Graphic Material

3 August - 3 September 2010

Driven by developments in digital fabrication, today's graphic designers are utilising unconventional materials and technologies to push the boundaries of their discipline. From robotic drawing machines, spot-welded posters to visuals that grow over time, Graphic Material explores this freedom through new and innovative works by local and international designers.

The hybrid practices featured in the exhibition will attract audiences across contemporary design, art and technology fields and be further explored in the accompanying public program. The lines between design disciplines, so long conceptualised in terms of their material output, are becoming increasingly blurred. The exhibition is an exploration of graphic design when freed from the constraints of paper and ink.

Including work by
Toko
Collider
Frost* Design
Jürg Lehni
Mark Gowing
Bert Simons
Jeremy Wood
Sabrina Raaf
Aaron Seymour
Post Spectacular
Ian Stevenson
Trigger

Curated by Aaron Seymour

Key support provided by Formero and UTS Industrial Design Program with particular thanks to Industrial Design students Vanessa Hunt, Monica Pen and Morgan Thomas.

Accompanying Public Program:

Curator' Floortalk
Tuesday 10 August 1-2pm

Panel Discussion Poetic Machines: the interaction between tools and creative practice
Wednesday 4 August 2-4pm
Using the exhibition Graphic Material as the starting point, this lively panel discussion will explore the permeable boundaries between mediums and modes of practices across design fields. Join the curator and fellow design practitioners Dr Kate Sweetapple, Ian Gwilt and Katherine Moline as they tease out how new technologies and processes are shifting the material and conceptual frontiers of visual communications.

Part of Sydney Design presented by the Powerhouse Museum, 31 July - 15 August.

Supported by
UTS School of Design
School of Communication Arts UWS,

Formero

The Co-op Bookshop

and Spicers Paper
Special thanks to the MCA, Sydney

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Images from top:
PostSpectacular Type and Form 2008. Rapid-prototyped 3D typography designed using custom generative computer code. Courtesy of Karsten Schmidt.

Jeremy Wood Meridians, GPS Drawing 2006, cotton print, 8.5 x 1.5m.GPS unit used to 'draw' 40-mile path across London. Text from Moby Dick: It is not down in any map; true places never are. Courtesy the artist.

Bert Simons Paper portrait of Mr. Ivo Opstelten 2008, paper. Courtesy the artist.

Sabrina Raaf Grower. Robot drawing grass in response to CO2 levels in the room. Courtesy the artist.

UTS Gallery supported by Oyster Bay Wines

and Coopers Brewery.

Media Partner: 2ser