Deakin University offers design courses in the areas of Communication Design, 3D Animation, Digital Technologies and Architecture.

The design courses at Deakin opperate from campuses in Burwood, Melbourne and Geelong, Australia's only designated UNESCO City of Design.

Deakin actively supports the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) is an education member of Design Institute of Australia (DIA), Australian Institute of Architects and the International Council of Design (ICoD). Our design degrees (3D animation, digital technologies and visual communication) are formally recognised by the DIA and meet industry standards, ensuring you stand out to employers after graduation.

Deakin University design programs include:

• Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)
• Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies)
• Bachelor of Design (3D Animation)
• Bachelor of Design (Architecture)
• Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours)

Since its formation in 1947, The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) has been Australia's professional membership body for ers and design businesses. The DIA represents all professional designers in Australia. It is Australia’s only multi-disciplinary organisation of professional designers, representing all disciplines of design. DIA provides members with support, networking, services and information to improve your professional practice. It also provides with a wealth of contacts, and connects you with colleagues from many industry areas.support of the DIA ensures that the design professions have a voice in government and industry, and an organisational structure to get things done on behalf of designers.It's a professional body for designers, founded by the design professions, and run and funded by designers. By working together, designers ensure they have the numbers and money necessary to operate a strong and active national organisation.

The School of Media and Communication is at the forefront of media and communication education, research, and practice. The School is committed to building an internationally oriented, industry relevant and intellectually vibrant community of students, professional media-makers and educators, scholars, and creative practitioners, such that our students will thrive and grow in their chosen areas of expertise.



The School offers industry-focussed degree programs to undergraduates, with an emphasis on preparing them for the long term challenges of maintaining creative, socially valuable and globally informed careers. We also offer Masters and Doctoral pathways to those wishing to re-orient themselves professionally, or to refresh their knowledge and skills to face new challenges with competence and confidence. We expect our graduates to be skilled, imaginative, and thoughtful, and to take the lead in progressing technological innovations, creative applications, and in mediating the lives of fellow citizens around the world.



We also offer an exceptionally strong range of Vocational Education programs, both to local and international students. These programs are focused on developing a highly skilled workforce for Victoria, but also in Australia and the Asia Pacific region more broadly. We strive for a global outlook, maintaining a campus in Vietnam, and programs in Singapore, and elsewhere in the region. Both our higher education degree and VE students learn to do, think, and create in the contemporary world in ways, which make them indispensable to a wide range of industries and commercial enterprises.

Melbourne School Design (MSD), is the graduate school of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at The University of Melbourne. A creative and people-oriented design school in Australia’s leading research-intensive university, we are passionate about activating the next generation of built environment and design professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables our graduates to create and influence our world. We teach across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables us to prepare our graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. Our staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne, ranked as the world’s most liveable city, is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment fields. Researchers and industry practitioners teach our programs and are leaders in public conversations about our cities and regions, shaping policy development and transforming Australian practice. The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning hosts the Bachelor of Design, while the Melbourne School of Design hosts a comprehensive range of graduate programs in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Construction, Property, Urban Design, Urban Planning, and Urban and Cultural Heritage. The Faculty also hosts the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) and Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

Design Austria (DA) is Austria's only professional association and service organization representing the interests of designers from all the creative disciplines graphic design and illustration, product design, and web design.The association was founded as early as 1927 as Bund Osterreichischer Gebrauchsgraphiker (BOG). Outstanding artists' personalities, such as the illustrator Alfred Kubin, the typographer Rudolf von Larisch, and Joseph Binder, a pioneer of modern graphic design, numbered among its members. Today, renowned designers such as Stefan Sagmeister or Ferdinand A. Porsche continue this tradition.In 1992 the association opened up to embrace also other fields of design, apart from graphics. This was due to an increasingly interdisciplinary professional approach and because of the fact that individual creative processes are at the basis of all design activity. Today, DA  has some 1,300 members from all design disciplines, most of whom work as freelance designers.Service is one of the main concerns of Design . Besides the individual counselling of its members, basic information is on top of the list. Members are primarily informed through the association's own publications and periodicals, such as the calculation and competition guidelines, which assist both designers and clients or competition organizers. This mandate to inform goes hand in hand with an educational programme: Design  organizes seminars (client acquisition, creative techniques, calculation, copyright), lectures featuring international speakers, and excursions.Events are held regularly in  and abroad; besides comprehensive exhibitions meant to promote Austrian design and a variety of small-scale presentations, Design Austria has been the host of the designforum MQ together with the Austrian Design Foundation since late 2005. Design Austria organises international and national design competitions, such as the Joseph Binder Award, the Romulus Candea Prize, and the Adolf Loos National Design Prize.

Applied Science University has earned its license from the Ministry of Education according to the decree issued by the Minister’s Council No. (WD 140/2004) dated 5th July 2004 making it one of the first private universities in the Kingdom of Bahrain. ASU is striving to become one of the leading universities in the Kingdom of Bahrain and in the wider Gulf region. The university aims to support the economic and social development of the Kingdom of Bahrain by providing degree programmes at both the undergraduate and post graduate levels. Our programmes are grounded in a pedagogical framework that aims to develop our student’s understanding of key theories and concepts through knowledge acquisition and the development of practical skills and life-long learning skills, while preparing our student’s for a range of career paths within their chosen field or discipline. The university aims to provide its students with a high quality learning experience by ensuring an up-to-date curriculum for its degree programmes that meet the demands of private industry and the public sector alike, locally, regionally and internationally. ASU employs experienced and well qualified academics that can support student learning and the overall student experience through provision of research informed teaching, supported by a comprehensive range of learning and assessment methods. This approach produces ASU graduates that are well-equipped and capable of facing on-going challenges in their professional careers.

The Bolivia Design & Poster Biennial BICeBé is the most important international design and visual arts event in Bolivia and the Southern Cone, integrating the Latin American region through the teaching of responsible design practice.
Each version, Bolivia opens an interchange experience for great masters and outstanding professionals from the national and international scope with an inclusive and equitable approach. It understands that innovation, knowledge and history are the most valuable points which allow us to generate an ideal setting for reflection and projection for new generations and continuing education.
BICeBé is also one of the most anticipated cultural events on the country's agenda and has been recognized on several occasions within the Cultural Industry Markets of the region. The biennial is the epicenter of design under the outlook of social responsibility management, development and generator of economic impact. That is why it has the participation of prominent academic, institutional and business spaces, that acknowledge the biennial as the ideal space to project their participation and establish a vision of development and awareness of the environment and communications. BICeBé allows everyone to be part of one of the main spaces for creative, academic and economic networking.

BCIT - Digital Arts, Media and Design

The Emily Carr University of Art + Design was founded in 1925 and is one of British Columbia’s oldest post-secondary institutions and one of the world's leading arts institutions.  Carr encourages and enables all students to achieve the highest intellectual and creative potential and to achieve beyond their expectations. They have created a culture which demands disciplined thinking, supports curiosity, challenges existing ideas and helps to generate new ones. At the same time, they invite students to prepare themselves for life after school. Their curriculum is flexible, personal, multi-disciplinary and based on the learning needs of students. Emily Carr Institute is dedicated to fostering an educational environment that is professional, practice-oriented and at the same time rooted in history and critical theory.Their objectives are to promote a learner-centred environment focused on the Arts and Design and to facilitate the development of a milieu of creative engagement, innovation and professionalism. Emily  also aims to demonstrate professional excellence in all of their areas of specialization and to celebrate and support the importance and centrality of creative practices in all of the arts, media arts and design. Going further, they aim to achieve diversity within their curriculum and equity in all student and staffing activities and accountability within every part of the institution; and, to be a leader in the development of new academic programs that respond to the emerging needs of students and society, are both integral to Icograda's strategy.

Our Mission



The role of the SDGQ is to promote graphic design and contribute to its advancement by supporting the professional and economic development of its members.



At SDGQ, we believe that we, graphic designers, must take up the following challenges:

- Demystify the profession and show our contribution to society.

- To not live in the shadows; in other words, to know and to make ourselves known.

- To show the value of our profession, for the profit of our members, of our clients, and of the general public.



With this intention, we pledge the following:

To promote graphic design

- by establishing partnerships with organisations such as the Institut de Design de Montréal (IDM), the Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), Icograda, as well as the colleges and universities where this discipline is taught;

- by organising or supervising contests which celebrate excellence and which publicize the successes of our members;

- by maintaining links with the media and the community.



To contribute to the advancement of graphic design:

- by clearly identifying the fields of intervention of the graphic designer;

- by developing the relationship between the client and designer;

- by maintaining links with professionals in other disciplines;

- by representing our members to government institutions;

- and through the medium of education;

- by enlarging our international influence;

- by evaluating the communicational impact of design;

- by taking a position in stakes which concern us.



To contribute to the professional and economic development of our members:

- by supporting training through the diffusion of publications, conferences, forums of exchange, etc.;

- by weaving durable bonds between our members;

- by proposing normative tools, such as a code of ethics which responds to the interests of our members and which make it possible to better serve their clients and the general public.



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La SDGQ a pour mission de promouvoir le design graphique et de contribuer son avancement en favorisant le développement professionnel et economique de ses membres.

Nos défis

A la SDGQ, nous croyons que nous, designers graphiques, devons relever les defis suivants :

- Demystifier la profession et préciser notre contribution la societe.

- Sortir de l'ombre, c'est-à-dire se faire connaître et reconnaitre.

- Faire voluer la profession au profit de nos membres, de leurs clients et du grand public.

Pour ce faire, nous prenons les engagements suivants :

Promouvoir le design graphique

- en etablissant des partenariats avec des organismes du milieu tels que l'Institut de Design de Montreal (IDM), la Societe des designers graphiques du Canada (GDC), Icograda, ainsi que les colleges et universites ou cette discipline est enseignee;

- en organisant ou supervisant des concours qui celebrent l'excellence et qui font reconnaitre les reussites de nos membres;

- en entretenant des liens avec les medias et avec la communaute.

Contribuer a l avancement du design graphique

- en identifiant clairement les champs d'intervention du designer graphique;

- en faisant evoluer la relation client-designer;

- en entretenant des liens etroits avec les professionnels d'autres disciplines;

- en representant nos membres aupres des institutions gouvernementales - et du milieu de l'education;

- en elargissant notre rayonnement international;

- en evaluant l'impact communicationnel du design;

- en prenant position face aux enjeux qui nous concernent.

Contribuer au developpement professionnel et economique de nos membres

- en favorisant la formation par la diffusion d information au moyen de publications, de conferences, de forums d echange, etc.;

- en tissant des liens durables entre les membres;

- en proposant des outils normatifs, tel un code de deontologie qui repondent aux interets des membres et qui permettent de mieux servir leurs clients et le public en general.

