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| San José, Costa Rica, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, Vol. 14, No. 50 | |
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| Advertising characters are the focus of a new museum
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By
Michael Krumhotlz
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff Well-known characters from the ad pages of old are taking over the Museo de Arte y Diseños Contemporáneo. Graphics and caricature drawings of Costa Rican corporate branding characters will make up the Fundredimas-based exhibit in conjunction with the fourth annual Festival Internacional de Diseño Fundredimas is a local foundation that keeps nostalgic icons alive and preserves newer brand characters through graphic design. The design collection spans the years from 1945 to 2013, ranging in characters from the Fiesta Tours bear to Tito Gallito. Fundredimas designer Carlos Redondo said the group wants to bring these corporate characters into an artistic space because they often get overlooked. “As graphic designers and character designers, we saw that many characters live in the unconscious, in the emotions of people and brands themselves,” he said. “These characters’ revival is so people can understand that we have a history of graphic design and advertising that is worth knowing.” The exhibit includes 80 images, more than 10 structures, an audiovisual area, and an homage to the Costa Rican graphic designers who first created these now-reborn characters. According to the other half of the Fundredimas project, Ariel Arburola, the project began nearly a year ago. Arburola and Redondo spent much of the time researching through Internet archives and at the Biblioteca Nacional. Arburola said that all the drawings are original versions and have not been changed. |
 Museo de Arte y Diseños
Contemporáneo graphic
These are some of the commercial
characters that will be displayed“The characters are often forgotten by the brands and people,” he said. “So this exhibition is trying to revive them to a place that they deserve to be in.” The exhibit begins today and lasts until May 3 at the museum located in the Centro Nacional de la Cultura. Florella Resenterra, director of the museum, said that these logos are part of Costa Rica’s modern history and should continue to be studied and analyzed. “There is an emotion that can be had, a bit of melancholy, because we all remember these characters that are being brought to life again,” Resenterra said. “The principal objective is the revival, this is material that should not be forgotten and that should continue to be used.” The Festival Internacional de Diseño is set to take place at the Antigua Aduana from Thursday to Saturday. |
| Annual project to restore an historic building will be
outlined today |
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the A.M. Costa Rica staff
An agency within the culture ministry is ready to open the 2014 edition of an architectural contest that has given a push to many restoration projects in the country. This is the Salvemos Nuestro Patrimonio Histórico Arquitectónico or "Save out Historical Architectural Heritage." Each year the Centro de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural picks a project that has been designed by a local architect. There are many submissions, and the winning project receives government money. The winners have ranged from wooden structures in Limón and on the Pacific coast to public buildings, such as the Teatro Nacional, and also a downtown department store. The centro will be outlining the rules for this year's contest today. The submissions generally are projects that already have been designed by an architect. Some of the projects never would have been started without the promise of government money. Last year the winner was a project to restore the historic Antigua Capitanía de Limón. The The L-shaped, two story wooden building in Afrocaribbean style was initiated by the United Fruit Co. in 1930. Eventually it held the office of the local political leader who also served as port captain. |
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The Escuela Juan Ramírez,
now restored, in Tobosi de Cartago was the winner in 2011The centro donated 100 million colons to the restoration. That was about $200,000 at the time. The Black Star Line in Limón was a winner in an earlier year. A lot of the Limón wooden buildings survive because they were constructed with material that contained a lot of resin that kept away bugs. There most likely will be projects from there in the contest this year. |
| Sensors detected 113 earthquakes during the first seven days
of March |
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the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Earthquake experts have registered 113 quakes in the first seven days of the month. The total does not count the quake estimated at 5.0 magnitude that took place in the middle of the gulf of Nicoya at noon Tuesday. The Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico at Universidad Nacional attributes the flurry of March quakes to the 6.2 event that took place off the northern coast of Nicaragua March 2. Some 11 of the quakes took place off Playa Garza near Nosara on the far Pacific coast of the Nicoya peninsula. And there were five around Parrita, the Observatorio said. These were believed to be a reaction to the Feb. 16 quake of 4.6 magnitude that took place there. Only six of these 113 quakes were reported to have been felt by humans. The 5.0 magnitude quake Tuesday happened at a minute after noon. There is a fault that runs north and south in the gulf of Nicoya and inland to Nicaragua. This is a highly active area. |
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Orange flag shows the estimated
epicenter of the noon quake. |
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