Polished
Camelia BezzolaMarion Garnier
Graphic Elisava 2020
Lots of things tend to happen during a graphic.elisava master’s program. Mountains of research. Maybe one or two existential crises. Designing so much that you have nightmares about mismatched hex codes.
In some weird twist of fate, this year’s biggest ‘thing’ ended up being a global pandemic. We were forced to embrace digitalism over presentialism, do more with less, and channel disillusionment into positivity. In school, the lesson comes before the test, but life often takes the opposite approach. We think we’re better for it.
PLATFORM AND IDENTITY
For this year’s degree show we decided to continue the digitalist lifestyle that we’ve come to know. Pills replace name tags, thumbnails replace handshakes, and ingenuity replaces normality in order to illustrate how we view topics like “design ethics”, “comfort”, “manifestos”, and “freedom”.
About
This is graphic.elisava’s digital Degree Show. Find out more about the program at graphic.elisava.net
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to this year’s students in the Graphic Design and the Editorial Design master’s degrees. The 2020 graphic.elisava Degree Show – both the platform and the campaign that precedes it – wouldn’t have been possible without the indefatigable work of a group of design students making time for it in the middle of their end-of-year presentations.
On the typeface
Thanks to Non Foundry for letting us use their Non®Natural Grotesk throughout the website and campaign of this digital Degree Show.
Visit nonfoundry.com to find out more about their work.
Polished
A magazine that explores the unconventional
A magazine about underground subcultures that deviate using any form of art, from conservatism and political stubbornness.
Polished shares its interest about the unorthodox subcultures found in different part of the world. It’s a monthly magazine in a newspaper format, the visuals of each issue vary as they follow the aesthetics of the different subcultures to immerse the readers in the topic that is being tackles.
Polished picked three current worldwide issues and therefore developed three contrasted issues. In the first issue, we talk about the rave culture in Ukraine known for its political climate which brought the younger generation together. The second issue deals with the growing LGBTQ scene in Lebanon,
a closed minded country that doesn’t tolerate any different sexual orientation. And at last, the third issue talks reveals the different subcultures present in Mexico, highly influenced by the USA and where various fashion subcultures emerged differentiating people by groups.
Ukraine is a country known for its tensed political climate which brought the new generation together gathering into different subcultures
Lebanon is a closed minded
country that doesn’t tolerate any different sexual orientation
and where drag/queer culture
is now becoming popular
Mexico is a country highly influenced by the USA and where various fashion subcultures emerged differentiating people by groups
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