Ally is an expressive but delicate typeface that pushes the boundaries of legibility. Its unconventional shapes emerged from calligraphic experiments with the attempt to design characters with only one stroke and only curves. Ally was initially conceived for display situations and short texts but can also evoke interesting textures in smaller sizes and longer texts. It provides a playground for distinctive and vigorous typography.
Diploma Exhibition 2023—Perspectives
From May 4th to 21st, the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe presents the graduation projects created between 2022 and 2023 within the Diploma exhibition 2023—Perspectives in the atriums of the school.
The works shown in the exhibition open up a vide variety of perspectives on themes that are paradigmatic of our times. They revolve around themes such as memory, capitalist time structures, contemporary forms of work, the effects of the media on society and the individual, and the relationship between human and nature.
While to some, the exhibited works appear as mere qualification steps necessary for obtaining an academic degree, for the young artists and designers themselves they often stand for much more. As the result of extensive work processes they are testimonies to doubt, experimentation, and collaboration. As threshold between study and working life, they are inextricably linked to memories and plans for the future. By presenting these personal aspects alongside the diplomas, the exhibition allows visitors a glimpse behind the surface of the completed diplomas and perfected CVs.
Diploma exhibition 2023—Perspectives
When?
May 4th to 21st, 2023
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Opening: Thursday, May 4th, 2023, 6 p.m.
Festival weekend: May 5th–7th, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.
Entry free
Where?
Atrium in the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
Lorenzstr. 15
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany
More information here.
Fashion Views
My projects stand out for their narrative force, all my visual work It is a constant search for my own visual language, where I try to imprint a personal vision to each project , always with high aesthetic and communicative values, where the core is to find the story that represents each product, each brand. The final objective is therefore, to conquer the eye of whoever is in front of any of his pieces, be it an image or a visual piece.
METAMO
Metamo is a family of variable fonts developed to test the potential of using variable systems to generate letterforms.
Glass Kluster WKND
Artwork for WKND skateboards. I made this as a nod to the artwork for Zwei Osterei from 1971 by Kluster.
beauty of arabic type
arabic type represents a different kind of beauty
typographic book layout
Typography is powerful enough that a whole book layout would be made out of letters.
Seeing Libraries Differently
Newspaper designed with and for Nick Thurston to support the film Tender Silences, which explores Chetham’s Library in Manchester. Chetham’s was constructed as a college for priests in 1421 and adapted into a library in 1653. It has been free to use as a public reference resource ever since. It’s the oldest public library in the English-speaking world and holds the first recorded account of silent reading. Using film, poetry and great attention to detail, Nick has beautifully captured the essence of Chetham’s, its spaces and its librarians performing their caring practices. The typeface used is Rhymes by Jakub Samek.
Robert La Roche Book
Book Design for Austrian eyewear brand Robert La Roche. The book is comprised of chapters detailing Robert La Roche’s brand history, team, products and design philosophy. It heavily features photography by American photographer Michael Shindler and Austrian photographers Kahriman—Paulweber.
The book was awarded with a silver European Design Award for best product catalogue.
Additional Credits
Creative Direction Client: Anthony Reid and Robert La Roche
Photography: Michael Shindler, Kahriman—Paulweber, Mattia Bello, Gerald Liebminger and Gerhard Heller
Copywriting: Sandra Lux
mask
More and more people are wearing masks, which make us no longer see each other. When can we reveal our original appearance
embroidered E
hand embroidered, with a crossed over circle pattern
Red Button A
hand sewn, with hand embroidered and stitched on buttons, beads and threads. Can be unbuttoned and flipped open.
Sex, but how?
Experimental series of fonts was created exclusively for the publication “Sex, but how?”. “Sex, but how?” highlights the topic of sexual diversity from twelve different perspectives as part of sexual education. Each of 12 chapters answers the question of variety regarding person’s sexual identity. The experimental font is based on the books’ grid and is formed by elementary pixels, changing itself depending on the percularity of each individual topic.
MERCY
MERCY is an analog/digital poster sending a simple message in a chaotic feeling.
Work, Go Work!
It’s a statment, a visual journey with an experimental typographic language, trough the mental rhythm of a workaholic.
In this journey, the word “work” is not only related to its formal meaning, but also to the subject‘s desire to remain focused on producing something.
For this to happen, it‘s necessary to embark on a course that is sometimes methodical, repetitive, confusing, noisy and a little psychedelic.
The fickle morphology of this cloud of feelings is felt through the intensive and exploratory use of the word “work” represented in various ways, creating a frantic and exhausting rhythm. Work is the key, keep working in what makes you a creative being.
