Bios present the group eBoy, based in Berlin, the group that introduced the re-use of the 8-bit style to design. eBoy create re-usable pixel objects, which they employ in building complicated artworks.

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The installation deals with the relation between written text and its projection through graphic design. In four short stories by Sissy Caravia –about four different people with their own eccentricities and lifestyle– typography and illustration develop parallel to the plot, with emphasis on the emotion each story expresses.

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Presentation of the artist Ines Piqueras Garcia, whose work is based on art book forms, made by hand or printed with traditional or digital methods and thus creating book-objects. Inspired by pictures taken through a microscope, pictures of vegetable or animal cells and using all the techniques of etching, Piqueras seduces her viewer in a magnetic game of experimenting. In addition, collages and various other applications, from wrapping paper to small stamps, enrich the exhibition, giving the public a perfect outlook on the style and work methods of the artist.

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Chrysostomos Naselos
Notebooks made of plain manila paper, a collection of envelopes binded in books, letters sent and forgotten –or not.

Wayne Daly
Presentation of a multilateral project by the designer Wayne Daly, which includes an on-going collection of aliases adopted by e-mail ‘spammers’, comments on the feminine archetype through tabloids and an atypical index of names that were previously used or considered for use by famous music acts, all in print form that creates a whole world one can wander in.

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Presentation of moving image projects of the group Jutojo, which consists of the designer Julie Gayard, the director Toby Cornish and the architect Jony Braun. Jotujo is a team of young people that live and work in Mitte, Berlin, an area that has many things in common with the area of Psyrri. Jutojo work on various design projects such as print, film, visuals, screen video panoramas, as well as site specific commissions.

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Three artists (Philippos Theodoridis, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Paris Koutsikos) participate in this exhibition on corrosion, a theme that was fundamental in the creation of the group. The result of corrosion becomes especially interesting if one thinks of its metaphorical use in everyday life and in a reality full of stereotypes.

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Rena Chrysikopoulou
A series of collage illustrations. Newspaper clippings, notes, stickers and other objects create a new reality. A personal diary with everyday elements, targeting in inspiration and stimulation.

Peter Zizka
A documentation of the much awarded installation “the virtual minefield”, by the German designer Peter Zizka. The aid organization Medico International and the artist joined efforts to draw attention to the threat posed by ordnance and unexploded mines in many countries of the world. Zizka designed an installation, showing precise photographic reproductions of mines. Installation segments could be purchased and the proceeds were used to finance the very demanding mine removal work in Angola, Afghanistan and Cambodia.

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A series of compositions printed on canvas that uses typography, photography and illustration. Poor Designers create, experimenting with images they see everyday in Psyrri.

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A comment on the popular demand of urban culture for “higher” values, “masterpieces” and “superheroes”. In this group’s work, titled mini super city heroes – a serealistik version of urban immaturity, the liability of the above demand is questioned, while other small pieces of contemporary culture appear.

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The Switch Design Agency created a scene of liberation and relaxation for the walkers of Design Walk. In HOME SWITCH HOME, the appropriate conditions for free communication on creative matters were ensured. A fire, a carpet, low lights, minimal sounds, a multifunctional relaxing piece of furniture (“hameleon”), views, experiences, memories, pillows that offer ideas for discussions (“sleep on it” series). HOME SWITCH HOME is an installation – exercise on the creative process. An ongoing brainstorming in which several conversations take place, according to the participants, the relation they have to each other and their mood.

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The team presents their version of what a “living room” is, playing with the word and exploring the definition between a real living room and its printed version. In collaboration with the artists Thodoris Dimitropoulos, Dimitris Karadinopoulos, Manufaktura, Roberta Nitsos and Stella Pandazopoulou, teamstrut design layouts on the walls of their studio, in the fashion that magazine spreads are traditionally designed.

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A tribute to games, inspired by the exploration of mind skills, the way those are set by the generally known IQ tests. A presentation of the IQube, a structure that justifies the tendency we all have towards discovery and exploration of the unknown. Accepting this challenge, the players use their imagination and, forgetting all stereotypical beliefs on justice, give in to delight. In the following pages, three of the exhibition’s puzzles are presented, daring prospective players to solve them. The solution to the puzzle is always a one digit number.

