GDFB/LPT @Chaumont
The organisation of the 23e International Poster and Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont (France) has invited the Graphic Design Festival Breda to exhibit a project during the festival. From the 26th...
View ArticleGDFB summer school: OPEN SET
Open Set is a two-week intensive series of workshops emphasizing individual interaction with noted Dutch graphic designers within the studio environment. This unique opportunity gives participants the...
View ArticleGraphic Jam Session
Date: Saturday August 25Time: 11 am to 5 pmLocation: Breda – exact adress follows – No fee.
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Location: Library Breda, Molenstraat 6Date: September 11 - September 22Open: Tuesday to Friday 11 am – 8 pm | Saturday 11 am – 4 pm | Closed on Monday
View ArticleFriday Sept. 21th | Evening | Social Sessions
The exhibitions are closed at night, but that does not mean that you have to go home. Because GDFB believes that visual stories are relevant at every hour of the day, there is a special festival...
View ArticleThursday Sept. 20th | Evening | Social Sessions
The exhibitions are closed at night, but that does not mean that you have to go home. Because GDFB believes that visual stories are relevant at every hour of the day, there is a special festival...
View ArticleThursday Sept. 20 | Waalse kerk | block 2 | starts 3pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleThursday Sept. 20 | Waalse kerk | block 1 | starts 12.30 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleThursday Sept. 20 | Lutherse kerk | block 2 | starts 3 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleThursday Sept. 20 | Lutherse kerk | block 1 | starts 12.30 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleWednesday Sept. 19 | Waalse Kerk | block 2 | starts 3 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleWednesday Sept. 19 | Waalse kerk | block 1 | starts 12.30 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleWednesday Sept. 19 | Lutherse kerk | block 2 | starts 3 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleWednesday Sept. 19 | Lutherse kerk | block 1 | starts 12.30 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleFriday Sept. 21 | Lutherse kerk | block 2 | starts 3 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleFriday Sept. 21 | Lutherse kerk | block 1 | starts 12.30 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleFriday Sept. 21 | MOTI | block 1 | starts 12.30 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleFriday Sept. 21 | MOTI | block 2 | starts 3 pm
During the day a divers program of lectures by international designers, scientists and publishers are available. The lecturers will discuss their specific practice and share their vision of the future...
View ArticleWednesday Sept. 19th | Evening | Social Sessions
The exhibitions are closed at night, but that does not mean that you have to go home. Because GDFB believes that visual stories are relevant at every hour of the day, there is a special festival...
View ArticleLetterproeftuin workshop
By Letterproeftuin Letterproeftuin forces designers to leave their computer screens behind and get their hands dirty. The traveling letterpress workshop is a place where craft is mixed with...
View ArticleStraight through the poster
Is it possible to make a good design without a process of analysis, study, reflection and form experiments? René Put and Rianne Petter believe that a designer should always incorporate research into...
View ArticlePersistence of Visions
Persistence of Visions is an unique two-day workshop proposed by the Free Art Bureau (Mark Webster) for the Festival of Graphic Design Breda. Inspired by the early abstract film artists, participants...
View ArticleTempting Typography
By Studio AirportIn this workshop you will work with a small team to design an attractive window shop display with a typographic representation.
View Article(Typo)graphic Interventions
Trapped in Suburbia likes to tell stories, inspire people and do great in-depth boundary pushing research. They’ll try everything once and are always in for a good time. With this happy philosophy they...
View ArticleGraphic Interventions
For this year’s edition GDFB is surprising you, yet again, with different interventions in the public space of Breda’s city center. These interventions have one thing in common: they all have a unique...
View ArticleFinished_Final_Def
What kind of freedom do designers have when working for their clients? Is there a large difference between the first sketch and the final product? Does a client understand and appreciate artistic...
View ArticleLetterproeftuin
Letterproeftuin forces designers to leave their computer screens behind and get their hands dirty. The traveling letterpress workshop is a place where craft is mixed with contemporary technique. An...
View ArticleShareYourCopy
Share Your Copy is a temporary extension of Small Stories Bigger Picture and discusses the role of designer as director. As a director of a process, a designer can influence both the form of a message...
View ArticlePOSTER Nº524 | Exploring the Contemporary Poster
What happens when 523 unique posters collected from public areas are deconstructed according to their most important features such as text, image, color and composition and then constructed to create a...
