Design Center Bologna and Artelibro

Design Center Bologna will be present ath the sixth edition of Artelibro 2009, the art book festival that happens in Bologna from Spemtember 24th to 27th 2009, through two important initiatives, which are the workshops Oltre i codex. Nuovi libri pre nuovi contesti (besides the manuscript, new books for new concepts) and the debated encounter with Immagini e storie dell'editoria itlaiana. La grafica d'autore e la cultura editoriale (Images and stories of the Italian press. The author's graphic and the editorial culture).

Oltre i codex. Nuovi libri per nuovi contesti
(besides the manuscript. New books for new concepts)
Workshop with Simonetta Scala

Bologna, covered logde at king Enzo's Palace
Friday, September 25th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

The workshop is arranged to look into new ways in the construction of the product (book), starting from a revision of the traditional manuscript. The reference goes also to the autoproductive formulas that have, in the last years, redesigned the confines of publishing graphic design, proposing new and innovative solutions.

It is effectively proposed to the participants the conception of forms to manufacture a book, starting from simple elements, usual to publishing's traditions (printing paper, photographs) reread with a different sensibility and point of view. This will be about using the images and materials and arranging them in unusual ways, following the expressive characteristics born from every partecipant's ideas and effectively transformed with the help of Simonetta Scala. The objective of this workshop is demonstrate the variety of effects that the "volume" formula can still unlock just by knowing how to manipolate some key elements.

Guest Speaker:
Simonetta Scala, Lizart Comunicazione Visiva (Visual Communications Lizart)

Simonetta Scala is the head executive of Lizart Comunicazione Visiva, a graphic design studio that has collaborated with companies such as Conad, Tetrapak, Granarolo, Unicredit, etc. and public entities such as Bologna's commune, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Reggio Emilia's commune, etc. Also frequent in its collaborations in the publishing field (Alberto Perdisa, editor, publishing zone, Il Sole24Ore). She also teaches elements of publishing design at the Academy of Arts in Bologna.

The workshop is open to studenst, designers, and to anyone who is interested. The materials will be provided by the organizations.
Registration and information: info@design-center.it

Immagini e storie dell'editoria italiana. La grafica d'autore e la cultura editoriale
(Images and stories of the Italian press. The author's graphic and the publishing culture).

Auditorium Enzo Biagi, Salaborsa Library
Saturday, September 26th from 10:00am to 1:00pm

The debated encounter is proposed as a movement of examining in depth designs and stories most significant of the twentieth century, born from the encounter between graphic design and the italian editorial culture.
On one hand, the publishing houses with their stories, besides producing books they were and are commited to constant cultural action, on the other hand, graphic design from the past (the figure of the graphic editor) to present (visual communications). Book stories and dialoges between editors and designers have the commitment to narrate verbaly and visualy - according to an intinerary that goes from the small press to the imaging press (through out ways of communication: chains, covers, internet structures, machines) - the heritage value represented by the "designed" books of our past and our present. The encounter is sponsored by Fondazione Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna (Founding Institute Gramsci of Emilia-Romagna), Archivio Albe (Albe Archive), and Lica Steiner in collaboration with Artelibro and supported by AIAP (Italian Association for communication design).

Coordinator:
Carlo Branzaglia, Academy of Arts of Bologna - Design Center Bologna

Guest Speakers:
Ricordo di Albe (memoirs of books)
Federico Enriques, Zanichelli Publising House

Accedere al testo: forme della grafica editoriale (access the text: forms of publishing design)
Giovanni Baule, Politechnic of Milan

Autoproduzione del libro come zona di libertà e sperimentazione
(Autoproduction of the book as zone of liberty and experimentation)
Simonetta Scala, Lizart Visual Communications

Albe Steiner e il mestiere di grafico all'interno della casa editrice Feltrinelli
(Books Steiner and the activity of design inside the publishing house Feltrinelli)
Mario Zanantoni, Unicopli Editions

Le forme del tascabile. Un caso studio: i tascabili Einaudi
(Forms of the "pocket-size." A study case: The Einaudi "pocket-size" )
Mario Piazza, Politechnic of Milan and Aiap

Munari e la sperimentazione (Munari and experimentation)
Alessandro Colizzi, Green design University of Québec at Montréal