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The studio presents an installation, in the corridor connecting the different artistic activities of WARDA. An intervention that symbolizes our relationship with the various contrasts one finds in the area of Psyrri, the hardcore every day images that we tend to become accustomed to.

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Focusing on the –more or less organised– complexity of Psyrri, We design presents snapshots of this altered ensemble: work, eating, dancing, music, prostitutes, drugs, the market, garbage, all images that reveal the different sides of the area of Psyrri.

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An exhibition about graphic design, its meaning and its substantial position towards art, which aims to make the audience have a better understanding of the processes that can be used in communication. The exclusive use of letters (typography) creates a chain reaction of mottos, texts and visual tricks, which cover various aspects of graphic design.

Design Park, Black & Decker and No Logo involve themselves with graphic design as well as audiovisual projects. During Design Walk they collect all of these projects and combine them in various forms. All these elements are presented at B Station, which is the transmission space of the three participating teams.

Belio
A mini electronica festival is organized in collaboration with the Belio team featuring audiovisual acts and a magazine especially created for Design Walk. There is an open discussion presenting the common activities of both design teams.

Raster-Noton
11 designers work together and create 11 posters celebrating 11 years of the German electronic music label Raster-Noton.

“The experience of being human” is presented by a non-linear, graphic installation, which activates visitors’ participation, providing them with clues and asking them to connect the dots in order for them to get the meaning. The installation deals with basic issues that define a person’s identity such as friendship, companionship, sexuality, as well as vanity, weakness and insecurity.

The cogs of a cogwheel may be positioned parallel, tilted or at an angle to each other. Parallel cogwheels come into contact with each other either externally or internally, (ie one inside the other) while tilted positioned cogs can have either single or double contact. They ensure safe function, correct gear ratio, ability to withstand the pressure of overloading, long shelf life and therefore offer a great degree of satisfaction. Cog is Company and ‘g’ working together. Cog is also the tooth of a gear. Cog is a symbol οf collaboration – each element effecting the next.

Ed Gill (“Skeleton Artist”) is an artist who combines film, illustration and performance in his work. For Design Walk, he presents five short films as well as their respective posters, which have been designed together with MNP and are given to visitors.

“Crooked Cop”, “Ikebana Baby”, “Bubble trouble”, “Skeleton Αrtist”, “Business weapons”

A table is set and the designers invite everyone to experience familiar flavours of everyday life. Multiple ways of receiving the concept of food, iconography related to cooking and spoken forms that define the close relationship between people and food is just a taste of the menu. Graphic designer Maria Alipranti who focuses on visual communication through kitchen activities, will give her point of view.

Everything starts with the link of a chain that only makes sense when the beginning and end are connected, portraying their total state of dependency. This connection is being examined with a mixed style (photography, collage, graphics) and then transformed into a book without a beginning, middle or end and hence without a front or back cover. Every page has its own recto verso, its other side, an aspect that even though is connected to its back, still preserves its uniqueness and strength.

Athens isn’t only the Acropolis. It’s an eastern/western city with controversy and energy. A harsh yet humane city, which is changing, developing, improving, progressing. Through graphic design and illustration, a different aesthetic hidden in the urban background will be exhibited. If you find it and love it, others will follow…

Poor Designers are collaborating with Dimitris Arvanitis, the pioneer of Greek graphic design. They are presenting a visual, creative commentary on the issue of “Society and Hypocrisy.

Sereal Designers and fashion designers WALM set up an iconoclastic game, starting with the forms that emerge from the counterpoint between the human body and its surroundings. They are being recreated and translated into 3D, in a way that dilutes the sense of reality. The two design teams unite graphic with fashion in a changing project, which aims to give shape and essence to the (non-) existing.

For the past 3 years, theSwitch designAgency have been based on the 2nd floor of 3 Sahtouri St. and have recently made a move up to the 3rd floor. They have taken this opportunity to use the 2nd floor to discover potential uses of an “empty” space within the urban neighbourhood of Psyrri. Inspired by, Italian designer, Fabio Novembre’s philosophy, they present suggestions for the creation of USPs (Useful Spaces in Psyrri) and call for the interaction of visitors, sharing their vision for new solutions.

