365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 30
September 18—November 25, 2009
Visit the AIGA National Design Center to see 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.”
Design excellence results from creativity, inspiration, skill, experience, intuition and discipline. AIGA’s design competitions extend a legacy that began more than 90 years ago and are widely recognized as the most selective statements on design excellence today.
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 National Design 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
AIGA National Design Center gallery hours
Monday through Thursday: 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 a.m–5:00 p.m.
The gallery is located at the AIGA National Design Center at 164 Fifth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets) in New York. View on a map.
Traveling exhibition
The artifacts from “365: AIGA Annual Design Competition” will also be shown from February 11 through March 1, 2010, at Mt. Ida College Gallery in Newton, Massachusetts.
Exhibition collateral printing provided by 
365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 30
1/18Exterior of the AIGA National Design Center on Fifth Avenue in New York CityPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
2/18Entrance to the AIGA National Design CenterPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
3/18Description of exhibition at the gallery entrancePhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
4/18Extra walls were built to display the wide variety of competition selectionsPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
5/18View of wall running the length of the galleryPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
6/18View of the central gallery spacePhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
7/18Just a few of the design selections from the 2008 competitionPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
8/18Two of the six categories of design in the competitionPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
9/18“Informing” was one of the competition categoriesPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
10/18View of interior from the front doorPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
11/18Walls of design selected as the best of 2008Photo: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
12/18Visitors viewing the exhibitionPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
13/18Walls of work selected as the best in communication design from 2008Photo: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
14/18Selections from the promoting categoryPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
15/18A few of the packaging selectionsPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
16/18Captions were hung from wire within each wallPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
17/18Interactive pieces displayed on monitors along the temporary wallsPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
18/18Hands-on interaction with the exhibitionPhoto: (c) 2009 Peter R. Peirce, Inc.
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