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.

ronald shakespear

It was a pleasure to get to know Ronald Shakespear, founder of Diseño Shakespear (www.shakespearweb.com). Today Ronald is heading the studio together with his two sons, Lorenzo and Juan and they are celebrating the studio`s 50th birthday this year. Besides others, the studio was crucial for the development of Argentinian design and also for the face of the City Buenos Aires. To name just a few examples: they designed the way finding system and branding for the underground (SUBTE), the Temaikén Biopark, the Municipal Hospitals signage and more than 1.600 corporate identities, including Banco Galicia, Duty Free Shop, Luigi Bosca and more. A selection of their works can be seen in Ronald`s latest book »Señal de Disño«. In 2008 the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (www.robert1peters.com) has honoured Ronald with the SEGD Fellow Award.

Design by Juan, Lorenzo and Ronald Shakespear

gferna

Behind the name Gferna hides this young successful web designer Guillermo Damián Fernández. One of his first sites was the

Blue Vertigo project which is a rich source for designers searching for anything. The platform presents links to pages offering free fonts, logos, sounds or whatever a designer might need.

Guillermo showing us a website he did for Coca Cola, a dream project for him which he already could fullfill.

Besides designing websites he also likes to draw and illustrate.

daniel wolkowicz

Friday morning we had a very long and interesting conversation with Daniel Wolkowicz. He is professor for design at the FADU-UBA, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Universidad ORT in Uruguay and at the Universidad Maimonides. Besides his impressing academical engagement Daniel works in editorial and corporate design and founded his own publishing company called »Wolkowicz Editores«.

One of Daniel`s current projects is the designing of catalogues for the regulary changing art exhibitions at the gallery »Espacio«.

Santorini is one of Daniel`s more ancient but very successful projects. He created the product design company`s corporate design. Here we can see a collection of postcards showing different designers who worked for Santorini.