3/31/2007
3/30/2007
FONS HICKMANN - TOUCH ME THERE
This Book is the missing link between art, design and theory. Within 472 pages in 8 colors printed Fons Hickmann introduces a world of Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration and Rock ’n’ Roll. The result is intelligent design that is conceptual and political, always transcending the limits of its content. That’s why the studio Fons Hickmann m23 is one of the most award-winning teams in the world.
"What are you looking for?
The transgression of limits in all respects, the critical discussion of up-to-date topics from different perspectives as well as the calling into question of medial and social conventions and the developement of new visual codes are essential aspects of the widely spread course of lectures in the class for graphic design, Prof. Fons Hickmann."
3/25/2007
adbusters.org
ABOUT ADBUSTERS
THE MEDIA FOUNDATION
We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
To this end, Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine, operates this website and offers its creative services through PowerShift, our advocacy advertising agency.
FIRST THINGS FIRST 1964
Written and proclaimed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on an evening
in December 1963, the manifesto was published in January 1964.
FIRST THINGS FIRST 2000 [A Graphic Designers Manifesto]
We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it.
Encouraged in this direction, designers then apply their skill and imagination to sell dog biscuits, designer coffee, diamonds, detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles. Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers do. This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession’s time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.
Many of us have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this view of design. Designers who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.
There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing
campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.
We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.
In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed the original call for our skills to be put to worthwhile use. With the explosive growth of global commercial culture, their message has only grown more
urgent. Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart.
In THE EAST/WEST Propaganda Project
OBEY, WK Interact and Agnes B
The EAST/ WEST Propaganda Project, Tokyo
In THE EAST/WEST Propaganda Project, Agnes B brings together for the first time two preeminent figures of the international street art scene for a confrontation of their respective graphic spheres. Based on the principal of emulation and collaboration, this project initiates a visual dialogue between Shepard Fairey (OBEY GIANT) and WK Interact, two artists working in divergent yet surprisingly complementary styles. The artists will produce original works for the show both individually and collectively. The exhibition will be inaugurated at the Tokyo Wonder Site Art Center in Tokyo from March 22nd until April 22nd and then traveling to the Galerie Du Jour Agnes B in Paris from May 16th until June 30th
3/23/2007
Made With Fontfont, Type for independent minds
“Made with FontFont”, edited by FontShop co-founder Erik Spiekermann and Dutch writer-designer Jan Middendorp, showcases the history and influence of the award-winning foundry. The book is replete with real-world examples of FontFonts in use, from high-profile ad campaigns for big automakers and fast food giants to iconic poster designs for the Tyson/Tubbs heavyweight battle in Tokyo and New York’s Shakespeare in the Park.
3/21/2007
Manuel Raeder, works
Manuel Raeder (1977) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the London College of Printing and has completed a post-graduate at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht. His main focus lies in close collaborations with artists, designers, curators, theorists and musicians. His work has a wide range of formats from exhibitions, publications, type design to furniture design. Manuel has held workshops at the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris and the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg.
3/20/2007
Non-Format Book
Non-Format is a London-based design studio comprised of the Norwegian Kjell Ekhorn and the Brit Jon Forss. This creative team has built a formidable international reputation with exceptional graphic design and illustrations that are strikingly innovative and fresh yet have a timelessness that goes beyond fleeting style trends.
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Remastered, Fifty-Five Contemporary Artists Revisit Old Masters
In this book, a new generation of artists and designers defining today’s visual deconstruct iconic masterpieces by pre-eminent masters from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance through to the 20th century and re-contextualize them to contemporary culture. “We have been so extensively exposed to these images that we automatically assign them the mythical status of masterpieces, but rarely look to understand what makes them so unique” says Curator Sebastien Agneessens.
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3/18/2007
Wolfgang Weingart Exhibition, Poland
Cieszyn
Slaski Zamek Sztuki i Przedsiebiorczosci
March 20 - April 15, 2007
Opening March 20, 17:00
Katowice
Biblioteka Slaska
April 17 - May 7, 2007
Talk May 7, 17:00
3/15/2007
Museum of Design Zurich, Posters for sale, CHF 25.-
Norm: Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher: Siebdruck
Trix Barmettler, Miriam+me : Leistungspreis 2003 der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich : Offset
MMCM Casper Mangold : Ladislav Sutnar. Design in action : Siebdruck
Martin Woodtli : play : Siebdruck
Martin Woodtli : Trickraum : Siebdruck
Bonbon : This Side Up - Konstantin Grcic : Siebdruck
3/12/2007
3/11/2007
Subjective Atlas of the European Union
Imaging the EU in one image is a difficult task. The EU is a set of agreements of a growing union. This political concept is at a far distance of the citizens themselves. If we can't relate to it, we won't be able to influence it either.
Date: 13—31 oct. 2004 workshop
Concept: Annelys de Vet
On invitation of: Kristjan Mändmaa (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Contributions: Students Graphic Design of the ‘Estonian Academy, of Arts’
3/09/2007
Europe 2020 /link/
Winner: Alenka Lalić
Author's text: The tailor takes his scissors and carefully cuts the fabric... What is Europe going to look like in 2020? Are its borders going to be wider or narrower? Is it going to be "tailor-made" to suit the man in the street or the politicians? It remains to be seen. In 2020.
2nd prize: Angie Rattay
Author's text: In my poster I show the shapes of the 25 EU-countries. Through overlapping them I want to show that the goal of the EU should be to find the smallest common denominator, the mutualities of all countries (marked with the stars in my poster), without influencing the characteristics of different countries. In the poster the shapes of the countries stand for the differences of them. Each country should have the possibility to keep their characteristics, their culture, their features during being part of Europe. With overlapping the blue transparent country shapes we get a space in the middle of my poster, which results in the blue colour of the EU-flag.
3rd prize: Nebojša Uglješić, Marko Čižmešinkin
Author's text: The idea of this poster is to show EU today in a form of a circle in which stars are standing and facing each other. This symbolizes EU today; countries are more occupied with themselves and with the problems within the Union. In the same time, they are closed from the outside. The second circle in which stars are still standing in the circle, but facing outwards, represents EU in the future; more open and friendly to other countries and the rest of the world.
Aleksandra Domanovic, NewMe, Diploma 2006, Wien /video link/
The internationally known musician and extrovert live performer, Jamie Lidell, made available his title „New Me“ for her diploma work. The production reacts in contrast to fast cut music videos with a collage of static settings. The conceptual choreography does not only visualise the content of the song but also the specific style of the musician who consciously evades categorisation by continuous switching between various musical directions.
3/08/2007
100 Years of Magazine Covers, design: Research Studios
British book publishers, Black Dog Publishing approached RS to art direct a book celebrating 100 Years of Magazine Covers written by Steve Taylor, who worked with Neville on both The Face and Arena magazines.
3/07/2007
We Love Magazines, Die Gestalten Verlag
We Love Magazines explores magazines and magazine culture with groundbreaking visuals and editorial contributions from around the world. The book features in-depth analysis of various aspects of magazine creation while, as the title reflects, celebrating with genuine pleasure a medium that continues to entertain, inform and surprise.
3/06/2007
3/04/2007
SPD 41th publication design annual 2006
The Society of Publiccation Desiners 41th Publication Design Annual(SPD)
Rockport Publishers; 39Rev Ed edition
3/02/2007
Typotecture: Typography as Architectural Imagery
The catalogue for Typotecture: Typography as Architectural Imagery, an exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, 2000
3/01/2007
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