P r e ss k i t
La conférence
de presse du mois
du Graphisme
aura lieu
le mardi 24 octobre
à 14 heures
au musée
des Arts décoratifs,
111 rue de Rivoli,
75001 Paris.
Échirolles Graphic Design
Month 2006
contact Véronique Marrier +33 6 82 45 55 15 vmarrier@free.fr
17 November 2006
20 January 2007
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Exhibitions
9 women graphic designers
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Anette Lenz: Poetic Constructions
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Studio Dumbar: the Dutch Touch
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Justin Grégoire, a smile between the fingers
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Tribute to Morteza Momayez
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One hundred contemporary French posters
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Posters From Here
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Topics 4
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Other events
Talks
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Workshops
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Practical
Organisers and partners
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The Acrobat version (in colour) can be downloaded from:
http://www.graphisme-echirolles.com/pdf/graphic-design-month-2006.pdf
La version Acrobat (en couleurs) du dossier de presse peut être téléchargée à l’adresse
http://www.graphisme-echirolles.com/pdf/mois-graphisme-2006.pdf
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C o n te n ts
Introduction
Diego Zaccaria
Chief Representative of the Centre du Graphisme at Échirolles
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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.
A book is being published to accompany this exhibition.
Exhibition organiser: Michel Bouvet
Exhibition design: Philippe Veyrunes with the assistance of Laurence Delmas
Production: Centre du graphisme
With support from the Town of Pont-de-Claix
Moulins de Villancourt, Échirolles
17 November 2006 to 20 January 2007
Monday to Friday 1 pm to 6 pm
Weekends 2 pm to 6 pm
Closed 23 December to 1 January
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The exhibitions “Graphic Designers around the world” (2000), “East Coast/West Coast,
graphic designers in the United States” (2002), “Swinging London, graphic design and
music today” (2004) offered a broad panorama of contemporary graphic design.
The “9 women graphic designers” exhibition will showcase the work of women
graphic designers around the world. Without any preconception or bias, it gives the floor
to those who, by their outstanding practice of the profession of graphic designer, are able
to bear witness to their personal experience in their city or their country, thereby giving
forceful expression to the implicit relation between the artist and society.
Consisting mostly of graphic design pieces, the exhibition also surveys historical,
geographical, economic, cultural and social contexts as determining factors in the place
occupied by a graphic designer in the country in which she lives and works. Exploring
geographical regions often not well known in these spheres, such as the Middle East or
Latin America, 9 women graphic designers allows us to discover and better understand the
relationship between graphic design and society in countries that are very different to one
another.
Yuko Araki (Japan), Chaos ’06,
poster for the 2006 graduate show,
Kobe Design School, Japan, 2006
Joanna Górska, Homework (Poland),
poster for the sixth Spanish Film in
Poland Week, 2006
Joanna Górska - Homework, Warsaw (Poland) Born in Poland in 1976, Joanna Górska studied
at Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts then obtained a grant to continue her studies at the
ESAG/Penninghen in Paris. During 2001 and 2002, she worked as a graphic designer in
the Pracownia studio, then founded her own studio in Warsaw with Jerzy Skakun, named
Homework. The originality and quality of her work has already been honoured with a great
many distinctions, including an honourable mention in 2002 at the Warsaw International
Poster Biennial and the Silver Medal of the Mexico International Poster Biennial in 2004.
In a country in which the poster is regarded as one of the fine arts, it is well-known that it
is more difficult there than elsewhere to make a name for oneself. Among this new generation of Polish graphic designers, it is undeniable that Joanna Górska, through the powerful
evocation of her images, has found her place.
