Henry Steiner and Anne Ghory-Goodman in Hong Kong, 12 September 2007
Shelly Langton (center in black) and other AIGA Fellows at the AIGA Gala, NYC, 20 September 2007.
The AIGA Center for Cross-Cultural Design (AIGA XCD) has given two AIGA Fellow Awards and Shelly Langton has received the fellow award from the AIGA Seattle Chapter for her key role in founding AIGA XCD.
This year, we (at XCD) presented AIGA Fellow Awards to two of the early voices for cross-cultural design, Aaron Marcus and Henry Steiner.
- Aaron Marcus, president of Aaron Marcus and Associates in Berkeley, CA
Shelly Langton presented the award to Aaron at a San Francisco Chapter award ceremony in June.
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- Henry Steiner, principal of Steiner & Co. in Hong Kong
Anne Ghory-Goodman, one of our new XCD board members presented the award in Hong Kong on September 12.
http://www.steiner.hk/
Shelly is very humble about her role. She never liked to take the spotlight, but it would not have happened without her. She is the person who introduced me to Icograda and provided much of the drive, connections, and insight necessary to make the organization successful.
Here is a Link to AIGA's list of AIGA Fellows
AIGA XCD Fellow Awards
Chinese Element: Day 2
On the second day of judging the finalists had been selected and the task at hand was to choose bronze, silver, gold, and a grand prize. While there was some excellent work in the print, TV and Interactive categories, there was not one piece that stood out among the rest. There was a vote, and the judges agreed to cancel the grand prize this year.
I am not going to reveal any secrets about the winners, but am posting a few pieces that I liked personally. It was very interesting to see how the judges disagreed on some of the pieces. There were a few pieces that were very controversial. Some judges really loved them and others really felt they were lacking. They are a strong willed group of people as would be expected.
On the first day we arrived Kao Jun gave me a hug. One of the other judges commented on this and Kao Jun said, "hey, we are old friends." I have been fortunate to spend time with Kao Jun on each of my trips to China since 2005 and it seems I have been accepted into their circle of friends. Huang Li introduced me to Kao Jun with high commendation and so Kao Jun accepts me. In China "guanxi" (relationships) is everything. Here it is in action. You can see he was very kind to both me and to Karl.
