A club night full of twists and surprises – always discoid and encouraging you to dance. When an event is described like this, the poster must of course already encourage you to dance! That makes sense!
In collaboration with Sirkka Ammann.
A club night full of twists and surprises – always discoid and encouraging you to dance. When an event is described like this, the poster must of course already encourage you to dance! That makes sense!
In collaboration with Sirkka Ammann.
Amalgam is an occasional journal that explores the intersection of typography, language, and power. It traces contemporary discourses around typographic manifestations of multiplicity, hybridity, intersectionality, and identity. It brings together a group of BIPOC, queer, feminist, immigrant artists and designers thinking together across disciplinary boundaries about the mutability of language, the instability of communication, and the prospects for equitable futures.
The idea was to elaborate a publication which format simulates the anonymous nature
of an editor´s work. The challenge was to use graphic resources that can show the
dynamic concealment/disclosure. The accordion paper folding hides the unedited version of the interview. Only if you tear the paper you can read what it is inside. Both, questions and answers, have the same type treatment, in that way the author of the interview is not an author anymore, it loses singularity, it becomes anonymous.The face of the interviewed is hidden between the pages as well as the credits of the publication. Seen in an aereal perspective, the pages creates a colorful flower. A strange flower.
This is a 3D poster created for the “Telling Stories: Big Data” exhibition, which will take place in Moscow in June 2023. The poster features a custom typeface and its design reflects the exhibition’s theme, dedicated to artists’ relationship with the use, analysis, and visualization of data in the modern world. The color scheme and geometric shapes on the poster symbolize the complexity of information flow. This poster captures attention and invites viewers to immerse themselves in the creative world of big data.
Book commissioned as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Vascular Surgery Department at St. Anthony’s General Hospital, in Porto.
I tried to visually recreate Beak> quirkiness approach to Krautrock music.
Konsequenz is a typeface that mixes blackletter handwriting techniques with grotesque letter shapes. The initial design process started on paper with a 15 mm flat tip pen and a 3 mm broad nib pen. After experimenting with the tools, the first design was created, from which Konsequenz was later derived.
The round shapes of the grotesque typeface are broken up in order to emphasize the interrupted character of a blackletter script. Some curves remain and add small accents to the typeface. More classic letter variants have been added to the character set. To stand out from blackletter script, the capitals are mainly based on sans serif letter shapes.
The typeface “Felsen” incorporates a decaying unbalanced character that takes advantage of generative methods of type design using the Python programming language and the RoboFont type design program. In particular, room was given to the possibilities of generated randomness to create a slightly different typeface each time the font is exported: stroke weights change within the module-based characters, spacing and spaces become large or small.
The first draft of the font in 2014 was solely used by myself. In May 2023 the font will be publicly available as “Felsen Typeface” and includes majuscules, minuscules as well as three weights.
This poster was created during an open call for entries that say that we are against fascism and that we are stronger if we work together. The typography of this poster is hardly readable from a distance, so an approach is necessary to pick up the text.
The headline is formed by dots representing a group of people. In addition, the large punctuation marks translate the statements of the headlines into an abstract, pictorial form.
This poster was created in collaboration with Marvin Glosch and is for a lecture by Fraser Muggeridge. The text in the background is a copy of the website of “Fraser Muggeridge Studio” and shows projects, clients and categories sorted by alphabet. As a contrast, the plain text is complemented with handwriting painted with wax crayons.
The poster was created for a lecture for Kurt “Pyrolator” Dahlke at the Peter Behrens School of Arts and is inspired by the music of him and plays with its rhythms and breaks in these very rhythms. In addition, the visual language of the old cover images of his albums is taken up with the abstract form in the background which was created by Paul Daubenspeck. Kurt “Pyrolator” Dahlke is a legendary Düsseldorf musician and member of bands like “Der Plan” and “Fehlfarben”.
The book documents my conversations with my grandmother and compiles our memories of everyday objects into a memory archive. Through her oral history, I delved into the cultural context of bygone eras and gained insight into slices of her past and use her memories as evidence to understand the value of the lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, as well as our own cultural identity and origin.
