“Celebrating the Role of Culture in Design” Competition.
”Visual communicators generally agree that culture matters, but not many consciously express how our environment has created what AIGA XCD calls CrossCultural Design,” says AIGA/XCD president, Zelda Harrison.
"Celebrating the Role of Culture in Design" is a way for the design community to express their experience. Over a 12-week period, designers were asked to submit print, video, photography or interactive pieces that would answer the question: How do you express the intersection between Culture and Design in today's world?
AIGA/XCD received entries from all over the world including El Salvador, Italy, Iran, Lebanon, Columbia and the Netherlands. A panel of international judges, invited for their contribution to visual communications and branding work across the globe, selected the following winners:
First Place: Beth Shirrell: Kalakari Display typeface
Second Place: Devon Hirth: Been-Seeing-Pink-Lately
Third Place: FABRICA: Road Safety is no Accident PSA Campaign
Visuals and descriptions for the winners can be viewed here
Details about the competition and the judges, are available here
AIGA/XCD, based in the United States, is an AIGA Community established to foster greater communication between designers across cultures as well as a better understanding of the interwoven experience of design and culture in our lives. It believes that it is imperative for designers to think beyond their national and cultural borders in order to create visual communication that is responsive to the diversity of audiences today.
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