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Yuko Araki - Landsat Grafico, Osaka (Japan) Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1965, Yuko Araki is selftaught. She is one of the few women members of JAGDA, the association of Japanese graphic
designers, and of the highly prestigious Tokyo Type Directors Club. Having worked as a
graphic designer and artistic director from 1988 to 2006 at the studio Hundred Design
founded by Keizo Matsui in Osaka, she opened her own studio called Landsat Grafico in
2006. Invited to sit on the jury of national competitions on many occasions, since 1990
she has herself received very many international distinctions including the Silver Medal of
the New York Art Directors Club, the Gold Medal at the Stuttgart Calendar Show and the
Package Design in Japan Biennial Gold Award. An associate professor in Kobe University’s
Department of Visual Communication, Yuko Araki embodies perfectly this new generation
of independent and rigorous Japanese graphic designers.
Marta Granados (Colombia), poster
for the second Bogota Iberian-American
Drama Festival, 1990.
April Greiman (USA), “Urban Revision”,
catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, 1994.
April Greiman, Los Angeles (California, United States) Born in New York, April Greiman studied
graphic design at the Allgemeine Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland, then in Kansas
City Art Institute, in the United States. In 1976 she moved to Los Angeles where she founded
her multidisciplinary studio called Made in Space. A pioneer in digital design thanks to
her experimentation with the Apple Macintosh and Quantel Paintbox, for clients such as
Esprit, US West, the Walker Art Center or the SCI-Arc, her work soon gained worldwide
recognition. In 1995 the United States Postal Service commissioned her to design the stamp
commemorating the 19th Amendment of the American Constitution. 150 million copies of
the stamp were printed. Passionate about the relationship between technology, science and
myth, symbols, texts, images and space, she has worked with many architects such as Frank
O. Gehry. Holder of honorary doctorates from the Universities of San Francisco, Boston
and Kansas, April Greiman, whose work has been exhibited all over the world, is today one
of the most legendary figures of graphic design in the United States.
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Marta Granados, Bogotá (Colombia) Born in Colombia, Marta Granados, a graduate of the
Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, continued her studies at
the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design in London. On returning to Colombia, she worked on major
projects for the Colombian Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Museum of
Modern Art of Bogotá and the National Theatre. Having participated in the majority of leading international poster biennials in Poland, Finland, the United States, Japan and Mexico, a
major individual exhibition of her work was put on in the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art. A
member of the jury in many international competitions, she has for many years held a chair in
design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. With her inspired,
vibrantly coloured work, closely linked to the cultural and ecological development of her country, Marta Granados makes an outstanding visual affirmation of Colombian identity.
Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio (Peru),
“No es No”, poster denouncing violence
to women, 2001.
Leila A. Musfy (Lebanon), cover
of the Beiteddine Festival catalogue,
1996.
Leila A. Musfy, Beirut (Lebanon) From 1975 to 1981, Leila A. Musfy studied at the American
University of Beirut, at Kansas City Art Institute and at the prestigious Cranbrook Academy
of Art in Michigan, United States. Fascinated with the adaptation of Arabic typography to
contemporary technological and cultural changes, she has been teaching graphic design
since 1992 at the department of architecture and design of the American University of
Beirut. As a typographer and graphic designer, she works for many clients in the Middle
East such as the Beiteddine Festival, the Organisation of Arab Architects, Beirut Theatre
and several art galleries and public or private institutions. A lecturer, member of juries
and workshop organiser, she has participated in exhibitions in Amsterdam, Zagreb, Seoul,
Damascus, Los Angeles, New York and in Paris, at the Institut du Monde Arabe in the
“Women artists of the Lebanon” exhibition. Through her commitment as a professional and
teacher in Beirut, Leila A. Musfy for the first time offers the European public a vision of a
dynamic practice of graphic design in the Middle East.
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Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio, Lima (Peru) Born in Lima, Peru, in 1973, Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio studied at the Faculty of Art of the Catholic University of Peru. Since 1990, she has taken part
in many exhibitions of painting, design, engraving and photography and she teaches in
many Peruvian universities. Having received many awards for her work as a visual artist,
she has also worked for around fifteen years as a graphic designer for the main Peruvian
NGOs (Non-governmental organisations) on themes such as human rights, the condition
of women, health or literacy for disadvantaged populations. It is in this area in particular
that Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio is showing, for the first time outside her own country, large
posters in luminous and fluorescent colours, with simple and original typography. There
is no doubt that her posters produce a particularly flamboyant effect on the walls of the
Peruvian capital.
