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🤦🏻‍♀️ the version above was rejected, the theatre team went for another ☹︎ ♼ ⚠︎ ⚙︎ ☹︎

#vector illustration #illustration #graphic design #poster design #posters #design #thomas eccleshare #theatre #theater #plays #robots #assemblage #instructions

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Almost done with this collaboration, which covered some of the Shamanelism graphics - a project which included building a music studio in the Penitentiary of Craiova and events promoting the outcome of the 2 year long training for young outcasts lead by Boacă "Jerry" Dumitru and Andrei Dinescu's team - as well as the façade for the collection of Roma memorable Manele melodies up on Fonoteca Sumnakay. Unfortunately, the stuff you see above didn't always jive with what the teams behind the websites and materials had in mind. Hopefully in the future Manele artists will garner more from the visual domain than it's been able to grant them so far, and perhaps somehow we can gradually dismantle the historical discrimination which has enveloped Roma culture for over 600 years, in our little corner of Europe.

#vector illustration #illustration #graphic design #portraits #portraiture #manele #florin salam #Adrian copilul minune #sketches #logo #record label #music #romanian #sumnakay #dan armeanca #vali vijelie #Romeo fantastick #album cover #album art #vinylcollection

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#giphy #celebration #mask #carnival #tradition #ceremony #primitive #sauvage #lole #yearly #soxen #cincu #charles freger #fuga lolelor

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Last year was most likely the hardest year so far, it ended with more work researching the lives of local craftsmen and uploading it on www.mestering.ro. In parallel with this, versions of visual approaches for Clemens Bechtel's staging of War and Peace and... gobbled up most of my time. Here are a few of the resulting outputs.

Besides printed and online materials for the Theatre of Youth Piatra Neamț, last year saw the printing of several publications containing some of my contributions. One of the is the Art Encounters Biennial catalogue, another is Galeria Posibilă's The Use of Landscape. Below is roughly 5% of what the mad hare 2023 amounted to. Glad to have been part of the supporters of Timișoara European Capital of Culture 2023 and to have made it out alive through all the deadline storms and tribulations.

#leo tolstoy #tolstoi #graphic design #vector illustration #illustration #art #glass #paint on glass #posters #poster art #theatre #theater poster #theater #editorial illustration

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Setting up an installation today, will upload more images as soon as the possibility manifests itself. Till then, here is the latest interview in a series of talks with craftsmen and a short comics comprising their local tales, all in Romanian since I got lost in the multiple transmutations involved in juggling at least 3 projects/day, for more than a year. The complete collected works will be >>here<<

#timisoara #comics #interview #work #crafts

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Quick selection of printed materials for the Theatre Festival in Piatra Neamț and some of the posters I did for a few of their pre-autumn premiers. Will post more pics as soon as I get my 💩 together.

#graphic design #theatre #illustration #romania #Ionesco #eugène ionesco #drama #posters #poster art #theater #plays #vector illustration #t-shirts #black and white #safety zone #safe area #safe #youth #sonic youth #stop the tempo #stopthehate #catalogue design #merch #design #poster design

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✿ ✶ ✢ > LINK TO THE MAP of 58 local illustrators as PDF < ✦ ❇︎ ❊

The House of European Cultural Institutes, through Instituto Cervantes, invited Mălina Cristea and myself to compile a first collected issue of local illustrators. After 2 weeks of hunting around, here are the names we came across, with links to their works. We tried to cover the wide spectrum of their activities, from tattoo finesse to street art, precious porcelains and textile pieces. Hopefully, the future editions of the quest will foster a more in-depth look.

#illustration #timisoara #romania #illustrators #local #tattoos #street art #mural #map #map design #local news

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dog walks with me

#pentel #hahnemühle #sketchbook #trees #park life #the walking dead #bark bark #illustration #timisoara #tree roots #japanese brush #lines #light and shadow

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☞ ☛ ⌚︎ Some bits of this past month, while I wrap my non-vacationed brain (i.e. many ☠︎bugs☢︎ left in layouts, will do my best to solve them) around the 100 page catalogue of the Piatra Neamț theatre festival, happening this September, plus upcoming project with friends from Impex band and their ongoing free-spirited project Shamanelism.

