Graphic design – Retroavangarda

May 29 2024

Mieczysław Wasilewski – Drawing and poster

29-May-2024 / Exhibitions, Exhibitions RA, Graphic design, Graphics / Mieczyslaw Wasilewski, Polish Poster, Polish Poster School / By Anna Kłos

Mieczysław Wasilewski – Drawing and posterSolo exhibitionExhibition: June 03rd, 2024 – September 15th 2024Opening: June 03rd, 2024, 6:00 PMRetroavangarda Gallery, Al. Jerozolimskie 146D, WarsawExhibition Curator: PhD Anna Kłos Organizers: Retroavangarda, Apollo Rida and WIT Academy The newest retrospective exhibition of Mieczysław Wasilewski, the master of Polish poster, presents his works from the 1960s to the newest pieces. The […]

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Apr 6 2024

Korean Graphic Art

6-April-2024 / Exhibitions, Exhibitions RA, Graphic design, Graphics / Contemporary Asian Art, Contemporary Korean Graphics, Korean Graphic Art / By Anna Kłos

Korean Graphic ArtOpening: April 19th, 2024, 6:30 PMApril 19th, 2024 – May 31th 2024Exhibition Curator: dr Anna Kłos, prof. Chang Sik KimOrganizers: Retroavangarda, Apollo Rida and WIT Academy Photo report from the opening of the exhibition: From April 19th to the end of May 2024, the Korean Graphic Art Exhibition can be viewed at the Retroavangarda Gallery in

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May 29 2023

Michał Piekarski ‘Free Poetry’

29-May-2023 / Exhibitions, Exhibitions RA, Graphic design / poster, Typography / By Anna Kłos

Michał Piekarski ‘Free Poetry’ Solo Exhibition June 5, 2023 – September 30, 2023 Exhibition Curator: dr Anna Kłos Michał Piekarski is a graphic artist who has a passion for typography and letters, creating compositions from fonts. He is the author of graphic design projects for books, albums, postage stamps, posters, and magazines. He resides in

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Apr 5 2021

Luis Antonio Rivera Rodriguez – Mexican poster at Retroavangarda Gallery

5-April-2021 / Graphic design, Retroavangarda's Artists / Mexican poster, poster / By Anna Kłos

Luis Antonio Rivera Rodríguez is a professional graphic and poster designer from Mexico. He is a member of AMDI Mexican Association of Illustrators. He participated in many national exhibitions, among which the following can be mentioned: Poster CON100te 2011, I Love Design 2012 and 2014 rock in paper 2013, 1 UP Mexico 2013 and 2015,

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Mar 28 2021

Seung Min Han – positive energy in Korean illustration

28-March-2021 / Graphic design / illustration / 1 Comment / By Anna Kłos

Seung-Min Han was born in Korea in 1976. Graphic designer, illustrator, visual artist and educator based in Seoul. Professor of Hansung University Design & Arts Institute. He received his MFA degree in Visual Communication Design at Kookmin University in Korea and BA in Visual Communication, Digital Media at KvB Institute of Technology (Bond University) in

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Jul 5 2020

Jonathan Sirit and his avant-garde inspirations

5-July-2020 / Graphic design, Graphics, Retroavangarda's Artists / collage, graphics, Jonathan Sirit / By Anna Kłos

Jonathan Sirit – graphic designer, musician, collage artist and creator of underground zines. These are just some of the passions of the young artist. He was born in Venezuela in 1987 and 20 years later he migrated to Barcelona. He is the drummer of now famous punk band Belgrado (lead singer of which, by the

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Aug 15 2018

Reid Miles for Blue Note – Blue jazz series

15-August-2018 / Graphic design, History of Art / album cover / By Anna Kłos

Reid Miles (1927-1993) Reid Miles is an ingenious graphic designer who worked in the 50s and 60s for Blue Note record company and created there over 500 album designs, which today are splendid examples for subsequent generations of graphic designers. Why are they so good? When talking about album cover designs it is often said

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Nov 9 2017

The Cuban Poster

9-November-2017 / Graphic design, History of Art / Cuban Poster, poster / 2 Comments / By Anna Kłos

Cuban poster holds a special place in the history of graphic design due to its unique style and strong, expressive language. Cuban posters from the 60s and 70s have a lot in common with Polish Poster School as well. I had the pleasure of talking with Mr. Luigino Bardellotto, the director of Centro Studi Cartel

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Nov 24 2016

Henri Matisse vs Paul Rand – what the famous fauvist has to do with the author of IBM logo

24-November-2016 / Graphic design, History of Art, Painting / book covers, Fauvism, Henri Matisse, Paul Rand, poster / 2 Comments / By Anna Kłos

Graphic design and painting might seem to some as distant fields of art but the truth is that artists from both sides face the same artistic problems, for instance: balanced composition, colour, scale, dominant etc. In history of art, there are instances of artists who practice completely different art styles and yet create very similar

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Sep 28 2016

John Heartfield and the dawn of photomontage

28-September-2016 / Graphic design, History of Art / collage, Dada, Dadaism, John Heartfield, photomontage / 5 Comments / By Anna Kłos

Photomontage as an art technique was initiated and developed by Dadaists in the interwar period. Back then, it proved to be the perfect tool for expressing rebellious moods and political critique. One of the first and at the same time most important artists using this technique was John Heartfield. He was German, his real name

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