Zara Arshad, Alessandro Rolandi & Bruno Porto_ photo by Caue Ferraz

At the opening of the poster exhibition “Discover the Brazilian Cinema” presented at the 2nd Brazil Film Festival in Beijing, its co-curator Bruno Porto was joined by British designer Zara Arshad and Italian multimedia artist Alessandro Rolandi in an panel to address the relation between moving and still images: movies and its posters. The trio discussed aspects of contemporary marketing and promoting techniques – in which target audiences may only see a poster when they reach the theater, long after they’ve watched the trailer and read about it online – that subvert the original role of the poster, changes in technology that liberate the poster from paper, as well as its collectible aspects, and some of the “style formulas” specific genres use.

The debate and the exhibition were some of the parallel events of the 2nd Brazilian Film Fest in China, that took place at the Broadway Cinematheque MOMA in Beijing from November 17-22. It also featured a concert by musician, actor and soundtrack composer André Abujamra and a Q&A session with André Klotzel, director of Reflections of a Blender, the movie that won the festival Judge’s Choice Award. The international jury was composed by directors Xie Fei, Liu Jiayin, Sam Voutas and Vicky Mohieddeen & movie critic Raymond Zhou.

Descubra o Cinema Brasileiro poster exhibition_

Curated by graphic designers Billy Bacon and Bruno Porto, “Discover the Brazilian Cinema” features works by 30 graphic artists from diverse backgrounds, generations and parts of Brazil that encourage – through curiosity, beauty and witty visual solutions – the Chinese audience to enjoy Brazilian films. The show had been presented before at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2007 and the Pernambuco Design Salon in 2008. It was also selected for the 9th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial, that traveled to Mexico and China in 2009.

Broadway Cinematheque MOMA_ Beijing

Posters by André Stolarski, Batman Zavareze, Billy Bacon, Bruno Porto, Claudio Reston ‘Haroldinho’, Daniel Bueno, Eduardo Denne, Felipe Muanis, Manifesto (Guto Lins / Adriana Lins / Fernando Arruda), Itamar Medeiros, Kako, José Bessa ‘Elesbão’, Leonardo Buggy, Leonardo Eyer, Lilian Granado, Marcello Rosauro, Marcelo Martinez, Marck Al, Mariana Ochs, Orlando Pedroso, Rafael Ferreira, Rafo Castro, Renato Faccini, Ricardo Cunha Lima, Ruth Klotzel, Walter Vasconcelos, Yomar Augusto and Ziraldo.

Broadway Cinematheque MOMA_

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2011 IDA Congress Taipei

Design at the Edges: 2011 IDA Congress will take place from 24-26 October in Taipei  focusing on five keynote speeches – Biotechnology, Economic Development, International Migration, Internet, and Urbanism – in its morning sessions, with afternoons devoted to dozens of presentations on education, design practice, academic research, and multiculturalism, among other themes.  There Brazilians will join the ranks of distinguished professionals and academics from more than 40 countries:

Curator, journalist and writer Adélia Borges will deliver a lecture presenting recent Latin American projects concerning social innovation, with examples that will bring together product, graphic and interior design from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

Designer Fred Gelli will be a panellist on the keynote session “Urbanism – Shaping Cities through Urban Design Strategies” alongside colleagues from Finland, UK and USA, also presenting the design of the Olympic Games Rio 2016 branding, developed by his company Tátil Design de Ideias.

Graphic designer and educator Bruno Porto will be a Category Presenter for the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards ceremony – Porto was a member of the jury of the 2010 ADAA – and a correspondent for Brazilian magazine abcDesign, a Media Partner of the IDA Congress and Icograda.

The International Design Alliance (IDA) is a strategic venture between the international organisations representing industrial design, communication design and interior architecture/design. The alliance was created by its founding partners, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) and the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) in 2003. In 2008, the IDA welcomed the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) to the alliance as the third partner.

Design at the Edges
_ the edge between the design practices and other fields having a stake in design, including: science, technology, government, business and non-governmental humanitarian organisations;
_ the edge between design disciplines, especially industrial, communication and interior architecture/design-what do they share in common and what sets them apart;
_ ‘cutting edge’ work and ideas in design and in other fields: radically new, controversial, experimental, pushing the boundaries of the discipline.

via 2011 IDA Congress, Taipei and ICOGRADA | Design at the Edges: 2011 IDA Congress.