The Department of Art & Design is a diverse and wide-ranging academic unit employing 18 full-time faculty, 18 full-time equivalent contract instructors, and 12 full-time continuing support staff across seven major disciplines, each with graduate program specializations. These include Design Studies (Industrial and Visual Communication Design), Fine Art Studies (Drawing & Intermedia, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture), and the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture. The Department offers BA, BDes, BFA, MA, MDes, MFA and PhD degrees. It also administers the Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery, a major exhibition facility, and is home to a University Centre of Research Excellence in Printmaking and an emerging Centre of Research Excellence in Design.

The Department attracts 4000 undergraduate registrations per year and, on average, it welcomes 35 to 40 graduate students, the majority of whom are international students. It includes advanced specialized labs and studios for rapid prototyping, photography, all media for printmaking, 3 design computer labs, a 125-seat lecture theatre, a Print Study Centre and a Visual Resource Centre. The annual research/project grants (2000-present) total, on average, CAD $300,000 per year. Falling under the College of Social Sciences & Humanities, the Faculty of Arts includes the Departments of Drama and Music as well as Art & Design, in addition to 12 other Departments with which the Department of Art & Design interacts collaboratively.

The University of Alberta, founded in 1908, is one of Canada's largest research universities, and is situated in the provincial capital, Edmonton, a metropolitan area of over 1,000,000 with a vibrant artistic community and an excellent standard of living. The campus is located adjacent to one of the largest municipal park systems in North America and is approximately 4 hours by car from the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

For DuocUC’s School of Design, DESIGN is interpreted as an essential element in each one of mankind’s activities, and as such is explored in all of its forms and manifestations, always in extremely close contact with both the national and international industry. This happens because of the conviction that it is a discipline which has as its main asset in the incorporation of added value throughout all of the production process. This is why it has always been a main concern to keep a strong, tight bond with the World’s biggest and most important design centers, by way of tight collaboration projects. With the latter, and going along with the institutional mission guidelines, as well as considering a scenario where Chile’s Design Industry stands a bit under developed, the school has proposed itself to widen its field of action within the market, incorporating the educational development both to corporate and strategic fields. Duoc UC offers professional degrees in Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Illustration, Interior Design and associate degrees in Web Production, Graphic Design Technician, Industrial Clothing Production Technician, with study programs that consider the present and future of each discipline, with a technological environment that facilitates the knowledge learning and the development of abilities in the different design areas, maintaining a tight and constant contact with production and service companies, both national and international, in the same design areas as the ones featured in each program. DuocUC has a total of 79.803 students distributed across different headquarters within the Metropolitan, V and VIII regions. Of that number, 5401 students belong to the School of Design, comprised of 8 programs distributed across four sites within the Santiago Metropolitan Region (San Carlos de Apoquindo, Alameda, Plaza Oeste and Plaza Vespucio), one site in the Valparaiso Region (Vi?a del Mar) and one final site in the Biobio Region (San Andrés de Concepción). This School of Design is considered the most important in the country, holding 34% of the academic offer in the design area. Internationalization Since the beginning of the School of Design Duoc UC have established strong links with international institutions. Through participation in Associations, Conventions, Programs and Short Courses Internships and Exchange students may contact other community realities in the world. Since then, having an active participation in international networks (ICSID, Cumulus, DESIS, Design Factory Network) has allowed real contact with other institutions, project development and transfer of methodologies, experiences and know-how that nourishes the curriculum of our students.

The Beijing Design Week (BJDW)is an annual citywide cultural event co-hosted by Chinese ministry of culture and Beijing Municipal People’s Government. The event will last two weeks, and overlap the National Day Holiday(1st—7th October) of China every year. Attracting over 2,000 designers, institution representatives and industry experts, over 5 million visitors(person-time), and more than 100 accredited news media in attendance every year, BJDW has become the largest and most influential platform in Asia for display, promotion, exchange and trading of creative designs.

Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology is the first garment university in China. Currently, BIFT operates seven full-time undergraduate teaching colleges: School of Fashion, School of Fashion Accessory, School of Materials Design and Engineering, School of Art and Design, School of Fashion Communication, School of Business, School of Fine Arts. And other educational institutions include School of Arts and Sciences, Ideological and Political Theory Teaching Department, Graduate College, International College, Continuing Education College.

School Design and Arts of the (BIT), founded in 1984 as the Department of Industrial Design, is one of the design schools that first opened industrial design courses in China. As the culmination of 30 years of experience and exploration, the school has established its leading position in design education of the nation and been granted the membership of the Industrial Design Education Steering Committee of the Education Ministry of China. To meet the demand of rapidly developing economy for design talents in a broad spectrum of fields, five departments have been established since 2000, including the Department of Visual Communication Design, the Department of Environmental Art and Design, the Department of Cultural Heritage, the Department of Decorative Painting, and the Department of Traditional Art Crafts. In 2002, the school was officially founded, featuring a unique model of comprehensive development combining technology, design and art. To further the reform of teaching methods, draw on the most recent concepts and philosophies in design and art industries, and create vigorous academic atmosphere and more favorable teaching and research environment, the school officially adopted its current name in 2009. Meanwhile, the academic resources and teaching staff were integrated, optimized and augmented, so as to adapt to the future development of the school, and provide constant booster and solid foundation for successful careers of students.

CAFA School of Design is a national leader in design education in China, with established programs covering visual communication design, digital media art, public art and design, environmental art design, product design, fashion and accessories design, art and technology, design studies, as well as newly emerged programs of mobility innovation design, social design, design management, innovation design, system design, ecological crisis design (smart city) etc.. It takes as its mission, as an active response to global technological, economic and social changes and the future pattern and economic model of China, to cultivate top design talents with Chinese cultural stance and global awareness while serving China’s national strategy for design-driven development.

In the face of the evolving circumstances, industrial changes, crises and challenges in the new era and in response to the new needs, news changes, new stages and new characteristics of design education in China, CAFA School of Design has integrated the design discipline with other professional clusters such as modern information technology, and created new directions, new standards and new value judgments in the new propositions, new methods, new technologies and new means raised in the new engineering, new medical and new agricultural sciences. With research into the global political and economic changes in the post-pandemic era, CAFA School of Design works to build a new cross-disciplinary teaching structure and resources integration platform dominated by crisis awareness, in an attempt to focus on thinking and acting in the context of the future survival modes of mankind.

Hiiibrand International Creative Platform.  Hiiibrand is a platform that enables broad communications and interactions among creative, artistic and design talents across the world.  Since 2010, Hiiibrand has successfully hosted over 30 authentic and professional international competitions, and has attracted over 30,000 people from more than 100 countries and regions to participate, who come from various creative fields including identity, children’s books, illustration, typeface, product design and photography. It has also won support and endorsement from over 200 domestic and overseas professional agencies, organizations, institutions and media, such as ico-D, ATypI, etc. Hiiibrand also organizes high-standard competitions and cultural events on behalf of governments and corporations. To this day, we’ve organized more than 100 cultural communication activities in diversified forms, including exhibitions, lectures, workshops, sharing sessions, story-telling sessions and study tours, having an impact on more than 5 million people around the world.  Hiiibrand is committed to integrating global high-quality creative resources and creating a top creative platform through competition operations, exhibition planning, artist agency, design creation, and copyright licensing.

Jilin Animation Institute(JAI) was founded in June, 2000. It was admitted to be “Independent Undergraduate-level Private College” by Ministry of Education in China in 2008. At present, it has 14 branch schools: School of Animation Art, School of Animation Industry, School of Comics, School of Game, School of Design, School of Film, School of Film Technology, School of Creative Industry, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, School of Civil Aviation Etc. The employment rate of graduates keeps over 90%.JAI has 5 national first-class undergraduate major construction points(animation ,digital media art and technology, visual communication design), 5 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction point.

Luxun Academy of Fine Arts grew out of Luxun Art College, which was founded in Yan’an in 1938 on the initiative of such late revolutionists as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. <br /><br />The academy is not only a well-known institution, but also a center of art creation and academic studies. The number of the prize-winning works at the previous national art exhibitions always placed first. National Art Gallery of China, The Museum of Chinese History, and The Military Museum of China, have collected many works by the faculty members and the alumni. The academy has occupied the first place in the field of panorama in China, the works such as the Conquest of Jinzhou, Qingchuan River Battle, Laiwu Battle, the Conquest of Yuncheng, Chibi Battle and Jinan Battle are the display of the teachers’ artistic creativity.

Macau Design Centre (MDC) is the first platform to give Macau designers , design enterprises and design lovers the opportunity to exchange , promote , learn and cooperate. MDC has started operating on the 15th of November, 2014 . Formerly and old deserted factory at the Areia Preta, is the first innovative multi-functional building designed to promote Macau’s cultural creative industry.

The College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Qingdao University has five teaching departments, namely the Department of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, the Department of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, the Department of Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments, the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, and the Department of Industrial Design, as well as the Engineering Training Center at Qingdao University. The college offers five undergraduate majors: Mechanical Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, Energy and Power Engineering, Industrial Design, and Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments. The college has two first level master's degree programs in Mechanical Engineering, Power Engineering, and Engineering Thermophysics, and four second level academic master's degree authorization programs in Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation, Mechanical Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Design and Theory, and Vehicle Engineering; There are 5 professional master's degree authorization points in Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing Technology, and Power Engineering. The Department of Industrial Design at Qingdao University was founded in 2003 and began admitting undergraduate students majoring in industrial design. It currently has 128 undergraduate students and was approved as a master's degree program in industrial design engineering in 2006. There are currently 60 master's degree students in industrial design engineering, with a focus on cultivating applied and versatile talents.

Based on the origin of Chinese civilization" and the frontline of the digital economy. School of Design & Innovation is an innovative design teaching experimental area established by the China Academy of Art for future social development.

Established in April 2020, the School of Design at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is known for its innovation education and draws on the strengths of this vibrant university, namely its depth in research, its vigor for innovation and entrepreneurship, and its disciplinary diversity. Enhanced by the resources in Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area, the School of Design engages closely with the industry to establish a robust and structured collaboration that fosters and realizes design for the greater common good. Prof. Thomas KVAN, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, was selected as the founding dean.

