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Up coming “Lecture & Workshop” DO WE NEED TO SAVE THE WORLD? The workshop on social engagement graphic design topic by Belle Phromchanya & The Rambutan. See you in early 2018 :) For more info — IB : facebook.com/wearetherambutan

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Data / Storytelling & Book Workshop — Bangkok Art Book Fair In July 24th-28th 2017, we have initiated a workshop “Data / Storytelling & Book Workshop” that aimed to involve participation of Arts and Design students in the Bangkok Art Book Fair by promoting the art publication through the perspective of the new generation. We have also organised workshops and talks to educate the participants about the publishing process from the beginning to the end. The process covered both content creation, design, binding, printing techniques and production and presented by experts in related fields. Many thanks to the guest speakers again for very nice presentations.

In the workshop, we acted as consultants for the participants. We provided them the guidances for data collecting and making the contents more solid and advised for design executions. By these means and combined with the big efforts from the participants, we have created many super cool outcomes.

During Bangkok Art Book Fair 2017, art books from the workshop were exhibited and all of them received the great feedbacks from audiences. Congratulation! 

Lastly, thank you so much to all sponsors and supporters for your kind supports to make this idea into reality. We greatly appreciate it and hope to see you again next year :)

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The “isms” of art (Kunst ism) — Starting point to Modernism Author — Hans Arp and El Lissitzky Year — 1924 Russian constructivist Lissitzky and Dadaist Arp designed the most influential books of its time. With the skillful use of white space typography and grid systems, this book was an early expression of modernist aesthetics. The text runs in three parallel columns separated by thick dividers, very much in a constructivist style. Each column is in a different language: German,  French and English.

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The Rambutan Workshop — TCDC Commons / Bangkok Many thanks to TCDC Commons and 24 participants from 7 universities for joining the workshop about how to use graphic design to fix social problems. The participants learnt about graphic design methodologies and examples of social related graphic design projects in the morning. In the afternoon, we were finding solutions for “fixing school bullying problem” and an educational board game, a platform website and 2 activities were excellent outcomes from the students. We hope you enjoy it and see you next time :)

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The Rambutan Book — Roles of graphic design in social engagements project The book about graphic design workshop that aims to develop Thai graphic design scene by promoting the roles of graphic design in social concerning projects.

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Chineasy — A shotcut to learn Chainese Author — Shao Lan Hsueh Nation — China Year — 2014 chineasy.org About — The project uses simple illustrations of key “building blocks” that can be combined to create more complex characters and sentences. The owner published the book Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese in March 2014 contains about 400 characters based on 64 of these “building blocks”. It was based on her widely-viewed 2013 TED talk and funded via a crowdfunding campaign though Kickstarter. Futhermore, Chineasy has a popular Facebook page where students get new lessons in Chinese characters each day. Purpose — Providing the possibility to understand Chinese alphabet for foreigners and the real agenda behind this project is to bridge the gap between the East and the West.

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Dumb Ways to Die — Funny awareness Author — McCann Melbourne Nation — Australia Year — 2012 dumbwaystodie.com About — Dumb Ways to Die is an Australian public service announcement campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to promote rail safety. The campaign video went viral through sharing and social media starting in November 2012.The most notable works from this project are twenty-one characters killing themselves in increasingly stupid ways and the video that was developed by Pat Baron, animated by Julian Frost, and produced by Cinnamon Darvall. As of December 2015, the video received over 117 million views.In May 2013, Metro released a game as an app for iOS devices and invites players to avoid the dangerous activities engaged in by the various characters featured throughout the campaign. Within the app, players can also pledge to “not do dumb stuff around trains. Purpose — The aim of this campaign is to engage an audience that really doesn’t want to hear any kind of safety message. Furthermore, the project focus on making loads more fun entertainment for kids. Entertainment that continues to remind them to be safe, primarily around trains but we’ve extended the message of care to a load of other things too.

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An interview with Wim Crouwel by Tony Brook Wim Crouwel : A Graphic Odyssey Catalogue A conversation about life and thought of Wim Crouwel, which covered story from his childhood, the early works, methodology, cultural works, typography, grid, and his reflection on design today. Very inspiring

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Conflict Kitchen — Understanding the difference from eating Author — Jon Rubin & Dawn Weleski Nation — United States of America Year — 2012 conflictkitchen.org About — Conflict Kitchen is the restaurant that serves dishes from countries in conflict with the United States. It applies the concept of food and economic exchange in social correlations to help encourage discussions among the general public concerning countries, cultures, and people they barely know about regardless of the polarizing oratory of governmental politics and the narrow views from the media headlines.In addition, the restaurant creates a constantly changing site for ethnic diversity in the post-industrial city of Pittsburgh, as it has presented the only Iranian, Afghan, Venezuelan, North Korean and Palestinian restaurants the city has ever seen. Purpose — Conflict Kitchen uses the social relations of food and economic exchange to relate the general public in discussions about countries, cultures, and people that they might know little about outside of the polarizing rhetoric of governmental politics and the narrow lens of media headlines.

