Last days of summer in Venice - Japanese graphic design exhibition

On my one and only free day in the past month I decided to go to Venice just to have a little bit of relax. I feel very fortunate being a freelance, I can choose to have a day off and just go to Venice and clear my mind! I really enjoyed being on my own, and having time to think.
I visited the exhibition called "Graphic design dal Giappone. 100 poster 2001-2010": a collection of japanese advertising posters at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice. I love Japanese graphic design!!! So I loved the exhibition :)
Here I'm posting just a selection of the photos that I took - of course I took a photo of every poster :)

Plus I got to know a very interesting project called Design in gabbia (in English: Design in cage), a project involving some prisoners to create everyday useful things like kitchen utilities, shopping bags and stuff like that. A very nice logo, graphic design and promotional campaign! Loved it!

http://www.designingabbia.com/

And this is the bag that I bought :) lovely!!!

Magdalena Festival 2010 | Maribor, Slovenia

It is the 2nd time that I have visited the Magdalena Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. It is a 4-day festival of creative comunication for young people, started on thursday the 14th of May. Due to work I was able to arrive in Maribor by friday afternoon (it is about a 4 hour trip by car from Udine), so I couldn't partacipate at the workshops :( But I have visited all the exhibitions, and I was at the parties!!! I have met a couple of people from Magdalena that I got to know 2 years ago, and it was such a pleasure!
Back in 2008 me and Massimo Miani were rapresenting our School of Graphic Design (www.csg-fvg.it) and we brought and set up an exhibition of students' work.
See you next year!
Photos are coming, of course!
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Magdalena is a non-profit festival of creativity, organised and managed by young people for the young people. It was established in 1999 as a response to expensive and formal advertising festivals, and soon focused on creative manifestations of public communication and ...took more critical stand toward irresponsible practices in this field. www.magdalena.org
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vintage advertising from Hungary

from 1984 >

from 1977 >

from 1958 >

from 1935 >

pictures from retronom.hu