Research Guides: Graphic Design & Typography: Career Info

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Wendy Hall

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Subjects: Design, Fashion Studies, Photography

Professional Organizations & Career Info

Columbia College CAREER CENTER | In-Person & Virtual Services
The Career Center is available to assist you with career exploration, internship support, portfolio development, and student employment needs. Visit them online or phone ahead (312-369-7280) to make an appointment to stop by later at their location in the Student Center on the 3rd Floor of 754 S. Wabash.
AIGA Worldstudio SCHOLARSHIPS
Benefits underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students who are studying photography, illustration, and design disciplines in colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships are awarded annually to encourage social and environmental responsibility and cultural awareness in the next generation of artists and designers.
AIGA | Eye on Design | Guide to Self-Isolation for Designers and Creatives
A growing and evolving resource for education, connection, money-making, and entertainment during the COVID-19 crisis.
AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts)
AIGA is for design professionals in communication design, including graphic design, typography, interaction design, branding and identity. They offer resources on careers, design jobs, professional development and more. There is even an AIGA Chicago Chapter.
AIGA | Chicago
To unite, educate and advance the Chicago design community: Providing professional guidance, creating shared experiences and opportunities for collaborative engagement, delivering opportunities for professional growth for practitioners and students of design and related creative fields.
AIGA | Columbia College Chicago
Seeks to fulfill the needs of student designers by providing workshops, resources, networking, and design opportunities, AIGA CCC aims to help students expand their knowledge in all areas of design and the design industry. AIGA Columbia's meetings are open to all.
AIGA | Design Jobs
Membership is required to gain full access to job openings -- however, listings include brief profiles of design firms along with a link to their website.
Art & Design | Occupational Outlook Handbook
Covers quick facts, what the career involves, work environment, how to prepare, pay, projected job outlook and more for a variety of careers profiled.
Art Directors Club
The mission of this worldwide, multidisciplinary organization is to promote excellence in visual communications and to encourage young people entering the field. ADC provides a job board for creatives in photography, advertising, graphic design, interactive media, broadcast design, typography, packaging, environmental design, illustration, and related disciplines.
Creative Hotlist | Communication Arts Magazine
A career resource for creative professionals in visual communications from Communication Arts magazine. Individuals can post resumes, job-wanted listings and online portfolios.
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Print issues of Communication Arts magazine that showcase the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography, interactive design and typography -- can be found in the Library's Periodicals Collection - 2nd floor--shelved alphabetically.
Data Visualization Society | Careers In Data Visualization
An interview series that explores the career journeys of data visualization practitioners working in analytics, product design, engineering, journalism, data art, and more. Basic membership allows for free access to the DVS Job Board.
Graphic Artists Guild
Whether a creative professional or studying to become one, the Graphic Artists Guild enables graphic artists and other design professionals to build and maintain successful careers.
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Publisher of the "Graphic Artists Guild Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines" (see Career Books below)
International Society of Typographical Designers
Run by and for typographers, graphic designers and educators, the Society has an international membership who share and support its aim to create and inspire interest in all forms of typographic communication.
SEGD | The Society for Experiential Graphic Design
Experiential graphic design involves the orchestration of typography, color, imagery, form, technology and, especially, content to create environments that communicate. Examples include wayfinding systems, architectural graphics, signage, exhibit design, retail design, and themed or branded spaces.
Society of Typographic Aficionados
SOTA is for graphic designers, typographers, new media artists, calligraphers, sign painters, printers, software developers, illustrators, writers, photographers, students and teachers along with those with a passion for type and typography.
Type Directors Club
Established in 1946, TDC today curates a calendar of typographic intrigues designed to: 1) Build a community through public events and platforms, 2) Support the growth of students and early career professionals and 3) Recognize excellence in type design across the world.