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From the President...

As President I welcome you to The Designers Institute of New Zealand. The Designers Institute is an organisation that represents the membership of professional designers from spatial, graphics, product, craft/object, design management, design education, fashion, lighting and interactive media. The Institute also represents educators of design and their students.

The Designers Institute's vision is to build international recognition for New Zealand as a world leader in design, and, to ensure that designers are recognised and rewarded for their contribution to design. The Tasks and Visions document written in 2002 sets out objectives and strategies that are guidelines to assisting towards this vision. This document is regularly reviewed and was revised to meet changing needs in 2004.

Membership

The Designers Institute Professional Membership is the category where you are deemed to have reached a recognised standard of professionalism and are entitled to use the appellation MDINZ. As a Professional member the designer is obliged to conduct their practice under the Institutes Codes of Ethics. A professional member also has their own profile on this website which they will be able to update and that links to their own website. As a Professional member the designer, should a situation arise, there is a mediation service offered to both the designer and client. The initial membership category applied for by students and practicing designers is Associate membership. Associate members are encouraged to apply for professional membership after they have been practicing successfully for a time. Designers or students of design are encouraged to join the Designers Institute and the you can join online from our website or download the application forms.

Council

The Council are professional members who have been elected to represent the membership.The Council is composed of designers from each discipline who have volunteered their time to building a strong Institute that promotes professionalism for the design community and wider. This current new era Council represents the membership with a vital mix of gender and experience creating a positive dynamic of energy, debate and teammanship.

Awards

The Institute has three highly respected national award programs.

• The Design In Business Awards which celebrates businesses that use design to drive innovative and business growth and to promote businesses that have made a s strategic investment in forming and maintaining design cultures.
  
  
• The BeST Design Awards are a celebration of the best creative work produced nationally that calendar year.
  
  
• The Design Ambassadors program provides the opportunity for designers who are in graduate year, or who are graduates up to three years, to travel to the United Kingdom and represent the emerging talent of our country.
  
  

Leanne Beard MDINZ
President
Designers Institute of New Zealand