You’ve seen it before. And you’ll see it again. Trends come and go, but good design is timeless. It acknowledges the past, incorporates the human experience as it evolves, and gives us a new way of looking at the world. Design is a process that does not simply move forward in a linear fashion. Rather, design is like a river—meandering between flux and permanence, spilling into pools of time and timelessness, and flowing between the past, present, and future.

Good designers are time travelers.

Design doesn’t sweep problems under the rug—design exists to create positive solutions that lead us to a better place. Good design achieves its intended effect and then opens our minds to what the human experience can be. It starts a conversation between the visible and the invisible.

Good designers are shamans.

Tear down barriers. Let your imagination soar. Design that reflects the past and looks toward the future is poetry. It has soul. How do you breathe new life into the past to create new solutions?

The AIGA BoNE Show 2013 recognizes timeless design solutions that make us rethink existence. The Best of New England transcend space and time to shape our perception. Do you have what it takes? Do you recognize it’s all just a little bit of history repeating?