MDW is based on the concept of a series of lectures and hands-on workshops, at the end of which an open dialogue between lecturers and participants will be established. The activities of MDW will always be under the umbrella of a common theme that will be different each year. In parallel to the workshops and lectures, there will be exhibitions, shorter presentations, and thematic excursions exploring the rich historical and cultural heritage of the island. Tinos, due its century-long tradition in the arts and architecture and diversity of landscape, is considered an ideal place for field trips linked to the intellectual and artistic explorations of MDW.

The theme of the inaugural MDW is Hand Vs. Machine. Through the lectures and workshops we will explore to what extend our artistic practice and human existence are dependent on machines and anything mechanical, be it a computer, a car, or a mobile phone. Is the machine a substitute for human touch? In what ways do machines define our happiness, how much do they “steal” from it, and, ultimately, what can we design, create and accomplish using only our hands? The first MDW will take place at the Cultural Foundation of Tinos, who generously doanted the use of their space for our activities. A part of our program will be the international exhibition Voices in Freedom, shown for the first time in Europe, and presented in collaboration with the International Poster Biennial, Mexico. The 115 limited edition posters, created by some of the world’s leading poster artists, celebrate the bicentennial of the Mexican Independence.

A couple of words on how it all began: Internationally acclaimed American artist and designer Luba Lukova and award-winning Greek graphic designer Dimitris Karaiskos, having met and collaborated at international design exhibitions in Paris and Athens, had a mutual idea about a multi-cultural meeting of design practitioners on a Greek island, aiming to bring together design and art-related people from the Mediterranean and beyond. The island chosen was Tinos, a Cycladic island situated close to Mykonos and Delos, and the event was baptized “Mediterranean Design Workshop”. The time of its first realization was decided to be mid-September 2010, and it seems this is going to become the first time such an event is taking place in the Cycladic and Mediterranean region.

International top designers will share their creative processes, on a series of presentations that will cover such different areas as graphic design, new technologies, artistic direction, photography, illustration or animation.

Addressing in particular to design students and professionals, but also to public of other creative areas, this will be a unique opportunity to meet the designers that have set the pace for the international visual culture for the last decades.

Speakers

Abbott Miller, Pentagram, USA
Ahn Sang-soo, South Korea
Bruno Monguzzi, Italy
Cyan, Germany
Étienne Mineur, France
Javier Mariscal, Spain
Marian Bantjes, Canada
Matt Pyke, UK
Michael Bierut, USA
Paula Scher, USA
Peter Knapp, France
Pierre Bernard, France
Stefan Sagmeister, USA

List of workshops

Cyan (Detlef Fielder + Daniela Haufe)
Etienne Mineur
Javier Mariscal
Niklaus Troxler

http://www.agiopen2010.com

Phil Baines

Phil Baines studied Graphic Design at St. Martin’s School of Art (1985) and the Royal College of Art (1987). His design practice includes high profile, one-off commissions; general graphic design for arts organisations; and type design. Phil is a Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts London, a contributor at design conferences and a frequent writer for Eye and other design magazines. Part of his teaching responsibility is jointly curating the Central Lettering Record with Catherine Dixon. He has written four books: Type & Typography (with Andrew Haslam, 2002), Signs: Lettering in the Environment (with Catherine Dixon, 2003), Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935–2005 (2005) and Puffin by Design: 70 Years of Imagination (2010).

pi6 - Rena Chrysikopoulou & Michael David Ochs

Rena Chrysikopoulou and Michael David Ochs met in Germany where they both studied visual communication at the Kassel University of Arts (Kunsthochschule Universität Kassel). They have worked in design agencies based in Barcelona, Kassel, Frankfurt and Athens with clients such as Hewlett Packard, Merck, Alpha Bank, Pepsico-HBH, Elbisco, Thonet and Credit Suisse. Rena has worked as well in the Image and Identity department of ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, as a senior designer. In 2005 they co-founded “pi6 communication design” based in Athens, Greece. Their work has received various distinctions, amongst others in the Type Directors Club New York, European Design Awards, iF Communication Design Awards, International Poster Biennale Warsaw and the Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards. They are co-founders and co-organisers of the annual Design Walk exhibition in Athens and they teach Typography at Vakalo College of Art and Design. Rena and Michael are members of the Greek Graphic Designers Association.

