Last week Chloe and I went to Context, AIGA Pittsburgh’s annual exhibition and award night. It was great to see Pittsburgh’s design community gathered in one place—namely SPACE gallery Downtown—to share the fruits of our efforts. I remember earlier years (okay, I’m not that old; it was like 3 years ago) when the featured work was mostly print design and, as a student, my “experimental narrative” project sat meekly in the corner on a laptop with a small handful of other interactive and digital projects.
I’m pleased that the range of work has become increasingly diverse, and this year was no exception. Screen printed posters hung alongside with digital projections, along with shelves of all sorts of design artifacts. I’m also very pleased to announce that both of Deeplocal’s featured pieces—Nike LIVESTRONG Chalkbot, and the 2009 Pittsburgh bike map—received awards of distinction at the show. For me, it’s a nice message of acknowledging both high-tech interactive work and more traditional printed work.