6th International Ankara Design Week Held at Bilkent
“This century will be a century of design. Design creates difference. The age of discoveries is somehow over. Now is the age of differences. Design, this magical word, is the key element that will make you different in every field, from technology to industry and the service sector."
Thus begins the manifesto of International Ankara Design Week (ADW), which has been held annually since 2007. This year, on December 1-9, Bilkent's Department of Graphic Design participated in the event as the leading collaborator, with ADW taking place at the university. The department also contributed an exhibition entitled "FAUXGO" (Fake Logo). Taking off from ADW 2012's theme, "Design for the Future," third- and fourth-year students designed logos for fictional companies, institutions, political and religious systems, social movements, scientific programs and not-yet-invented merchandise of the future. The motivation behind the FAUXGO project was as follows: "We do not know what the world will be like in the future. One thing, however, we know for certain: there will always be a need for logo designers, as each future company and institution will require proper visual branding."
Those who attended and participated in the various exhibitions, workshops and discussions at ADW 2012 included professionals, academics and students. The event concluded with a panel bringing together the heads of the Industrial Designers Society of Turkey, the Chamber of Interior Architects of Turkey, the Turkish Society of Graphic Designers and the Advertising Creators Association. ADW 2012 was memorialized on a wall in the Department of Graphic Design with stencil works produced in a workshop led by Assist. Prof. Erdoğan Ergün from Near East University in Cyprus.
For detailed information about the participants and events:http://www.ankaradesignweek.com