Monday, 18 December 2006 | Levent OZLER
Échirolles Graphic Design Month 2006
17 November 2006 - 20 January 2007
Graphic Design Month, now in its 17th year, continues to explore the relations between graphic design and society.
The 9 women graphic designers exhibition showcases the work of designers of different
generations working in the United States, Colombia, Peru, the Czech Republic, the Lebanon, Japan, Portugal, Poland and Belgium. The cultural, social and political context in which each woman works elucidates the exhibition.
The Anette Lenz: poetic constructions exhibition gives an insight into the world of this well-known graphic designer, who designed the poster for this year's event.
One hundred contemporary French posters endeavours to give an overview of current graphic design in France, while Posters From Here offers a selection of posters produced
by designers from the Grenoble area.
Proof positive that the poster is alive and well when it draws on its traditions, local identities and remains open to visual modernity.
Studio Dumbar, the Dutch Touch introduces for the first time in France a studio that is emblematic of Dutch graphic design and has a firmly established international reputation.
The quality of its work and the wide diversity of its clientele clearly shows that this is a Dutch company with a strong visual culture.
Justin Grégoire, a smile between the fingers is a real gem. It is also an opportunity to recognise the talent and sensitivity of a little-known designer. The paper cut-out technique that he favoured, coupled with his talent, has resulted printed pieces of great simplicity and humanity.
We then pay tribute to Morteza Momayez, who died recently. Since the 1970s he has been the leading exponent of the new Iranian graphic design that drew on traditions to open itself up and make itself known to the world. We celebrated this in 2002. This exhibition
includes contributions from internationally renowned poster designers who salute his memory.
Topics 4, exhibits work by pupils from 7 European countries, via our website teaching-design.com. This is a continuation of an educational project begun several years ago by the Lycée Marie-Curie in Échirolles. What image do we have of the Other? How are we to combat the stereotypes that oversimplify cultures, traditions and lifestyles that are foreign to us? The answers given by these young Europeans are very interesting and shed light on their perception of identity.
Meetings, lectures and workshops are also being held for visitors to Graphic Design Month: professionals, students, school children and the general public. Forums for debate and discussion designed to promote an understanding of the challenges that images represent
in our societies.
The 2006 event is once again a set of proposals, of discoveries and rediscoveries of graphic designers whose work reflects an approach and takes place in a context and a specific
world that is open to the greatest number of people to see. This is the intrinsic nature of the Centre du Graphisme which has existed at Échirolles for a long time "without walls" but which is firmly rooted in a political will that gives it life.
http://www.graphisme-echirolles.com/pdf/gr...-month-2006.pdf
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