The School of Digital Technology and Creative Design of Jiangnan University is a new generation design school established based on the current digital and intelligent background, adapting to the changes in the design industry, and facing future emerging fields and social needs. The college will be committed to the development mission of the digital era, paying attention to new methods and new paths in design education and design research empowered by digital technology; paying attention to the harmonious development of technology and humanities, advocating the value of the design-driven era; actively promoting interdisciplinary and professional integration, and exploring digital The emerging growth points of the design discipline under the background of the times. Based on the original design discipline advantages of Jiangnan University, the college focuses on innovative fields such as intelligent interaction and digital design, digital imaging and interactive media, digital fashion and clothing culture, and focuses on the characteristic teaching concepts of problem-driven, process research, technology empowerment, and interdisciplinary teaching. , to cultivate comprehensive design talents and innovative organizers with professional cutting-edge cognition, digital technology application, innovative scientific literacy, integrated cross-cutting capabilities and international vision.

Shandong University of Art and Design has put first priority on art disciplines, at the same time placing importance on liberal and scientific disciplines as its two supporting wings, with the goal to foster "scientific spirit, humanistic accomplishment, artistic innovation, and technical skills". Shandong University of Art and Design includes schools listed below: School of Applied Design, School of Architecture and Landscape Design, School of Arts and Humanities, School of Continuing Education, School of Digital Art and Communication, School of Fine Arts, School of Fashion Design, School of Industrial Design, School of Modern Handicraft, and School of Visual Communication Design. SUAD has set up Chinese Folk Art Research Institute, Image Research Institute, Landscape Design Research Institute, Glass Research Institute, Furniture Research Institute, and etc. Most faculty members and even some administrative staffs are engrossed in their research projects, covering different areas related to art and design. And each school has partnership cooperation with different companies as their off-campus base, where students could practice what they have learned. SUAD vigorously expands its foreign exchange and cooperation with foreign universities and institutes, and has established friendly relationship with universities and colleges of art and design in America, Australia, Europe, Japan and Korea.

Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University inherits the Shanghai Art Spirit of Shanghai Fine Arts School founded by Liu Haisu in 1912, and in 1959 the Shanghai Municipal People's Government rebuilt the Shanghai Fine Arts College (undergraduate). It was merged into the newly established Shanghai University and named the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University In 1983. In December 2016, it was officially renamed as Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (SAFA), Shanghai University. Prof. Zeng Chenggang, vice chair of the China Artists Association and president of the China Sculpture Institute is the current Dean of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. SAFA has 3 A-level doctoral programs (fine arts, design, art theory), 1 A-level master program (architecture), 2 professional master's degree programs (fine arts, art design), and 1 postdoctoral station (fine arts). SAFA has 17 undergraduate majors in Chinese painting, oil painting, print-making, sculpture, calligraphy, fine arts, art design, visual communication design, environmental design, art and technology, digital media art, architecture, urban and rural planning, art design, product design, arts and crafts, and art management., including 7 national first-class undergraduate major sites and 3 provincial first-class undergraduate major sites. SAFA consists of 8 teaching departments, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center Public Art Technology Experimental Teaching Center, and the Shanghai Public Art Collaborative Innovation Center, one of the first batches of municipal collaborative innovation centers. In recent years, SAFA faculties have been approved in many national, provincial, and ministerial projects such as the National Social Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Major Project, the National Art Fund, the National Art Fund Creation Funding Project, the Shanghai Philosophy Society Project, and the Shanghai Major Literary and Artistic Creation Funding Project. Undergraduate students have won 117 national awards and 36 international awards in professional or discipline competitions. Graduate students have won 103 national awards and 58 international awards in professional or discipline competitions, and doctoral students have published more than 100 high-level journal papers. The school closely focuses on the school ideology of "FOR PEOPLE, FOR ART, FOR LIFE, FOR CITY", with the vision of "holding up the banner of 'new Shanghai ethos', creatively inheriting the tradition of applying for education, innovatively developing Haipai (“Shanghai-style”) culture, and creatively improving Shanghai's humanities", and with the mission of "building the coordinates of international urban art in China and China", and striving to build a world-class art academy that matches this modern international metropolis with global influence.

Shenzhen Culture, Creativity & Design Association (SCCDA) is a social organization commissioned by Shenzhen municipal government to bridge and connect the local government with the cultural, creative and design industries.  

SCCDA serves to operate and brand the “City of Design” programme and is responsible for the promotion of "Shenzhen Design", the integration of the city's cultural and creative design resources and strengths, and the domestic and international communication and cooperation with fellow Creative Cities and professional design institutions at home and abroad.

SCCDA has played an important role in the organization of major design events in the city, including Shenzhen Design Week (SZDW), Shenzhen Global Design Award (SDA), Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents (SDAY), Shenzhen-Hong Kong Design Twin-cities Exhibition among others. The association has contributed to the promotion of Shenzhen’s city image and the branding of “City of Design”.

The history of Design Academy at Fine Arts Institute (SFAI) has been traced back to 1939 when it was first founded. In 1982, it was among the first master's degree authorization centers in China.Especially in 2000, Design Academy’s design discipline was approved to become the key subject on the provincial level.In the year of 2015, the number of candidates who took entrance examinations for Design Academy reached at 100,000, the largest number of attendance who entered themselves for the arts colleges and universities in the world.Finally, there were more than 1,600 students admitted to the college, and the number of design major students counted on 70% of total. And 12 out of 21 incoming freshmen who got the scholarships from the college came from the Design Academy, making up a 57% proportion.Today, Design Academy boasts more than 1,500 students (including 1200 postgraduates and 350 graduates) and 80 plus teaching staff.Not only attracting many young and middle-aged State Outstanding Contribution Experts and international and domestic well-known experts and scholars (like the China National Exhibition of Fine Arts golden medal winners), it also has set up national specialties, national research and innovation platform for subjects and national experimental zone for personnel training model innovation Design Academy always adheres to the design construction with green and sustainable features, so as to adapt itself to have an irreplaceable advantage in the field of subject specialty group in southwest China. In recent years, with idea of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing"and based on western China, Design Academy headlined the China's sustainable development, envisioning itself to the Greater Western cultural inheritance, the urban and rural development as a whole and heavy equipment manufacturing in the Great Rear Area; focusing on construction of three major disciplinary directions (green and sustainable design, digital art and S&T integration and design history and theory ) and seven majors(such as environmental design, industrial design, visual communication design, digital media art, attires and costumes design, arts and crafts, art design and so on); and concentrating on the sustainable design research and innovation system construction under the chinese original context .

Tongji University College of Design and Innovation

The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University is the first higher education institute of arts and design in China, with The Central Academy of Arts & Design being its predecessor, was established in 1956 and merged into Tsinghua University in 1999.

The mission of the Academy has been twofold: serving the daily needs of the population, and contributing to the economic and cultural development of the country. Its notable achievements include design work for the “Top Ten Architectural Decorations”, the Beijing Olympics, and the celebration of the 70^th anniversary of the National Day (e.g. the two long red ribbons on Tian‘anmen Square, parade floats and ceremonial vehicles).

The Academy offer a range of BA, MA and PhD degree programs across the art and design. In addition to a basic teaching and research group, there are ten departments to cover textile and fashion design, ceramic design, visual communication design, environmental art design, industrial design, arts and crafts, information art & design, painting, sculpture, and art history.

The Academy has developed a comprehensive platform integrating teaching, research and academic publications. Its Laboratory for Arts & Design Education, a national experimental teaching demonstration center, consists of 29 labs. It publishes ZHUANGSHI, a core art journal in China.

The Academy actively cultivates “virtuous, artistic, knowledgeable and creative” talents, putting a premium on individuality and innovation. It aims to raise its international profile and strengthen its global influence. 

Institute of Design and Sciences is located on the East Lake of Wuhan - at the Canglong Island, more precisely in the “Heart of the Dragon.”  The school covers an area of 753 MU, on which there are 250,000 square meters of actual building complexes. Many school installations have been constructed there, such as: an ensemble of learning laboratories, a library, an art gallery, the ceramic museum, a sports center, a stadium, dormitories, a large university restaurant, a supermarket, a medical service unit, security and administration facilities. There have also been dormitories installed fully equipped with air condition and hot water. The school benefits from an array of experimental teaching centers, such as: the food technology center, the fermentation engineering center, software engineering center, e-commerce, and the 3-D animation center. There are other practical centers as well, such as: a studio, a small theatre, a virtual studio, and the campus television station. Other training centers included are: the video photography, animation, clothing design, visual communication design, industrial design, interior design, landscaping, ornamental architecture, a music recording studio and post-editing center.  The library has a collection of 697.000 books.   Our chairman is Mr. CHENG Fan, executive director—who returned to China to develop the Chinese teaching, and the international movie star Mr. Jackie Chan as the director of the Jackie Chan Movie and Media College, also we have FENG Xiaogang, ZHANG Guoli, BAO Manzhu, XIONG Shanbai as well as other experts as our professors in charge of various majors. The main courses are taught by these professors or associate professors. The school has 474 full-time teachers, of which 188 known have high level credentials, 333 professors have attained Masters degrees; have all come together to form an excellent team of teachers, with vigor and vitality. The education and management of the students are administered by the Huazhong Agricultural University, that implemente

The Department of Visual Communication Design of Xi'an Eurasian University cultivates highly qualified design talents with international vision, design thinking skills, and visual innovation capabilities, who can work in the field of visual communication design, including graphic design, layout design, illustration, motion graphics, UIUX, new media, information visualization, identity system, and branding & planning. Visual Communication Design is not only about solving problems through text, images, dissemination, and stylization, but also about using digital technology as a medium to present visual information and emotional transmission. It focuses on the use of dynamic design, three-dimensional technology, and branding concepts to solve social problems in the visual field, which highlights the communication and interactivity between people and design and expands all forms of conveying a certain purpose or information through "visual symbols". According to the OBE teaching philosophy, the course system is reconstructed based on the resultoriented approach. The correspondence between graduation objectives and course objectives is clarified to optimize the content of the course. The program emphasizes achieving students’ visual design and problem-solving abilities. It integrates knowledge, technology, and design practice, and puts up the project-based and program-based teaching system as the main teaching mode. The program focuses on students' design practice ability by introducing real projects to form the industry-university-research cycle. As an applied university, Xi'an Eurasian University pays attention to practical teaching reform, and strengthens horizontal connections and communication with the industry to form a collaborative innovation mechanism with a win-win situation, and therefore establish a longterm and stable cooperative relationship with the head enterprises.

Zhejiang Modern Intelligence and Manufacturing Promotion Center is a civil non-profit organization organized by China Academy of Art (CAA), registered in Civil Affairs Bureau of Zhejiang Province on February 5, 2016. It is established as an operational entity mainly for holding each session of Design Intelligence Award (DIA) with relevant activities including launch conference, evaluation processes, exhibitions and award ceremony, as well as providing services as research project, consultancy, social training, design conferences and exhibitions, information communication services, etc.

