IDI MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
The Institute's membership is divided into eight sections reflecting a range of design disciplines. For organisational purposes new members are published in one specialist category only. This does not affect a member's practice in other specialist areas.
Exhibition & Interior Design/Architecture
Permanent and semi-permanent displays, museum design, window displays, trade exhibitions etc; commercial interior architecture and design for offices, retail and public buildings; domestic interior design.
Fashion & Textile Design
Fashion and clothing including garments, bags, footwear, millinery and other accessories; Textile Design including printed and woven textiles, carpets and other floor coverings, wallpapers, non-printed wall-coverings and laminates.
Product & Industrial Design
To include all aspects of furniture, craft and industrially manufactured products.
Theatre, Television & Stage Design
Production design including the creation and supervision of suitable environments and costuming for performances by artists and presenters in television, film and theatre. Television graphics and animated sequences.
Visual Communications
To include all aspects of corporate identity, printed literature, packaging design, photography, and illustration.
New Media
Web design, interactive CD-ROM design and multimedia.
Education
Design educators having academic design qualifications and practice, as well as validated design teaching experience.
Design Management
Design management consultants, managers of design consultancies and managers of design within a company environment.