Tatra banka Foundation Awards also at the AFAD
Congratulations to our colleague Sylvia Jokelová, head of the Studio of Experimental Design, who won the Tatra banka Foundation Award in the Design category, as well as to our recent graduate of Visual Communication Simona Császárová, who was awarded in the Young Creator category.
Sylvia Jokelová for the costumes for the Drť's album Drôtenky
Sylvia Jokelová is a jeweller, teacher, designer and curator. Since 2019, she has been the head of the Studio of Experimental Design at the Department of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. The costumes are based on texts by poet and performer Zuzana Husárová, who participated in the album Drôtenky as a lyricist and singer. They thematize various problems of Slovak reality that we face not only today. Prejudice, spreading hatred, fear of the unknown, verbal violence, questioning the truth, envy, indifference to evil, violence against women or turning a blind eye to war are given much more space and, unfortunately, legitimacy, referring to "traditional values" and "national interests", also thanks to the current political situation. Each costume-object represents a different persona, assigned to a specific composition-text.
Simona Császárová for authorship and design of the Initial Initiative Initalization of Initials publication
Simona Császárová is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in Visual Communication program. The designer won the National Design Award 2024 in the Communication Design and New Appearance categories. Initial Initialization of Initials explores the phenomenon of the initial not only from the perspective of history to the present, but looks at the initial and its meaning as such. The author collects a variety of visual and written materials and describes the initial from different perspectives. She addresses concepts that discuss the initial in relation to illustration, illumination, ornament, pattern, rubrication, or in relation to the use of the initial in a book, marginalia, headings, chapters, and so on. It also deals with the initial and its cognates such as the emblem, calligram, hanko, seal, signum, signature, and many others. The publication consists of created initials that both disrupt and complement the text in a variety of ways.
More
You can see all the award-winning creators at Tatrabanka website.