Silvia Sfligiotti

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When Marsha Emanuel, then head of graphic design at the French Ministry of Culture, launched Graphisme en France in 1994, she conceived it as an annual calendar of events around graphic design, a booklet whose purpose was to “help weave the necessary links between the various players in France and their potential audiences”, providing a space where the growing and lively French graphic design scene could become visible.

A conference and exhibition at ECAL reassess Jan Tschichold’s most famous book through the lens of contemporary historiography.

Italy’s typographic modernism under fascism: In the 1930s, graphic designers found in fascist propaganda exhibitions and industrial advertising new spaces where an “Italian”-modernist visual language could be developed.