The Nominees

The International Museum Communication Awards 2007 (IMCA) would like to thank all participants who have registered for this inaugural edition!

82 entries from around the world – contenders from many countries such as Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Russia, Syria, the United Kingdom, The United States, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands – have taken part in this first edition of the IMCA Awards by submitting various communication and graphic design projects. It gathers in total 63 participants, 37 cities, 20 countries.

On 17 October 2007, in Brussels, the Grand Jury coming from the cultural, communication and graphic design fields, judged and voted for the 30 nominees among the Corporate Design and Exhibition Campaign categories. Please find the results below!

Exhibition campaign category

Bozar, Brussels (Belgium)
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d´art contemporain, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Centre National de Littérature, Mersch (Luxembourg)
Fundaçáo de Serralves, Porto (Portugal)
Ku(n)st vzw, Ostend (Belgium)
Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris (France)
Max Planck Institute of History of Science, Berlin (Germany)
Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
National Portrait Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Royal Academy of Arts, London (United Kingdom)
Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle (United Kingdom)
Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Germany)

Corporate design category

Bozar, Brussels (Belgium)
Deste Foundation, Athens (Greece)
Fundación Museo De Los Niños, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Ivan Mestrovic´ Foundation, Zagreb (Croatia)
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (Austria)
Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (Germany)
Massar, Damascus (Syria)
MUDAM, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Museum Documentation Centre, Zagreb (Croatia)
MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Vienna (Austria)
Museum Victoria, Melbourne (Australia)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich (Germany)
Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Southbank Centre, London (United Kingdom)
Tate, London, (United Kingdom)
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Germany)

The Awards (exhibition campaign, gold, silver, bronze - corporate design, gold, silver, bronze - innovation - integration) will be announced on 29 November during a prestigious ceremony held in Brussels at Indigo Studios. All projects of nominees and the winners will be showed during the ceremony.

A Peers Award will be voted by the attendees of the awards ceremony on 29 November.

The winners will be announced in The Art Newspaper, Form and by E-flux after the ceremony.

Projects submitted by the nominees

Bozar, Brussels, Belgium, Bozar Festival! India, creative team: Bozar communication; Bozar Branding, creative team: Bozar communication & Base Design; Bozar Music-Discovery Subscriptions, creative team: Bozar communication; Casino Luxembourg – Forum d´art contemporain, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ON/OFF, creative team: Graphic designer: Filiep Tacq; Centre national de littérature, Mersch, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Exilland Luxemburg 1933 -1947, creative team: Rose de Claire; Deste Foundation for contemporary art, Athens, Greece, visual identity: stationery and display, creative team: M/M (Paris); Fundaçáo de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Katharina Grosse Exhibition Campaign in Serralves, creative team: Communication office of Fundaçáo de Serralves, Fundación Museo De Los Niños, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Grand Opening Museo De Los Ninos Alto Rosario, creative team: Patricia Tewel / Luciana Geraci; Ivan Mestrovic´ Foundation, Zagreb, Croatia, Ivan Mestrovic Foundation / poster “WAITING”, creative team: Studio International; Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, creative team: Lichtwitz – Büro für Visuelle Kommunikation; Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (Germany), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Corporate Design, creative team: L2M3 Kommunikationsdesign GmbH; Ku(n)st vzw, Ostend , Belgium, 2006 Beaufort Shore Hosts Art, creative team: D´Artagnan – Brugge/Belgium; Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, Campagne pour l'ouverture du nouveau Musée des Arts Décoratifs, creative team: Publicis; Massar, Damascus, Syria, Massar Brand and Visual Identity Programme, creative team: Brand Culture / Cultural Innovations; Max Planck Institute of History of Science, Berlin, Germany, Albert Einstein. Ingenieur des Universums, creative team: Iglhaut + Partner / Regelindis Westphal Grafik-Design; MUDAM, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, "Can't Wait!", Opening Mudam Luxembourg, creative team: Ott + Stein, Oliver Peters, Jean-Christophe Massinon, Mudam Luxembourg; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, creative team: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in cooperation with Thonik, bureau of visual communications, Amsterdam; Museum Documentation Centre, Zagreb, Croatia, The Museum Documentation Centre, creative team: Studio International; Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, What´s New, Pussycat? creative team: Wolff Kommunikation; MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria, "MQ MAN" – CAMPAIGN, creative team: Büro X Design GmbH; Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Museum Victoria Visual Identity System, creative team: Museum Victoria; National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom, National Portrait Gallery - Face of Fashion Exhibition, creative team: Thomas Manss and Company; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, visual identity 2001-2006: "tokyo palace" typeface; samples of usage: publications stationery, creative team: M/M Paris; Pinakothek der Moderne, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Germany, Corporate Design for the Pinakothek der Moderne, creative team: KMS TEAM GmbH; Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture, creative team: 75 B; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom, Rodin, creative team: Hoop Design; Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom, Southbank Centre Corporate Design, creative team: Wolff Olins, Southbank Centre; Tate, London, United Kingdom, Tate Brand, creative team: Wolff Olins; Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle, United Kingdom, The Late Shows , creative team: Tyne & Wear Museums in-House, I like...Museums, creative team: Sumo Design & Tyne & Wear Museums (TWM); Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, Die Schönsten Franzosen kommen aus New York, creative team: MetaDesign AG; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Corporate Design, creative team: L2M3 Kommunikationsdesign GmbH