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• Company Directories
  
• Company Websites
  

Professional Organizations

Many professional societies offer assistance to members, including job-hunting, and reduced membership rates are often available to students. Some services may also be available to non-members. Art and Design Associations on the World Wide Web provides links to over 560 associations for visual arts, architecture, design, and allied fields. Ed Teague, an art/design librarian, compiled the list.

• American Center for Design
• American Institute of Graphic Design-Pittsburgh chapter (AIGA)
• American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
• American Society for Information Science (ASIS)
• Association of Professional Design Firms (APDF)
• Association of Women Industrial Designers
• Australian Graphic Design Association
• Design Council UK
• Design Management Institute
• Human Factors & Ergonomics Society
• Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
• International Housewares Association
• International Interactive Communications Society (IICS)
• Internet Professional Publishers Assocation
• Organization of Black Designers
• Product Development & Management Association (PDMA)
• SIGCHI
• SIGGRAPH
• Society of Environmental Graphic Designers
• Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
• Type Directors Club

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Company Directories

Use these directories to find telephone numbers and addresses, as well as background information about corporations.

• CorpTech Directory of Technology Companies. Woburn, MA: Corporate Technology Information Services, Inc., 1995-
  HUNT REFERENCE HG4057 .A16
  Multi-volume directory that lists and profiles more than 35,000 companies. Indexed by company name, geographic area, parent companies, technology, product code.

• Craig, James. Graphic Design Career Guide. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1992.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NC1001 .C72 1992
  

• The Design Firm Directory (Environmental and Interior Design ed.). Evanston IL: Wefler & Associates, 1996.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NK1167 .D47 1996
  

• The Design Firm Directory (Graphic and Industrial Design edition). Evanston, Il: Wefler & Associates, 1995.
  HUNT FA-REF 4 TS23 .D474 1995
  

• Pittsburgh High Technology Directory and Almanac.
  ENGR&SCI REFERENCE 620.0025 P69MA
  

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Company Websites

• Aaron Marcus and Associates
• Alessi
• Bitstream
• CameronThompson Group
• Cassina, Italy
• Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.
• Cheskin Research
• CO2 Media
• Cooper Interaction Design

• Design Continuum
• Digital Lagoon
• Eames Office
• Edwin Schlossberg Incorporated
• elan
• Elemental Interactive
• Emigre
• Fitch

• frogdesign

• Hauser Design
• Henry Dreyfuss Associates
• Herman Miller
• IDEO
• Ignition Design
• Knoll

• Landor Associates
• Lunar Design
• Macromedia
• MarchFirst
• Maya Design Group
• MetaDesign
• Method
• Motorola
• NetArchitects
• Nokia Research Center
• Nortel
• OXO International
• PlumbDesign

• Reactivity,Inc.
• Rubbermaid
• Samsung
• Sapient
• sbi group
• Smart Design
• Sonic Rim
• Sony
• Swim Studio
• System Alliance
• Taylor & Pond
• TBWA/Chiat/Day
• ThoughtForm, Inc. (formerly Agnew Moyer Smith)
• Tonic Group
• Trilogy
• TS Design
• Tsunami Marketing
• Two Twelve Associates

• USWeb/CKS
• Vision of the Future (Philips Corporate Design)
• The Voyager Company
• Wall-to-Wall Studios
• Wilcher Group
• Zefer
• Ziba

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