www.pi6.gr

More details

Dates: 12—16 July 2010

Each workshop can host up to 15 participants. The workshops will be held in English. Participation to the workshops is free

In order to reserve a place in the workshops you should send an e-mail to ithaca@thedesignshop.gr stating your name, country, age, telephone number and e-mail address. There is a 50 Euro guarantee fee that has to be deposited in order to make the reservation. This amount will be returned to you upon your arrival in Ithaca. It is the participants’ obligation and responsibility to arrange their trip to Ithaca and to book their accommodation.

How to get to Ithaca:

Ithaca is located in the Ionian Sea, next to the island of Kefalonia. You can reach Ithaca by boat only. The ships leave from Patras twice a day (www.strintzisferries.gr) as well as from Astakos, Lefkas or Kefalonia. Alternatively you can fly to Kefalonia and then take the boat to Ithaca (half hour). Olympic Air and Aegean Air fly from Athens to Kefalonia. There are also many charter flights to Kefalonia from many European Cities.

Accommodation:

For information on accommodation you can contact:
Polyctor Tours: +30 26740 33120, +30 26740 33338, www.ithakiholidays.com
Dellas Tours: +30 26740 32104, www.ithaca.com.gr

Created in 2007 in association with fourteen leading European graphic design magazines, the ED-Festival’s objective is to reward excellence in communication design and to inspire the creative community across Europe. After successful events in Athens, Stockholm and Zurich, this year edition of the Festival will be held in the city of Rotterdam, a highly creative hub by European standards.

Delegates from all around the globe are expected to gather at the De Doelen Congress Center for a three-day conference that boasts an impressive speaker panel with among others, Frenchman Philippe Apeloig, Moving Brands from the UK, Swedish Fantasy Interactive and Dietwee from the Netherlands.
Wrapping up the Festival, the winners of the 2010 ED-Awards will have a chance to receive some exposure and generous rounds of applause at the much awaitED-Award Ceremony, to be held on Sunday 30th May.

The Festival’s program also includes a series of engaging design related activities such as seminars, workshops and guided tours (by water taxis or bicycles) to local design agencies. For those planning a longer stay in Rotterdam, ED-Festival recommends on their website a best of current exhibitions and galleries not to be missed around town.

For the full program of the ED-Festival (Rotterdam, 27th-30th May) and to purchase tickets please visit www.europeandesign.org.

The European Design Festival 2010 is endorsed by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (icograda), supported by the city of Rotterdam and sponsored by Veer.

One-day symposium will take place in Brno, Czech Republic in the House of the Lords of Kunštát on 21 June 2010 at 10:12.

The theme or topic for this conference is type. This is a broad area embracing the history of type, the design of type, type education, the use of type (typography) and much more. The key criteria for the acceptance of a talk is that it have educational value. It is not enough to simply show work, knowledge must be shared as well. Indeed, TypeTalks’ reason for existing is the pleasure taken in learning and in sharing knowledge. Furthermore, there are excellent speakers this year!

Talks

Tomáš Brousil (CZ): Tabac

Veronika Burian (CZ/D): Typographic matchmaking

Florian Hardwig (D): Localize! The dialects of handwriting in type design

Michael Hochleitner (AT): A contemporary view on the relationship of lettering and type

Rob Keller (US/D): Font technology is crazy!

Dan Reynolds (US/D): The passion of the young, multi-script type designer

This issue of Typo also provides an overview of the winners of the Trnava Poster Triennial in Slovakia; a report from a workshop organized in China this past autumn as part of the Icograda World Design Congress; and information from a conference on the subject of Responsibility in Graphic Design held this year in Katowice, Poland – the second time the city has hosted the event. You will also be able to read about the past nearly thirty years of Japanese “un-brand” MUJI’s visual communication; another part in a series about typeface identification – this time dedicated to slab serif typefaces; and reviews of two new fonts designed by typographer Ramiro Espinoza, who has recently enjoyed deserved international acclaim.