Zhuhai Macau Design Centre is founded by Macau Design Centre and Zhuhai Huafa Group with the sponsor and support of the Macau and Zhuhai Government., aims to expand the business market for local creative design industry , to integrate the creative design resources from domestic and overseas areas, to encourage the development of creative design industry of Macau and Zhuhai, in order to build a comprehensive service platform for the creative design industry for the both places.

In the year 2004, after several and constant gatherings of some of the directors of academic design Colombian programs, in which academic design discussion took place, it became evident that an organized body that represented and promoted the Design in Colombia as an academic discipline was needed.

Therefore this small group of members announced the intention of creating a design Colombian network. On the 18th of July, the first official meeting was called, 29 directors of legally established design programs sign the constitution of the “Asociación Colombiana Red Académica de Diseño / RAD” (Colombian Academic Design Network). During the meeting, the mission, the network activities, the rights and obligations of the members were agreed.

Since then, the Colombian academic network has been working under the main mission statement of represent and promote Design as an academic discipline, both in local and international realms, constituting ourselves as a network to construct academic quality through the encounter and the joint of our members.

The Universidad Autónoma de Occidente was founded on February 20, 1970 in the city of Santiago de Cali (Colombia) as an institution of higher education with an emphasis in the areas of accounting and engineering. Sixteen years later, the university expanded its academic offerings to include undergraduate programs in different areas of communication and environmental sciences. The Faculty of Social Communication was the manager of the program in its origins, nowadays it is attached to the Faculty of Humanities and Arts after an internal process of academic reform, which poses interesting challenges to the design for the immediate future.

This undergraduate program has a duration of 10 semesters (176 academic credits) and is under the direction of Dr. Mario Fernando Uribe; the program has four focuses: Expression, Animation, Motion Graphics and Digital Media. During the academic training, students have five theoretical and practical workshops focused on assertive communication about design. From the practical dimension, we work on editorial design, information design, typographic design, corporate identity and the graphic environment. We constantly invite experts such as Ezio Manzini, Carola Zurob, Jorge Frascara, Norberto Chavez, Anna Calvera, Miquel Mallol, Zalma Jalluf, Carlos Palleiro, Rubén Fontana, Antonio Pérez, Félix Beltrán, David Consuegra, Manuel Parga, Peter Mussfeldt, Norberto Chaves, Iván Cortés, Matías Vigliano, Yves Zimmermmann, Pablo Kunst, Stephen Kaplan, América Sánchez, Alejandro Magallanes, Giovanni Vannucchi and Enric Satué have given lectures and workshops to the student community. Additionally, it is a program accredited by the National Accreditation Council since 2010 and is one of the few with this certification in the country, it also belongs to the RAD (Academic Design Network) and the IIID (International Institute for Information Design).

The Croatian Designers Association (Hrvatsko dizajnersko društvo - HDD) is a non-government, non-profit, voluntary professional association founded at first as Society of Designers of Croatia in 1983. The mission is to promote the common professional and social interests of their members and the systematic creation of conditions to improve the professional practice in design.



Its goals include the development and affirmation, promotion and development of design in Croatia, as well as advocating the status and interests both of the profession and HDD's members.



HDD instigates the affirmation of meaning, impact and value of design in Croatia and works on the establishment of rules and regulations in professional practice. With their members, HDD encourages professional responsibility and constant education as well as creative and innovative ways of thinking within the practice of design. With this goal in mind, HDD organises exhibitions, lectures and encourages professional valorization of design works.



HDD is an active member of the international professional bodies Icograda (International Society of Graphic Design) and Icsid (International Society of Industrial Design).



Members of HDD work in the areas of graphic and product design, design for electronic media, typography, photography, illustration, fashion design, as well as design theory and education.



Activities of HDD

- Organization of congresses, symposiums, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and overviews of professional practice

- Encourages cooperation with similar local and international institutions

- Offers professional assistance to clients in organizing and executing award schemes

- Protects moral and material rights of HDD and its members

- Takes part in educating designers

- Encourages exploration and recording of design production and publishes scientific and professional editions

- Develops and encourages actions within the design area that have wider social impact

- Nurtures and encourages ethical views within the profession

Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau is an independent, non-profit organisation that creates programs and opportunities for dissemination and discussion related to memory, oral history, testimony, visual arts, the Cuban nueva trova, digital art, graphic design, inspired by historical and literary legacy of Pablo de la Torriente Brau and using new technologies of communication and artistic creation. Centro Pablo gathers a community of graphic designers who have participated in competitions, exhibitions, workshops for a decade. The Centre has organised the Salon de Arte Digital for 11 years, closely linked to the work of graphic designers. The Center has organised competitions and exhibitions on cultural issues related to their work programs, memory, Cuban nueva trova, digital art. The program has also developed Compartiendo sue?os / Sharing Dreams, which includes graphic designers from Cuba and the United States and has been shown in Cuba and US cities, Spain and Argentina.

Founded in North Cyprus in 2017, the Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design (ARUCAD) is a non-profit foundation university focused on Arts, Design, and Communication. During their time at our university, our students will develop their creativity through programs that follow an interdisciplinary approach to communication skills, traditional art, and an interdisciplinary approach to current modern art. The university comprises four Faculties; the Faculties of Arts, Design, Communication and Music and Performing Arts and Associate Degree of Interior Design.

ARUCAD primarily strives for its students to explore different perspectives so that they may discover creative capacity while developing independent thinking. At ARUCAD, we believe in the tradition of learning while producing and producing while learning and we provide students with the creative environment they need to explore and develop their talents. ARUCAD provides a multi-cultural international learning environment with students from fifty-five countries. The University aims to develop the creative potential of its students so that they are equipped with the skills required in the international field. 

ARUCAD’s vision is to be the region’s artistic and cultural hub, integrating art, design, and communication with modern life in the belief that art and society are one.    

About the Department

Graphic design education is at the intersection of communication, art, and design. Graphic design improves the aesthetic qualities with its artistic approach, and the need to establish proper communication as well. Our students first gain the ability to see and perceive through this artistic point of view. Then, throughout their education, they learn various methods and techniques to bring words, symbols, and images together to represent the visual expressions of thoughts and ideas and form new formats. The department trains designers who are in harmony with the dynamic nature of our age. They are also aesthetically and technically equipped with the ability to produce creative thinking and be confident and prepared for the contemporary requirements in areas such as product logos, envelopes, business cards, files, packaging designs, box designs, posters, interior designs, open-air adverts, flyers, catalogs, corporate identities, brand positioning, web design, photos, print pictures, and illustrations.

Education Opportunities

The curriculum is refreshed and modified according to the changes and developments in the current design sector. In the project courses, multidirectional preparation and multidisciplinary studies are provided for the design process of the students. There is also a jury system that contributes to the development of students through which the students express themselves and present their work to the members of the department and guest jury members. Throughout their education, graphic design students have plenty of opportunities to attend various design events which are arranged by the department such as design talks, workshops, seminars, and exhibitions. Students are also encouraged to study the local design and visual communication issues with an international-based design awareness.

Career Areas

The Department of Graphic Design aims to educate professionals with the skills of designing, implementing, sharing, and managing, with a learner and learning focus as well as visual, cultural, and aesthetic point of view; are based on benefit-value creation and questioning; are sensitive, creative, social, cultural and environmentally-sensitive and responsible. There is a large preference scale for the designers who graduate from our department. Businesses working online or that exist in any market sector require the services of graphic designers. Individuals graduating from the Department of Graphic Design can work in the design departments of advertising agencies, magazines and newspapers, design firms, and in the design teams of corporate firms. In addition, our graduates can work in the field of contemporary media taking on responsibility in different fields of art.

The Department of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design is proud to have some of the very talented and active faculty members, who have won numerous local and international awards and are well-respected in the field. Apart from their artistic sides, faculty members are also active researchers in their field of interest, who continuously participate conferences and publish in reputable journals. Being part of a productive department, students are regularly representing our department in respected competitions, where they have become winners of three top prizes in the last two years. The Department also includes the 'VACD Design Centre', which was formed to provide students with the opportunity to work on real-life projects. Each year, the Department is also the host of two international events, 'Grafica versus Grafica' and 'Transmedia', that gives the students the chance to meet and listen to the reputable personas in the field. Departmental Facilities The Department mainly uses the basic design workshops and computer labs structured for multimedia and graphic design, and are supported by animation/video design labs and photography studios. The program offers opportunities to the other departments of the faculty and the university, while using the faculty's television studios, audio studios, editing suites and video equipment. The program also helps students interact with other disciplines, mostly radio, film, TV, advertising, PR and journalism to familiarise them with the multidisciplinary structure of communications.

SBB/BBA is a professional organization of visual communication design (graphic design) associating the designers, artists and theoreticians in its creative section, and the representatives of adjoining professions, institutions, firms, and schools directly related to the graphic arts, organisers, executors, administrators of the exhibitions of visual communication and their graphic forms, as well as friends of graphic forms of visual communication in its organization section.



SBB/BBA is a member of the Union of the Visual Artists of the Czech Republic, and a member of the ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations).



SBB/BBA fulfils coordinating role for the IBCC (International Biennales Coordinating Committee)



The aim of the SBB/BBA is to propagate the graphic design as a modern artistic medium of contemporary visual communication and to promote its full-scale incorporation into the social life.

The College of Art, design, and audiovisual communication, also known in Spanish as “FADCOM” for the acronym of “Facultad de Arte, Diseño y Comunicación Audiovisual” is part of the eight colleges available in the academic offer of the ESPOL university. FADCOM currently has three undergraduate careers: Production for media communications, Graphic design, and Product design. These careers are the equivalent of: BFA in Film/video production, BFA in Communication Design, and Industrial design, according to the list of specializations for baccalaureate degrees in art and design described in the Basic competency index of NASAD. The baccalaureate degrees in Ecuador are named “licenciaturas” and given the extent of the competencies and learning outcomes that students acquire at the end of their careers, are equative to a bachelor’s in fine arts in the United States.

Mónica Herrera School of Communications and Design was founded in Santa Tecla, El Salvador in 1995. The School offers two Bachelor degrees: Strategic Desing and Integrated Marketing Communcations. Our academic programmes connect theory with practice, creativity, reflection, and research to form innovative designers and communicators who are able to transform their environment by creating strategic solutions to the many challenges they encounter.