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Illustra Brazil is coming to China

Brought to Asia in a joint-project of SIB and the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil, the exhibition will be held from August 20th – September 25th 2011 at The Foundry Gallery in Shanghai, China. The exhibition catalog featuring text in Chinese, English, Spanish and Portuguese will be distributed during the festival.

The event also includes a series of lectures and workshops in Chinese universities, children guided tours, and meetings with Chinese professional associations. A seminar featuring Brazilian illustration, comics and animation projects for international clients will be presented on August 26th at the prestigious RockBund Art Museum by Orlando Pedroso, Marcelo Martinez and Bruno Porto, members of SIB’s Council of Directors.

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Bruno Porto, co-editor of BrazilianGraphicDesign.com, presents the website at the Sunhoo International Industrial Designers Forum (photo by Alessandro Rolandi)

The first Sunhoo Festival for Creativity and Innovation took place in the cities of Hangzhou, capital of the Zhejiang province, and FuYang from April 21-29 2011, gathering 35 design professionals from 18 countries in the five continents and an audience of 850 people. The event meant to explore the relationship between design, industry, art and technology through art installations in the LiuYing Garden at the West Lake and lectures at the Sunhoo International Industrial Designers Forum.

Three Brazilian design professionals were among the keynote speakers, featuring the work they’ve been conducting in China. Fashion designer Enesoe Chan presented the Summer collections he has been developing in Shanghai, mixing Brazilian and Chinese elements as wearable art; architect Cecilia Reichstul of Fernando Brandão Design presented their project for the Brazilian Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010; graphic designer and educator Bruno Porto showed how the Brazilian graphic arts have been promoted in China through exhibitions, workshops and publications (including BrazilianGraphicDesign.com), as well as his own design and consultancy projects.

Others speakers included Clive Roux, CEO of Industrial Designers Society of America; Soon-In Lee, president of the Seoul Design Center; Reiner Packeiser, head of exhibitions of the Vitra Design Museum; Swiss furniture designer Jonas Merian; Colombian new media researcher Andres Burbano, from UCSB; Lars Thoegersen, CEO of CPH Design Denmark; and architect Anu Leinonen of OMA / Rem Koolhaas.

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"Brazil: The Cultural Contemporary" at the Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art in London held on January 21st 2011 the one-day conference Brazil: The Cultural Contemporary, as the result of research undertaken in Brazil in the previous year. According to Wired Magazine, the event aimed to inform a UK-based audience about the country’s visual culture, with a focus on areas of craft, design and social change.

Brazilian design writer and curator Adélia Borges, former director of the Museu da Casa Brasileira and design editor for the newspaper Gazeta Mercantil, presented the keynote lecture on Brazilian contemporary craft and design. Other speakers included Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholar Frederico Duarte, educator Kiki Mazzuchelli, graffiti specialist Tristan Manco, and Cristiana Tejo, coordinator of Education at Fundacão Joaquim Nabuco in Recife.

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"Asian Graphics Now", by Julius Wiedeman and Bruno Porto

Taschen editor-in-charge Julius Wiedemann and co-author Bruno Porto showcased the upcoming 430 page book “Asian Graphics NOW!” at the German Consulate General in Shanghai, on September 15th 2010. The Pre-launch talk was attended by 120 local (Chinese and foreigners) designers, artists and journalists, and it was translated to Chinese by Ms Karen Xu.

Both Wiedemann and Porto were born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and respectively attended the Marketing and Design courses of Rio’s Faculdade da Cidade in the early 1990s.

Julius Wiedemann, Karen Xu & Bruno Porto by Mowfak Galy

The book is a collaboration between them, Taschen art editor Daniel Siciliano-Bretas (born in Rio de Janeiro, currently living in Köln, Germany) and Japanese design specialist Marcos Sadao Maekawa (born in São Paulo, currently living in Tokyo, Japan), and presents a wide selection of design projects from China (mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao), Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam etc, divided in five sections – Advertising, Branding, Editorial, Non-Commercial and Packaging. It also features articles by Huang Li, editor of Package & Design Magazine, and Wang Min, Design Director of the Beijing Olympics 2008.

