The Pro Carton Young Designers Award

The Pro Carton Young Designers Award is one of Europe’s leading annual young talent competitions for packaging design and it plays a pioneering role in promoting sustainability as it focuses exclusively on cartonboard design!

Submissions are open until May 17th.

We have four categories this time, Creative Carton Packaging Food & Drinks, All other, Creative Cartonboard Ideas and Save the Planet.

Finalists and their consultant teachers will be invited by Pro Carton to the Award Gala in Riga. The best design students will receive a week of practical training in Austria at Mayr-Melnhof Packaging and MetsäBoard in Finland.

After the Jury meeting in June our public voting will start where we promote a number of shortlisted designs before we announce the finalists.

You will find videos about the award as well as the festivities and last years sponsors on our Youtube-Channel.

Students can participate with older projects as well, it would be a shame to let good design go to waste.

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.

“100 aastat liikuvaid pilte” is an exhibition about the history of moving images at Valga Museum. There will be a retrospective programme of animations from the animation department and films by Priit and Olga Pärn.

Find more information here.

OPEN LECTURE SERIES: Anastasia Pistofidou – combining the analog and the digital towards applied research focused on new materials, art and textiles

The second lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this spring semester will be Anastasia Pistofidou, stepping on the stage of Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn) on 8th of March at 6 pm. Her lecture is titled “Towards a new discipline of Digital Fabrication, Textiles and Biology”.

Anastasia Pistofidou is a Greek architect specialized in digital fabrication technologies, design and education. She has a Master degree from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia 2010-2011 in Digital tectonics and a Bachelor Degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, department of architecture in 2008. She currently works as the director of the FabTextiles research lab and the Fabricademy, a new textile and technology academy. She combines the analog and the digital towards applied research focused on new materials, art and textiles.

Technological advances, new materials and computational design are changing the way we design and manufacture products, consume and interact. At fabtextiles and materials lab at Fab Lab Barcelona Pistofidou is developing and implementing a new approach on to how create, produce and distribute fashion elements, by using distributed manufacturing infrastructures and knowledge networks. She experiments with scanning the human body, creating interactive wearable garments, working with biomaterials and circular processes, using 3D printing and parametric 3D modeling. Inside this context her practices prescribe the role and profile of future designers. What are the new skills, materials and processes for the future generations?

The Open Lecture Series brings to Tallinn a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. All Open Lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

The architecture and urban design department of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested, drawing an audience of students as well as professionals and academics from the fields of architecture, design, engineering but also fine arts. The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam

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System & Error

Exhibition: 23rd February / 4th March

Off-season Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM),

Opening Party: 18:00 / Friday 23rd

Ordinary life is made of eventful junctures, constant surprises and adjustments that go beyond all attempts to rigorously plan and design things. Infrastructures crack, smart phones make errors, printers print funny stuff, states fail and the financial market fall into cyclical crises; Also our body can react strangely. All these failures have an aura though: they do not occur twice in the same way and produce the adrenaline of edges. Paraphrasing Tolstoy, all the families are successful alike, but failed in their own unique way.

The artworks of this exhibition have been produced honouring the meaning of collaboration, since the groups of artists are composed with MA students from Aalto University and from the Estonian Academy of Arts, which adds to the exhibition a reflection about the risks, potentials and failures of cooperation between artists and between institutions. For the exhibition, students have engaged with how misbehaviours and things out of place constitute a terrain of experimentation, addressing different meanings of systems, randomness and dead ends, and facing questions such as:

• Do failures need an excuse?
• What does an error look like?
• What is the benefit of being part of a system?
• How much tolerance for the non-perfect do our societies have?
• Is a list of failures more revealing than a list of successes?
• Are gaps, holes, tricksters and hackers part of the system or the error?
• In which ways systems are organised by defining some practices as normal and some others as deviant (noise, dirt, queer…)?
• And does anything right might come from pursuing wrong practices?

Curator: Francisco Martínez

Graphic designer Heleliis Hõim

Artists:

• Madis Kurss & Martha Jessen
• Mirka Sulander & Elina Saat
• Hanna Perälä & Heleliis Hõim
• Sandra Schneider, Anu Jalas & Kadi Reintamm
• Uzair Amjad, Aman Askarizad & Aap Jaapan
• Ana Fernandes & Mark Antonious Puhkan
• Solveig Lill & Tuomas Lehtomaa
• Elham Rahmati, Danai Anagnostou & Heidi Paju

EKA Open Doors takes place on 1st of March 2018

10:00-18:00

Information desk and student cafe at Estonia pst 7, Tallinn – but all our buildings are open and welcome visitors!

More information and programme: www.artun.ee/avatuduksed

Varvara & Mar. Surveillance Capitalism

19 February at 5 pm, graphic art department, Lembitu 10B, room 144

On Monday, 19 February at 5 pm there will be an open lecture by Varvara & Mar. During the lecture Varvara & Mar will explore the influences of technological age on society and how it resonates in their artistic practice.

The notion of surveillance capitalism is borrowed from Shoshana Zuboff, who underlines ongoing and expanding monetisation of big data. In her word this is a new form of information capitalism aims to predict and modify human behaviour as a means to produce revenue and market control.

