This workshop originates from a perceived dearth of coherent direction within contemporary Graphic Design as a discipline. Where movements such as Futurism, Modernism, Postmodernism once defined the arts we now have no readily discernible ideologies within design to follow. We participate in the maelstrom of the internet and its myriad communities, where ideas can change from moment to moment and groups form and disperse within a matter of days. Neoliberalised and networked capitalism has atomised the practitioners of the discipline further and further, and as such, the debate surrounding ‘the state’ of graphic design has been rendered ever more in flux. Manifestos and writing concerning the condition and purpose of graphic design are rare and perhaps increasingly futile; outdated before they are even published. With this in mind, what does it now mean to be a critical practitioner? Critical of what? Without defining the terrain upon which you stand adopting a solid stance becomes increasingly difficult and traditional fixed positions of design are exposed as more and more lacking.
Despite this perceived ‘lack’, graphic design continues to somehow progress. Vitrines of design can be found everywhere online, showcasing images of work removed from their original context. Endless streams of flattened content lost in an ever-shifting mass. Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook. All of these play out similar roles and it is on these platforms that visual trends are primarily developed, disseminated and dispersed. Are these the new movements? Small, but many, agile in their fragility.
This workshop mines Tumblr as one such repository and dissects its contents. We aim to take on the absurd task of reading into and over-intellectualising graphic design trends in the hopes of mapping a territory. Discussion will drive this section as we pluralise popular graphic forms. Following this, we will attempt an inversion of this process by mapping both current and ‘dead’ or inert trends to contemporary contexts in a bid to examine if trends can be used as a plural set of heuristic responses. We will eschew ‘originality’, whatever that may now mean, and replace it with ideas of networked commonalities.
Post Eady is a collective formed after graduating from the Royal College of Art as a follow up to the graphic design forum named ‘Eady Forum’.
It is intended as a space for workshop creation and critical discussion around graphic design.
The current members are Joana Pestana, Max Ryan & Vilja Achté.
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The city of Porto is considered by many as Portugal’s design capital.
Among others, it is the home of a studio that has won the title of “European Design Agency of the year” and another that has won an “ED-Awards Best of Show”.
To a certain extend, the City (municipality) of Porto is a major contributor.
By assigning work, relative to the identity of its various services and institutions, to a number of locally based studios, it has without a doubt helped a lot towards this end.
The specific exhibition is going to showcase some of this work.
Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport or simply Porto Airport is an international airport located just eleven km away from Porto’s city centre.
The airport is currently the second-busiest in the country, based on aircraft operations; and the second-busiest in passengers, based on Aeroportos de Portugal traffic statistics.
The airport is a base for easyJet, Ryanair, TAP Portugal and its subsidiary TAP Express.
Two Pages project invites graphic designers and illustrators from around Europe to explore Porto’s visual language and urban culture. The participants will be asked to exchange information and experiences in relation to Porto and discuss the city’s visual structure, influences and identity. Based on the concept of Two Pages, this workshop will focus on visual interpretations and spontaneous mark making.
The workshop will be run by Two Pages team: Konstantinos Trichas (designer) and Dionysis Livanis (designer and visual artist).
The participation to the workshop is free but booking is essential.
Apart from your design materials (pens, tapes, sketchbook, etc), please bring with you an object that best represents Porto.
Date:
25 May 2017
Time:
12–4pm
Place:
Silo Auto, 180 Rua de Guedes de Azevedo, 4000-111 Porto, Portugal
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Konstantinos Trichas is a designer based in London. His work is both playful and conceptual, focused on the creative process and engagement with the audience. His practice expands from design for print to the creation of objects and installation of three dimensional experiences.
Konstantinos graduated from MA Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art and has worked in several design, branding and advertising agencies. His work has won prizes at the European Design Awards and the Greek Design and Illustration Awards and has been exhibited in London, Berlin, Athens and Barcelona. Konstantinos has led and organised workshops in Germany, Greece, South Korea and England. He is the co-organiser of Ten Images for Ithaca and in 2012 he initiated Two Pages, a collection of nomadic sketchbooks which, so far, have traveled in more than 20 countries.
Dionysis Livanis is a graphic designer and visual artist with 15 years experience in the UK, Greece and Spain.
His work has been awarded with Golden, Silver and Bronze Prizes at the European Design Awards. He has contributed to international publications such as Eye Magazine, 365Typo, Neshan and +Design. Dionysis has led workshops and given lectures on graphic design and branding in Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Beirut and Istanbul. He founded Ten Images for Ithaca in 2002 for which he has been organising workshops, exhibitions and design competitions. Dionysis’ art practice includes performance, interventions, photography, video and mark making. Through individual and collaborative projects he raises questions around power and control between the artist, the subject and the audience. He holds an MA in Typo/Graphic studies and an MA in Fine Art Photography.