Our Bachelor’s Degree in Strategic Design wants to shape the problem solvers of tomorrow. We aim at educating designers who will be able to combine design, business, and the social sciences to develop products, strategies, processes, services, and experiences that respond to the current dilemmas that our society, country, and planet face. We hope our students will be able to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to create solutions that improve the quality of life of those their designs address and reach.

Grafia association is a professional organisation which seeks to promote expertise in and understanding of graphic design, and to look after the professional, juridical and economical interests of its members.



Grafia members are employed in various sectors within the field of visual communication: from graphic design to marketing communications and electronic visual information, or from illustration and layout design to teaching, research and study of the graphic design field.



• Founded in 1933

• Approximately over 1000 members

• Run by a nine-member board

• Founding member of Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) and member of Nordisk Visuell Kommunikation



Activities

• The Best of the Year competition (Vuoden Huiput), annual, gala and exhibition since 1980

• Grants

• Courses and seminars organised for members

• The Grafia Professionals web pages

• The Grafia Magazine, website, social media and other information directed to members and other interest groups

• Advice and legal aid in copyright questions

• Graphic Designer of the Year award since 1985

• Rudolf Koivu prize every second year

• Albert Gebhard medal

• Participation in the Mikkeli Illustration Triennial organisation

• Participation in the Lahti International Poster Triennal organisation

The graphic design and media curriculum at    is based on teaching aesthetic and communicative skills in communication and design. There are Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Arts programmes. Major studies started in 2002 and minor studies in 1996. In their Bachelor's and Master's theses, students practise research skills together with their design skills.

Da Vinci University of Guatemala is a higher education institution whose educational proposal is based on the principles of truth, integrality, the search for excellence, social responsibility and relevance of knowledge.



Da Vinci University of Guatemala, understands that truth is a fundamental principle, therefore their search, their practice and their defense are immersed in their actions, particularly through academic and institutional investigation, which also contributes to the development of both, science and Guatemalan society.



Another substantial principle is that of integrality, because de Da Vinci University understands that knowledge is wide and diverse and that it is necessary that its educational programs provide, as far as possible, integrative knowledge of various areas, so that graduated professionals have comprehensive training.



Excellence as a principle of action is a priority foundation for the Da Vinci University of Guatemala. It is understood that the search for excellence has no end and that therefore the actions of its members, as well as those of its programs, must be carried out with quality according to norms and standards that ensure their achievement.



For the Da Vinci University of Guatemala, a substantial principle of its identity is that of social responsibility, as a human and professional criterion that allows it to respond with priority to the problems that affect people in connection with their natural environment and the created by man. This will allow to train graduates with the vision of improving the quality of life of the population of a region, without affecting the social, cultural and natural environment in which they operate.



Another fundamental principle is that of relevance, which is understood as the link and coherence between its educational proposals and the demands of society and the productive sector. The Da Vinci University of Guatemala, aims to educate professionals who have the capacity to make critical judgments and have high flexibility and adaptability when practicing their profession. This is possible if the knowledge at their disposal is relevant to reality and of constant scientific, technological and social evolution.



The Da Vinci University of Guatemala aims to train passionate leaders in the search for the truth, through research, contribution to the solution of national problems and their environment, as well as cultural projection and professional performance based on values.



Its educational proposal is consolidated in the new trends of university education, where the demand for scientific rigor is combined with the preparation for the development of skills applicable to the labor market. Therefore, the Da Vinci University of Guatemala offers an interdisciplinary, flexible and facilitating environment for the integration of sciences, humanities, arts and technology. The Da Vinci University of Guatemala promotes its actions through a team made up of professionals with solid academic credentials, extensive experience in various professional fields, as well as in validated academic and administrative support systems based on international standards.

The Hong Kong Designers Association was founded in 1972. The Association is the first of its kind in Hong Kong, and is a design body to advocate public interest in design and higher professional status for practising designers in Government, cultural, entertainment, commercial and industrial sectors, for full-time, part-time teachers and administrators on the academic side of designing.

Its objectives are

1. To promote the status of design as a profession;
2. To encourage the uplifting of design standard;
3. To develop and promote a Code of Professional Conduct among designers;
4. To encourage designers and design students to participate in academic
   
   activities, as well as encourage the provision of facilities to help in
   
   their future development;
5. To provide relevant information on design for the service of all business and industries;
6. To promote members' welfare

The Association is supported by a team of voluntary Committee Members who are elected biennially by and from the members. The Committee shall be responsible for the running of the Association and for formulating policies and initiating projects for the interest of members.

Organization

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design (hereafter referred to as "PolyU Design" or "the School") has been an important hub for design education and research in Hong Kong, offering quality undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in design to nurture creative talent across a wide range of industries.

The School is a place where East meets West, allowing students to develop their design expertise while gaining an in-depth understanding of industry and society, with a unique international and cultural perspective. PolyU Design attaches equal importance to design theory and application, integrates art with science, actively promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and learning, emphasises high-quality design education, conducts high-level research, and provides consulting services.
The research and academic programmes offered by PolyU Design are based on five central tenets: 1) Developing an Open Mind Frame; 2) Steering Positive Change; 3) Establishing Visionary Entrepreneurship; 4) Practising Authentic Expression; and 5) Designing Responsibly.

Academic Reputation
With close to 60 years of rich academic and research experience, PolyU Design is leading the way to a bright future in an increasingly dynamic Asia. Over the years, the School has received international recognition for its achievements. It was ranked 15th on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings® by Subject - Art and Design in 2020 and is consistently among the top 20 in the world.

World-Class Facilities
The School's steady diversification in recent years has been made possible by a world-class environment and facilities. Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the Jockey Club Innovation Tower forms the centerpiece of the PolyU campus, with a variety of studios, design research laboratories, technical workshops, exhibition venues, and communal spaces, providing an excellent and comprehensive teaching and research environment. Since its official opening in 2014, the School has attracted designers, scholars, and people from all walks of life from all over the world, and has conducted countless activities to promote cooperation, learning, and exchange.

Academic Education
PolyU Design actively promotes cross-disciplinary learning and exchange, and works closely with industry and employers to help students meet the increasingly complex design needs of a wide range of industries. The School is home to over 900 undergraduate and postgraduate students annually, of which approximately 60 study at the doctoral level.

Programmes include:

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Doctor of Design
• Master of Design (Transitional Environments Design)
• Master of Design (Innovative Business Design)
• Master of Design (Intelligent Systems Design)
• Master of Design (Smart Service Design)
• Master of Science in Innovative Multimedia Entertainment
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Scheme in Design (Specialisms: Advertising Design, Environmental Design, Information Design, Interaction Design, Interior Design, Media Design, Product Design, Service Design, and Social Design)

Notable alumni include Raman Hui (Animation), Vivienne Tam (Fashion), Eric Chan (Product), Anthony Lo (Automotive), Yip Kam-tim (Film), Chu Chen-on (Film), Dennis Chan (Jewelry), Tino Kwan (Lighting) and Freeman Lau (Branding and Art) among others.

The Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists (Magyar Képzőművészek és Iparművészek Szövetsége – MKISZ) is a nationwide organization with specialist sections for fine arts, applied arts, design, restoration, and art history. For more than half a century, and since the political and economic changeover too, it has fostered the best traditions of its precursor organizations – the Fine Arts Society and the Applied Arts Society, both founded in the 19th century – in fostering links between art and society.

Aims:

• Promoting organized cooperation between leading fine artists, applied artists, designers, restorers, art historians, and art critics;
• Promoting the values of contemporary fine arts and applied arts through support for the creative work of members;
• Strengthening the role of art in society, as well as the protecting of artistic values, through representation of members’ professional interests.

Cindrebay School of Design is one of the well known names in the design education India. Established in the year 2006 now Cindrebay has over 13,000 strong alumni working in domestic as well as international design houses. Our state-of-the-art facilities, industry orientated and well designed curriculum and a pool of highly talented academia all have contributed well in delivering the most relevant and meaningful courses in a learner friendly manner inspiring intellectual growth and fostering creative talents.

Our 15 years of experience in the delivery of fashion, architecture & interior design and communication design courses, has allowed us to develop the highest quality, informative, relevant, rewarding and of course, flexible short and long duration programs catering to various requirements and audiences.

Our courses are celebrated for its flexibility and can be studied in full time or part time, online and offline modes allowing learners to continue with their existing work and family commitments. Our Diploma courses provide learners with the skills needed to design and execute projects perfectly. It also gives learners the confidence to progress onto bigger and more advanced zones or higher education. Currently we have campuses in 14 Indian cities.

Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) offers an excellent environment for academics, research and applications in the field of design.

IDC has academic programs in the areas of Industrial Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Animation and Mobility & Vehicle Design. The education Program at IDC is a unique mix of pedagogic experimentation with pragmatic design approach and blends hard-core problem solving with design research. New thoughts, philosophies and research into several aspects of design are experimented and integrated to have continuous revitalization of the academic program at IDC

Several areas have been identified for research. Faculty members along with students and other research and design staff work together on these issues. The centre interacts with industries and institutions for promotion and awareness of design. These are in the form of organizing seminars, conducting short term courses, and workshops. In the area of design practice, IDC offers professional design consultancy and advisory services to industries and other organizations.

KIIT School of Fashion Technology was established in 2009 to create professionals in Fashion Design and Textile Design of par caliber who would like to make a mark in the booming Fashion & Textile Manufacturing, & Fashion Retail Industries. The Design course enables the students to learn design through Intensive & Extensive theory classes and practical respectively, field visits, Craft Research, Industry Internships & Portfolio Development. The School is determined to create a centre of excellence with qualitative education, creative exposures, conceptualization skills and technical expertise, well-researched teaching methodology, industry Linkages, and an intellectually stimulating cosmopolitan environment. School of Fashion Technology accommodates its syllabus to rapid changing of Industry and imparts education to aspirant professionals in their Apparel & Home Textile Industry in India & foreign countries.

Established at Ahmedabad in 1961, the National Institute of Design (NID) offers multidisciplinary design education. The institute functions as an autonomous body under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India and has been declared an Institute of National Importance by virtue of the National Institute of Design Act, 2014. NID has attained national and international repute owing to its experience in the fields of design education, research, application of advanced teaching methodologies, and unparalleled design research projects all of which span more than six decades. It has been recognised as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. NID is also a member of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU). Beginning as a single-campus institute, NID has now grown into a multicampus institute with a national and international profile. Presently, NID has two extension campuses—one each at Gandhinagar and Bengaluru which were established in the early 2000s. From an institute mainly providing undergraduate programmes, NID has become one of the pioneering design institutes in the world with Bachelor’s (B.Des.) and Master’s (M.Des.) programmes across 5 broad faculty streams and 20 diverse design disciplines. In pursuit of its continued commitment to design research, NID started a Doctoral Programme in Design which gives impetus to design research priorities for its current faculty in collaboration with researchers who are selected as Ph.D. scholars under faculty supervision. The institute has state-of-the-art infrastructural facilities such as the Skill Development Labs, Knowledge Management Centre (KMC), Information Technology (IT) Centre, and Design Vision Centre to name a few. These have helped NID establish its leadership and pre-eminence among various design institutions. NID has also signed collaborative agreements with 100 premier design institutes across the world, facilitating increased international exposure for students and faculty. The institute’s efforts towards becoming an effective medium for design promotion continue to draw strength from partnerships with other global organisations such as Cumulus, World Design Organisation (formerly ICSID), and GALA Consortium to name a few.

