Speaker: Henrik Nygren
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: www.henriknygrendesign.se
Background
Henrik Nygren was active in Stockholm design and advertising agencies from 1983-1991, and subsequently launched own company. Henrik Nygren Design mainly deals with analysing the client’s market potential, with strategy in accordance with this potential and the design and production of books, magazines, packaging, corporate identities, advertising campaigns, exhibitions, etc.
Speaker: Christian Altmann
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: www.propeller.se
Case: 3D + 2D, A interdisciplinary approach.
Client: Looft Industries AB
Background
Propeller was founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1995 and is one of Scandinavia’s top design agencies – a highly creative group of product, interaction and graphic designers with an articulated intent to deliver commercial creativity to our clients. This trait, in combination with our teams’ wide experience and interdisciplinary approach, strengthens our clients’ brands by adding value and identifying opportunities. In addition to winning a number of Swedish and international awards, our work directly contributes to proven commercial success.
The Propeller graphic design department focuses on Identity, Print, Packaging, Editorial and Architectural Graphics
Speakers: Dimitris Papazoglou & Dimitris Koliadimas
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Website: www.designersunited.gr
Case: Redesigning “Makedonia” Newspaper
The project took place in Thessaloniki during the four months of May to August 2007. “Makedonia”, one of the most historic Greek newspapers, will be celebrating its 100 years in 2012. Redesigning a newspaper is about redesigning the structure of modern press, not only by terms of form and function, but also by context. This attempt, even though complex and laborious, may be the most fundamental typographical challenge for a typo/graphic designer.
The final outcome depends not only on the systematic methodology that the designer employs, but most importantly on managing the process itself, since interaction with journalists, cooperation with page makers, and training of employees are critical aspects in order to secure the newspaper’s longevity and prosperity.
Client: “Makedonia” Newspaper
Background
“designersunited.gr” is a design group that was founded by acclaimed art directors Dimitris Koliadimas and Dimitris Papazoglou in order to engage visual research and systematic methodology into the design process. Founded in Thessaloniki Greece, and with the addition of George Fassas as Studio Manager in 2006, “designerunited.gr” has successfully completed a variety of demanding projects, both print and screen, by creating a visual language that enables clients to improve and strengthen their visual identity. It remains until this day the only design studio in Greece that has been awarded twice with the “Grand EBGE”, Greece’s top National Award for Design and Illustration.
Speakers: Gediminas Siaulys & Andrius Kirvela
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Website: www.petpunk.com
Case: Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009 (…or how we try to survive somewhere between East & West)
National tourism campaign
Medium: Animated clip
Broadcast area: International
Topics:
1. East vs West experiences and influences. Local culture background based unique style research.
2. Case study “Vilnius 2009”.
3. Quick overview of few other PetPunk’s projects, that deals with modern approach to national identity.
Client: Public establishment “Vilnius European Capital Of Culture 2009”
Background
PetPunk is two freelance artist’s studio, based in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2005, Andrius Kirvela and Gediminas Siaulys quit their jobs and joined their creative forces to work freely with personal commercial and artistic projects. At present time studio works basically in fields of design, animation and motion graphics.
Lithuania, after being in Soviet Union and forced with culture from east (Russia), gained it’s independence in 1991 and fully opened and was overflowed with modern culture from the west. In 2004 Lithuania became EU member.
Andrius and Gediminas grew up with some interesting experience of two those radically different worlds and tries to deal with it in their authentic, unique artistic style and approach.
Worked with brands like: Sprite, MTV, Vodafone, SEB Bank.
Works published in “Print”, “.Net”, “DIGIT”, “Etapes”, “Stash” magazines and “Young European Graphic Designers”, ” 100@360 Graphic design’s new global generation” books.
Screenings at: “PSST!2” (USA) and “onedotzero 10” (UK).
Speakers: Pascal Béjean & Frédéric Bortolotti
Location: Paris, France
Website: www.labomatic.org
Client: Theatre National de la Colline
Background
The group’s five member are all coming from different backgrounds (graphic design, fashion, architecture, fine arts, and computer) and skills. Their work concerns mainly projects from the cultural sector (such as theatres, museums, art galleries, the music industry, publishing houses etc.).
