designaustria (DA) is Austriaís only professional association and service organization representing the interests of designers from all the creative disciplines ñ graphic design and illustration, product design, and web design.
The association was founded as early as 1927 als Bund ÷sterreichischer Gebrauchsgraphiker (B÷G). Outstanding artistsí personalities, such as the illustrator Alfred Kubin, the typographer Rudolf von Larisch, and Joseph Binder, a pioneer of modern Austrian graphic design, numbered among its members. Today, renowned designers such as Stefan Sagmeister or Cordula Alessandri continue this tradition.
In 1992 the association opened up to embrace also other fields of design, apart from graphics. This was due to an increasingly interdisciplinary professional approach and because of the fact that individual creative processes are at the basis of all design activity. Today, Design Austria has some 1,300 members from all design disciplines, most of whom work as freelance designers.
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