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Icograda eNews 34/00
20 August 2000
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S P E C I A L I S S U E : O U L L I M 2 0 0 0 S E O U L
R E M I N D E R :
Icograda Millennium Congress Oullim 2000 Seoul
M I S C E L L A N E O U S N E W S
August 31, 2000: Early Birds Rates! ; Free Accomodation
H E A D L I N E S T O R Y :
Outstanding Speakers and Brilliant Lectures
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R E M I N D E R :
Icograda Millennium Congress Oullim 2000 Seoul
24 > 27 October 2000
Seoul, Korea
W: http://www.oullim.org
Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) is holding a special international congress in Seoul, Korea to mark the new millennium. This historic gathering will be a remarkable opportunity for visual communicators from around the world to herald in the new millennium by reflecting on the past century of design, assessing the present, and exploring visions for the future.
For more information on the Congress and program, go to http://www.oullim.org
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August 31, 2000: Early Birds!
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Oullim organizers provide students attending the Congress with the possibility of free accomodation. Students interested have to inquire local organizers.
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H E A D L I N E S T O R Y :
Outstanding Speakers and Brilliant Lectures
Oullim organizers have developped a wonderful program, choosing more than 30 prominent speakers from all over the world. Amongst them, you will appreciate and have the pleasure to listen to:
Jonathan Barnbrook (United Kingdom)
Virus-Typefaces & Artistic Collaboration
Over his ten-year career, Jonathan Barnbrook has developed a reputation for leading one of the most innovative design groups in UK. Barnbrook constantly attracts international attention for his provocative and exciting work. His studio takes on diverse projects ranging from a collaboration with contemporary artist Damien Hirst to advertising projects for clients such as Nike, Toyota, Mazda and Guinness. Barnbrook has also released a number of fonts including Mason, Exocet and Prozac.
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Michel Bouvet (France)
Born in 1955, Michel Bouvet is a prominent French graphic artist who held exhibitions around the world and won numerous awards for his design work. Currently, Bouvet is a professor at the ESAG (Ecole superieure des arts graphiques) in Paris.
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Daniel Boyarski (USA)
Multi-culture, Art, Sensibility, New Technology
Boyarski has had a lengthy teaching career and has also remained professionally active as a partner in Boyarski/Boyarski Design Consultants. Some of the company's major clients include AT&T Global Information Solutions, the Australian Tax Office, IBM, Mitsubishi, Sony and Samsung.
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David Carson (USA)
Graphic Design after the End of Print
David Carson is creative director and designer at R/GA and principal of David Carson Design in New York. Among his major projects are advertising campaigns for Microsoft and Georgio Armani and TV commercials for Lucent Technologies. Formerly art director of Ray Gun and Beach Culture magazines, Carson is also a published author. His book The End of Print is now in its fifth printing and has sold over 125,000 copies worldwide.
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Chang Don-Ryun (Korea)
Creating a Global Brand for the 2002 FIFA World Cup
Chang worked for several international design companies including Henry Steiner & Partners, The Infinite, and Design Focus before establishing his own design firm in Korea, Interbrand DC&A which is specialized in corporate and brand identity projects. Chang also lectures at Hongik and Seoul National Universities and is artistic advisor for the World Cup Korea 2002.
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Cho Young-Jae (Korea)
Coordinating Dreams and Reality
Cho Young-Jae is currently a professor in the Faculty of Design, College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. From 1973 to 1995, Cho served as creative director of CDR Inc. He has held many prestigious consulting positions including consultant for the City of Seoul, the '88 Seoul Olympics Organizing Committee, Korean Ministry of Communications and the 1993 Taejon International Expo Organizing Committee. He is also a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars around the world.
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Cyan (Germany)
Sounding the Visual
Cyan was founded in 1992 by Daniela Haufe and Detlef Fiedler. The studio's projects include books, magazines, film and multimedia works for clients in the cultural sector: Berlin State Opera, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, The Academie of Fine Arts in Berlin and various galleries and publishing houses. The studio also designed a multimedia stage set for Kurt Weill and a videofilm-slide combination for Aaron Copland. They also founded Cyanpress, designing and publishing their own books.
