Poster Monday: Hi bye Korea

Poster Monday: Hi bye Korea

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Poster Monday: Hi bye Korea

The first April’s Poster Monday belongs to Lia Vilahur Chiaraviglio from Spain. She is currently a full-time professor at The Reutlingen University specializing in Digital communication and Design and she is also a designer. Previously she was Responsible for International at ERAM College, University of Girona, where she was also teaching. Lia worked as a lecturer at the IED (European Institute of Design in Barcelona.  In the academic field, she also worked as an external coordinator, for the degree in Interior design at IED Barcelona, and as a Program Leader for the Degree of Graphic Communication, at ERAM College Northampton University.
She regularly participates in international congresses and has taught workshops in numerous faculties in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Her work has been exhibited in several countries and received some awards. As an artist, she works mainly with collages and acrylics. Her education background is at Art History (UAB, Barcelona) with a one-year exchange student (University of Bologna).  A BA in Interior Design from IED Milan, with a cumulus exchange at Lahti Polytechnic Finland. And “Renewable energies, Sustainability studies” Master D.

The Poster “Hi bye Korea” was created for the exhibition “Annyeong Korea!” Organized by the International Art and Design Association. “The backstory for this poster is very personal, I was traveling to Korea and I was surprised by the landscape, is a country where the sea and the mountains define the geography. And the buildings are very white. Although it has a very high-density population it doesn’t feel “crowded”. That’s why I decided on this color palette. The formal elements are the map of Korea and two arrows, one pointing right and the other in the opposite direction left. They symbolize the round trip to Korea. The “going-back arrows“ are darkened and carried with an eye. This represents that on my way back I brought with me more knowledge and I was inspired by what I saw”. Told us Lia.

If you would like to learn more from Lia Vilahur Chiaraviglio and her work visit her site and stay tuned with us until we reveal the next Poster Monday spot, visit our facebook page and find out more about poster news, events and competitions.

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Poster Monday: Refugees

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Poster Monday: Refugees

“Refugees” is the last poster of November, designed by Goyo Rodríguez from Burgos, Spain. He is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer “Two professions that I think complement each other wonderfully” tell us Goyo. He is specialized in textbook illustration; since 2004 he has collaborated in about 150 publications with the most important publishers in Spain, Grupo Anaya, Santillana, Edelvives, Grupo SM, Oxford, Bruño and Pearson. In his works, the use of symbolic elements and visual metaphors stands out thanks to a great capacity for synthesis and his ability to express complex ideas with minimal elements. This characteristic is very well reflected in the illustrations of the book “Moby Dick”by Anaya Infantil y Juvenil, publication that has received the Silver European Design Award,  2020 / Book & Editorial illustration and in his latest published book, “The portrait of Dorian Gray”, from the same publisher.
The poster “Refugees” shows a footprint, a trace turned into a group of people (of any person), symbol of constant movement, flight and dislocation. “I wanted to show the most simple and clear the suffering of some people who have to leave everything behind, to undertake a very hard path on foot, a path where refugees often find contempt and misunderstandings in en route countries and in host countries” says Goyo.
“Refugees” poster was made for the White Night of Oviedo 2017,”aan art gallery asked me for an image to be exposed on the street. Whenever I have the opportunity, I consider creating an image or poster social theme. This type of exhibition seems to me a wonderful vehicle to give visibility and show the public different social problems that occur in many parts of the world. In this case, I was inspired by the terrible migratory crisis in the Mediterranean area due to the different war conflicts in North Africa and the Near East”.
If you would like to know more about Goyo Rodríguez we invite you to visit his personal blog Concep-Traciones where you can also find more posters and projects from him. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need to participate in our submissions page.

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Poster Monday: Basic

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Poster Monday: Basic

For the first Poster Monday spot of October we are featuring a poster from Miriam Espacio “Basic” a personal project for started to work on different techniques and not get rusty with tools. She is a graphic designer & art director born in Barcelona, Spain. Miriam has been working on marketing, communication and design agencies for 11 years now, creating and conceptualizing graphic lines and campaigns, branding, web and apps, editorial, packaging and content creation.

“I was looking to illustrate the word basic and started with some Bauhaus ideas (geometry, color, and form) and then I found on my research process the beautiful sculpture image and the expression of their bodies shouting “sooo basic”, the attitude. I thought it was perfect to start the poster again. I usually create 2 o 3 versions of each poster, so I can choose which one expresses better a concept or an emotion. The poster does not have always to promote something; I can say that sometimes we just want to see something nice, something pleasant. Since I started working as a graphic designer I’ve worked behind brief and clients, in my free time I like to explore just with a concept or an idea. If possible write a few lines talking about yourself, where did you born, study and work, Share the address of your website or social network.  I like to dig deep on projects, provide visual tools, and rethink ideas” says Miriam.

