Another year for the Salt Lake AIGA has come to a close with the 100 show award ceremony held last night at the Rose Wagner Center. It is always an inspiring event to attend. As a designer it gives you that push to create better work and a desire to be recognized as a "Copper Ingot" winner.
The judges for the competition were from the Seattle area. They included
Steve Watson - Turnstyle
Mark Popich - Hornall Anderson Design Works
Terry Marks - tmarks
Michael Strassburger - Modern Dog
and for the Interactive pieces, the judges were
Aral Balkan - aralbalkan.com
Jeff Croft - jeffcroft.com
All of the pieces were taken up to them to view and from what they explained last night, it was a very collaborative process. They were all impressed by the work and amazed at the many scrapbooking type entries. They didn't even know something like that existed and were intrigued by it, wanting to learn more. Since scrapbooking is such a huge part of culture, there were many winners, and they were all very well designed.
The evening went very well. It was held on the stage at the Rose Wagner Center and for being on a stage, the set up was very nice. It started off with some time to mingle followed by dinner. Unfortunately, the food was less than desirable. If I was a food critic, I would go into more detail about it. Luckily, it was the presentation and the design work that I wanted to see and my reason for going.
After dinner they announced the winners starting with the merit winners and then the 10 "Copper Ingot" winners. As they announced the winners their pieces were displayed on screen. It was very well set up so you could see the work and the people involved. The only thing that I would have changed is allow a little more time for the designers to pick up their awards before they moved on to the next one. I am always interested in seeing a face so I can associate it with the name, and I wasn't able to do that because they moved so quick. Plus, it gives the designer a little better chance to shine, which is there right to do.
Most of the work was brilliant and designed very well. Of course, design work is always subjective so there were a few pieces that I had to question. When you think of the 100 show, it just wouldn't be what it is without the firms such as, Axiom, Richter7, Axis 41, and Scott Sorenson winning awards. It's great that these firms, along with others, are consistently producing such great work. I would love to be able to list all the winners and show their pieces, but I didn't keep track well enough to do that. I'm sure they will put that up on the SL AIGA website for all to see.
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thanks to the board and all the volunteers who put this together. Also, there will be a new president for the chapter, Paula Airth. There are also many other opportunities to help so contact the board if you are interested.
The past year of events have been great and although I couldn't attend all of them, I was able to get to some and write up an overview of the events.
Labels: 100 Show, AIGA, design
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