Sounding the Visual
Is typography audible? Are sounds visible? Do sounds alter pictures and vice versa? Such questions have been constantly in the back of Cyan's minds as they have pursued their projects and books and posters for opera houses, corporate design for sound-art festivals, multi-media for the theatre stage etc., as well as teaching graphic design students. New technical means have blurred the borders between the arts and enabled designers to work independently in the low or no-budget sector, overseeing all stages of production in a way which was previously impossible.
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Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (USA)
differences
Since 1990, Sheila de Bretteville has been Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University's School of Art. She has previously held teaching positions at Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles and California Institute of the Arts, where she co-founded The Women's Building. Her works can be found in collections such as Museums in New York, London and Los Angeles. She has also been active as a public artist, having created numerous permanent installations in public places.
differences
From within one of graphic design's material peripheries are professional practices such as practices focused on representing particular places, and reflecting the participation of everyday citizens. The process involves a process of seeing challenges as opportunities, making an active choice to work with seemingly dead urban space to discover its hidden history, enliven its surfaces so that they speak and restore to memory people and issues that have been invisible. Such a project can attempt to call into question normative notions attached to mobilizing signs ''ethnicity" "democracy" "gender."
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Stasys Eidrigevicius (Poland)
Between Two Lines
Eidrigevicius' work covers a wide spectrum of arts including painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, book illustration, posters, drawing and performance. His works have been featured in a long list of solo exhibitions around the world and can be found in numerous prestigious collections. Eidrigevicius is also the recipient of numerous awards.
Between Two Lines
Eidrigevicius brought his poster language to painting -- going to the simplicity. Little by little, he left storytelling and he went to the language of power. Power of the image. The poster belongs to open art, street art, belongs to thousands of people. But the main sense of the image is similar -- it must leave a short message, an original message.
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Garry Emery (Australia)
Discord Versus Harmony
Garry Emery is design director of Emery Vincent Design, specialized in corporate and brand identity, environmental graphic design, and new media design. Significant commissions by the firm include the signage and graphics programs for the Parliament House of Australia, the Australian embassies in Tokyo and Beijing, Kuala Lumpur City Center and the Sydney Opera House, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and the city of Putrajaya, the new administration center for Malaysian government.
Discord Versus Harmony: The Central Role of Disruption in Creative Design
The role of typography is to express the functional and emotive meanings of text, to engage the reader, to enhance meaning, to extend understanding, to express contemporary values. That definition extends to all forms of design, and with it in mind, Gary Emery is curious to experiment with a digitally-driven, four-dimensional presentation of their work to the Icograda Millennium Congress.
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Shigeo Fukuda (Japan)
The Playful Eye
Shigeo Fukuda has been active as a graphic designer, garnering numerous awards at competitions and exhibitions around the world. He has also been named to the New York ADC's Hall of Fame and held several solo exhibitions. Formerly a vice president of Icograda, he is currently the President of the Japan Graphic Design Association and a guest professor at the Tokyo National University of Arts and Music.
The Playful Eye
Japanese have a saying that goes, "Watch your footing" which in a broad sense instructs one to behave knowing his/her position, role, and won self. Fukuda thinks this precept is also a philosophy of life that can be understood by any people in any country on earth. As an active graphic designer. "Watching his own footing", Fukuda will talk about how he considered, created, and challenged graphic design that cannot be created by anyone but himself. He also will report on the importance of graphic design in society, and on graphic design as a creation that makes life and culture fun to live.
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Kenya Hara (Japan)
inter / national
Kenya Hara is an active designer whose work covers a wide field of design from graphics to spatial art. His projects include advertising for Issei Miyake, package design for Nikka Whiskey and Ajinomoto General Foods, art direction for a monthly magazine, and book cover designs. Hara opened up the new field of spatial design with his work on exhibitions.
inter / national
Hara will consider roles of design in the changing circumstances and eras, and transitions of communication design, examining the present situation of graphic design in Japan. He was responsible for designing the official pamphlets for the Nagano Olympic Games in 1998, and currently, as a member of Design Committee for EXPO Japan 2005, is being involved in the present situation of communication design in international events. From such point of view, he will talk about the roles and various issues of communication design.