Typical Mutations and makebelieve invite us to take the role of a crime scene investigator with the use of technological novelties such as mixed and augmented reality installations alongside other visual techniques as well as traditional means such as thought and observation. You, the investigator, have to filtrate the elements through instinct and judgment, taking into consideration the motive, in order to find the truth. As human passion and intervention takes place, the truth, however, is not always black or white.

Nobek Zeistein doesn’t exist. We invented him. (His name up to a degree betrays that - free translation of “Non existing”). We wanted this exhibition to be an annotation, a reflection and a review of the limits of modern art that many times causes the embarrassment of beyond-suspicion spectators, when they do not perceive the deeper meanings that are implied by the artwork. The work of Zeistein is characterized by an entire lack of meaning and the supposedly artistic ability. Each visitor is free to reject the work presented or to interpret it the way he desires. Those who left the Wedesign offices with a void should not feel bad, neither look for deep meanings given by art-critics. Simultaneously, with this exhibition we share the contempt for certain exaggerations of modern art.

Από την εποχή του pictopithecus ως την εποχή του homopictographicus sapiens, η πορεία της ιστορίας μας παρουσιάζει πολλές εξελικτικές αλλαγές οι οποίες μπορούν να εκφραστούν σαφώς μέσω της γραφικής διαλέκτου. Η 3 in a box στέκεται στο πλευρό του κοντινότερού μας πρωτόγονου συγγενή, του homo sapiens, ως ένα λαμπρό δείγμα εξελικτικής επιτυχίας και μας καλεί να λάβουμε μέρος σε αυτό το ιστορικό γεγονός ελπίζοντας αυτό να είναι το πρώτο από πολλά που θα ακολουθήσουν.

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Σε τρεις μέρες και τρεις νύχτες το bios μεταμορφώνεται σε ένα ζωντανό δίκτυο συνύπαρξης όλων των Ελλήνων designers και ανθρώπων που σχετίζονται με αυτό και που τα γραφεία τους δεν βρίσκονται στην ευρύτερη περιοχή του Ψυρρή.
Designers, καθηγητές, τυπογράφοι, δημοσιογράφοι, φωτογράφοι, εκδότες, θεωρητικοί τέχνης, καλλιτέχνες και φυσικά γραφίστες, συνθέτουν μια πολυεπίπεδη και πολυσυλλεκτική παρουσίαση που αποτελείται από: μια έκθεση από τυχαίες εικόνες από το έργο τους μέχρι σήμερα στιγμιότυπα (snapshots) από την καθημερινότητά τους μουσικές δράσεις συναυλίες και dj sets από τους συμμετέχοντες στο σύνολο του design walk και ένα Salon of design

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Γραφικά τοίχου, 3d εγκαταστάσεις και video projections βασισμένα στην ιδέα της επανάληψης, των μαθηματικών συνεχειών και των μοτίβων που υπάρχουν στη φύση και έχουν αποτυπωθεί στην τέχνη, στην αρχιτεκτονική, στο design, στη μουσική και στον κινηματογράφο είναι το θέμα της έκθεσης που παρουσιάζει το the design shop, καλώντας μας να αναλογιστούμε όλες εκείνες τις επαναλήψεις που αντιμετωπίζουμε καθημερινά γύρω μας.

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Η ανατροπή της τέχνης είναι συστατικό της συνταγής της ανατροπής του κόσμου. Οι Design Insane παρουσιάζουν μια προσπάθεια από διαφορετικούς ανθρώπους να βρεθούνε μαζί κάνοντας πράξη την άποψη των σιτουασιονιστών ότι η τέχνη χρειάζεται εγχείριση. Συντελεστές: Design Insane, Cynic Design, pSit, til01, Cast-a-blast, Alex K.

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Με τη βοήθεια μιας εγκατάστασης πολυμέσων που ανέπτυξε, η ομάδα Designpark σχεδιάζει ένα από τα θεμελιώδη στοιχεία της γραφιστικής, τη γραμματοσειρά. Πολλές γραμματοσειρές, σχεδιασμένες στον αέρα παρουσιάζονται στο κοινό το οποίο έχει παράλληλα την ευκαιρία να πειραματιστεί με τη σειρά του, σχεδιάζοντας γράμματα κατά τη διάρκεια της έκθεσης.

