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About AIGA Austin

AIGA Austin is the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).

Board Members

The AIGA Austin Chapter is continued by the hard work of dedicated board members and volunteers within the community. Should you have any questions, feel free to contact any of us by email or telephone.

AIGA Mission

AIGA, the professional association for communication design, is committed to furthering excellence in communication design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research, and advance education and ethical practice.

AIGA sets the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political, cultural, and creative contexts. AIGA is the oldest and largest membership association for professionals engaged in the discipline, practice, and culture of designing. Founded as the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1914 as a small, exclusive club, AIGA now represents more than 16,000 designers through national activities and local programs developed by 48 chapters and more than 150 student groups.

AIGA supports the interests of professionals, educators, and students who are engaged in the process of designing, regardless of where they are in the arc of their careers. The disciplines represented in the profession range from book and type design through the traditional communication design disciplines to the newer disciplines of interaction design, experience design, and motion graphics. In addition, AIGA supports the interests of those involved in designing from other disciplines, professions, and business who share designers’ commitment to advancing understanding of the value of design.

Through the relationships members develop within the community of designers, the information they share, and the standards they develop for the profession, AIGA helps the profession to validate its own ethos and role in business and society. AIGA actively communicates the value of design to the business community and the public.

AIGA serves as a hub of thought-leadership and activity for the designing community. The association is committed to stimulating thinking about design through conferences, competitions, exhibitions, publications, and websites. AIGA inspires, educates, and informs designers, helping them to realize their talents and to advocate the value of design among the media, the business community, public agencies, and the general public. While AIGA was created to advance the design profession, its members now place a higher priority on AIGA’s work in communicating the value of design to audiences outside the profession.

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