GRAPHIC DAYS® TOUCH
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Ten days of initiatives dedicated to visual design. The new edition of the festival includes exhibitions, performances, experiential activities and workshops within the space of the headquarters at Toolbox Coworking and numerous events spread throughout the city. Touch is the fil rouge of the sixth edition of the international festival dedicated to visual design, an invitation to return to physicality and sensoriality, an invitation to stay in contact.
Dark Room Experience
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The search for new, experimental language that characterizes the Neology project takes shape at the beginning of the exhibition path through a dark room: immersive projections, stroboscopic light shows, interactive installations directly involve the viewer who participates in the construction of a visual result.
Through the language of visual design a reflection is developed on how, not only the way of relating to people but also objects have changed due to the physical distancing imposed by the pandemic.
Neologia
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A window dedicated to projects carried out by young Italian designers under 30, innovative, experimental and characterized by stylistic and language contamination. The exhibition is the result of a call conceived by Graphic Days® which has selected 100 works within 4 categories: Motion Graphic, Poster Design, Editorial Design and GIF.
The Neology Project is aimed at the enhancement of young Italian talents in the world of visual design today, creating a network in the panorama of visual culture in Italy and promoting new language and experiments in visual communication.
As found in dictionaries, the term “neology” indicates the process of enrichment through the creation of new words and expressions. In the same way the initiative aims to highlight the ability of young designers to embrace stimuli, sometimes external to the world of design, reinterpreting them and making them merge into new forms and orientations.
Eyes On Ukraine
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Eyes On is the international exhibition hosted within Graphic Days® since 2016 with the aim of showing the history and values of a selected country through graphic works dedicated to people's daily life, traditions and culture. Structured in different sections, the initiative includes various activities, such as workshops and conferences. In past editions, Graphic Days® has invited Spain (2017), Poland (2018), Romania (2019), China (2019) and the Netherlands (2021) to be the protagonists of a dedicated exhibition.
Through Eyes On Ukraine, Graphic Days®, together with the Ukrainian Institute, wants to show the international community the hidden potential of contemporary visual and graphic communication in Ukraine, giving priority to both the country's heritage and recent trends.
The projects on show are intended to represent a unique visual identity of the country, presenting famous designers who have defined its origins and young supporters of the Ukrainian style.
Among the invited realities, there are some of the most renowned representatives of the Ukrainian graphic and illustration scene, including Pictoric Illustrators Club, the Telegraf.Design collective, the graphic design studio KULTURA and the winners of the Best Book Design competition, organized from the Kyiv Book Arsenal Festival.
Many Many - Manifesti contatti
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An unpublished exhibition that presents a selection of the works of the artist Cecilia Campironi. In her works, the illustrator addresses issues related to the human being such as habits and moods; physical contact and in particular the hands, are a recurring trait in his poetics, a perfect synthesis to tell the Touch theme of Graphic Days® 2021.
The first illustrations dedicated to the hands were created in response to a call launched by Squame magazine, which chose one for the cover; since then they have become a series, depicted in all shapes and colors, as a sort of catalog, another distinctive feature of the author.
We mix design and people
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A path between social design projects that combine social commitment and visual communication, design always has a strong impact on society, thanks to its ability to communicate in a visual and immediate way and to reduce the distance between the message and the interlocutor. When visual design is dedicated to social issues, in addition to conveying information, it stimulates debate and educates the public, with the aim of making the beneficiaries active and orientated to change.
On display are social design projects following a path that leads from the individual to the ecosystem: starting from issues relating to the person, health and accessability, therefore to relationships between individuals by presenting projects relating to social and gender inequality; the third level is that of communities addressing issues such as racism, immigration and cultural identity and finally we move on to the community – environment ecosystem analyzing the impact that man has on planet Earth with case studies related to climate change and pollution.
Posterheroes: Becoming E-quals
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Digital inclusion is the theme of the tenth edition of the social communication competition Posterheroes, the international competition which confronts communication issues every year, asking the creative community to express powerful messages through 70×100 posters.
As a consequence of the pandemic and lockdown, it has become increasingly evident that in contemporary society equality is measured by the possibility to access the opportunities connected to information systems. The objective of the initiative is therefore to promote through posters a positive scenario in which accessability, inclusion and equality in the digital world are guaranteed, responding to the question: are we becoming e-quals?
Over the years more than 10 thousand posters from over 100 different countries have been candidated; the selection is administered by an international jury of experts in the fields of illustration, animation, art and visual communication.
On the occasion of the 10 years of the initiative, in addition to the 40 winners of 2021, the posters of the prizewinners from the previous editions will also be exhibited during the Graphic Days®.
The call is promoted by the PLUG Association, the FAVINI paper mill and the International Training Center.
Il corpo non mente
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Greetings, normality, distance, care: 4 terms to tell how our relationship with the body has changed following the spread of Covid-19. Beyond the different subtlties, all the measures implemented by governments have forced the world population to live in conditions that limit the freedom to move, to meet other people, to interact, to touch.
At the center of this epochal change is the human body, which has had to adapt to different conditions: it has been the vehicle of the virus, sanitized by individual devices, forced inside four walls, subjected to social distancing, monitored and tested with swabs and medical examinations; finally it has become virtual: talking, working, having fun, socializing are activities that have been gradually filtered by webcams and computer and telephone screens.
The body is and remains the only starting point, the only perspective to move, to know, to interact with the world and the beings that inhabit it. The body is the most reliable litmus test to understand what has changed compared to just a year ago and to try to glimpse what lies ahead in the future.
The exhibition presents the works created by the students of the course in Visual Communication of the summer semester 2021, held at the Faculty of Design and Free Arts, University of Bolzano, directed by Giorgio Camuffo with Emanuela De Cecco and Andrea Facchinetti.
Market Fair
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Not only a fair, but also a cultural project.
From September 26 to 27 craftsmen, artists, and small publishers exhibited their works in an outdoor fair, in the spaces surrounding the main venue of the festival, Toolbox Coworking. However, it wasn't only a sales area, but, on the contrary, each exhibitor involved the public in live performances and improvised laboratory activities.
In the city
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Among the appointments, September 17th was the day of ‘In the City‘, the calendar of initiatives curated by visual design studios and cultural institutions of Turin.
A PROJECT BY: Print Club Torino, Quattrolinee
ART DIRECTION: Ilaria Reposo, Fabio Guida
CORE TEAM: Giorgia Aguiari, Raffaella Bucci, Luisella Cresto, Giacomo Martini, Marta Marucco, Kseniia Obukhova, Giuseppe Quercia, Daria Roncallo, Svyatoslav Sudakov, Irene Tozzi
Special thanks to:
Dark Room Experience / Diego Bert, Alessandro D’Avella, Riccardo Lucii, Paolo Rucci, Matteo Pierini, Andrea Scelfo
Neologia / Beatrice Cauda, Marta Celso, Giada Fiorenza
Eyes On Ukraine / Lorenzo Indiana Rabottino
We mix design and people / Lorenzo Musacchio, Mattia Serratrice, Giulia Zanzarella
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Workshops: Studio Seri/graph / Mixed Superstructure and Postmodern Compositions — Dalton Maag / Anatomy of a logotype — Gianluca Folì / ATTEMPTS – How to design a book cover: Ostinato Sguardo — Print Club Torino / Biùtiful Mistakes — Mogol 2.0 – Artificial intelligence for composing texts (and music)
