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Acorde & Co. Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Elogio de la Sombra de Buenos Aires Exhibition and Identity in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
Acorde & Co. recognized for cultural heritage and culture industry design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 27, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ Elogio de la Sombra de Buenos Aires Exhibition and Identity by Acorde & Co. has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Elogio de la Sombra de Buenos Aires Exhibition and Identity
Elogio de la Sombra de Buenos Aires is a site specific exhibition and visual identity created for the Centro Cultural Borges. The exhibition presents twelve miniature scenes of daily life in downtown Buenos Aires, inspired by a poem by Jorge Luis Borges. Paper cutouts are placed inside micro perforated cylindrical capsules that light them and project their shadows. The installation occupies five shop windows. Calligraphic symbols from the institutional archive were digitized for titles, labels and printed materials. An interactive microsite is reached through a code on the windows.
About Acorde & Co.
Working as a collective of graphic, industrial, and textile designers, animators, carpenters, and illustrators. All of them are based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and seeking projects worldwide, aiming to create unforgettable experiences across all disciplines.
Award Record
With this recognition, Acorde & Co. is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award
The A' Cultural Heritage Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs that preserve, protect, and promote cultural heritage. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to cultural heritage designers, culture industry professionals, cultural heritage specialists and museum designers from all countries. Entries typically include cultural heritage projects, cultural conversation, preservation and restoration and protection projects. Awarded cultural heritage designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/cultural-heritage
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/182560
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/182560
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!182560
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/368976
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.acorde.com.ar/en-elogio
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Elogio de la Sombra de Buenos Aires Exhibition and Identity
- Function
- Exhibition and Identity
- Category
- Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Social Impact
- Colors
- Light Gray, Silver, Gray, Dark Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Acorde & Co.
- Country
- Argentina
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #182560
Credits
- Image Credits
- Creator Acorde & Co., Elogio: essence, 2024.; Creator Acorde & Co., Elogio: location, 2024.; Creator Acorde & Co., Elogio: details, 2024.; Creator Acorde & Co., Elogio: visitors, 2024.; Creator Acorde & Co., Elogio: craftsmanship, 2024.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The creation of a sensitive and minimalist artwork and design, emphasizing the installation's presence in the space, under the noise and visual pollution conditions typical of the downtown area, and especially the entrance areas to the Galerias Pacifico shopping center, where the Centro Cultural Borges is located.
- Inspiration
- The exhibition is a catalog of everyday scenes, similar to those described by Jorge Luis Borges in the poem "Buenos Aires" (Elogio de la Sombra, Emece, 1969). These aspects, along with others such as the author's manuscripts and the downtown Buenos Aires scene, influenced the formal and conceptual decisions of the graphic system.
- Research
- In the context of the Centro Cultural Borges new season during the first quarter of 2024, the site-specific exhibition "Elogio de la Sombra de Buenos Aires" was programmed in the historic center of Buenos Aires. The exhibition consists of twelve miniature models of typical scenes and daily life in downtown Buenos Aires. The initial stage of the project involved research into the cultural center's heritage collection, which includes numerous documents and manuscripts by the author. Based on these, a digitization process was developed for his personal handwriting, as well as for various stationery items and historical documents.
- Challenge
- The main challenge was to carefully consider the visual attributes in relation to the work and imagery of Jorge Luis Borges, and more specifically, his poetry connected to the city.
- Realization and Technology
- These scenes are made from paper cutouts inside micro-perforated cylindrical capsules which illuminates them by projecting their shadows. The project included graphic production and the preparation of original artwork, the creation of layouts, maps, and assembly diagrams, and the installation of graphic works for application by the various teams. It also involved the reinterpretation, digitization, and implementation of calligraphic symbols obtained from the institutional archive for the composition of labels, titles, curatorial texts, and promotional materials for the exhibition.
- Operation and Interaction
- The project focuses on the windows of the Centro Cultural Borges, where the installation is located. It aims to capture the attention of passersby in downtown Buenos Aires, visually narrating a poem by Jorge Luis Borges through the contrast with the city. The installation is complemented by an interactive microsite, accessible via QR code integrated into the windows. On this site, visitors can learn about the project and create their own interpretations of the Buenos Aires landscape, much like Borges in his eponymous poem.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was carried out in Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires between January and April 2024 and was exhibited at the Centro Cultural Borges until June 2024.
- Specifications
- 1. Layout of the art installation in five shop windows in a public space. a. Implementation of institutional identity elements. b. Implementation of the identity developed for the exhibition. c. Monitoring and control during the installation of the artwork. 2. Communication. a. Pre-opening. i. Invitations and digital content for social media. ii. Posters and brochures for the cultural center's programming. iii. Promotional stationery. b. Opening and promotion. i. Flyers and digital content for social media. ii. Interactive microsite linked to the shop windows.
- Keywords
- Cultural Heritage, Culture, World Literature, Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires, Artistic Space, Artwork, Exhibition, Identity, Design
