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Sleeping monkeys by Scotish artist Kirsty Whiten is something I could not just pass by. So peaceful, beautiful and weird.
Found at Human Resources.
Originally posted at HELOHOLO.At ICOGRADA Beijing I attended a master class of one Australian designer. The guy’s name is Andrew Ashton and he totally rocks=)
For the presentation he showed up in a koala costume, dancing, which absolutely stunted Chinese audience. And this is not the only thing he can do. Ashton has this wild and brave approach to design which is so appealing to me. But this are not just crazy and rebelion leaps but results of analytical and insightful thinking, and, of course, bravery.
As an example I show just a few posters but he’ve done the whole bunch of great branding projects, that usually are kind of special and dynamic, so Andrew showcase them with animated gifs.
So make sure you visit Studio Pip and Co. website for other projects!
( Read the rest of this entry » )Originally posted at HELOHOLO.
As for me one of the most interesting and inspirational events of this ICOGRADA congress was an exhibition of the best fonts of Chinese Type Design Competition. I’m sure that even people who are not got used to Chinese characters can appreciate the beauty of this fonts and find inspiration there. And I feel that basic rules and principles are the same for Latin and Chinese type design.
To showcase the font designers use chosen poem with all different characters. They do not make all existing characters for the competition. Well, this is not just 26 letters of alphabet and obviously would take one person years and years to design font with thousands of characters. Usually this is a project for a design team.
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I feel like I had to start with this general post about ICOGRADA event in Beijing.
The last week of October ICOGRADA and Chinese authorities organized international design congress. It was a huge event that attracted designers from all over the world. The big kick to promote China and Beijing in the world and design in China. There were many intersting exhebitions, lectures by prominent international and Chinese designers, workshops, performances and so on.
The main venue of the event was CAFA (China Academy of Fina Arts). This beautiful building is the new CAFA Art Museum, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.
And this is the logotype of the event, stylized Chinese character “XIN”…
And further I’m going to write what it’s all about…
( Read the rest of this entry » )Originally posted at HELOHOLO.Another interesting exhibition featured by ICOGRADA in Beijing was Beijing Typography Exhibition 2009. It showcases typographic works of international and Chinese designers (mostly posters, but also books, motion, light design etc.) in order to explore aproaches and trends in modern typography and embrase cultural diversity. You can read more about exhebition at Faces of Design. Personally, I discovered many interesting Southern Korean designers. Probably need to do some research on this country’s design.
Last week of October was huge for Beijing. ICOGRADA world design congress was held in the city. So interesting! Unfortunatelly it was hard to visit even a half of events, though I spent whole days at the congress. In next few post I will show some pictures from exhebitions I’ve visited.
Like this… “Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century: A Documentary”.
Actually it was limited mostly by posters of communist era and advertisments of the beginning of 20th century. But interesting anyway. Especially to compare exhibits with Russian comminist posters I’ve seen so many times.
So it’s the time to announce official opening of “HELOHOLO says” blog. HELOHOLO gonna says about art, design, China and the rest of the Universe. It’s going to spread seeds of inspiration and flowers of beauty, and hopefully will surprise somebody one day. Or another.
So welcome! Blog is going to live (long and happy life) at heloholo.com/says and also going to be cross-posted to hellgus.livejournal.com
Originally posted at HELOHOLO.
