The development of a new cultural urban space in a very old city has attracted great interest from all over. Here a projection from the Copenhagen Architect/Design company Bjarke Ingels Group TRANSITLAGER

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Bilingua, Kambiz Shafei, graduate MFA Visual Communication Institute, a dual script font designed for Latin and Arabic-Persian writing systems has been featured in the book Arabesque 2.

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Typographer, graphic designer, researcher, and writer Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès the founder of the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography. The foundation is dedicated to advancing design research and typography in the Middle East, North Africa, and their diaspora.

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Beyond finding detailed information regarding this unique program, on each section of the website awaits an interactive sketch for you to design, draw or simply play with to your delight.

Please note that our Application deadline for Fall 2012 is February 15, 2012.

At a Science Slam, each competitor has ten minutes to present his/her research topic to the audience and win their support. Participants can come from all areas of science, from particle physics to social sciences, from history to art theory. The medium of presentation is free and can range from a more traditional talk, to a dance choreography, a stage play or a self- composed song. Everything is allowed to win the votes of the audience, in whose hands it is to decide who leaves the stage as winner. Daniel R. Müller, MAS Visual Communication Institute, won last year. His theme was “Feeling Rhythm instead of Recognizing Order”. In his presentation/demonstration he explains how we understand and experience “Rhythm”. Although his presentation is in German, it can be enjoyed purely visually and acoustically. He is the second person in the video; the first person is the emcee.

Science Slam Berne

The lecture series in the Visual Communication Institute is a joint effort between students, teachers and the design community in Central Europe. They take place late Wednesday afternoon every 2 to 3 weeks. Over the past few years since the series has been taking place, we have seen all kinds of designers and people who are involved in and on the fringes of Design. Over the next few days we will be posting a number of links to some of those who have come by to talk us. They may be interesting for you as well! We are certainly looking forward to the coming series 2012. This ends the school lecture series information. If you are interested you can find the complete list of lecturers at the school website: The Basel School of Design and soon the coming program 2012-2013 will be online.

2007—2008______________________________________________________________

—Juerg Naenni———Niklaus Troxler———Juerg Lehni———among others

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—Tomato———James Goggin———Elektrosmog———among others

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—Leander Eisenmann———Reinhard Manz———Annik Troxler———among others

2009—2010______________________________________________________________

—Karel Martens———Andreas Bründler———Gavillet & Rust———among others

2008—2009______________________________________________________________

—Tomato———James Goggin———Elektrosmog———among others

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—Leander Eisenmann———Reinhard Manz———Annik Troxler———among others

2009—2010______________________________________________________________

—Karel Martens———Andreas Bründler———Gavillet & Rust———among others

We tip our hat to 2 institutions that help to inform and better the world of design. First off, Neshan Magazine, 10 years old, one of the finest printed and edited design magazines around today. It was born in 2002 and went to press for the 1st issue in 2003. Secondly, Rene Wanner’s Poster Page, a one man non commercial website dealing with posters, poster exhibitions, auctions, book reviews, links to other poster sites and lots of information and images for all of us to rummage about in. It is entering its 15th year online. Thanks to you both!

www.neshanmagazine.com———www.posterpage.ch

Poster above was for an exhibition and book of Majid Abassi’s work———Design Kambiz Shafei,  kambizshafei.com

I Should Have Known Better 2012

The City 2011

PiaDL

SquZ

T2I2A2M

NeeS

C-S-R

CFB

The lecture series in the Visual Communication Institute is a joint effort between students, teachers and the design community in Central Europe. They take place late Wednesday afternoon every 2 to 3 weeks. Over the past few years since the series has been taking place, we have seen all kinds of designers and people who are involved in and on the fringes of Design. Over the next few days we will be posting a number of links to some of those who have come by to talk us. They may be interesting for you as well! We are certainly looking forward to the coming series 2012.

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—Arnold Dreyblatt———Gerard Unger——— gpvd———among others

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—Igor Gurovich———Stas Sipovich———among others

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—Herr Peter——— A2/SW/HK———FIELD———among others

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Riem Ibrahim, Egypt                                                                    Switzerland

Juo-Yu Chang, Taiwan                                                               Switzerland

Kyulee Kim, South Korea                                                            Switzerland

Kimberly Henn, U.S.A                                                                Switzerland

MFA 2011

Thanks to Stefanie Gloor and Kurt Riedi for the weather station!

Undergrad students and graduates from the area of Interaction studies in the Visual Communication Institute are working on final preparation for their “medial wall”. The project together with the department store Manor in Basel is an interactive and reactive work on the window façade of two sides of the building. It will begin this week and continue for 6 weeks. Particular emphasis was given to the discussion of cultural importance of architectural lighting scenarios in a city environment. And, whether this short-term event could have a longer lasting role in Basel.

Images:

The Visual Communication Institute in Basel offers workshops for students, graphic designers and educators. The workshops afford insight into topical themes in Visual Communication in a study program reflecting the rich tradition of the Basel School of Design. Practical exercises with a high level of professionalism form the core of the workshops focus. Reflection as well as contextual knowledge will be conveyed by way of input sessions, allowing participants’ work to be judged within a contemporary, future-oriented, context relevant to professional practice.

If you are interested in seeing and reading some impressions of the 2011 workshops you might want to visit Matthew Wizinsky’s site where he has posted information about the three workshops.

