Emzin exhibition opening:
George Hardie, exhibition of illustrations
George Hardie trained as a graphic designer at St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art. In the 1970s, Hardie’s main client was Hipgnosis, the legendary designers of album covers. Now a sole trader working alone in his studio at home (since 1982) on the South Coast of England, Hardie works fairly regularly for Pentagram and enjoys projects for the Ganzfeld in New York. He is a member (elected 1994) and the International Secretary of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. In 2005 he was elected a Royal Designer for Industry. He works as Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Brighton where he leads two postgraduate coursesHis exhibition in NLB Gallery in Ljubljana includes 21 frames, which incorporates Hardie's best works from different creative periods. As Dan Nadel wrote in Eye magazine (Vol. 58, Winter 2005): "Hardie does all the things that a professional illustrator should: he solves problems; he draws with exactitude; he makes images that delight because they are challenging. Hardie is consciously self-depreciating titles nod to a career spent working mostly around, as he says, 'wanting to do good work. I never saw it as a career thing. But then, I was very lucky – things just fell in my lap.' But in image after image he achieves something beyond just professionalism: he doesn’t just solve a problem or create a compelling image, rather he draws visual ideas that force viewers to 'wear a new pair of spectacles,' and open up to a new visual experience of even the most familiar terrain."
The exhibition will be on display between 8 am and 6 pm every business day until 14 March 2008.
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The Asia Calendar is an international collaborative project which involves design of the calendar contributed by individual designers of the Design Alliance. The theme for this 1st Asia Calendar is ‘Relationships’. Relationships as a theme can be explored as a connection between two or more entities. It could be connection between development & environment, connection between people and economy, between art and culture, between society and designer. Individual designers have explored Relationships within their culture and have visually interpreted them.
For more information: theasiacalendar.com
Founded in 1918, Otis College of Art and Design prepares diverse students of art and design to enrich our world through their creativity, their skill, and their vision.
Beginning in summer 2008, a new* MFA will be offered in Graphic Design. Running for three consecutive eight-week summer sessions in residence and two spring sessions of mentored off-campus independent study, this 2 1/2 year program provides a rigorous and challenging academic and studio environment for candidates interested in enhancing their current professional practice.
This program has three individual themes or tracks from which students elect to study: typography and type design, social responsibility of the artist in society, and advancing the discipline through theory and innovation. Summer sessions are taught by core faculty, visiting lecturers, and visiting artists. The curriculum includes: project-specific assignments; individual projects; liberal arts courses focusing on history, theory, and criticism; and a thesis project in the final summer session.
Deadline for applications is 15 February 2008.
For more information: otis.edu
Environmental Graphics, Public Service
Buenos Aires is a city with a rich cultural and urban heritage, ten-million-inhabitants and semiotic noises that reach significant levels. Amid this indecipherable jungle, Buenos Aires, Argentina design firm, Diseno Shakespear recently gave new meaning to the Buenos Aires Underground as an urban brand (the studio first worked on the subway's sign and branding system in 1995). Signage is vital in transportation systems, not only in terms of ordering the flow of users but also as a significant element of identity and, when fluent reading might be difficult, its voice. The new visual expression of the "Subte" brand, the colloquial name for the subway, has been generated through an emphasis on the popular term. It preserves the old-day prestige and social identity beyond the name of the company, while the logo reinforces and emphasizes the notion of "line," at the entrance of every station. There are two levels of information in the main identity: the upper level, where the station?s name is cyclically repeated, and a subsidiary level, that connects the subway line to above-ground landmarks and related stations. Because of its sober, practical and robust character, sans-serif typography was chosen to express all messages in the network. The end result is a design that establishes a perpetual belt that ties together the network 2.2 meters above the ground.
Lorenzo Shakespear/Ronald Shakespear/Juan Shakespear, design directors; Joaquin Viramonte/Gonzalo Strasser/Juan Hitters, staff; Diseno Shakespear (Buenos Aires, Argentina), design firm.
For more information: www.shakespearweb.com
