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Monday 17th January 2011 DESIGN AND COLLABORATION: Artists Hvass & Hannibal at the Danish School of Media and Journalism

ART STARS 2011 Talks Programme continues this week from Greece to Copenhagen with an exhilarating discussion from the 2011 Scandinavian mentors Hvass&Hannibal.

Hvass&Hannibal is a young Danish design duo comprised of childhood friends Nan Na Hvass & Sofie Hannibal. Pronounced in their native tongue, their company name sounds like "what's up Hannibal?" and the answer to this particular question is a lot!

Over the last two years Hvass&Hannibal have not only exhibited their work in galleries across Europe, they have crafted critically acclaimed record sleeves, a collection of limited and sought after hand printed T-shirts and posters, a psychedelic art installation, photographs and photoart, and a gigantic vivid mural at the popular Copenhagen venue VEGA – just to name a few.

The Copenhagen-based duo is best known for creating striking works such as silkscreen prints, wooden sculptures and offset posters that beautifully and tangibly express data sets like the probability theory or the registration of natural phenomena. Adding their own sensitivity to hard statistics, the multimedia designers imagine the data in bold colours, sometimes playing on traditional geometric shapes and at other times turning to more abstract imagery.

The talk will take place on Friday 21st January at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, which is Northern Europe’s largest centre for education in journalism, photojournalism, graphic design, interactive design, creative communication, TV and media directing, and media production and management.

The acclaimed university was formed in 2008 by a merger between the Graphics Art Institute of Denmark and the Danish School of Journalism. The merger of the educational establishments means that the school now covers the whole media sector and provides design and content to the media industry, as well as giving students and teachers the opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience of the media sector across specialist groups.