The Indonesia Graphic Designers Association (ADGI) is a member-based organization of professionals in the field of graphic design. Our main task is to protect, serve and advance the profession, careers and the businesses of its members.

- Protect

One of ADGI's role in terms of protecting graphic designer is to realise and promote professional certification nationwide that will fulllfil international work standards.

-Serve:

By promoting the potential of professional human resources in the field of graphic design through one of Adgi's business unit program "Adgi Hub" with the intention of becoming a connecting bridge between Adgi's certified members with government bodies. As a nation with more than 250 million population, the growth of designers has gone exponentially large, more and more the government role is significant to the development of design. Currently, the government understanding of how design matters are still in its early stages.

- Advance

Improving the solidarity of Indonesian graphic designer by developing chapters nationwide. To this day, Adgi has 7 chapters all over Indonesia including Jakarta, Bandung, Bali, Jogjakarta, Surabaya, Solo and Malang.

The Jakarta Institute of The Arts (IKJ) - Faculty of Arts and Design is one of three faculty under Jakarta Institute of The Arts, a private higher education Institution of Arts facilitated and subsidized by Jakarta Special Region City Government. As one of the oldest faculty when Jakarta Institute of The Arts founded in 1970, Faculty of Arts and Design nowadays consist of five program: Visual Communication Design Program with three majoring: Graphic Design, Illustration and Multimedia; Interior Design Program; Product Design Program majoring in Fashion Design; Fine Arts Program and Craft Program. Listed as one of the 50 most prominent under graduate programs of year 2008 by the Indonesia Directorate General of Higher Education, Faculty of Arts and Design currently reside in three connected building from A to C and one art gallery, serving 400 students ranging from year one to the final year studies and graduating about 100 bachelor holder each year. In term of cooperation Faculty of Arts and Design support and implementing IKJ policy with International agencies and other Art education institution in past and present such as: The Royal Netherland-Erasmus Huis, Centre Culturel Fran?ais (CCF), Academy of Fine Arts in Prague Czech Republic, Goethe Institute Germany, California Institute of The Arts (CalArts) USA, Islamic Republic of Iran, JENESYS Program Japan, Korea Cultural Centre, etc.

Tarumanagara University (founded in 1959) is one among the big private universities in Jakarta. Indonesia. Besides Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, managara University has also seven other faculties, namely (1)Technical Enginering, (2) Economics and Business Management, (3) Medical, (4) Law, (5) Communication, (6) Information Technology, and (7) Psychology. The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design,Tarumanagara University, consists of two departments, namely (1) Visual Communication Design, and (2) Interior Design. Within the Visual Communication Department these are three majors with courses of specialization in (a) Graphic Design, (b) Multimedia Design, and (3) Advertising/ Marketing Communication Design. Whereas, the Interior Design department provides elective special courses in (1) Exhibition Design and Visual Merchandizing (2) Interior Decorative Design, (3) Furniture design and (4) Lighting design, in addition to general private and public spaces, office, and commercial interior designing. In addition to the clasical class on theory and practical courses, we have already had several modern facilities , such as: audiovisuals and multimedia, computer graphics and CAD, photography, visual arts, illumination & acoustics, interior materials, and creative thinking workshop studios.

The history of the formation of IGDS (Iranian Graphic Designers Society) dates back to about 35 years ago, when graphic designers excitingly and willingly, tried to make a society of their own by gathering their professional colleagues together. This aim, however and in spite of long discussions, failed to be accomplished at that time.

Many years later that Iranian society had been subject to great changes in political, social and cultural constructions, we graphic designers, were also facing a new situation; different professional and organizational conditions and revisions.

It was only 5 years ago that Iranian graphic designers of different ages and generations managed to gather up in a meeting for the first time. It was then that conversations, discussions and criticisms began. After all, never before had there existed any chance for them to be with each other in a professional union. Thus, the primary core of having a professional society was formed in April 1998.

The Israel Community of Designers is a non-profit NGO representing Israel's professional designers. Currently, the organization includes sections representing designers in the fields of visual communications, industrial design, jewelry design and interactive media design. The objectives of the ICD are: to promote the understanding and value of design; promote understanding of the design process; promote excellence in design; improve the welfare of designers. The ICD is dedicated to bringing the message of professional design practicioners to the spheres of government, business, academia, media and the general public. The ICD also recognizes the need to create discussion within the professional design community to ensure its ability to define an agenda and upgrade itself. To achieve its objectives, the ICD: organizes exhibitions, lectures, catalogs and courses; represents the design community in public and government organs dealing with economic development, legislation affecting designers and SME promotion and representation. The ICD communicates through websites, facebook and an extensive email data base.

Established in 1978, Japan Graphic Design Association (JAGDA) is the only association for graphic designers in Japan with some 3,000 members today. It utilizes the power of graphic design to improve the quality of communication environment by carrying out a variety of activities: publishing yearbooks, textbooks, and other publications; holding exhibitions and seminars; contributing to community revitalization and governmental policies through design; and protection of copyrights in design.

JDP is Japan's only institution dedicated to comprehensive promotion of design. Truly comprehensive, this promotion encompasses the internationally recognized Good Design Award program—held for more than 60 years—and activities at Good Design Marunouchi and Tokyo Midtown Design Hub to share compelling design and explore its potential.

Musashino Art University is acknowledged as one of Japan's leading art and design universities. The school was founded as Teikoku Art School in 1929. The name changed to Musashino Art School in 1948. In 1962 it was renamed and reformed to Musashino Art University. There is a growing call for artists and designers with rich creative prowess who have the capacity to meet the challenges of economic globalization and rapid industrial advances, and thus require vast interdisciplinary knowledge ranging from global affairs such as environmental issues to art management along with the capacity to communicate in foreign languages. We aim to meet the increasing demands on advanced art and design education,which necessitates actively responding to the global changes we are now witnessing.

The Faculty of Arts and Design Started in its scientific career as a department of Fine Arts with two majors, graphic design and interior design, in the academic year 1992/1993 as one of the College of Sciences departments, and later affiliated to the Faculty of Arts, before becoming the first private college of Art and Design in Jordan, under the issue of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, No. 285, date 22/8/ 2007.

The college offers academic programs for bachelor's degree in the disciplines of graphic design, interior design, and there are plans for the development of new discipline such as Digital and Multimedia Design.



The Faculty of Arts and Design work to serve the community and raise it in the cultural field of art and design, and this calls for the contribution in the promotion of ideas and the development of thought promotion, taste and human values, ??and provide the country with expert designers supplied with a mean of knowledge assets. The College considered as a source of human development through the development of innovative mentality, in order to achieve the link between university education and community social needs.



Based on the philosophy of the university and its general objectives and mission, the college work permanently to control the quality of the educational process and improve outcomes in response to the needs of the community, and the labor market, and support the development process and investment by providing outstanding educational opportunities, in accordance with the international standards, and provide students with theoretical and applied knowledge in the field of specialization.



The College work through the permanent presence of international institutions to develop and enrich the academic programs offered by the college, in addition to introduce the students for the achievements of Jordan, and highlight the Jordan position and role in the Arab and international arena.

Jadara University Located in north Irbid, it's friendly campus houses 1580 undergraduate and graduate students in the faculties of: Arts and Literature, Administrative & Financial Sciences, Pharmacy & Medical Sciences, Information Technology , Law and Mass Communication, Faculty of Engineering. The University is a hub for creating knowledge through research, developing skills, applying knowledge to new technologies, and technology transfer. The University is aggressive in developing an outreach program for community development and engaging in regional and international sciences for bridging with other scientists, journals, and symposia to reach solutions to social problems, open new opportunities of employment and eradicate poverty. With the development of e-learning, e-library and high speed communication facilities, The university has transformed itself into a smart campus where students and faculty interact with knowledge to develop their state-of-the-art skills with an aim towards enhancing entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

The Graphic Design program offers students the opportunity to pursue a degree emphasizing a balance of theory and practice in the art and science of visual communication. The program emphasizes critical thinking, analysis and problem solving through the teaching of design history, methodology and technologies. Students cultivate cultural and aesthetic sensibilities for a diverse, global, professional market.

The Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) is the first national institution for higher education in Lebanon. Since its creation in 1944, ALBA stands out as a leader in the field of Fine Arts and Design in the Middle-East. In 1988, it joins the University of Balamand. ALBA has been a pioneer in implementing innovative study programs maintaining its curricula at the leading edge of progress; these include: Architecture, Fine Arts, Interior Architecture, Global Design, Graphic Design, Cinema and Television, Urban Planning, and Landscape Architecture. This variety of programs offers students a unique educational experience through a multidisciplinary teaching approach thus stimulating their creativity. Teaching at ALBA is undertaken by prominent local and international professionals and academics from various renowned institutions to which ALBA is connected to through several cooperation agreements which serve to promote students' mobility. Moreover, the participation in international workshops, be them in Lebanon or abroad, gives the students the opportunity to challenge their ideas and discover new ways of sound analytical and critical thinking methods. In 2004, ALBA adopts the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) in order to mainstream its programs with existing international educational platforms. Teaching in ALBA is mainly project-driven thus encouraging students to combine both theory and practice in a critical approach. This method is nurtured by several research programs implemented in various departments. Classes at ALBA are human-sized which allows students to receive a tailored and personalized follow-up. ALBA is strongly committed to excellence, innovation, and public support through mutual dialogue and participation with the Community of Lebanon represented through academic and public institutions, as well as the civil society. ALBA's long-established professional network provides students with high-end employment opportunities tailored to local, regional, and international labor markets. Through their internationally renowned projects and the prizes awarded to them, ALBA's graduates and Alumni alike bear witness to its well-acclaimed success.

Graphic Design Department at the American University was established in 1996. It is a three-year programme that includes a foundation year, where students are introduced to the design discipline as a whole; a junior year, where they engage in building their skills and knowledge in typography, packaging, publication, illustration, corporate identity, and digital screen-based design; and a senior year, where assignments take on specific areas of design selected by the students. Cutting across various topics, thoughts and ideologies translate into visual communication solutions in their final projects.



