Nóra Békés

artistic research - communication - design

Nóra Békés is a graphic designer, visual storyteller and researcher. Her applied work I focuses on editorial design, typography and type design. Conceptual thinking and the use of metaphors stands at the core of her design process. She explores methods of traditional typography in the present context and analytical image editing. she strives to create structures of visual organization in order to communicate complex information structures and messages with various layers of meaning. In her autonomous practice Nóra explores the possibilities and implications of archival research in contemporary creative processes.


Reading Group: Archives, Body & Cultural Memory

  • 18-02-2019 t/m 31-05-2019
  • In collaboration with: Margaret Talic
  • Location: Neverland Cinema, Rotterdam
  • The reading group has gathered in Rotterdam to discuss texts around the topics of archive, body, cultural memory, art and curating in various contexts.
  • https://www.facebook.com/reading010

Graphic Design for Other Ways of Watching Together

Task

  • 24-01-2020 t/m 09-02-2020
  • In collaboration with: Neverland Cinema
  • Location: Showroom Mama, Rotterdam
  • In early 2020 the team of Neverland Cinema - a Rotterdam based underground community cinema - in collaboration with Showroom MAMA, organized a three week program of films, performances, talks, workshops and musical events. The title of the program ,Other Ways of Wathcing Together, reflects the Neverland cinema's strving to investigate the possibilities of creating communities and facilitating critical discourse through watching & listening together.

Acknowledgments

    Publication
  • Reviving Type: Practice-based research on Renaissance and Baroque models compared and discussed

  • 2019
  • typography, research, educational
  • Acute Publishing - Nóra Békés & Celine Hurka