Become a member of AIGA Seattle and leave your mark on the design community. Through lectures, conferences, membership events and retreats, AIGA Seattle stimulates design activity and illuminates its importance and potential to the public. By serving as a resource and voice for people in the design industry, the organization embraces cutting-edge developments in the field and timeless professional standards.

Provides powerful local and national networking opportunities. Monthly events offer opportunities to meet other designers, share ideas, and make contacts. In addition, a searchable database of approximately 15,000 members is accessible only to AIGA members.

Celebrates excellence in the design field. Local AIGA Seattle and national AIGA competitions showcase examples of effective design that demonstrate the value of design to both professional and general audiences. Publications like 365, Trace: AIGA Journal of Design, and Launch: AIGA Journal of Commerce and Communication highlight innovation and creativity, industry trends, and explore the successes and challenges of the field. Several lectures a year offer members the opportunity to hear local, national, and international designers from all disciplines of the design field to talk about and share their work. Conferences like AIGA Design Camp showcase designers, art directors and filmmakers that cover communication and design in print, film, new media and related creative fields.

Offers an important array of professional resources. The Seattle Job Hotline keeps you current on career opportunities. A Standard Form of Agreement for Graphic Design Services, a form for designers and their clients, can be adapted as an agreement for a wide range of graphic design projects. A voluntary standard of ethics and professional conduct, which benefits both the designer and client, is also available with membership.

Discounts. AIGA Seattle offers discounts on express delivery services (like Fedex and Airborne); for leading design magazines and AIGA national publications; long distance telephone rates; competition entry fees; national conference registration; and preferred pricing on website hosting services.

Summary Benefits

• AIGA membership card
• AIGA standards of professional practice
• Graphic Design USA (full color annual of exhibitions, awards, etc.)
• AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
• AIGA National Membership Directory
• Standard Form of Agreement for Graphic Design Services
• Access to AIGA Seattle Job Hotline
• Express delivery service discounts (Airborne, Fedex)
• Subscription discounts on leading design magazines
• Long distance telephone savings
• Transmedia Dining Card
• Preferred pricing on website hosting services
• Discounts on competition entry fees
• National conference registration discounts
• Chapter event admission discounts
• AIGA publication discounts
• News and info updates via AIGA's website