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Στο μαύρο που ζούμε υπάρχει φως; Το δημιουργικό γραφείο g γίνεται μαύρο και καλεί τους επισκέπτες να γράψουν αυτό που ελπίζουν, αυτό που θέλουν, αυτό που πιστεύουν, αυτό που σκέφτονται. Οι ιδέες του κοινού θα σπάσουν το μαύρο και θα φωτίσουν τoυς περίεργους καιρούς.

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Για να δημιουργεί και να σχεδιάζει κάποιος σωστά πρέπει να παρατηρεί και να επεξεργάζεται το περιβάλλον του. Βασική άσκηση είναι μέσω της διαδικασίας του ελεύθερου σχεδίου. Ο χώρος των mnp κατά την διάρκεια του φετινού Design Walk θα μετατραπεί σε ένα απρόβλεπτο εργαστήριο ελευθέρου σχεδίου με εναλασσόμενα θέματα, υλικά, καβαλέτα, μοντέλα και μουσική. Με την καθοδήγηση της έμπειρης εικαστικού Μαριγώς Κάσση οι επισκέπτες θα πειραματιστούν μέσω του ελευθέρου σχεδίου και της ζωγραφικής, με στόχο να αντιληφθούν βιωματικά την διαφορά της εμπειρίας του να βλέπεις, σε σχέση με το απλά να κοιτάς.

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Παιχνίδια: τυχερά, πολιτικά, της ζωής, επιτραπέζια, ερωτικά, παιδικά, ομαδικά, του δρόμου, ατομικά, του μυαλού, ηλεκτρονικά, εκπαιδευτικά, μνήμης, διαδυκτιακά, ρόλων, της μοίρας, για μεγάλους. Οι π6 παραλληλίζουν αυτά που ονομάζουμε παιχνίδια και εκείνα που καλούμαστε να παίξουμε στην καθημερινότητα. 

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7 δημιουργοί, ένα έργο. Η σύνθεση ενός video από διαφορετικούς ανθρώπους που κλήθηκαν να δώσουν ο καθένας τη δική του ερμηνεία στην τελευταία εικόνα του προηγούμενου, προκειμένου να αφήσουν το μυαλό να ανοίξει τους δικούς του δρόμους.

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Το πολυτιμότερο αγαθό είναι η ψυχική ισορροπία. Με αυτή διαταραγμένη ή υπό καταπίεση το άτομο δεν μπορεί να λειτουργήσει. Οι Poor Designers παρουσιάζουν τα προϊόντα ανακούφισης ψυχικής καταπίεσης που έχουν σχεδιάσει για την εταιρία Noprob®.

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Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ήταν μια πόλη, 50 κτίρια, 20 ταράτσες, 67 παράθυρα, 2053 κάτοικοι, 15 πάρτι, 2 συναυλίες, 7 μπάντες, 1 γκοτζίλα, 300 αστυφύλακες, 4 τεράστια ηχεία, μια παρέα εξωγήινων, 7 βασίλισσες του χορού, δεκάδες χορευτές, εκατοντάδες δίσκοι, χιλιάδες νότες, αμέτρητα καλώδια... Όλα φαίνονταν και ακούγονταν όμορφα και ωραία, αλλά κανείς δεν έβλεπε αυτό που είχε αρχίσει να απλώνεται πάνω από την πόλη σαν απειλητική καταιγίδα. Ώσπου μια μέρα 2052 κάτοικοι ξύπνησαν, σηκώθηκαν από τα ζεστά κρεβάτια τους, κοίταξαν έξω από τα 67 παράθυρά τους και το είδαν... Μήπως ήταν πολύ αργά;
Οι Sereal Designers ταξιδεύουν τη σκέψη τους στο μέλλον προειδοποιώντας μας για το παρόν και μας καλούν να πάρουμε μέρος στον προβληματισμό και πιθανόν στα προγνωστικά.