While my neural network reassembles in grid formats, here is the call Mălina and myself put together, at the invitation of the House of European Institutes . If you're an illustrator from Banat or know somebody please share a link of their work in the comments.

Finally, a project that's just recently been launched, charting Romania's peculiarities, oddities, fine spots and curiosities is La Noi. Andrea Dimofte's efforts are cumulated in this conglomerate of articles. Illustrated Dragoș Rusu's documentation of the Communist Romanian musical scene right here, might be back with more. Till then, here are a few glimpses from behind the soundscape scenes.

#music #romania #romanian musicians #communism #illustration #editorial illustration #orange #sketchbook #call #theatre #theatre festival #play #graphic design #work #work in progress #timisoara

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Trying to compress what the past month has meant is futile, travelled from Timișoara to Târgu Neamț for a comics workshop and came back to put together over 20m of comic panels, in vector format for the local Polytechnic University's showcase in Venice and beyond, through Campus Creativ. Never been to Venice, hope to get there at some point, though. All of this was interspersed between poster versions for a play which avant-premiered on the 15th of July, at Teatrul Tineretului.

Gonna end this post with the Ceau, Cinema! exhibition, which drew together 10 years worth of posters done by local artists, including myself. Here are some of my favourite pieces together with the mom of Ioana Satmari (real talented animator) and a pic from the above mentioned comic workshop, the printed booklet of comic works can be viewed on my insta page, for now, thank you Ceva Centru gang ☻

#work #workshop #sketchbook #illustration #graphic design #memories #timisoara #vector illustration #comics #saul steinberg #ceau cinema #poster design #film poster #trois couleurs #campus creativ #theatre #theater club #blazing fire

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Saturday, 17th of June at 17.00, we'll be launching a collection of materials working together under the umbrella name of Atelier, at Indecis Artist Run Space/The Secret Garden. The collection comprises 2 postcards with interviews, an A3 format 8 page comic documenting past and present workshops around the city of Timisoara, a 1/2 A4 leaflet of around 20 pages with research pictures, notes and sequential scribbles, an A3 poster printed on both sides as well as a 7.7/7.7cm Risograph printed booklet by palpabil.ro + assembled by the team of crafty wizards going under the monicker of Fabrik, who also handled the postcard prints.

Here is a link to the tiny 88pg bundle, minus the colorul outburst. The project couldn't have come together without the focus of Ioana Ciolea/Punky, the sound engineering of Waka_x/Felix Petrescu of Makunouchi Bento or the financial support of Centrul de Proiecte, through their nano-grant program funded via Timisoara 2023's Capital of Culture pack. Most of the printed materials & interviews are crammed together on mestering.ro

#timisoara #sketchbook #illustration #comics #memories #history #anthropology #culture #atelier #Tocilarie #film photography #Makunouchi bento #risograph #printed matter

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This past month, like the previous ones of 2023, I have been running on overdrive. Here are fragments of what kept me busy in April/May. Among them: the premier of Rhinoceros, 80 pages worth of comics translated into Polish and organised into 32 panels for the Romanian Cultural Institute in Kraków, Ceau Cinema's posters and...

a multifaceted project crammed online here: mestering.ro alongside Ioana Ciolea's photographs and Felix Petrescu's fine recordings of an interview series comprising local craftsmen, among them Mrs Rodica Obradov and Mr Dragoș Nuță.

And some images from the biennial through which we tried to share some of the lessons learned when death is around the corner. Plus pics with two of the few people to visit my grandma and our lab back in 2022: Alex Bodea and partner Luminița Rațiu.

