ARTSEMESTR winter 2017 - invitation to the exhibition

Four months of intense work. Semester and final assignments. Designing, consultations, discussions. And the result of all this will be presented to you by Artsemestr. Artsemestr, a school-wide presentation of all studios at UMPRUM.
Artsemestr is a regular showcase of semester and final projects by UMPRUM students, where everyone presents the results of their academic efforts at the end of each semester. Its tradition, as we know it today, began in 2004 thanks to the decision of then-rector Prof. Jiří Pelcl. Students exhibit their work in the authentic environment of the school – in studios, classrooms, and sometimes even in hallways.
The topics, approaches, techniques, and other forms of processing offer an endless variety. UMPRUM aims to prepare its students as well as possible for practice. This is also reflected in the assigned topics and the increasing collaboration with various institutions or manufacturing companies. In this semester, we can mention, for example, the city of Hradec Králové, companies Škoda Auto and VW, Baťa, MIKOV, RIM, and many others who are direct clients or provide their technologies and production facilities. This way, students receive the best opportunity to prepare for their independent application.
 
Vernissage: Tuesday, January 24, 2017, at 7 PM

Event date: January 25–30, 2017

The whole building of UMPRUM, nám. Jana Palacha 80, Prague 1

Open: daily 10 AM–6 PM

Free entry

Studios and topics
Architecture Studio I - architectural concepts for the city of Šluknov
Architecture Studio II – Utopia – a design for a city for 10 million people. Continuation of tests on whether a utopia can be designed as a functional and sustainable urban organism with a view to the near future
Architecture Studio III - Industry 4.0 and its potential in architecture – a long-term project, a booklet for the ongoing theme. Final project - Emergent wood fabrication - experimental methods of prototyping and manufacturing from wood.
Architecture Studio IV - "Custom semester" - collaboration with the city of Hradec Králové – renovation of the Aldis conference center in the context of the city's urban plan and history.
Industrial Design Studio - The 1st year traditionally dealt with the styling of natural materials and their transformation into usable items, while the 2nd-5th years worked on a project for Škoda Auto and VW on the theme Fit2Digital in automotive transport. The presentation was conducted using augmented and virtual reality and can be viewed on the studio’s website.

Final project - a new teaching aid in collaboration with the company of Martin Krofoně
Furniture and Interior Design Studio – 1st year “BOX” design of any product/item inside a cardboard box of specified dimensions, 2nd – 5th years international competition on the theme of upholstered armchair for the company RIM

Final project – 1st year – coffee table for the company RIM, 2nd-5th year – exhibition stand for the company RIM at Designblok 2017


Product Design Studio - Věstonická Venus - study and showcase
Final project - a sharing element for books in public space
Sculpture Studio – open theme
Painting Studio – open theme
Intermedial Confrontation Studio – open theme
Supermedia Studio – open theme
Photography Studio – issues of prediction and forecasting. The exhibited works will mainly explore specific phenomena relating particularly to the environment of the internet and new technologies.
Glass Studio - "Everything that happens around the light bulb" – primarily addressing suspended lighting fixtures or light objects.

Final project - collaboration with Verreum, a company that specializes in silvering glass and creating glass shapes suitable for these processes
Ceramics and Porcelain Studio – historical glazes
Final project – Ornament and Crime – a free response to Adolf Loos's essay
K.O.V. Studio – a functional object or free object made of aluminum – collaboration with SPIRAL, collaboration with MIKOV

Final project – Mask and its forms
Fashion Design Studio – Film / Movie – students responded to selected iconic films: The NeverEnding Story, Orlando, Dazed and Confused, Twin Peaks, Fruit Of Paradise
Clothing and Footwear Design Studio – Personal Coat – a project aimed at custom design, Baťa Project – designs for men's and women's footwear, with selected models subsequently to be produced and sold by Baťa.


Textile Design Studio - Textile Architecture – a pavilion for people to meet (constructed from a garage)
Illustration and Graphics Studio – Barák - a shared comic house, stories from individual apartments...; a professional magazine; Report – a rich pattern for various applications, Collection – a new book documenting the methodology of collecting and sorting 
Final project – Karkulky – various authors, styles, and narratives in small format

Type Design and Typography Studio – Studio Brewery – a complete solution from name, brand, graphic design of all equipment + publication summarizing the results of six months of work.

Final project – promotion of the "Studio Brewery" – neon advertising
Graphic Design and Visual Communication Studio - Virtual reality and its projection into the visual style of a horror festival
Film and Television Graphics Studio – puppet film on the theme of fear + a set of graphics on the theme of Fear
Final project – credits for a puppet film on the theme of Fear

Scenes and puppets from the filmed works will also be exhibited, and a series of animations created for the project ROOMS in Cihelná street in October 2016 will be screened.
Graphic design and new media – a book published for the 10th anniversary of the POP10 studio's existence and works related to the preparation of anniversary celebrations; also a redesign of the Cinepur magazine, design of the visual for the Dvořákova Praha festival, and Christmas displays for Kosmasb...

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