Clotilde Olyff (Belgium), “galet moyen”
[medium pebble] alphabet, begun in 1990.
Kveta Pacovská (Czech Republic),
poster for solo exhibition at Leipzig
city library, 1997.
Kveta Pacovská, Prague (Czech Republic) Kveta Pacovská was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia,
in 1928. She graduated from the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in 1952 and went on to work
in graphic design, painting, conceptual art and creating books. Over seventy individual
exhibitions have been devoted to her since 1961, the year she began to develop her art of
three-dimensional illustrated books. These have been translated into some ten languages
including Chinese. Invited as a guest lecturer at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin in 1992
and 1993, she realised a garden project for the Chihiro Art Museum in Nagano, Japan, in
1997. In 1999, Kveta Pacovská was awarded an honorary doctorate in design by Kingston
University in the United Kingdom. A worthy heir to the great and renowned Czech School
of the Image, in her work she expresses brilliantly the possibility of bringing together the
visual arts, graphic design and typography.
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Clotilde Olyff, Brussels (Belgium) Born in 1962, Clotilde Olyff studied at the Ecole Supérieure
de l’Image le 75 then at the ENSAV La Cambre national school of visual arts in Brussels.
She currently divides her time between teaching and practice of typography and graphic
design. Since 1993 she has been a lecturer at the Ecole Supérieure de l’Image le 75. As a
typographer, she designs logos, stamps for the Belgian post office, posters for many clients and designs and typographic games in volume which is a particularly original area
of her personal work. She is a member of the Rencontres Internationales de Lure, of the
ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) and since 2004 of the select Alliance
Graphique Internationale. Her work has appeared in many publications including Font
Shop International in Berlin and Font Bureau in Boston, in the United States, as well as in
a great many exhibitions in typography biennials worldwide. Clotilde Olyff, who comes
from a country still imbued with surrealism, and who converts typography into visual
poetry with great flair, will be exhibiting her three-dimensional alphabets in France for the
first time.
Lizá Ramalho, R2 Design (Portugal),
“Boca”, poster for the Teatro Bruto,
2004.
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Lizá Ramalho - R2 design, Porto (Portugal) A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the
Universidade do Porto, Portugal, Lizá Ramalho set up the R2 Design studio with Artur
Rebelo in 1995. A graphic designer and artistic director of this studio, she has also taught
graphic design at the Instituto Politécnico de Porto since 1996. While the studio works
with a great many cultural institutions (museums, theatres, etc.) on major visual identity campaigns, posters and catalogues, R2 Design also takes part in many international
exhibitions and has received many prestigious awards from organisations such as the Type
Directors Club, United States, the Toyama Poster Triennial, in Japan, and very recently,
in June 2006, the top prize of the International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno, Czech
Republic. Having obtained a DEA (Advanced Studies Diploma) in design research from
the University of Barcelona in 2005, Lizá Ramalho is now working for a doctorate there
whilst continuing her graphic design work in her Porto studio. She has a talent that today
brings her the admiration of her peers throughout the world.
Proposed by Diego Zaccaria
Exhibition design: Mad & Gérard Lyotaud
Production: Centre du graphisme
Hôtel de Ville, Échirolles
17 November 2006 to 20 January 2007
Monday to Friday 8 am to 5.30 pm
Saturdays 8 am to 12 noon
Closed on public holidays
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A n e t t e L e n z : Po e ti c C o n str u c ti o n s
Anette Lenz graduated in Applied Arts in Munich. She arrived in France in 1990 and worked
at Grapus then Nous Travaillons Ensemble until 1993, when she opened her own studio.
Having attracted attention through her environmental awareness campaigns for
the town of Blanc-Mesnil, she developed her work in the institutional and cultural spheres:
French Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Youth and Sports, Radio France, AFAA
(Association française d’action artistique), Musée de la Poste and Musée de l’Ermitage, the
town of Chaumont, the French Senate, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Théâtre de Rungis, and
in association with Vincent Perrottet, the Théâtre d’Angoulême and Le Nouveau Relax
theatre at Chaumont.
