More than 16,000 of your colleagues have joined AIGA for the benefits of community, information, inspiration, education and representation.

Level	Description	Price
Professional	An individual who has practiced or taught in any design community for two years or more.	$295
Associate	An individual who has practiced in any design community for two or fewer years.	$210
Student	A full-time student who presents a copy of a dated bursar's receipt or current ID from an accredited college or university.	$75
Full-time faculty	Current full-time faculty members may apply for a special membership rate (not available through the online application).	$110
Group	Firms that wish to purchase professional memberships for three or more employees should consider a group membership, at the discounted rate of $730 for the first three members, and $245 for each additional member.	$245 each

Why Join AIGA?
AIGA stimulates thinking about design within the creative community by focusing on innovative practices, celebrating excellence and raising critical issues for discussion among professionals. AIGA also illuminates the challenges of the design process, the role of the designer and the value of effective design among the media, the business community and the public.

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Professional Standards 
AIGA embraces the exciting and rapid changes occurring in design, yet definitively promotes the highest professional standards. This combination of openness and authority attracts the largest student membership of any design organization in the world since, for many of the next generation’s designers, AIGA members and activities exemplify their personal aspirations. 
   
Make Connections within the Profession 
Through more than 40 local chapters and 150 student groups nationwide, AIGA's 15,000+ members participate in local events and explore professional challenges with their colleagues in the design community. Many members consider relationships they build through AIGA to be the most valuable and lasting of all the organization's benefits. AIGA's member directory is the largest directory available and helps you keep in touch with your colleagues and friends.

Designers interested in specific disciplines find that AIGA communities of interest offer a non-competitive approach to communicating with colleagues and competitors who are actively solving similar problems across the country. 
   
Advocate your Positions, Showcase your Contribution 
Give the profession a voice on issues that matter – defining the profession to ensure its relevance, advocating public policy on behalf of graphic designers, developing standards for professional practice that define the ethics of the profession and undertaking national initiatives that are beyond the capacity of any individual to achieve alone.

AIGA mounts coordinated campaigns using design as a means of addressing community problems. All of these initiatives are open to AIGA members, in terms of participation and in initiating new projects. Recent projects include literacy, design in the schools, voter participation and community development. AIGA is active on federal and state legislative issues, as well as court cases that can benefit designers' intellectual practices and businesses.  

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