Workshops

Today at the school I'm doing a mission for, it's the beginning of a week of workshops.

4 international graphic designers have started to work with the students on a project. At the end of the week, there will be an exhibition.

It was very interesting to meet all these talented creators from Canada, Germany, Poland and Ecuador. All have a different vision of their art but they all want to share and connect with the new generation.
Here are some of their work:

Henning Wagenbreth, illustrator from Berlin.
He works on stamps, books, posters and has a very colorfull personal style.

Agnieszka Ziemiszewska, Poland
She is a graphic designer and works on typo and ambivalent posters. She is also a teacher at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology

Pablo Iturralde, Ecuador
Probably the one that i was the most impressed with. He has confessed that the school in South America, for studying the design, are not very good. And in Ecuador, most of the designers copy the style they have learned in the U.S. So it's complicated to find an "Ecuador design style".
Pablo has decided to search and to learn what was really behind the old design and their meanings.

He is a great creator of logos and has done a lot of them for companies, as well as posters for festivals, movies or music industry. But his agence is known to have created the logo of Quito, Ecuador's capital, as well as the direction signs of this Incan city.

This graphic designer is also known to have thought about the symbols of the Ecuador's flag.
 Very interesting guy!

Valérie Yobé, Ottawa, Canada

I don't have much of her work to show and I'm very sorry, as I was taking notes. This french woman has immigrated to Canada and has become a great engaged graphic designer. She is interested in social design and art. She works for causes and want to share her social view of design. It's inspiring and touching. She has developped the association Tribu Grafik.

She has also developped a project in the movie industry between Cuba and Quebec called Cinégrafismo. For this project, she has made 6 film makers from Cuba and 6 from Canada to work on a common idea, as well as 6 designers from both coutries also. They have crowfunding the project and made a book of this amazing collaboration.

She will work with the students on the transgenre theme. Because we are a society that is transmuting and changing.