Speaker: Richard van der Laken
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Websites: www.volkskrant.nl/gorilla, www.designpolitie.nl
Case: De Volkskrant
Since october 2006 De designpolitie maintain a visual column on the front page of De Volkskrant, one of Hollands main newspapers. Together with Lesley Moore and Herman van Bostelen they are the collective ‘Gorilla’. In words and images they react on the news of the day.
They say:”For us this is a great opportunity to ventilate our views on politics, the environment and all those subjects you worry about, but don’t know what to do with”.
Gorilla is awarded with an the ED-Award Jury Prize , an ADCN lamp, a Dutch Design Award and a Reddot Design award in 2007.
Client: De Volkskrant, one of Hollands main newspapers
Background
De Designpolitie is a graphic design agency, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. De Designpolitie belongs to the “Dutch design” family. Its members were brought up in the Dutch design culture and rich tradition of Dutch art, design and tolerance. In keeping with these traditions, De Designpolitie follows simple but ruthless methods. Their working process often ends in a stripped image which is a critical but always communicative solution.
De Designpolitie works for various small and big clients in the non-profit and commercial sectors. De Designpolitie also initiates exhibitions, festivals, books, lectures and workshops. De Designpolitie consists of a small group of ambitious and talented creatives and was founded by Richard van der Laken and Pepijn Zurburg.
Speaker: Letizia Abbate
Location: Milano, Italy
Website: www.46xy.it
Case: Domus vs Abitare. Make a design magazine
Domus and Abitare are two historical design magazines, famous all around the world. We had the chance to project both of them and to follow their art direction. With our case we want compare the two experiences and explain how, in our opinion, is possible to project a design magazine today, working on the shape, on the typography and on the graphics but, most of all, on the concept of “multiverse” medium. That is the non-neutrality of the container, until the extreme of designing an issue without word.
Clients: Editoriale Domus, Abitare Segesta/RCS
Background
46xy was founded in 1996 and bases its skills on the twenty-years experience of the partners. It develops visual communication projects with a work area connected to the different necessities of companies and institutions.
46xy’s services and activities consist in three specific and interconnected areas: designing, consulting and strategy, in accordance with an integrated approach and with the convergence of the different skills present in the company; all this with flexibility and familiarity in/with cultural, technical, managerial and communication problems.
46xy’s activities are various: art direction, advertising, corporate and brand image, exhibit design, editorial design.
Speaker: Andrew Stevens, founder/director
Case: Big client/small client/same client
The name of the Restaurant is Oki-Nami (meaning Big Wave). They created the identity for this restaurant in 1993. It was one of our first ‘big jobs’ in that they were involved in defining an attitude to the whole environment – something they had not had the opportunity to to before.
They do this a lot now, and recently they have been asked to rework the identity for the upcoming relocation of the restaurant. This is quite a small job for them now, but one they still have a strong attachment to. Andy Stevens would like to discuss how they have done things differently, or the same, 15 years later.
Location: London, UK
Website: www.graphicthoughtfacility.com
Background
Graphic Thought Facility is a London-based design consultancy. They create print and digital graphics, products and environments for businesses, arts institutions and other organisations around the world. Their design agenda is simple: to craft effective, creative solutions that address commercial needs. Often innovative and sometimes unconventional, their proposals are always workable, rational and, most importantly, appropriate.
Speaker: Ivana Vucic and Orsat Frankovic, founders
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Website: www.laboratorium.hr
Case: Packaging ego
Or how to dig identity for creative clients
How to work for artists? How to design with materials that already has strong visual identity? Should we sometimes tame our personal creative drives?
It includes different experiences working for/with creative clients (within fine arts, performing arts, architects etc.) or cultural institutions (theatres, museums, festivals, publishers etc.).
Background
Laboratorium is a design studio, founded in 2001 by Ivana Vucic and Orsat Frankovic – mainly engaged in all sorts of graphic design projects and photography (or in wider terms – visual communications). Laboratorium received numerous awards* and have been published continuously.
*HOW International Design Awards, Red Dot, IF, Art Directors Club, London International Awards, ED-Awards …
Speaker: Ole Lund, founder
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Website: www.goldstudio.dk
Case: Art vs. Design
Background
GOLD is a multidisciplinary creative studio with primary focus on design, communications and art. GOLD is represented in Copenhagen, Denmark (GOLDSTUDIO-CPH) and New York, USA (GOLDSTUDIO-NYC).
