Walk Bye was created to show the creativity and perseverance of a community and create something everyone needed during the COVID pandemic — connection to others outside the virtual. Walk Bye originated as a collective outdoor art exhibition to bring together artists and community members with a sense of hope and connectivity through the experience of public art.

The separation of art and science is an important feature of modern life – but it also constitutes a critical loss. With Mindblowers, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Flemish Royal Theatre aim to reconnect different disciplines, bridging sometimes disparate elements and bringing them back into proximity. The Mindblowers book follows the five Mindblowers events and exhibition.

bubmag addresses the confrontation with the analog and the digital and its transformation. It seeks a new way of conveying information: the increasing importance of the image is met uncompromisingly, without losing any depth of content. In the process, digital influence and manipulation are significantly reduced because the concept allows for a wide variety of viewpoints – as a counterpoint to the process of selective exposure. The curated images on each topic serve as emotional catalysts, and the linked (via QR codes) in-depth text content is dynamically generated algorithmically from aggregated information from multiple sources (bubmag.com).

I Take Full Responsibility is an experimental Risograph and screen-printed 36-page book collecting ten of the most notable communications from technology company CEOs since November 2022, who, during that time, have reduced their employee bases by huge swathes. Accompanied by a personal introduction, photos, and artwork from ten years in tech, it is a time capsule circumventing Silicon Valley’s short-term memory and a clear statement of fact that work will not love you back. Its urgent message arrives packaged within a transparent acetate cover with laser-cut accessory prints and delivered in a personalized Inter-office envelope. Its first edition sold out in less than 24 hours.

What is our contemporary sublime? How does the sublime landscape shift to a more complex and distanced nothingness? To find the visual representation of the awe and terror of sublime experience caused by the impact of digital technology nowadays, the awe-inspiring size and complexity in this work present the computer language of one single landscape image in a five-meter-long scroll.

When these digital translations apply to an analogue format, they also alter their original context’s narrative. The digital components and infinite information show a kind of distanced and complex relationship between nature and the network environment.

‘Uncreative portrait’ is an accumulation that documents the designer’s single portrait in multiple visual languages produced by the impact of computers and cyberspace.

By examining the digital sublime as an alternative visual representation, it establishes a discourse around the aura of self-identity in the age of digital reproduction. These images continuously explore our digital self’s shifting authenticity and identity in the contemporary digital era. Is there a line between the self and its data shadow? Where is our physical memory going in this endless re-identification process?

“The big balancer. Eternal WORK IN PROGRESS. Born while listening to my favorite no wave performers. Always balancing in the minute of OR, on the border of ‘A’ or ‘B’, stuck in the moment of decision. Programmed but handmade, for display, but for text, traditional grotesk, but handwriting based, mechanical, but full of intuitive details, guitar music, but wants to destroy guitars, wanna make music but it should be no-music.“ — Boldizsár Tóth
Inspired by these thoughts I designed a specimen for Boldizsár’s BETU font, through an interview with him and the process of making the font. Besides typographic compositions I integrated some of the InDesign crashes I captured during the process.

Is seven a lot? // Seven. What does seven mean? Seven at one stroke. You have to cross 7 bridges. The world was created in 7 days. There are 7 days in a week. 7 world wonders. 7 dwarfs. And so on. The seven seems to play a leading role. In religion, mythology and also in superstition, it appears everywhere. But is seven a lot or a little? Or perhaps just the right amount? The answers are seemingly limitless and consist of countless fragments. One possibility branches out into further possibilities and these in turn into further proliferating facets. Questions about truth, reality and actuality arise.

“Sex, but how?” is a publication that highlights the topic of sexual diversity from twelve different perspectives as part of sexual education. It tells the stories of drastically different, extraordinary people, that are not afraid of speaking openly and loudly about sexual diversity, and willing to share their personal experiences. It was of a great importance with the project “Sex, but how?” to not only pay certain contribution to explaining the diversity of sexual identities but make this important information accessible and exciting for young people.

