Design Organizations in the United States
California Architectural Foundation
The California Architectural Foundation promotes healthy and sustainable communities through support of research and education.
Category Architecture Organizations
American Lighting Association
The American Lighting Association (ALA), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the trade organization of the residential lighting industry in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.
Category Lighting Design Organizations
Nashville Civic Design Center
Founded in 2000, the Nashville Civic Design Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to elevating the quality of the built environment and to promote public participation in the creation of a beautiful and functional city for all.
Category Urban Design Organizations
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a non-profit institution established in 1998 in San Francisco at the California College of the Arts. It serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary art and curatorial practice.
Category Art Organizations
Institute of Contemporary Art
The Institute of Contemporary Art strives to share the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, provocation, and imagination that contemporary art offers through public access to art, artists, and the creative process. Its exhibitions and programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas.
Category Art Organizations
National Institute of Building Sciences
The National Institute of Building Sciences successfully brings together representatives of government, the professions, industry, labor and consumer interests, and regulatory agencies to identify and resolve problems and potential problems that hamper the construction of safe, affordable structures for housing, commerce and industry throughout the United States.
Category Architecture Organizations
Association of Licensed Architects
The Association of Licensed Architects is a national resource organization for architects. We support the art, science, and business of architecture while inviting contractors, material suppliers, and reviewers to be part of the conversation of shaping our built environment.
Category Architecture Organizations
Designs for Dignity
Designs for Dignity was initiated in the belief that human beings are entitled to, and nurtured by, living and working within creative environments. Recognizing that constrained budgets of many non-profit organizations often preclude a comfortable and supportive physical environment, we intend to transform existing non-profit spaces through pro bono design services and in-kind donations.
Category Design Organizations
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission
The CPC provides land use, zoning, development, and other planning services for the countys cities, villages, and townships; the Board of Commissioners; and other governmental and not-for-profit organizations.
Category Urban Design Organizations
Design Onscreen
Design Onscreen is a non-profit foundation dedicated to producing, promoting and preserving high-quality films on architecture and design.
Category Design Organizations
Color Marketing Group
Color Marketing Group, founded in 1962, is a not-for-profit, international Association of color design professionals involved in the use of color as it applies to the profitable marketing of goods and services. CMG provides a forum for the exchange of non-competitive information relating to all phases of color marketing; color trends and combinations; design influences; merchandising and sales; and education and industry contacts.
Category Graphic Design Organizations
AIGA Chicago
AIGA Chicago is a dynamic community of 1600+ members, including designers, communication professionals, design educators and students. The Chapter was founded in 1986, and has been a leader in advocating the importance of design ever since.
Category Graphic Design Organizations
IDLNY
Founded in 1984, IDLNY is the coalition for New York State interior designers. Our mission is to inform and educate the New York legislative and regulatory bodies, interior designers and consumers about the issues facing the interior design profession. IDLNY also continually monitors legislation that could affect the practice of interior design and serves as a representative coalition for this process.
Category Interior Design Organizations
Sustainable Sites
The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.
Category Sustainable Design Organizations
LA Forum
The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is a non-profit organization that provides a framework for design professionals and members of the general public to explore, evaluate, and impact the development of architecture in Los Angeles.
Category Architecture Organizations
Chicago Furniture Designers Association
The Chicago Furniture Designers Association (CFDA) is a non profit organization dedicated to the promotion and development of furniture design through the establishment of a diverse forum of furniture designers.
Category Furniture Design Organizations
ArchiteXX
ArchiteXX is an independent, unaffiliated organization for women in architecture that seeks to transform the profession of architecture by bridging the academy and practice.
Category Architecture Organizations
Dactyl Foundation
Founded in 1997 in the early evening of the postmodern day, Dactyl Foundation supports an aesthetic that is informed by science, history, and philosophy and that takes into consideration both the intellectual and intuitive responses to art. This mission guides our visual art exhibitions, readings, screenings, and performances, which are supplemented with research, conferences and lectures, bringing the sciences back into the arts and the arts back into the sciences.
Category Art Organizations
Leonardo
Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) is a nonprofit organization that serves the global network of distinguished scholars, artists, scientists, researchers and thinkers through our programs, which focus on interdisciplinary work, creative output and innovation.
Category Art Organizations
Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics
Information regarding credentialing in Ergonomics including the requirements for certification, contact information, upcoming exams, application kit and a search feature to locate CPE/CHFP, CEA and AEP/AHFP professionals by name, state, expertise and products.
Category Ergonomics Organizations
ICA&CA-SCC
Dedicated to the practice and appreciation of classical architecture and the allied arts. Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America - Southern California Chapter is a member organization that fulfills its mission through four program areas: education, publications, awards, and advocacy.
Category Architecture Organizations
Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators
The Pittsburgh Society Of Illustrators is the fourth largest society of professional illustrators in the United States.
Category Illustration Organizations
AIGA Cincinnati
Cincinnati chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA).
Category Graphic Design Organizations
AIGA DC
AIGA DC is the nation's six largest chapter and represents a vibrant, multi-discipline community of design professionals that contribute daily to the area's visual fabric. Partnering with business communicators in crafting successful messages, AIGA DC members are an indispensable part of the area's economic engine.
Category Graphic Design Organizations
AIGA Nashville
The Nashville chapter of AIGA, formed in 2002, is a state-recognized, not-for-profit organization of designers, design educators, creative directors, photographers, illustrators, copywriters, production managers, web designers, web programmers, animators, production artists and many other types of creative professionals.
Category Graphic Design Organizations
AIGA South Dakota
AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. Formed in 2006, the South Dakota chapter serves the graphic design community and those in related fields within the state of South Dakota, and augments the activities of the national AIGA.
Category Graphic Design Organizations
Design Impact
Design Impact is a non-profit organization that partners professional designers with community organizations. These designers work on-site with innovative organizations and the communities they serve to design and implement life-improving solutions.
Category Design Organizations
AIGA Colorado
The American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) Colorado Chapter was founded in 1989 by a passionate group of designers who felt the need to connect with our nations oldest and largest design organization, AIGA. AIGA Colorado offers a diverse series of monthly events and programs to connect people to ideals that will ultimately help them increase their success as a designer.
Category Graphic Design Organizations
Evansville Design Group
The Evansville Design Group is a not-for-profit organization formed to promote education, networking, and enrichment within and among the local design community. Through round table discussions, studio tours and presentations, guest lectures, and community involvement, the group and its members are committed to promoting design excellence amongst themselves and in the community at-large.
Category Design Organizations