— POSTER DESIGN —          — TYPE DESIGN —          — INQUIRY BY DESIGN —    Thanks Matthew.

For more information:

>> SUMMER WORKSHOPS 2012

2011

The following are links to a few studios from designers who have recently graduated from our school.

–Basel 2011–

Rhine Knee  (excerpt of photograph from Günter Borgemeister + Thomas Mottl)

The Rhine River runs through the center of the city of Basel making a right turn from a westwards to a northwards direction before going on into France and Germany. It is not only a landmark of the city but also its main orientation signpost and guide. Therefor it is no surprise to see the Rhine as a central element in a series of design studies for a new city orientation system executed by students of the international MFA program in Visual Communication. Besides analyzing what and where information needs to be located in the city, they made proposals for the design of the 3-dimensional elements as well as the intuitive/interactive map information panels.

–E.V.+ P.S.–

–H.A.–

–K.H.–

–S.M.–

–S.W.C. –

–T.P.–

–Emily Verba + Pablo Berger–       –Hossein Ajallooiean–       –Sara Mota–

–Sung Won Chang–       –Travis Purrington–

–2011–

For one week during the EXD’11 / Lisboa Design Biennale visitors of the Lounging Space could see a temporary exhibition of The Basel School of Design. The display of final works from master students invited one to explore the variety of approaches towards design research and innovative visual results.

Read full article here.

This fall The Basel School of Design was honored to participate in EXD’11 / Lisboa Design Biennale which took place in the Portuguese Capital from September 28th to November 27th.

EXD is an international biennale dedicated to design, architecture and creativity. As a thinking platform it hosts debates and lectures, cultivates and analyses contemporary culture through discussion and reflection.

EXD’11 / lisboa design biennale

The Basel School of Design took part in one of the leading events of EXD’11 Education Programme: Open Day Abroad, organized by Susana Gaudencio, the Coordinator of Education Program. This event brought together universities from different countries to present their academic curricula, projects and creative teaching strategies in the fields of design. It was a great opportunity to converse and network between the first graduating class from the  Master of Arts in Visual Communication and Iconic Research program at the Basel School of Design and FBAUL master students from the Design de Comunicação e Novos Media.

The participants from the Open Day Abroad

The presentations and discussion took place in the Lounging Space, where graduates from the Master of Arts in Visual Communication and Iconic Research program presented their thesis projects.

Installations in the Lounging Space

Impressive conceptual installations in the Lounging Space

Displays in Dialogue: The Exhibition and the Book by Lena Friedli and Michael Huebner

This project examines the relationship between art, exhibitions and books. Exhibitions can be understood as the premise of display, which can refer to each other in different ways. In order to grasp the multilayered relationship of the two displays, they are contrasted in a series of exhibitions. The situations thereby engendered to challenge conventional structures, dismantling them in order to show new possibilities of art.

Photographing. Deliberations on the Photographic Design Process by Svetlana Marcenko

The specifics of photogenesis manifest themselves in the technical nature of image recording and account for the distinctiveness of photographic design. This is composed of a complex network of related decisions which occur both before and after triggering. This project attempts to illustrate the stages of this process and discuss the factors which influence it.

FHNW presentation

Temporary display of student works from FHNW

Creating Individual Experience through Non-Linear Narrations in Moving Images by Safak Korkut

Film narrative is a way of understanding data under the illusion of occurrence; the mind is capable of building a set of rules as a narrated story even if the pieces do not belong to each other. This thesis project aims to achieve a narrative structure that generates an indefinable number of stories, thus the individual combination of the videos becomes the key for the creation of a narrative.

Investigating Imagination as a Cognitive Act by Indre Grumbinaite

Images and imagination are considered to be natural to our thinking. Imagination is traditionally regarded to be the mental capacity for experiencing, constructing or manipulating concepts, sensations and mental imagery. Focusing on imagination as the capacity to form mental images, this project explores its role for visual perception and image creation.

Exploring the Three-Dimensional Reality of an Image by Yo Oun Choi

This project is an exploration into a three-dimensional reality of an image by analyzing the phenomena of human visual perception. By showing a two-dimensional image that is created in an unconventional way, visual focus shifts from what viewers see to how they see. Thus, the experience allows viewers to reflect on their own seeing habits and questions how their visual system works.

Exhibitions in the Lounging Space

Students from Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon warmly welcomed the visitors with a guided tour through the exhibition of the semester works of master students as well as from all bachelor courses. The students discussed the topics, approaches to different themes and compared the methods of research along with the relation between practice and theoretical studies.

Visit to the Faculty of Fine Arts

Besides the participation at Open Day Abroad, the trip to Lisbon was an exceptional chance to visit the Biennale and have an insider’s perspective on the events. Under the theme Useless, the 6th edition of EXD questions the idea of use and its absence through various lectures, conferences, open talks and impressive curated exhibitions. Many exhibitions located all over the charming city of Lisbon were of a great interest and an effort was made to see as many as possible in one short week.

Utilitas Interrupta exhibition. Curator Joseph Grima

Useless? – The Wandering Pain exhibition. Curator Max Bruinsma and Hans Maier-Aichen

Fernando Brizio exhibition Inhabited Designs. Curator experimentadesign

Exploring the city

The beautiful seaside of Cascais