GOLD is composed of a spectrum of competencies and individuals that synergise to create breadth and diversity. GOLD operates according to the motto “small is beautiful” and takes pride in developing unique and powerful solutions in which top-flight craftsmanship always comes first. GOLD constantly strives to seek new limits and obtain knowledge from other professions/competencies in order to invigorate its solutions and the future growth of the agency. Ole Lund is both the GOLD creative director as well as its key player.
GOLD’s broad portfolio is composed of creative solutions including retail client visual identity, set and stage design for a variety of cultural events, development of luxury brand identity, fashion house promotion, art direction and magazine development, staging cultural events, and the development of film projects.
The GOLD client list features a wide selection of major international brands such as Sony Ericsson, Levi’s, Adidas, Kvadrat, Magasin, Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhagen International Ballet, McKinsey & Company and the Royal Danish Theatre.
Speaker: David Ellis
Location: UK
Website: www.whynotassociates.com
Case: A Flock of Words
A 300 metre typographic walkway.
Part of the regeneration of a northern English coastal town.
Client: Morecambe City Council
Background
For nearly two decades, Why Not Associates has been creating innovative work for clients large and small. Our team works in many different media on many types of projects, including corporate identity, digital design, motion graphics and television commercial direction, editorial design, environmental design, publishing, and public art.
Speaker: Stas Zhitsky (or better: Jitzky), Co-owner
Location: Moscow, Russia
Website: www.openconcepts.info
Case: RICH juice
Design that works.
Range of packages.
Short story of creating the brand.
Client: Multon company (Russia).
Background
OPEN! Design&Concepts is a small but pretentious company. They enjoy working in any creative space which includes packaging design, architecture, corporate identity, watch making, interiors and jewellery.
With focus on fun and function, this duet of two main definitions makes the world of real design go around, go ahead and go in the right direction to better and more joyful life!
Speaker: Halvor Bodin
Location: Oslo, Norway
Website: www.superlow.com
Case
Black Low – The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair. A banned art exhibition and other transgressions in art spaces.
Presentation of collaboration on various projects with artist Bjarne Melgaard 2002–2007. One of the most recent projects to be presented will be an Extreme Metal kash® Visa credit card.
Client: Contemporary artist Bjarne Melgaard
Background
Halvor Bodin is a Norwegian independent graphic designer and visual artist. He runs the practice Superlow, in the studio Oslo Collective. Bodin is known for working with everything from Black Metal bands such as Satyricon/Darkthrone via corporate identities to church altar pieces, without any irony or disrespect. He writes regularily for the Norwegian design magazine Snitt.
He is one of the most highly awarded graphic designers in Norway the last decade. The artist book Hallo Maybe was awarded Book of the Year 2006 by the Norwegian National Library/Grafill.
International work includes opening titles for the feature film Prozac Nation, idents for ChannelOne News, credit cards for IKANO Group (IKEAs sister company), artworks for the Swiss security systems manifacturer Kaba Ltd, fonts for FUSE 17 (under the project name Function), artist book for Nick Relph and Oliver Payne, selected designer for W139 Gallery in Amsterdam 2005, the award-winning Norwegian Adbusters Magazine, album covers for Anja Garbarek (with Alexei Tylevich), Earth/Kurt Cobain, Apoptygma Berzerk and Turbonegro.
Speaker: Yiannis Haralambopoulos
Co-founder
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Website: www.beetroot.gr
Case: The visual identity of an architectural exhibition
An analysis of the process followed to reach the final outcome. Issues concerning the brief, the big scale and the third dimension, the different media, the budget, the collaboration with architects, the co-ordination and management among different countries, feedback and experience. Print, video, motion graphics and web put together to bring out the character and the feeling of each event
Client: Cyprus Architects Association | Thessaloniki Architects Association
Background
Beetroot was founded in 2000, in Thessaloniki, Greece by Liakos Vagelis, Nikou Alexis, and Haralambopoulos Yiannis. Today Beetroot counts 9 employees and is involved with projects of corporate and brand and identity, ad campaigns (print+TV promoting a design based approach), new media, motion graphics, filming and video. Among its awards is the Grand EBGE 2006 in Greece, and a silver finalist in EPICA European creative awards 2004
Speaker: Manuel Krebs
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Website: www.norm.to
Case: Money Making
In March 2005 the Swiss National Bank (SNB) launched a competition for the design of the new Swiss money. SNB invited 12 design studios (incl. Norm) to compete during six months until October 2005. Norm won the first prize.