Two Pages Exhibition
23–28 May 2017
Silo Auto, Porto
As part of this year’s European Design Awards Festival held in the city of Porto, Two Pages will present a selection of works from designers, illustrators, and artists who have participated in the 15 completed sketchbooks of the project. More than 450 artists have already contributed to the project from locations such as New York, London, Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Santiago de Chile and Porto to name but a few. The exhibition will showcase a selection of 112 spreads covering different approaches to responsive mark-making with illustration, photography, and design.
As part of the exhibition, Konstantinos Trichas and Dionysis Livanis will lead a workshop exploring the visual language and urban culture of Porto, on Thursday 25 May, at 12pm.
Silo Auto
7th floor
180 Rua de Guedes de Azevedo
4000-111 Porto
Opening: Thursday 25 May: 6.30–8:30pm
Opening Hours
Tuesday 23 May: 4–7pm
Wednesday 24 – Sunday 28 May: 12–7pm
ABOUT TWO PAGES
Two Pages is a collection of sketchbooks that started in 2012. Since then it has brought together more than 450 artists from Europe, Asia, and America. Graphic designers, illustrators, and visual artists depict their ideas within the pages of the sketchbooks and build an international chain of creative people.
The project has been graced by established artists such as Niklaus Troxler, Ahn Sang-Soo, R2, Christoph Niemann, Jean Jullien and Olimpia Zagnoli. Students and emerging artists have also participated allowing the project to record fresh ideas and trends that will shape visual communication in the coming years.
The project was initiated by Konstantinos Trichas, a London-based designer.
Photo: Filipa Brito
Hörður is the Director of the Art Department at Brandenburg Advertising Agency, located in Reykjavík, Iceland. There he oversees the day to day work of the designers, as well as being a part of the studios Creative Director team.
He is the chairman of the board for the Icelandic Design Center, board member of the Icelandic Advertising Association (SÍA) and a regular teacher at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. He is the previous chairman for the Icelandic Association of Graphic Designers (FÍT) and board member at the Art Directors Club of Europe.
After his years working as a designer, he has cumulated numbers of awards, had his work and writings published in various countries and published books on the design of the Icelandic National Flag.
Camilla Buch is a design and print journalist based in Stockholm, Sweden.
She holds a degree (BA) in Journalism from the Södertörn University.
She has worked as a reporter, web editor and columnist for Swedish graphic design magazine CAP&Design since 2013 and became assistant editor-in-chief in 2017.
Having studied marketing communications at the Norwegian Marketing School, and having obtained his Masters degree on branding at the Norwegian School of Economics, Geir embarked on a career in Art direction since 1981.
In 1992 he became partner and studio manager at See Design, and later on at Brandworks.
Since 2013 he has been working as an independent consultant specialising in strategic communications, concept development, creative strategies, brand development, design strategy, visual analysis, corporate design, copy, politics and social understanding.
At the same time he is a columnist on design issues, writing regularly at Kampanje and contributing several feature articles to other norwegian media.
Whether you need to get to the airport or to the city centre, an efficient public transportation network is at your service to get you where you need to go.
• You can easily get to the airport or to the city centre by metro. Line E (Purple) runs every 20 or 30 minutes, depending on the time and day of the week.
• STCP and Resende provide bus connections from the airport to various areas of the city.
• Taxis circulate 24/7 all throughout the city, and are always available at taxi ranks. The cost from the airport to the city centre usually reaches the amount of €25.
Floor van Essen (1980) is editor of Dude, Dutch Designers Magazine and communications manager of Association of Dutch Designers (BNO).
She studied Graphic Design at the Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem as well as History at the University of Amsterdam.
She has worked several years as a graphic designer, including at Thonik.
This is one of Europe’s oldest tourist destinations. Its wealth of artistic heritage, Port Wine, open-air leisure spaces and cultural life are just some of the reasons to visit this city.
The city unfolds along the river bank and the sea shore, to reveal charming vistas, inviting esplanades and all the pleasures of the outdoors, framed by its green spaces. But setting out to discover Porto means bumping into surprise after surprise. Whilst maintaining its welcoming and conservative nature, the city is, at the same time, contemporary and creative. This can be seen in its streets, its architectures, its museums, its leisure spaces, its esplanades and its shopping areas which run from the traditional to the modern and exclusive.
It is exactly this creative air in the city (which extends into a vibrant design scene), that drove the ED-Awards organisers to bring this year’s festival in Porto.
Our 2017 Awards ceremony is going to take place on the 27th of May and it will be preceded by a string of very interesting events. More details on the subject will be announced shortly.
As always the European Design Awards ceremony is an excellent way to meet the best of our continent’s creatives gathered up in one place.
It is a friendly and happy moment, surrounded by useful and fun events.
Date & time
Saturday, May 21st at 19:30.
