Getxophoto 2011

Brochures / Editorial / Exhibitions / Graphic Identities / Invitations

Client description: GETXOPHOTO is a festival dedicated to photography that takes place in Getxo (Basque Country) and supports the exploration of formats, stands and unconventional exhibition spaces to show the different images.

Brief: The 2011 festival theme was “In Praise of Elderly”. The photographers show some very diverse facets of this universal life period that is systematically ignored by the communications media, as if such ignorance somehow constituted the secret of immortality. The brief was to create the graphic image for the exhibition representing the Elderly on a simple and not too serious way.

Approach and solution: For the design we thought that the cross-stitch it was a great idea to represent the elderly. The invitation came with needle and thread and split the texts so that had to connect the dots with the thread to understand the message, the lines were shaping the number 5, for the fifth edition of the festival.
The poster was designed in Photoshop and then gave it to a professional in the cross-stitch media in Madrid to knit it on paper. The client loved the design and the cross stitching in a contemporary style.
For the communication pieces we have made cross-stitch typography as well for all the sign system. We stitched the Helvetica typeface and photographed it for all signage and exhibition graphics. The result was a hand made bold and yet warm identity.