I interpreted my abstract feelings about memories into a visual design through the use of translucent papers, typography, and screen printing graphics. it conveys my personal experiences to inspire readers to explore their own memories and understand the importance of culture and identity.
Diverse breath. This is an animated collection inspired by the Diverse 3D Type philosophy, created to represent our humanity, different approaches or points of view are the key to understanding what we need in this chaos, pandemic and selfish wars that we live.
Diverse Balloons: At this time, the balloons jump to two different stages creating friction with each other.
Diverse Stretched: On this occasion, Diverse plastic letters inflate and deflate, stretching until they fall to the floor. It is an optimism of human society, everything plastic must fall.
• Sound design by: John Schuller @schuller____
• Sound design by: Emmerson Hermandez @hiddenmemorysounds
This project is about the art and literary work of the Arabic letter shown in Islamic verses,
which appears on buildings, street signs, lighting, graffiti, crafts and old books in Cairo, Egypt. The booklet consists of 20 pages, with a centerfold poster. The poster describes a design talk being held in Al-Azhar University about the topic in detail, with calligraphy workshops.
Publication about the experiences in the Chilean territory of the students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad del Desarrollo.
The book is inspired by what in Chile is known as Work Book or Manifold. It is a personal document that registers the process, handled individually by each architect. Book of Work used by architects everywhere. This book is intentionally full of errors and graphical accidents. The cover was worked manually, with a bas-relief to cause mismatches that made each unit different.
The book is based on the concept of the Urpflanze, Goethe’s imaginary primordial plant, the origin of all plant forms. The focus is on the unfolding formation of the repeating structures and patterns of the plant kingdom, observing the morphology of plants, and the systematic patterns of nature. The new patterns, like the Urpflanze, carry the trace of the steps of the pattern’s formation – the pattern’s unfolding can be traced throughout the sequence, revealing the steps of its metamorphosis all at once. These were collected in a booklet, the form of which is reminiscent of a plant: the cover is the spine, the stem, from which two tendrils can be unfolded, with branched particles at the end.
“Noema in the Mirror – Visual and Dialogical Self-Reflection” is my bachelor’s project, in which I spent four months exploring feelings, fears, and memories that I usually repress. To evoke them, I started with intuitive drawing and meditation. To further discover and process them, I conducted interviews with different marginalized women, and we shared our experiences. We found that our experiences were often similar due to the persisting patriarchal society we live in. I reflected on the different topics and ideas further in essays and illustrations, which were drawn by hand and then composed digitally. All the illustrations, essays, and interviews were collected in a hand-bound book.
Specimen Poster for the PF Cicada Typeface. The typeface was created by experimenting with origami. Creases in the paper created through folding became the grid on which the letterforms are built. Petal Fold Cicada is the name of the origami figure used in the experiments.
What good advice should you give young designers and architectsto take home with them on their journey through life? Beyond the ubiquitous cultural pessimism, all potential wisdom can be found somewhere within the information garbage of our civilization. Semiotic fragments and constellations that can be combined and reassembled in many different ways. You can even find happiness. But where do you start? Where to look?
The inspiration for the Werkschau design in winter 22/23 is Marjory, the ‘all-knowing, all-seeing Trash Heap’from the 80s children’s series ‘The Fraggles’. Marjory – a living compost heap with magical abilities and alternate genders – serves as an oracle to the Fraggles.
For a book cover for an artist with deconstructive artworks I drew a constructed font and separated it into three layers. In Indesign I was able to move the layers individually to create a deconstructive effect, from “still readable” to “totally abstract”.
various book projects about design and publishing…open to see what works for you!
The photographer Michael Philipp Bader contacted Cihan Tamti for this poster series. The photographer had taken pictures of the German team at the sports event. The poster series is experimental and chaotic, meant to convey the overwhelming feeling of multiple competitions happening at the same time and the emotions associated with athletes.
