In the Podcast Series of School of Visual Arts you will find some very interesting lectures by Steven Heller. He discuss about constructivism, poster and book design…
http://design.schoolofvisualarts.edu/weblog/paulrand/
Also available some other guest lectures with Milton Glaiser, Rick Poynor, David Rees…
(Sources: Etapes)
Aims of the Contest
As the organizers of the Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures we constantly refer in our actions to the tradition of the multicultural dialogue that took place in Å?ódź during the times of the city’s magnificence.
We want to emphasize, that our aim is to build the basis for the dialogue now, to give Å?ódź a chance to return to its former splendor. That is why we want new interlocutors to join the dialogue in order to make it more complete, embracing a greater variety of topics.
The competition included this year into the range of the Festival’s events, aims at selecting a work that will promote the ideas of the Festival in Poland and abroad. It is also supposed to encourage people – artists and audience alike – to take an active part in the process of establishing this creative dialogue. The form of an open contest will allow many artists to participate actively in the poster exhibition which will take place in the Festival gallery. The organizers will have the possibility to choose the project best reflecting the voice of people communicating in the language of art. The competition is also a unique event concerning the Festival itself, its ideas, its mission and its accomplishments. To complement of the “multifunctionality” of this venture we will engage the audience into the criticism of the works. We want to give the recipients of the Festival’s events a chance to decide which work best reflects the concepts of the Festival and deserves the Public Distinction Award.
We want the competition to become a prominent part of the Festival, as well as an important event in our country and, with time, also abroad.
We want to collaborate with renowned Polish and foreign poster creators and critics, in order to generate a professional atmosphere for choosing the winner. We want the contest to be attractive not only in terms of the prize but also due to the system of assessment of the jury members, strictly active authors and experts in this area of art.
A selection of 80 handdrawn posters out of 500, specially created by the students of the Rietveld Academy for the 2004 diploma works exposition.
David Lamothe from AREA17 suggested me to talk about this very interesting german designer : Herbert W. Kapitzki
Herbert Kapitzki, a former student of Willi Baumeister, conceived and designed exhibitions for the state industrial inspection board (Landesgewerbeamt) in Stuttgart in the 1950s and the early 1960s. He developed a distinct language of forms modelled on constructive forerunners, and campaigned for the popularisation of functional graphic design. His own groundbreaking work was exemplary in this respect.
When Olt Aicher asked him to teach at the Academy of Design in Ulm, where he remained until the closing of the school in 1968, he already possessed mature creative solutions and precise concepts of modern information design.
The interdisciplinary discussions about actual and future ways of communication of the Stuttgart ‘group 56′ inspired Herbert Kapitzki. He was a pioneer in exploring the visualisation of information through graphic symbols or systems of codes to meet the needs of modern mass communication in times of mobility.
With his pictograms and orientation systems for airports he set international standards for a lingua franca which nowadays seems self-evident to us. Systematic form design remained the central theme of his teaching in Ulm and in Berlin, where he taught at the Academy of Arts from 1970 until his retirement in 1990.
After suffering a long and severe disease, Herbert passed away on Friday 22 April 2005 at the age of 80. He was an AGI member since 1958.
(source : AGI)
Here is some nice pictures of the event.
