365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 30

Exterior of the AIGA
National Design Center on Fifth Avenue in New York City
Photo: (c) 2009 Peter R.
Peirce, Inc.

Entrance to the AIGA
National Design Center
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Peirce, Inc.

Description of exhibition
at the gallery entrance
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Peirce, Inc.

Extra walls were built to
display the wide variety of competition selections
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Peirce, Inc.

View of wall running the
length of the gallery
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Peirce, Inc.

View of the central gallery
space
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Peirce, Inc.

Just a few of the design
selections from the 2008 competition
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Peirce, Inc.

Two of the six categories
of design in the competition
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Peirce, Inc.

“Informing” was one of the
competition categories
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Peirce, Inc.

View of interior from the
front door
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Peirce, Inc.

Walls of design selected as
the best of 2008
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Peirce, Inc.

Visitors viewing the
exhibition
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Peirce, Inc.

Walls of work selected as
the best in communication design from 2008
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Peirce, Inc.

Selections from the
promoting category
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Peirce, Inc.

A few of the packaging
selections
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Peirce, Inc.

Captions were hung from
wire within each wall
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Peirce, Inc.

Interactive pieces
displayed on monitors along the temporary walls
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Peirce, Inc.

Hands-on interaction with
the exhibition
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Peirce, Inc.
A juried selection of the best-designed communication design
produced in 2008, judged in 2009. At the AIGA National Design
Center from September 18 through November 25, 2009.
The best in communication design
from 2008—including logos, websites, animations, experiences,
packaging, advertisements, even a typographic kite, created by some
of the world's most talented designers—in this exhibition of nearly
200 works, selected by an
esteemed jury for the 30th annual “365: AIGA Annual Design
Competition.”
AIGA is committed to using selections from its annual
competitions to demonstrate the process of design; the role of the
designer; and the value of design to business, culture and society
at large. Each year, the competition selections are published in
AIGA's virtual gallery at designarchives.aiga.org,
featured in an annual publication,
exhibited
at the AIGA NationalDesign Center in New York City and preserved in the AIGA Design
Archives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado.
Exhibition design: Hipbone Design, New
York
Exhibition collateral printing provided by