Calendidonna 2012 | the graphic design

Calendidonna 2012 | invitation card & flyer

Calendidonna 2012

Calendidonna 2012
graphic design project presentation
work in progress

ideated by
Comune di Udine, Assessorato alla Cultura


organized by
CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia
CEC Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche
C.O.R.E. associazione culturale
VICINO/LONTANO associazione culturale


graphic design Katalin Daka
photography © Andrea Bernardis
All photos are from Andrea Bernardis' exhibition Calendicolors which will be open from 3 march 2012, 
at the Visionario, Udine. 

I will post the photos of all comunication materials
as soon as they arrive from the typography!!!

business card with map

business card with map
client Robe di Casa
graphic design Katalin Daka
digital print


www.robedicasa.com
www.copelliccerie.com

Hi everyone!
I love these last days of summer :) it is so hot here in Italy, just like in july...

Recently I had some very good collaborations with a local graphic design studio from Majano (Udine): Studio3Labels. This is the restyling of a logo for "Les Vilanes" – in friulian (a local language used only in our region Friuli Venezia Giulia)  it means 'Village women'. It is a cultural association that offers space for different kind of cultural activities for the whole family, focusing on local traditions.

This original drawing created by a local artist was used as a logotype. Pencil drawing on paper.

The restyling of the logo. First I started with the design of the logotype. Then on the basics of the original hand-drawn figure I created a grid and tried to combine the logotype 'Les Vilanes' with the drawing. I decided to redraw the woman in a simple and geometric way, using just the upper part of the body.

The new finished version of the logo.

Les Vilanes – a Cjase di Catine
logo design / restyling
graphic design Katalin Daka © Studio3Labels

Vicino/lontano: the 7th edition

The 7th edition of Vicino/lontano has ended...! In Udine we had some very interesting meetings from the italian cultural scene, like Alessandro Bergonzoni and Gian Antonio Stella, plus a very special guest: Armand Gatti!
Although it is a very hard work (I think I had my toughest 2 months in my entire life), every year I'm very happy to collaborate with such a great organization. Vicino/lontano is Udine's main cultural festival with meetings, dibates, exhibitions and theatrical shows. The main event is the Premio Terzani International Letterature Award with a special theatrical award ceremony. The 7th edition was focusing on work, law and rights, the power of web, of course the 150th anniversary of Italy. The other main topic was the power of Cina, since this year's winner of Premio Terzani was the book 'Operaie' (Female workers) of Leslie T. Chang, a New york based cinese-american journalist.
See you next year!

Ogni uomo è un sole

Special event vicino/lontano 2011:
"Ogni uomo è un sole"
(Every man is a sun)
La parola errante di Armand Gatti
May 11th 2011 at 20.30
Udine, Teatro San Giorgio

The show will feature Armand Gatti's texts who will exceptionally be present at the theatre.
Free entry
www.vicinolontano.it

photo (c) Danilo De Marco
graphic design Katalin Daka

Here is a short description in italian:
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La parola errante di Armand Gatti letta da Massimo Somaglino
con la partecipazione di Daniele D’Agaro
e del Coro-Laboratorio “La Tela” diretto da Claudia Grimaz

Testi di Armand Gatti, presente in sala
Traduzione di Francesca Novajra
L’albero in scena è di Giancarlo Venuto
Regia di Massimo Somaglino

È in campo di concentramento che Gatti ha la rivelazione del teatro, mentre tre rabbini lituani recitano una pièce, certo rudimentale, ma nello stesso tempo essenziale.
Tre le frasi ripetute come in una preghiera: «Io sono stato, io sono, io sarò».
“Non posso considerare – dice Gatti – il teatro come un mezzo per divertirsi, per distrarsi. Preferisco concepirlo come un perpetuo mezzo di liberazione dai pregiudizi e dalle ingiustizie, dalle forme di pensare che incatenano”. Vengono letti tre frammenti della vastissima opera di Armand Gatti: un ricordo del maquis, la Resistenza; un breve poema teatrale dal titolo Mortoperaio; e un frammento dell’Attraversamento del linguaggio, la sua ultima opera scritta, dove dichiara: “Il solo linguaggio che corrisponde all’idea che io mi faccio della poesia, è il linguaggio possibilista dei quanti. Per loro 2+2 può anche fare 8,16 o 42 oltre che 4, perché non sono settari”. Una provocazione che sollecita importanti interrogativi di ordine formale e sostanziale.

'Rock the wall' contest

Hey everyone, I'm quite busy this month, I'm back to work with the vicino/lontano cultural association and we are preparing the 7th edition of the festival!

This is a poster that I created for the 'Rock the wall' contest about saving energy. It wasn't among the selected works but I'm quite happy with it, so I decided to post it here!

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'Stacca la spina' (in English 'Unplug' - which in italian means also 'Relax')
poster for the contest 'Rock the wall'
cm 50x70
vector illustration+photoshop
(c) Katalin Daka

Al cinema in autostazione

"Al cinema in autostazione" / "Going to the movie at the station" is a project by vicino/lontano in collaboration with SAF (bus system of Friuli Venezia Giulia), FUC (Railway system Udine-Cividale) and maremetraggio. This 2nd edition of the event was held at the new railway and bus station of Cividale, a small roman town near the slovenian border. We had 2 days of projection of some very interesting short films selected by maremetraggio which is an international short film festival and contest held every year in Trieste. I had a really good time! I'm looking forward to the 3rd edition :)

graphic design Katalin Daka
poster, flyer and postcard
(c) 2011

...and we love our pins :)

pins ø 25 mm for the band "Silvia & the Fishes on Friday"
illustration Anna Mattiuzzo
graphic design Katalin Daka

thanks to ilovemypins

The 'Silvia & the Fishes on Friday' CD has arrived!

And... here they are, the first copies of the 'Silvia & the Fishes on Friday' debut CD arrived!!!

Silvia & the Fishes on Friday is a young acoustic band from the North-East of Italy, playing alternative/folk music. The members are: Silvia (voice, acoustic guitar), Guido (acoustic guitar) and Mirco (double bass). They have recently won a partecipation at the Folkest Festival (an international folk festival organised every year at Spilimbergo - PN).
More information about the band at myspace.com/silvianotes

illustration Anna Mattiuzzo
logo, layout and graphic design Katalin Daka
photo Emanuele Guerra

Looking back

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The project of my optical book

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And these were the books created by the partecipants

Waiting for some new materials to post...

Back in 2009 I did a very interesting workshop at the event "Teach me 6: very very stupid" organised by Giorgio Camuffo at the University IUAV of Venice. Our group leaded by the Tankboys (a young graphic design studio from Venice) needed to create a book as an artwork (libro d'artista).
At that time I was quite in an optical mood :) so I decieded to do something optical with my book. And the result was: Optical book vol. 1, hand-made during the 3-day workshop. It wasn't a real book, it just seemed to be a book from a certain distance... I had so much fun creating it :)

During this event I learnt so much, and I also realized that for the very first time I was among the oldests of the group - yes, this workshop is mainly for the IUAV graphic design students...

Hope to be able to partecipate also at this year's edition!