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Last
updated on November 30, 2009.
Order
of Cultural Merit for Alexandre Wollner
On November 25, the designer Alexandre Wollner was awarded the
Order of Cultural Merit, in a ceremony at the Oi Casagrande
Theater, in Rio de Janeiro. The award, Brazil's highest in the
cultural area, is bestowed each year on persons and institutions
of notable achievement and renown in the different fields of
culture. The ceremony, which was attended by president
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the minister of culture,
Juca Ferreira, and other officials, was followed by a honour
dinner (in the photo above, Wollner
and his wife Laïs Moura Wollner).
Alexandre Wollner was born in 1928 and, after studies at the
Institute of Contemporary Art of his hometown São Paulo,
studied design at the HfG-Ulm (Hochschule für Gestaltung
Ulm), where he also worked with Otl
Aicher at the Entwicklungsgruppe 5. Back in Brazil, he
established FormInform, the first design office in the country.
In 1962, he was one of the founders of ESDI.
(November 2009)
"Lorem
Ipsum Dolor"
On November 19, Bruno Maag gave a lecture at ESDI. In "Lorem
Ipsum Dolor", the Swiss type designer, who lives in the UK,
explored the messages transmitted by visual pollution and the tone
of voice of some typefaces designed by his company Dalton Maag,
which has been designing typographic fonts in London and Brazil
for 18 years. More info (Port.):
www.esdi.uerj.br/noticias/etc/loremipsum.html.
(November 2009)
"Siggraph 2009"
The projects "The
Blues Machine" and "collecTable" were presented at Siggraph'09. "The Blues Machine:
a multitouch, tangible interface for 12-bar blues improvisation" was
developed at Visgraf (Vision and Graphics Laboratory), of IMPA (National
Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics), by alumnus Ilana
Paterman and by Marcelo Cicconet, supervised by researcher
Luiz Velho, a former student of ESDI, and by Paulo Cezar Carvalho. "Collectable:
a natural interface for browsing music collections", was developed in
2008 by André Maximo and by ESDI student Maria Paula Saba during the
"Interactive Media and Natural Interfaces" workshop also at IMPA.
(August 2009)
"Design & Biomaterial" Workshop
The workshop is promoted by Fibra Sustainable Design, the startup incubated
at ESDI, together with the German company BarkCloth, whose director Oliver
Heintz will take part. The workshop will happen on July 21 and 22 and intends
to explore the development of biomaterials, discussing the use of sustainable
materials in design projects and challenging the public to create low-complexity,
high quality products with simple techniques and tools. More info (Port.):
www.esdi.uerj.br/noticias/etc/d&b_workshop.html.
(July 2009)
n-pan Impa/ESDI projects
On July 15, the results of the "Narrative panoramas & panoramic narratives" project, developed between April and June in a collaboration with IMPA (National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics), were presented at that Institute. The project intended to explore new narrative forms based on gigapixel panoramas. The team was coordinated by researcher Luiz Velho, at IMPA, and by teacher Silvia Steinberg, at ESDI.
(July 2009)
Arcos Design: call for papers
Arcos Design, ESDI's Graduate Program's research journal, invites researches
from design and related areas to submit papers to its fifth issue. The deadline for this next
edition is September 15. After that, proposed articles will be received on a continuous basis.
The first three issues of Arcos Design were published in print, and the journal was
relaunched as an online publication from its fourth issue, released in March 2009. Publication
norms are available on the journal's website: www.esdi.uerj.br/arcos.
(July 2009)
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