Commission from the Bishopsgate Institute to design a series of posters for the 2008/09 concerts. These posters follow a commission to design the identity of BEAP - Bishopsgate Emerging Artists Programme. Posters in collaboration with Karen Lacroix. Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm.
New year card and limited edition of a 50 x 70 cm poster for Imaginaid Gallery. The illustration has 365 different typefaces and is printed on 100% recycled paper.
Commission from Imaginaid and the Swiss Confederation to design a poster about 3 artistic events around the 9th Meeting of the States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2008. The three events included a photography exhibition, a dance performance and an urban installation.
The poster was displayed in Geneva, Basel and Zurich, Switzerland. Poster 70 x 100 cm + A5 booklet + A5 invitation, 2008.
Logo for BEAP - Bishopsgate Emerging Artists Programme. BEAP highlights the work of the next generation of cutting edge musicians and composers.
This booklet compiles all the events taking place at the Fulham Palace, from music, to talks, guided tours, art and museum exhibition, amongst others. Dimensions: A5, 32 pp., 1 colour.
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.
Proximity and Abstraction, an exhibition of photography and film by Mikael Gregorsky and Abbe Leigh Fletcher at the Fulham Palace Gallery.
A5 catalogue, A5 invitation which unfolds into an A2 poster and exhibition graphics.
Client: Fulham Palace Gallery, 2008.
Article published on ARC 11, UK.
You can read the discussion between Francisco Laranjo, Catherine Guiral and Randy Nakamura, by clicking here. To read the article “Shock(ing)-gun”, click under the image.
Graphic design is submerged in ambiguity, having on the word “playfulness” one of the crucial elements that can explain this reality.
This is a proposal to materialize a theoretical idea, in order to prompt discussion amongst students, practitioners and the audience.
This installation was exhibited during the month of December at the Royal College of Art, London, 2007.
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.