The lecture will take place at EKA Lembitu 10B building in room no 144.

Varvara & Mar. The Big Other. 360-degree video, VR (virtual reality). 2017-2018.

Varvara & Mar is an artist duo formed by Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet in 2009. Often duo’s work is inspired by the digital age. In their practice they confront social changes and impact of technological era. In addition to that, Varvara & Mar are fascinated by kinetics and participation, which are integral parts of their work.

Artist duo has exhibited their art pieces in a number of international shows and festivals. In 2014 duo has been commission by Google and Barbican for creating a new art piece for Digital Revolution exhibition. In 2015 their public art proposal for Green Square Library and Plaza in Sydney was nominated for the final stage. This year they have completed public art commission in Tallinn and have won 2nd and 3rd prizes for public art in Estonia. Varvara & Mar has exhibited at MAD in New York, FACT in Liverpool, Santa Monica in Barcelona, Barbican in London, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Maribor City Gallery in Slovenia, etc.

Varvara (born in Tartu, Estonia), gained her bachelor’s degree in IT from Estonian IT College, master’s degree in digital media from ISNM in Germany and currently is a PhD candidate at the Estonian Academy of Arts in the department of Art and Design.

Mar (born in Barcelona) has two degrees: in art and design from ESDI in Barcelona and in computer game development from University Central Lancashire in UK. He also has gain a master’s degree from Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design Linz. In addition to that, Mar is a co-founder of Derivart and Lummo.

More info: http://var-mar.info

EKA vabade kunstide teaduskonna 2017/2018 kevadsemestri Seminari sari alapealkirjaga „SFÄÄRID“ hõlmab kümmekond loengut ja kunstnikuvestlust erinevatest valdkondadest. Seminari sari on vabaaine, mis annab 3 ainepunkti. Registreerimine toimub kohapeal.

Seminar series SPHERES in the spring semester 2017/2018 consists of 11 lectures and talks from different fields. Seminar series is a free elective that gives 3 ECTS.

You are warmly welcome!

FASHION TECH TALKS takes place in Tallinn Business Incubators (Veerenni 24, C)

Fashion Tech Talks esinejad ja teemad
Fashion Tech Talk Speakers & Topics

Virtual changing room
Paul Pällin, Fits Me

Motion monitoring wearables – today and tomorrow
Alar Kuusik , TTÜ

Neuroart as a research tool
Aleksander Väljamäe , TLU

Smart Textile Solutions at the Estonian Academy of Arts
Kristi Kuusk, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia

SWW – Smart Work Clothes
Jane Kivistik, Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool

REGISTRATION, FREE!
https://goo.gl/forms/Fea0nfXFaObXLvR42.

Fashion Tech Talks is in English.

The second lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this spring semester will be Ulrika Karlsson, stepping on the stage of Kanuti Gildi Saal (Pikk 20, Tallinn) on 22nd of February at 6 pm. Her lecture is titled “Rustic Figurations and Aesthetics Of the Fall”.

Ulrika Karlsson is an architect and founding member servo stockholm and of the newly started architectural design collaborative Brrum. She is a professor of architecture at KTH School of Architecture, with a focus on digital methods and tools. Karlsson is also a professor at Konstfack – University College of Arts, Craft and Design. She has been a visiting faculty at Bartlett, UCL, London, teaching Urban Design. Karlsson has also taught at UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design. She received her Architecture degree from Columbia University and Landscape Architecture degree from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Karlsson has lectured and exhibited internationally and contributed to numerous journals including Perspecta, Via, Arkitektur and AD. She has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Centre Pompidou, ArkDes, SFMoMA, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Wexner Center for the Arts, MoMA/QNS, Artists Space, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. servo’s work is part of the permanent collections of SFMoMA and the FRAC Centre.

Engaging a playful use of technology and material experimentation, her practice has a specific interest in the role of architectural representations and their translations, where we sometimes encounter the conflation of material and information. A current project with Brrum includes “And or not”, a proposal for a public artwork for the planned new park, Norrastationsparen in Hagastaden, Stockholm, which will be finished 2021.

The Open Lecture Series brings to Tallinn a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. All Open Lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

The architecture and urban planning department of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested, drawing an audience of students as well as professionals and academics from the fields of architecture, design, engineering but also fine arts. The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam
www.avatudloengud.ee

1st of February Thursday, will start bright and early at 9AM with the next Morning Coffee event, where students and graduates from our department will come and share their experiences from studying, working or doing an apprenticeship somewhere else in the world – through the spectrum of space and spatial design. On the stage this time: experiences and views of the world, learning and spatial design: Amr Gamal Mohamed Aladl Elshaaer from EGYPT and Ahmad Hussein from JORDAN!

Also: this Morning Coffee event will be in English, spread the news so it reaches every EKA Erasmus student!

This event is perfect for students and those wanting to become a student, but also tutors; our Nunne St door is also open to anyone from other EKA departments or other schools. The interior architecture department Morning Coffee events take place every first Thursday of the month. The event is worthy of its name: there will most definitely also be coffee – and upon occasion, there has been also delicious cake (for the cake, you might want to bring a tiny bit of cash)

Set your alarm clocks, join us!

Location: Interior Architecture department, Nunne 16, Tallinn

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1951829291513853/