Education

Design Educators Community: The community actively supports design educators in a variety of institutional settings through events, conferences, surveys, research, and a host of initiatives.
AIGA Design Educators Salary Survey: This survey offers the most complete compensation data available for education professionals in the United States in the communication design disciplines.
Defining the Designer of 2015: With insight from the profession’s best thinkers, AIGA and Adobe outline the qualifications and expectations of future designers.
Cumulus and AIGA: AIGA recently became a partner of Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media.
Design programs: The complete list of accredited institutional members is in the process of being updated. Visit the NASAD website for additional information.
Bibliographies: Design educators recommend the following bibliographies on an array of design and education topics.
Transitions e-newsletter: Welcome to Transitions, an e-newsletter created for AIGA student members to help in their education and eventual transition to the workplace as a professional designer.
Design education: A collection of articles exploring burning questions, old prejudices, new ideas and truisms in design education.

Worldstudio AIGA Scholarships: Worldstudio AIGA Scholarships allow young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to realize their artistic dreams.
After School Special: Advice for Emerging Designers: In the beginning of a career, the transition from school to work is difficult. Lynda Decker of Decker Design offers this advice.
Mentoring guidebooks: AIGA mentoring guides provide tools for individuals and groups interested in becoming mentors or creating mentoring programs.
Design Ignites Change: This mentoring program encourages high school and college students to use design thinking and innovation to address complex social problems.
K-12 poster series: In May 2006, with the generous support of Target, AIGA launched a design poster and activity series in Scholastic Instructor magazine to promote...
Loop: AIGA Journal of Interactive Design Education: Loop AIGA Journal of Interactive Design Education is an online journal on topics central to teaching all aspects of design education.
Point: AIGA Colorado Education Journal: Point: The AIGA Colorado Education Journal is a publication designed and written by the student members of the Colorado chapter...