News: One Design Honored in the AIGA 365 A Year in Design Competition
CHICAGO, September 3, 2024 — It’s an immense honor to announce that our branding system for Flagship Pioneering’s Montai Therapeutics has been recognized by AIGA as part of their prestigious 365: A Year in Design competition.
365: A Year in Design presents a 360-degree view of design over 365 days. The competition celebrates designers, design teams, and their clients for effectively working together to design creative solutions for challenges presented by businesses and organizations. The competition recognizes excellence and represents innovation across all categories of communication design.
A jury selected 54 winners from over 500 entries submitted from 26 countries around the globe.
The Montai Therapeutics brand
Montai Therapeutics (previously Montai Health) is a biotech company—founded by Flagship Pioneering—with a mission to “Unlock the power of nature with digital technologies to treat and preempt chronic disease.”
Our dynamic, modular identity system borrows from the visual language of chemical bond diagrams, symbolizing the infinite chemical possibilities afforded by their platform. Vintage cyanotype textures emphasize Montai’s exclusive use of safe, organic compounds.
ABOUT THE COMPETITION
AIGA’s 365: A Year in Design is a famed annual competition that celebrates the passion, hard work, and dedication of today’s design community. Taking a 360-degree view of design over the past year, AIGA recognizes excellence and innovation across all categories of communication design, from print to web; in physical and virtual forms.
With 506 entries from more than 26 countries around the globe, including the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Mexico, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Japan, United Kingdom, and more, this year’s jurors selected 54 entries that represent excellence in design.
This year’s jury, chaired by Abbott Miller (Pentagram), included a panel of design luminaries:
Abbott Miller (Juror Chair) / Partner, Pentagram
Dan Vlahos / Design Leader and Educator, Dan Vlahos Design
Heather-Mariah Dixon / Partner, Creative Director, Overeasy
Jarrett Fuller / Partner, Assistant Professor of Graphic and Experience Design, North Carolina State University College of Design
Lucille Tenazas / Henry Wolf Professor of Communication Design, Parsons School of Design
Anna Kulachek / Art Director, Graphic Designer, KULACHEK
Check out a gallery of this year’s 365: A Year in Design winners here.
To learn more about the competition, read AIGA’s press release.
Read more about this year’s jurors here.
ABOUT AIGA
AIGA brings design to the world, and the world to designers.
As the profession’s oldest and largest professional membership organization for design—with more than 70 chapters and more than 15,000 members—they advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force.