AIGA and Denver Art Museum select AIGA Design Archives curator

NEW YORK, October 23, 2007. On October 13, at the biennial AIGA Design Conference held in Denver, AIGA Executive Director Richard Grefé and Denver Art Museum Director Lewis Sharp announced the appointment of Darrin Alfred as the AIGA Assistant Curator for Graphic Design.

Alfred will join the museum from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he was an assistant curator of architecture and design. He will be responsible for the AIGA Design Archives, both in the initial registration and organization of the archival materials and in arranging exhibitions in the future. The position has been funded for its first three years from donations to the AIGA Archives Fund.

About AIGA Design Archives
The AIGA Design Archives ensure that the most exemplary design work will be cataloged in order to serve as a valuable source for research material and inspiration for future generations of designers. Design projects dating back to 1979 have been added to the archives, bringing the collection to more than 12,000 items by the end of this year. The collection will increase by approximately 200 examples a year as new artifacts selected by AIGA’s annual design competitions become included. All physical design artifacts to date have been donated to the Denver Art Museum, to be included as part of the permanent AIGA Design Archives.

The AIGA Design Archives may be viewed at designarchives.aiga.org.

About AIGA
AIGA, the professional association for design, is the oldest and largest membership association for design professionals engaged in the discipline, practice and culture of designing. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.

Founded in 1914, AIGA is the pre-eminent professional association for communication designers, broadly defined. In the past decade, designers have increasingly been involved in creating value for clients (whether public or business) through applying design thinking to complex problems, even when the outcomes may be more strategic, multi-dimensional and conceptual than what most would consider traditional communication design. AIGA now represents more than 20,000 designers of all disciplines through national activities and local programs developed by 59 chapters and 200 student groups.

AIGA supports the interests of professionals, educators and students who are engaged in the process of designing. The association is committed to stimulating thinking about design, demonstrating the value of design and empowering success for designers throughout the arc of their careers.

For further information, please contact:
Katie English
AIGA | the professional association for design
Tel 212 710 3136   Fax 212 807 1799
katie_english@aiga.org