The Forever Book
The Forever Book is a conceptual project, handmade as a unique edition from ten materials, each lasting an increasing amount of time, from the highly decomposable toilet paper to materials that do not decompose and will effectively will last an indeterminate amount of time—forever. There is, and should only be, 1 copy of this book. It is made with archival paper and binding materials that under storage conditions are guaranteed to last for at least 100 years, but will likely last longer. The concept and irony of the book is that some elements will last much longer than others, ensuring that the book as a whole will not last forever, but elements of it will survive prolonged decomposition.
What is man?
What is man? is a dialogue between a young man and an old man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to psalm 8:4, which begins ‘what is man, that you are mindful of him…’. The text was written by J. W. Bothwell (Samuel Langhorne Clemens alias Mark Twain) in 1906. Twain never really published the book. He had 250 copies printed for private circulation only. The drawings of an US patent, issued in 1895 to ‘J. W. Paiges’ Machine for Distributing, Setting, and Justifying Type’ and an essay with the title ‘Twain, Paige and the Machine that destroyed them’ by Jim Hughes are featured alongside the philosophical text. 184 pp, 94 drawings, 100% recycled paper, edition of 250 (numbered) copies
birthmark
Birthmark (mærke) is a personal processing of a time with birthmark cancer.
The book is bound in light leather, resembling light Scandinavian skin with a leather on-lay. Its a gathering of fotos, hand written thoughts, medical journals, drawings, cuts, scars.. Beauty, craft and looming death united.
Bound in 2017.
Torinodesign.info
Torinodesign.info is a website listing experts in design, communication, and image operating in Piedmont, organized by field and services offered. The layout is based on old Italian address books: instead of the phone number, the designers are registered with a link to their portfolio. With a typographic-only identity the webpages weigh around 350Kb each and load in a fraction of a second, in full compliance with W3C standards. On the occasion of an exhibition in Italy, we printed a book version of the website, with the profiles registered between 2020 and 2022.
PUNCH – A visual story
PUNCH is a photography book by Jürgen Bürgin. It’s an intimate and revealing journey into the world of boxing in New York, Berlin and Lisbon.
It’s an immersive and dark visual narrative that follows boxing fighters and clubs from the training and preparation phase to the thrill of the fight, and the moment of victory. A dramatic, evocative and emotional look into the vivid details of a classic sport, whose enormous influence on popular culture grants this work a universal and timeless appeal.
Void Book
This is a book that could be read within void and is in search of its own emptiness. Whatever seen within the margin of the void becomes the content of the book. The part required to be internal to book is here completely external; what is out is invited inside the book.
Marginal Notes. Parallel Culture of Samizdat Publishing in the Soviet Union
“Marginal Notes. Parallel Culture of Samizdat Publishing in the Soviet Union” presents a selected history of self-publishing within the Soviet Russia, and contains a number of examples of underground publications and its designers from the past century. The production of samizdat has a certain connection to the work of graphic designers. This book is a collection of interviews, essays, and memoirs, and an attempt to explore and present the samizdat publications, techniques and distribution strategies and to build a connection to graphic design. It was released 2021 as a graduation project of University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Safar
Safar is an annual bilingual design and visual culture magazine published in Beirut, Lebanon. The name Safar is Arabic for “journey” and refers to the notion of communication, especially across disciplinary, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. Safar was launched to address the lack of critical writing on design in the Global South, and aims to recognize designers as active participants in cultural production.
From a focus on visual design, the magazines’ themes revolve around big, difficult stories of politics and social justice, with a particular focus on Lebanon and the Arab world in general. Because design is culture, and culture is what reflects and moves society forward. It’s also about moving the conversation about design and visual culture away from a fixation on the global north.
Safar is published by Studio Safar. Which was founded by designers, writers, and editors Maya Moumne and Hatem Imam. Maya Moumne was kind enough to answer a few questions about the magazine:
Where do you get your motivation for the magazine?
I think we’re motivated to make the magazine because, quite simply, we get really excited about regional graphic design, both past and present, and we want a space to share, document, read, and write about it. We see publishing Safar as a way to assert that design and visual culture are significant and powerful cultural, and even political, players. They affect—and have historically affected—very real change. We are also motivated to publish Safar because we, as a team, enjoy collaborating with different thinkers, writers, and designers—each new issue is a chance to engage with new thinkers and their ideas.
How do you find the topics for it?
Often it’s very spontaneous. Someone thinks up an idea in the middle of the night and it just clicks. Our entire design team meets regularly to propose and consider different theme and article possibilities, different directions, and formats for those articles. It’s a collaborative and exploratory studio project.
Is the role of women particularly important to you, and if so, why?
The roles of women, trans, and non-binary people are particularly important. Beyond gender, we strive to publish work by people and communities who have not had the same opportunities to write, publish, and speak. It’s definitely a priority for us to elevate and create space for historically marginalized and silenced voices.
Safar
Publisher & Design: Studio Safar
Language: English & Arabic
Format: 21 × 27.5 cm
Price: $ 26.–
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