AIGA awards prestigious AIGA Medal to
Pablo Ferro, Carin Goldberg and Doyald Young

NEW YORK, February 5, 2009. For their sustained contributions to design excellence and the development of the profession, AIGA individually names Pablo Ferro, Carin Goldberg and Doyald Young as the 2009 recipients of the AIGA Medal. Awarded annually, the AIGA Medal recognizes those who have made exceptional contributions to the field of design and visual communication. Ferro, Goldberg and Young will be celebrated at the Design Legends Gala on September 17, 2009, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

Pablo Ferro is a director, editor and producer specializing in graphic design, print campaigns, special effects, film sequences, main titles and trailers. Widely recognized as one of the preeminent forces in film design, Ferro has distinguished himself for more than three decades designing titles for films such as Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, Gus Van Sant’s Psycho and Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude, to name a few. Ferro’s career began at Atlas Comics, where he worked as a penciller of horror, sci-fi and adventure stories before segueing into animation. Soon Ferro moved on to work as animation director for various New York City-based animation houses. Ferro has received numerous awards over the years, including a Special Achievement Award by the Directors Guild of America, the DaimlerChrysler Design Award for Film Design and induction into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame.

Carin Goldberg is a graphic designer, publication designer, educator and brand consultant. Goldberg, a former creative director at Time Inc. Custom Publishing and principal of Carin Goldberg Design, has designed hundreds of book jackets for many of the major American publishing houses; dozens of album covers for record labels such as Warner Bros., Motown, Interscope and EMI; designed and consulted on publications for the New York Stock Exchange, Microsoft, Citigroup and Gallup; and consulted on branding for Atlantic Records and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Goldberg has taught typography and design at the School of Visual Arts for 25 years, as well as lectured and exhibited internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. She has won numerous awards including a Silver Medal and the first Grandmasters Award for excellence in education from the Art Directors Club, and she has twice received the publishing industry’s prestigious Literary Marketplace Award.

Doyald Young is a graphic designer, typographer, type designer, educator, lecturer and author. For five decades Young has specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets and typefaces, and has written and published a number of books, including Logotypes & Letterforms, Fonts & Logos, The Art of the Letter and Dangerous Curves. Young currently teaches lettering and logo design at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, where he has taught off and on since 1955. In 2001, Art Center named him Inaugural Master of the School for his contributions to the field of art and design. Young was also named as an AIGA Los Angeles Fellow in 2006.

“Pablo Ferro, Carin Goldberg and Doyald Young—each has demonstrated, across a lifetime of work, how creativity can enlighten, inform and delight,” said Richard Grefé, AIGA executive director. “Together they also represent how communication design can take many forms—film, books, typography. Their work is an honor to the profession, just as the profession chooses to honor them.”

The AIGA Medal is the highest honor of the graphic design profession, and has been awarded to its distinguished practitioners, educators and role models since 1920. Its value accrues from its association with the professionals it recognizes, who inspire all designers with creativity, intelligence, perception and skill. For a complete list of past recipients, visit www.aiga.org/medalists.

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AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. AIGA stimulates thinking about design through journals, conferences, competitions and exhibitions; demonstrates the value of design to business, the public and government officials; and empowers the success of designers at each stage of their careers by providing invaluable educational and social resources.

Founded in 1914, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design. AIGA now represents more than 22,000 design professionals, educators and students through national activities and local programs developed by 63 chapters and 240 student groups. AIGA is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) educational institution.

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Update

This page was modified on February 24, 2009, to include Carin Goldberg’s educator awards and experience.