Graphic Design Studio 2
We see graphic design as an open and complex field with the potential to transcend disciplinary boundaries. We understand it as a means of working flexibly across different formats and as a critically engaged way of articulating ideas. We are interested in its ongoing dialogue with contemporary art, visual culture and social conventions, and in how these intersect through shared strategies. We consider it essential to move beyond a purely functional framework and to transform everyday observation into an event that opens up new meanings and perspectives. We regard critical engagement with the broader context as a prerequisite for expanding the field and articulating more precisely the needs to which design responds.
Our aim is to create space for students to develop their own positions and connect research with practice, while safeguarding creative autonomy and building core skills and technical competence. We understand the studio as an environment that supports individual as well as collective work, reflection and critical thinking, while preparing students for a wide range of social and professional contexts. We do not prescribe a single path for their future practice; we seek to enable them to define their own roles, move between self-initiated and commissioned work and engage in dialogue with collaborators, clients and other parties involved.
Study Programme
Design
Graphic Design Studio 2
Faculty of Fine Arts BUT
BUT Kraví hora campus
Rybkova 948/23, 602 00 Brno
Building 26
Consultation hours
by prior arrangement
Studio Practice Tutors
MgA. Linda Dostálková, MDes
MgA. Daniela Dostálková
Tutors
MgA.
LindaDostálková
MDes
“She studied graphic design at Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and scenography at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. She was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, where she later also worked as a mentor. She founded the Text Form Function studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Ostrava. Together with her sister Daniela, she works as a curator at the contemporary art gallery PLATO Ostrava. As an artistic duo, the sisters are represented by the Piktogram gallery in Warsaw. They have presented their work together in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Future Gallery in Berlin, Kunsthalle Bern and Hunt Kastner in Prague. Their practice draws on a hybrid approach spanning art and social engagement that deliberately crosses disciplinary boundaries.”
MgA.
DanielaDostálková
“She studied new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and photography at the Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. She has worked as a mentor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and led masterclasses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig and the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Together with her sister Linda, she works as a curator at the contemporary art gallery PLATO Ostrava. As an artistic duo, the sisters are represented by the Piktogram gallery in Warsaw. They have presented their work together in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Future Gallery in Berlin, Kunsthalle Bern and Hunt Kastner in Prague. Their practice draws on a hybrid approach spanning art and social engagement that deliberately crosses disciplinary boundaries.”
Responsibility: MgA. Linda Dostálková, MDes