Vicky Kafkaki – Graphic Design MA Falmouth University

 Symbolism and Semiotics – The Theory and Symbolism Behind a Message –  Martin Hosken  ” With the rise of the global communication platforms and commercial markets, the place of graphic advertising as a medium by which messages that promote product, service or idea has become increasingly competitive, complex and sophisticated.  This is our second problem: images carry Read more

I was thinking to write about Ukraine but since this topic is already taken I decide to go back in history – year 1999 – the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo. I just had arrived in the States and I then was the time when I saw how powerful is the media – it can Read more

Typography lecture from Kristoffer Soelling  “Back in the days, if you wanted to make a book, you had to do it yourself…  While this system perhaps worked, there was a guy in Germany called Johannes Gutenberg who thought maybe there was a better way. And by many he was ascribed the invention of movable type. Read more

Take an excerpt from a national poet or writer and transform the task into a single typographic composition: I was thinking and the first poem that came to my mind was the one that I remember from my childhood – every kid in school should know it back then I am Bulgarian, I love our Read more

Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. I like her thoughts  on design “Design has an impact in real life.” “Design also needs to intake human behavior in count. For example, horizontal read is always better…” I like her work on the maps Stefanie Posavec is a U.S. designer who Read more

Form and Function – podcast with  Sam Winston and  Susanna Edwards  “Things that people already know, don’t excite them, and yet people have a great zeal for making the world known. “ Sam explain that is good to take an object and look it from different prospectives and create new interpretation of this object or place. Read more