Design & Business

Design Business and Ethics: AIGA has published a series of brochures outlining the critical ethical and professional issues encountered by designers and clients.
AIGA Standard Form of Agreement for Design Services: This agreement, updated in May 2007, allows you to create customized terms and conditions for your design engagements.
Confidence index: Each quarter AIGA conducts a survey of design leaders to assemble an authoritative statement on current conditions in the design economy.
An ethnography primer: AIGA and Cheskin have produced a primer introducing the crucial role that ethnography plays in designing.

AIGA position on spec work: AIGA maintains its position against speculative work while recognizing that the decision on whether to take the risks of speculative work is up to individual designers.
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.
What every business needs: This brochure will help illustrate to your client, whether in-house or external, the important role design plays in problem-solving