Astrid Stavro is a graphic designer with an international reputation for concept driven design, distilling complex ideas into uniquely simple and emotionally engaging solutions. She is going to talk about the experience of running her own studio in Spain and then moving to the internationally renowned design agency Pentagram, showcasing a selection of her most iconic projects.

L'articolo Opening Talk – Pentagram proviene da Graphic Days Torino.

The Studio will talk about founding a company with a group of friends and their approach to graphic design as an enterprise based on work and collaboration while giving inside information about key projects.

The talk will be in English.

Olivier Kugler

Escaping Wars and Waves: Drawings with Text documenting the circumstances of Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler is going to present a selection of illustrations portraying Syrian refugees featured in his book Escaping Wars and Waves. He is going to present the project that has started as a commission from Doctors Without Borders and tell how it has developed into a book, as well as describe the process and the people he has encountered. Alongside the finished illustrations, Olivier will also show sketches, large pencil line drawings and reference photos from the locations he had worked at.

The talk will be in English.

High on Type
Being High on Type

Hans Schuttenbeld & Guido de Boer will represent their letterform-enthusiast-collective “High on Type”. Is it possible to experience the members of the High on Type collective in a presentation by just two members? You’ll find out! Prepare for some serious letter fun!

The talk will be in English.

Museum of Movements

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The talk will be in English.

L'articolo Talk 01 proviene da Graphic Days Torino.

A talk with Berlin-based, Spanish illustration duo, Cachetejack: Nuria Bellver and Raquel Fanjul. The pair will bring their fast-paced, fun-packed illustration style to the conference. After meeting at the Fine Arts University in Valencia in 2006, Cachetejack found their collaborative voice through a common sense of humor in the last year of their degree in 2011. Since then, their illustration style has grown, now brimming with joyful color, their signature sense of humor, and a little irony.

The talk will be in English.

Field
Communicate new technologies

This talk will be focused on the relationship between art and technology, which is the starting point of Field’s work to create powerful new formats of visual communication. They will tell about their multiple roles: artists, designers, and consultants across strategy and branding, moving image, and immersive experiences. They also will share with the audience their experience as consultants: the studio helps brands and corporations to successfully communicate the new technologies that are changing our lives right now. As ever-more complex data systems are driving our lives, their focus as designers and artists is to create new metaphors that help people, brands and institutions talk about these most abstract and intangible things.

The talk will be in English.

Studio Yukiko
How to stay motivated and grow in your daily practice

Between tight briefs and demanding clients, making room for your own voice to grow and to stay inspired day to day can be a challenge but is also the key to standing out. Studio Yukiko will tell us how allowing room for mistakes and collaboration can bring unexpected results and new directions, and how challenging approaches to magazine making keeps them on our toes and allows them to create work that is meaningful to us.

The talk will be in English.

Marco Tortoioli Ricci – AIAP
Discrete Violation. Design as a therapy.

Thinking of ourselves as designers, we can live two different attitudes, on one hand acting as minstrels capable of works to be applauded and to be framed, on the other hand acting as instruments capable to make our audience able to grasp at spaces of action, relationship, and occupation. For this reason, Marco Tortoioli Ricci borrowed, as a title of his talk, the “discrete violation” of Gordon Matta Clark, whose work is just beyond the project and accepts to quietly violate the normality of the lived reality, with the aim of making people capable of sensing the exceptional and the marvel of spaces of actions otherwise hard to be seen.

The talk will be in Italian.

L'articolo Talk 02 proviene da Graphic Days Torino.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is interacting with other socio-economic factors to create a perfect storm of changing business models across all industries, resulting in major disruptions to labour markets. Communication channels rise and die. New categories of jobs emerge continuously, partly or wholly displacing others. The skill sets required in both old and new occupations are changing and radically transforming how and where people work. But in the midst of crisis there is opportunity.

The talk will be in English.

Offshore Studio
Foreign Agents

Migrant Journal is a six-issue publication exploring the circulation of people, goods, information, fauna and flora around the world and the transformative impact they have on space. The Art Directors and Co-Editors of the Journal, Isabel Seiffert and Christoph Miler, from Offshore Studio, will introduce the visual and narrative concepts of the publication and provide an insight into its design and production process.

The talk will be in English.

Classmate Studio
Creating experiences

Why is it important what impression a brand leaves on us? How does a brand create a cohesive experience, that then helps to create a community around it? Classmate Studio will go through these topics and show how they strive for incorporating different influences, trends, workflows and tools in their cases to achieve such brand experiences.

The talk will be in English.

Territory Studio
From L.A. to Milan: motion graphics at the heart of storytelling

Territory Studio is a motion graphics specialist internationally recognised for creating original motion graphic treatments that support vision, narrative and world building working across film, games, brands and installations. In this session the motion graphic designer Ambrogio Bergamaschi will share the studio’s creative approach, delving into how Story, Design and Technology support everything from fictional user interface design for science fiction blockbusters like Ready Player One and Blade Runner 2049, to how motion graphics enrich narrative installation experiences for 007 Elements in Sölden, Austria and AQUA: Leonardo’s Vision for Salone del Mobile of Milan.

The talk will be in Italian.