She frequently devises graphic systems for her clients that are then adapted
according to the season or event. Her posters then form series that bear witness to the force
and inventiveness of her work.
She is a member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). She was awarded
the Gold Medal at the Brno Biennial in 2002, the prize of honour at the Lathi Biennial in
2003, the Silver Medal at the Iran Biennial in 2004, the top prize at the Ningbo Biennial in
China in 2004 and the top prize at the Moscow Biennial in September 2006. In 2005 she
was awarded the “Kunsthofrüttenscheidpreis” prize for her entire body of poster work.
She was commissioned to design the poster for the 2006 Graphic Design Month by the
Centre du Graphisme at Échirolles.
Anette Lenz
and Vincent
Perrottet,
La tête dans
les nuages,
Angoulême
theatre,
2005
& 2006.
Un Tartuffe, from a series of 17 posters, for the Rungis
theatre, 2001.
Female figures, series of 9 posters for Radio France
themed concert weekends, 2001.
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Le BlancMesnil:
Dehors
c’est aussi
chez vous,
1994.
International
Fight
Discrimination Day,
2002.
Exhibition organiser: Alain Le Quernec with the assistance of Carolina Rojas
Exhibition design: Philippe Veyrunes with the assistance of Laurence Delmas
Production: Centre du graphisme
La Rampe, Échirolles
17 November 2006 to 20 January 2007
Monday to Friday 1 pm to 6 pm
Weekends 2 pm to 6 pm
Closed 23 December to 1 January
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S t u d i o D u m b a r : th e D u tc h To u c h
Founded by Gert Dumbar in 1977, Studio Dumbar has undertaken ambitious visual identity
campaigns for clients in the institutional, cultural and commercial spheres. These include
IBM, Philips, Apple Computer Europe, PTT Post - the Dutch postal service provider - and
the Dutch national police, the Holland Dance Festival, the Het National Toneel and the
Zeebelt Theater
Since 1977, Dumbar has, for example, designed visual identity systems for PTT
Post. This long-term collaboration has accompanied the growth of the institution, finding
expression in a succession of complete overhauls of its graphic systems.
The team, directed by Michel de Boer since 2002, is made up of around thirty
designers, many of them young and from different backgrounds and different countries.
This ensures that innovation and inventiveness remain a constant feature.
In Holland, the graphic culture is deeper and more integrated in people’s minds
than it is in France, both among decision makers and consumers. Visitors to Graphic
Design Month were able to see this for themselves at the Anthon Beeke and Joost Swarte
exhibitions in 2002 and 2004 respectively.
The work of Studio Dumbar reflects this rigorous approach and the perfection
of this tradition. In spite of its international reputation, no exhibition has ever before
been devoted to it in France. Posters, visual identities, publications and websites will be
on display to illustrate the range of work, formats and communication media designed by
Dumbar.
A book of the Design&Designers collection is being published by Éditions
Pyramyd to accompany the exhibition.
Visual
identities
of the
Dutch
police
and postal
service.
© Studio
Dumbar.
Pulchri
Studio,
2003,
© Studio
Dumbar.
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Holland
Dance
Festival,
1995,
© Studio
Dumbar.
Exhibition organisers: Anita Gallego and François Weil
Exhibition design: Philippe Veyrunes with the assistance of Laurence Delmas
Digital treatment: Rémi Michel
Production: Centre du graphisme
With the support of the Museum départemental de Gap
The exhibition has been the subject of an educational project by Louis Soubeyran, cultural
mediator of the Musée Géo-Charles in partnership with Bernard Vendra, visual arts consultant for national education and the Maison des Ecrits at Échirolles.
Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles
17 November 2006 to 20 January 2007
Monday to Friday 1 pm to 6 pm
Weekends 2 pm to 6 pm
Closed 23 December to 1 January
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J u st in Gr é g o i r e , a s m i l e b e tw e e n th e fi n g e r s
All his life Justin Grégoire (1917-1991) was filled by an indisputable need to express his relationship to the world through drawing. An explorer of all forms of graphic expression, he
left a body of work of incredible density. An intimate body of work, largely for a limited
audience, and this is a reflection of the man’s humility; Provence has a strong presence, the
landscapes of the Luberon, scenes from ordinary life, portraits… Hundreds of sketchbooks
recreate these snapshots. His line is warm and extremely effective.
A painter and engraver until the mid-1950s, it seems that the end of that decade
marked his work with a radical choice. In his concern to refine and synthesise forms, he
began to use paper cut-outs and this form of expression became his preferred technique.
Colour gave way to black and white before he reintroduced it much later in his postcards.
These, occupying a special place in his work, illustrate in a playful search, his insatiable
desire to communicate.
Justin Grégoire followed an individual path that he deliberately created outside
current trends. His work, in its diversity of expression, shows great aesthetic unity. It is time
that this was brought to light and shared with a wider public.
Animation
board
made from
a paper
cut-out.
Landscape,
paper
cut-out.
Pair
of scissors,
paper
cut-out.
Ciel!
paper
cut-out.
© Justin Grégoire.
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Selfportrait,
paper
cut-out.
Lycée Marie-Curie, Échirolles
17 November 2006 to 20 January 2007
Monday to Friday 8 am to 6 pm
Saturdays 8 am to 12 noon
Closed 23 December to 7 January
Mortaya
Momayez,
“We Iranians
after three
thousand
years”
series,
2002.
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Tr i b u t e to M o r te za M o m a ye z
In 2002, Graphic Design Month put Iranian graphic design in pride of place in its exhibition
A Persian Cry. Morteza Momayez was a leading exponent from the 1970s, and the revered
teacher of all the young graphic designers whose talent is flourishing today.
Recently deceased, he lives on in his work and his memory is kept alive by his students and
by those who knew him.
This exhibition, also held last August in Teheran, consists of visual testimonies by poster
designers of international renown paying tribute to him and some of his own work.
It is being held at the Lycée Marie-Curie with a view to giving the younger generation an
example of the persistent desire to create, whatever happens, whatever political, social or
religious conditions may constrain it.
Alain Le Quernec’s choice
Exhibition designed by the students of the college
under the supervision of Nicolas Fédérenko, teacher
Production: Centre du graphisme
At the École Supérieure d’Art de Grenoble
17 November to 22 December 2006
Monday to Friday 8 am to 8 pm
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On e h u n dr e d c o n t e m p o r a r y F r e n c h p o ste r s
The modern poster came into being a little over a hundred years ago when the technique of
lithography allowed large-format coloured images to be produced in large quantities. Its
existence was due above all to advertising but right from the start it was also a cultural
phenomenon.
In the seventies, the very few graphic designers who campaigned for this medium
did so in the cultural, social and political spheres, but this production, limited in size,
existed usually only in the form of flyposting.
Then the gulf was created between agency posters and art posters. Two logics of
communication clashed with one another, one of them subservient to money, the other
championing the utopia of creation. Paradoxically the revival of the art poster is due in part
to the advertising system and its development, modified notably by the emergence of major
poster companies. The billboards that line our streets are today mediums for the spread of
posters.
The exhibition, partial in both senses of the word, presents a set of posters
designed in the last ten years. Produced for the cultural sphere among others, many come
from series and they illustrate the ongoing collaborations that many graphic designers have
with those who commission them.
Graphic designers on show: Antoine & Manuel, Philippe Apeloig, André
Baldinger, Michal Batory, Pierre Bernard, Michel Bouvet, Jocelyn Cottencin, Sébastien
Courtois, Marcel Damblant, Jacob & Janelle, Labomatic, Anette Lenz, Alain Le Quernec,
Rudy Meyer, M/M Paris, NTE (Nous Travaillons Ensemble), Michel Strauss, Catherine
Zask.
Catherine Zask,
Strasbourg
Philharmonic
Orchestra.
