attack of the posters!

Tony Adler (Art director at the Reader) fowarded this message to me this afternoon:

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We need your help !

The 1st Chicago International Poster Biennial exhibition,
presented by SMART Papers, is scheduled to appear in Chicago's
Daley Bicentennial Plaza this Friday, September 26th. Between
today and Friday, this world class exhibition will be constructed
at a warehouse of our friends at RTC. It will take the efforts of
many members of the Chicago Design Community to make this
international design event a reality. If you can spend a few hours
on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday this week to create and install
the Biennial, please contact the CIPBA office by email at:
info@chicagobiennial.org.

All volunteers will receive a 304-page color exhibit catalogue as
soon as it comes off the press. The catalogue is courtesy of our
print sponsor, Graphic Arts Studio in Barrington and SMART Papers,
and it features color plates of all medalists and finalists, bios
and work of the jury, and articles by Victor Margolin, Steven
Heller, and Todd Lief.

Here is an overview of volunteer needs over the next 3 days:

Wednesday, September 24th:
8:30 AM
We will need volunteers present at the warehouse at 3101 South
Kedzie Avenue to unload poster kiosks from the delivery truck.

9:00AM - Noon
First shift of volunteers to paste posters to tubes. We will be
working on plastic sheets and/or drop cloths on the floor, using
water soluble paste and brushes to adhere the posters to the tubes.
Dress very casually.

3PM - 6PM
Second shift of volunteers to paste posters to tubes.
We need to have all 169 posters and captions mounted by 6PM.

Thursday, September 25th:
9AM - Noon
First shift to apply Polycrylic sealer to the tubes and posters.

3PM - 6PM
Second shift to apply Polycrylic sealer to the tubes and posters.
Dress very casually.

4PM - 6PM
Use epoxy to secure end caps to bottoms of tubes.


Friday, September 26th:
5AM
Pray for sunshine.

6AM - 9AM
Volunteers to warehouse to load tubes onto rental truck/trucks and
deliver to Monroe Drive entrance of Daley Bicentennial Plaza
(south end). Unload tubes and place into position.

9AM - Noon
Drive smaller, flatbed / pickup trucks into park (we have vehicle
permits) carrying sand bags. Drop 250 lbs worth of sandbags into
each tube. Place lid on top.


This is a very rare opportunity for the Chicago design community
to come together to demonstrate the power of graphic design on a
grand, public stage. You can play a crucial role, so we hope you
can join us. THANK YOU.

CIPBA Board of Directors

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This is the inaugural year for the Chicago International Poster Biennial Annual
The finalists were named in June of this year and the gold medalist and honorable mentions are to be named sometime this month (I'm assuming at the private reception Friday the 26th). The exhibition at the Daley Bicentennial Plaza in Millennium Park opens Saturday the 27th and will run until October 30th.

CIPBA is co-directed by Lance Rutter and Yann Legendre. Yann Legendre is a relative newcomer to Chicago but already a respected visionary in the graphic design world. I had the pleasure of meeting him at the AIGA 2007 Fresh Talent event. His work can be brash and at times vulgar but so visually stimulating. Along with Legendre, the jury is filled with some graphic design legends including: John Massey (President of the Jury), Michel Bouvet, Shigeo Fukuda, Alfred Halasa, Yossi Lemel, Luba Lukova, German Montalvo, Jay Ryan, Lanny Sommese, and Martin Venezky.

The jurors' and finalists' works will be on display in its natural form - in public, for everyone to experience. This show should not be missed.