What are books like elsewhere ?
“WE LOVE BOOKS!” is an exhibition bringing together books from the four corners of the earth. Foreign designers, whether graphic artists or typographers, will be invited to show their work at Echirolles, throwing a new and fascinating light upon generally accessible publications. Unexpected, surprising, colourful and endlessly inventive, these books offer a myriad of links between the different forms of written expression all over the world. For two months, “WE LOVE BOOKS!” will provide a unique and enriching platform for the exchange of different viewpoints. The exhibition will be a rare opportunity to re-examine old beliefs and to see things from new angles - a panorama enabling us to take a kind of snapshot of books as they are today. An open selection The result of a collaboration between poster designer Michel Bouvet, graphic artists Claire Balay and Odile Chambaut - who comprise the Atelier Michel Bouvet - and writer and critic Philippe Di Folco, the books chosen for the exhibition are a reflection of many and varied sensibilities: this “graphic journey” encompasses bindings and layout, typographical invention and the relationship between text and image. A large number of different skills are employed in the production of books today: although quality is always the main consideration, it's to the people purveying these skills in other countries that the committee has turned in order to assemble as wide, as all-absorbing, as unusual and as bountiful a range of work as possible. “WE LOVE BOOKS!” is the latest in a long line of exhibitions comprising “Graphistes Autour du Monde” (2000), “East Coas t/ West Coast, Graphistes aux États-Unis” (2002), “Swinging London, Graphisme et Musique Aujourd'hui” (2004) and “9 Femmes Graphistes” (2006), staged in previous years at the “Mois du Graphisme d'Échirolles”, with the same emphasis on international talent."
Contact: Marie-Édith Simonneaux, Production ManagerAtelier Michel Bouvet
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We Love Books! A World Tour
An Exhibition for the “Mois du graphisme d’échirolles”
21st November 2008 - 31st January 2009
More than 100 graphic artists, from Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North and South America introduce us to some unusual and inventive books.
They invite us into their studios and the bookshops, libraries and literary cafés of the towns or countries in which they live. From New Zealand to Norway, from Japan to Peru, from Egypt to Canada and Holland to Argentina, they accompany us on their very own world tour of books.
“We Love Books!” is an exhibition bringing together books from the four corners of the earth. Foreign designers, whether graphic artists or typographers, will be invited to show their work at Echirolles, throwing a new and fascinating light upon generally accessible publications.
Unexpected, surprising, colorful and endlessly inventive, these books offer a myriad of links between the different forms of written expression all over the world. For two months, “WE LOVE BOOKS!” will provide a unique and enriching platform for the exchange of different viewpoints.
The exhibition will be a rare opportunity to re-examine old beliefs and to see things from new angles - a panorama enabling us to take a kind of snapshot of books as they are today.
Majid Abbasi and Saed Meshki will be a part of this exhibition from Tehran.
In 2008, the Mois du Graphisme d’Échirolles, a major date in the graphic arts calendar, will be celebrating its 18th birthday.
Inaugural week-end of the Mois du draphisme d’échirolles:
TYPO exhibition; Philippe Apeloig’s posters, publications and video animation
- We Love Books! A World Tour
- Art directors in New York;
works by Carol Devine, Barbara deWilde, John Gall & Chip Kidd
- Graphic artists in Taiwan;
works by Agua, Hsi-Han Yao, Hsu Hsi Design Studio, Aaron Nieh,
Shih Design & Tzi-Chin Huang
- Books from Cambodia
- Madagascar
- The universal Madame Bovary
- Cinema film titles
For more information: www.graphisme-echirolles.com
特別感謝恆成紙業提供紙張贊助
以及所有參與出版計畫的志工公與工作同仁
