The Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto University (VCD) is an international learn- ing community committed to investigating new modes of action within visual communication. This archive was established in 2020 as a means to document and share the activity and work of the programme.

Observations about the time and space – connecting the past and the present

 

Contemporary Graphic Design 2020

 

This course reflected the established methods of graphic design as part of a broad and diverse visual culture and the contemporary we live in. Through observations on past and present design outcomes were re-evaluated and the tensions between tactile and digital observed. Due to the current restrictions the ability to see inspiration in the nearby was emphasized and the students gathered inspiration in the actual world around them – urban landscapes, music, nature and art.

 

The principal aim of the assignment under the theme ‘Traveling in Time’ was to observe the visual language and compositions from the past and build a conceptual process leading to a contemporary expression of that.

 

 

[Contributions]

Janne Gammelin – Spectator / Katsoja

Anna Mäkelä – Window loop

Annukka Laine  – Only A Particular Sphere

Aleksandra Czupryna – Pixels Squeezed from Digital Archives

Laura Kamppi – Flower bouquet

Federico Simeoni – GAMBA

Aino Salonen – Tarot self-portraits

Stella Keppo – CHAT DIMENSION

Amy Gelera – Coronavirus!

Jenni Lintumäki – Okir to Glyphs

Oona Raadelma – Zine

Strahinja Jovanovic – Traveling in Time

Emma Johansson – Pennon

 

Course teacher: Päivi Häikiö