There are so many reasons to become a member.

As a Member you are listed on the website directory in the appropriate design sector along with your company website address.

Member Access:

• you will be allocated a user-name and password  
• you will be able to change your own contact details 
• you will have access to the Members Only pages of the website 
• you will have access to other members contact details           

Annually each member is issued with their own membership D Card. The D Card gives you discounts with selected suppliers, stores and services.

Discounts available to Members at the following suppliers:

Clendons Barristers & Solicitors www.clendons.co.nz

• offer a complimentary phone consultation on legal issues. (Please contact the CEO Cathy Veninga cathy@dinz.org.nz to arrange a consultation).

Codeblue IT www.codeblue.co.nz 

• IT services for both PC and Mac computers.

ECC Lighting & Furniture www.ecc.co.nz 

• ECC offer a discount of 20% off the full retail price. 

Idealog www.idealog.co.nz 

• Idealog is New Zealand’s premier business magazine. Idealog is also the biggest believer in the business of design and design in business. Six issues for $30.00. Subscribe now (Usually six issues for RRP $63.40).

Mag Nation www.magnation.co.nz 

• offer a 10% discount off all merchandise (excludes subscriptions) at Mag Nations 2 retail outlets and other design meets such as Semi Permanent and We Can Create.

One.61 www.one.61.co.nz 

• providing New Zealand's creative talent with 3D tools including NZ's largest Rapid Prototyping Envelope, plus rendering, visuals and animations. Offering 10% discount on Rapid Prototyping/3D printing, 10% discount on visualisation renders and animations and special student rates on Rapid Prototyping/3D printing (non urgent jobs only). Please contact enquiry@one.61.co.nz for more information.

Sign of the Times www.sott.co.nz 

• provides innovative brand application and signage solutions. We offer a free 1 hour consultation to assist Designers Institute Members with brand application and signage planning.(Please contact andrew@sott.co.nz with your D-Card handy to arrange a consultation).

The Studio Projects www.thestudioprojects.co.nz 

• offer 20% discount to spatial designers and 10% to all other members. This offer does not apply to goods already with a price off promotion. The discount is offered by The Studio Projects trading as The Studio of Tableware.

Future Focused Accountants www.futurefocused.co.nz 

• offer a free 30 minute consultation with Catriona Knapp from FFA, to discuss any accounting or business related issues. (Please contact the CEO Cathy Veninga cathy@dinz.org.nz to arrange a consultation) 

Partner Benefits: 

• Join D-card now and be a founding partner.
• If you want your company to be promoted through the D Card contact Cathy Veninga CEO Cathy.Veninga@dinz.org.nz or phone 027 473 2399.

You can contribute to or be informed on:

• the continuing professional development programme  
• calendar of events
• resources
• classifieds (work / projects and work spaces opportunity section)

Resource Pages (access available to Members only) 

Legal 

• Professional Services and Engagement documents
• Protecting Intellectual Property
• Procurement

• Debt Management/credit control
• Setting goals for business direction 

Job Opportunities on the Institutes website

• Employment opportunities are being updated regularly in the Classifieds section along with spaces and projects on offer
• This is in a secure section of our website and free to members only to view/use 

• Professional Services and Engagement documents
• Suggested Salaries + links
• Suggested Fee structures
• Taking a brief     

Legal

Membership entitlement to:

• fifteen minutes complimentary legal phone consults with IP and business-specialist lawyers, Clendons, the Designers Institutes Honorary Solicitors (access to this service is through the Institute office only).
• updates on topical legal issues and documents that help you practice professionally.
• a mediation service.
• the Professional Development programme, Design Law Series covering legal issues such as intellectual property law, copyright, contracting with customers or business partners, resolving disputes. 

Insurance 

• Penberthy are the Designers Institutes insurance brokers and will help you manage risk.
• Penberthy are happy to discuss your current policy. 

Membership entitlement to: 

• thirty minutes complimentary face to face consult with the Institutes Honorary Treasurer, Catriona Knapp, Future Focused, accounting and business specialist (access to this service is through the Institute office only).
• competitive rates for a competitive accounting service from a company that understands the industry.
• updates on topical accounting and business issues and documents that help you practice professionally on the Institutes Resources pages www.dinz.org.nz  

Newsletters 

Members are kept informed regarding national and international design events through regular email newsletters.

Idealog Magazine

Receive a complimentary subscription to Idealog Magazine (excl International Members)

Best Design Awards Annual

The Best Design Awards Annual was established in 2007 as a book to commemorate all the entrants for that year. It has become a collectors item showcasing and recording New Zealand’s  design history.

•  The Best Design Awards Annual is distributed free to all members

• To make the most of your membership networking is a vitally important way of staying connected to designers and design thinking.     
• You will be invited to the Institutes regional events at a discounted rate.
• Events such as design award programmes, professional development programmes, exhibitions, seminars, product presentations and conferences

The Institute is committed to developing a range of professional services for members at all stages of their career in order to assist them in practicing professionally. Professional seminars are held as part of the Design Series programme. The Design Series of events are run nationally.

Spatial designers may claim LBP Points as part of their CPD accrual.

The Design Series for designers covers

• Designers Speak
• Design Skills
• Design Business
• Design Law 

The Best Design Awards

The Designers Institute celebrates the best of best in design for that year with the Best Design Awards. It has become known as the ‘Oscars’ for design. 

