Exhibition the only Canadian finalist in the international competition
This month, the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) awarded the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) a 2010 Jury Award for the design of the popular exhibition Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World, on display in the Museum’s Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall from June 2009 to January 2010.
Winners of the 2010 awards were chosen from a field of 430 entries. The ROM exhibition, designed by the Museum’s Exhibits and Design Department over a 10-month period, was the only Canadian finalist in the international competition. The exhibition employed a variety of materials and texture to evoke the sand and stone landscape where the scrolls originated. The multi-disciplinary jury recognized the beautiful use of materials, proportion and colour to convey a message.
“The ROM strives to combine innovative graphic and architectural design with creative and concise communication elements to ensure an exceptional museum experience for our visitors,” said Dave Hollands, Head of Design at the ROM. “We are extremely pleased to be recognized by the SEGD, an international organization which continues to raise the standards in this important design discipline.”
The SEGD design awards illustrate the pan-disciplinary nature of visual communications in the built environment and were awarded on June 3, 2010 in Washington D.C. For more information on the award, visit the SEGD news release online.
Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World was the most successful exhibition displayed at the ROM in the nine years since Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, with over 300,000 visited the exhibition during its Toronto engagement.