Design leaders see economic rebound

Good News!

November 9, 2009.

The AIGA Design Leaders Confidence Index for the third quarter of 2009 continued a dramatic rebound from its low point of just a year ago. According to Richard Grefé, executive director of AIGA, “We’ve been listening closely to many designers working out of studios, and they appear to be very busy. Margins are tight and clients are very demanding in terms of scope and budget, but there has been business through what economists suggest was the trough of the recession.

AIGA anticipates that the real measure of the state of the design economy is likely to come in the first quarter of 2010, as designers experience the effects of corporate budgets that were determined during a weakened economy.

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