The “Happy Holidays” GIA Museum calendar was recently honored for excellence in design.
The 27th Annual AAM Publications Design Competition acknowledges excellence in the graphic design of museum publications and is the only national, juried event involving publications produced by museums of all kinds and sizes. Two awards were given under the “Calendars” category for museum budgets under $750,000 – “First Place” and “Honorable Mention.”
The GIA Museum won the “Honorable Mention” award for the “Happy Holidays” calendar that GIA sent out as their holiday greeting. It was designed by Comet Creative of Carlsbad, California. This year’s contest drew 1,040 entries from museums across the nation and, of those, 104 entries were selected as winners.
GIA’s winning calendar was created using 12 photos of jewelry and gemstones chosen from the “Celebrating Excellence in Gems and Jewelry” exhibit, the special collection of one-of-a-kind pieces the GIA Museum brought together last year in conjunction with the 4th International Gemological Symposium.
