Kiwi and Cuban Ecological Images / Imágenes Ambientales Kiwi y Cubanas

The intent of this international poster project revolves around global concerns. The urgent need to protect our environment, as a way to preserve the human species, is fundamental to the way we educate and engage present and future generations. Visual Communication Design students of the Instituto Superior de Diseño in Havana, Cuba and students of the Bachelor of Mediarts of the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton, and contexts, but they have in common the sensitivity to care for the environment and the certainity that something can be done to contribute to eco-educational awareness. It is for this reason that students and tutors from both institutes have joined communication space for academic and cultural exchange on this topic. This project was made possible within existing courses in the two institutions; where students environs, researched the issues and conceptualised and developed the poster designs. The outcome of this experience is the joint exhibition of twenty posters that will be part of the Forma 2015 VIII Congreso Internacional de Diseño “Diseño con Sentido” in Havana (16-18 June 2015) and at Wintec in Hamilton

Perspectivas ambientales kiwis y cubanas: proyecto de eco-carteles

The intent of this international poster project revolves around global concerns. The urgent need to protect our environment, as a way to preserve the human species, is fundamental to the way we educate and engage present and future generations. Visual Communication Design students of the Instituto Superior de Diseño in Havana, Cuba and students of the Bachelor of Mediarts of the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton, and contexts, but they have in common the sensitivity to care for the environment and the certainty that something can be done to contribute to eco-educational awareness. It is for this reason that students and tutors from both institutes have joined communication space for academic and cultural exchange on this topic. This project was made possible within existing courses in the two institutions; where students environs, researched the issues and conceptualised and developed the poster designs. The outcome of this experience is the joint exhibition of twenty posters that will be part of the Forma 2015 VIII Congreso Internacional de Diseño “Diseño con Sentido” in Havana (16-18 June 2015) and at Wintec in Hamilton. El propósito de este proyecto internacional de carteles giró en torno a la preocupación mundial sobre la urgente ecesidad de proteger nuestro medio ambiente, como vía para preservar la especie humana, para lo cual es fundamental educar e involucrar en el tema a las nuevas generaciones. Los estudiantes de Diseño de Comunicación Visual del Instituto Superior de Diseño en La Habana, Cuba y los estudiantes de la Facultad de Mediarts del Waikato Institute of Technology en Hamilton, Nueva Zelanda, aun cuando viven en dos latitudes y contextos diferentes tienen en común la sensibilidad por el cuidado del medio ambiente y la certeza de que algo pueden hacer desde la comunicación para contribuir a la educación de las personas. Es por este motivo que estudiantes y profesores de ambas universidades han unido intereses y esfuerzos para concretar un espacio de intercambio académico y cultural sobre el tema. El proyecto se viabilizó dentro de cursos electivos en las dos las zonas de interés a trabajar en cada país y se investigó sobre el asunto para posteriormente conceptualizar los mensajes y diseñar los carteles. De manera que los estudiantes pero particularmente diferente en Cuba y Aotearoa. El resultado fundamental de la experiencia es una exposición conjunta de veinte carteles para exponer en Forma 2015 VIII Congreso Internacional de Diseño “Diseño con Sentido” Habana (16-18 June 2015) y en la Universidad WINTEC en Nueva Zeland

Kiwi and Cuban Ecological Images | Imágenes Ambientales Kiwi y Cubanas at Artbox

Exhibition of the poster project by Wintec/Mediarts and ISDi design students

Cuban and Mexican Visual Compañeros

"...This led to an invitation to Xavier to speak at an AUT University -organised print symposium in 2011, were he was paired with WMC designer Chris McBride to discuss 'activism in print'." pp214 The essay is about the recent history of Cuba through posters and Mexican long tradition of political art from murals to prints, from the TGP (Taller de Gráfica Popular) to the ASARO (Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca)

Purakau Myths & Legends Mitos y Leyendas | Waikato Museum

All cultures have myths and legends woven into the fabric of their traditions. Eleven artists and fourteen writers from Aotearoa, Cuba, Mexico and Spain respond to the idea of myths and legends, creating twelve posters that tell of legends and contemporary political myths, challenging our complacency with war, the planet, colonisation and life. Over nine months, we will reveal to you four posters at a time... allowing each to tell their tale in Maaori, Spanish and English. We encourage you to read these walls

Pūrākau / Myths and legends / Mitos y leyendas

Trilingual Publication (English, Spanish and Te Reo Maori) Posters from Aotearoa, Cuba & Mexico Pūrākau = a Maori term referring to myths, legends and "lessons for life" Poster = a print-based medium that uses visual devices to form opinion, persuade, provoke, unite and divide us. In 2009 Xavier Meade (NZ) and Flor de Lis López Hernández (Cuba) invited twelve artists from Aotearoa, Cuba and Mexico to produce posters in response to the theme of ‘Pūrākau’. The artists activated a diverse range of indigenous myths and legends: “The Tangler”, “the Disappearance of Matias Perez”, “Origin of the Poisonous Guao Plant” among others. The stories are deeply embedded in their cultures or origin, but the underlying themes resonate across cultures. The craftsmanship of the posters is exquisite. The Cuban contributors come from a long-standing tradition of handcrafted screen-printing which has been maintained since the Cuban Revolution. All posters are made in their country of origin, through screen-print and lithographic processes. Pūrākau follows in the footsteps of Xavier Meade’s highly successful “Aotearoa Liberators” project, a collaborative exhibition of posters that found an audience in New Zealand, Mexico and Cuba. http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz/aotearoaliberators/ ---------- Pūrākau / Myths and Legends / Mitos y Leyendas is a publication accompanying the international poster project Pūrākau. Curated by expatriate Mexican artist Xavier Meade together with Cuban curator Flor de Lis López Hernández, the project exchanges the shape of poet-colonial resistance in the form of indigenous myths and legends. Taking its cue from Cuban revolutionary design, the collected posters use bold graphic imagery to convey pūrākau, or ‘lessons for life’. This touring exhibition brought together twelve leading artists from Cuba, Mexico and Aotearoa New Zealand to exchange indigenous myths and legends through poster design: Denis O'Connor, Natalie Robertson, Michael Reed, Claudio Sotolongo Menéndez, Giselle Monzón Calero, Michele Miyares Hollands, Eric Silva, Mario & Yesca, Arturo Meade and Carlos Pez. The publication is presented in three languages – English, Māori and Spanish – and features writing by Jon Bywater, Danny Butt, Yani Monzón Calero, Ernesto Pérez Castillo, Claudio Sotolongo, Carlos Meade, Luis Delaç, Los Appo Stoles Irreverentes, the curators and many of the artists

Aotearoa Liberators & Púrákau (Myths and Legends - Mitos y leyendas)

Two series of limited edition Posters with contributions from Mexican, Cuban and New Zealand asrists, designers and writers