Graphic Days Torino

Illustration, typography, editorial design, videomaking, street art, data visualization and much more. The event shortens the distances between the most relevant names of the international scene and the students, between professionals and laypersons in order to show how graphic design interacts with every aspect of our everyday life.

A lot of visual and music live performances reshape the spaces of the festival. The most interesting artists coming from illustration, street art and experimental music fields perform during different sessions to show the beauty of artistic contamination.

Historical, contemporary and experimental pieces dialogue together through different media and supports. The exhibitions move across time and space, bringing to the festival the most interesting international artworks about illustration, publishing industry and motion design.

What the heck is Graphic Design? What is the point? The first edition of the festival aims to retrace the steps of graphic design by analyzing its icons through the lenses of irreverence and nonconformism. Information, seduction and involvement are the main themes we have chosen to rethink the paradigms and investigate the importance of visual communication. BOOM THE ICONS is the key of all events on program. Through the explosion of established icons we will try to analyze the paradigms and explore the limits of visual communication. The festival offers a journey of discovery, exploring the main characters of contemporary graphic design that managed to break the mold and produce beyond their limitations.

Torino Graphic Days vol. 02 is Universal identities. The 2017 festival’s edition aims at analysing, sharing and amplifying the influence of visual communication to represent the plurality of our contemporary world. Graphic design is a universal communication tool: it overcomes both linguistic and cultural barriers of different countries. Each culture is characterized by a visual heritage which includes globally recognized symbols both as expressions of a specific identity or as universal concepts.

Graphic design has a dual nature: it mixes rigour with experimentation and creativity to create an ever evolving scenario. Torino Graphic Days vol. 03 visual identity is meant to enhance and to examine this dual inclination through an experimental approach, using a playful tone. Using the ludic language as a universal communication field, the festival aims to be an open event mixing irony, fun and curiosity. A place where professionals, enthusiasts and kids of all ages can discover communication, visual design and art playing with us.