Exhibition view, Royal College of Art, 2008
Posters + video projection

Introduction: If anything has changed in the world since 1977, when philosopher Paul Virilio wrote his first book on speed, it is that everything has become even faster. Graphic design is no exception.
Economy and technology impose an hallucinating rhythm to society, to culture, to design. This forces the designer to have less time to think and far more areas of art and design to embrace, thus stretching their boundaries.
What remains is the imminent need to move simultaneously in every direction, to move on, to continuously flood cities (and design) with movement. In this sense - while losing its identity - graphic design is, more than ever, a nomadic discipline. There is no time to consider history, only to produce, to deliver.
Inevitably, fastness equals superficiality.

This film is part of a series of visual experiments to materialize critical writings on the contemporary practice of graphic design. It aims to enrich the ongoing discussion of graphic design as art (Coles, Alex (ed); Design and Art, MIT Press + Whitechapel Gallery), through the use of film.
The series of works are titled “Graphic Design Criticism”, Royal College of Art, 2007.

On the edge of life was the title given to a reflection about the problematic of premature babies. The audio-visual collaboration between the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Art, took place at the Bath Music Festival, Bath, UK.
The relations between kinetic and sound were explored, creating an involving environment; drawing with music. Collaboration with musicians Maria Klatka, Ieva Rutentale and Tomasz Pokrzywinski. 2007

Poster designed to visually structure Bas Raijmaker’s PhD thesis, titled Design Documentaries. The poster was on display at the Great Exhibition, Kensington Gardens.
Co-designed with Catherine Guiral. 2007

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