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William Harald-Wong (Malaysia)
We are the Nagas, not the Dragons : Design in Southeast Asia
William Harald-Wong is the principal of William Harald-Wong & Associates, a design consultancy based in Kuala Lumpur, with considerable experience in corporate identity and design for the arts. With projects in diverse locations from Bali, Vietnam and Uzbekistan to Mozambique, the company places a high value on local cultures, weaving them into its concepts and designs. Harald-Wong also heads MOMENT, a group focusing on intercultural visual research and documentation. One of the group's objectives is to seek and distill the essential aesthetics of traditional Southeast Asia, a historic crossroads of Indian, Arab, Chinese, European, Malay and indigenous cultures as a resource and inspiration for the creation of contemporary Southeast Asian graphic design.
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Laurie Haycock Makela (USA)
Formerly, design director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and lecturer at the California Insititute of the Arts and Otis Art Institute, Laurie Haycock Makela has created books and posters for clients such as The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanitites, the Los Angeles County Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Currently, she is co-chair of 2D design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, partner of Words and Pictures for Business and Culture, and adjunct professor at ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Most recently, Haycock Makela co-authored a survey of global visual communication, WHERE IS HERE, and released a new music CD, Addictions + Meditations.
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Keiko Hirano (Japan)
Keiko Hirano began her career as a freelance graphic artist in 1986. After spending a few years in Paris, she returned to Japan to establish Hirano Studio Inc. With awards from the New York Art Directors Club and Tokyo Art Directors Club, Hirano has been gaining attention with her packaging and logo designs. Notable projects have been a CD jacket for Kenji Ozawa and projects for Shiseido including her design for the perfume Vocalize.
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Huang Yung Sung (China)
A look at Chinese design beginning from its point of origin
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Amrik Kalsi (Kenya)
Oullim -- Vision for the Future
Amrik Kalsi has been working in the field of design and development for many years. After teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Development at the University of Nairobi, he served as Managing Director of Systems Design Ltd., a management, design and marketing consulting firm. He is currently Human Settlements Information Officer at the World Headquarters of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) in Nairobi, Kenya. In his current position, Kalsi is in charge of design, publications and special events.
Oullim -- Vision for the Future
We have and are learning how fragile the earth is and that most of the problems know no boundaries. The modern industrial nations in the North due to their immense consumption of energy and raw materials have contributed to high volumes of waste and environmental pollution. While the developing countries in the South, due to the pressures of poverty and population growth are leading to degradation of forests, soils and water.
The need for awareness creation has never been greater and the opportunity for us to make a difference is just as greet. Design can and has a vital role to play to make a difference. If we practice and communicate the right kind of information and commitment for our planet, it will continue not only to bring us its natural gifts, but also bring us Oullim.
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Kan Tai Keung, Hong Kong:
Men- Culture- Design
From 1967, Kan started his career as a designer and he received immediate recognition with numerous awards. Kan has been featured in numerous publications and his works can be found in museums around the world. Kan also takes an active role in art and design education and in promoting the profession of art and design.
Men- Culture- Design
Hong Kong is an important commercial city located in the East. Hong Kong is standing between the Chinese and Western cultures. With self-introspection and influence from concurrent social development in Hong Kong in the past three decades, designers started to develop a distinctive culture in their design works.
Being a part of culture, design has its intrinsic artistic value. With cultural characteristics, communications design is not only a channel for promoting culture, but also a piece of artistic work discovering culture within culture.
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Sadik Karamustafa (Turkey)
Sadik Karamustafa was born in Turkey in 1946, and studied graphic design in the State Fine Arts Academy, Istanbul. Sadik is a member of GMK, the Turkish Society of Graphic Designers, Icograda Vice President (1997-99) as well as AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale.
