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2006 Museum Publications Design Competition Honorees

Prizes awarded to institutions with budgets greater than $500,000




The Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publication Design (“Best in Show”)

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

America’s Art

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Exhibition Catalogue

 

First Prize

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede

Second Prize

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Dual Vision: The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection

Yeshiva University Museum, New York, A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960

Honorable Mention

Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Hokusai

Mingei International Museum, San Diego, Calif., Elemental Art in the Indonesian Archipelago: Selections from the Collection of Mingei International Museum

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Eirik Johnson: Borderlands

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oreg., Mysterious Spirits, Strange Beasts, Earthly Delights: Early Chinese Art from the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection

 

Posters

First Prize

Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Tex., Technologies of Writing

Second Prize

Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Masters of American Comics

John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Cooler by the Lake

Honorable Mention

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, N.C., Billie Ruth Sudduth

Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo., Missouri Botanical Garden Japanese Festival 2005

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History, Baltimore, Distant Echoes: Black Farmers in America

SITES - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., Between Fences

SITES - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Getty Villa, Malibu: Statue of the Lansdowne Herakles

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, CHANEL: Decade by Decade

Annual Reports

First Prize

Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Asiatica

Second Prize

Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Museum Victoria Annual Report ’04-’05

Honorable Mention

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Annual Report 2003-2004

Books

First Prize

Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, N.Mex., Passions in Print

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Strong Stuff: Herakles and His Labors

Honorable Mention

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ont., Canada, High Style: Masterworks from the Bernard and Sylvia Ostry Collection in the Royal Ontario Museum

SITES - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Courbet and the Modern Landscape

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, Fla., Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze and Weaver

 

Newsletters

First Prize

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wis., Artscene

Second Prize

Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Ill., Garden Talk, spring 2006

Honorable Mention

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Summer 2005

SITES - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., Siteline No. 51, fall/winter 2005

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Mixed Media

The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, First Draft, Issue #4

Magazines

First Prize

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Visions Magazine, Vol. 11: Race, Class, Gender

Second Prize

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Tex., Articulate

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Plateau: Land and People of the Colorado Plateau

Honorable Mention

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., Program, September 2005-February 2006

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., Program, March-August 2006

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif., Art Letter

George Eastman House - International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, N.Y., Image Magazine, Southworth and Hawes issue

Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Mass., Historic Deerfield Magazine, summer 2005

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Warhol

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, Carolina Naturalist

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, Artlines, Issues 2 and 3, 2005

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, SFMOMA Exhibition and Program Guide

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Studio, fall/winter 2005-2006

Scholarly Journals

First Prize

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Okla., The Journal of Gilcrease Museum, Vol. 13, Nos. 1 and 2

Honorable Mention

Art Institute of Chicago, Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies, vol. 31, no. 2

Calendars

First Prize

Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., The Illuminated Year: Manuscript Pages from the Borso d’Este Bible

Second Prize

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Fairies: Library of Congress 2006 Engagement Calendar

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Women Who Dare

Honorable Mention

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Shakespeare’s Insults

Invitations to Events

First Prize

Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Annual Meeting

Second Prize

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Sippin’ in Seersucker spring fundraiser

Honorable Mention

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic Gala

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Modern Ball 2005

Press Kits

First Prize

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Chanel

Second Prize

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Americans in Paris, 1860-1900

Honorable Mention

Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Pritzker Family Children’s Zoo

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, David Hockney

Fund-raising and Membership Materials

First Prize

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, O Say Can You See eye chart membership drive

Second Prize

John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Aquarium Council brochure

Honorable Mention

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, RUSSIA! direct mail membership program

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Fund for the Met

Calendars of Events

First Prize

Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Ill., summer 2006

Second Prize

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Honorable Mention

Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Tex., Program Calendar, fall 2005 and spring 2006

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., winter/spring 2006

Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, Seasonal Programs and Exhibitions Calendars, May 2005 - April 2006

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Art After 5 series of brochures

Educational Resources

First Prize

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., Big/Small Family Guide

Second Prize

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, RUSSIA! A Guide to the Exhibition for Teachers

Honorable Mention

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Bridge Basics Program Kit

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators

Supplementary Materials

First Prize

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Retail Shopping Bag (series of 3)

Second Prize

SITES - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, The Museum at FIT Fashion and Textile History Gallery brochure

Honorable Mention

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Del., Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs, 1853 to 1982

Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass., Destination Dinotopia - A Visitors Guide

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History, Baltimore, Distant Echoes: Black Farmers in America brochure

SITES - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change

Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., Born of Clay: Ceramics from the National Museum of the American Indian, brochure

The Octagon, the Museum of the American Architectural Foundation, Washington, D.C., The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry and the Architecture of Washington, D.C., with Paintings by Peter Waddell

CD-ROMs

First Prize

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Museum Dialogues educational DVD

Second Prize

Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Mass., Art In Nature DVD

 

Marketing and P.R. Materials

First Prize

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., Sudan Poster Series (set of 5)

Second Prize

Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Style and Status Metro poster

Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Asian Games Metro poster

SITES - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey brochure

Honorable Mention

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grant Wood at 5 Turner Alley, sponsor ad series

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Contemporary Opening ad campaign (series of 4)

Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass., Share the Warmth advertisement

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, N.C., Earth Day promotional material

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, N.C., Reptile and Amphibian Day promotional material

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, N.C., First Friday movie series promotional material

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, N.C., CSI, promotional material

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