FACING SPACES | GUIDING TRACES
_A visual research initiative for graphic designers
The practice of graphic design is one of facilitation and mediation. Its principle aim is communication. Dependent on the language of form, its linguistic message is visual, or graphic, as well as textual, or typographic. It is a product of time and space. It abstracts that which is concrete, and concretizes that which is abstract. It is rooted in tradition, as craft, and is at the same time utterly free of it. It is reflexive and reflective, pragmatic and idealistic.
FACING SPACES | GUIDING TRACES is a mobile international research studio devoted to extending the role of graphic design in urban settings. Its purpose is to assemble, analyze and archive the results of case studies, framed within a series of modules designed to originate and stimulate broader-based graphic design practices, on a par and in collaboration with city planners and policy makers, architects and developers, civic engineers and environmental scientists, citizens groups and consumers.
The initiative was launched in 2009 and is directed byMaarten Verweij co-founder of Since 1416 graphic design and visual research studio in Arnhem, the Netherlands, andSteffen Maas of Steffen Maas Office, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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_All images originated out of a workshop focused on the Hommelstraat in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and are the domain of Sinds 1416 graphic design and visual research studio.
Meghan Ferrill_A visual research initiative for graphic designers
The practice of graphic design is one of facilitation and mediation. Its principle aim is communication. Dependent on the language of form, its linguistic message is visual, or graphic, as well as textual, or typographic. It is a product of time and space. It abstracts that which is concrete, and concretizes that which is abstract. It is rooted in tradition, as craft, and is at the same time utterly free of it. It is reflexive and reflective, pragmatic and idealistic.
FACING SPACES | GUIDING TRACES is a mobile international research studio devoted to extending the role of graphic design in urban settings. Its purpose is to assemble, analyze and archive the results of case studies, framed within a series of modules designed to originate and stimulate broader-based graphic design practices, on a par and in collaboration with city planners and policy makers, architects and developers, civic engineers and environmental scientists, citizens groups and consumers.
The initiative was launched in 2009 and is directed byMaarten Verweij co-founder of Since 1416 graphic design and visual research studio in Arnhem, the Netherlands, andSteffen Maas of Steffen Maas Office, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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_All images originated out of a workshop focused on the Hommelstraat in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and are the domain of Sinds 1416 graphic design and visual research studio.