Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Grand Opening Poster Print
On View: July xx, 2013 - September 29, 2013
When:
February 22, 2018 @ 6:00 PM – vii:00 PM
2018-02-22T18:00:00-06:00
2018-02-22T19:00:00-06:00
Where:
Brown Foundation Gallery
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present Graphic Design-At present in Product, a major international exhibition that explores some of the virtually vibrant graphic pattern piece of work produced since 2000, including posters, books, magazines, identity and branding, information graphics, typography and typefaces, and flick and television title graphics. The exhibition is organized around eight themes: Posters, Magazines, Books, Information Blueprint, Branding, Typography, Storefront, and Moving-picture show and Television Titles. Graphic Blueprint-Now in Production is co-organized past the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Blueprint Museum, New York.
Graphic Blueprint explores the worlds of blueprint-driven magazines, newspapers, books, and posters; the expansion of branding programs for corporations, institutions, and subcultures; the entrepreneurial spirit of designer-produced goods; the renaissance in digital typeface design; the storytelling potential of film and goggle box titling sequences; and the transformation of raw data into compelling data narratives.
"We are excited to bring this aggressive exhibition to Houston. Graphic Design highlights the many means design impacts our everyday lives, from the magazines we're compelled to purchase in the checkout lanes to the objects we surround ourselves with at home and work. It's an incredibly dynamic exhibition, and one that I retrieve will inspire viewers to look at their surroundings a fiddling more closely, maybe with a renewed appreciation for the details," says CAMH Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Graphic pattern is the art and practice of visual communication. Designers utilise colour, typography, images, symbols, and systems to brand the surfaces effectually us come up alive with meaning. Today the field is shifting and expanding in unprecedented ways every bit new technologies and social movements are changing the way people brand and consume media. Public sensation of graphic blueprint has grown enormously during the past two decades through the revolutions in desktop computing and networked communication, which take also fueled tremendous growth in the profession.
Posters
The poster is the most iconic course of graphic blueprint, with its roots in the early on advert culture of the 19th century. Today, designers create posters to actively investigate the genre itself through self-initiated projects. Experimental approaches to the poster encourage user-generated letters and explore digital, mechanical, and handmade techniques. This section includes Albert Exergian's poster series based on American telly classics; Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich's "Empty Words" project, a system for making die-cutting posters; and Anthony Burrill'south typographic woodblock and silkscreen posters proclaiming messages such equally "Oil & Water Practice Non Mix," printed with ink made from spilled Gulf of Mexico oil.
Magazines
Publishers are rethinking the traditional magazine by exploiting print-on-demand, online distribution networks, the explosion of niche audiences, and new digital formats. This department was curated past Jeremy Leslie, creative director of the weblog magCulture, which explores issues and trends in publication design.
Among the projects on view are Jop van Bennekom's Fantastic Man and The Gentlewoman; Karen, an independent magazine-maker with a highly personal blog-like sensibility; Hannerie Visser's Afro magazine from South Africa, which reimagines the course of the magazine itself; and Pedro Fernandes' design of I, a Portuguese newspaper that incorporates the visual vocabulary of magazines.
Books
The office of the designer in the publishing procedure during the past xx years has dramatically shifted to be more than inclusive in terms of authoring, editing, and cocky-publishing. This section features work past David Pearson, whose Pocket Penguin book titles reinvigorated the publisher's classic backlist; the print-on demand experiments of James Goggin; Irma Nail's innovative book designs; and McSweeney's books and magazines, which utilize typography, layout, and product to enhance the experience of reading.
Information Design
Information designers serve as storytellers, journalists, and translators, seeking to organize data in understandable, engaging, and memorable ways. This section includes information displays created by the New York Times Graphics Department that tell the news stories of today and Catalogtree'south interactive iPad app most the "flash crash" of the American financial markets.
Branding
More than just a logo, a brand consists of a larger visual and verbal identity besides as the perceived values that both define and fix autonomously an organization, community, or even an individual. Designers approach branding every bit a narrative-driven experience, evoking an emotional response and solidifying the human relationship between the company and consumers. This department was curated by Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio, operators of the blog Brand New, which tracks the ever-changing world of brand makeovers and corporate identity programs.
Highlights include Ji Lee'due south World Trade Center Logo Preservation project, documenting the use of the twin towers to brand numerous New York City area businesses; a new project commission from design researchers Metahaven about the use of social media as a powerful form of communication and control; and experimental identities for cultural institutions, created by Stefan Sagmeister, Mevis & Van Deursen, and Maureen Mooren, among others.
