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It\'s time for Graphic Designer Certification in the United States

It\'s time for Graphic Designer Certification in the United States

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Started by Anonymous 21 years, 4 months ago
This petition is to begin the process of certification/accredition among professional graphic designers in the United States. Please add your name as a show of support. Our industry needs to adopt a set of core standards for professional practice and competency. This is the first step. Add your name to this petition to show that you want our GD organizations to begin this conversation so that we can discuss what certification/accreditation in the U.S. will look like.

Updates

June 7, 2005

I was just reading through some of the emails I got from people in the industry and honestly the divide on whether we actually need a formal accreditation process is kind of wild but I love that we are finally talking about it. Sometimes I worry the design community is just too used to the wild west of everything being unregulated but maybe that is exactly why this is worth the headache of organizing it.

6 Comments

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Elena Obi
21 years ago Featured

harder to be taken seriously as a designer when there are no official benchmarks. im in.

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Jessica Fletcher
21 years ago Featured

YES. Getting tired of explaining to clients why my rates are higher than the local print shop intern

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Sarah Mehta
21 years ago Featured

This is long overdue!! It would legit help clients understand that this is a real profession and not just playing around in photoshop for fun.

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Mike Mendoza
21 years ago Featured

Finally. Tired of competing with people who charge 50 bucks for a logo and kill the market for the rest of us. We need standards.

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Kevin Barnes
21 years ago Featured

Dont see how this helps exactly. If you got the portfolio you got the job. Seems like another way to charge us fees for a piece of paper.

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David Gray
21 years ago Featured

Agree 100%. Quality control is basically non existent right now. Lets make this happen.