It will be the “gang” of Coffee Design to open the second week of Graphic Design Meetings of the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro. Podcaster and YouTuber, but above all the designers, Giuliano Guarini, Ferdinando “Nanni” Esposito, Riccardo “Breccia” Cambò and Raffaele “Mich” Micillo have been telling the beauty and the bad of the design and communication choices in the world on the web. They do it with a light style, “at the bar”, as they say themselves, with irony but always with great competence: skills that earned them over 40 thousand subscribers on YouTube and 213 thousand on Instagram, just to mention two numbers. Will be welcomed by the students and students of the Graphic design school of the Academy tomorrow, Tuesday 13 May, starting at 9:00.
On the afternoon of the same day, however, he will be the protagonist FedrigoniItalian paper mill company with 137 years of history behind them, whose name is synonymous with excellence in the production of special cards for a wide range of sectors, including packaging, art, publishing and creative communication.
On 14 and 15 May, however, students and students will be involved in an immersive workshop by an iconic name of the world of visual design: Francesco DondinaArt Director, professor, curator and author of the most well -known, founder, in 1986, of the Associati Dadin Studio who deals with brand identity and visual communication.
The review is conceived and created by Graphic design school of the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro, coordinated by Luca Sivelli. In addition to the same school coordinator, the ABA teachers have worked on the construction of the graphic design meetings Chiara del Luongo, Paolo Genoese, Bruno La Vergata and Federico Losito. The first week of the GDM featured the photographer Toni Thorimbertthe art director of “L’Espresso” Stefano Cipolla and the photo editor Teodora Malavenda.
The Graphic Design Meetings anticipate the first talk included in the Performing Festival bill: on May 16, in fact, the Academy of Fine Arts opens to the city and hosts a public confrontation entitled“On the meaning of the ruins: three studies on participatory regeneration”. From 10:30 (Aula Magna, via Tripoli 46/48) a reflection on the ethical or aesthetic sense of the ruins. A debate that will enclose a study path on the former “Mazzini” school, on Park Romani and other abandoned areas of the city that has lasted for over a year. The meeting is by the ABA teachers Simona Caramia And Giacomo Costa and provides for the interventions of Eva Fruci and Elia Valeo.