Protest! Resistance Posters
Globalisation, women’s rights, Trump: the poster has established itself as an effective medium for political struggle. 50 years after 1968, the onset of a worldwide rebellion, a new exhibition, titled 'Protest! Resistance Posters', at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, presents around 300 international protest posters.The spectrum ranges from Käthe Kollwitz’s emotional appeal against war to the legendary messages of the Parisian Atelier Populaire and contemporary political manifestos. The designs, ‘dismantle rulers, denounce injustice, or lend utopia a face’. They are, ‘instances of visual memory, appeal to the necessity of resistance today and prove the topicality and universality of the depicted themes’.
Accompanied by protest songs, videos and images from virtual space, the exhibition showcases the work of socially engaged designers and illuminates various strategies of protest.
If you are unable to make it to Zürich, you can always pick up the accompanying book to the show ‘Protest. The Aesthetics of Resistance’ at Counter-Print (see below for link).
Dates:
Until 02 September 2018
Location:
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8031 Zurich
More Information:
museum-gestaltung.ch
Print! Tearing It Up
Explore the history and impact of the British independent magazine scene today in ‘Print! Tearing It Up’. This exhibition charts the evolution of polemic and progressive print publications and celebrates the current diverse industry of innovative independent magazines.Beginning with ‘BLAST’, the Vorticist journal produced in June 1914, the exhibition traverses through the pacifist ‘Peace News’ of 1930s, the biting satire of ‘Private Eye’ (first published in the 1960s and still Britain’s best-selling current affairs magazine), the seminal feminist magazine founded in the 1970s ‘Spare Rib’, the cult-pop phenomenon of ‘The Face’ in the 1980s and 90s and the D.I.Y zines created by teenage feminist collectives into the new millennium.
Many of the magazines address the unspoken issues of the day, including diversity, gender, sexuality and media manipulation.
Burying the belief that print is dead, the number of niche magazines is booming in Britain with the likes of ‘gal-dem’ and ‘Mushpit’ launching in the past decade. ‘Print! Tearing It Up’ explores the contemporary market of magazines, looking at the latest line of publishing pioneers, examining demand for print in a digital era and envisaging the future of these independent titles.
As part of ‘Print! Tearing It Up’, Somerset House and Somerset House Studios residents OOMK, who produce a biannual publication focused on women, art and activism, will present ‘PROCESS!’ – a weekend festival on 21 and 22 July celebrating the making of independent media.
Dates:
08 Jun – 22 Aug 2018
Location:
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
More Information:
somersethouse.org.uk
Counter-Print Packaging
We are very pleased to announce the launch of our new book, ‘Counter-Print Packaging’. This modern compendium of packaging design showcases a selection of the best work from around the world carried out in this field.
Compiled by Counter-Print, this casebound book also contains interviews and case studies from some of the world’s most renowned agencies, with their work gathered into groupings such as food, drink, cosmetics, confectionery, fashion and home.
The book is out now and available to purchase below.
Price: £19.50
Size: 245x250mm
Pages: 180
'Fedrigoni 365' 2019
We are very pleased at Counter-Print to once again be involved in the ‘Fedrigoni 365’ 2019 calendar.
Katherine Small Gallery
A new gallery, conceived by Michael Russem of Kat Ran Press, called 'Katherine Small Gallery' has recently opened. The gallery is dedicated to small exhibits about graphic design and typography.
Edward Bawden Exhibition
A new exhibition in London celebrates the work of Edward Bawden, a master printmaker, illustrator, watercolourist and designer who is today recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation.
'Progress' Exhibition at Paul Smith’s Flagship Store
To celebrate his studio’s 20th anniversary, the celebrated designer Tom Hingston has joined forces with Paul Smith to create ‘Progress’ an exhibition currently running in Smith’s flagship store on London’s Albemarle Street.
Corita Kent: Get With The Action
It’s not long now until the ground-breaking work of Corita Kent (1918-1986) comes to Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft for the summer.
Hope to Nope
The mere thought of an exhibition co-curated by one of our favourite publishers, GraphicDesign&, and the Design Museum was enough to send pulses racing at Counter-Print HQ when news came in of ‘Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18’ and it’s accompanying book a few weeks ago.
The Dark Side of Dick Bruna
Kunsthal in Rotterdam is now showing ‘The Dark Side of Dick Bruna’, which focuses on the illustrator’s alternative visual language.
Poster Stories
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich holds one of the world’s most important archives of posters. With its current exhibition, ‘Poster Stories’, they are featuring around 80 posters, which provide insight into the immense collection’s thematic, geographical and historical scope.The exhibition seeks to celebrate the impressive stylistic diversity this medium offers. Icons line up alongside rediscoveries, from early painterly and narrative posters through to purely typographic posters, which rely solely on expressive lettering, to artistic experiments with photography and recent designs using digital techniques.
Together, they illustrate a wide variety of design approaches and convey the great innovative power of poster culture.
Dates:
Until 31st December 2019
Location:
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
P.O. Box, 8031 Zurich
Switzerland
More Information:
museum-gestaltung.ch
