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Universities and professional associations of graphical design meet the Foundation

12.05.2005

The Foundation Graphical Communication has created its Consultative Council with the participation of 17 University Departments of the scope of Graphical Design and the Visual Communication corresponding to 15 Spanish Universities, and 10 professional associations relative to the surroundings of Graphical Design and the Publicity. Day 9 of February of this year, the Meeting of Patterns of the organization constituted east predicted advisory organ in its Statutes with the purpose of maintaining a vision ample, completes and open on the surroundings of Graphical Design and the Visual Communication at national level.

They comprise of the Consultative Council of the Foundation Graphical Communication, for example, the Department of Journalism and Audio-visual Communication of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Department of Audio-visual Communication and Publicity of the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, the department of Audio-visual Communication and Publicity of the Complutense University of Madrid, the Section of Design of the Department of Drawing of the University of Basque Country, the department of Communication and New Technologies of the University San Pablo-CEU of Madrid, the Department of Journalistic Projects of the University of Navarre, etc. On the other hand, like representatives of the professional scope, the FCG counts in their Consultative Advice with professional associations of Madrid, Aragón, Valencia, Catalonia, Asturias and the Canary Islands.

With the objective to deepen in the original aims, the Statutes of the FCG prepared the creation of a Consultative Advice whose main functions are to propose to the Patronage the initiatives and opinions related to the activity of the Foundation and to advise on all the questions that this one puts under its knowledge and opinion. In order to carry out this work, the FCG invited to representatives coming from the academic scope (through the educational college students and investigators of Graphical Design and Visual Communication) and of the professional scope (through the organizations or associations of Graphical Designers).