The magazine would also like to welcome a new member to the team starting with this issue – Elizabeth Spacilova, a translator whose main goal is to help make TYPO an enjoyable read for English speakers as well.

Subscribers to the magazine can now take advantage of a 15% discount on fonts purchased from the TypeTogether font foundry.

Now in its eighth year of publication, TYPO aims to provide readers with a magazine that is systematically devoted to typography, graphic design and visual communication. The magazine’s focus and content has earned it a firm place on the Czech and international markets:

1. The magazine appeals to design professionals as well as beginning designers and people outside the business in a clear and comprehensible manner.
2. Because it views typography and graphic design as an integral part of culture, it also monitors related disciplines (a broad range – from architecture and photography to philosophy and sociology).
3. In blocks dedicated to individual subjects, it maps out important milestones in the history of international typography and design.
4. Through original articles and interviews, it acquaints readers with important names and international leaders in the field.
5. It does print articles with clear opinions; it does not print press releases or covert advertisements. Paid advertisements are restricted to a small area (usually on the inside cover of the magazine).

Our demanding criteria, freedom of opinion and independence from advertisers makes us dependant on something else, though: you, the reader. Only regular readers, and especially subscribers, make it possible for the magazine to survive in a market economy. If you work in typography and graphic design and you enjoy and identify with the focus of our magazine, support us by becoming a subscriber. (TYPO has between 64 and 96 pages, is published quarterly and is printed in colour on high-quality, 230 × 280 mm paper. Articles are published in Czech and English.)

It’s easy to subscribe – simply visit:
www.typo.cz/en/magazine/subscription

Thank you for your appreciation and support!

The workshops are accompanied by the open lectures and an exhibition of MASS ART and Carnegie Mellon students’ works made under Jan Kubasiewicz and Dan Boyarski’s direction.

Dates:

• 14th–18th June – Dynamic graphic design – workshops by Jan Kubasiewicz,
• 21th–25th June – Kinetic typography – workshops by Dan Boyarski,
• 19th June – open lectures by Jan Kubasiewicz and Dan Boyarski,
• 19th June–4thJuly – the exhibition of Jan Kubasiewicz and Dan Boyarski’s students’ works in the city public space and in the Gallery of Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise.

Classes are focused on motion text in the dynamic graphics projects. Dynamic graphics is associated with contemporary forms of on-screen, television, cinema and interactive edition, which bring about many possibilities of using the kinetic typography in the context of motion pictures and sound. Dynamic typography is applicable to TV credits, as well as movie and information panels programmed for interactive use. It is applied in dynamic diagrams and scientific publications, on-screen edition of statistics and geographic data. Additionally, one can use it in displays, in information panels and dynamic signage systems.

A wide dynamic graphics usability makes it one of the most important means of visual communication in the 21st century.

The first week – the part of workshops led by Jan Kubasiewicz is focused on exploration of motion literacy—the act of understanding of how the “language” of moving image, typography and sound can be used to communicate effectively. The participants will investigate cinematic vocabulary and time-based narrative structures in the context of communication design.

The second week – the part led by Dan Boyarski is focused on visualizing the spoken word in the context of a timebased presentation (movie). The emphasis will be on visual interpretation of how spoken words perform with kinetic typography, therefore temporal aspects of stage or dance performances will guide the discussions and explorations.

The workshops are dedicated to participants who are familiar with Adobe After Effects program. They will have multi-lane character, offering the series of tasks, lectures and analyses of individual cases, starting from very short exercises and leading to the complete project creation. These workshops are not meant to teach software, so all participants are expected to be proficient with the software listed below. An open mind, attitude of exploration, and willingness to work hard are encouraged. The final will be a projection in the city public space.