L'articolo Talk 03 proviene da Graphic Days Torino.

With the evolution of technology, the boundaries of what designers can do are expanding every day, this talk aims to give a small peek into what’s possible. Xavier Barrade who started his career as a graphic designer and is now a Creative Lead at Google Creative Lab will take you through his journey from creating posters and books to helping to invent new technologies, create immersive experiences and design digital products that help millions every day.

The talk will be in English.

Spin Studio
Experimentation

In 2017 Spin moved from a conventional studio space into a bespoke studio situated in a garden. They wanted to create an environment that was inspiring and stimulating, one that felt less familiar. Alongside this move into a new space, came the desire to find more opportunities for experimentation and play in their work. Spin will be sharing some of their recent projects and give insights into the creative process and approach to work/experimentation.

The talk will be in English.

République Studio
Graphic design and typography

Every graphic project driven by République Studio begins with a typeface. The studio is always looking for the perfect match between form and content. Tom Uferas, the studio’s founder, will present his work process on various projects and will explain how typography is essential in his way of practicing graphic design.

The talk will be in English.

Muttnik
Behind the scenes

An excursus on the most interesting projects that made Muttnik a graphic design studio.
It mainly focuses on national institutions and cultural activities. The studio members mix their regular job with collateral activities – as giving workshops or teaching – which constantly structure and redefine the studio identity.

The talk will be in Italian.

L'articolo Talk 04 proviene da Graphic Days Torino.

When clients come to DesignStudio they often want something the studio has done before. But every job is unique. DesignStudio tackles problems from whatever direction they come from and no answer is ever the same. They go beyond visual identity and strive to change everything – from business strategy, physical spaces, 3D objects, digital products and new services. They’ll go behind the scenes and share their process and culture. They’ll also share some of their weirder and more wonderful work – as well as the world’s reaction to it.

The talk will be in English.

L'articolo Saturday Night Talk – DesignStudio proviene da Graphic Days Torino.

Through work from book to poster, Spassky Fischer will present his concrete practice of graphic design, his functionalist aesthetics and the economy of his tools. The team will question his taste for systematism, his desire for basic, but also the limits of their practice.

The talk will be in English.

Studio Thonik
Why we design

Roy Terhorst is a senior designer at Thonik, specialized in graphic and motion design. He likes to experiment and plays with shapes in motion to discover new worlds.
Thonik recently published a book about motivations in design under the title “Why We Design”. In 11 themes they explain their body of work but also their reasons for designing. From ‘radical’ to ‘concept’ and ending with ’empowerment’ and ‘change’ they explored the changing of the time, society and their profession.
In addition to new media and motion design, Roy will talk about design concepts: “to make a strong and radical image you need a good concept. Good concepts often are born out of the very essence of the assignment.”

The talk will be in English.

Eye Magazine
A–Z of Eye

In this typographically structured illustrated talk, art director Simon Esterson and editor John L. Walters explain the thinking, editing, designing and tea-drinking behind Eye, ‘the world’s most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal’.
* Learn why Simon changes typefaces for each issue.
* Hear why John is always looking for fresh writers.
* Meet the team behind Eye: Janet South, Sarah Snaith and Holly Catford … not to mention the many writers, translators, photographers, proof-readers, printers and tea-makers who make each issue possible

The talk will be in English.

DUDE
Surprise, it’s a fake!

In a world that compares artificial intelligence and human interaction, the pursuit of big data and the search for the perfect idea, what are the ingredients for a memorable campaign?

The talk will be in Italian.

L'articolo Talk 05 proviene da Graphic Days Torino.

Felix Pfäffli and Raphael Leutenegger from Studio Feixen are going to share their fresh view on what is it like being a designer nowadays. Studio Feixen’s smart combination of different disciplines will be revealed through their most successful projects. The two designers will tell about the balance between digital and analogic features working with internationally known brands like Nike, Google, Hermès or The New York Times, but most of all they will share what they love about their everyday work!

The talk will be in English.

Yara Said
The Refugee Nation

In 2016, Yara Said was commissioned to design a flag for the refugee team that went to the Olympics, since the athletes who come from 5 different countries did not have a flag to represent them and had to carry the Olympics flag, the idea was born. The design is black and orange simulating the experience of crossing to arrive. Said will explain the thought process behind designing the Refugee nation flag, and will talk about artist’s role in contributing to society through social design.

The talk will be in English.

Ovidiu Hrin – Synopsis:
Design for music, design as music

Ovidiu Hrin will share stories from his experience designing for the music industry. From working closely with artists and bands for their album covers and posters or with music festivals for their communication materials, the process behind is about understanding the music, feeling the vibes and translating everything into a visual language.

The talk will be in English.

Dalton Maag
TypePlaces

How can the flavor of a city inspire the design of new typefaces?
From road signs to shop windows, letters in the public space play a vital role in the perception of cultural identity. Type can be shaped by the heritage of a local community, and in turn, comes to represent its visual character to the eyes of the world. To better understand how this happens, they will look at selected project case studies that explore the relationship between type and place together with Dalton Maag.

The talk will be in Italian.

L'articolo Talk 06 proviene da Graphic Days Torino.