Team Membership

Team Membership

RGD Team Membership is for creative agencies of all types with 5 or more people, including design firms, ad agencies and internal creative teams. It's a great way to develop staff skills and attract new talent! Your organization gets the best rates on conferences, access to professional development and resources and significant savings on the cost of individual Memberships.

Annual Fee: $1,200*

*includes up to 5 Staff (each additional staff $200)
Special discounted base price of $1,000 for companies with 1 or more Certified RGDs

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Professional Development:

- lowest professional rates for DesignThinkers and other events

- live and recorded webinars (and unlimited guest passes)

- video archive of past DesignThinkers presentations

Community Involvement

- Opportunities to present at events and judge Awards

- 100% off the fees to go through RGD Certification

- Opportunities to volunteer and sit on RGD Committees

- Support emerging designers through mentoring and portfolio reviewing

Resources

- RGD Accessible Design Guidelines

- In-House Awards Annual

- Creative Earners Survey Results

- Subscription to Applied Arts

Profile

- Unlimited free job postings (with featured status)

- RGD Directory Listing

- Opportunity to feature projects & achievements on the RGD website and in RGD's e-newsletter

- 3 free entries in RGD’s 2019 In-House Design Awards AND/OR 2020 So(cial) Good Design Awards

Questions?

Email Director of Membership, Heidi Veri at or call 1 888 274 3668 x 0027.

RGD Team Members:

BDO Canada LLP

Blend Creative Studio

Bold Graphic Communication

Calgary Catholic School District

City of Cambridge

Compass Creative

Context Creative

Creative Graphics, Inc

Philip Sung Design Associates

q30 design

QHR Technologies

Regional Municipality of York

The Works Design Communications

Benefits (Download full list of benefits here)

Individual Professional Memberships
- Annual dues of participating RGDs and Prov. RGDs are covered
- Other participating staff receive Affiliate Memberships
Professional Certification
- All Certification Fees waived for participating staff (up to $750 savings)
- Opportunity to have RGD organize a special, virtual, interactive information session on RGD & our Certification Process for staff
- Opportunity to have RGD coordinate a special Study Group for eligible staff
- Opportunity to borrow all study materials from RGD for staff eligible to go through RGD Certification
Professional Development
- Lowest professional Member rate for participating staff to attend DesignThinkers and other RGD events (savings of $250 per person off non-member pricing)
- Access for all staff to attend bi-weekly professional development webinars
- Staff access to unlimited guest passes for webinars
- Access for all staff to screen Future By Design virtual panel discussions
- Staff access to RGD's online video archive of over 500 past DesignThinkers presentations, recorded webinars, etc.
Recognition
- Listing in RGD's online searchable Directory
- Opportunities to feature projects & achievements on the RGD website and in RGD's e-newsletter
- 3 free entries into any RGD Awards Program such as RGD's In-House Design Awards and So(cial) Good Design Awards (Member rate for additional entries)
- Opportunity to post RGD Team Member Logo to company website
- Free Advertising with RGD: 220 x 220 Box Ad on the RGD homepage for 1 week; 220 x 220 Box Ad in 1 issue of RGD's e-newsletter and advertising shared via Twitter & Facebook
- Opportunity for company to be followed/liked via RGD social media accounts
- 50% off any additional advertising
Participation in the Community
- Opportunity for participating staff to attend other RGD networking and social events at Member rates
- Opportunity for participating staff (where appropriate) to act as Judges in RGD's annual Students Awards and participate in other programs supporting emerging designers such as mentoring and portfolio reviewing
- Opportunities to feature news and events on the RGD website and in RGD's e-newsletter
Publications
- Copies of RGD print and digital publications including the RGD Handbook; Handbooks on Accessible Design; CreativeEarners National Salary Survey, etc. (for all participating team members plus up to 5 additional)
- Subscriptions to Fast Company & Applied Arts Magazines for all participating team members
- Copies of RGD printed awards annuals including In-House Design Awards and Student Awards
Job Postings
- Unlimited FREE Job postings on RGD's Job Board
- Featured status for jobs posted
- Opportunity to include special job ads in RGD's email newsletter
VIP Opportunities at DesignThinkers & Other Events
- At DesignThinkers, opportunities to distribute materials and participate in special programming opportunities