The graphic design programme has currently 350 students enrolled, under the supervision and guidance of 20 faculty members. Some of our students and faculty work has been featured lately in several international design magazines and publications, such as novum, Output, Communication Arts and Design Graphics.

The Graphic Design Syndicate is founded in 1976, reformed and restructured in 2010 to become the only official syndicate and professional forum for graphic designers in Lebanon, certified from the ministry of interior and remunerated from the Lebanese government. The syndicate is assessing the quality of graphic designers while at the same time establishing a better environment for them, by tapping into the professional interests of communication designers, creating a developed market, enhancing the design skills and backgrounds, design policies concerning governmental and public matters, and developing the creative climate.

The Lithuanian Design Association (LDA) is an independent non-profit organization formed by the cooperation of professional design creators. Founded in 1996, LDA advocates for the prestige of the designers' profession, stands for designers' interests in government institutions, promotes designers' creative activities, and coordinates the work of various organizations participating in the design process.

The Graphic Designers Association of Malaysia, is a non-profit, non-political organisation with the objective of encouraging professional practice and promoting design excellence in the art and science of visual communication in commerce, trade, industry and education, both locally and internationally.

INTI has established the INTI Center of Art and Design (ICAD) (2013) at INTI Subang campus that offers the full array of art and design programs along with the specialized facilities. Other than the physical facilities, ICAD has emphasized on regular curriculum revamping, where feedback from different stakeholders been collected to create the most robust and industry relevant curriculum. Staff professional development is an on-going faculty initiatives to develop staff knowledge, skills and abilities in inspiring students through teaching. Through this initiatives, staff and students are exposed to practical and interdisciplinary experience maintaining a competitive edge.

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Anahuac University was founded in 1964 in response to the challenges facing a rapidly modernizing Mexico and the world around it. The University supports and promotes the development of our society by providing the opportunity for a complete education to each entering class.

From the heart that marks this Biennial’s pulse, we procure to flow and develop our axes according to the circumstances that present themselves to us. For us, design is, more than a discipline, a powerful tool for whom needs to transform and communicate. The CSO International Biennial of Poster in Mexico, although oriented particularly towards poster, develops the idea that design is something bigger than image, before that it is the representation of how to manipulate content to obtain a message that transforms the environment. It is, organizing ideas to achieve a task. Our objective, as a meeting place, is simple: to motivate projects and impulse those already born, all of them in favor of graphic design and the diffusion of national creators. The cultural image, which corresponds to us because of identity and history, must be remembered and highlighted at every moment. The CSO International Biennial of Poster in Mexico. is not a thing, it’s a circumstance with which you merge into one same entity, voracious for the joy of the prosperous. We design poster’s present.

<p>The firsts studies of Design in Mexico started at the University Iberoamericana 50 years ago. The Design Department is related to several productive sectors: visual applied communications, creative interactive media, multimedia, strategic thinking, art and culture, product innovation strategies, fashion and textiles and product design.&nbsp;The university&nbsp;offers four bachelor degree programs: Industrial Design, Textile Design, Graphic Design, Interactive Design, and a Master Degree in Design Strategy and Innovation. </p>

<p>They strongly&nbsp;believe that design is an important factor of social development and should become an integral part of the multicultural and multiethnic Mexico of today.&nbsp;Their students confront the actual problems of our country in an appropriate manner, by using alternative methodologies and trying to have an overall view of the social impact of their professional activity. </p>

Since its creation in 1973, Design Center of the Philippines is at the forefront of pushing a national design agenda directed at driving global competitiveness and uplifting the quality of life. 

As the Philippines’ leading agency committed to cultivating a culture thriving on creativity, value creation and innovation, Design Center’s efforts go beyond promoting the value of good design and onto inspiring industries to create innovative human-centered solutions to address and anticipate challenges, shifts, and disruptions of the fast-changing and currently uncertain times. The agency also serves as a nucleus of the creative and design communities in the Philippines, fostering synergy and collaboration among them, the academe, the government, and innovation partners. 

Design Center leverages on a five-point Future-proofing by Design strategy aimed at equipping the Philippines’s design and creative ecosystem to look ahead of trends, development, and advances to anticipate inevitable movements and requirements in the future.   

• Future-proofing by Skills-Building

Provides learning and development that aim to instill a design mindset and skillset that fuses creativity with technical ability and interpersonal competencies in the next generation of globally competitive Filipino designers as well as support professionals in the Philippine design industry.

• Future-proofing by Enterprise-Building 

Offers strategic design services to micro, small and medium enterprises for increased market competitiveness and business sustainability as well as MSME resiliency.

• Future-proofing by Innovation-Building 

Advances the design agenda through forward-looking design research and development and by revolutionizing approaches to local materials to compete in the global market. 

• Future-proofing by Community-Building  

Through thought leadership conferences, workshops and design talks, the agency hopes to connect Filipinos to good design and Philippine design to the world by serving as a hub for creative minds to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore solutions to create systemic and strategic changes in creating better realities moving forward. Further, Design Center aspires to build a community of design ambassadors and champions that encourage competitiveness and drive innovation.

• Future-proofing by Design Culture-building of a Nation 

Currently, Design Center is working on creating more awareness on the intentional and critical use of design, both as process and as strategy, through the development of a Philippine National Design Policy. The agency envisions the Philippines as a design-culture nation, where design is a critical component in national planning and development; a driving force for economic competitiveness and social innovation; and a key tool in providing a better quality of life. 

For the years ahead, Design Center envisions a nation built on a strong foundation of design culture, equipping and inspiring every Filipino with the right tools to create freely, design purposefully, and innovate boldly.  

The main goal of the Association of Polish Graphic Designers (Stowarzyszenie Twórców Grafiki Użytkowej; STGU) is to defend the creative independence of designers together with the rules and regulations of reliable, professional design and the prestige of the graphic designer profession. The Association was founded in 2004 and since this time we are promoting the idea of 'good design' and the need to invest in professional design as a practical tool to manage branding, corporate strategy and public space. We organise workshops, exhibitions (e.g. The history of Polish Graphic Design, Yearly STGU Exhibition), national and international graphic competitions. We bring together graphic designers and other visual authors in Poland and raise the level of visual culture in the society. We attempt to explain that high quality graphic design translates to success in commercial activities. We cooperate with public and private sector-commercial companies, government institutions, non-governmental sector, culture sector and education sector. We are the largest organisation of this type in Poland - we connect graphic designers and authorities.

The NTU School of Art Design and Media opened in 2004 and took the first cohort of students in 2005. The school was formed in line with the strategic goal of fostering a creative industry and creating a new design practice in Singapore.



The school curriculum is developed around interdisciplinary learning in Design and Media with majors in visual communication, product design, interactive media, digital film making, digital photography and imaging, emotive robotics and digital animation.



Students are encouraged to explore an interdisciplinary experience across multiple domains even in connection with engineering disciplines.

The African Institute of the Interior Design Professions (IID) is the only professional body representing the Design Industry in Africa. The IID is dedicated to establishing, promoting and maintaining expertise, professionalism, sound business practice and high standards throughout the industry.

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Korea Ensemble of Contemporary Design was established in 1969 and started anew in 2010 to improve the overall quality of visual design to provide a better understanding in contributing positive energy to the society. Furthermore, our organization pursues to become the leading generation of international convergence of visual design and make applications to cultural development. 

For the past years, Korea Ensemble of Contemporary Design has actively participated in studies and research of convergence in visual design as a Korea’s representative member of ICoD. Recently we are working with many local government organizations to fulfill the localism in visual design. We regularly organize the Seoul-Asia Graphic poster Triennale and DESPA business by hosting international design seminars at Asian universities and many interactive business seminars to maintain our role as a leading organization in Asian visual design market. We not only focus on revitalizing the Asian market, but also hosting United Designs International Design Biennale for non-Asian countries and through active communication with ICoD, UNESCO, and other international organizations. We are proactively practicing globalization. 

Our organization takes an influential part in bringing fruition to the design culture that is global, yet with Korean heritage by actively participating in localism and globalism. 

Innovative development of media and welcoming the era of global communication and the convergence of traditional studies and art, this paradigm in design is expanding every day. We, a leading organization of visual design in Korea, will continue to acknowledge the social responsibilities and the needs of individuals and contribute highly to develop the Korea’s design community.

The association organises Sweden’s pressional and graphic designers and has some 1200 members throughout the country. It was founded in 1955. The office is situated in Stockholm and has six employees working with administration, legal advice and communication. Tecknaren, our magazine for illustrators and graphic designers is published six times annually. Our members work within a broad spectrum of visual communication; illustrations and graphic design in newspapers, books and new media, websites, cartoons, animated films, news graphics, signs, trademarks, information and marketing. The association is first and foremost concerned with safeguarding the intellectual property rights of illustrators and graphic designers and one of the most important of these is copyright. It also concludes financial and social insurance agreements with a variety of parties who commission work or employ its members. The association safeguards freedom of expression and freedom of the press. It is affiliated to several other organisations that protect similar interests and rights of their members, and is a member of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA). The association is involved in various forms of international cooperation. An example of this is Nordisk Visuell Kommunikation (Nordic Visual Communication), composed of sister organisations in the Nordic countries. It is also a member of the European Illustrators Forum (EIF), a network for European organisation for illustrators.

Professional association and network of Swiss graphic designers. The SGD represents the interests of Swiss graphic designers and supports them in their everyday professional lives. Our members are qualified professionals in visual communication. Together we shape the development and quality of our profession and its positioning in the economy. Take part in our nationwide network! The commitment to graphics and graphic designers - for us a matter of the heart. Graphic designers make an important contribution to the value chain. The SGD supports them in this, represents their position to the outside world and creates added value for the entire industry. As an active association, we are involved in a number of activities, including publications on specialist topics. We are open and maintain memberships in international associations and contacts with national institutions and authorities. We are also committed to the promotion of young talent, which is why the further development of the graphic design profession «EFZ» (Certificate of proficiency) is of particular concern to us.

Established in 1955, the (CPC) was organised by fifty public and private commercial and industrial businesses. CPC has combined innovative concept elements and its own ample business management force to integrate marketing modules and mechanisms with consultation to help Taiwan's creative industry to grow, connect innovative products to the market, promote marketing and to substantiate new business opportunities and profitable operations.

