AWTP

Hi, I was brows­ing AIGA web­site, and I found out the organ­iz­a­tion has set up stand­ards for pro­fes­sional prac­tice in 1996. I am not sure if they have updated ver­sion but this this is what they have on the website:

In light of what we dis­cussed on Wed­nes­day both in the group meet­ing and sem­inar I wanted to col­lect together all the things I would like to see in a pro­fes­sional body for visual com­mu­nic­at­ors. This is very much what I per­son­ally would like to see in a pro­fes­sional body so not every­one will agree. It is also very much a draft, not exhaust­ive and as a pro­fes­sional body is quite a prag­matic thing to pro­pose I wanted to be ideal­istic in what I think its remit and pur­pose should be. I am refer­ring to it as a con­sti­tu­tion (very Amer­ican) for want of a bet­ter word and to avoid call­ing it a mani­festo. There are lots of grey edges to some of the state­ments as we dis­cussed as a group but I wanted to make some state­ments based on gen­eral prin­ciples initially.

The dis­cus­sion today began with a brief look at what we are actu­ally doing: A mani­festo or some­thing else. The ideal­ism and pos­sibly wooly words of the First Thing First pos­i­tions, while being aims that we broadly sup­port as indi­vidu­als, are not real­istic and do not make a last­ing dif­fer­ence to the way in which Graphic design­ers are viewed.

Organ­isa­tions with the pur­pose of pro­mot­ing, sup­port­ing, edu­cat­ing but ulti­mately jus­ti­fy­ing a pro­fes­sion might have more long term influ­ence. This idea led to com­par­is­ons of the pro­fes­sional world of archi­tec­ture and the world of the Graphic Designer. Could we have a Graphic Design­ers RIBA: RIBVIS? RIBDES? GESCOM?