Date: 03.06.2014

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: IDS, Building 8, GTU, 75 Kostava Street, Tbilisi

Event: Paradigms of Graphic Design

Format: Illustrated Lecture

Speaker: Giga Khatiashvili, Georgian Graphic and Industrial Designer, 

Tbilisi

Poster © Giga Khatiashvili

Giga came to IDS as founder and creative director of 919 The Advertising Lab, impressed the school with his designs and emotional articulation, and very soon joined the small IDS team as Visiting Professor of Design. Born in 1973 in Tbilisi, Giga graduated Science & Research Institute for Design and Ergonomics Academy of Georgia as industrial designer, but swiftly moved to the graphics, polishing his skills in Russia before returning to his native Georgia, where he had successfully completed a great deal of brand  identity jobs for such companies as Geocell (part of the Swedish telecommunication giant Telia Sonera), Sante Walsh, Rustaveli Cinema and others. He can be proud that entering one of the most difficult lines of visual communication – typography, he had created a number of patented Georgian fonts for the Internet, as well as many corporate types.