Graphic Design: Professional Resources

AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force. As the largest community of design advocates, we bring together practitioners, enthusiasts, and patrons to amplify the voice of design and create the vision for a collective future. We define global standards and ethical practices, guide design education, enhance professional development, and make powerful tools and resources accessible to all.
Established on October 1, 2007, the Toledo chapter was formed with the intent to connect Toledo area designers locally and to make a difference right here – where we live and work.

As the profession’s oldest and largest professional membership organization for design—with more than 70 chapters and more than 15,000 members—we advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force.

The Association of Registered Graphic Designers is Canada's largest professional Association for graphic design professionals, with 4,400 Members, including firm owners, freelancers, managers, in-house designers, educators and students.

The Graphic Artists Guild’s primary purpose is to help our members compete effectively in an ever-changing field. We enable graphic artists and other design professionals to build and maintain successful careers by providing skills and support—from advice on the daily tasks of running a creative business to going to bat for our creative community with business and government leaders.

The Society for News Design (SND) is an international organization for news media professionals and visual communicators – specifically those who create print/web/mobile publications and products.

"Free-access, digitised art, architecture, design and craft journals on the internet." A gateway to digitized copies of art, craft and design journals, most from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Titles include The Studio (UK), 1896-1922; The Craftsman, 1901-1916; and Dekorative Kunst, 1901-1921.

Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955; from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History

Over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States

Images from archives, museums, libraries and research centers such as the New York Public Library, Smithsonian, Library of Congress and Getty Research Institute. The images have no known copyright restrictions.

A collection of free stock photos.

A searchable database of public domain images.

Free, HD photos

Free stock images and video browsable by color and collection.