Design for Obama

The Oviedo School of Art offered an exhibition on Thursday, the 17^th of November, in its exhibition hall, called "Design for Obama". There were many important people, such as: the General Manager of Universities and Investigation, Mrs. Pilar Castro Pañeda, the Director of the of the United States Embassy’s Culture Department, Mrs. Laura Gould, and the Headmaster of the Music Conservatory from the Principado de Asturias, Mr. Alberto Ventanilla.  

The exhibition presents eighty posters selected by Spike Lee and Aaron Perry-Zucker. All of them made for the United States presidential campaign of 2008. 

President Obama used the internet and social networks to unite all his followers and make his government program known. This made him a favorite amongst younger voters and changed the way electoral campaigns were handled in The United States.


The 2008 campaign of the democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America is now considered a communicative phenomenon, for using new technologies and for motivating mobilization and public intervention.

The website "designforobama.org” was a smart and democratic contribution from the North American design and visual arts sectors towards this campaign. North American designers participated without charge, using this free access website.

This exhibition is not only about North American graphic design. We present evidence of what Barack Obama’s presidential campaign meant, and more specifically, what it did for democratic communication.
 All activities related to this exhibition and its itinerary through Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Las Palmas, Zaragoza, Malaga, Oviedo and Murcia can be followed through http://designforobama.artediez.es from May 2011 until January 2012.

Artist books

On February 4th there was an event in our school.

It was an exposition of artist books in small sizes from artist from all around the world.

There also was a part with books of asturian artists.

Most of them contained more illustrations than text, this makes to books understandable by anyone, fully accessible.

The topics were from serious things such war or social criticism, to nature, literature or funny things.

There was a high variety of styles and techniques, but the most peculiar was the formats the books were shown like statements, pop up or extra mini-sized.

This is a way to know better how the art is interpreted in each country.

Nearly to the closing there was a presentation of books made by students of the school.

It’s the first time that we made a collaborational work, and it won’t be the last time because was a success.

This collection of 12 books were short tales from Hans Christian Andersen, with illustrations of the alums of 2nd of Illustration, edited by the students of Art Edition, and exposed with the help of the department of  Ephemeral Art.

"Imperfect lessons"

Hi, what’s up, happy New Year, We are back again to talk about an exposition that we made before Christmas holidays.

The drawings shown were a compilation of the best class work made by the students of illustration during the season 2009/2010.

There were a great variety of themes as human drawing, perspective, still life, animals, etc. and techniques as Chinese ink, watercolour, charcoal, chalk.

The exposition was set in the main hall of the Oviedo art school since 23 of November to 23 of December.

The exposition was a total succeed, a memorable exposition.

The last week of the exposition there was a market with some of the works exposed for sale.

There were also for sale works from the student of 1^st of illustration and engraving.

Exito2 (art edition)

Exito2 (engraving & printing techniques)

Exito2 (interior design decoration)

Exito2 (Exhibition building & set construction)

Exito2 (Ilustration)

Borja Sauras Pérez studied the illustration course at the Art School of Oviedo. He continued studying in the School of Cinema Séptima Ars of  Madrid and digital arts (design, 3D, edition, postproduction) in the Trazos´s School of Madrid. He was granted the scholarship Charitable work of Cajamadrid in London and the scholarship Leonard DaVinci in Manchester. He worked in Storyboards Harpers (London) and in Illustrations L.Aullo. He was awarded in PROMAX of Italy, in Motiva and in the contest of entrepreneur of Valnalon. He has illustrated “Menú de Versos” of Esther Garcia and “¿De qué estará hecha la luna?” of Miguel Rojo with the editorial Pintar-Pintar. Since 2005 he works in Ink Apache as creative, post-producer, designer and animator for the main kids television channels like cartoon network, playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon and others like TCM, TNT…

Exito2 (advertising graphics)

 

Pablo Antuña studied illustration and was awarded with three prizes by the government of Buenos Aires city, BBVA and Libero Badii´s foundation. In 1999 he started  Graphic Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of Buenos Aires and in 2002 he came to Asturias, where he studies Advertising Graphics in the Oviedo Art School. In that period he won some prizes in the design and illustration area and worked on a section dedicated to the Illustration of a website set in Madrid. He also collaborated in the Gonzalez Imas´s Studio (Oviedo) and later in Isertia (Bittia) and Area Norte (Gijon). He works as a freelance for Agencies and Studios of Buenos Aires, Vancouver (Canada) and Spain; at the same time he works for other clients such as Fundación Principe de Asturias and other enterprises and entities. Currently he is secretary of the Association of Graphic Designers of Asturias (AGA).

Exito2 (artistic photography)

 

Ana Belén Fernández Costales is graduated in photography by Oviedo Art School. She starts as a graphic editor of different newspapers such as La voz de Asturias, El Periódico de Gijón and AS, a sports paper. During 2003 and 2004 she is the official photographer in the International Movie Festival of Gijon. She collaborates with Cover Agency and Area 11 Agency and with Interviú  magazine. Her artistic job has been awarded by INJUVE and Muestra de Artes Plásticas de Asturias. She has also  shown her projects in Casa de Cultura de Avilés, Banco Herrero de Oviedo, etc.

Exito2 (Arts applied to the sculture)

 

Mª José López studied in the Art School of Oviedo. She also was student of the Art School of San Fernando, Madrid, and she studied sculpture and ceramics in Gijón. She is very interested in the heritage maintenance and management, due to this she has studied courses such as “Natural and Historical Heritage: Cultural Value and Economic Resource” , in the Marcelino Botín Foundation, “Conduct and Recovery of the Etnographic Heritage I” , in the University of Oviedo’s Foundation and “Appreciation, Knowledge and Maintenance of the Artistic Asturian Heritage” , in the Arts Museum of Asturias, Oviedo.

Exito2 (presentation)

Halloween Pumpkins 2010

 

Halloween is a party witch is not very popular in our country but the department of English has organized the days 28 and 29 of October a pumpkins contest to show this tradition mainly American.

There also drawings of pumpkins done by the students of the first and second courses of bachillerato and a panel with comic strips about Halloween done by the students of the first and second course of illustration.