Inspired by El Cairo’s Zabbaleen garbage collectors, by Korogocho’s people and by the ecology and behavior of the dung beetle, this projects is based on the concept of recycling.

The aim of the “Libri Finti Clandestini” project is to create real books (sketchbooks, notebooks, travel diary, “object-book”…) starting from waste paper “found around”, that is what people consider junk (garbage, rubbish…): waste typography paper, shopping bag, scrap paper, posters, envelope, wallpaper…

So, The paper used to make books comes from different places (Thypographies, printing workshops, festivals, laboratories of friends, print mistakes, bakeries, abandoned factories around Europe, botched photocopies…

This paper “found around” is assembled and bound by hand, with a no-professional method (it means a different method than the one used by a professional bookbinder).

Except the patience all the process is at zero cost. (and last but not least is a process with zero impact on the ambient)

Therefore, the final result is a proper book, ready to be used (drawn, written or any other meaning the receiver wants to give it.)

NB: Libri Finti Clandestini is a mocking collective because sells to people the same rubbish .

– O Fluxo

The Photoshop-file available for download on this webpage aims to emulate the style of a certain group of graphic designers and illustrators primairily active on the internet.

Their work often refers to itself by it’s heavy use of basic Photoshop effects and elements that are taken straight out of a Graphic User Interface.

It was created as an attempt to collect various common elements seen in this work, as well as explaining them.

Download the file by clicking the button above and start making your own designs by turning the various layers on and off, included are extra layers containing texts offering some explaination on some of the elements.

René Munneke is a Graphic Designer based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Currently he is studying Graphic Design at ArtEZ Academy of Arts.

THE FESTIVAL TEAM

Festival Curator/Ligaya Salazar
Ligaya is a curator, com­missioner and writer specialising in contemporary design, fashion and graphics. She devised the V&A Friday Late Pro­gramme from 2008 –2010 and a series of fashion-related Friday Lates in Paris in 2012. Her next V&A exhibition Memory Palace, a coming-together of new piece of fiction and twenty new commissions of graphic design and illustration, opens in June 2013.
Festival Creative Producer/Joana Filipe
Joana is an exhibition designer, producer and curator. She has worked on the V&A Friday Late programme since 2010 and curated Friday Late Archive Live in 2011. She curated Speed Collaborating for DesignersBlock in 2012, designed the ‘Future Fabrics Expo’ in 2011 and 2012 and ‘New Formations: A Fashion Dialogue’ in 2013 as part of the International Fashion Showcase.
Festival Founders/Nobrow
Nobrow started in the winter of 2008 with the aim to provide an independent platform for graphic art, illustration and art comics in the UK and abroad, to become a leading proponent of quality in book design and a standard bearer for original creative content in print publishing. They founded ELCAF in 2012 with the ambition to provide an opportunity to enjoy the creative offerings of the  flourishing comics and graphics scene through a fair with a difference.

Contemporary Collage in Modern Art

As the opening event of the Summer 2013 program of the New Holland pop-up gallery, in St. Petersburg, FAMILY BUSINESS will present TAMIZDAT, an independent press exhibition and publication ‘mini-market’, and local incarnation of the MEGABODEGA Zine show that took place during July 2012 at Family Business Gallery in New York.

For nearly 2 weeks, the entire New Holland pop-up gallery will be transformed into the FAMILY BUSINESS space, representing the art, environment and energy that the Family have been cultivating on a New York City street. TAMIZDAT will present to the St. Petersburg public around 400 text-based, self-published art pieces from all over the world in the spirit of sharing these unique and highly original text-based, self-published art pieces. Moreover, nightly there will be zine presentations and book launches, as well as variety of events such as concerts, poetry readings and performances by international and local artists. The pop-up gallery will be painted from the outside by the graffiti artist SWAMPY.

TAMIZDAT is a Russian term refering to a key form of dissident activity during the Soviet era in which individuals reproduced censored, foreign publications by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. We would like to revisit that strong Russian tradition of self-published, paper- based products that lead to the democratization of information, where every person can make a book or a magazine expressing their thoughts and ideas, with a creative touch.
The art exhibition is curated by Victoria Yee Howe; the program is curated by Victoria Yee Howe and
Daria Irincheeva.
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A World of Vanity

SPAMM (SuPer Art Modern Museum) and ARTE Creative are getting together to cast a new glance on a « Super Modern » art. This initiative was started to monitor modern digital creativity on Internet, such as video, interactive, .gif and mostly to draw an international landscape. It is time to prove to Art that the SuPer Art Modern Movement also rethinks its own ancient concepts through a selection of 15 artists; 15 works that focus on one of the most shared artistic themes : Vanity.

All is vanity in Modern Art and more even so in its market. So, around A World of Vanity, Spamm.Arte.tv will replace the preoccupations of digital art with those that supported the theme of our painters from the Romantic and Baroque era, who, from still life to the allegory have shown our human fragility to face the everlasting motion of the universe.