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Kim Soo-Jeong (Korea)
Digitography
Kim Soo-Jeong focuses on interactive multimedia. While operating his own design studio Arim, Kim oversaw projects such as the creation of a children's art education CD-Rom for LG Media, CIP design for Song Won Co. and package design. Recently, Kim has been working on image processing for feature films. Kim Soo-Jeong is the winner of numerous awards, his work has been shown in exhibitions in Korea and abroad. Currently, Kim lectures at Seoul National and Hongik universities and at Korea National Art School.
Digitography : The bridge between digital machine and graphic arts.
The cooperative research between computer engineering and the traditional design principles is actively under way, as a recent trend in digital design shows. This research aims at creating a new value in the 21st-century: design through an intensive examination of the intersection of these two areas. Just as the "characteristics" of subject matter in photography led to the original style of expression such as pin-hole photography and photogram, so to do the nature and characteristics of digital material produce a new field of design in relation with the principles of traditional graphic design. The next generation will see that the designers, well versed in computer logic, the thinking faculty in design, the artistic creativity, will open a new world of digital design which we haven't yet experienced wich Kim Soo-Jeong calls "Digitography[less equal].
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Kim Young-Oak (Korea)
Kim Young Oak earned master degrees in philosophy from Taiwan National University and from Tokyo National University. He continued his study of Eastern philosophy at Harvard University. D. As a professor of philosophy at Korea University, Kim rose to prominence through his prolific writing. After resigning from his post at Korea University, Kim enrolled in the Department of Oriental Medicine at Won Kwang University. Currently he works as a doctor of oriental medicine but continues to remain active, lecturing at diverse venues.
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Lee Sung-Pyo (Korea)
After working as a designer for the Publishing Department at the JoongAng Daily News Co., Lee Sung-Pyo undertook projects on his own: a poster for the Seoul Arts Center, cover designs for the Monthly JoongAng, a mural for the Samsung Children's Museum, and illustrations for the recently published Dictionary of Design. Lee has taken part in numerous exhibitions, including his recent solo exhibition, Language and Reality in Korean Illustration. He is also the author of several books including Poetry by Drawing (1996). Currently, Lee heads Nikao, a studio specializing in illustration, and lectures at Hongik University.
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Laurence Madrelle (France)
Elle Aime Communiquer: She Likes to Communicate
A native of Paris, while living in Rhode Island (USA), Laurence Madrelle worked with Malcolm Grear on hospital and housing sign-system projects. After returning to Paris, she worked with a group of designers headed by Jean-Pierre Grunfeld, designing numerous communication campaigns for government ministries. Since 1987, she has been leading a studio in the Marais district of Paris, which specializes in making signs. She also has a deep interest in architecture and lectures at an architecture school.
Elle Aime Communiquer: She Likes to Communicate
Laurence Madrelle will show samples of works amongst which:
Le Centre National des Lettres (Ministry of Culture), Punctuations for 100 historical monuments, A network of 120 historical cities, A sign system for 1000 museums in France, A newspaper above a garage, A public library on the street corner, A town in the north of Paris, Paris'13th arrondissement, Urban signals to mark a territory under construction: Waiting for Tschumi's building,...
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Chaz Maviyane-Davies (Zimbabwe)
Using Yesterday's Images Today for a Better Tomorrow
Chaz Maviyane-Davies is a Zimbabwean design consultant and filmmaker. He worked for several design firms in London before setting up his design studio in Harare, The Maviyane-Project. Maviyane-Davies has achieved international recognition for his graphic design work, winning awards at Biennales and exhibitions around the world. His work has been featured in various publications.
Using Yesterday's Images Today for a Better Tomorrow
Chaz Maviyane-Davies believes that in our quest for 'progress' we have relegated huge chunks of our cultures into the recesses of our subconscious, as opposed to using them to define our role in the world we want to live in.
>From an image point of view -- this means that any icons or visual manifestations of our traditions and past are way laid and considered inferior as we readily adopt the global (Western) lifestyles and attitudes that surround us. In a world saturated with mundane similarity, searching for, and creatively extracting and adapting aspects of our past, that are seemingly lost and using them as vehicles for communication, not only creates newer and refreshing images and icons but can hopefully revitalize our ways of seeing. This can also help us to become more tolerant and understanding of each other, tomorrow.
