MGF22 - Milano Graphic Festival

ABOUT

Milano Graphic Festival is the first widespread event of Graphic Design, Illustration and Visual Cultures in Milan.

Milano Graphic Festival will give to the Visual Design community the opportunity to get out of a restricted environment of insiders, bringing visual communication to everyone – to the institutions, to businessess, to the new generations. An initiative strongly devoted to a spirit of participation that aims at reactivating energy and direct people and experiences towards visual design cultures, to appreciate their uniqueness and strategic value.

Starting from a much needed reflection on today’s role and responsibility of Visual Design, but always looking at its history, MGF mission will be to build bridges and synergies beetwen different worlds, both in terms of market and subject, always promoting inclusivity.

The Festival will not be focused on one topic only, it will live in the cross-contamination of different ones, giving the opportunity for confrontation and discussion: from urban renewal to gender identity, to education.

Milano Graphic Festival intends to become a catalyst for ideas and relations surrounding the world of visual communication. Its mission is to generate awareness and exchange while creating new connections between the business world and Italy’s top notch visual communicators. Not only does the festival shine a light on an art that is all-encompassing but it also underlines its fundamental role in the context of urban regeneration and its overall impact on citizen wellbeing.

25–27 marzo 2022 - Milano

ORGANIZATION

SIGNS

Founded in 2016 by graphic designer and curator Francesco Dondina alongside communication and production company h+, SIGNS has become a permanent observatory of research on Graphic Design. Aimed at furthering the knowledge and growth of communication design, illustration and Italian visual cultures, SIGNS is also an “archive” of the contemporary, an evolving platform that involves more than 100 studios and professionals of different ages, languages and backgrounds. This large national network is also an open community where designers and general public alike can find a space for dialogue, discussion and cross-examination.

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Francesco Dondina

Visual designer, lecturer and curator. In 1986 he founded the studio Dondina Associati, specialized in brand identity and communication design. He taught for fifteen years at the Cfp Bauer – ex Umanitaria and at the Politecnico di Milano. He currently teaches courses in visual culture and design at Raffles Milano. In 2009 he wrote a book-interview with Bob Noorda, published in a new edition by Lazy Dog Press in 2021. In 2015 he conceived the Graphic Design Lectures cycle at Castello Sforzesco and in 2016 he curated SIGNS in the spaces of Base – a permanent project aimed to promote visual culture in Italy. Compasso d’Oro Adi 2020 / Honorable Mention for the project “Colin, no news good news” published by Rizzoli.

Accapiù

Integrated communication and production agency, which deals with brand strategy, festivals and widespread events, territorial campaigns and activations and online and offline strategic communication. Accapiù creates unconventional experiences and contents capable of fastening different worlds together: public and private, local and digital, corporate and institutions, the dynamics of marketing and the everchanging realms of art, design and culture. The agency manages and coordinates the whole organizational process behind an event: it covers all aspects from creative spark to forging a strong strategy, from campaign conception to executive production. When it comes to communication, the agency’s skills and services range from digital marketing to the production of audiovisual and institutional content.

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