QUALITY MANAGER:

Slovak Design Center

SUPPORT:

The Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic, SPP Foundation, The City of Bratislava - Ars Bratislavensis, Neon Okaver, Foundation Center for Contemporary Arts, Open Society Foundation, Open Gallery

PARTNERS:

Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Technical University, Plan C, Czech centre Bratislava, Grandprint

MEDIA PARTNERS:

SITA,Designby.sk, Radio_FM, in.ba, port.sk, Artycok.TV, citylife.sk

PARTNERS:

Fun And Magic Accidents (Novi Sad),KOD – critical platform for digital arhitecture and theory (Bratislava),
Academy of Fine Arts - University of Novi Sad,Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava,Faculty of Tehnical Sciencies, Department of Architecture - University of Novi Sad,Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies – NAPON (Novi Sad)

FUNDING:

The Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, The City of Novi Sad, Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade

GUESTS OF PROJECT:

RICHARD VAN DER LAKEN (NL)
De Designpolitie / www.designpolitie.nl
BRANO SKOPEK,MARTIN UHRIK(SVK)
KOD – critical platform
MARCEL BENCIK (SVK)
Department of Visual Communication
Academy of art and design, Bratislava

As part of the Open Design Studio 03 Project, an exhibition of works by graphic design and new media students from Novi Sad Academy of Arts was organized and held on Wednesday 1.7.2009. The work was showcased on the outdoor advertising space situated at Narodnih Heroja 3, Novi Sad. The project idea originated from the necessity to resolve some of the ongoing visual culture problems of Novi Sad: unavailability of outdoor advertising spaces, reasoning behind the promotion of instant capitalism, overall pollution of the urban environment by application of advertising materials at inappropriate places (trees, building facades, poles and other areas not intended for advertising purposes)

Involvement of Open Design Studio in ID exhibition: Ideology of Design is based on play, collaboration and experiment. Two projects, that will be presented to the public are based on notions – psychological pressure, deadline, speed and identity – represent ideologies that define design as open and collaborative discipline, but also show the phenomena of contemporary society.

Psychological pressure, speed and deadline shape design and the designer in the sense of fulfilling constantly increasing demands of industry based on fast capitalistic development. Identity and its need of precise defining on the market show that graphic design through corporative identities became not only carrier of individual characteristics but carrier of ideology of corporations themselves.

Open Design Studio was presented as an NGO in a series of presentations held at the A4 Centre in Bratislava. The opportunity was used to introduce the project team of young independent designers who are not afraid to employ direct-action methods of addressing problematic issues in the realms of Slovak and Serbian surroundings. Presentation encompassed the project program outline and a review of studio’s recent activities.

THE ESSAY - YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE SEEN TO BE!

There in the distance, thousands of kilometres northern from our home, there is a place, that our heart is longing for and out roots are dragging to. We will always call Slovakia the mother-land, although our hearts are split in two. One part will always tick for the land of our very origin and second part for our place on earth, that we have here, on Serbian teritory. But it’s more that sure, that this second part will always, day by day, year by year, beat for our Slovak land.

Premiere appearance of the Open Design Studio project under the name of Open Design Studio 01 took place in 2007 at the Multiplace Festival of Network Cultures in Bratislava, which was held as part of the Infocenter Festival at A4 Space. During the festival, the project prioritized student education through active workshop involvement and lectures on the topics of collaboration within the graphic design realm. The name of the Multplace festival clearly indicates that the aim was to bring together young and thriving domestic and foreign graphic designers and present their work by means of the internet and new media. Workshop topics also revolved around the concepts of networking and collaboration in general, and were eventually published in the festival’s official magazine/gazette.

Open Design Studio 02 project was presented to Novi Sad audience between the dates 13.-28. October 2007 in the gallery ULUV – Federation of Associations of Artists of Vojvodina. The project focus was on providing supplemental education to the students of Bogdan Suput Secondary School for Design, presenting the works of Serbian and foreign graphic designers to the local audience, and developing an international communication network of young Serbian and Slovak designers.

PARTNERS:

Academy of Fine Arts, University of Novi Sad; Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava; Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies, NAPON.

FUNDING:

The Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, The City of Novi Sad

SUPPORT:

GlobeNet Belgrade; LUGoNS GNU/Linux operating system user group from Novi Sad; Youth Centre - CK13