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Giancarlo Iliprandi • 15th March 1925 |
15th September 2016 • Biographical notes |
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Association
activities
A fellow of ADI, Association for Industrial
Design, since 1961. Board Member 1971/1973. Vice President
1985/1987. Vice President 1991/1992. President 1999/2001. Interim
Chairman at ADI Foundation
for Italian Design, 2002. President Art Directors Club Milano,
1967 and 1970. Chairman BEDA, Bureau
of European Designers Associations, 1988/1989. President Icograda,
International Council of Graphic
Design Associations, 1991/1993. A member of the Icograda Presidents
Forum and the Friends of Icograda
Network, since 1995. On the Board of Directors at Polidesign Consortium,
2006/2008.
Honorary Member of AIAP, Associazione Italiana Progettazione
per la Comunicazione Visiva, of AliDesign,
the Association for
Graduates in Industrial Design, and ADI, Association for Industrial
Design. |
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Professional
activities
Exhibition displays for RAI, the Italian
Radiotelevision Network, with A. and P.G. Castiglioni, 1953-65.
Displays and graphics for La Rinascente department stores, 1955-68.
Point of sales consultant
for Standa department stores, 1968-71.
Art Director of Scinautico, SCI, Popular Photography Italiana,
Rivista Rai, Esquire&Derby, Il diaframma, Interni, Phototeca,
Arbiter, Arti d’Oriente, between 1960
and 2000. In the Type Design
research team of Nebiolo Foundry 1967/78. Project leader of a
research
on type faces for Honeywell Information System Italy,
1981/85. Corporate identity, interior displays
and archigraphics
for Città Convenienza, Grancasa department stores, Bossi Commercial
Centers
and others since 1984. Corporate identity programmes
for RB Cucine, 1960-91, Dischi del Sole,
Ankerfarm, Stilnovo,
Arflex, Stanley Works, Galleria Civica Comune di Modena, Savinelli,
Rossi di Albizzate.
Worked also for Olivetti, Pirelli, Rai, Montecatini, ENI, Agip,
Fiat, Electa, Pagine Gialle, AEM, Italseber,
Roche, public companies
and cultural organisations.
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Teaching
activities
Course for graphic assistants at the
Società Umanitaria, 1961-1968. Davide Campari Advertising College,
1965-1973. Joint founder of ISIA Urbino, Member of the Scientific/Teaching
Committee 1974-1984.
Editorial Graphics, European Design Institute,
1984-1987. Public Utility Graphics, European Design
Institute,
1990-1995. Visual Communications Workshop, Design Faculty/Milan
Polytechnic since 1999.
Director of a high level
Type Design course, 2007-2008
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Publications
Four books on the Language of Graphics.
Zeta's publishing, 1965-1983.
Addio
Liberty, with Giorgio Pavesi,
words by Piero Chiara, La Tipografica Varese,
1967.
Six instalments on the History of Visual Communications for
ISIA Urbino, 1974-1980.
With other authors: Visual Design 1933/1983,
Fifty years of Italian Output, Idea Libri Milan, 1984.
Italian Design. ADI/ICE,
First International Design Forum, Singapore 1988.
Design Future Philosophy. ADI/ICE,
Design Centre, Singapore 1992.
One of the editors of Omnibook 1985-1990,
and other works on Italian Design.
Editor of ADI
BEDA Dossier 1988.
Editor of NotizieADI/ADINews 1999-2001.
Five visual planning manuals as part
of Communications Grammar collection,
with Giorgio Lorenzi and Jacopo Pavesi,
Lupetti publishers, 2004/2005.
Letterando/Lettering,
Corraini publishing, Mantua, 2005. Disimpegno/Disengagement,
Corraini publishing, Mantua, 2006.
Ricerca e/o sperimentazione. Biblioteca
di Graphicus, 2009.
Basta, digressions on dissent. Critical contributions of Dorfles, Carmagnola, Barbetta, Terragni,
Scianna, Guerriero, Ghidelli. Lupetti Editori di comunicazione, 2011.
Per, the assent digressions. Critical contributions of Dorfles, Schiavi, Vitale, Majorino, Moschella, Neuburg, Bosco.
Lupetti Editori di comunicazione, 2012.
4 handouts for visual communication laboratory of the Politecnico di Miano, with Jacopo Pavesi.
About characters. About alphabets. 2011 - Figurative typography. We report the signs. 2013
Con, digressions on consensus. Critical contributions of Dorfles, Dell'Acqua Bellavitis, Croce, Vitale. EBook by Naba, 2014.
Addio
Liberty, new edition by Jacopo Pavesi,
words by Piero Chiara, La Tipografica Varese,
2014.
Notes, a tale of signs and words. Hoepli 2015.
Giancarlo Iliprandi, Sketch, Think, Draw, Pietro Corraini, Moleskine 2015. |
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Awards
International grand prix at the XIII Triennale exhibition Milano, 1964. Award
at the first poster Biennale
Varsavia, 1966. Award for editorial design at
the Art Directors Club Milano exhibition, 1967.
Certificate of merit at Typomundus
20 for an outstanding contribution to the development of the graphic
art of
the 20th century, 1969. Six nominations at the Compasso d’Oro prize between
1970 and 2008.
Three time Premio Compasso d’Oro ADI in 1979 e 2004.
Honorary
degree in Industrial Design, Milan Polytechnic, 2002. Compasso d'Oro Career Award 2011. |
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