Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Artist of the Day, November 22, 2022: Kari Piippo, a Finnish graphic designer, illustrator (#1706)

Kari Piippo (1945) was born in Finland. He Studied at the department of Graphic Design, School of Industrial Arts, Helsinki. After graduating 1967 he specialized in illustration and poster design. Kari Piippo has taught graphic design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki from 1989–1997.

His work has been shown in many individual and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad, and Piippo has given many poster workshops and lectures around the world. Major Finnish awards include Pro Finlandia, the State Industrial Arts Award, Graphic Artist of the Year, four Gold Awards and Platinum Award in the Best of the Year competition.

His international awards include e.g. two Gold Awards from the Mexico Poster Biennial, Silver from the Lahti Poster Biennial, First Prize from the Biennale of Theatre Posters in Rzeszow, the Icograda Exellence Award in Chaumont and Warsaw, 1st Prize in Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition and Grand Prix Trnava Triennial. In Graphis Poster Annual competition Platinum and several Gold awards.

Kari Piippo is also a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale, AGI.


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Kari Piippo

Juliste  Museo, 1990 poster
Selva Suomi, 1992 poster
Berol Brecht, 1998 poster
Images at war, 2004 poster
 Posters exhibit, 2004 self-promotional poster
 Homage to Shigeo Fukuda, 2009 poster
Hommage to Aartomaa, 2009 poster
Where's my vote, 2019 social poster
Piippo workshop in LAFA, 2011 self-promotional poster
Workshop and Lecture in China, 2011-19 self-promotional poster
Arhus International poster show, 2012
Russian design week, 2013 poster
AGI Sao Paolo, 2019 poster
Missing Link, 2014 social poster
Chernobyl-Fukudhima, 2016 poster
Lahti Museum, Kari Piippo, 2017 self-promotional poster
Chernobyl, 2019 social poster
Design summer, 2019 poster
Diary of a Madman, 2019 theater poster
GGG, 2019 self-promotional poster
Green torch, 2019  poster
One flew over... 2019  theater poster
Post Past, 2019   theater poster
Romeo and Julia, 2019 theater poster
Hamlet theater poster
Hiroshima 1945 A-bomb poster
Julisteita  self-promotional poster
Nouveau Salon des Cents: hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec poster
Ogaki Museum Poster
Paris touristic poster
Peace poster
Piaf poster
Without Borders, USA,  social poster

 

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