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Japan)
The search for the soul of the game
Executive Producer/ Consumer Software Department CS R&D Dept., Sega Enterprises Ltd.
The search for the soul of the game
Video Games are a form of art that transcends all language and cultural barriers. Through the creation of video games, we can communicate creatively with people around the world. That's the beauty of this industry. Games can touch and excite people everywhere.
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Thomas Mueller (USA)
Creating User Experience
Currently Thomas Mueller is Creative Director of Razorfish where he has driven successful design solutions for clients such as AT&T, America Online, CBS, Microsoft, Sony, The Smithsonian Institution, and Time Warner. Other design projects by Mueller include Liquid Typography and Understanding Concrete Poetry (winners of numerous design awards), and commemorative stamps for the German government. In addition to his work at Razorfish, Mueller lectures on design at conferences and Internet industry events.
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Leila Musfy (Lebanon)
Universal Language Versus Identity
Leila Musfy's topic will mainly focus on the Design Issues that East and West confront, as in imitation, staying up to date with the new technology, the loss of identity and so on. Her speech will be based on Design Education in Lebanon, focusing mainly on the trends adopted in programs at the American University of Beirut.
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Kveta Packovska (Czech Republic)
Alphabet: The Architecture of Pleasure
Born in Prague in 1928, Kveta Pacovska works in the fields of free graphic arts, painting, conceptual art and books. Her works have been shown in over 50 exhibitions. Since the 1960s she has been developing the picture book as a tactile and three-dimensional art object. Between 1995 to 1997, she realized her garden project at the Chihiro Art Museum in Nagano, Japan.
Alphabet: The Architecture of Pleasure
Pictures in picture books for the smallest children could be big, large, small, narrow, round, straight, checkered, long, serious, earnest, ridiculous, bright, funny -- the making of which involves no compromises.
It is a book: It could be deconstructed and divided. We could look at each letter. Touch each letter. Perceive the shape of each letter. Read silently each letter. And listen to each letter. Each letter has its own sound. Its own form. Its own duration. And its own colour.
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Koichi Sato (Japan)
Hinomaru: The Rising Sun Flag
Born in Takasaki City in 1944, after working for the advertising department of Shiseido Co., Ltd., Sato worked as a freelance designer while lecturing at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music from 1982 to 1987. Two volumes have been published about his works, Seven (1985) and Koichi Sato (1990). His works belong to the collections of major museums around the world. Since 1995, he has been a professor at Tama Art University.
Hinomaru: The Rising Sun Flag
As is widely recognized, the Japanese flag, dubbed Hinomaru in Japanese, has a red circle right in the center of white background. Being burdened with unfortunate incidents in the past, Hinomaru can strike up unfavorable feelings both at home and abroad. However, a closer look into the design itself will reveal that it can be viewed as a reflection of the different aspects of Japanese concept of beauty. Koichi Sato would like to analyze Hinomaru as one of the few essences of Japanese aesthetics which is the source of the contemporary Japanese graphic design.
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Bernd Schmitt (USA)
Experiential Marketing
Bernd Schmitt is Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in New York and the Founder and Executive Director of the Center on Global Brand Leadership. At CEIBS in Shanghai, he holds the first endowed marketing chair of its kind in China. Schmitt is the author and co-author of numerous articles and several books including the best-selling Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to SENSE, FEEL, THINK, ACT and RELATE to Your Company Brands (The Free Press, 1999). He has worked with clients around the world including Cathay Pacific, Estee Lauder, Motorola, Sony, Vogue Magazine, and Volkswagen.
Experiential Marketing
Experiential marketing is everywhere. More and more, marketers are moving away from traditional [greater equal]features-and-benefits[less equal] marketing toward creating experiences for their customers. Yet, what is an experience? Are there different types of experiences? And how can experiences be managed? Using numerous cases from a variety of industries, this talk provides a strategic framework for how managers can use [greater equal]experience providers[less equal] to manage five types of experiences: SENSE, FEEL, THINK, ACT and RELATE. The talk also addresses the ultimate goal of experiential marketing, which is to create HOLISTIC experiences for customers. The creation of these experiences raises a range of strategic issues and the key organizational issue of how to build an experience-oriented organization.
