Category: Graphic Design

Join us for the opening of the exhibition “Phantom Graphics” on March 22nd at 5 PM at EKA Billboard Gallery. The gallery is located outside on the building wall on Kotzebue street.

The exhibition is the result of Mirjam Reili’s workshop with EKA first-year graphic design students. A week-long investigation into vision and perception, where students at EKA explore how images construct ocular illusions, and how these could be presented.

Mirjam Reili is an Estonian graphic designer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Research combined with drawing and puns often determines the outcome of her self-initiated and commissioned work. Mirjam has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts and Rietveld Academie Department of Graphic Design and is currently a participant of Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem.

Participants: Kristi Jaago, Marje Kask, Martin Kipper, Eliisabet Kuslap, Ellen Loitmaa, Ilja Moltšanov, Cristopher Rogotovski, Klara Magdalena Rozpondek, Sonia Ruus, Pavel Salmin, Birgita Siim, Natasha Sotti, Mirjam Varik, Agnes Isabelle Veeno, Ingel-Kristen Veevo, Aaro Veiderpass, Johannes Veike

The exhibition is opened until April 18th.

On Tuesday, September 11 5-7PM Department of Graphic Design of Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA GD) will open SUVA Type Foundry exhibition at the XIII Disainiöö at Telliskivi Loomelinnak’s Green Hall (Telliskivi 60a, Tallinn) on the occasion of a new web platform SUVA Type Foundry launch. SUVA Type Foundry Specimen No. 1 will be published during the same week.

SUVA Type Foundry web platform, specimen as well as the exhibition present fonts designed 2010–2018, typographical experiments and archival materials created by EKA GD students, alumni and faculty. Fonts, available to download, will be added to the Type Foundry continuously.

Exhibition is open to the public September 11 through 15 12-7PM and on September 16 12-6PM.

Project team: Kersti Heile, Ott Kagovere, Elis Kitt, Anneli Kripsaar, Laura Merendi, Sandra Nuut, Anselm Oja, Johanna Ruukholm, and Indrek Sirkel.

Fonts: Kenneth Allik, Mai Bauvald, Kersti Heile, Linda Mari Hüvato, Elisabeth Juusu, Roven Jõekäär, Karmo Järv, Karri Kaljend, Anneli Kripsaar, Syret Kärt, Else Lagerspetz, Sigrid Liira, Laura Merendi, Maria Muuk, Andree Paat, Paul-Hendrik Piho, Stenly Poks, Hans-Erik Põldoja, Eva Rank, Mirjam Reili, Jaan Rõõmus, Ivar Sakk, Katarina Sarap, Villem Sarapuu, Patrick Zavadskis, Aimur Takk, Joonas Timmi, Mathias Väärsi, Väino Õun.

On Friday, March 16th at 9.30AM designers Bruno Maag and Eleni Beveratou of Dalton Maag will give a lecture at EKA, room 405 at Estonia pst. 7.

Dalton Maag is an independent typeface design studio based in London. They will be showing samples of their work ranging from logo refinement to the design of large custom font families that cover a range of scripts and weights. They will give insight into how to use their fonts as well as introduce us to recent releases available for everyone to try. They have studios in London and São Paolo, and have created custom fonts for brands, such as Amazon, Nokia, BWM, Vodafone, Toyota, Google, Intel, BBC and others.

The lecture is organised by Faculty of Design in collaboration with the Estonian Design Center.

Graphic designer, blogger and enterpreneur Helene Vetik:

Self presentation in internet.
10 years on the field – evolution of the field and myself.

www.uustuus.ee

Open lecture series in the Faculty of Design

Photo as a unavoidable reality of the product. Expected and unexpected image. How to influence viewers through the photo?

Kaupo Kikkas has strong experience in different areas of photography – from product to portrait, from travelling to free artistic expression.

www.kaupokikkas.com

This Wednesday, 4.02.15 we are going to meet renown fashion designer and researcher REET AUS, who is internationally acclaimed expert of ecological design.

For several years already, the upcycling designer Reet Aus and her team have been involved in a innovative research project together with Beximco, the largest vertically integrated fabric and garment producer in Bangladesh. The unity between the two companies aims for upcycling to be implemented into the regular production processes of Beximco in order to save resources, grow efficiency and significantly reduce environmental impacts. Upcycling could potentially reduce at least 65% of waste created by the giant production of 56 million garments a year.
Reet Aus team in cooperation with Beximco are leaders in designing, mass-producing and selling 100% upcycled, unique and high-fashion garments, enabling to save on average 70% of water and create 88% less CO2 emission compared to non upcycled mass-production.