentation of the designing framework plus a new archive of case studies contributed by national board members.
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