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Ο βαρετός και ψυχρός χώρος εργασίας είναι σε όλους περιβάλλον μάλλον γνώριμο. Το OFF.ICE είναι η πρώτη εκστρατεία κατά αυτού του φαινομένου και όταν γίνεται από μια ομάδα που εξειδικεύεται στο σχεδιασμό επαγγελματικών χώρων, μπορεί να ξεκινήσει έναν παραγωγικό διάλογο για το ρόλο του design στο εργασιακό περιβάλλον. Τα στερεότυπα και η ανατροπή τους, οι ομολογίες, οι εκπλήξεις τα σημεία αναφοράς και οι ιδέες θα συναντηθούν στον 3ο όροφο της οδού Σαχτούρη.

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Origami λέγεται αρχαία Ιαπωνική τέχνη διπλώματος που αντιμετωπίζει το χαρτί ως κύριο υλικό δημιουργίας. Η έκπληξη, μια από τις βασικές αρχές του Origami, ως τρόπος έκφρασης ενέπνευσε τους Typical Mutations για να φιλοξενήσουν τη συγκεκριμένη έκθεση. Παράλληλα σε μια απόπειρα συνδυασμού δύο εκ διαμέτρου αντίθετων τρόπων έκφρασης (του παραδοσιακού και του απόλυτα σύγχρονου), οι Typical Mutations μας καλούν να πάρουμε μέρος στη δημιουργία ενός ψηφιακού video που θα ανέβει στο διαδίκτυο αμέσως μετά το τέλος του Design Walk. Στο τέλος της επίσκεψής του, κανείς, θα έχει γίνει μέρος μιας παραδοσιακής και μιας σύγχρονης διαδικασίας κρατώντας και από τις δυο τα αποτελέσματά τους.

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Are we thin or bold?
A story of coexistence, not conflict. Is being bold thin? Is being thin bold? Do thin and bold exist individually? Are they emphasized through comparison? Are they nurtured by this coexistence? Do we all have a bipolar nature? An exploration of the thin & bold side of ourselves and our surroundings.

The curating agency double decker invites editors from leading graphic design magazines such as Eye:United Kingdom, idpure: Switzerland, Etapes International: France, Novum: Germany, Dazed and Confused/ Dazed Digital: UK, +design: Greece. The editors will give their own takes on the dichotomy: void vs. fullness. Upon arrival they will be ‘void’ in terms of knowledge of the Design Walk. They will visit the exhibitions, ask questions and document the area where the Design Walk will take place. The resulting ‘fullness’ will have been gained from the Design Walk experience. During the Design Walk, there will be back issues at bios from the invited graphic design publications available for visitors to browse through. The space will be transformed so the the journalists will be able to display the daily outcome of their investigations, in the form of written material, photographs, films or any means of expression they might choose. In addition there will be a final creative discussion where the invited editors will share their experiences and impressions on the design walk exhibition: Poles Apart and express their views on ‘void’ vs. ‘fullness’. On Sunday 7/02 at 11:00 there will be a creative discussion on the editor’s observations.

Eye: John Stephen Ridpath / Deputy Editor Eye Magazine, IDpure: Thierry Häusermann / Editor, Etapes: Veronique Pignero / Journalist for Etapes and AIGA online magazine, and Voice, Novum: Christine Moosmann / Editor, Dazed and Confused / Dazed Digital: Kirsty Allison / Journalist , + design: Dimitris Fakinos / Editor

Two interrelated and interdependent ideas conflict and are connected by video and audio. Parallel video projections, with live sound design, on the same canvas, fill, confuse and create ideas. Animated graphics, code and print form a creative mash up, sometimes to excess and at others more minimal, will fight to give food for positive and negative thought through an audiovisual installation. Some of the graphics will be produced using a generator nefromagnitika, which transmits signals to the brain.

Work in Progress

In design, just like in art, there are moments where the notions of order and anarchy co-exist and interact with each other creating complicated and fascinating images. The design shop presents a team of Greek and foreign artists and designers whose work in illustration, 3d-constructions, photography and video is a unique balance between order, rules and organisation, inversion and experimentation.
Participating artists: bestbefore, Company, Graphic Nothing, Nick Howard, Marc Johns, Evangelos Kaimakis, Meyoko, Eva Temponera, Konstantinos Trichas.

