Month full of exhibitions

March has been full of exhibitions, so besides its own exhibition, the Agency has been present with its work at three more exhibitions – ZGRAF 11, “In a nutshell” and Art Directors Club of Europe: The Best of European Design and Advertising Awards 2011.

The main ZGRAF exhibition is an international triennial exhibition of graphic design and visual communications, a selection of published work in the past three years. As part of the ZGRAF review, the following works of the Agency have been shown: Stina, hotel Lone, Sofi bath bombs, Faces i Zavrtnica Business Centre. Part of the opening of the central ZGRAF exhibition was the awards ceremony so congratulations to all of the awarded colleagues.

At the same time, just one street away, the “In a nutshell” exhibition was held, a traveling review of contemporary Croatian design with 120 projects from more than 90 authors in areas of graphic, product and fashion design. The project has been initiated in 2009 by Croatian Design Society (HDD) and the Ministry of Culture with the goal of introducing contemporary Croatian design to the international audience.

The concept of the exhibition is to give a relatively broad critically relevant overview of the most interesting occurrences on Croatian design scene and also to be adjusted with its flexible and practical format to the traveling conditions and different exhibiting spaces all over Europe and the world. The curator of the exhibition is Koraljka Vlajo, and the exhibition is leaving for Bruxelles, Helsinki and other European cities. The selection includes the following projects of the agency: Superheroes, Chiavalon, Cowboys i Incanto.

Design Centre of the Croatian Chamber of Economy hosted the Art Directors Club of Europe: The Best of European Design and Advertising Awards 2011 Exhibition. Art Directors Club of Europe – ADC*E is a non-profit organization of the European creative clubs existing in 22 countries including Croatia. It was founded in 1990 with the goal of promoting excellence in European design and advertising.

Every year ADC*E awards the best of the best among the projects already awarded in countries they originate from. This exhibition shows all the awarded work at the ADC*E Awards 2011 and the work of the members that have won Gold at their national ADC competitions. Works from Croatian authors awarded at the national ADCC 2011 competition have been exhibited separately, and among them Beyond Expectations, Spam Jam i Dorina Fifty TV spot.