Accompanying exhibitions

WORK FROM CALIFORNIA
The exhibition will introduce the story of the 31st American state through the work of graphic designers from the West Coast of the USA. It will show and interpret Californian graphic design, which has originated in a multicultural environment, and give a comprehensive overview of it.
Project concept: Jon Sueda, San Francisco

HUSÁK DIDN´T SMOKE DOPE AND WHAT FOLLOWED
The Czech music poster, from the 1970's to the present, or, normalization, McDonaldization and attempts at normality. The project explores all that defies fossilised social systems, past and present, and that upsets the establishment.
Project concept: Karel Haloun

KASIA KORCZAK
Kasia Korczak was the winner of the Grand Prix at the Brno Biennial 2008. She studied at the London Metropolitan University and the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, Holland, then established an art collective called Slavs and Tartars in 2005 and launched Beauty is a welcome guest everywhere, a discussion blog.

KVĚTA PACOVSKÁ
Květa Pacovská is involved in graphic design, painting, conceptual art and installations. The Czech Republic's first lady of the artist's book, she will present, as part of the Figures of Czech Graphic Design series, her own sophisticated approach to the production of the haptic, audio, sculptural and architectural book-objects associated with her experimental free art, together with selected highlights of her poster design.