The Hippodrome
national theatre,
Douai, 2002.
Antoine
& Manuel,
Lambert
collection,
Theorama,
2005.
M/M Paris,
Ann Lee:
No ghost
just
a shell,
2000.
Nous
Travaillons
Ensemble,
Que la ville
soit belle!,
town of
Aubervilliers,
1998.
Michel
Batory,
Woman
... women,
Chaillot
national
theatre,
2003.
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Anette
Lenz
and Vincent
Perrottet,
La tête
dans les
nuages,
Angoulême
theatre,
2004.
Proposed by Diego Zaccaria
Exhibition design: Mad & Gérard Lyotaud
Production: Centre du graphisme
With the participation of Fontanil-Cornillon
town council
At the Moulin des Acacias,
Fontanil-Cornillon
17 November to 22 December 2006
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays
3 pm to 7 pm
Cnossos,
Le songe,
2006.
Éric
Fauchère,
Plaisirs
chorégraphiques,
2005.
Hervé
Frumy,
Papetiers
des Alpes,
2006.
Pierre
Girardier,
Printemps
du livre de
Grenoble,
2006.
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“Posters From Here”, presents posters in 120x176 format recently on display in the Grenoble
area. An exhibition that illustrates the liveliness and quality of poster production in the
provinces. The passer-by draws from them dreams and poetry as well as information. That
is what stays with them once the advertised event is over. The graphic designers included
are Jean-Jacques Barelli, Sébastien Bouvier, Eric Fauchère, Hervé Frumy, Pierre Girardier,
Eric Le Prince, Bruno Théry, Cnossos, Studio Desperado, Ca manque pas d’air studio.
Project coordination: Geneviève Grousson-Troyes
and Olivier Mutillod (Lycée Marie-Curie)
Exhibition design by the pupils of the Lycée Marie-Curie
Design and production of the website
www.teaching-design.com: Thierry Sarfis,
Olivier Cabon and Éric Aubourg
Maison de l’Architecture, Grenoble
17 November 2006 to 20 January 2007
Monday to Friday 1.30 pm to 6 pm
Closed 23 December to 7 January
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Once upon a time… Topics 4 meets www.teaching-design.com. “Topics 4” is a graphic design
project about the visual stereotypes of towns. Exchanges of pupils from schools in different countries —Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, Belgium and France—
were established to create interactive postcards.
An interactive forum was held over several months under the heading Topics 4
on the Centre du Graphisme’s educational site: www.teaching-design.com. Exchanges were
organised on line —thanks to the use of new IT tools— or via video broadcast, from the
setting up of a common image bank to the final design. A battalion of faithful internet surfers enriched by difference and the knowledge brought by the other (country/town) were
involved in this exercise in sharing that reinvents “topics”, the clichés, the commonplaces,
the universal signs, that lie behind life and graphic vocabulary.
This venture, part of the European Comenius project, has given rise to an original and invaluable virtual exhibition.
Three of
the many
postcards.
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Me and You :
The access
screen to
the different stages
of the
project.
This course of lectures is organised jointly by the Échirolles Institut de la Communication
et des Médias and the Centre du Graphisme. It has been prepared by Diego Zaccaria and
Philippe Quinton, director of the communication research and teaching unit, who will
introduce the lectures and act as moderator.
Graphic design and advertising
Graphic design and advertising are often viewed as opposing one another and have fuelled
many controversies. Isn’t this just because the two terms cover two different realities?
Graphic design is a technique for giving visual form to messages, advertising is, in contrast,
a system of communication. Does that sufficiently clarify the function of graphic design in
our society and the conditions in which the professions related to it are practised?
A round table with: Thierry Sarfis, graphic designer,
Jean-Louis Sagot-Duvauroux, writer and philosopher
and Richard Dupuy, design director, image simulation consultant.
Tuesday 28 November 12 noon to 2 pm
Truth and fiction in cinema and television images
Since the invention of the cinema, images have constantly oscillated between the desire to
show reality and the temptation to recreate it. The analogical qualities of Lumière’s images
were immediately used by Méliès to recreate reality and above all to turn it into a narrative.
