Museum of Typography travels to Patras with a poster exhibition 8/6/2019

A Poster exhibition on the theme "Typography: Past, Present and Future" is organized by the Museum of Typography founded by Yannis and Eleni Garedakis, in Patras, in collaboration with the Archaeological Museum of Patras from 8 to 21 June 2019.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Saturday the 8^th of June at 8 pm at the Archaeological Museum of Patras. At that time, the museum's amphitheatre will feature a video with the history and activities of the Museum of Typography.

The exhibition takes place in the framework of the 7th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) and is curated by Antonis K. Papantonopoulos, a lithographer and typographer, collaborator of the Museum of Typography.

The exhibition features 54 works selected from the four International Poster Competitions organized by the Museum of Typography, with entries from all over the world. These competitions aim at linking Typography and its history with the present and the future of visual communication.

The Museum of Typography in Chania is the first of its kind in Greece. It has been operating since 2005 and it consists the life vision of its founder, Yannis Garedakis, who, with the support of his wife Eleni, has been collecting machinery and other exhibits that mark the evolution of European typography, for over three decades.

The Museum is developed in two large wings and three separate rooms covering an area of approximately 1,200 sq.m. In its collections, visitors can see original 19th-century printing presses, automatic presses from the early 20th century, type cases and machines of mechanical composition (linotype and monotype) and use some of them.

Rare books, newspapers and engravings link typography to the turbulent history of Crete while the permanent art exhibition "History of Writing and Graphic Arts" by Antonis Papantonopoulos travels visitors to every form of human communication.

Duration of exhibition: 8 - 21 June 2019 - Operating hours: 8 am - 8 pm

The names of the participants are:

01 THANOS VRAILAS, Athens, Greece - 1^st Prize, 1^st Contest

02 KOSTANTINOS THEOCHARIS, Athens, Greece - 2nd Prize, 1^st Contest

03 YIANNIS KORNARAKIS, Athens, Greece - 3rd Prize, 1^st Contest

04 PANOS ASIMAKOPOULOS, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

05 EFTYCHIA ILIADOU, Andros, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

06 SPYROS PITTIDIS, Crete, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

07 ALEXIS VOUZARAS, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

08 MARIA PETROGLOU, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

09 GEORGIA STAVROPOULOU, Tripoli, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

10 CHRISTALENI ALIFIERAKI, Crete, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

11 THANASIS BERTAHAS, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

12 KEIRA RATHBONE, London UK – Honorary Distinction, 1^st Contest

13 GEORGIOS KRITIKOS, Thessaloniki, Greece - 1^st Prize, 2^nd Contest

14 YIANNIS MALLIS, Athens, Greece – 2nd Prize, 2^nd Contest

15 KONSTANTINOS KRIGAS, Thessaloniki, Greece – 3rd Prize, 2^nd Contest

16 IOANNIS DIVOLIS, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

17 DESPINA AERAKI, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

18 "STICHIAGRA"PRINTING SHOP, Attica, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

19 ALEXANDROS KOKOLAS, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

20 OLGA TZOLA, Thessaloniki, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

21 KOSTAS BARTZOKAS, UK & Norway – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

22 EVROS VOSKARIDES, Athens, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

23 THANOS VRAILAS, Attica, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 2^nd Contest

24 JUAN DIEGO RESTREPO, Colombia - 1^st Prize, 3^rd Contest

25 MURAT ҪIL, Istanbul, Turkey - 2^nd Prize, 3^rd Contest

26 EVAGGELOS KALOGHROPOULOS, Crete, Greece - 3^rd Prize, 3^rd Contest

27 AIAS KOKKALIS, Crete, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

28 SYLVIA CASADO DEL RIO, Barcelona, Spain – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

29 IOANNIS TSIAMANTAS, Karditsa, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

30 KAMEN GORANOV, Bulgaria – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

31 CARL GODFREY, Bristol, UK – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

32 ERIC GINARD, Cuba & Mexico – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

33 ALISON WATSON, Dublin, Ireland – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

34 ANDREA BARKHUIZE, Cape Town, South Africa – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

35 DIMITRIS APOSTOLIDIS, Thessaloniki, Greece, – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

36 BARBORA MATLOVICOVA & JANA POMYKACOVA, Prague, Czech Republic – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

37 OLIVERA BATAJIC SRETENOVIC, Belgrade, Serbia – Honorary Distinction, 3^rd Contest

38 ARGYRIS ATHANASIADIS, Athens, Greece – 1^st Prize, 4^th Contest

39 JULIA NIZAK ,Hungary – 2^nd Prize, 4^th Poster Contest

40 YANKOVSKAYA VITALIYA ALEKSEEVNA, Belarus – 3^rd Prize, 4^th Contest

41 JIA-MIN-WANG, Taiwan – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

42 SAEIDEH SHAHMARI KALESTAN, Iran – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

43 LAURENT LABAT, Bordeaux, France – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

44 MARIO FUENTES, Ecuador – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

45 ŁUKASZ CHMIEWSKI, Poland – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

46 ERIC LEE YIN HANG, Vancouver, Canada – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

47 ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΜΠΟΥΚΟΣ - ΓΕΡΑΣΙΜΟΣ ΧΩΡΑΪΤΗΣ, Chalkida, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

48 MAFALDA SOFIA D' ALMEIDA, Portugal – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

49 KOSTAS KARAMAOUNAS, Crete, Greece – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

50 COLIN EADIE, New York, USA – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

51 DANAE ATHANASIOU, Cyprus – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

52 AGATA DANILOVA, Belarus – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

53 EVELYN DAVIS - WALKER, Georgia, USA – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest

54 XIAOFENG CHEN, Guangzhou, China – Honorary Distinction, 4^th Contest