Join us for the launch of Slanted magazine’s 41st issue at Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum in Amsterdam on April 28th, 2023, from 7–9 p.m. Meet the Slanted team and contributors in person, enjoy drinks, and join a lively discussion about design in Amsterdam.
This issue explores the city’s innovative, modern, and functional designs spiced with humor, featuring interviews, essays, illustrations, and useful tips. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with fellow design lovers and learn more about Amsterdam’s design scene. See you there!
Unveiling Session: Slanted Magazine #41—Amsterdam
Panel speakers
Chantal Hendriksen
Elisabeth Klement
Job Wouters
When?
Friday, April 28th, 2023
7–9 p.m.
Where?
Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum
Spui 14‑16
1012XA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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Slanted Magazine #41—Amsterdam
The Slanted team went to Amsterdam to check out the design scene and fell for the charm of the city’s century-old “bruine kroegen” (brown cafes). Seeking refuge after bike rides to design studios, they were quickly won over by the cozy ambiance, dark wood, old-fashioned decor, and the aroma of fried croquettes.
Color and form play an important role in Amsterdam’s design, which is egalitarian and serves the masses. Design is ubiquitous in Amsterdam, from the bike path to the police cars and even the city crest. The maze of canals and the upcoming neighborhoods are characterized by muted tones, dominated by black cobblestones, and dark brick. Behind the facades it rattles. The Dutch have always let it rip. The orange is more intense, the red more luminous, the black more brutal. Design is radical, it crashes, it vibrates.
There are few places where color and form play such an important role. Design is innovative, modern, functional, and spiced with a pinch of humor. Design is about egalitarianism, not reserved for the wealthy elite. Design serves the masses. And so it happens that everything is professionally designed. The bike path, the kebab stand, the tax return form, the police cars, the park benches and trash cans, the vegetables.
In its 41st issue, Slanted gathers a selection of Amsterdam’s most brilliant minds and provides deep insights into their work and values in the magazine and in the numerous video interviews. Illustrations, interviews, essays, and an extensive appendix with many useful tips and an overview with the latest Dutch typefaces complete the issue thematically.
Featured contributors: 75B, Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum, Maarten Baptist, Blast Foundry, BNO, Irma Boom, Brût Homeware, Building Fictions, Mélanie Corre, Vanessa van Dam, DBXL, De Designpolitie, De Vorm, Javier Rodríguez Fernández, FreelingWaters, fw:books, Graypants, Hansje van Halem, Haller Brun, Olivier Heiligers, Juna Horstmans, Jeremy Jansen, Elisa van Joolen, Annabel Keijzer, KesselsKramer, Elisabeth Klement, Kooij, Lesley Moore, MacGuffin, MainStudio, martens and martens, Mass-Driver, Moniker, Michelangelo Nigra, nouch, Novo Typo, NXS WORLD, Moriz Oberberger, Our Polite Society, Revised, Charlotte Rohde, Rush Hour Music, Vera van de Seyp, Studio Jord Noorbeek, studioHendriksen, Sunne, Jolana Sýkorová, Terry Bleu, The Rodina, thonik, Kai Udema, Underwear, untold-stories, VANTOT, Jasper de Waard, Edgar Walthert, Julian Williams.
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: April 2023
Format: 16 × 24 × 1.7 cm
Volume: 224 pages
Language: English
Printer: Offset printing, Stober Medien, Germany
Workmanship: Softcover with flaps, Swiss brochure, thread-stitching, offset printing with spot color
Cradboard: Crescendo CS1, 320 g/sm, distributed by Inapa Deutschland
Paper: GalaxiArt Samt 115 g/sm, Holmen TRND 1.6, 70 g/sm, Holmen TRND V 2.0 60 g/sm
ISBN: 978-3-948440-47-3
ISSN: 1867-6510
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Modernism Type is an illustrated typeface built and created modularly. Represented through 3D illustration, conceived for its future functionality and use in graphic projects that require a high typographic presence. Its concepts evoke the modernist movement in architecture, with much of the avant-garde of the 21st century. The relationship between curves and lines creates a dynamic visual game achieved through modular repetition.