2007 Parallel shows

My favourite game

The exhibition My Favourite Game is a parallel event of the 2007 Ten Images for Ithaca competition. It consists of posters created by designers from different parts of the world, known mostly for their contemporary progressive style and common work method. These are all designers that more or less work in the outskirts of what we call “experimental design”. Free and bold, ready to confound designing facts and conventions, thus creating a team that produces cutting edge design, Xavier Antin, Sara De Bondt, Company, Eric Ellis, Oded Ezer, Jare, Richard Niessen and Andrea Tinnes, all give their personal answer to the theme My Favourite Game.

The technique in which the posters are exhibited is also some kind of a game: each designer had four square areas to design and apply them in any way he/she chose, creating united compositions of different shapes and styles. Subsequently, classic table games, experimental typefaces, mind games, constructions and comments on contemporary urban culture are exhibited together producing a multidimensional multi ethnic composition, offering eight different versions of what a game could be.

14-29 July 2007, Ithaca Public Art Gallery.
19-21 September 2007, Fournos, Mavromihali 168, Athens.

Xavier Antin, France
www.jaimelegraphisme.fr

Sara De Bondt, United Kingdom
www.saradebondt.com

Company, United Kingdom
www.company-london.com

Eric Ellis, USA
www.widmest.org

Oded Ezer, Israel
www.odedezer.com

Jare, Switzerland
www.flickr.com/photos/lennyjpg

Richard Niessen, Netherlands
www.tm-online.nl

Andrea Tinnes, Germany
www.typecuts.com

Ten Images from Ithaca to Athens

Two significant graphic design exhibitions from Ithaca to Athens.
19, 20 and 21 September 2007

The ten winning entries of the island of Ithaca's 6th poster competition "Ten Images for Ithaca 2007" with the theme Play, along with 130 finalists, were exhibited at Fournos-Centre for the digital culture at 168 Mavromichali st., Athens for three days. The exhibition gave design enthusiasts, who didn't make it to Ithaca, a chance to see the results of one of the most substantial poster competitions in Greece.

In the same space, the exhibition "My Favourite Game" were presented, with posters created by designers from different parts of the world, known mostly for their contemporary progressive style and common work method. These are all designers that more or less work in the outskirts of what we call “experimental design”. Free and bold, ready to confound designing facts and conventions, thus creating a team that produces cutting edge design, Xavier Antin, Sara De Bondt, Company, Eric Ellis, Oded Ezer, Jare, Richard Niessen and Andrea Tinnes, all give their personal answer to the theme "My Favourite Game".


Fournos-Centre for the digital culture

Curating: the design shop
Organised by: Fimios-Cultural Events of the Municipality of Ithaca.
In collaboration with: Fournos-Centre for the digital culture, +design magazine
Endorsed by: the Greek Graphic Designers’ Association and the Thessaloniki Design Museum.
Supported by: MORETHAN by Evelyn Skouteli, Apeiron Photos, Kondorousis printing, Mad4Art digital printing, hergrade, vcdc.