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Exhibition Detail

Group Show

The Urban Forest Project

Curated by: American Institute of Graphic Arts New York Chapter

Times Square, NYC

September 13th, 2006 - November 30th, 2006

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2x4	KESSELSKRAMER
AdamsMorioka	Hyun Jung Kim
Rob Alexander	Janelle Quashie & Soyoung Kim
Marc Alt	David Dennis & D. Mark Kingsley
Antoine+Manuel	Jesse Kirsch
Veejay Archary	Tom Koken
Mark Aver	Peter Kuper
Pooja Badlani	Allison Lamb
Lindsay Ballant	David Lanford
Marian Bantjes	Yann Legendre
Andrew Bass	Frank Tufano & Peter Levinson
Karen Bausman	Harmen Liemburg
Joshua Berger	Jiun-Guey Lin
Michael Bierut	Uwe Loesch
Weston Bingham	Carolyn Louth
Laureen Biruk	Graphic Design for Love (+$)
Carrie Brunk	Abby Clawson Low
Stella Bugbee	Alexandra Martinez
Amabel Caba	Kenneth Martinez
Jordan Carver	Zoa Martinez
Nikki Chung	Mary Matson
Seymour Chwast	Thomas Matthews
Dave Cicirelli	Anna McCambridge
Pip & Co.	Janelle Rose & Anjali Menon
Tamar Cohen	Abbott Miller
Brian Collins	Debbie Millman
COMA	Joshua Paige & Victor Newman
Carri Corbett	Victor Newman
Rodrigo Corral	Kerr Noble
Counterspace	stiletto nyc
Anna Crider	Omnivore
Leigh Cullen	Paola Palacios
Stephanie Cunningham	Shpresa Pantovic
Jean Dahlgren	Leif Parsons
Donna David	Shourav Pasha
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville	Scott Pauli
Robert de Michiell	Shantee Rose & Janice Pedley
Barry Deck	Tonia Rojas & Madeline Peralta
344 Design	John Pirman
Base Design	Ambica Prakash
Twointandem Design	Wednesday Trotto & Emma Presler
deValence	Nasreen Quadir
Maria Dimanshtein	Jorge Quinones
Chris Dixon	Ram Rahman
Deborani Duttagupta	Mark Ramel
Alan Dye	Mark Randall
Daniel Eatock	Joan Raspo
Jonathan Ellery	Brian Rea
Maria Emmighausen	Larissa Colon & Heather Rebholz
Rafael Esquer	David Reinfurt
Mike Essl	Paulina Reyes
Estudiocrop	Douglas Riccardi
Oded Ezer	Petter Ringbom
Michael Falzone	Jonathan Mendez & Calo Rios
Ed Fella	Allbriton Robbins
Anne Fikes	Vincent Hon & Stuart Rogers
Alan Fletcher	Kathleen Schenck Row
Karin Fong	Rhonda Rubinstein
David Fortier	Paul & Greg Sahre
Vince Frost	Louise Sandhaus
John Fulbrook	Scott Santoro
Jason Fulford	Paula Scher
FutureBrand	Number Seventeen
Futurefarmers	Helene Silverman
John Gall	Leila Singleton
Carmen Garcia	David Slatoff
Arch Garland	SpotCo
Heather Gillett	Ward Sutton
Milton Glaser	Green Map System
Carin Goldberg	Koko Takeuchi
Bryony Gomez-Palacio	Mark Koenov & Eric Teng
Goodesign	Jacqueline Thaw
SWEDEN GRAPHICS	Beth Tondreau
Laura Gruenther	Clarissa Tossin
H5	FIELD TRIP
Hanifa Hakim-El	Vaughan Oliver & Michele Turriani
Hanna Han	Lyndon & Rick Valicenti
Nicole Haniph	Ryan Vanderbilt
Helicopter	Rozina Vavetsi
Fons Hickmann	James Victore
Michael Hodgson	Tucker Viemeister
Kent Hunter	Massimo Vignelli
Hideki Inaba	VisuaLingual
Parham Santana Inc.	Armin Vit
Volume Inc.	Petrula Vrontikis
Apirat Infahsaeng	Omar Vulpinari
Alexander Isley	Min Wang
Tom Jakobsson	Elena Lavache & Elizabeth Ward
Radovan Jenko	Chip Wass
Craig Kanarick	Lawrence Weiner
Joon Mo Kang	Go Welsh
Karlssonwilker	Jeff Weyer
David Katzenstein	Edwina White
Michael Ian Kaye	Roger Whitehouse

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ARTS ORGANIZATION:

American Institute of Graphic Arts, Times Square Alliance, Worldstudio

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The Urban Forest Project, an unprecedented outdoor exhibition, took root in New York City in Fall 2006. One hundred eighty-five of some of the world’s most celebrated designers and artists employed the idea or form of the tree to make a powerful visual statement on banners that were displayed throughout Times Square.

The tree is metaphor for sustainability, and in that spirit the banners from the exhibition were recycled into totebags designed exclusively for the project by Jack Spade. Profits from the sale of the totebags went to Worldstudio AIGA Scholarships and the AIGA/NY Mentoring Program to sustain the next generation of design talent.

The totebag sale ended in May 2007.

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