MALOFIEJ 18 [SUMMIT]

Malofiej is on age

On a cold night and with the snow covering Pamplona, took place on Wednesday 10 March, the official opening of the 18th International Infographics Summit Malofiej. The Palace of the Constable, XVI century Renaissance building, welcomed the new appointment with this summit. internationally prestiged, which is now on age.

Javier Errea, president of the SND-E, welcomed participants, thanked the jurors for the excellent work they had done judging Malofiej Awards, whose winners will be announced on Friday  at the end of the summit, and announced a tribute to the deceased Fernando Rubio, head of illustration at ABC, which began just last night with an exhibition of works of this illustrator born in Buenos Aires, and since this morning installed in the Social Sciences building where the summit takes place .

Kris Wieselman, president of the SND,  thanked Javier Errea for his dedication and excellent work organizing the Summit. Monica Herrero, dean of the School of Communication, welcomed participants on behalf of the University of Navarra, host of the summit and had a few words of appreciation to the students involved in the organization. Finally, Fermin Alonso, municipal councilor in Pamplona,  welcomed attendees to the city, and invited them to visit Pamplona in better weather conditions.

At the end of the interventions was presented the book 'Malofiej 17', which includes the winners of the previous edition of the Awards, and participants enjoy a small snack.

The Summit began yesterday with lectures by Ivan Kemp (How to survive to a graphic reform), Thomas Molén (The Infographics Nerd), Kaitlin Yarnall (Making Smarter Maps) and Scott Byrne-Fraser (As seen on TV - Designing cross-platform information graphics) in the morning. In the afternoon spoke Francesco Franchi (Il magazine, an infographic project), Alvaro Valiño (Graphics conquests), Svetlana Maximchenko (Wild Wild East: Graphics in Russia) and Manuel Canales (Small department thinking big).

+ Summit
  • MALOFIEJ ALBUM 18
  • Speakers
  • Kaitlin Yarnall
  • Scott Byrne-Fraser
  • Manuel Canales
  • Hannah Fairfield
  • Francesco Franchi
  • Iván Kemp
  • Connie Malamed
  • Svetlana Maximchenko
  • Thomas Molen
  • Alejandro Rojas
  • Jan Schwochow
  • Álvaro Valiño
  • Lukas Kircher

Kaitlin Yarnall

Senior Research Editor at National Geographic Maps, where she started working in 2005. M.A in Geography in the George Washington University. She studied at Humboldt State University (2000–2005).

Scott Byrne-Fraser

Creative Director and Team Leader of the BBC Future Media and Technology Editorial design Team. Before, he worked at Sky News on broadcast 3d visual effect and information graphic design. He has had a lifelong interest in information graphics.

 

Manuel Canales

He has worked for over 12 years as an illustrator and graphic designer. He is currently coordinator of the computer graphics department of La Nacion (Costa Rica). He has worked as an outside consultant to study Cases i Associates, and for various media and advertising agencies.

 

Hannah Fairfield

Hannah Fairfield Wallander has been a graphics editor at The New York Times since 2000, and is currently based in the Washington Bureau. She was an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism from 2003 to 2009, teaching ‘Graphics in the Newsroom’.

 

Francesco Franchi

Editorial and visual information designer. Since 2008 he has worked for ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’, the leading finantial and economical newspaper in Italy, as art director for the gentelmen’s style magazine ‘Il-Intelligence in lifestyle’.

 

Iván Kemp

Graphics editor at SÁBADO magazine. In 2000 he begun working as junior creative at CIMP (International Center of Marketing and Promotions), reached creative director in 2001 and betwen 2001 and 2005 worked as senior creative. In 2005 he begun working at SÁBADO as graphic artist.

 

Connie Malamed

Consults, presents, and writes about visual communication as well as online learning design and development. She is the author of Visual Language For Designers: Creating Graphics That People Understand (Rockport). Connie writes regularly at www.understandinggraphics.com.

Svetlana Maximchenko

She is editor-in-chief of Akzia newspaper (Russia), and SND Regional Director of 17 region, Russia, since June 2008. Akzia was founded in 2001, and she was one of the founders. She runs a community about news designand a blog about free newspapers in Russia.

 

Thomas Molen

He is a visual journalist at Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm) since 2001. Before that he worked at Dagens Nyheter after his graduation from Information, Illustration and Design at Mälardalens University in 1994. He also works as a freelance illustrator and map-maker.

 

Alejandro Rojas

Social communicator with emphasis on audiovisual production of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He began his career as a producer-journalist at Caracol Televisión in the sporting department, then moved to the department of graphics of Casa Editorial El Tiempo as a reporter.

 

Jan Schwochow

Founder and Executive Creative Director at Golden Section Graphics (Berlin), since 2007. Previously he worked as Unit Director Infographic.de at KircherBurkhardt in Berlin from 2004 to 2006, and before that as lecturer at Academy of Design at St Gallen (Switzerland).

 

Álvaro Valiño

Graphics director at Publico since February 2009, although he has been working as infographist at this newspaper since 2007. Previously he worked as graphic artist for 8 years at la Voz de Galicia.

Lukas Kircher

He founded Kircher-Burkhardt in 2000. He is responsible for the launch of Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and the relaunch of Manager Magazine, and for conception and lauch of Financial Times.

Books

Malofiej 26

40€

Postage not included

Malofiej 25

40€

Postage not included

Malofiej 23

40€

Postage not included

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