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“Video killed the radio star Video killed the radio star In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone too far” [EN] It was the 1st of August 1981 at 12:01 a.m. when the first 24-hour music television channel, MTV, began broadcasting images and music, changing literally our lives. With a slightly ironic mood, the song "Video killed the radio star" by the Buggles opened the curtain of the largest perhaps modern audiovisual spectacle, sparking a revolution not only in music but also in other forms of art, from graphic design to cinema. From the atmospheric film productions of Luc Besson with the aesthetics of a long video clip, to the vastly recognisable album covers of Stanley Donwood for Radiohead. Of course the two-way relationship between music and design had much deeper roots that can be traced back for several decades. The power of visual communication and the encoding of messages, combined with the immediacy and the penetrating ability of musi...

[EN] The Institute for the Study of Typography and Visual Communication in collaboration with the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Graphic Communication Program of the Department of Design and Multimedia of the University of Nicosia organise the 6th International  Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) in Thessaloniki, 5-9 July 2016, with the theme "Discussing priorities | Developing a field"( www.ictvc.org/2016/el/ ). As part of the events and activities of the Conference we can distinguish between the lectures the closing speech by one of the leading professionals of our times, Neville Brody. Neville Brody is the Dean of the School of Communication of the Royal College of Art and one of the most famous graphic designers of his generation. Leading contemporary typographer and art director, Neville Brody, also excels in corporate strategic design. He is the founder of creative Bureau "Brody Associates" and cemented his repu...