Information about the leaders and examples of their students’ works you can find on following web pages:
http://www.dmiboston.org/archive/archives/by_faculty/kubasiewicz_jan
http://www.design.cmu.edu/show_person.php?t=f&id=DanBoy

Registration and detailed information:
Anna Górska,
phone: +4833 851 08 21 ext. 24
e-mail: agorska@zamekcieszyn.pl

Cost of participation in workshops:
2 weeks: 2000 PLN
1 week: 1500 PLN

We also have 10% discounts for people who participated in previous editions of The International Typographic Workshops, Czech Graphic Design Union members and participants of the AKT courses.

IMPORTANT:

Please send the registration form
via e-mail: agorska@zamekcieszyn.pl
or via fax: +4833 851 08 21 ext.16
till 31st of May 2010.

The submission period of ED Awards ends on February 15. The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. It is based on a collaboration of 14 prestigious communication design magazines in Europe.

Representatives of these magazines compose the jury:

2+3D (PL), Design Austria (AT), Design Week (UK), +design (GR), Elephant (Int), étapes: (FR), Grafik Tasarim (TR), idpure (CH), KAK (RU), Novum (DE), Progetto Grafico (IT), TYPO (CZ), Visual (ES), BNO Vormberichten (NL).

All winners and finalists are published on the annual ED-Awards catalogue.

Submission period: January 1 — February 15, 2010.

European Design Festival

The acclaimed pan-European institution consisting of an awards scheme, a conference and a series of events created for and centred around the European communication design industry is now on its fourth edition. The ED-Festival 2010 is taking place in Rotterdam, organised by European Design, in collaboration with 14 leading European communication design magazines, sponsored by Veer, endorsed by Icograda and with the support of Rotterdam Marketing. The previous editions of the ED-Festival took place in Athens (2007), Stockholm (2008) and Zurich (2009).

ED-Conference

The 3-day European Design Conference gathers speakers from all over Europe and participants from all over the world. Its focus lies on communication design case studies. With presentations from speakers coming from 15 different countries, it is a unique celebration of European design. Famous designers and design agencies from around the continent “dissect” a project of theirs in order to offer the audience an exclusive glimpse of what goes on inside their creative minds.

Dates: May 28—30, 2010

Place: Rotterdam’s De Doelen, the Netherlands

Wolda ’09 is still accepting entries by January 31! Submit your best logos designed in 2009 and seize this great opportunity for international exposure through Wolda’s most prominent network of over 100 design endorsing associations and schools and 22 prestigious media partners. Enter now and benefit yourself a ’09 book copy free of charge (shipping included).

Check Wolda website to learn more about  entry fees & payment, prizes & other benefits, deadline & procedure, and other important facts.

Speakers

Opening lecture 14.01.2010 by Krzysztof Lenk (Poland/USA; RISD, Providence); Lectures 14–15.01.2010 by (inter alia): Filip Blažek (Czech Republic, Praha Typo Magazine), Jonathan Barnbrook (UK, London, Virus Studio), Lex Drewinski (Poland/Germany), Marjatta Itkonen (Finland; TAIK, Helsinki), Karel van der Waarde (The Netherlands, Akademia AKV/St. Joost Breda), Design Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (Tomasz Bierkowski, Roman Kalarus, Justyna Kucharczyk, Justyna Lauer); Workshops 11–13.01.2010 (Krzysztof Lenk, Yadzia Williams, Roksana Jędrzejewska, Kasia Bąk); presentations of new tools by Apple Macintosh, Adobe, Wacom, Sony; around 20 lectures from international speakers over two days on contemporary graphic design; Opening reception of the exhibition (13.01.2010) of student works awarded in ‶Agrafa 2009” International students’ Graphic Design Biennial.

Goals and objectives

The focus of this conference is on the notion of responsibility with relation to graphic design professionals and teachers, responsible attitudes in its practice, and the necessary changes in the scope and methods of teaching the subject. The conference is intended as a means of bringing together an international group of academics, students, and professionals. We invite everyone who is interested in shaping civic attitudes and teaching responsible design to take part in the lectures and discussions. The main objective of the conference is to direct the attention of participants to their own work strategies, curricula and teaching methodology, as well as research and projects characterising the current, socially responsible graphic design.

More information and registration form could be found at conference.aspkat.edu.pl/2009