Work in Progress

How can we define beauty and ugliness?
Umberto Eco in his book ‘The History of Beauty’ says that the one who is thirsty cannot appreciate the beauty of the fountain, so in a way he says that beauty and ugliness are a matter of circumstances. He wonders if somebody who doesn’t eat sweets would ever admire a cake in a patisserie window. Studio G examine (investigate) a series of questions: do beauty and ugliness depend on trends? how bounded is this ? Could we prefer something ugly? And if we choose the ugly does this become beautiful automatically? The visitor is challenged to make a decision, like all of us do everyday, to put ordinary objects into the category of beauty or ugliness. He or she has to make his statement, and agree or disagree with other visitors as well.

Work in Progress

"A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything, it is silence".
Antonio Porcia

The transmission of signals, becomes increasingly more dense, and information tends to degrade into entropy, noise, absolute vagueness. A truth appears because an event interrupts repetition. It is a thing, that we cannot name, but we decide to remain faithful to, to take the chance of examining it. It is a message that demands decoding, before it becomes fully apparent. Yet, if its meaning became absolute, thus namable, the whole process of interpretation and construction of truth, would collapse into silence.

A multimedia installation.

Work in Progress

“Original Vs Copy” goes beyond the creative process and enters the realm of the creator: Family, social and geographic influences, the roles we are expected to “play”, the boundaries we are not supposed to cross and ultimately the degree of authenticity of the decisions we make in relation to the perception of the observer. Visitors are invited to get to know the person opposite them and recognize authentic or not authentic elements of his/her behavior, eventually finding themselves facing their own originality. The tool for this quest is a three-dimensional audiovisual formula.

Work in Progress

The Indyvisuals in collaboration with Xaris Tsevis present a series of thoughts concerning analogue and digital technology. Using every medium they can access, Indyviduals attempt to make a composition of different styles of works, combining the ease of the new technologies of digital media with the quality, nostalgic feel and enthusiasm of old analogue techniques.The mosaic (wall) is completed with additional pieces and visual projections. Their aim is to make the visitor wonder about the technology issues and the process that today no longer requires collective (team) work. Nowadays one person can carry out the whole process whereas in the past a chain of people had to collaborate to create a piece.

Words or image? When do we need words and when image? What can happen when the words are necessary for communication, but are absent? Is it possible to have a conversation without words? Is it possible to have a picture without image? Could we describe an image well just by using words? And finally, how will we experience an absent picture if all we have of image and position are the words that describe them?

Work in Progress

The literal meaning of a symbol.
Symbol and the symbolic. Using a particular symbol, a well known and familiar shape with certain connotations, Pi6 consider the literal and symbolic dimensions of the boundaries between their use of it and the limits of its interpretation.

Poor Designers are asking visitors to experience the dilemmas of designers regarding the frame of the picture. They will exploit all the space available in the studio and produce special glasses through which everyone is invited to try setting the form of their ‘picture’ (portrait or landscape). They develop a sense of a ‘contained’ view which they can then push and move through its changes from portrait to landscape. Taking in the historical origins of layout terminology and thoughts on: Western style / Chinese ideograms, glossed bibles, Talmud, etc., the Poor Designers make the assumption that during the creative process, the designer asks WHICH SIDE UP? and argue that often the project itself answered / imposes THIS SIDE UP.

Work in Progress

The perceptual ability of the individual is determined by culture, education, environment and the historical conditions in which it was formed. His mental process also establishes the uniqueness of the individual. The object of perception always has as many possible interpretations, as there are different conditions that define the angle. Everything is in the visible world, and the world of ideas, open to infinite different approaches. Based on these general principles, Sereal designers dive into the world of inherent contradiction and grapple to highlight the ambiguous status of the words “interesting” and “boring”. Moreover, these two words, being only a verbal process of representing ideas, do not suggest a conflict or disagreement, but an agreement and an even more interdependent relation.

theSwitch = light switch.
switch /swit| ~ (something) (over) (to something) (cause something to) shift or change, especially suddenly: background – foreground – background – foreground. When the foreground is the design, a chip, a place, an identity, an experience, a feeling, a desire, What is the background? - A switch which switches the scene to understand, the background is really there.