Talk: Maki Suzuki: Graphic Design as a Tool for Storytelling.
Welcome to a talk by Maki Suzuki, one quarter of the design and art collective Åbäke (together with Patrick Lacey, Benjamin Reichen, and Kajsa Ståhl). Åbäke was established in London in 2000. The collective takes a conceptual approach to design, exploring collaboration and the social dimensions of visual communication.
Åbäke has an extensive international body of work that includes exhibitions, architecture, teaching, and publications. Maki Suzuki is currently working on the design for an exhibition by sound artist Yuri Suzuki, which is scheduled to open at Stavanger Art Museum in 2027.
About the talk:
Work protocole.
I don’t know much.
Noticing something or meeting someone makes me react or make an object, something happen because and thanks to the act. For example a museum in my wallet, for another example showing how to cook a whole animal to my daughter, for another example the customs officer discovers body parts in my luggage or for a last example for now my partner almost goes to prison for 20 years etc.
I tell this story in public for a while.
I write it down and accept writing changes the telling.
I graphic design it in a publication, produce it and publish from a small publishing hut.
I hope people read it and I move onto another something and someone.