October 2008
INDEX: AWARD is the largest monetary design award in the world and is presented every two years in Copenhagen. An award is given in five categories, and INDEX: awards the winner in each category with a prize of €100 000.
Holding our collective conscience hostage ever since 1948. International design awards are generally assessing design only according to form. INDEX: on the other hand – because of our focus on design to Improve Life - assesses design also according to its impact and its context. We do this to highlight the true potential of design and the broader scope of the design discipline.
The atlas has been nominated by the Ambassador for the Indexawards Joana Bértholo.
October 2008
An International Contemporary art Exhibit in Gaza
26-28 October,2008, Community Of Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), Gaza
"We may not find explanation to the meaning of siege. I have searched a lot in all the dictionaries I knew and I can't find a meaning for it. I have searched for a picture or even shape for this gelatinous thing which choked our buds and Souls. It chained our love to the extent that I could not find any meaning or reason for the slow death which grow up in our roots, for this oppression, for this fatal Silence. Besides, if we take a look for the whole world we will find all the eyes stare on Gaza without any feeling of our death. Without any attempt to save us from this daily guillotine, so we are left alone on the doorstep of death (life)."
In Gaza Community Of Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), World Health Organization (WHO), in cooperation with Windows from Gaza for Contemporary Art, this siege is exhibited in its actual shape and from all points of view. Moreover, we show it from the point of view of those who live inside it and know it well, and who hear about it. We will present all these insights in a contemporary artistic manner to reach the whole world.
September 2008
See: www.adbusters.org
June 2008
Sometimes when you come to judge a book you capitulate straight away purely because of its subject. The Subjective Atlas of Palestine is a case in point. What country appeals more to the imagination than Palestine? Not least because of the constant stream of harrowing images that the media dish up to us almost daily. It is a tragedy that has been holding our collective conscience hostage ever since 1948. In effect, we are now barely able to form any kind of picture of what day-to-day life in Palestine is really like.
That brings us straight to what is special about this atlas, which puts the one-sided approach of Western media up for discussion and at the same time gives us a picture of the present state of the country. We see everyday life as it is lived, from the daily bread to the cultural, social and political agenda. Palestinian artists, photographers and designers give a picture of their country that is informative, confrontational, but above all stimulating. So much information in a modest little book whose design is itself almost invisible. There are no expansive gestures or clever printing tricks here: that is not what this book is about. Excellent picture editing means that the qualitatively very variable pictorial matter takes on an unobtrusive and almost natural unity and coherence. The spacious margins create an impression of openness. Format and typography are restrained yet in no way flat. The rounded corners and the fact that the running text is printed in a mild grey add extra emphasis to the friendly character of the design. A remarkable document that speaks softly to convey an important message.
June 2008
See: www.adbusters.org
May 2008
See also: www.zemzem.org/
Sunday, May 18th, starting at 14:00
A conference about ideology and design.
Société Réalist and Marko Stamenkovic, independent curator and writer, proposed a conference on ideology and design. your-space curator Freek Lomme gladly accepted to debate design and ideology, in regard of the design sphere within Eindhoven. There's a need to put design practices in a critical and international perspective, therefore we asked some designers and theoreticians whom work with ideology to step in the arena. We will discuss present day ideology, social practices and design practices.
With:
— Cindy van den Bremen (designer, Eindhoven),
— Daniel van der Velden (Graphic designer, writer, Amsterdam),
— Annelys de Vet (graphic designer, Amsterdam),
— Marko Stamenkovic (writer and freelance curator, Belgrade / Amsterdam),
— BAVO (critics/researchers)
— Société Réaliste (cooperative, Paris),
— Marije van der Park (social designer, Eindhoven).
Moderated by Freek Lomme, curator/coordinator your-space.
2 april 2008
Annelys de Vet is grafisch ontwerper. Ze maakte al eerder twee subjectieve atlassen: van de Europese Unie, gezien vanuit een Estlands perspectief, en van Nederland. Met de atlas van Palestina wil De Vet het bestaande beeld van de Palestijnen bijstellen, omdat de media hen doorgaans geen recht doen.
Anton de Goede in gesprek met Annelys de Vet. Manon Wolfkamp, beleidsadviseur van de meewerkende ontwikkelingsorganisatie ICCO, geeft een telefonische reactie.
Zie: www.vpro.nl/deavonden
Subjective Atlas selected for the best book designs 2007
10 march 2008
Every year, The Best Designed Books Foundation presents a selection of the most outstanding book designs of the past year. Each year, a jury of five publishing professionals choose books that have made their mark with distinctive design and production techniques. In 2007, publishers, commissioning bodies, designers and printers submitted a total of 465 books. The jury, which consisted of Kees van den Hoek,(Uitgeverij THOTH, Bussum), Ben Laloua (designer, Ben Laloua/Didier Pascal, Rotterdam), René van der Vooren (designer, Amsterdam), Julius Vermeulen (advisor Art & Design Royal TNT Post, The Hague) and Pieter Tielen (Drukkerij Tielen, Boxtel) chose 33 books from the total submitted as The Best Designed Books of 2007.
An exhibition of the books will be on display in the Stedelijk Museum CS from June 2008. (Image: Annelys de Vet: Subjective Atlas of Palestine, (010 Publishers, Rotterdam) Design: Annelys de Vet)
See: www.design.nl
See: www.bestverzorgdeboeken.nl
january 28 – february 2 2008
The artwork on our publicity materials is the work of Palestinian artists Majdi Hadid, Awatef Rumiyah and Majd Abdel, initially published in the Subjective Atlas of Palestine. The artists have graciously allowed us to use these powerful pieces for Palestine Week to aid in efforts to communicate their humanity through visual media."
See: unc.palestineweek.org
6 february 2008
This spring SMBA plays host to a part of the Studium Generale, the public lecture series of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, 2008. The whole series of lectures will be taking place at various locations under the umbrella title “Welcome Between Past and Future. Welcome in the World as it is’.
The six lectures at SMBA are entitled ‘Value for Nothing’. They will revolve around the question of what values designers and artists should be focusing on today, if design is a matter of creating values. Beginning from various perspectives such as tradition, cultural differences and public interaction, the lectures will attempt to formulate an answer to that question. The moderator and interlocutor at the lectures will be Tori Egherman. She is an author and researcher in the field of design.
The lectures will be in English
Free admission
All lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. in SMBA
06/02/2008
Annelys De Vet (designer)
‘Subjective Atlas Of Palestine’
See: www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl
See: www.smba.nl
13 february 2008
Het Studium Generale (Saxion) presenteert
ISM de Gemeente Deventer Internationaal & Integratiebeleid een duolezing & discussie & expositie: Achtergronden bij het Israëlisch- Palestijns conflict & het verhaal hoe de Hope Flowersschool (Bethlehem) probeert bij te dragen aan vrede & democratie.
Expositie ‘de Subjectieve atlas van Palestina’. Nederlandse Ontwerper Annelys de Vet nodigde Palestijnse kunstenaars uit een beeld te schetsten van het Palestina zoals zij dat graag zouden zien.
Zie: studiumgenerale.saxion.nl
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