Typography
Typography is the creation of letterforms and other characters that give visual form to the spoken and written word. The personal computer revolution of the 1980s introduced typography to the general public, and the availability of font design software in the 1990s fueled a renaissance in typeface design. Featured works on view in this section include Process Type'south Anchor, Peter Bilak's History, and Lineto's Akkurat, as well as posters and other artifacts created by Antoine + Manuel, Marian Bantjes, and Oded Ezer.
Storefront
Today's designers are increasingly entrepreneurial, designing merchandise and conceiving appurtenances for auction themselves. This section includes designer-created and designer-curated products, including t-shirts, wrapping paper, housewares, wall coverings, and tools. Works on view include wallpapers produced by Knoll and Maharam, the artfully designed, bespoke axes by Peter Buchanan Smith from All-time Made Co., and Meike Gerritzen's Beware of Software vest.
Moving picture and Television Titles
Moving picture and television titles are mini narratives that give viewers insight into what is to come and what has already happened. This section will feature television set and picture show titles curated by Ian Albinson, founder and editor-in-chief of the website artofthetitle.com, created by some of the leading motion graphic designers practicing today.
Exhibition Support
The Houston presentation of Graphic Blueprint — Now In Production is made possible by generous grants from the Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc. and William F. Stern.
Exhibitions in the Brown Foundation Gallery at CAMH have been made possible by the patrons, benefactors and donors to the Museum'southward Major Exhibition Fund: Major Patron – Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Fayez Sarofim, and Michael Zilkha. Patrons – Carol C. Ballard, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner III, Ms. Louisa Stude Sarofim and Mr. Wallace Wilson. Benefactors – George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation, Louise D. Jamail, Anne and David Kirkland, KPMG, LLP, Beverly and Howard Robinson, Andrew Schirrmeister 3 and Leigh and Reggie Smith. Donors – A Fare Extraordinaire, Anonymous, Bank of Texas, Bergner and Johnson Design, Jereann Chaney, Elizabeth Howard Crowell, Dillon Kyle Architecture, Sara Paschall Dodd, Ruth Dreessen and Thomas Van Laan, Marita andJ.B. Fairbanks, Jo and Jim Furr, Barbara and Michael Gamson, Brenda and William Goldberg, King & SpaldingL.L.P., Marley Lott, Belinda Phelps and Randy Howard, Phillips, Lauren Rottet, Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc., and Karen and Harry Susman.
Education Back up
The Museum receives support for its education programs from: Anonymous, Dillon Kyle Architecture, Frost Bank, Louise D. Jamail, Mr. and Mrs. I.H. Kempner Three, Kinder Morgan Foundation, Robert and Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation, Leticia Loya, Elisabeth McCabe, M.D. Anderson Foundation, Marian and Speros Martel Foundation Endowment, Andrew R. McFarland, Mark and Mary Ann Miller, Nordstrom, Inc., Ms. Louisa Stude Sarofim, Texas Committee on the Arts, Texas Women for the Arts, Martha Claire Tompkins, and Elizabeth Satel Immature.
Teen Council is supported by Ms. Louisa Stude Sarofim, Texas Women for the Arts, and Texas Committee on the Arts.
General Operating
Funding for the Museum'south operations through the Fund for the Future is made possible past generous grants from Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Anonymous, Jereann Chaney, Sara Paschall Dodd. Jo and Jim Furr, Barbara and Michael Gamson, Brenda and William Goldberg, Marley Lott, Leticia Loya, Fayez Sarofim, Andrew Schirrmeister Iii, and David and Marion Young.
The Museum's operations and programs are made possible through the generosity of the Museum's trustees, patrons, members and donors. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston receives partial operating support from the Houston Endowment, the City of Houston through the Houston Museum District Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, The Wortham Foundation, Inc and artMRKT Productions. CAMH also thanks its artist benefactors for their support including Ricci Albenda, McArthur Binion, Brendan Cass, Jack Early, Robert Gober, Wayne Gonzales, Sean Landers, Zoe Leonard, Klara Lidén, Donald Moffett, Rob Pruitt, Rusty Scruby, Laurie Simmons, Josh Smith, and Marc Swanson.
United is the official airline of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Source: https://camh.org/event/graphic-design-now-production/
0 Response to "Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Grand Opening Poster Print"
Post a Comment