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IdentityWorks
Tony Spaeth celebrates the use of corporate identity as a
management tool, and credits corporate leaders and designers around
the world for outstanding work.
Design Management Institute (DMI) is an
international nonprofit organization that seeks to heighten
awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy by
providing invaluable know-how, tools and training through its
conferences, seminars, membership program, and publications.
The Conference
Board is the world's preeminent business membership
and research organization. Best known for the Consumer Confidence
Index and the Leading Economic Indicators, The Conference Board
has, for almost 90 years, equipped the world's leading corporations
with practical knowledge through issues-oriented research and
senior executive peer-to-peer meetings including Corporate
Branding, Image and Brand Management Workshops.
Identity Archives
Project Online keyword-searchable database of
logos and brand identity designs from around the world.
AIGA, the
professional association for design, is the place for design
professionals to exchange ideas and information, participate in
critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical
practice. Some useful downloadable items include:
Standard
Agreement Form for purchasing design services.
Position
on Spec Work AIGA believes that doing speculative work
seriously compromises the quality of work that clients are entitled
to and also violates a tacit, long-standing ethical standard in the
communication design profession worldwide. AIGA strongly
discourages the practice of requesting that design work be produced
and submitted on a speculative basis in order to be considered for
acceptance on a project.
Standard Practices A professional designer
adheres to principles of integrity that demonstrate respect for the
profession, for colleagues, for clients, for audiences or
consumers, and for society as a whole.
Symbols.com
contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs,
arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.