I already talked (here) very quickly about the Mai 68 exhibition in Paris. I went to see it but unfortunetly i wasn’t allowed to take pictures… So for those who are in Paris I hardly recommened you to go and have a look. It’s a very clever exhibition explaining, through 100 posters, the progession of the events. Each poster shown is a respond of a government speach or an act of the police against the strikers.

Nous sommes le pouvoir, 51×45 cm (21 mai)

GALERIE ANATOME
38 rue Sedaine 75011 Paris
Tél. : 01 48 06 98 81

From May 7th to July 26th

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.

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…

minimalexperimental is a platform for online and offline design exhibitions. They want to encourage designers to be more daring, to experiment more, not to choose the most available solution to any project. They are here to promote graphic designers and to promote experimental design as contemporary form of expression. For the time being they will organize exhibitions in Romania.

Tom Munckton, London based graphic designer and working full time at Bibliothèque.

A light hearted poster series that explores the relationship that typography has with language. In this instance we ask how you can write lyrics for an instrumental song?

In total they have ‘created lyrics’ for 5 theme tunes. Above is ‘The Archers’.