KESSELSKRAMER EXHIBITION FOR AUSTRALIA
KesselsKramer Exports: 12 Years of Posters and Other Communications to arrive in Australia in June 2009
Melbourne-based creative agency The Surgery is collaborating with Dutch communications agency KesselsKramer to import the exhibition KesselsKramer Exports: 12 Years of Posters and Other Communications.
Featuring a retrospective of KesselsKramer’s famed commercial and cultural posters, KesselsKramer Exports: 12 Years of Posters and Other Communications is a striking large-format collection that celebrates the purity and timelessness of the age-old medium.
Facilitating the exhibition is The Surgery’s Managing Director Simon Hakim, after being inspired by a world tour in 2006 to some of the world’s most-lauded creative agencies in New York, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong. “It was an amazing opportunity to spend time at agencies we really admired such as StrawberryFrog, Mother, 180 and of course KesselsKramer. This gave us an invaluable insight into how they operate, and made me realise we could be doing more to promote creativity in our industry. So we decided to invite KesselsKramer to Australia,” said Simon Hakim.
KesselsKramer is a communications agency based in Amsterdam and London. They are internationally recognised for their innovative and cutting edge approach to contemporary marketing, with a highly creative and cross-disciplinary approach to marketing, branding, advertising and campaign organisation. Since 1996, KesselsKramer has produced communication for the likes of Absolut Vodka, Diesel, 55DSL, the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Vitra, J&B whisky and Oxfam International. KesselsKramer also has its own publishing arm, curates exhibitions and events, has initiated and developed new brands, services and products, and has produced TV programmes and documentaries.
KesselsKramer Exports: 12 Years of Posters and Other Communications exhibition will be open to all from 4 June to 14 June 2009 at Guildford Lane Gallery, 20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne, and from 18 June to 28 June 2009 at Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Everleigh. In addition, KesselsKramer Creative Director and Partner Dave Bell will also be facilitating workshops and seminars in both Melbourne and Sydney. Availability is strictly limited.
For further information on KesselsKramer Exports: 12 Years of Posters and Other Communications exhibition, workshops or seminars, please email Simon Hakim at simon@thesurgery.com.au
6 Comments
kessels kramer. Probably the best agency in the world. All the stuff you see from crispin and droga5 are just bigger version of their ideas. They’re truly inspirational.
F*** YEAH!
A bit sad no Australian agency could be honored at a similar event overseas.
It may be sad, but certainly understandable. Australian advertising firmly targets the lowest common denominator, assuming its audience to be superficial. It seems to have no interest in innovating conceptually within its field or challenging the clients expectations.
It also exists in a much more conservative and dumbed down cultural environment than the Netherlands. In my opinion, inoffensive empty aesthetic beauty is more highly valued in Australia than visual communication that thoughtfully engages or provokes a response.
I’ll just add me own trackback then… http://linefeed.presspublish.info/2314
Sadly enough, I have to agree with anonymous.