Click below to find more information about
• The ED-Awards master conference
• The Design Tours
Tickets for the Awards Ceremony
All winning studios are entitled to one free ticket for the ED-Awards ceremony as well as the masters conference. You can claim it, by simply following this link. Please be aware that there is always one complimentary ticket per each winning studio (valid for one person). For more tickets, please follow this link.
Exclussive discount for airfares
Click here to take advantage of the special discount offered by Austrian Airlines, the official carrier of the European Desgin Awards 2016.
The Venue
The ED Awards 2016 ceremony will take place at the MuTh, Vienna’s new venue for music and theatre – the Vienna Boys’ Choir Concert Hall in the Augarten.
MuTh
Am Augartenspitz 1 (Corner: Castellezgasse)
1020 Vienna
Austria
Tolm is a team of experienced motion designers and animators with the competence in producing both smaller and bigger international projects.
They cover the entire creative process from the very first idea to final delivery, making their clients’ brand highly visible and attractive while keeping a strong focus on design and storytelling.
They love working closely together with management, marketing departments, advertising and design agencies, TV channels or start-ups.
Speaker: Joosep Volk
Joosep has worked in the field of animation for more than 10 years and has experience with a wide range of animation techniques – mainly 2D and 3D animation and motion graphics.
Currently his main focus is on art and creative direction, communicating between TOLMs animation team and the client with solving the latter’s problems a priority.
Some of his best known international clients include Microsoft, Tieto, Deutsche Telekom, and the Estonian Goverment. His experience in commercial animation has given him knowledge and ability to meet the highest of standards in animation – both in idea creation and execution. His work has won numerous international prizes.
Austrian Airlines, the official airline of the European Desgin Awards offers a very special discount of 15% to all attendees (and accompanying persons).
To do so, simply click here and enter the “EDA16” code in the eVoucher field on the Austrian homepage booking engine.
Conditions:
• Booking period: now until May 21st, 2016
• Valid for flights to Vienna and return as of May 13th, 2016 until May 28th, 2016 (final date for return flight) on OS operated flights
In cooperation with our national partner designaustria, which is also a BEDA European Centre of Competence for Design Business Dialogue, we offer three design tours in Vienna to meet local designers and their businesses.
The organisation of design tours is an excellent opportunity from people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local design scene. Four studios in the vicinity of each other are picked up and are invited to host visiting groups of international visitors, to exhibit their work, discuss their challenges, their solutions and their methodology, to interact and to exchange views and experiences.
Vienna Design Tour #1
Participating studios:
• MotMot
• Angieneering
• Impact Hub Vienna
• Thomas Feichtner Studio
Meeting point:
MotMot
Kirchengasse 36,
1070 Vienna
Meeting time:
Saturday, May 21st at 10:00
A limited number of tickets for this guided tour are available at the price of €10
Get your ticket here
Motmot makes graphic design that you can wear, stick on walls, or put in your pocket. Here you will find T-shirts, Posters, Buttons, and many other goods, all designed with Motmot’s unique graphic sensibility.
Angieneering, founded by Angie Rattay in 2008, is a Vienna-based graphic design studio specialised in projects with an eco-social focus.
The Impact Hub Vienna community is made up of social businesses addressing challenges both locally and globally. Members are entrepreneurs, social investors, freelancers, advocates, campaigners, creatives, artists, consultants, coaches and more.
Thomas Feichtner is an internationally established product designer. He designed numerous products for the Austrian industry and for such traditional crafters as J&L Lobmeyr, Neue Wiener Werkstätten, Wiener Silber Manufactur, Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur, TON and Carl Mertens, and realised freelance projects in cooperation with Vitra, Absolut, Thonet and FSB. His work was honoured with international design awards and have been acquired by various design collections.
At the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Leube researches and teaches on the interface between Anthropology and Design since 2013.
He is convinced that good design must be well adapted for Homo sapiens and that all industrial projects have to be confronted with the anthropological sciences.
At design schools in Europe and the US, Leube frequently holds workshops dealing with circular product design, sustainability, humanitarian design and the anthropology of consumerism in English, German and Spanish.
hosted by designaustria
Buero bauer is a leading design studio from Austria. With a strong conceptual and social drive, the studio’s printed, interactive and spatial communication projects span from unique identities to distinct orientation systems.Their approach to comprehensive visual identities isn’t merely limited to classical print or digital media; spatial design also plays an important role. The interdisciplinary team consists of different visual designers, an industrial designer and an architect working in different fields from branding to packaging, signage or exhibition design.
hosted by designaustria
speaker: Erwin Bauer
Through numerous self- initiated projects, workshops, lectures and teachings, Erwin K. Bauer transports the studio’s focus of connecting surprising practical design solution with sociopolitical involvement. He has published several books on design. He and his team are constantly working on self-initiated design-projects within the international design-community.
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