Jury of the 24th IPB

We have a pleasure to present six designers and design critics who have accepted the invitation to be the members of the 24th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw: Stephan Bundi/Switzerland, David Crowley/Great Britain, Kenya Hara/Japan, Jerzy Porębski/Poland, Silvia Sfligiotti/Italy and Jakub Hakobo Stępień/Poland.

Stephan Bundi

Bundi graduated from the Bern School of Design (University of the Arts). He later studied book design and illustration at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, before going into business for himself. As a designer and art director for film producers, concert promoters, museums, theatres and publishers, he combines unconventional ideas with practical Swiss tradition. He also teaches and is a lecturer and expert in visual interpretation at art and design colleges in Switzerland and abroad. In 2008 he became an appointed Guest Professor at the Arts Institute Nanjing Design College, China.

He participated as poster artist and jury member in international poster biennales. Bundi won first prizes in Chicago, Mexico, Mons (Belgium), New York, Sofia, Vienna, the ICOGRADA Excellence Award in Warsaw and several times the Swiss Poster Award.

His posters are part of public collections worldwide.

Member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and president of AGI-Switzerland.

David Crowley

Professor David Crowley runs the Critical Writing in Art & Design MA at the Royal College of Art, London. He has a specialist interest in the art and design histories of Eastern Europe under communist rule. He is the author of various books including National Style and Nation-State. Design in Poland (1992), Warsaw (2003) and editor – with Susan Reid – of three edited volumes: Socialism and Style. Material Culture in Post-war Eastern Europe (2000); Socialist Spaces. Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (2003); and Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc (2010). He writes regularly for the art and design press. Crowley also curates exhibitions including Cold War Modern at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2008–9; The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at BOZAR, Brussels, 2011;  and Sounding the Body Electric. Experimental Art and Music in Eastern Europe at Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, 2012 and Calvert 22, London, 2013. 

Kenya Hara
Designer, Kenya Hara (b.1958) emphasizes the design of both objects and experiences. In 2000, he produced the exhibition "RE-DESIGN--Daily Products of the 21st Century", which successfully presented the fact that the resources of astonishing design are found in the context of the very ordinary and casual. In 2002, Hara became a member of MUJI's advisory board and began acting as its art director. In 2004, he planned and directed the exhibition "HAPTIC - Awakening the Senses" revealing to the audience that great resources of design are dormant in the human senses. Much of his work, including the programs for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Nagano Winter Olympic Games and Expo 2005 is deeply rooted in Japanese culture. In 2007 and 2009, he produced two exhibitions titled "TOKYO FIBER -- SENSEWARE" in Paris, Milan and Tokyo, and from 2008 through 2009, the exhibition "JAPAN CAR" in Paris and at the Science Museum in London. Hara's focus in these kinds of exhibitions is on visualizing and widely disseminating the potentiality of industry. The radius of his activity has been expanding to the rest of Asia as well, including the traveling exhibition "DESIGNING DESIGN Kenya Hara 2011 China Exhibition" that starts in Beijing in 2011. Several books authored by Hara, including Designing Design and White, have been translated into a number of languages, including other Asian languages.
Representative, the Nippon Design Center Inc.
 Professor at Musashino Art University President, Japan Design Committee Co., Ltd. Vice President, Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc.

Jerzy Porębski
Jerzy Porębski was born in Warsaw in 1955. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technology in Krakow (1980) as well as the Faculty of Industrial Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1982) where he has been running his design studio for 25 years. In 2012, he was awarded the Professor title (highest academic rank in Poland). From 2005 to 2011, he held the position of Dean. He specialises in industrial design, graphic design, exhibition arrangement and interior design. In 1991, he founded Towarzystwo Projektowe (Design Association), currently run together with Grzegorz Niwiński. Their major projects include the Municipal Information System in Warsaw, interiors of the new office of AGORA SA, street furniture for the Royal Route in Warsaw, bus/tram stop for Warsaw, interiors of the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, information system and street funiture for Biesko-Biała, modernisation of the Central Railway Station in Warsaw, and interiors of the Polish diplomatic offices. He is the artistic supervisor of the Architektura-murator magazine. He has been awarded a number of prizes in Poland and abroad, including ICSID KYOTO AVARD, DESIGN THE FUTURE Competition, Tokyo, Design Distinction I.D., U.S.A., a Gold Medal at the Poznań International Fair, the prize of the Minister of Infrastructure, and the “Życie w Architekturze” prize.

Silvia Sfligiotti
Silvia Sfligiotti is a graphic designer, educator and design critic, living in Milan, Italy. She is the co-founder, with Raffaella Colutto, of Alizarina, a visual communication studio working in the fields of publishing, corporate communication and cultural events. She currently teaches at ISIA Urbino and Scuola Politecnica di Design Milano, and lectures in Italian Universities and design schools, and international conferences.
Silvia Sfligiotti writes on visual communication, working on books, articles and exhibitions. She was scientific coordinator, with Cristina Chiappini, of the international conference and exhibition Multiverso (Icograda Design Week Torino 2008).

In 2010, she co-edited the book Open Projects, and the exhibition with the same name at the 21° Festival de Chaumont. Since 2012 she co-edits, with Riccardo Falcinelli, the Italian graphic design magazine Progetto grafico.
www.alizarina.net
http://www.aiap.it/progettografico/

Jakub Stępień

Jakub Stępień aka Hakobo (born 1976) is currently listed among the world’s top fifty most important poster artists (according to John Foster, author of New Masters of Poster Design: Poster Design for the Next Century). He feels at home in visual identity, activities bordering art and design and the generally understood utalitarian graphics. He collaborates with many cultural institutions, e.g. The Art Museum in Łódź, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski Warsaw, Design Gallery BWA Wrocław, Tate Britain in London. His clients include Pogo Skateboarding, The Łódź Design Festival, Wyborowa, TVP and others. He has a characteristic style, inspired by traditional graphic crafts as well as street culture. His collection of works consists of both disciplined, simple arrangements and those inspired by his fascination with camouflage, graphic noiz and the excessive.
www.hakobo.art.pl