Collections
- 50 Books | 50 Covers
- AIGA 365
- AIGA Jurors
- AIGA Medalists
- B. Martin Pedersen
- The Book Jacket and Paperback Cover Show
- The Book Jacket and Paperback Cover Show
- The Book Show
- California Graphic Design 1980–1982
- Case Studies
- Case Studies
- Case Studies
- Chermayeff & Geismar (1960–2006)
- Communicating with Children
- Communication Graphics
- The Cover Show
- Covers
- A Decade of Entertainment Graphics
- A Decade of Sports Graphics
- Denver Art Museum
- Design and Printing for Commerce
- Design for the Public Good
- Design of Understanding 2
- Fifty Advertisements of the Year
- Fifty Books
- Fifty Books of the Year
- Fifty TV Commercials of the Year
- Functional Graphics
- Graphic Explanations: Charts, Diagrams, Graphs and Maps
- The Greening of Design
- The Humor Show
- Illustrations
- Information Graphics: Design of Understanding
- Insides/Outsides
- Issues and Causes
- Just Type
- Just Type Two
- Looking Forward
- Maximum Message/Minimum Means
- The Mental Menagerie: A Five Year Retrospective
- Objects of Design
- The One-Color/Two-Color Show II
- The One-Color/Two-Color Show
- Packaging
- Paperbacks U.S.A.
- People, Places and Things
- The Photographer’s View
- Political Art
- Portraits II
- The Poster Show
- Print Ads of the Year
- Printing for Commerce
- Push Pin Graphic (1957-1980)
- R.S.V.P.: Invitations Only
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Richard Danne (Gips & Danne, Danne & Blackburn, DanneDesign)
- Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs, Music Videos and Print Collateral
- Soundblast
- The Tee-Shirt Show
- Under 30
- Vignelli Associates (1962-2008)
- The Whole Book
Gifted to the Denver Art Museum (the DAM) in 2006, the AIGA Design Archives at the DAM represents the largest and most comprehensive holding of contemporary American communication design in the world. Consisting of more than 7,000 entries (approximately 12,000 artifacts) created from about 1980 to 2012, the collection recognizes award-winning entries made to the organization’s annual competitions.
The materials reflect major design trends as well as many of the leading design firms and individual designers within the United States during this 32-year period, such as Gail Anderson, Michael Bierut, Sylvia Harris, Jennifer Morla, Stefan Sagmeister, and Paula Scher, to name only a few.
It also includes a broad range of materials including bound and unbound paper objects, metal, textiles, glass, plastic, multimedia, electronic media, and packaging for food and toiletry items.
By making a major commitment to building one of the preeminent modern and contemporary design collections in the United States, the DAM has become a pioneer among museums, and was selected to receive the AIGA Design Archives based on its longstanding dedication to design as well as its location, which is accessible to designers, students, and researchers outside the immediate vicinity of the more traditional New York or West Coast locus of graphic design.
When combined with the DAM’s growing collection of contemporary design, the AIGA Design Archives provides visitors with an even more enlightening and dynamic narrative of design from the era.