First Things First

Personal projects, workshops, collaborations, things that matter to me. Name of this blog is inspired by Ken Garland manifesto. I am an active member of NGO Open Design Studio (opendeisgnstudio.net) through which I have worked on interesting projects (Projekt Fasady, Visible Data, Design and Politics) because I believe design can be also used for the betterment of society. You can see some of my commercial projects in my portfolio

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The First Things First manifesto was written 29 November 1963 and published in 1964 by Ken Garland. It was backed by over 400 graphic designers and artists and also received the backing of Tony Benn, radical left-wing MP and activist, who published it in its entirety in The Guardian newspaper.

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Part of NGO Open Design Studios project Visible data_financing culture brings up together topics on visual communication, design, technology, new media and culture politics. By using efficient tools of information design and visualization language it makes budget for culture structures more visible. This particular workshop was about financing culture in Bratislava, Slovakia.

In Slovakia, many people complain about poor quality and lack of culture. At first sight, it seems that Bratislava gives sufficient funds, but the money go mostly to institutions – so called “cultural houses” in city districts which are a kind of socialistic relic. Despite it’s quality they continue to survive because of these public subsidies while Bratislava has no real cultural center. While analyzing these data, we have also discovered that it is not easy to find out how much culture in these institutions objectively is. We want the audience itself to think whether activities such as language courses, exhibition of minerals or tea at five are adequate cultural activity worth city representation or they are more suitable for a community centers. Therefore we decided to show information about financing of these activities with help of pictograms which are the universal language of infographics. Each program activity of selected “culture houses” in Bratislava was assigned a particular pictogram. We created a map out of which we “cut” out 27 pictograms to keep them looking like a set and afterwards there was typeface made.

To pictograms we have added information about how much money particular center is receiving a certain year, and it resulted with the poster that explains with simple visual language how much money goes to the implementation of activities called “culture” in a particular centers.

Poster was a collaboration between three designers: Hana Hudáková (SK), Gergely Hangyás (HU) and Alicja Masiukiewicz (PL) and was exhibitied at numerous international exhibition and published at various magazines.

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Open Design Magazine for festival Bratislava Design Week. Magazine was written, edited and designed by graphic designers during six days of the festival. Every day of festival one spread of magazine was designed with different font made by young slovak typographers. Visitors could collect all pages as they were attending festival. At the end of the festival they had the whole issue. Pages and cover were printed separately so on the last day everyone could fold and put in together.

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Poster as part of critical practice. This poster is a reaction to salary problems of teachers in Slovakia - poster was created during protests that were happening around the whole country. It is based on social scholarship application form for students. This one is turned into application form for teachers to show how much they earn compared to how much money they need for living.

As a part of the exhibition was a pile of posters in A4 size so people could take them, fill them out and post them to the Ministry of education office.

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Short book/photoalbum as a reaction to tabloids and their obsession with the end of the world. Book was created during Design and Politics workshop with Cactus Network (Tony Credland and Glen Orton)

whole book can be found - http://snack.to/fzu9wkp1

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Collaboration of Open Design Studio and SUA Architects sponsored by Bratislava-Ružinov. Projekt Fasády tries to open a discussion about facades, their colours and how this affects our surroundings. www.projektfasady.sk

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Visual campaign as a reaction to behavior of people working in shops, restaurants and services in Slovakia. Part of the campaign are postcards so you can leave your reaction at the place and website where you can discuss and grade places.

Project was awarded 1st place in Alternative/New forms of Advertising and 2nd place Logo-brand at the Cirkulator competition in 2012.

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City Types. Observation of foreign people living in Dublin. This set of posters was exhibited in Irish pavilion at the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.