World Standards Day poster 2010
About the artist : Johann van Schalkwyk
Johann van Schalkwyk is a professional graphic designer, working for Cream of Creations, Pretoria, South Africa.
He was born in Parys, Freestate, South Africa and spent his childhood in Pretoria, Bela-Bela and Potchefstroom.
In 1997, he matriculated from the Potchefstroom Gimnasium with six distinctions. He enrolled in the course BA Graphic Design at the University of the North West and completed it in 2001. During his studies he focused on themes including representation, simulacra and abstraction in the field of design, culture and the history of art.
Johann paints and sculpts on an informal basis, but his main focus is his career as professional graphic designer – a field in which the worlds of art, culture and design becomes a canvas of endless possibilities.
Johann explains his concept rationale for the WSD 2010 poster as follows: "The four characters in the illustration come together, each with a ribbon-like trail showing the path he/she took to reach the destination.
"The coloured swirl in the book on the table is representative of standards and standard documents. The colours of all the characters come together and mix to form a whole, which has reference to the collaboration of individuals from around the world in compiling these standards.
"We focused on the theme of 'coming together', as accessibility can be seen as a means of bringing people together in many ways, whether in person or by technological means in cyberspace."
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