Grafis Nusantara Featured in It’s All Graphic 2022

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Author: Claudia Novreica

19 December 2022

Publication for It's All Graphic 2022 (Source: Wim Crouwel Institute).

It was a fantastic opportunity for Grafis Nusantara to be featured in It’s All Graphic 2022, where we introduced ourselves as a collective and presented our past, current, and future projects to the audience. Although we could not attend the event in person, we are still grateful for the chance to get to know fellow researchers, platforms, and collectives that share the same interests and motivations in the graphic design archive.

Some snippets from It's All Graphic 2022 event at Pakhuis de Zwijger (Source: Kinda Ghannoum, Syrian Design Archive).

It’s All Graphic 2022: Critical Interventions in the (Graphic Design) Archive
Presented by the Wim Crouwel Institute at Pakhuis de Zwijger
Thursday 1 December, 20:00-22:00

It’s All Graphic is a coproduction between Wim Crouwel Instituut and Pakhuis de Zwijger. The Wim Crouwel Institute wants to connect graphic design’s history to today’s topicality by programming a mix of the old masters and the young designers working in today’s top agencies. The Wim Crouwel Institute encourages fresh perspectives on the links between graphic design’s heritage and contemporary practice. It is particularly interested in how graphic design history can be understood in light of today’s pressing socio-political issues.

For this year’s It’s All Graphic, specially curated to follow Prof. Dr. Alice Twemlow’s inaugural lecture at the University of Amsterdam, the invited speakers addressed the role of graphic design in decolonising, depatriarchalising, and other reframings of the archive.

Moderated by Alice Twemlow and Roosje Klap, the speakers were:
Syrian Graphic Design Archive (Kinda Ghannoum and Sally Alassafen)
Grafis Nusantara
Tabea Nixdorff, curator, Feminist Design Strategies
Remco van Bladel, co-founder, Archival Consciousness
Alice Wong, media-artist-in-residence, Open Archive 3.0