Blanka is currently running a promotion on all the time’code” t-shirts, select and pay for your preferred t-shirt design and they will send you another randomly selected t-shirt [in the same size as your initial order].

With a magazine, Manystuff wants to extend its activities and induce by this paper medium discussions and exchanges by written and graphic reflections around a common problematic.
For this first issue, Manystuff proposes to look into contemporary graphic creation through the prism of realism or even hyperrealism. At a time when a certain standardisation can be observed in numerical creation practices, a reinvestment can be seen in real space, its objects and its matter from which the designers obtain casual creations reflecting a concrete and true reality and highlighting the genesis of their forms. Practicing artists scoff at the illusion and prefer the nitty gritty.
Several questions can then be posed: what do these practices entail in a context where computer-assisted creation is dominant? How have these practices digested the data processing tool? Is there rejection or continuity when we know that the new generation comes from a digital DIY culture?What are the challenges of this practice which sometimes plays with the non-conventional derisory character of the images and the derision of the process? Is this practice a way of reenchanting the world with these optical effects, this use of daily objects, a means of getting away from the production of overpolished and standardised images? What are the social challenges of this new graphic movement? etc, etc …

Graphic design: Pierre Vanni
Language: English/French (All the texts are bilingual) + Dutch (for Luna Maurer text)
Format: 20×26,7 cm
80 pages
10 €
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Student graphic designer (at University College Falmouth) Gareth Horner designed this very nice poster. Here was the brief of this project :

To design and produce a poster for a fictional MA Typography course at University College Falmouth, informing students of upcoming lectures every friday.

No illustration or photography could be incorporated into the design, amd only one coulour and typeface could be used.

Village is a type co-op.

They are the union of eleven young type foundries who have decided to go it alone, together. vllg.com is the information channel and boutique storefront for this group of equals.

The posters of the Paris uprising of May 1968 comprise some of the most brilliant graphic works ever to have been associated with a movement for social and political change. This selection of original posters coincides with The Hayward’s 40th birthday and celebrates the vibrant activist graphics and revolutionary spirit of summer 1968.

The exhibition is curated by Johan Kugelberg in collaboration with The Hayward curatorial team and Jeff Boardman, Creative Director of Freewheelin’.

Supported by Converse with additional support from the New York Herald Tribune and Time Out.

To complement this exhibition, Magnum Photos present a projection of photographs by Bruno Barbey, whose record of the Paris riots produced some of the most iconic images from that year.

Thursday 1 May 2008 - Sunday 1 June 2008 , 10am – 6pm (daily), Late night Fridays until 10pm

www.parismai68.net

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There is also a Mai 68 poster exhibition at Galerie Anatome in Paris from Mai 7th to June 26th. Over 100 posters designed by the students of “l’Atelier populaire de l’école des Beaux Arts” between May 15 and June 27 1968. Be sure to take a look…