If you want to know more about Miriam Espacio visit her web page and remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook .

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Poster Monday: Democracy Lost

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Poster Monday: Democracy Lost

Olga Severina was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and our third Poster Monday spot of December with her poster “Democracy Lost”. Olga is a graduate with a Ph.D. in Visual Arts from the Kharkov State Academy of Arts and Design. She began her professional career in a high-ranking design studio in Moscow, Russia. Later she refocused her artistic efforts to an area of book and magazine designs and became an art director for the publishing house Personalities in Kiev.

Currently, Olga is a graphic designer and an exhibition curator residing in Los Angeles CA. She has always been a very active participant in the international design community and was involved with the International Eco-Poster Exhibition The 4th Block (Kharkov, Ukraine). Olga is one of the members of the Organizing Committee, served as a selection committee member for the international graphic design exhibition Golden Bee (Russia) and put together a variety of environmental exhibits in cities across the United States. Some of these projects are – *Rebranding The Russian Avant-garde (2014, USA), Eco Art: Graphic Design for Change (2013, USA), Eco-Deology: Cause and Effect (2012, USA) and AIGA (Re) Design Awards 2011 (USA).

The poster Democracy Lost was inspired by recent unrest in Catalonia, Spain, where people were not allowed to vote in the referendum, thus undermining the whole fabric of democracy. “I hope that my poster will remind people that democracy is based on the differences of opinions and only through dialog people can come to an understanding. It is designed to remind us, that every voice is deserved to be heard, even the one you might disagree with, for tomorrow your voice might be the one being tuned out” says Olga.

Visit Olga’s personal behance account to find  more about her work. If you would like to see your work featured on our site visit our submissions page and send your work.

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Poster Monday: This is not a Machine

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Poster Monday: This is not a Machine

The Poster Monday spot of the day belongs to Nacho Arbesú from Spain for his poster entitled This is not a Machine Nacho was born in Asturias, Spain. He graduated in Geography and History specializing in Art History. He owns a degree in Arts and Design from the School of the Arts of Oviedo.

The poster was originally created for Poster4Tomorrow’s 2014 edition Work Right! Which advocated for the right to work without any kind of discrimination or exploitation. This poster was one of the TOP10 selected, and also won the Second Place in social and political posters category of the Bolivia Poster Biennial in 2015. “I inquired about the situation of the people manufacturing clothes for miserables wages and conditions of slavery, which I tried to represent through a static sitting figure which merges with a sewing machine and an endless fabric that crosses the poster”, says Nacho.

If you would like to learn more from Nacho and his work visit his web.
Remember that if you would like to see your work featured on Poster Monday visit our submissions page and send us your work.

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Poster Monday: I Prefer Goya to keep me awake than any asshole

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Poster Monday: I Prefer Goya to keep me awake than any asshole

Dani Rabaza born in Zaragoza, Spain in 1981, is our first Poster Monday designer of the day. After working in screenprint workshops, printing houses and graphic design studios he started his own studio, called Münster.

Dani has been designing posters even before he studied graphic design, making them for his own bands shows. When he started his studio, posters were (and still) a big part of his job, since the studio specializes in music related design (record sleeves, posters, t-shirts, etc). “I really love the format, the way you have to go to the core of the idea and the relationship between the image and the text” says Dani.

The poster I Prefer Goya to keep me awake rather than any asshole was commisioned for Perro de Compañía, a new theater company based in Zaragoza, Spain. The company has an avantgarde philosophy and they wanted to avoid the classic theater poster. The play, also, has a very punk edge and it´s pretty irreverent. Goya acts like a starting point, as an historical reference of the critique to society and morality. Dani used the owl as a Goyesque symbol as the Company didn’t want to use the human figure of the artists.

If you would like to see more from Dani’s work visit her facebook page, also visit Münster web site.

And emember that if you would like to see your work featured on Poster Monday visit our submissions page and send us your work.

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Colección de Asombros – Isidro Ferrer

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Colección de Asombros – Isidro Ferrer

The exhibition Colección de asombros is a collection of some of the best work of graphic design and illustrator Isidro Ferrer that is currently on display at the Instituto Cervantes in Belgrade, Serbia. The show is curated by Tina García and it features a selection of 60 posters and 10 sketch book prints from the artist. The exhibition will be on display until May 12th, 2015.

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