Alliance Graphique Internationale
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Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is the élite club of the world’s leading graphic artists and designers. Its members (they are about 350 from 27 countries) are collectively responsible for the visual language of global communications.
In 1951 two Swiss and three French graphic artists decided to formalise their relationship into a kind of association. In 1952 the Alliance Graphique Internationale was incorporated in Paris with 65 members. The first AGI show was in Paris in 1955. In 1969 the AGI headquarters moved to Zurich. The most important events of the organisation are the annual AGI Congresses that take place in a different country in each year.