Commissioned in 2019, the Ethiopian Forest Coffee Atlas brought the most successful and thriving coffee cooperatives in Ethiopia together in one atlas.

As a designed experience, Studio Otherness considered the history and intentions of the atlas: a wayfaring and mapping device. Small details such as latitudes and longitudes act as ornamental elements in the folio, while emphasis is put on the relational proximity of the cooperatives to their regions in Ethiopia.
The technical nature of a traditional atlas is reconsidered with inset stories from members of the cooperative.

The book deals with 150 false statements of former U.S. President Donald Trump, based on the collection of the Washington Post database collected by the journalists Meg Kelly, Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo. This database captures all of President Trump’s false statements and documents, categorizes, and refutes them in every detail, no matter how small. Furthermore, the book presents one way why the amount, variety of false statements and the ever-growing doubt about democracy, ultimately led to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Ode to Construction – Abstraction in the Digital Age explores the intersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.

At once a book, website, and exhibition, Ode to Construction demonstrates the fluidity of design’s materializations within the conditions of the digital, moving effortlessly between screen, print, and space. By reanimating the formal strategies of modernist abstraction, graphic designer Polina Joffe probes the technical and social registers of design today.

Four five type specimen
entirely screen-printed on black paper with silver ink.
Type design: Fabrizio Falcone
Specimen design: Stefano Lucchetti
Silkscreen printing: Giacomo Silva

Invierno (Winter in Spanish) is a photography book almost exclusively on flowers. It is not a Botanics catalog but an accumulation of closely taken pictures of flowers. Invierno runs away from an interpretation of flowers as symbols of the vulnerable and the inoffensive, showing instead their aggressive, strong, dirty, abstract and sticky side. Invierno presents sought flowers and found flowers, existing-no-matter-why-flowers and existing-by-some-human-choice-flowers.

Author: Marina Fornet Vivancos.
978-84-09-43474-9.
228 pages.
19,8 x 28 cm.
Offset.
Thread-sewn softcover.
Munken Crystal 300 gr/m2 and CreatorStar Gloss 150 gr/m2.
TWK Everett Mono Super and Neptun Nord SemiBold.
300 copies.

Crying is a uniquely human behavior that has always been a mystery, and society has considered crying shameful, causing people, especially men, to suppress it.

On the other hand, seemingly unrelated, embroidery is an artistic technique that has historically been deemed inferior to its counterparts. Practiced mostly by women, it has always remained in the domestic sphere.

This book is the collection of the research conducted on these topics. Through the binding, the book weaves these two subjects into one. The reader can choose to read the book in any order but, as the topics get interconnected, the pages of the two books communicate with each other until a simultaneous reading is needed.

SKIP AD is the first artist’s book by the graphic designer Gjorgji Despodov. Despodov creates a playful artistic method called the “Session for self-discovery,” an integral part of the more comprehensive SKIP AD project. Through this method, critically oriented towards mass consumerism, Despodov opens the possibility for an alliance between the graphic designer and us, the users.The project is sponsored by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development.This book is published by PrivatePrint Year: 2021Dimensions: 21х14,8 cmPages: 152 Language: English
Printed on Fedrigoni Arcoset paper with FSC certification. Editor: Ilija Prokopiev
Assistant editor: Marija Hristova

Kristel ter Beek is a Dutch photographer. In her photos you’ll never see people. This publication is based on the work method of Ter beek: showing more that the eye sees at first glance. All photographs taken by Ter Beek in this series are in the book, but also the ones she didn’t shot. When one takes a second look, hidden texts and boxes appear. This bold publication was made by printing ton-sur-ton: white ink on white paper (190gr. Condat Matt). The white ink is printed in 4 runs and becomes visible when the book is slightly tilted and moved. The cover is printed with white ink only and the Curious Matter (380gr. Goya White) paper gives the book a rough, concrete feel.