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The 19th International Poster and Graphic Festival of Chaumont is paying tribute to one of my favorite inspirations of all time, Josef Müller-Brockmann. To accompany the festival this 288 page catalogue was designed by Wijntje Van Rooijen & Pierre Péronnet and features a section on the legendary Brockmann.
You can grab a copy over at YWFT and also check out this small Flickr gallery of the festival.
The fabulous site Grain Edit has just turned 1 and to celebrate they’re hosting a giveaway contest. You can win featured goodies from Iso50, Draplin, House Industries, You Work For Them, Swiss Legacy and myself! Check it out and enter to win!
Darren from Six and of WIWP fame contacted me about an art exhibition called Now Showing that explores the lost art of the film poster. Artists who’s work is on display include: Build, Hellovon, Non Format, Corey Holms, David Pearson, Marian Bantjes, Tomer Hanuka, Wallzo, James Joyce, Yuko Shimizu, Siggi Eggertsson and Many More.
The show is currently in Barcelona at the Vallery gallery from Sept. 18 – Oct. 18. Here’s a Flickr set of the Barcelona show where you can also purchase the posters from.
If you’re in London in the next week or so be sure to catch the Retrospective—One exhibit at Kemistry Gallery. I’d love to see what Experimental Jetset created. I wish they had an inline gallery.
Kemistry Gallery has asked eleven previous exhibitors to create pieces to celebrate four years exhibiting outstanding graphic design and illustration. With a lineup that speaks for itself, Retrospective—One is bringing together Experimental Jetset, Eine, James Joyce, Parra and Geoff McFetridge among others in a line up of graphic design all-stars. Pieces include hand-drawn typography, one-off collages, lightboxes, print editions, and objects showcasing the breadth of graphic design both as a communication form and as a aesthetic skill.
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Read director Gary Hustwit’s post about the film.
Objectified is currently in production and will have its world premiere in early 2009.
Featuring
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)
and more participants TBA
You can purchase the limited-edition screenprint above that was designed by Build.
Daniel Camacho has written in about a poster exhibition held by the London
College of Communication. The exhibition displays 30 A1 posters produced by 30 creative individuals throughout Europe, each offering their own interpretation of a day in June. If you’re in the area definitely stop by because this sounds like it’s going to be good. I wish exhibits like this were held in NYC.
A CELEBRATION OF JUNE
POSTER COLLECTIVE
8th – 12th July / 10am – 8pm
London College of Communication
Typography Studio
Elephant & Castle
London SE1 6SB
Free Admission