Way Back
Machine Want to see the Web frozen in time … or
your site in 1999? The Internet Archive is building a digital
library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital
form, with free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and
the general public.
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.
- www.aiga.org/content.cfm/position-spec-work
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.
- Standards of Professional Practice 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.
Design
Observer is a website devoted to a broad range of
design topics centered on graphic design, communications arts,
print, typography and criticism. The content of the site is
composed of short essays and articles.
The UK Design
Council was created to want to inspire and enable
the best use of design to make the UK a more competitive, creative
and sustainable nation.