Best of Contemporary Italian Social and Cultural Graphic Design
Moscow 8–17 july 2011
Red October
Italy and Russia for Graphic Design
Curator:
Cristina Chiappini
Co-Curator:
Alexandra Sankova
The exhibition gathers a selection of posters of the most successful and innovative contemporary Italian graphic designers dedicating to social and cultural issues. Red October hosts several generations of established and emerging Italian communication designers and agencies.
The show features posters for a variety of contexts: institutions, exhibitions, public events, social campaigns and happenings, political dissent movements, and self-generated research.
Within the exhibition a special section is dedicated to the international work of Fabrica, The Benetton Research Centre. The posters of the centre, commissioned by UNWHO, UNICEF, The World Bank and others, address the Earth’s most urgent social challenges.
The designs exposed in the show are a mirror of contemporary Italian visual language. The selection includes from the radical and minimalist in form to the conceptually sophisticated and non-conventional, from the ironic to the dissenting.
The event is the first of the exchange programme between ‘Italy and Russia for Graphic Design’ for 2011, initiated by AIAP Lazio Italian Association of Communication Design and the Association of Poster Designers of Moscow.
The project is part of the ‘Year of Italian Culture and Language in Russia and Year of Russian Culture and Language in Italy’.
Designers and Studios in the Exhibition:
Laura Alemagna
Artiva Design
Alizarina
Bcv Associati
Marco Basti
Enrico Bonafede
Mauro Bubbico
Cristina Chiappini
Alessandro Costariol
Valeria De Nicola
Fabrica
Ff3300
Giulia Flamini
Francesco Franchi
Daniele Frattolin
Happy Centro
Heads
Hsb Design
Jekyll & Hyde
Leftloft
Claudio Madella
Madesign
Miulli Associati
Officina Tipografica Novepunti
Elisabetta Ognibene
Paolo Palma
Mario Piazza
Gianni Sinni
Leonardo Sonnoli
Cristiano Bottino/Studio Fm Milano
Studio Kmzero
Stefano Tonti
Tassinari/Vetta – Relè
Vertigo Design
Omar Vulpinari
Zup Associati
Exhibition is presented by
AIAP delegazione regionale Lazio
Associazione italiana Design della Comunicazione Visiva
In collaboration with Association of poster designers – Moscow
Endorsed by Icograda
With the support of Red October
With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Moscow
The event is the first of the exchange programme between “Italy and Russia for graphic design” for 2011, initiated by AIAP Lazio – Italian Association of Communication Design and the Russian Association of Poster Designers of Moscow.
The event is part of the official programme of the Year of Russian Language and Culture in Italy and the Year of Italian Culture and language in Russia – 2011
Exhibition Graphic Design
Cristina Chiappini Design
Exhibition Typeface
Fabrizio Schiavi – Fsd Font Siruca Stencil
Exhibition Design
Fedor Dubinnikov