Here I’ll post relevant ways to connect with the outside world. Links to associations, networking, other inhouse departments and useful design resources.

OUR PEEPS AND PEERS

There’s a limited number of resources devoted specifically to the inhouser. The first two are inhouse-only.

• In-Source
  To enhance the understanding, impact and value of in-house design within the corporate environment.
• InHouse Design Assocation
  
  To create a sustainable organization promoting the interests of in-house designers, both in business and in the design community. Their blog is here
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• AIGA, The Professional Association For Design
  
  The professional association for design, is committed to advancing designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and global cultural force.
• Better by Design
  A specialist group within New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, New Zealand’s national economic development agency.
• Corporate Design Foundation
  
  A non-profit educational institution that believes both individual and organizational interests can be served through the effective use of design disciplines
• Design Council
  
  To inspire and enable the best use of design in order to make the UK a more competitive, creative and sustainable nation.
• Design Institute of Australia
  
  The only multi-disciplinary organisation of designers within Australia.
• DMC Villa Tosca
  The VillaTosca Design Management Centre was officially inaugurated in Milan on April 20, 1993.
• Design Exchange
  
  Is a non-profit, educational organization committed to promoting an understanding of design by business and the general public.
• Design Management Institute
  Is an international nonprofit organization that seeks to heighten awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy
• Graphic Artist Guild (GAG)
  
  A national union of illustrators, designers, web creators, production artists, surface designers and other creatives who have come together to pursue common goals, share their experience, raise industry standards, and improve the ability of visual creators to achieve satisfying and rewarding careers.
• Hong Kong Designers Association
  A design body that advocates public interest in design, and higher professional status for practicing designers and for full-time, part-time teachers and administrators on the academic side of design.
• Icograda
  The International Council on Graphic Design Associations
  SEGD
  Is the global community of people who work at the intersection of communication design and the built environment.

TOOLS

• Design Tools Monthly
  
  Summarizes stories relevant to you from all the design industry magazines and websites, so you don’t have to read 500 pages and visit 10 websites a day for news and bug fixes.

JOB SITES FOR CREATIVES

• Krop
  Design jobs: For creatives and tech.