Graphic Days® Torino is a four-day international festival dedicated to visual design, which takes place at Toolbox Coworking (Turin, Italy). The festival, born in 2016, aims at enhancing the cultural value of visual communication, inspiring people who work with creativity, promoting a cultural exchange through a wide programme of workshops, exhibitions, conferences, performances and a market fair. The initiative also aims at shortening the distance between the professionals and the people who don’t work in the visual communication field, bringing to Turin the most interesting artists of the international scene.
The fourth edition of Graphic Days® Torino is focusing on the combination between visual design and social issues. This year our Organisation has chosen to deal with the topic “integration”. We have been involving foreign communities living in our territory or connected to our event in order to realize together some projects on visual communication and cultural identities, enhancing excellence coming from different nations. The result is a multicultural path that crosses the festival through different activities and exhibitions to display the contamination among populations, but also among different perceptions, skills and abilities.
Talks: Astrid Stavro – Pentagram, Tsto, Olivier Kugler, High on Type, Museum of Movements, Cachetejack, Field, Studio Yukiko, Marco Tortoioli Ricci,
Folch, Offshore Studio, Classmate Studio, Territory Studio, Xavier Barrade – Google Creative Lab, Spin Studio, République Studio, Muttnik,
DesignStudio, Spassky Fischer, Thonik, Eye Magazine, DUDE, Studio Feixen, Yara Said, Ovidiu Hrin – Synopsis, Dalton Maag
Workshops: Emanuele Colombo/Antimatter – The illusion of life, Classmate Studio – Integrating Ideas, Muttnik – Greetings from Alps, Le Raclet + Cachetejack – Consequences, High on Type – Alphabet Zine, We are out of office – The supermarket, Tomo Tomo – The guide book form
Performances: Kitra, Andrea Casciu, Marco Brancato, Marco Oggian, Gabriele Pino, Giovanni Da Re, Sara Ciprandi, Davide Salvemini, Martina Vanda, Jacopo Rosati, Giulia Pastorino, High on Type, Giulio Vesprini, La Fille Bertha, Momusso, Elisa Macellari, Nico189, Margherita Premuroso, Irene e Irene, Alice Piaggio, Camilla Pintonato, Andrea Opretti, Marta Giunipero, Cecilia Campironi, Irene Coletto
Exhibitions: One hundred stories, one face by Marco Oggian and Nicola Schwartz / Alchemica Gallery by Yuh Kuo Tai, Rafaella Roccella, Manolo Turri / A word, a week by Jeroen Krielaars / Draw to Art by Google Creative Lab, Google Arts & Culture Lab, IYOIYO / Eyes on Romania by Fabio Guida, Ilaria Reposo, Kseniia Obukhova, Denisa Moldovan / Eye magazine: 8000 one-offs by Eye magazine / Affiche di Jean Jullien by Associazione Tapirulan / De-tales: a story about cultural identity by Goethe-Institut Torino, Print Club Torino, Graphic Days® Torino / Lora Lamm by Mario Piazza, Graphic Days® Torino / Bernie Fuchs: Controlled Looseness by Macstudio, Graphic Days® Torino / Escaping Wars and Waves by Olivier Kugler / COLORS, a magazine about the rest of the world by Marco Rubiola, FABRICA / Posterheroes - A poster for integration by Associazione Plug, in collaboration with con Favini / Unveiled Places by Martina Zena, Graphic Days® Torino
Market Fair: Archivio Tipografico, Atto, Bottega Fagnola, Cose a caso Design, Edicola 518, Edizioni Precarie, Libri finti clandestini, My Monkey, Print Club Torino, Stamperia d'arte Bustato, Tapirulan
Collaboration: Graphic Sound contest | Performance and Award Ceremony, Breakfast with Freeda, Workshop “Making videos with the Sony system: cameras or video cameras?”, Fedrigoni presents “Paper and digital: a possible integration”, Talk “Videomaking in a backpack” with Slim Dogs (in collaboration with BenQ), Workshop “Raise your flag!” with Freeda, Portfolio review with Xavier Barrade, Posterheroes contest | Award ceremony, Workshop “The 5 secrets to drawing with a vertical plotter” with Scribit, Portfolio review with Fabrica, 1st BenQ Workshop with Martin Benes, 2nd BenQ Workshop with Martin Benes, Mamma mia, let me draw! with Caffè Design, Workshop “Generative design with Max8” with Rajan Craveri, Workshop with CFP Bauer – AFOL Metropolitana, 1st BenQ Workshop with Massimo Nava, Chiara Riva presents “The sense behind the Line”, 2nd BenQ Workshop with Massimo Nava
A project of: Print Club Torino, PLUG, Tal Try Again Lab, Quattrolinee, Mg2 Architetture
ART DIRECTION: Fabio Guida, Ilaria Reposo
CORE TEAM: Alessandra Morello, Alice Cardona, Kseniia Obukhova, Luca Porracchia, Marta Marucco, Simona Di Nucci
TEAM MEDIA: Alberto Costa, Alessandro Colonna, Bianca Mancin, Brando Baumgartl, Claudio Caradonna, Gabriele Abruzzese, Ilaria Bellin, Ilaria Loi, Irene Bordoni, Joelle Gyppaz, Juan Camilo Bertolotti, Lorenzo Milito, Lorenzo Ritorto, Marco Bubbio, Maria Anna Camporeale, Mariangela Martina, Marta Cavallari, Riccardo Grasso, Tancredi Pino, Vassiliki Arianna Deij
COLLABORATORI: Alessandro Tassistro, Anna Oliveri, Anna Priolo, Chiara Ferrari, Chiara Liistro, Chiara Pellizzari, Denisa Moldovan, Elena Ferrari, Francesca Raciti, Greta Panero, Lorenzo Baracco, Lorenzo Genta, Martina Guarneri, Nicole Bruzzì
