About

AIGA Miami History

In 1914 at the National Arts Club in New York City, 40 people met and passed a resolution authorizing a committee to draft a constitution and bylaws for a new organization named the American Institute of Graphic Arts and established "as a source of pleasure and intellectual profit" to its members.
    
Sixty-two years later in 1986 South Florida initiated its own chapter. It took some time to process the national paperwork and become incorporated in 1987. Some members of the original founding group were: Lee Warfield, Cynthia Haanegraf, Geoffrey van de Woerstyne, Jacques Auger, Claudia Auger, Katharina Drexel, Terry Stone, William Armenteros, Danny Ramirez. The early group received a lot of support from H&D Graphics (Bob Haff, Mike Daugherty, Karen Daugherty & Joanie Skipp) and Supertype (Livy Shephard). Many other important sponsors have helped us grow our programming and influence in the South Florida Design community.
    
AIGA Miami continues to be maintained by an all-volunteer board of dedicated members of the design community. Membership has grown quite a bit from the original core group; however we are still a small chapter in comparison to other metro areas of a similar size.

Past Presidents:

2006-2007
Yasmine Samimy
Robert Meireles

2004-2005
Alicia Bellini Sobchak
Stephanie Cunningham

2002-2004
Annette M. Piskel

2000-2002
Jonathan Gouthier

1998-2000
Maggy Cuesta

1997-1998
Robin Rosenbaum

1995-1997
Tom Weinkle

1991-1993
Terry Stone

1989-1991
Cynthia Haanegraf

1986-1988
Lee Warlfield

Past AIGA Miami Fellow Award Winners

2000
Jacques Auger

2002
Joel Fuller

2004
Maggy Cuesta