A World of Vanity is today such an ever-pressing theme that the new media imagine our godly ubiquity, a physical bond to an ever-lasting image. This fragility towards time that passes by us faster than ever until the final accident, death, brings us to discover the works of artists that manipulate: Fluxes (from Wall Street, from Twitter, from global emotions), their image (webcam, Google Earth), our vain gestures (desperate mousse click, interractivity), the canons of vanity (classical and modern iconography) ; casting a non-compromising look on a « showbusiness society » that has become our own intimate show.

Art and its market endlessly manipulate the three movements of Vanity: rebirth, still life and the skull.  However, the market and its museums disregard the digital rebirth of an entire section from modern creation. At a point in time when the web become the most pressing worldly asset, it would perhaps good not to forget that « artists are endlessly attempting to capture time and death ».   This Vanity is both their obession and that of their collectors.  Through this wish to seize the untouchable, we will observe bridges between classical and modern vanities and we will try to map them: A World of Vanity.

SPAMM 1.1 Vanity – Curated by Thomas Cheneseau & Jean Jacques Gay

Artists

Claude Closky – Good Direction
http://www.sittes.net/menu/

Maurice Benayoun – Occupy Wall Screens
http://www.benayoun.com/

Pauline Marx – Big Bad
http://pauline-marx.com/

Sarah Weis & Arturo Cubacub – Internet Life Horoscopes
http://sarahweis.com/

Jasper Elings – For the Love of God
http://www.jasperelings.info/

Harvey Moon – Slow Scan
http://www.unanything.com/

Grégory Chatonsky – Somewhere
http://chatonsky.net/

Jankenpopp – Toxic
http://jankenpopp.com/

Jeremy Bailey – Transhuman Dance Recital
http://jeremybailey.net/

Systaime – Neticones
http://www.systaime.com/

Philipp Teister – ZAP!
https://www.facebook.com/TEISTER?ref=ts&fref=ts

Aurélien Bambagioni – Comeback
http://blog.abcreation.org/

Françoise Gamma – Fractura
http://francoisegamma.computersclub.org/

Helen Adamidou – Pink
http://helenadamidou.tumblr.com/

Anthony Antonellis – Bliss
http://www.anthonyantonellis.com/

Officina Novepunti is glad to present The Letterpress Workers International Summit 2013, an international letterpress workshop, which will take place at M^C^O - Centro per le Arti, Milano – from the 12th to the 16th of June.
During the workshop, about twenty designers, from different European and Central American studios, will work side by side, using typefaces, rolls, inks and paper, in the presence of an audience. The resulting artworks will be shown in an exhibition, starting right after the workshop: on that occasion, other typographical works, selected from a pool of italian typographers, will be presented.

 

2nd edition
Theme, schedule and equipment

 

The building hosting M^C^O, twenty years ago, used to be the Municipal Slaughterhouse Company Headquarters. The Fish Market and the Fruits and Vegetable Public Market are still nearby. Every day they sell food to thousands people from everywhere, round the clock. An entire universe of work, of richness and poverty, of tradition and identity is still running here. And now, after so many small talks about finance, stock exchange and eurobond, here we are folks: The Real Market!

But we have food around, the most universal language in the world. LPW is an event where designers can share their print knowledge. Why not to share also our food traditions? Imagine you were one of the owners of a small stand in a street market. What would you sell? Which recipes would you prepare? In which way would you like to communicate?

 

 

JUNE 12TH, WEDNESDAY

h.19:00
Let’s getting started!
Welcome Aperitif-Dinner

 

JUNE 13TH, THURSDAY

from 16.00 till 19.00
Collective Print Session open to public
h.19:00
Open Designer’s Presentation (about 5 min. each), a short public presentation of our guests

 

JUNE 14TH, FRIDAY

from 11.00 till 19.00
Collective Print Session open to public
8.30 pm
“Superveloz. The illustrative type!”, a presentation by Yago Plomez (Familia Plomez)

 

 

JUNE 15TH, SATURDAY

from 11.00 till 19.00
Collective Print Session
h.21:00
closing party

 

JUNE 16TH, SUNDAY

from 11.00 till 19.00
Last Collective Print Session, greetings and big hugs.
In the afternoon we’ll start to set up the work’s exhibition

 

EQUIPMENT

7 manual pressproves 35x50cm
1 manual pressproves 50x70cm
Woodtypes (from 24pt to 360pt)
Cordenons Wild paper (150gr and 450gr)
Linoleum and cutters

 

The concept was to produce a modern and personal re-interpretation of Maior Arcana taken from the traditional tarot deck of Marseille.
 

The style of illustration focuses on the relevance of symbols: each card is characterized by two simple elements which help the reader to recognize the arcana and understand its power. The main figure represent a re interpretation of the subject of the card, which could be focusing on its personality or it could be an allegory of its meaning.
 

This fanzine collects the resulting images produced for the deck, trying to give birth to a modern and (I hope) interesting interpretation of this classic theme. ”