CALGARY, AB

Movement
Improving the Human Aspect of Mobility
d.talks (Design Talks Institute)

Using Calgary's Green Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) as a platform for new ideas, this project sought to rethink the present and future of transportation and human connection to place. The Movement book published the winning d.talks' 2018 Movement Call for Ideas in the categories of:

  • Technology

  • Climate Sustainability

  • Memory

  • Public Is Everyone

  • Resilience

  • Tactical

  • Provocative

Symbols were designed to represent each category and then placed with correlating ideas and essays.

    • Poster Design

    • Social Media Graphics

    • Exhibition Wall & Window Display Vinyl Text

    • Book Design (Cover Art + Interior Layout 64 pages + type-based Artwork + Symbol Design + Pattern Design + Map Design)

    • Concept Design: Talks Institute in partnership with the City of Calgary

    • Project Team: amery Calvelli, Ximena Gonzalez, Kaitlynn Livingstone & Amanda Szpecht

    • Editorial Support: Alison McReynolds & Emily CarganEssays by Giovanna Borasi, Amanda Kolson Hurley, Marianna Vaidman Stone, Nabeel Ramji, Erin Shilliday, Carol Armes + Don MulliganIdea

    • Images contributed by Tawab Hlimi, Studio Bianchi Architettura, Juliana Morar & Celia Lee; Laboratory of Integrative Design, Lemay + Toker, Kaitlyn Pelletier & Scott Bell; Sarah Danahy and Bram van der Heijden

    • Jury: Giovanna Borasi, Amanda Kolson Hurley, Don Mulligan, Nabeel Ramji, Brigitte Shim, Cowboy Smithx, Shin-pei Tsay & Marianna Vaidman Stone

    • Photos: © Jesus Martin Ruiz + © Ximena Gonzale

    • Type: FF Meta Serif + FF Meta Sans from FontFont + Base 900 from Emigre

    • Movement Exhibition Installation designed and coordinated by Jayda Karsten

    • The Movement Exhibition was made possible with the support of the Alberta Government, the City of Calgary, the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

    • Movement Book Printed & Bound by MET Fine Printers, Calgary, AB

    • Posters printed by Little Rock Printing, Calgary, AB

    • Movement Exhibition vinyl cutting by the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary

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