Justus Oehler’s award-winning poster for The Haiti Poster Project, created in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, is one of the works featured in Es geht um die Welt (It’s About the World), a major exhibition that opens this Sunday at the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus in Germany. Showcasing works by over 100 designers from around the world, the exhibition presents posters about nature and the environment, looking at humanity’s influence on the natural world, and vice versa. The show remains on view through 15 April.

Oehler’s poster was previously selected as Judge’s Choice in TDC57 and received a Red Dot Award.

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Arts Foundation Awards Presented at Pentagram

Pentagram’s London office hosted the Arts Foundation Awards last night at which Guest of Honour, poet Sir Andrew Motion, announced the names of the six recipients of the £10,000 fellowships.

Five art forms are chosen each year across the fields of fine and performing arts, literature, craft and new media. In 2012 the categories selected were Animation, Choreography, Opera Composition, Poetry and Product Design as well as the Yoma Sasburg Fellowship for Sculpture.

From a breakdancing choreographer to a product designer who prefers to work in the desert the recipients were;

Robert Morgan: Animation
Wilkie Branson: Choreography
Elspeth Brook: Opera Composition
Ahren Warner: Poetry
Markus Kayser: Product Design
Ruth Claxton: Yoma Sasburg Award for Sculpture

Paula Scher’s Map Paintings Exhibited in New York

Pentagram is pleased to announce that Paula Scher’s acclaimed map paintings will be presented in a new exhibition opening tonight at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York. The exhibition features both paintings and screenprints, including several works that are being shown for the first time, like Scher’s latest painting, Antarctica, pictured above. The show is Scher’s first collaboration with Wolkowitz and remains on view through February 18.

In her paintings, Scher renders information and data culled from headlines, maps and diagrams in madcap fields of hand-drawn typography. Obsessive, opinionated and more than a little personal, the maps provide an exuberant portrait of contemporary information in all its complexity and subjectivity. Scher’s new book of her paintings, MAPS, was published last fall and recently went into its second printing.

Join us for tonight’s opening at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery from 6 to 8 pm. The gallery is located at 505 West 24th Street, New York City.

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