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This issue is a guide to two of graphic design’s biennials: the very first FIKRA Graphic Design Biennial and the 29th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno to be held in 2020. From the world’s newest graphic design biennial to the world’s oldest, this bilingual Japanese/English issue will knock your socks off!
Featuring a who’s who of amazing design and design writing from Na Kim, Duncan Brotherton, Steven Heller, Radim Peško, åbäke, Kiyonori Muroga, Sulki ＆ Min, Olivier Lebrun, Tetsuya Goto, Zak Group, Shin Akiyama, Wayne Daly, Mevis ＆ van Deursen, Jon Sueda, Saki Ho, Chris Hamamoto, and many more.
MINISTRY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN FIKRA GRAPHIC DESIGN BIENNIAL 01 INDEX
Direction by The Office of the Archive (Tetsuya Goto ＆ Saki Ho) ＆ Idea
Design by LABORATORIES (Kensaku Kato, Hiroyuki Kishida)
Translation by Duncan Brotherton, Manami Yamamoto, Emma Okubo, Christopher Stephens, Tetsuya Goto
Cooperation by Fikra Graphic Design Biennial
Photo by Obaid AlBudoor
What If…
Ministry as a Design Metaphor
Text by Steven Heller
Dept. of Graphic Optimism
Alia Al-Sabi: Al Shareqa / Dialectic of Power
Arabic Typography: A New Era of Possibilities
Text by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Prem Krishnamurthy:
Collaboration / Tour Guides / Structures + Stories + Subjects = Social Space / Many Hats
Dept. of Mapping Margins
Uzma Z. Rizvi: Decolonizing Design / Decentering Design / Commensality / Speculative / Undisciplining Design / Knowledge Sharing
Santi Lawrachawee: Decentering
Asad Pervaiz: Translation
Radiographique: 1.Construction, 2.Game
Emily Smith:
Essential Non Sequitur / Play / Poetry
Dept. of Non-Binaries
common-interest: Lowercase-design, Non-binary
Benedetta Crippa: Transformation
Christopher Benton: Subversive
Lawrence Lemaoana: Ambitious, Unique, Diverse, Challenging, Avant Garde
Sina Fakour: Decolonizing Design
Paula Minelgaité: Dialogic
Oddkin: Alarmclock, Gap
gideon-jamie: Fikra Biennial
Justin Zhuang: International
Dept. of Flying Saucers
Hala Al-Ani: Transient
Turbo: Memorabilia
Foundland Collective: Survival Routes, Syrian Community, Diaspora Identity Seendosi: Story Teller
Na Kim:
Optimism / What if – Why not / Women Speak! / Coral Wall
Dept. of Dematerializing Language
Arcadian Studio: Translation-Language, Cultural Mixing, Remixing, Sampling, Hybrid, Arabic, Gulf
Astrid Seme: Bank
Esen Karol: Jeff Talks / #noreceipe
Christoph Knoth ＆ Konrad Renner: Transcultural
Interview: Graphic Design Practices in the Middle East
Fikra (Salem Al-Qassimi)
Möbius Studio (Hala Al-Ani)
Turbo (Mothanna Hussein, Saeed Abu-Jaber)
Office of the Archive
Tetsuya Goto: Archive
Saki Ho: Instagram, WhatsApp
A Mirage of a Design Institute, Shimmering in the Desert
Text by Kiyonori Muroga
29th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2020
Direction by Radim Peško, åbäke, Sofie Dederen and IDEA
Design by Radim Peško, åbäke
Japanse Typesetting by Kazuhiro Yamada (nipponia)
Translation by Emma Okubo
Speculative poster designs by: Sulki ＆ Min, åbäke, David Pons ＆ Lissana Jouret, Bibliomania: Alexandru Balgiu ＆ Olivier Lebrun, Zak Group, Radim Peško, Tamara Maletic / Linked by Air, Aaron Nieh, Laura Pappa ＆ Elisabeth Klement, Noviki: Katarzyna Nestorowicz ＆ Marcin Nowicki, Shin Akiyama, Alice Gavin ＆ Valentin Bigel at Groupe CCC, Alyssia Lou, LPPL, Katja Gretzinger, In the shade of a tree: Sophie Demay ＆ Maël Fournier-Comte, Jon Sueda ＆ chris hamamoto, Jean-Claude Chianale, Na Kim, Kazunari Hattori, Mevis ＆ van Deursen, Betsy Bickle, Pinar＆Viola, Wayne Daly ＆ Shumon Basar, Dan Eatock, Ryan Gander with Zbigniew Zuławski
New Series｜FormSWISS #1
Art Direction by ＆Form
Design by Arata Maruyama, Keitaro Takahashi, Yuichi Kato
Writing by Arata Maruyama, Kanako Ushijima, Mika Iwasaka
Translation by Kazuko Fujimoto-Hedges, Renna Okubo
Photography by Hidetake Oohata, Simone Cavadini (p.174)
Typeface by Swiss Typefaces
Printing (pp. 149-150) by Taiyo Printing Co., Ltd.
Interview with Arata Maruyama
OK-RM Narrative Project Derived from a Conversation
Design by Seigo Kitaoka
Translation by Ayano Atsumi
Interview with OK-RM
Atlases: Visualizing the Ecological Conception of the World
Final Episode: Between Visible and Invisible
Text by Akio Ota
Graphic Design Co-Created with AI
Text by Yasuhito Nagahara
Yusaku Kamekura Design Award and The JAGDA New Designer Award
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