Karel Míšek leads a Graphic Design Studio 1 at the Faculty of Art and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. Karel Míšek studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the studio of prof. František Muzika. He finished this study in 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he studied the Fine Arts at the Warsaw Academy with Prof. Henryk Tomaszewski. In 2013 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw by the president of Polish Republic. Has taught many lectures and workshops at home in the Czech Republic and abroad. He has many awards and participation in international panels and has also been appointed as jury for international poster competition. Karel Míšek’s artworks are in many collections for example Staatliches Museum, Berlin, Germany, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, Poster Museum, Mexico City, Mexico, National Museum, Poznan, Poland, Town Museum, Lahti, Finland and others.
Visual literacy — Project EUROPE CULTURE
Visual literacy is part of mass communication. There are two overlapping concepts, as well as two facts that can significantly influence the masses and their behaviour. In the current situation, social networks in particular influence the public opinion with their content. Politicians no longer have the power to make decisions, as video, pictures and text flows are very flexible and very difficult to regulate due to the speed of information transmission. The social networks on the Internet are irreplaceable as a medium in the current situation and have a high power in transmitting messages. This development is global and knows no boundaries. The multi-layered network connects individual professions which, by their internal identity, meaning and content, can often cause differences in their clarity according to the place and time of their communication. In 2014 I created a project called EUROPE CULTURE, a follow-up to the projects of the City of European Culture in some of the aspects. However, the theme of EUROPE CULTURE makes it a different project in its entirety. Primarily, it stands on European values and what the young generation perceives with the content of a range of related topics. Students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in Slovakia, the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Poland, students of the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen, and the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic were invited. Their works were based on workshops and collective discussions. Several presentation-related issues were encountered during the project which I will bring out in my presentation. At the same time, the project serves as a perfect example of good practice of the development of Visual Literacy.