BOOK REVIEW

Svet priatelov / World of friends / Hommage a Jan Rajlich senior Catalogue of the international invitational poster exhibition on the occasion of Jan Rajlich's 80th birthday, 166 artists - designers from all continets; published by Dusan Junek GRAFIQ Studio, Bratislava, Slovak Republik (2000); 176 pages, many illustrated, 16 x 16 cm; softcover; ISBN 80-88934-10-9; in czech and english When Jan Rajlich turned 80 this year, Dusan Junek organized a poster exhibition among Rajlich's many designer friends in his honour, and this little booklet collects all the birthday wishes from them (unfortunately not the posters themselves). Jan Rajlich is well known as poster designer, as founder (in 1963) and longtime chairman of The Brno Biennale. His hospitality is legendary. It is worth noting that many of his international friendships go back to a time when the Iron Curtain was believed to be impenetrable, and many of the well wishers below thank him not only for what he did for graphic design, but for the bridges he built between East and West. I am pleased to join them with a Happy Birthday Jan Rajlich ! Argentina Pedroza, Gustavo / Australia Cato, Kenneth W. / Austria Erben, Tino / Felder, Peter / Gassner, Richard / Belarus Sarkisov, Sergei / Belgium Ibou, Paul / Bulgaria Ikonomov, Bojidar / Vardjev, Todor / Canada Halasa, Alfred / Croatia Bratelj, Tadej / Bucan, Boris / Franic, Maja / Ljubicic, Boris / Rocco, Sanja / Czech Republic Aubrecht, Karel / Babak, Petr / Flejsar, Josef / Houf, Vaclav / Hrach, Pavel / Jiskra, Jan / Juracka, Antonin / Kucera, Vaclav / Lev, Pavel / Machek, Tomas / Misek, Karel / Myslivecek, Boris / Najbrt, Ales / Postl, Radomir / Pos, Petr / Rajlich jr., Jan / Rathousky, Jiri / Solpera, Jan / Sura, Jaroslav / Svetlik, Jiri / Svetlik, Zdenek / Salamoun, Jiri / Teissig, Karel / Vanek, Rostislav / Zhibo, Jiri / Ziegler, Zdenek / Zdimal, Dusan / Estonia Huimerind, Ruth / Denmark Kath, Gitte / Nygaard, Finn / Finland Aartomaa, Tapani / Kaltala, Viktor / Loiri, Pekka / Piippo, Kari / Pilve, Penti / France Bouvet, Michel / Colrat, Pascal / Jordan, Alex / Jupin, Sylvie / Jupin, Joel / Larcher, Jean / Le Quernec, Alain / Lewandowski, A. T. / Germany Büttner, H. Feliks / Drewinski, Lex / Damm-Fiedler, Jutta / Fiedler, Jochen / Gassner, Christof / Kieser, Günther / Langer, Helmut / Mendell, Pierre / Müller, Rolf / Müller, Rolf Felix / Müller, M. Thomas / Rambow, Gunter / Staeck, Klaus / Weidemann, Kurt / Wunderlich, Sonja / Wunderlich, Gert / Great Britain Banks, Collin / Fletcher, Allan / Hungary Orosz, Istvan / Pocs, Peter / China Kan, Tai-Keung / Steiner, Henry / Wang, Xu / India Bhowmick, Subrata / Iran Momayez, Morteza / Israel Reisinger, Dan / Tartakover, David / Italy Bortolotti, Gianni / Dradi, Massimo / Torri, Gianfranco / Japan Akiyama, Takashi / Aoba, Masuteru / Fukuda,Shigeo / Katsui, Mitsuo / Matsunaga, Shin / Nagai, Kazumasa / Sato, U.G. / Schmid, Helmut / Sugita, Keiji / Tachibana, Fumio / Tanaka, Ikko / Toga, Seiju / Uno, Yasuyuki / Yahagi, Kijuro / Yokoo, Tadanori / Korea Kim, Sang-Rak / Latvia Shenbergs, Laimonis / Luxemburg Popov, Kamen / Mexico Beltran, Felix / Bermudez, Xavier / Netherlands Boss, Ben / Brattinga, Pieter / Dumbar, Gert / Poland Eidrigevicius, Stasys / Gorowski, Mieczyslaw / Kalarus, Roman / Klis, Michal / Marszalek, Grzegorz / MIodozeniec, Jan / Pagowski, Andrzej / Piechura, Tadeusz / Pluta, Wladyslaw / Swierzy, Waldemar / Wieczorek, Stanislaw / Portugal Machado, Joao / Romania Nadasan, Timotei / RussiaBiantovskaya, Olga / Chaika, Vladimir / Faldina, Svetlana / Faldin, Alexandr / Logvin, Andrey / Trofimov, Boris / Slovakia Broz, Robert / Doka, Jozef / Durik, Peter / Hauke, Jozef / Choma, Pavel / Junek, Dusan / Kallay, Dusan / Kratky, Lubomir / Longauer, Lubomir / Mydlo, Svetozar / Pisar, Peter / Rostoka, Vladislav / Stankoci, Stanislav / Volosin, Vladimir / Slovenia Jenko, Radovan / Sweden Jonsson, Dan / Switzerland Gottschalk, Fritz / Imboden, Melchior / Schraivogel, Ralph / Troxler, Niklaus / Zuffo, Dario / Turkey Karamustafa, Sadik / U.S.A. Conge, Bob / Coonts, Bob / Chwast, Seymour / Davis, Paul / Glaser, Mitton / Lukova, Luba / Olbinski, Rafal / Risbeck, Phil / Sawka, Jan / Sommese, Lanny / Victore, James / Venezuela Pol, Santiago / Ukraine Shostia, Vitalij / Zimbabwe Maviyane-Davis, Chaz

Jan Rajlich sen.

El diseno, entre el hombre y la tecnologia Poster by Jan Rajlich, 1995

Logo for the exhibition by Dusan Junek

Masuteru Aoba's greeting

Links
Internet Graphic Design Competition 1996
Intersalon AJV 98
Ogaki Poster Museum
Opening of the exhibition "Svet priatelov"