View ArticlePoster Project
A recurring and praised component of the GDFB program is the highly successful Poster Project. This coming edition promises to surprise onlookers yet again with more spectacular posters. This time the...
View ArticleSocial Signals
We use social signals everyday. By ‘liking’ and ‘tweeting’ we use social media to indicate our interests. Social Signals will be exhibited in Valkenberg Park and is a collaboration between GDFB and the...
View ArticleOneliners
"Make love not war", "I’ll be back", "Just Do It", "Think Different"; it is hard to imagine our visual culture and vocabulary without these phrases. A catchphrase, a motto, a oneliner; everyone has...
View ArticleSmall Stories Bigger Picture
Prolonged until December 16 We’re all part of a visual culture, a society that increasingly communicates with images. Various platforms are within everybody’s reach and the amount of images available...
View ArticlePoster Project 2012 extended
Because of the great succes of the GDFB2012 Poster Project we decided to extend the expo till October 21st. Fifty visual translations of the theme 'greed is out, empathy is in'. Come and check it out...
View ArticleLEUK! GDFB2012 Poster Project in Texas
GDFB2012 Posterproject finds the way to Amarillo.
View ArticleSearch/Find/Like/Share - Perspectives in visual storytelling
Robne Kuce Beograd, Sremska 4, Belgrade Search/Find/Like/Share shows visual stories about a society in transition. In response to recent political, social and economic crises society requires social...
View ArticleGreed is out, empathy is in
The poster collection ‘Greed is out, empathy is in’ holds 32 designs by mainly Dutch emerging designers based on this quote from primatologist Frans de Waal. The statement as well as the posters...
View ArticleSearch/Find/Like/Share - Perspectives in visual storytelling
Les Silos, 7-9 Avenue Foch, Chaumont, Francepart of Festival international de l’affiche et du graphisme Search/Find/Like/Share shows visual stories about a society in transition. In response to recent...
View ArticleOpen Set 2013 - summer school
The Dutch Graphic Design Summer School Open Set is a two-week intensive series of workshops emphasizing on the interaction between noted Dutch and International graphic designers within a studio...
View ArticleOpen Set Conference
Open Set summer school is a two week event dedicated to young designers, creators and thinkers passionate about graphic design. In various workshops we will question the role of 'Autonomy' in a totally...
View ArticleSearch/Find/Like/Share - Perspectives in visual storytelling
GDFB is proud to announce the next stop for Seach/Find/Like/Share – Perspectives in visual storytelling. From September 12th to November 10th the exhibition will be on display at the TU Delft library,...
View ArticleDatavisualization workshop with Jose Duarte
Columbian designer Jose Duarte designs datavisualisations without using software. Instead he uses household materials and toys like rope, tape, balloons and balls to visualize complex information. His...
View ArticleOpen Call: Reflect | Poster Project
This is your chance to take part in the Graphic Design Festival Breda! This year the Poster Project is fully open to participation by seniors, startups, students and autodidacts. We challenge you to...
View ArticleReframe - Longhand Publishers
Would like to push the buttons to design a book? The Antwerp designers collective Indianen ('the Indians’) has rebuilt the former pressroom of newspaper De Stem into a “design-print-publish-machine”.
View Article3sec.gallery #01 - Greed is out, Empathy is in
Posters are traditionally the medium of graphic designers used for sharing a clear message on an unexpected moment in public space. The first series of 47 posters is a reprise of the 2012 GDFB poster...
View Article3sec.gallery #02 - Staynice
The second 3sec.gallery show is a solo project by local studio Staynice.
View ArticleReflect @Affiche Galerij Den Haag
Graphic designers connect ideas, information and people. This is a great responsibility, as imagery influences our opinion and behavior. The maker revolution, financial crisis and the rise of social...
View ArticleResolute - design changes @Casino Luxembourg
The development of graphic design used to be shaped by the forces in power; like religion, politics and money. Driven by technological inventions an innovative race in communication emerged, propelling...
View ArticleSearch/Find/Like/Share - Perspectives in visual storytelling
Z33, Zuivelmarkt 33, Hasselt (BE)Beyonderground Various design perspectives show the influence designers have on a society dominated by images. Attitudes rather than disciplines or media form the core...
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