Aiap is the Italian Association of Visual Communication Design that unites professionals of graphic design and visual communication. Established in 1945, the organisation is one of the founding members of Icograda.

Aiap’s mission is to champion the advancement and development of the profession and culture of graphic design both in the areas of practice and education. Aiap promotes the consciousness of practice of communication design through moral and ethical commitment within the field.

Some of the most well known Italian graphic designers – like Steiner, Carboni, Sepo, Dradi, Boggeri, Pagot, Seneca, Testa, Grignani, Tovaglia, Cremonesi, Fronzoni, Coppola, Castellano, Novarese, Noorda, Iliprandi (Icograda's past president), ... – are or had been Aiap's members.

Aiap has almost 800 members from every Italian region and promotes its activities and pursues its objectives via numerous channels such as Aiap’s institutional website (aiap.it), blog and magazine online like aiapzine (aiapzine.aiap.it), magazine as «Progetto Grafico», and Progetto-Italic (progettoitalic.org), besides that catalogs, publications, exhibitions, educational activities and the organization of events as Aiap Design Per, an International Graphic Design Week (aiap.it/designper ) every year held in a different Italian cities (Naples 2009, Bologna 2010, Cagliari 2011).