为了响应经济全球化的活力，设计行业正在迅速发生变化。中国国力的上升催生了越来越多开设设计专业的院校。AIGA中国希望为中国各地的设计院校提供一个和他们的美国同行进行交流的平台。

AIGA 开发和拥有大量资源，包括传统设计作品、教育课程设置、专业工具及标准等。这些资源支持着美国设计行业的发展。AIGA 希望将这些资源与中国的设计学生和设计教育者分享。在中央美术学院的帮助和支持下，AIGA 的资源将通过适当和有效的途径为中国的设计院校所用。

设在中央美术学院的 AIGA中国办事处将协调信息的传递，推动中美两国设计师建立起更为紧密的专业联系和跨文化理解。简善梅 (Amy Gendler) 教授将担任 AIGA中国办事处的总监。简教授也在中央美术学院设计学院任工作室导师。

In response to the dynamics of the global economy, the practice of design is changing rapidly. AIGA China seeks to provide a platform for communication among the institutions that teach design throughout China and the USA, and to support design programs in China that respond to the country’s increasingly strong position in the world.

AIGA has developed extensive resources to support the design profession in the United States—including access to traditional design work, educational curricula, professionals tools and standards—and AIGA China is poised to make this information available to Chinese students and design educators. With the assistance and advice of faculty at CAFA and the AIGA China Advisory Board, these tools and practices will be distributed through the most appropriate channels.

The AIGA China office at CAFA coordinates the flow of information and facilitates stronger professional relationships and intercultural understanding among Chinese and US designers. AIGA China is directed by Amy Gendler, who also serves as a faculty member in CAFA’s School of Design.

AIGA (美国专业设计协会) 致力于设计专业、设计实践以及设计文化。它的使命是将设计提升为一项专业技能、战略性工具以及全球性的文化力量。

AIGA 创立于1914年，现已成为包容广义的传达设计的著名专业组织。通过64个分会和200个学生组织，AIGA 代表两万多名专业设计人士、教育工作者和学生，组织了众多的全国性活动。AIGA 支持和维护参与设计过程的业界人士、教育者和学生的利益。AIGA 致力于激发有关设计的思考，展现设计的价值，为设计师的成功提供支撑。

AIGA 以会议、竞赛、展览、出版和网站等方式，激励、教育并启发设计师，帮助他们了解和发挥自己的才能，并在媒体、工商界、政府以及公众之中宣传设计的价值。

AIGA, the American professional association for design, is engaged in the discipline, practice and culture of designing. Its mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and global cultural force.

Since its founding in 1914, AIGA has become the preeminent professional association for communication designers, broadly defined. AIGA now represents more than 20,000 design professionals, educators and students through national activities and local programs developed by 65 chapters and 200 student groups. AIGA supports the interests of professionals, educators and students who are engaged in the process of designing. The association is committed to stimulating thinking about design, demonstrating the value of design, and empowering designers’ success.

Through conferences, competitions, exhibitions, publications and websites, AIGA inspires, educates and informs designers, helping them to realize their potential and to advocate the value of design among the media, the business community, governments and the public.