Neon Moire Show

Neon Moiré Show Episode – X. Interview with Micheal Ellsworth and Corey Gutch of multidisciplinary design studio Civilization based in Seattle. In partnership with Graphic Matters, we bring a special serie of interviews with researchers, designers, and thinkers who presented their work during the graphic design festival. Graphic Matters, founded in 2008, shows every two years how designers shape and influence our perspective on current issues that matter. With the slogan Visual stories you care about, Graphic Matters presented work from over 200 international designers. Through the exhibitions, talk shows, and workshops Graphic Matters challenged the visitor to create their own image.

In this episode of the Neon Moiré Show, the fifth in this serie, Thomas Dahm, talks with Micheal Ellsworth and Corey Gutch of multidisciplinary design studio Civilization based in Seattle. Earlier this year we also had the pleasure to talk with Civilization, which you can watch back on our site https://neonmoire.com. During this live broadcasted conversation we talk about the ethos of their studio, the Design of Dissent exhibition, their award-winning project Shout Your Abortion and the three-day workshop the give during the festival.

The interview is also available as video on our site:

Related interview:

https://www.neonmoire.com/blog/52/civilization-on-promoting-a-greater-awareness-through-graphic-design

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Liz McQuiston — 10 reflections on political graphics. Lecture at Graphic Matters 2017. Recorded on September 22nd, 2017, Breda.

http://graphicmatters.nl/en

Related interview: Liz McQuiston on Creative Dissent

https://www.neonmoire.com/blog/66/neon-moire-x-graphic-matters-liz-mcquiston-on-creative-dissent

Neon Moiré Show Episode – XI. Interview with Liz McQuiston on creative dissent. Liz McQuiston is a graphic designer, educator, and writer. Over the past 30 years, she has written a substantial number of books on graphic design and politics. The conversation is recorded while walking through the city of Breda for Graphic Matters. In partnership with Graphic Matters, we bring a special serie of interviews with researchers, designers, and thinkers who presented their work during the graphic design festival. Graphic Matters, founded in 2008, shows every two years how designers shape and influence our perspective on current issues that matter. With the slogan Visual stories you care about, Graphic Matters presented work from over 200 international designers. Through the exhibitions, talk shows, and workshops Graphic Matters challenged the visitor to create their own image.

In this episode of the Neon Moiré Show, the fourth in this series, Thomas Dahm talks with Liz McQuiston is a graphic designer, educator, and writer. While walking through the city of Breda on our way to the train station we talked about why Liz writes about the relationship between graphic design and politics, the Silence equals Death project and the advantages of silkscreen printing in an age of technology.

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Neon Moiré Show Episode – X. Interview with Hong Kong based graphic designer Ken Lo. In partnership with Graphic Matters, we bring a special serie of interviews with researchers, designers and thinkers who presented their work during the graphic design festival. Graphic Matters, founded in 2008, shows every two year how designers shape and influence our perspective on current issues that matter. With the slogan Visual stories you care about, Graphic Matters presented work from over 200 international designers. Through the exhibitions, talkshows and workshops Graphic Matters challenged the visiter to create their own image.

In this episode of the Neon Moiré Show, the third in this serie, Thomas Dahm talks with Ken Lo. Ken Lo is a Hong Kong based graphic designer, who runs together with his wife Purple the design studio Blow. During this live broadcasted conversation they talk about how Ken Lo became a graphic designer, family and his project More Hugs by Ken Lo which is presented in de Valkenberg Park in Breda, during Graphic Matters.

The interview is also available as video on our site:

https://www.neonmoire.com/blog/64/neon-moire-x-graphic-matters-more-hugs-by-ken-lo

SPECIAL THANKS TO ONTOUR CLOTHING

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Neon Moiré Show Episode – IX. Interview with Dennis Elbers, founder and curator of Graphic Matters. In partnership with Graphic Matters, we bring a special serie of interviews with researchers, designers and thinkers who presented their work during the graphic design festival. Graphic Matters, founded in 2008, shows every two year how designers shape and influence our perspective on current issues that matter. With the slogan Visual stories you care about, Graphic Matters presented work from over 200 international designers. Through the exhibitions, talkshows and workshops Graphic Matters challenged the visiter to create their own image.

In this episode of the Neon Moiré Show, the second in this serie, Thomas Dahm talks with Dennis Elbers, founder and curator of Graphic Matters, the graphic design festival in Breda. During this live broadcasted conversation they talk about how Dennis Elbers became a curator and why he founded the festival in 2008. Which role graphic design plays in our daily life and the future plans of Graphic Matters. The interview is recorded in the open air exhibition Flags of Peace.

The interview is also available as video on our site

https://www.neonmoire.com/blog/63/neon-moire-x-graphic-matters-dennis-elbers

http://graphicmatters.nl

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And of course, if you enjoyed this episode please let Dennis know via Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/graphicmatters

Episode—VIII. Matias Corea is by training a graphic designer, co-founded in 2006 Behance, now one of the most popular online portfolio platforms. As chief of design Matias was responsible for the brand identity and design of all Behance products including the Behance Network, The 99U Conference & Magazine, and Action Method. In 2015 he left Behance to start new adventures.

In this episode Thomas Dahm talks with Matias about his trip through the three America, his time at Behance and what he has learned during this time. In addition to that Matias shares some insides in what he thinks a speaker should give to the audience.

This episode is recorded during Digital Design Days http://ddd.it and OFFF Italy 2017 http://offfitalia.com.

EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY TABLETTO

https://tabletto.nl - Thank you!

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Book: The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst - https://goo.gl/RpPPxP

Conference: http://conference.99u.com/

Food: Paella

Movie: The Huster by Robert Rossen​ and Twelve Angry Men by Sidney Lumet​.

Miscellaneous: Take a trip without planning.

Mentions:

http://scottbelsky.com/

https://behance.com/

https://99u.com/

The Colour of Money

#neonmoireshow #thomasdahm

Episode—VII. [Interview is in Dutch] In this episode, Thomas Dahm talks with Breda based animation studio Smack. Studio Smack are Béla Zsigmond, Ton Meijdam and Thom Snels. Many of you will know Studio Smack's work, they are the makers of the music video Witch Doctor for De Staat. Reason to talk with Studio Smack is their overview exhibition Dreaming or Mass Behavior during Graphic Matters. The conversation has been recorded in the park for the main venue of the festival in Breda, where we talk about the power of 3, mass behavior and design for debate. Enjoy the show.

https://www.neonmoire.com/blog/59/podcast-studio-smack

Neon Moiré x Graphic Matters

In partnership with Graphic Matters, we bring you a special series of interviews with researchers, designers and thinkers who are presenting work during this long-running graphic design festival. This episode is the first in that serie.

http://graphicmatters.nl/en

https://www.neonmoire.com

Mentions.

Shaka ponk - Mysterious Ways https://youtu.be/ncxqYktkjUc

De Staat - Witch Doctor https://vimeo.com/140161428

Branded Dreams - https://vimeo.com/150799305

Pimp my planet - https://vimeo.com/5837597

Interview with founders of Seattle based graphic design studio Civilization, Corey Gutch, Michael Ellsworth and Gabriel Stromberg. They are the creators of the podcast Beyond This Point, the Design Lecture Series and their latest project Non-Breaking Space gallery. Interview and editing by Thomas Dahm for Neon Moiré. https://www.neonmoire.com

https://www.neonmoire.com/blog/52/civilization-on-promoting-a-greater-awareness-through-graphic-design

Video recording of interview you find on Youtube. https://youtu.be/lwz5agpg5hg

Chapters

Introduction 00:00

Story behind starting the design studio 00:21

Story behind the name Civilization 02:01

Organizing the Design Lecture Series 03:28

Story behind Beyond This Point podcast 14:15

Starting the Non-Breaking Space gallery 18:29

Why are designers good organizers 25:39

How self-initiated projects influence the studio work 28:20

The Neon 5, are five recommendations in a single category 30:51

Book 31:05

Event 31:59

Food 32:34

Movie 33:31

Miscellaneous 34:30

Non-Breaking Space gallery tour 36:05

Episode—VI. In this episode, Thomas Dahm talks with Barcelona based social media expert and co-founder of 360VR.Barcelona Dot Lung. They talk about how Dot became a social media export, and why she started a company dealing with 360 media. This episode is is recorded during Digital Design Days and OFFF Italia in Milano.

If you enjoy this one, check out the rest of our podcast episodes on Soundcloud or Apple podcast. And if you really enjoy The Neon Moiré Show, please leave a rating and review on Apple podcast. It helps others to find out about the show. Thanks.

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Book: Ready player one - https://goo.gl/UGT8j4 / trailer - https://youtu.be/LiK2fhOY0nE

Conference: OFFF Barcelona - http://offf.barcelona/

Food: In-N-Out Burger http://www.in-n-out.com/

Movie/television: Chelsie - https://www.netflix.com/nl/title/80073486

Miscellaneous: Read as many book as you can.

Mentions.

360VR.Barcelona - http://360vr.barcelona/

OFFF.barcelona - http://offf.barcelona/

Universiteit van Californië - Irvine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine

Craigslist - https://craigslist.org

Myspace - https://myspace.com/

360 surf video - https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10102473731289461/

Facebook spaces - https://www.facebook.com/spaces

Live Nation - https://www.nextvr.com/livenation

Episode—V. In this episode, Thomas Dahm talks with Amsterdam based graphic designer Hansje van Halem about the new graphic style she created for Dutch music and culture festival Lowlands. They talk about how Hansje started as a graphic designer and what let up to this assignment. The design proces, industrializing Hanses type treatments and what she has learned from working on this project. This episode is is recorded in the studio of Hansje van Halem.

Enjoy the show! If you enjoy this one, check out the rest of our podcast episodes on Soundcloud or Apple podcast. And if you really enjoy The Neon Moiré Show, please leave a rating and review on Apple podcast . It helps others to find out about the show. Thanks.

Mentions.

Hansje van Halem — http://www.hansje.net

‘III’ by Hansje van Halem (sketchbook in 28 pantone colors, riso- and digital print) — http://shophansje.net/product/new-publication-iii-pre-order-now/

Video of talk at Typographics 2017 — https://vimeo.com/222948641

Exhibition: Hansje van Halem: in patterns Bijzondere Collecties UvA, Amsterdam (NL), until October 1st 2017 — http://www.hansje.net/Hansje-van-Halem-in-patterns

http://Lowlands.nl / http://hansje.net/Lowlands-Festival-2017-ongoing-project

Just van Rossum — http://letterror.com/

Sol Lewitt at The Met — http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/sol-lewitt

Drawbot http://www.drawbot.com/

SmartGate fence for Schiphol Airport —http://hansje.net/SmartGatefence-for-Schiphol-Airport

Us by Night — https://www.usbynight.be/