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Papers, Please — A dystopian document thriller

Author — Lucas Pope Nation — Sweden Year — 2013 papersplea.se About — The gameplay of Papers, Please focuses on the work life of an immigration inspector at a border checkpoint. The player inspects arrivals’ documents and uses an array of tools to determine whether the papers are in order for the purpose of keeping undesirable individuals such as terrorists, wanted criminals, or smugglers out of the country.At the end of each in-game day, the player earns money based on how many people have been processed and bribes collected, less any penalties for mistakes, and then must decide on a simple budget to spend that money on rent, food, heat, and other necessities in low-class housing for themselves and their family.

Purpose — The game provides the stimulation the role of immigration officer. A user can perceive the duty and process about immigration to decrease a conflict from people who related this situation.

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Go! Freedom — Learning through play Go! Freedom project is a game that uses specific information relating to the strength of diplomatic power (such as power of passport, benefits of the language and the fragility of the states) to create the conditions. Players have to follow the information in the game passports and they can learn the country powers by playing the game. 

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Neighborhood Remarks — Sharing for a sustainable change Author — Njoki Gitahi Nation — United States of America Year — 2012 neighborhoodremarks.com About — These days, people can see their community changed from distance without any participation. Neighborhood remarks is the project that give the people can have a conversation about gentrification on the very surfaces that are transforming and to express dissatisfaction, delight, and nostalgia. These stickers provide a framework for starting that discussion and putting it in public view as a way to engage neighbors, business owners, visitors and community developers. Purpose — Providing an opportunity for sharing the opinion and participate on the community transforming. 

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The Rambutan Workshop — Soy Sauce Factory / Bangkok Many thanks to 20 students from 7 graphic design schools for participating and many interesting proposals for social development.

The workshop aims to improve the industry of graphic design in Thailand through an encouragement on the new role of graphic design.

After an overview on the concept of graphic design and its related issues in Thailand, some examples as follows; which are actual projects that apply this practice in creating their works and designs; would be given to participants in order to provide a better pic-ture, and also to point out the possibility of using graphic design as a contribution to the social development.

Furthermore, yet participants can perceive the possibilities of using graphic design for social development, also, methodologies and way of thin-king in order to develop the solution for helping people, then they would be asked to apply those metho-dologies  in developing a solution for a Thai problems and make a graphic design proposal about it.

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The Rambutan Workshop — Department of graphic design (Master Class) Chulalongkorn University / Bangkok Many thanks to students in graphic design masterclass for having us.

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Alternative Information of Swiss Style Born — Switzerland Year — 1940s–50s Noteable Associated Designer — Max Bill Armin Hofmann Richard Paul Lohse Josef Müller-Brockmann Emil Ruder Reference — smashingmagazine.com printmag.com guity-novin.blogspot.cz After the second world war the Swiss Grid Style, also known as the International Typographic Style was developed by Swiss designers, such as Armin Hofmann, Josef Müller Brockmann and Max Bill who began to experiment with typography and photo-montage. It does not simply describe a style of graphic design made in Switzerland. It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers, but it emerged in Russia, Germany and Netherlands in the 1920’s. It became an ‘international’ style after 1950’s and it was produced by artists all around the globe. The information below can present what Swiss Style is; — Emerging from the modernist and constructivist ideals, the Swiss Style can be defined as an authentic pursue for simplicity – the beauty in the underlines of a purpose, not beauty as a purpose in itself. — Swiss Style begins with a mathematical grid. These grids are considered to be the “most legible and harmonious means for structuring information.” Using a grid for design makes creating a hierarchy for the content much easier. — Those who taught Swiss Style argued that design should focus on the content and not decorative extras. By stripping away the embellishments, Swiss Style eliminates distractions for the viewer and allows the information-heavy design to be read and studied rather than merely seen and admired. — Design is a socially worthwhile and serious vocation. — Design should be grounded on universal artistic principles, and using a scientific approach should provide a well-defined solution to a problem. — The designer is a visual communicator and not an artist. The designer acts as an objective and reliable transmitter of important information between members of society. — The ideal of design is to achieve clarity and order.

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Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables — Edible ugliness Author — Marcel Worldwide & Intermarché Nation — France Year — 2015 About — Ugly fruits and vegetables finally get their own chance to shine in this campaign by Intermarche, France’s third biggest supermarket chain. It’s designed to “rehabilitate” imperfect fresh produce and discourage wastage, mindful of the 300m tones of fruit and vegetables wasted each year and the European Union’s designation of 2104 as the European Year against Food Waste.Intermarche also ran an in-store campaign in which the ugly fruits and vegetable are made into products such as Inglorious Vegetables Soups and Inglorious Fruit Juices. Purpose — The project want to against food waste, Intermarché, the 3rd largest supermarkets chain in France, decided to sell (30% cheaper) the non-calibrated and imperfect fruits and vegetables.

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Walk Your City — Sign for a pedestrian Author — CityFabric Nation — United States of America Year — 2012 walkyourcity.org About — It was originally conceived of as a guerrilla “wayfinding” campaign, in which Matt Tomasulo designed and posted signage around Raleigh, NC, promoting just how easy it is to walk to get around. But while the signage was originally unsanctioned, Raleigh’s powers that be unanimously voted to reinstate the signage as a pilot program to see how it performed. Tomasulo, however, wasn’t satisfied with shifting perceptions in Raleigh. He also launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund an open source platform for designing and creating your own signage for your own city. Purpose — The project helps the member stimulate their community’s walkability, linking informational street signs for people with web-based campaign management and data collection to com-plement traditional approaches to wayfinding.