Martina Budziňáková

In Slovakia there is only 9% of trash being separated from overall trash produced. The statistics say that more than 8 from 10 Slovaks think that separating is important. But the quantity of separated trash shows different numbers though. (research made by Focus agency). At the beginning of lat semester at my Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, I've noticed that some new recycling bins appeared on the hallways. My first reaction was “finally“, my second reaction was why at hallways and not in studios? Obviously there is more studios than hallways in our school so it would be more expensive, of course. But there is a question about eficiency of these bins placed in hallways. I personaly throw trash into trashcans in my studio,  I never remember to go outside to separate it. But when I see 3 bins with different colour, I always recycle. Most of students and people acctually don't know how to separate proparly. Therefore I decided to design posters as ...

Self-initiated design is phenomenon of today. With fastly changing contemporary society and culture, there is growing need for independence in work without any restriction and limits of client. Designer is choosing to be a creator of content and form, creating their own rules. This is giving them a chance for making a statement or to bring up issues of their own interest. Festival Self is a Biennial graphic design festival that was first created in 2012 by designers Ľubica Segečová and Eva Kašáková and theoretician Mária Rišková. Their motivation is to support and map the area of self-initiated design, the part that is invissible for regular consument, reader, viewer. It is the tool for confrontation of local scene with contemporary topics. Each year they brought different theme. Self 2012 was about authors projects in graphic design, selfpublishing, and publishing activities. They presented the most significant project in this subject. In between two years they org...