• This awards programme for Graphics, Interactive, Product and Spatial design attracts entries from all over New Zealand, and Australia and is open to members and non-members
• Best has also introduced to the Awards programme two new awards  - the Nga Aho Award (cultural collaborations) and the Best Effect Award. (how design was effective to the success of the business outcome)
• Dock St Group are our PR agent and they achieve huge media value for finalists and winners. To quote a winner ‘The Best Design Awards is definitely getting more exposure than any other awards programmes in New Zealand"
• Members receive a reduced entry fee
• For the next Best Design Awards details contact the Institute office, or www.bestawards.co.nz or from website www.dinz.org.nz

Best Design Awards Exhibition

This important exhibition showcases finalists work on the evening of Best Design Awards.

Best Boutique

This networking event is for Best Sponsors, Purple and Gold Pin winners.

Best of the Best Designers Speak

This series showcases in the main cities stories about the design process from the winners at the Best Design Awards.

Design in Business Awards

The Designers Institute is leading edge with the Design in Business Awards programme. The Institute, in partnership with Better by Design, at an awards ceremony, celebrate businesses that use design insights that lead to innovation, and promote businesses that have made a strategic investment in forming and maintaining design cultures.

• Corporate Members will be kept informed on the Call for Entries of these important awards whereby you will be able to encourage your clients to submit their entry into this awards programme.
• To enter, and become a successful finalist, this award guarantees significant media coverage into business related communications such as National Business review and TV3 Business.
• For further information contact Institutes Chief Executive Officer, Cathy Veninga - Mobile: 027 473 2399 or email Cathy.Veninga@dinz.org.nz
• The previous year’s winners and entry criteria can be viewed on www.dinz.org.nz under Design Awards or www.diba.org.nz    

Dyson Product Design Awards

The Designers Institute supports the Dyson Product Design Award and provides judges selected from our Professional Membership.

This award aims to promote design excellence for our recently graduated and emerging product designers and build connections between the design communities in Britain and New Zealand. Finalists of the New Zealand award are then entered into the international James Dyson Awards.

Semi Permanent

The Designers Institute supports this event.

The Designers Institute’s public relations company, Dock Street Group, promotes the various Institutes programmes and initiatives to media such as:

• TVOne Breakfast, TV Nightline, Campbell Live, RadioNZ, National Business Review, Idealog, HomesNZ, the NZ Herald Viva & Canvas, the Dominion Post and niche publications.
• Media exposure for the Institute has a value of up $1million each year.

The Institute works with government representing the various initiatives of the membership.

• Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
• NZ Trade and Enterprise (NZTE)
• Better by Design Programme
• Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED)
• Auckland Council

National Memberships

Institute members can benefit from relationships with the:

• Construction Industry Council New Zealand (NZCIC)
• NZ Copyright Council 

National Relationships

• Organization members on the Construction Industry Council (NZCIC)
• NZ Institute of Architetcts (NZIA)
• NZ Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA)
• NZ Retail Interiors Association (NZRIA)
• NZ Green Building Council (NZGBC)
• Objectspace

International Memberships

• International Council for Graphic Design Associations (Icograda)
• International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID)

Through these international memberships the Institute and its membership is able to develop relationships with other likeminded organisations.

International Relationships 

• Design Institute of Australia (DIA)
• Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA)
• Australian International Design Awards
• International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI)
• Interior Design / Interior Architecture Educators Association (IDEA)
• Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)

You will be able to use the appellation for your individual membership “DINZ” after your name on business cards and other communications collateral.

Five KEY reasons why to be a Student Member (DINZ)

1.      Use the ‘DINZ’ appellation on your communications – it will show you are serious about your chosen career and differentiate you to a potential employer

2.      Networking 

3.      Opportunity to meet potential employers.

4.      Attending Design Series events and listening to leading practitioners talk about their projects.

5.      Receive a complimentary Best Design Awards 2013 Annual.

You will be able to use the appellation for your individual membership “DINZ” after your name on business cards and other communications collateral.

Three KEY reasons why to be a Graduate Member (DINZ)

1.      Use the ‘DINZ’ appellation on your communications – it will show you are serious about your chosen career and differentiate you to a potential employer

2.      Use the directory to showcase yourself

3.      Attend events to network and get yourself known to practitioners – you never know who will meet and offer you employment

As a Member you will be able to use the appellation for your individual membership “DINZ” after your name on business cards and other communications collateral.

Professional Membership

As a Member you are eligible to apply for Professional Membership (PDINZ)

As a Professional Member (PDINZ) you:

• have voting rights
• are eligible to stand for the Institutes Board
• have the opportunity to make a difference to the ongoing development of New Zealand’s professional voice for designers

Differentiate yourself as having been professionally accredited by your peers earning the appellation "PDINZ" as an approved Professional Member of the Designers Institute. 

You are entitled to use the appellation (PDINZ) on business cards and other communications of your choice.

Voting

As a Professional Member (PDINZ) you are eligible to have your say and vote.

Board

As a Professional Member (PDINZ) you are able to stand for election for Board at the next AGM Board election in 2013.

Strategic Development

As a Professional Member (PDINZ) you will be invited to participate on working parties that establish strategies and proposals for the Designers Institute that will build deeper relationships with government and other external organisations that benefit and advance the value of design and raise the profile of the Institute as the Industry Voice.

You will be able to use the appellation for your individual membership “DINZ” after your name on business cards and other communications collateral.

KEY reasons to be an Affiliate Member (DINZ)

• Networking
• Opportunity to be connected to leading New Zealand Designers

You will be able to use the appellation for your individual membership “DINZ” after your name on business cards and other communications collateral.

KEY reasons to be an International Member DINZ  

• Opportunity to stay connected to leading New Zealand Designers 
• Use the directory to showcase yourself