Design Organizations in the United States
Shelter Global
Shelter Global is an interdisciplinary not-for-profit organization focused on providing safe, clean living conditions for everyone. Inadequate shelter has a direct connection to the cycle of poverty and can have a major effect on ones health, safety and prosperity. Our goal is to spread awareness about the large percentage of the worlds population living in these conditions. Spreading this awareness will give rise to new ideas on how to solve the world's shelter crisis.
Category Architecture Organizations
American Society of Architectural Illustrators
The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) was founded in 1986 as a professional organization to represent the business and artistic interests of architectural illustrators throughout North America and around the world.
Category Illustration Organizations
AIA Portland
The American Institute of Architects is a national organization of architects and allied professionals. With a membership of over 800, the Portland Chapter's goal is to create and maintain an enduring environment for the work of architects in the culture and commerce of the community.
Category Architecture Organizations
Project H Design
Project H Design connects the power of design to the people who need it most, and the places where it can make a real and lasting difference. We are a team of designers and builders engaging locally to improve the quality of life for the socially overlooked.
Category Design Organizations
Chicago Architecture Foundation
The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public interest and education in architecture and design. CAF presents a comprehensive program of tours, exhibitions, lectures, special events, and adult and youth education activities, all designed to enhance the public's awareness and appreciation of Chicago's outstanding architectural legacy.
Category Architecture Organizations
Boston Society of Architects
The Boston Society of Architects is committed to professional development for our members, advocacy on behalf of great design, and sharing an appreciation for the built environment with the public at large.
Category Architecture Organizations
IES
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America seeks to improve the lighted environment by bringing together those with lighting knowledge and by translating that knowledge into actions that benefit the public.
Category Lighting Design Organizations
Sustainable Packaging Coalition
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition is an industry working group inspired by cradle to cradle principles and dedicated to transforming packaging into a system that encourages economic prosperity and a sustainable flow of materials.
Category Package Design Organizations
American Institute of Architecture Students
Since 1956, the American Institute of Architecture Students has been the voice of students to the educational system and the profession of architecture and design in North America-and beyond. The association helps to build interest and enrich the educational experience of students (of all ages) and others in architecture and design.
Category Architecture Organizations
Freelancers Union
Freelancers Union promotes the interests of independent workers through advocacy, education, and services. The organization gives independent workers a powerful voice through political action, research, and thought leadership.
Category Design Organizations
The Print Center
The Print Center, a nonprofit gallery located in Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, encourages the growth and understanding of photography and printmaking as vital contemporary arts through exhibitions, publications and educational programs.
Category Print Design Organizations
Internet Marketing Association
The Internet Marketing Association (IMA) provides a knowledge-sharing platform for business-to-business marketing professionals where proven Internet marketing strategies are demonstrated and discussed in an effort to increase each member's value to their respective organization.
Category Advertising Organizations
SMPS
The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) is a diverse community of marketing and business development professionals working together to move the A/E/C industries forward.
Category Advertising Organizations
Center for Book Arts
The Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. We achieve this through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting.
Category Book Design Organizations
Association of Professional Landscape Designers
The goals of the APLD are to advance landscape design as an independent profession and to promote the recognition of landscape designers as highly qualified, dedicated professionals.
Category Landscape Design Organizations
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Cultural Landscape Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy non-profit established in 1998 with a mission of "connecting people to places." The organization educates and engages the public to make our landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.
Category Landscape Design Organizations
Kounkuey Design Initiative
Kounkuey Design Initiative is a community development and design nonprofit. We partner with under-resourced communities to advance equity and activate the unrealized potential in their neighborhoods and cities.
Category Urban Design Organizations
Female Design Council
Female Design Council (FDC) is an action-oriented leadership organization dedicated to providing a strong professional community for all womxn irrespective of color, race, gender or sexual identity in the design industry. FDC is dedicated to the larger conversation to engage equity and tangible gender parity in design.
Category Design Organizations
Shop!
Shop! is the global non-profit trade association dedicated to enhancing retail environments and experiences.
Category Retail Design Organizations
Sarasota Architectural Foundation
The Sarasota Architectural Foundation (SAF) is a not-for-profit organization that celebrates the Sarasota School of Architecture movement and advocates to preserve the midcentury modern structures that exemplify its forward-looking principles. Through our ongoing series of lectures, films, tours and the annual SarasotaMOD Architecture Festival, SAF continues to inform and inspire a loyal and diverse following.
Category Architecture Organizations
Dallas Architecture Forum
The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in - and for - the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world.
Category Architecture Organizations
Aperture Foundation
Aperture is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting photography. Its aim is to foster both the development and the appreciation of the medium and its practitioners.
Category Photography Organizations
Graphic Artists Guild
The Graphic Artists Guild primary purpose is to help our members build successful careers by equipping them with the skills and support needed to compete more effectively in an ever-changing field. Guild members are creative professionals and those studying to become creative professionals. We serve graphic and interactive designers, illustrators, animators, web programmers and developers.
Category Graphic Design Organizations
IGDA
The International Game Developers Association is the largest non-profit membership organization serving individuals who create video games. We bring together developers at conferences, in local chapters and in special interest groups to improve their lives and craft.
Category Game Design Organizations
American Design Club
The American Design Club (AmDC), founded 2008, aims to bring together designers working under the American Flag. The AmDC seeks to heighten awareness for emerging designers, further promote a sense of community among one another, and to provide sales and exhibition opportunities.
Category Design Organizations
ASID Georgia
The Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. The Chapter has 660 practitioner members, 225 Industry Partners, and 250 student members.
Category Interior Design Organizations
Association for Women in Architecture + Design
The Association for Women in Architecture and Design is a Professional Society dedicated to supporting career and educational endeavors for women working in the built environment. The organization's mission is to advance and support women in the allied fields of architecture and design. We encourage and foster high levels of achievement by providing educational programming, mentoring, and illuminating career opportunities for students and professionals in these fields.
Category Architecture Organizations
Transgenerational Design Matters
Transgenerational Design Matters inspire, promote, and support product and architectural designs that deliver "aging in place" to people of all ages and abilities.
Category Industrial Design Organizations
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation was established in 1940 as the repository of the life work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is committed to advancing the ideas and principles of organic architecture, organic education, and conservation of the natural environment. The Foundation also seeks to preserve and enhance the lifetime contributions and ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright, and make available to the public opportunities to study and experience organic architecture.
Category Architecture Organizations
AIGA Minnesota
AIGA Minnesota is the first place to turn for inspiration, professional development, and excellence in design in Minnesota. AIGA Minnesota was founded in 1977 as the Minnesota Graphic Designers Association. Today, we're one of the largest chapters in the AIGA, serving nearly 900 members in Minnesota and the upper Midwest.
Category Graphic Design Organizations