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IIDA offers several options for membership. Find details, applications, and dues information that will help guide you the type of membership that is right for you or your firm.

Member Directory
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Access members fast, east, and directly with the IIDA directory. Organize your search by three different fields, and target exactly who you're looking for.

Career Center
Find a job has never been so easy. The IIDA Career Center allows members to search job listings, post resumes, update a profile, and find helpful resources in building your design career.

Legislation
Find out about information regarding the design industry and how you too can get involved with your industry community.

Competition
Every year IIDA honors the best designs by serving up several options for design competitions. Get detailed information, application, due dates, or look at the winners from previous years.

Document Central
The prime location to find all the available IIDA documents. Find membership applications to IIDA policies & procedures.

Resources
Rapidly growing as the hub for information directly related to your field and practice. Forums are unique to IIDA and allow the Association to target your needs as a Member and encourage professional development through each of IIDA’s Forums:
Corporate
Education and Research
Facility Planning and Design
Government
Healthcare
Hospitality
Residential
Retail

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) works to advance the value of the interior design and its practitioners as well as to cultivate leadership within the profession. IIDA has more than 10,000 Members in eight specialty forums, and more than 30 Chapters around the world committed to enhancing the quality of life through excellence in interior design and advancing interior design through knowledge. By becoming a Member you are making the decision to be an informed member of the design community.

Nurture. IIDA Regions, Chapters, and City Centers offer regular educational social and fund- raising activities. The Association also hold international events, such as the International Coffee Reception at NeoCon ® each year and the Mexican Design Congress. IIDA encourages dual Membership by Interior designers who belong to selected design organizations in countries other than the United States. The Association’s global infrastructure and emphasis on information technology make it possible for IIDA to keep in constant touch with its Members. IIDA is visible at international trade shows like: IIDEX NeoCon (Canada), NeoCon West (California), High Point (North Carolina), NeoCon World’s Trade Fair (Chicago), NeoCon East (Baltimore), and Hospitality Design (Las Vegas).

Provides. IIDA gives Members superior information about interior design and related issues, using its own rapidly developing knowledge center as a resource. IIDA is committed to the concept of the virtual association; the IIDA website is a key tool for communication among IIDA’s leadership and individual Members around the World. Log on to the site to read the current and past issues of Perspective magazine or the biweekly newsletter DesignMatters. Click on links to events, Industry Members, and opportunities to navigate your way around the interior design universe.

Advocate. IIDA has established a Government and Regulatory Affairs Program that has proven to be effective at the national and state levels in the United States. IIDA is committed to assuring that interior designers are strongly and accurately represented in forthcoming hearings of the International Code Council (ICC).

Maintains. Education Standards. IIDA offers a full range of continuing education opportunities in interior design and business practice for interior designers. Courses are given at the regional and local levels; in connection with international trade shows; and through home study via industry publications, like IIDA’s Perspective, and the internet. Professional and Associate Members are required to take 1.0 CEU equal to 10 hours of continuing education units every two years.

Respond. IIDA responds to trends in business and design on a daily basis by compiling information to disseminate to our Members through IIDA specific publications and events. IIDA Roundtables gather leaders of the world’s design firms and industry thinkers to brainstorm about cutting edge issues in the design community such as trends, pending legislation, public awareness, and the incorporation of research in practice.

Celebrate. IIDA celebrates exceptional design achievements through international design competitions. Annual competitions include: Interior Design Competition, sponsored by Interior Design Magazine; The Will Ching Design Competition ; The IIDA Residential Design Competition; Hospitality Design Competition; and The Sustainable Design Student Competition; and the Sustainable Design Leadership Award.