the book

Format: 180 x 240 mm
Pages: 478
Paper: 115 g Römerturm, Colombo
Hardcover
Binding: Threadless binding
Fonts: Thesis (The Sans, The Serif)


The title: Displays what came out: „Quilombo Lindo“- a beautiful chaos. We encountered an potpourri of styles, working methods, biographies, traditions and techniques. An apparent chaos, whose beauty arises just out of this complexity.

The first chapter: To make the context of the designers and their works fully understandable, we choose not only to fill this book with a collection of interviews with the designers, the book also contains two other parts: We begin the book with an interview with the German industrial designer, design-theorist and author Gui Bonsiepe who has been living and working in South America since the 60’s. He guides the reader through the history of South America and he is making a major contribution exemplifying the history of the Argentinian design and its connection to the hfg Ulm.

The second chapter: We present the biggest design conference in South America, which is located in Mar del Plata, 600 km south of Buenos Aires. The interview with Sebastián Valdivia, one of the two founders and organizers of the congress, talks about the congresses history in connection with the development of Argentinian design and its relevance towards it. With the help from further interviews with the international participants of the congress, we give a trans-cultural glance upon Argentina and with a combination of interviews and photos of Argentina we create a feeling for country, people and design.
The third chapter: Takes the reader into the midst of the “Lindo Quilombo”, the beautiful chaos: the design capital of Argentina – Buenos Aires. Exciting interviews and works with and by 30 different designers are waiting to be read. The reader is introduced to the city towards several photo-graphies of buenos aires combined with quotations from the interviews.

the exhibition

After the presentation of the diploma, we had the chance to exhibit our project for three days together with the other graduates at the university. The following pictures give an impression of the exhibition.

Each designer was presented with the highest quote and work on a small hanging panel.

gui bonsiepe

Our last interview brought us to La Plata a city, 60 km southeast of Buenos Aires to visit Gui Bonsiepe, who graduated at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm in Germany. Since 1968 he has been living in Southamerica working in programms for the developement of industrial design. He has been teaching as a professor in several latinamerican and european universities, for example the KISD in Cologne. He is an author of various books and essays since the mid 1970`s, for example »Democracy and Design« and the latest book, which he wrote with his partner Sivia Fernandez »Historia del Diseño en América Latina y el Caribe«. Together with Tomás Maldonado Gui represents the axis »Buenos Aires-Ulm-Zürich-Mailand« who had an important influence on the developement of Argentinian design. Hence it was indispensable to talk to Gui and get to know more about design history and his experiences in South America.

It was probably the most unusual interview we had, starting with a big »parilla« in the countryside together with Gui and Silvia, Germaine Bonifacio and Professor Heiner Jakob.

doma

Today we`ve been to galeria turbo again, this time to catch up with the guys from the collective doma who are running the gallery: Matias Vigliano, Julian Pablo Manzelli, Orlio Blandini, and Mariano Barbieri. The collective was founded in 1998 by different personalities with different skills. Hence it was possible to work in a broad field of distinctive domains, such as streetart, motion graphics, film, toydesign and vj performances. Their artistic works always have a social or political background and sense while using graphic design as a tool to develope them.

»Roni to the Rescue« was a project doma initiated as a reaction towards the Argentinian crisis in 2001 when in two weeks 5 different presidents were nominated.

One of the several actions the doma collective did in the streets to arouse reactions from the people passing by.