Aiap Women in Design Award (AWDA). Short History and Perspectives

A report on the Aiap Women in Design Award (AWDA) organized by Aiap. The biennial award organized by Aiap (the Italian Association of Visual Communication Design) intends to investigate the languages, poetics and different approaches to graphic design and explore the conditions in which women designers work. Not to examine a protected area or search for peculiarities characterizing women’s design methodology. Nevertheless, to act as a place whence to observe a partly hidden dimension, to use single projects to bring to light the wide-ranging, diverse world of women communication designers. The Award intends to emphasize the role that women graphic designers have or had in the professional and educational areas, both in present times and in the past, to identify role-models.