Workshop and Talk
Play Now and Rewind: Polish Graphic Design
Salt Galata
September 22, 2023 10.00 – 19.00
© Rene Wawrzkiewicz
Workshop II-III
Organized by Polish Graphic Design and Manifold, in collaboration with Salt and with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Play Now and Rewind: Polish Graphic Design comprises a graphic design workshop by Anita Wasik, followed by public presentations by Rene Wawrzkiewicz and Anita Wasik. While Wawrzkiewicz will focus on the history of logo and visual identity design in Poland, Wasik will talk about exhibition and book design based on her practice.
This free-admission program will be held in English and is open to everyone.
PROGRAM
10.00-17.30 Workshop: Play Now!
Anita Wasik
This workshop led by Anita Wasik will explore various aspects of book cover design. Participation requires a laptop and basic knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.
The workshop is limited to 15 participants. For application and registration, please send an e-mail with your name, surname, and portfolio or work samples to postamanifold@gmail.com. For more information, click here.
18.00-18.45 Presentation: From Symbol to Logo
Rene Wawrzkiewicz
In this presentation, Wawrzkiewicz will talk about the unknown history of logo design in communist Poland as a reminder of the forgotten stars of Polish design. He will elaborate on how logos and visual identities have changed from the post-war years to the present, evolving from individual symbols to complex visual identities, as a metaphor for the social history of Poland over the past seventy years.
19.00-19.45 Presentation: Between Book and Exhibition Design
Anita Wasik
In the last session of the program, Wasik will talk about her experience as a graphic designer specializing in design for culture. She will present her work, from book to exhibition design, and discuss the link between these two types of design.
Rene Wawrzkiewicz is a graphic designer, activist, researcher, and design curator. He is the co-founder of the Polish Graphic Design Foundation and Network Eastern European Design (NEED). He has curated and coordinated numerous projects related to Polish graphic design, including a series of exhibitions titled Design for Freedom, Freedom in Design in Berlin, Tokyo, and Stockholm, the design festival Graphic Knowledge Fair, Polish Graphic Design Talks (PGDTalks), and the exhibitions TypoPolo and The Second Polish Exhibition of Graphic Symbols in Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Anita Wasik is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where she runs the Design for Culture and Basics of Book Design studios. As a graphic designer specializing in design for cultural institutions, she works on visual identities as well as exhibition, book, and catalog design, for which she has won several awards internationally. The institutions she has collaborated with include Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Gdynia City Museum, National Museum in Gdańsk, City Theater Miniatura, Urban Culture Institute (IKM), Wybrzeże Theatre, Museum of Gdańsk, Emigration Museum in Gdynia, Baltic Sea Cultural Center, National Maritime Museum, LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art, National Museum in Wrocław and Pilecki Institute.
Organized by Polish Graphic Design and Manifold, in collaboration with Salt and with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Play Now and Rewind: Polish Graphic Design comprises a graphic design workshop by Anita Wasik, followed by public presentations by Rene Wawrzkiewicz and Anita Wasik. While Wawrzkiewicz will focus on the history of logo and visual identity design in Poland, Wasik will talk about exhibition and book design based on her practice.
This free-admission program will be held in English and is open to everyone.
PROGRAM
10.00-17.30 Workshop: Play Now!
Anita Wasik
This workshop led by Anita Wasik will explore various aspects of book cover design. Participation requires a laptop and basic knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.
The workshop is limited to 15 participants. For application and registration, please send an e-mail with your name, surname, and portfolio or work samples to postamanifold@gmail.com. For more information, click here.
18.00-18.45 Presentation: From Symbol to Logo
Rene Wawrzkiewicz
In this presentation, Wawrzkiewicz will talk about the unknown history of logo design in communist Poland as a reminder of the forgotten stars of Polish design. He will elaborate on how logos and visual identities have changed from the post-war years to the present, evolving from individual symbols to complex visual identities, as a metaphor for the social history of Poland over the past seventy years.
19.00-19.45 Presentation: Between Book and Exhibition Design
Anita Wasik
In the last session of the program, Wasik will talk about her experience as a graphic designer specializing in design for culture. She will present her work, from book to exhibition design, and discuss the link between these two types of design.
Rene Wawrzkiewicz is a graphic designer, activist, researcher, and design curator. He is the co-founder of the Polish Graphic Design Foundation and Network Eastern European Design (NEED). He has curated and coordinated numerous projects related to Polish graphic design, including a series of exhibitions titled Design for Freedom, Freedom in Design in Berlin, Tokyo, and Stockholm, the design festival Graphic Knowledge Fair, Polish Graphic Design Talks (PGDTalks), and the exhibitions TypoPolo and The Second Polish Exhibition of Graphic Symbols in Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Anita Wasik is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where she runs the Design for Culture and Basics of Book Design studios. As a graphic designer specializing in design for cultural institutions, she works on visual identities as well as exhibition, book, and catalog design, for which she has won several awards internationally. The institutions she has collaborated with include Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Gdynia City Museum, National Museum in Gdańsk, City Theater Miniatura, Urban Culture Institute (IKM), Wybrzeże Theatre, Museum of Gdańsk, Emigration Museum in Gdynia, Baltic Sea Cultural Center, National Maritime Museum, LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art, National Museum in Wrocław and Pilecki Institute.
