AIGA awards 2007 gold medal to Bruce Mau
AIGA, the professional association for design (American Institute of
Graphic Arts), has announced that Bruce Mau is the recipient of the 2007
AIGA Gold Medal in the field of communication design. In a statement
provided by the association,
“Crossing disciplinary boundaries has become the leitmotif of Bruce
Mau’s eponymous design studio based in Toronto, but whose influence in
the United States and worldwide has been substantial. Mau’s noted
collaborations with leading artists, scholars, architects, and business
leaders has produced enormously diverse projects that range from books
to exhibitions, landscapes to textiles. His recent establishment of the
Institute without Boundaries—part school, part studio, part think
tank—and its inaugural project Massive Change tackles nothing less than
the design of our world.”
The AIGA will officially present this award to Bruce Mau at a ceremonial
gala on September 25, 2007 in New York. Bruce Mau is honored to be the
recipient of this prestigious award.
For more information on the AIGA, please visit www.aiga.org.
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April 23rd, 2007 11:11
[…] I feel a little under the weather today. I think I’ve been experiencing what some environmentalists such as John Seed and Joanna Macy term ‘despair’. It’s a lonely, cementing feeling of helplessness and inaction in response to the current ‘climate’ of local, national and international events. In search of an offer of knowledge-a slice of my soul, a question from the grey that matters to share with you, I opened up a book I’ve been reading called Massive Change. It proposes that a new breed of designer is needed, one who is in the words of R. Buckminster Fuller, a “synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist”. Its author Bruce Mau, was recipient of the 2007 AIGA Gold Medal in the field of communication design. It’s a fascinating book and one I recommend every human being should read, however, it led me on this occasion to search for information on who R. Buckminster Fuller was. This lead me to this article by the man on what he does to “discipline myself to try to get myself thinking in a little more adequate manner concerning what we know of our Universe and what may be going on in a larger way, and to try to get things a little better proportioned”. He sounds like one of those lecturers you would never forget. If you have the time, have a read. It left me feeling, seemingly helpless… but also reminded me that as an ant on this rock expanding at 3 million miles an hour, I better hurry up and do something. Who am I not to? […]
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[…] Succesfully backed up on 02:18:2008Originally Published: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:57:28 +0000http://www.massivechange.com/2007/03/07/aiga-awards-2007-g… AIGA, the professional association for design (American Institute of Graphic Arts), has announced that Bruce Mau is the recipient of the 2007 AIGA Gold Medal in the field of communication design. In a statement provided by the association, “Crossing disciplinary boundaries has become the leitmotif of Bruce Mau’s eponymous design studio based in Toronto, but whose influence in the United States […] […]