The cinema is a historic document in itself, it was viewed by many and for a long time as
the perfect archive, the indisputable record, The Proof, before people realised that it was
just a highly imperfect element of reality. Cinema and then television directors have never
ceased to play on the ambiguity of the audiovisual document.
Speaker: Isabelle Veyrat-Masson, director of the Laboratory
of Communication and Politics of the CNRS.
Tuesday 5 December, 12 noon to 2 pm.
The dangers of the image
For designers working in visual communication, making photographs, images, designs, selling them, publishing them, using them in the printed, digital or audiovisual media, is
growing increasingly tricky in terms of legal and ethical issues that are becoming ever more
complex and to which we must now add religious considerations that give rise to controversy (witness the Danish cartoons affair). What are the dangers of the image today? Should
we be asking the question in these terms for the work of graphic design and production?
Speaker: Daniel Bougnoux, philosopher.
Tuesday 12 December, 12 noon to 2 pm.
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Graphic design, society, organisations.
The practice of designing, of graphic design, is subject to a commission from an organisation looking for an original image to aid its identification. The professional is obliged to
produce results. The training, the culture of those working in this medium encourages
them to transgress rather than reformulate what is already there. The dialectic between
submitting and transgressing builds up a creative tension that is a source of social added
value, but this can run out of steam through renunciation, marginalisation or creative constraint… How do we view this tension between two opposites that is essential for creative
graphic design?
Speaker: Nathalie Heinich, sociologist, researcher at the CNRS.
Tuesday 19 December 12 noon to 2 pm
The history of graphic design in France
This lecture follows a historical route, from the origins to the present day, and, amply
illustrated, offers a panorama of the various aspects of the practice of graphic design: poster
art, typographic design, graphic design in publishing, graphic design in the press, graphic
design in information, communication systems, graphic design in multimedia, television
formats… The evolution of graphic design is examined in relation to the major French and
international aesthetic movements, to the visual arts, photography, design and town planning. The contribution of foreign designers and movements is specifically considered.
Speaker: Michel Wlassikoff, graphic design historian.
Tuesday 9 January, 12 noon to 2 pm.
The world dictionary of images
The world dictionary of images is the result of an original piece of research. It corresponds
to the new need to understand the functioning of visual forms worldwide. From prehistory to video games, the creation and circulation of images is deciphered, using a reference
image for each example.
Speaker: Laurent Gervereau, President of the Institut des Images.
Tuesday 16 January, 12 noon to 2 pm.
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Submission-transgression
The Insolant’Image association is hosting a poster design workshop on the life of their
neighbourhood for residents of the Vieux Village and the Village II districts of the town of
Échirolles and the pupils of L’Ecole Auguste-Delaune.
— For adults: the triple portrait. Going out to meet residents, listen to their stories, draw
the places they mention, photograph characters and then create screen-printed posters
together.
— For children: my neighbourhood. Project with the town’s Ecole Auguste-Delaune
All the pupils in the school have written passages about their neighbourhood and illustrated
a few sentences chosen for their poetry or meaning.
The screen-printed posters that they have made are on display in the school and in Échirolles
old town hall.
Project coordination: Marina Siakowski,
screen printer & Anne-Leila Olivier, illustrator
The project has benefited from an arts grant from
the town of Échirolles (cultural affairs department).
Échirolles old town hall
17 November to 23 December 2006
Men who walk
Visual artist Jean-Noël Zanetti will be carrying out a series of artistic projects with the
pupils of the vocational high school Lycée professionnel Thomas Edison.
The aim is to give young people on vocational training courses a means of expression about
the social unrest that was violently expressed in the autumn of 2005 and which undoubtedly continues to prey on people’s minds.
Reading the image, graphic design work, analysis of the mark, of the line, of the
movement will also be tackled in the various workshops. The series entitled “men who
walk”, consisting of screen prints by the artist and texts written by the pupils will be assembled into a 12-metre-long fresco which will be on display at the Lycée in January.