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Erik Spiekermann (Germany)
Information, Information
Erik Spiekermann designs information systems and typefaces. Some of his latest typefaces, including ff Meta and itc Officina, have already been lauded as contemporary classics. Spiekermann is the founder of MetaDesign, Germany's largest design firm with offices in Berlin, San Francisco and London, and a staff of over 250. Currently, Spiekermann is also a professor at the Bremen Academy of Arts, Vice President of the German Design Council and President of IIID (The International Institute for Information Design). He has written four books about type and typography in German and English including Stop Stealing Sheep for Adobe Press and has lectured throughout the world.
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Henry Steiner (Hong Kong)
Tong Mun, Seo Dap; East question. West answer
Henry Steiner was born in Vienna, raised in New York and educated at Hunter College, Yale University and the Sorbonne. He moved to Hong Kong in 1961 and founded Graphic Communication Ltd. (now Steiner&Co.) in 1964. His work has had a major impact on design in the Pacific Rim and has received worldwide recognition. Henry Steiner has created lasting identities for many well-known corporations based in Asia who operate on a global scale.
Tongmun Sodap: East question. West answer
Market globalization and electronic mass media subject us to increasingly homogeneous visual imagery. This graphic vocabulary is often lacking in substance and irrelevant to our everyday needs. Against such a backdrop, how can organisations in Asia make themselves readily understood to a wider international audience, and yet maintain cultural integrity in their visual communications?
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Lucille Tenazas (USA)
Vital Curriculum
After working as a graphic designer in the Philippines and New York, Tenazas established her own firm in San Francisco. Her clients include Rizzoli International, Apple Computer, the National Endowment for the Arts and the San Francisco International Airport. With a deep interest in design education, Tenazas has conducted workshops in schools throughout the US and abroad.
Vital Curriculum: Providing a Resource for the Activities of Teaching, Learning and Visual Exploration
In 1998 Lucille Tenazas produced Vital Curriculum, a small publication made in an effort to encapsulate ideas, philosophy and curriculum she's developed over the last 14 years of teaching at California College of Arts and Crafts. Lorraine Wild wrote: "The reason that I think Vital Curriculum is so important is that Tenazas explicitly describes a teaching process that deals with the issues of "personal voice" or authorship within the discipline of graphic design. Tenazas has gone far in articulating a methodology that allows the development of the personal voice in design practice, but which still insists upon communication with an audience as a goal."
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Garth Walker (South Africa)
African Blood Mixture
Garth Walker trained as a graphic designer in Durban in the 1970s. After working at a small design studio for 16 years, Walker established Orange Juice Design (OJ) in 1995. The company's clients include many of the nation's biggest brands such as Volkswagen, South African Breweries, Unilever and Deloitte & Touche. OJ also publishes a non-commercial studio magazine, i-jusi (zulu for juice), which aims to promote and encourage a local design language rooted in South African experience. Walker's design work has been recognized with over 60 international awards and has been featured in numerous international design magazines and books.
African Blood Mixture: The Power of Graphic Design to Unite the People of South Africa
The presentation will show how design from the streets and townships of South Africa can create the building blocks for a true and unique African design style.
South African design is very Eurocentric. The big debate in local design is how to create a local design style. Garth Walker thinks there already is one... OJ has South Africa's best collection of graphic design, signage and architectural images from all over SA. These photos show the incredible magic of African creativity as practiced by ordinary (black) citizens.
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Wang Xu (China)
The Practice of Cross-cultural Design
Born in Guangdong, China, after working for over ten years as a graphic designer in Hong Kong, Wang Xu founded Wang Xu & Associates Ltd. in 1995. The recipient of numerous design awards, Wang participates actively in juries and exhibitions. His work has been featured in many publications and his works are part of the collections of the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus, Dansk Plakatmuseum and Die Neue Sammlung. In addition, Wang has edited 14 issues of Design Exchange Magazine and numerous volumes of the book series Graphic Designers' Design Life.
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