In the next phase SNB invited the top three studios for a second competition. This included further development of the whole series of banknotes (10–1000) and printing of one of the notes (50). The second competition lasted from January 2006 until January 2007.
The presentation will be about those 2 years of the project.
Background
Co-founded by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs, NORM is a Zurich-based graphics team which has defined and now executes an iconoclastic, but intellectually rigorous approach to typography and imagery both for experimental work and commercial projects such as the typography for Cologne Airport.
Speaker: Björn Kusoffsky
Creative Director/Founder
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: www.stockholmdesignlab.se
Case: SAS
Comprehensive identity project. From Aircraft livery to lounges, uniforms and wet wipes.
Client: SAS-Scandinavian Airlines
Background
Stockholm Design Lab has been working on the entire corporate identities of companies and institutions for ten years. Airlines, department stores, museums… Like us, our clients have tended to regard identity as a total experience rather than a matter of positioning the logo on the surface. However, this big-picture view has not stopped us from working on the expression of isolated instances such as torch batteries, wet-wipes and TV title sequences.
We don’t differentiate between design, architecture, interiors, product development, advertisements, film and other forms of communication. The perception of a brand is dependent on its slightest components.
Speaker: Mr. Darek Komorek
Location: Poland
Case: From deconstruction to reconstruction.
Letters in my graphic design. Works designed, redesigned and undesigned by Darek Komorek.
Client: Different clients; mostly cultural institutions
Speaker: Helena Ichbiah
Location: France
Website: www.ichetkar.com
Case: Condesa df
Condesa df is a hotel located in central Mexico city. It is an example of a successful collaboration between an architect-designer, India Mahdavi, and a graphic design team, Ich&Kar. Ich&Kar completely “dived” into this project creating the entire range of tools of communication: from letterings of doors and match boxes, up to the internet site.
Client: Condesa df
Background
Ich&Kar (or Ichetkar) like to define themselves as image designers. The range of their activities is quite exceptional, from film-making to photography and graphic composition.
They complete with one another in terms of imagination and graphic ideas. If asked to describe the unifying thread in their work for fashion, advertising and music sectors, one might say they create “new worlds”.
Speaker: Michel de Boer
Creative Director
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Website: www.studiodumbar.nl
Case: Maintaining brand leadership in a dynamic market; the design case of KPN
Client: KPN, multi channel company (telecoms, internet, television)
Background
Studio Dumbar is an established design agency with over twenty years of experience in corporate and brand identity. Studio Dumbar has worked for many clients around the world on projects that require international implementation.
Studio Dumbar’s port folio includes prestigious projects such as for Aegon, Shell, TNT Post Group, Czech Telecom, Nike, Dresdner Bank, Danish Post, Allianz, AT&T – Unisource, Apple Computer, Crédit Lyonnais, European Central Bank and Randstad International.
Established by Gert Dumbar in 1977, the agency, which is now headed by Creative Director Michel de Boer and Strategy Director Tom Dorrestein, currently employs a team of thirty staff.
Within Studio Dumbar Michel de Boer is fully responsible for the creative output. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in corporate identity, brand identity and design.
Speaker: Cristiano Bottino
Partner
Location: Milan, Italy
Website: www.studiofmmilano.it
Case: The shape of the significance
Client: MI – Permanent Exposition of the “made in italy” and Italian Design
Background
Founded in 1996 by Barbara Forni and Sergio Menichelli and joined by Cristiano Bottino in 1999, specializes in graphic design, specifically art direction, corporate identity, book, exhibit/installation design and web design.
Based in Milan, it counts on a team of young and experienced graphic designers and external collaborators such as photographers, copywriters, adv agencies and technical supports for special multimedia projects involving databases and programming.
Studio FM Milano is very much involved in teaching activities in different schools in Milan (such as Politecnico di Milano, Master alla Scuola Politecnica di Design di Milano, Naba Art and Design Academy).
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