Winners of Graphic-Design Competition for Museum Publications
September 23, 1999 | Read Time: 4 minutes
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Museums Win Awards for Graphic Design
MUSEUMS WITH BUDGETS OF $500,000 OR MORE
Annual Reports
First prize: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Interaction: Walker Art Center 1997-1998 Annual Report
Second prize: Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens and Julian Wood Glass, Jr., Collection (Winchester, Va.), Branching Forth (annual report with accompanying letter, return envelope, and carrier envelope)
Books
First prize: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (two-volume book set)
Second prize:
— The J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles), Mortality Immortality? The Legacy of 20th-Century Art
— The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Treasures from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Calendars
First prize: The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, N.M.), “Georgia O’Keeffe Year 2000 Engagement Calendar”
Second prize: American Museum of Natural History (New York), “Naturalist’s Diary 1999″ (engagement calendar)
Calendars of Events
First prize: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington), “Great African Films of the ‘90s”
Second prize:
— Cleveland Museum of Art, “Summer Evenings”
— Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), “Members Calendar, May/June 1998-March/April 1999″ (series of six)
CD-ROM’s
First prize: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), “Masterworks”
Second prize: The Library of Congress (Washington), “The Library of Congress: Eyes of the Nation”
Educational Resources
First prize: U.S.S. Constitution Museum (Boston), “All Hands on Deck: Learning Adventures Aboard Old Ironsides”
Second prize: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), “Learning Through Art: The Guggenheim Museum Collection” (children’s book)
Exhibition Catalogues
First prize:
— The Art Institute of Chicago, Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women
— Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution (New York), Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection (cloth)
— Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, Mass.), Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection (paper)
Second prize:
— The Menil Collection (Houston), Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp … In Resonance
— The New York Public Library, A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980
— The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), The Art of the Motorcycle
Fund-Raising and Membership Campaign Materials
First prize: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) (Washington), “Spirited Objects: Traditional American Crafts”
Second prize: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) (Washington), “Americanos”
Invitations to Events
First prize: American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore), “Goddess Sleepover II”
Second prize:
— National Aquarium (Baltimore), “Splash ’98 Funky Jungle”
— The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.), “Invitation to the Great Ball of China II”
Newsletters
First prize: Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey, Cal.), Shorelines
Second prize: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) (Washington), Siteline, No. 42, Spring 1998, and Siteline, No. 43, Winter 1999
Posters
First prize: Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey, Cal.), “Kelp Forest,” “Rocky Shores,” and “Sandy Beaches”
Second prize:
— Seattle Art Museum, “Chuck Close”
— The Newseum (Arlington, Va.), “African American Newspeople, Newsmakers”
Press Kits
First prize: Denver Museum of Natural History, “Get a Clue” (press kit for “Whodunit” exhibition)
Second prize: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), “Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara,” “Picasso: Painter and Sculptor in Clay,” and “The New Greek Galleries”
Scholarly Journals
First prize: The Art Institute of Chicago, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography/Museum Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1
Second prize: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington), Love in Asian Art and Culture
Supplementary Materials
First prize: The Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago), “Environmental and Conservation Programs” (brochure)
Second prize:
— Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), “Ann Hamilton: kaph” (exhibition brochure)
— The Newseum (Arlington, Va.), “African American Newspeople, Newsmakers: Phyllis Wheatley” (exhibition brochure)
MUSEUMS WITH BUDGETS OF LESS THAN $500,000
Books
First prize: Woods Hole Historical Collection (Mass.), New England Views: The Photography of Baldwin Coolidge (1845-1928)
Calendars of Events
First prize: Fitton Center for Creative Arts (Hamilton, Ohio), “Art to Make You Reel!” (exhibition-series calendar)
CD-ROM’s
First prize: Visual Arts Museum (New York), “The Masters Series: Paul Davis Moving”
Exhibition Catalogues
First prize: Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota, Fla.), Alan E. Cober: A Retrospective Afterlife
Second prize: UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside, Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane
Invitations to Events
First prize: Museum de Arte de Puerto Rico (San Juan), “Second Grand Gala to Benefit the MAPR’s Endowment Fund”
Second prize: Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.), “Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists’ Books”
Posters
First prize: Gallery FAB, University of Missouri at St. Louis, “Michael Fanizza Designs”
Scholarly Journals
First prize: Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland-Baltimore County (Baltimore), Issues in Cultural Theory, Vol. 2: Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Perspective
Supplementary Materials
First prize: The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Paul Creative Arts Center (Durham), “Art and Architecture: The Vision of Graham Gund” (brochure)
Second prize: The Octagon, the Museum of the American Architectural Foundation (Washington), “George Washington, Architect” (brochure)