#comics #illustration #timisoara #graphic design #theatre #memories #layout #sketchbook #eugene ionesco #Ionesco #documentary #recordings #workshop #work selfie #works on paper #project #riot #virginia woolf #riot grrrl #feminism #posters #romania #vector art

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🕸 work process for Ionesco's Rhinoceros, premiering at Teatrul Tineretului Piatra Neamț this month, and sketches from a post-it booklet included in a 3 piece comics churning combo, part of Energie! program 🪲

#graphic design #illustration #theatre #eugene ionesco #rhinoceros #absurd #absurd theatre #comics #comic art #timisoara #memories #posters #snails #trees #sketchbook

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On the 1st of May 2022, after a cemetery visit, started playing together with my grandmother. I encourage anyone who has trouble in reaching out to their loved ones, beyond the borders of political fights and trauma thorns, to give interactive playfulness a chance. Over the past year, we gathered a couple of walls full of floral frenzy and a handful of figurines, however my senior collaborator's state has been deteriorating since March so she probably won't make it to the Art Encounters Biennial to see the printed version of our exercises.

This collection of exercises is an attempt to forge a playground in the final years of life. I am grateful to Adrian Notz and Diana Marincu for the invitation to pursue this project, Alina Cioară for her kind words, Luminița Daneș for her advice, Monica Dănilă for saving my ass in matters of communication conundrums, Palpabil and Fabrik for overseeing the binding and printing process. 100 risograph copies of the booklet will be distributed during the biennial and the file (without its comic inserts) is available online here.

#neuroplasticity #artwork #play #art exercise #senescence #healthy aging #senior care #design #sewing #crafting #art stuff #arts and crafts #clay figures #painting #collage #coloring pages #figurines #plushie #memories

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December through February had a rough couple of months, so this post is a mish-mash of collaborations, sketches, pics, bits floating around. Early December, Luminița Vâlcea and Ioan Petre introduced me to David and by mid December we had this tiny vaccine calendar guide for newly borns. Really enjoyed our visit to their family doctor and tracing the delicate moments this little guy shared with me. >>> Flip through the guide here <<<

Since my hometown of Timișoara is one of the European Capitals of Culture in 2023, I applied for a sort of scholarship through Centrul de Proiecte and am currently researching workshops around the city. Going through archives and processing interviews into comic strips involves a kinda fast draw I have yet to master. Punky, aka Ioana Ciolea is handling the photography and old time soundscape synthesiser Wakax of Makunouchi Bento is in charge of some sound waves. Final piece should be showcased somewhere around April-June, depending on how the tidal waves of chance choose to turn.

Finally, here are some slides from my ongoing collaboration with Teatrul Tineretului din Piatra Neamț.

#illustration #collage #ion creanga #timisoara #atelier #processing #posters #pasteup #vaccine #healthcare #new born babies #new born health tips #inspo #poetry #workshop

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🦖🦕🦤 Magyarosaurus Dacus is the name of a dinosaur and the title of Gianina Cărbunariu's latest play, staged in Oradea's somptuous Szigligeti Theatre. The production of the visual pack was fast paced, covering a 🪤📚🗃 24 page catalogue, flyers and adapting formats for web&print took under a month.

Very grateful for the team's support, Kinga Boros handled the documentation, Irina Moscu dazzled the crew with multi-coloured costumes and Cristi Niculescu set up the lights, neon installations and video venture. Cropped up around the controversial figure of the Baron Nopcsa, the production breaks down the family tree and Ferenc Nopcsa's multiple personalities into the reflective mosaic maze of a legend. The dramatic piece started out from Ionuț Sociu's article, researching the palaeontologist aristocrat's twisted tale.

🎢 👻 ✨ Flip through >>> the bilingual presentation here <<< 👀🕴

#dinosaurs #paleontology #theatre #Nopcsa Ferenc #graphic design #layout #cataloguers #mannlicher #me too movement #Gianina Cărbunariu #bella donna #Katica Muller

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some November process sheets, stories and posters for Teatrul Tineretului din Piatra Neamț.

#theatre #posters #poster design #poster art #theater #yellow #feminism #patriarchy #premieres #drama #tragedy #yellow and black #typography #thunder #lottery #explosion #popular culture #pop art #roy lichtenstein #poc #comic #comic art #femininity #vector illustration #the apocalypse