Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is a club of the world's leading
graphic artists and
designer
A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans.
In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...
s. There are 527 members from 43 countries. Its members have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world's top corporations and institutions as well as for countless examples of globally known packaging, publications, illustration and posters.
Bernard Baissait is the only member who left the AGI following disagreement.
History
In 1951 two Swiss and three French graphic artists decided to formalise their relationship into a kind of association. In 1952 the Alliance Graphique Internationale was incorporated in
Paris
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with 65 members. The first AGI show was in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
in 1955. In 1969 the AGI headquarters moved to
Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon
, twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco
Zürich ...
.
The most important events of the organisation are the annual AGI Congress and AGI Open that take place in a different country in each year.
Members
Publications
* AGI- Graphic Design since 1950, by Elly and Ben Bos, Thames & Hudson Publishers 2007,
* Alliance Graphique International - German Members, Hesign Publisher 2011,
References
External links
Official AGI website with members databaseWebsite AGI OpenWebsite AGI Congress
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Design institutions
International artist groups and collectives
Arts organizations established in 1952