Dessign: Iban Ramon

Dessign: Iban Ramon
[ AGO 2003 ] Dessign: Iban Ramon

1st ILLUSTRATOR'S TRANSNATIONAL RENDEZVOUS

The objective is to discuss the future of illustration, in the framework of an Information Society; therefore access to and participation in the Internet will be included in all the proposal suggested.

Our interest in this Illustrator's Trasnational Rendezvous is to show all the diversities in cultural creativity, specifically regarding graphic illustration.
The Internet is reinforcing a multifaceted perspective on the visual arts, specially in Illustration, and this is opening new and innovative professional applications and promotional tools.

PROGRAMME:

24 October

18.00 Esthetic tends in graphic illustration (Round table discussion and pannel with experiences)
The intention is to show the wide variety of aesthetic trends through history to the present. Several representative illustrators, showing the great versatility of European illustration (working with different media) and one of the great scholars of illustration in Spain will complete this round table discussion.

Moderator: Cristina Durán (Ilustrator, Vice-president of APIV)
Participants:
Arnal Ballester (Illustrator)
Ajubel (Illustrator, National Book Award for illustration, 2002)

25 October

11.00 Temporary Folders: Illustrating the Future (Round table discussion and pannel with experiences)
The idea would be to find an image that overcomes that of the stereotypical illustrator, in order to project the real experiences of professionals who contribute to the artistic production that reaches the public, influencing public opinion, across different fields, media, techniques and, of course, the internet.

Moderator: Nacho Casanova (Illustrator, President of APIV)
Participants:
Peret (Graphic design and Illustrator, Spanish Prize on Graphic Design, 1998)
Max (multifaceted Illustrator)
Lennart Eng (Illustrator, Association of Swedish Illustrators and Graphic Designers, member of the Executive Committe)

16.00 Workshop: Illustrator's Trasnantional Network
The aim is to discuss the Conclusions included in "Graphic Illustration in Spain, White Book", specifically the possibility of launching an informal network: Illustrator's Transnational Network, as a promotional and dissemination tool showing the Illustrator's contribution to cultural diversity in order to improve the information and collaboration between Illustrators, including the state of rights protecting our work-copyright- in diferent countries.

Participants:
Spanish Federation of Professional Illustrators Associations-FADIP (Carlos Ortin) // European Forum of Visual Creators // Fat-Pencil (Valeria Brancaforte) // Associazioni Illustratori (Paolo Rui) // Association of Swedish Illustrators and Graphic Designers (Lennart Eng) // Association of Illustrators-AOI (Matthew Johnson)

18.00 Estrategies for the future concerning Graphic Illustration (Conference and Conclussions)
The objective is to show and discuss strategies for the future of professional Illustration, starting with the Illustrator's taking control of the entire creative process of his work, and going on to the possibility of multisector professionals, that means to eliminate the intermediaries between the visual author and public in general.

Moderator: Carmen Castro (Coordinator of "Graphic Illustration in Spain, White Book", General Manager of APIV)
Participants:
Nacho Casanova (Illustrator, President of APIV)
Raquel Pelta (Professor of history of Illustration and Graphic Design)
Paolo Rui (Ilustrator, President of Associazione Illustratori)


Registration form - Print programme


All meetings in the SGAE headquarters: c/ Blanqueries 6, baix - 46001 - València


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For more information about the rendezvous, please e-mail us to apiv@apiv.com