Aiap Women In Design Award 2017
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AIAP Associazione italiana design della comunicazione visiva
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All'Aiap appartengono molti dei migliori progettisti, ricercatori e studiosi della grafica e della comunicazione visiva italiana. È soprattutto attraverso i progetti, le opere, l'impegno etico e morale dei suoi soci nell'esercizio della professione che cerchiamo di lasciare un'impronta fondamentale sul ruolo fondamentale della comunicazione visiva sia in Italia che all'estero.
Description
The AWDA biennial award, at its third edition, wishes to explore and promote the little-known universe of women working in visual communication design.The award originates from a dedicated research activity carried out by Aiap (Italian Association of Visual Communication Design), and its aim is to investigate the idioms, poetics and different approaches to graphic design which otherwise would never be brought to light, and reconstructing and acknowledging the contribution that many visual communication women designers have given and continue to give to the universe of graphic design.
There are four categories:
• Professionals (women visual communication designers)
• Researchers and teachers (women teachers, researchers, scholars, theorists)
• Students (women students, undergraduate students, PhD students)
• Special career award
Participation in the Award is open only to women designers that fall within the four sections of the Award, covering various phases in the educational and professional life of visual communication women designers and providing a comprehensive overview of projects in this area of design.
Rewards
Professionals Category
May enter this category: owners of professional firms, professionals, employees of the studio, freelance, collective. For employees and freelancers a release form, signed and stamped by the study / agency / owner certifying the intellectual property of the project presented, must be attached to the project.Research and Training Category
May enter this category: University, High Schools, Public and/or Private Institutions Professors and Researchers, scholars who have focused their research on issues of visual communication.Students Category
May enter this category: students who have completed their studies by not more than two years, students still attending colleges or Public and/or Private University, specialist schools, PhD, who have in their curriculum teaching visual communication projects, dissertations, research projects. The students will participate to this category don’t have to pay submission fee.Lifetime Achievement Category
This Award is a “cameo” that Aiap wants to assign to those designers who have distinguished themselves in the course of their career in professional activity or for contributing authoritatively to the reflections on the design culture. It can also be understood as an Award to the memory. The Award of this prize is at the discretion of the jury.Timeline
Europe/RomeLaunch of the call for projects
Publication of the call
Submission starts
Submission ends
Jury
Selection of the projects by the jury
Results
Communication to selected projects’ authors
Event
Sending of materials for the catalogue
Ceremony
Award-giving ceremony
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