2020 is the founding year of the Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI), the TDRI plans to consolidate public resources from a wide range of government agencies with “the power of design,” promoting design as a central governance value and as a national defense strategy. The Institute is expected to guide the sustainable development of industries and society, which should in turn improve the living quality of the general public. It can assist the government in making national design policy and increasing governance efficiency. In addition, through an integrated interdisciplinary approach, the Institute will introduce design-based thinking into government administration, drive talent cultivation in the private sector, and build businesses that lead the design industry.

Our Founder Foundation "Growth Education Culture, Health and Social Service Foundation" in 2008, Istanbul Gelisim Vocational School was established. 2008 was established Vocational High School and Education-Teaching started. ?stanbul Gelisim University; • 3 institutes including Social Sciences, Science and Health Sciences Institute; • 3 faculties including Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Fine Arts; • 4 College of Health Sciences, Applied Science, Foreign Languages, Physical Education and Sports College; • Education is continuing with 2 vocational schools including Health Services, ?stanbul Gelisim Vocational School. Faculty of Fine Arts was established in 2011. It aims to enable design students to be creative and visionary individuals. It is aimed to teach the students theoretically and practically the artistic and professional information required in the design areas. Our mission; Scientific and technological developments, each field is to develop original individuals who are confident, scientific, contemporary and universal thinking, possessing team consciousness and ethical values, equipped with critical thinking ability, equipped with social responsibility awareness, and looking forward to the future with hope, determination and belief.

Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design aims at shaping the new generation of design professionals and industry leaders with critical thinking skills, enabling them to contribute to a sustainable community and environment through design-oriented research and innovative practices. A growing international network of institutions is being shaped with a strong focus on diversity, not only looking for different design approaches and teaching methodologies but also cultural and social diversity. Active in promoting new collaborations, the biggest effort is in maintaining long-term win-win situations. Several academic activities such as conferences, seminars, workshops, technical trips, exhibitions are carried out by the faculty. Through EKOTAM (Center for Design Research and Practices) both academic staff and students have the chance to undertake professional projects and gain hands-on experience in design practice Main research areas can be listed as follows: Urban Design and City Planning, Preservation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage, Design History, Fashion Design, Design Management, Materials Science, Semiotics, Yacht Design, Environmental Design, Learning Environments, Design Education.

American University in The Emirates (AUE) is a private institution of higher education, which has offered accredited degree programs since 2007. The University is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research’s Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA- www.caa.ae). AUE is located in Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) (http:/ /www.diacedu.ae), that was established by the Dubai Government as a free zone, intended to host all universities in Dubai. All universities in DIAC operate under the supervision of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority or KHDA (http://www.khda.gov.ae/en/ default.aspx) All courses are taught in traditional classroom-style, and English is the language of instruction, management and day-today communication within the University, with the partial exception of the College of Law, given the needs of the United Arab Emirates’ legal system. AUE Vision Statement AUE is dedicated to be one of the leading liberal higher educational institutions, providing an integrated pathway for students to become creative and productive members of the community. AUE Mission Statement AUE is committed to offer quality, multidisciplinary, research and career-oriented academic degree programs that prepare students for successful employment and continuing higher education. AUE Core Values § Respect and dignity for all. § Openness, trust and integrity. § Innovation and creativity. § Teamwork and partnership for common goals. § Persistence and entrepreneurialism. § Stewardship and economic viability. § Equal opportunities and recognition. § Improved quality of life. § Safety and environmental responsibility. The American University in the Emirates (AUE) serves more than 2525 students each semester on its Dubai International Academic City campus. AUE has been building an organizational culture that prizes initiative and innovation, and seeks to identify and increase related strengths in its students, faculty, staff, and programs in order to further develop and grow. The University combines the strengths of a liberal arts institution with the benefits of a comprehensive university, successfully integrating liberal and professional education. The College of Design is considered one of most dynamic Colleges at the University AUE. It supports the university objectives to provide the fundamental grounding in arts and design through the offered programs in the college. It consists of four important programs that are unique, and very technical. The College of Design at AUE provides its students, a wide variety of educational and career opportunities, and encourages creative minds, in order for the students to be able to peruse professional careers in the industry. Students earn the theory knowledge, as well as learning the practical experience and the analysis of the design factors, prepare them for challenging careers in Graphic Design, Digital Animation, Interior Design and Fashion Design.

Central Saint is one of the world’s leading centres for art and design education, a reputation based around the achievements of its graduates and the creative energy of its current staff and students. The College brings a broad range of art and design activities together in an extraordinary new building, voted the world’s best higher education building in 2012. The building allows the exchange of ideas and techniques across disciplines, acting as a huge workshop of thinking and making, underpinned by a strong research base and exceptional technical resources. The College inspires its students and staff to be alert to new approaches and ideas; the resulting journey can be challenging but is never dull. Central Saint Martins is centred around nine programmes of which Graphic Communication Design is one, alongside Art, Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design, Culture and Enterprise, Drama and Performance, Fashion, Jewellery and Textiles, Spatial Practices and Foundation Studies. The Graphic Communication Design Programme promotes graphic communication design as a means to question and respond to a range of contemporary issues and ideas. It encourages unpredictable and original outcomes that go beyond current discipline boundaries and shape our experience of the world. We ask our students to explore the breadth of possibilities of graphic communication design and to engage in in-depth enquiry into specific areas of personal interest and research. We encourage our students to apply their ideas, to be makers, agile thinkers, versatile designers and agents for change. The programme consits of staff and students on BA (Hons) Graphic Design and MA Communication Design, with subject specialisms in Design and Interaction, Illustration, Advertising, Moving Image, Digital and Interactive Media, Typography, Photography, Printmaking and Context.

Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London

The communications sector is evolving fast. Through London College of Communication's world-leading community of teaching, research and industry partnerships, we enable our students develop the critical, creative and technical excellence needed to succeed and discover new possibilities and practices.



The LCC experience is all about learning by doing - students are expected to get their hands dirty and develop their skills in outstanding technical spaces. Our facilities are industry standard and include photographic and television studios, darkrooms, prototyping labs, gallery spaces, printing studios and newsrooms. We are also developing plans for a cutting-edge new campus across the road from the current College site, which will form part of the wider regeneration of the Elephant and Castle area in London. The new building is expected to open as early as 2021.



Our courses are known for being industry focused and students are taught by an inspiring community of experienced academics, technical experts and leading specialist practitioners.



We offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses to almost 5000 students in journalism, advertising, PR and publishing, photography, film, television and sound, communications and media, graphic communication, spatial communication, design cultures and interactive and visual communication.



We contribute to the advancement of these disciplines and the industries and communities we serve by encouraging independent, agile and persistent experimentation.



We are for the curious, the brave and the committed: those who want to transform themselves and the world around them.





University of the Arts London is in the top 5 universities in the world for art and design. We offer an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. Our graduates go on to work in and shape creative industries worldwide.

The University draws together 6 renowned colleges, each with its own world-class reputation. Our state of the art facilities include workshops with letterpress machinery, studio theatres, gallery space as well as libraries and archives for research into hundreds of years of the greatest artists and designers.



UAL's cutting edge programmes and courses are delivered by an inspiring and supportive teaching staff made up of professional artists, practitioners, designers, critics and theorists. Everything from fashion media, Fine Art through to 3D animation, graphic design and drama, there's a course for everyone.

The Royal College of Art provides a unique educational experience in art and design, to a community of carefully selected and exceptionally talented students. Our aim is to nurture their creativity and their ability to innovate, to develop their practical and intellectual skills and to expand their horizons. All our courses are taught by distinguished artists, designers and thinkers, and students have an unrivalled opportunity to study art in a design environment, and design in an art environment. The College is exclusively postgraduate. 

School of Communication 

In a world where environmental, social, political, religious, technological and professional issues and structures are changing kaleidoscopically, no area of cultural activity is more challenging than the field of communications. With traditional boundaries between disciplines dissolving, the ethos of this School, and of the College, is ideally equipped to enable students to follow a programme of pre-professional experimentation tailored to their individual needs and skills. 

The School of Communication at the RCA, led by Neville Brody, encourages – above all – a dynamic, cross-disciplinary approach to study and practice that is rooted in exploration and invention through the use of mixed studios and cross-electives. The broad spectrum of skills we embrace extends from making things to making thought, and carries us across an ever shifting landscape of intertwined activity that extends from print to film and time-based media; image-making and sound design to game play; and social enquiry and digital boundaries to physical installations. Teaching staff are all recognised practitioners in their own fields, bringing depth of experience to academic practice, and are joined by visiting professors and guest lecturers who act as informants or disruptors. School of Communication students work in collaboration with other designers and artists across the College in concentrated workshops and college-wide initiatives, and can draw directly from their expertise. Our active approach to exhibiting student work and to seeking creative projects through collaboration with our industry partners leads to constant opportunities for exposure and engagement. Industry partnerships with Google, BlackBerry and the BBC continue to bring pivotal projects and opportunities, while both students and staff enjoy exposure through exhibitions, competitions, publications and festivals. 

Research is a vital part of our School, with MPhil and PhD candidates working alongside practice-based students, informing and challenging our curricula and being made visible through a dynamic series of events and talks.

School of Communications @ UCA Farnham, England.

BA/MA Graphic Design
BA/MA Illustration
BA/MA User Experience
MA Interface and Interactive Design

The School of Communications is composed of typographers, brand designers, Illustrators, reporters, philosophers, photographers and art directors (etc). 

They come from around the world, often multilingual; but all share a common passion for communication. During their learning journeys students are part of a community that is supportive, resilient, innovative and diverse.

Student destinations include:
Apple (San Francisco)
Bloom
Bulletproof
Curious
Design Studio
Elmwood (Singapore)
ForPeople
GIRRBACH (Germany)
Harper Collins
Harrods
Hasbro
Lego
LessRain
Navy Blue
Pearlfisher
Pentagram
Pocket App
Preloaded
Sea Design
Something Big
Springetts
The Guardian
Waitrose
Why Brow
Yahoo!
Zak Agency

The San Diego chapter of AIGA, the professional organization for design, has been a dynamic contributor to the local creative community since 1987. The chapter is part of the national network founded in 1914 in New York City as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, which has since changed its name to “AIGA, the professional association for design” in 2005. HOW and Print magazines have cited AIGA San Diego as “one of the hottest communities for design in the nation.” Our local events provide educational, career enhancement and social opportunities for professional designers, educators, students and design enthusiasts in various fields including graphic design, UX design, photography, illustration, web development and more.

The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects the economic interests of its members. It is committed to improving conditions for all creators of graphic art and raising the standards for the entire industry.

The Guild is a union that embraces creators at all skill levels and expertise who produce graphic art intended for presentation as originals or reproductions.

The principal publication of the organisation is “Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines”.