Proposed by Jean-Noël Zanetti, visual artist.
In partnership with French language and literature
and visual arts teachers and pupils at the Lycée professionnel
Thomas-Edison.
The project has benefited from an arts grant from the town
of Échirolles (cultural affairs department)
Lycée Professionnel-Thomas Edison, Échirolles
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My neighbourhood is a world
Futsal is an indoor sport that grew out of the energy of working-class districts and which is
played on a handball pitch. Over 200 young people (aged 11 to 15) and many adults practise
this sport in Échirolles. More than a sporting activity, it is a way of life based on respect for
the rules, for the spirit of the game and for the opponent.
The attitude of young people on the pitch is taken into account in the classification of teams. Based on this community spirit, of respect and sharing, a poster will be
designed for the “papillotes” tournament that will be held during the Christmas holidays,
by a group of players assisted by Jean-Noël Zanetti.
Proposed by D’CAP (development of culture, art and poetry) of the Town of
Échirolles. The project has benefited from an arts grant from the town of Échirolles (town
policy)
“Being independent?”
It has become a tradition. The workshop for students of visual communication, graphic
arts and fine arts, takes place from Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 November at Méaudre in the
Vercors. It is run by graphic designers Clotilde Olyff (Belgium), Lizá Ramalho (Portugal),
Leila Musfy (Lebanon) and Marta Granados (Colombia).
“Being independent?” The question (economic, social, cultural…) is addressed to
individuals as much as institutions, either violently or peacefully. The work produced will
appear in a publication and an exhibition; dates and location to be decided.
Art teas “Justin Grégoire, a smile between the fingers”
At the Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles
Guided tour of the exhibition and sampling of Provençal produce
At 3 pm on Sunday 19 November, 8 December 2006 and 14 January 2007
Pre-booking required on 00 33 4 76 22 58 63
Graphic aperitifs “9 women graphic designers”
Moulins de Villancourt, Échirolles
Guided tour of the exhibition and sampling of food
At 6.30 pm on Friday 24 November, 15 December 2006
and 19 January 2007
Pre-booking required on 00 33 4 76 23 64 65 or 67
or by email centregraphisme@wanadoo.fr
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Futsal: sport and way of life
President: Thierry Dufrêne
Chief representative: Diego Zaccaria
Administrator: Geneviève Alonso
T: 00 33 4 76 23 64 67 / 00 33 6 10 19 05 21
genevieve.centregraphisme@wanadoo.fr
In charge of educational projects: Isabelle Monier
T: 00 33 4 76 23 64 65
Isabelle.
Press relations: Véronique Marrier
T: 00 33 6 82 45 55 15 vmarrier@free.fr
Poster: Anette Lenz
Programme graphic design: Michel Bouvet studio
The Centre du Graphisme is funded by
The Town of Échirolles
Isère Departmental Council
Rhône-Alpes Regional Council
Rhône-Alpes DRAC (Regional Office of Cultural Affairs)
Supported by
Urbiparc
La Société Dauphinoise d’Habitat
The partners: Town of Pont-de-Claix, Town of Fontanil-Cornillon, Cultural Action of the
Education Authority of Grenoble, the Institute of Communication and Media - Université
Stendhal-Grenoble 3, the École Supérieure d’Art de Grenoble, La Maison de l’Architecture of
Grenoble, Lycée Marie-Curie d’Échirolles, Lycée professionnel Thomas Edison d’Échirolles,
the Town Cultural Affairs Department, Musée Géo-Charles, La Rampe, Les Moulins de
Villancourt, Maison des Écrits, the gender equality centre, the Coordination Committee of
the town of Échirolles - leisure centres and D’CAP (culture, art and poetry development)
Production and organisation: Centre du graphisme
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Centre du graphisme
9 rue du 19 mars 1962
BP 175
38432 Échirolles cedex
T: 00 33 4 76 23 64 65
F: 00 33 4 76 23 64 66
centregraphisme@wanadoo.fr
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