The first 100 pages of “Asian Graphics NOW!” can be leafed in http://www.taschen.com/lookinside/04440/index.htm

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Polise De Marchi lectures at Raffles Design Institute, Shanghai

Brazilian researcher Polise De Marchi (PhD) will present the lecture “Media, perceptions and the city”, a collection of visual manifestations through the use of unconventional media, at the Raffles Design Institute – Shanghai on August 19th at 10:30 am.

The architect, urbanist, semiotic consultant and associate professor in the Digital Interface Design Graduate Course at SENAC University in São Paulo is currently in China taking part in the The Mobile City: Designing Hybrid Cities Congress.”Media, perceptions and the city” is based on an activity developed by São Paulo students portraying the way they feel, observe and perceive the biggest city in South America. The process started with conceptual key words, moving to postcards, photographs and finally a video made out of mobile phones. The final outcome of material collected and conclusions will be displayed as an information-design project, a map designed out of data.

Raffles House Auditorium (Donghua University) | 1882 Xinhua Road, corner with Zhongsanxi Road. 1st floor. | August 19th 2010, 10:30 am

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Kiko Farkas and NewGraphic's editor Ge Hong at the exhibition at Nanjing Arts Institute

Two weeks after his presentation at the Icograda World Design Congress in Beijing, Brazilian graphic designer Kiko Farkas gave a talk at the Nanjing Arts Institute at the opening of an exhibition of 50 posters for the São Paulo Symphonic Orchestra.

In the talk to students and guests at November 10th 2009, Kiko was introduced by Ge Hong, editor-in-charge of the Chinese design magazine NewGraphic. The magazine’s latest issue (#22, released in September) featured about one hundred of Farka’s works with his design company Máquina Estúdio.

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9th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial goes to Mexico

The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, the Franz Mayer Museum, the National Association of Schools of Graphic Design (Frame), the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and the Mexican Council for Accreditation of Program Design (Comaprod) are bringing ADG’s 9th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial to Mexico

_Opening
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 19:00
Central courtyard of the Museo Franz Mayer

The Exhibition goes on until 13 December 2009.

_Lectures
The event will also host the lecture “Axes of Brazilian design”, by André Stolarski and Chico Homem de Melo:
Saturday 7 November 2009, 12:00
Franz Mayer Museum Auditorium
Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico, Ciudad de México,
México, DF 06300

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Alexandre Wollner

Graphic designer Alexandre Wollner will lecture on November 5 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, during the “Visual Communication” conference. In the lecture — part of the “Distinguished Lecture Series” of the School of Art, Design and Media, Wollner will present his own work and discuss the history of design, its origins, evolution, influences, creative process, practice and principles in the context of Brazilian culture.

Alexandre Wollner is a pioneer of the profession in his country and was a founder of Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI).

The School of Art, Design and Media from Nanyang Technological University is located in Nanyang Drive, 81 (Jurong West), Singapore.

via ADM Distinguised Lecture Series

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The Brazilian Association of Graphic Design (ADG) 9th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial will be exhibited during the 2009 Shanghai International Creative Industry Week from October 15th–21st (9am-5:30pm at 800 Changde Road, Building 3). During the weekend of October 17th/18th there will be English/Chinese/Portuguese (at 11am and 3pm) free guided tours to the exhibition by Brazilian graphic designers.

On Monday October 19th 6-8pm, Raffles Design Institute – Shanghai (Donghua University – RDI Main Building – 1882 West Yan An Road) will host two lectures of the Biennial programme: Taschen Books editor Julius Wiedemann will present a lecture on “Visual Communication & Technology”, followed by Digital Communication Ph.D. Luli Radfahrer, who will talk about innovation in the digital culture in his “Fluid Mechanics: Design in the elastic environment” presentation.

After Shanghai, the exhibition travels to Beijing to be part of the Icograda World Congress, in the 4th Floor Gallery, Building 7 of CAFA – Central Academy of Fine Arts from October 26th–30th. The DINGBATS BRASIL exhibition (which was in Shanghai from May to July 2009) will also be displayed at the same location, before traveling to Hong Kong, Macau and Vietnam.

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