“Re: Re: is a project in which the two graphic designers Yunus Ak and Umut Altıntaş send each other letters using their typographic vocabulary, text, word, and writing that becomes completely abstract, marked, complicated, simplified, and meaningless.

> https://umutaltintas.net/RE-RE-1
> https://umutaltintas.net/RE-RE-1

Horizonte is an annual publication within an initiative of the Faculty of Urbanism and Architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar. The 14th issue was designed by Handina Murandu and Josephine Schröder. 500 copies, 320 pages. The subject is manifestations. Hence, the design is based on a manual: two parts, seminar and submitted contributions, are distinguished by white and yellow paper. Also, there are different page numbering systems and text use in both parts. The graphic elements in one part are silver blocks that emphasize the text, in the other part the lines stress the white space. They contrast each other.The layout is held together by the grid, header and the colors silver and black.

This book is a financial fail but an affair of the heart. Over 140 pages reflecting the transparent process of my graduate fashion collection, a cooperation with homeless people. The printing of softcover/poster and pages has cost a fortune. To save money I ‘ve cut all pages by myself and used a simple stapler for binding. I ‘ve mixed the pages with low cost laser prints on ordinary colored paper. Latter turned to a stylistic device. From images, over texts & interviews, to layout and spelling mistakes, the book is the result of my passionate work. I’ve sold 2 of 10 I’ve bound. The others were gifts to the homeless. Until today the rest of the uncut pages get dusty in a box.

WATER, FLUXUS, POETRY, JOHN CAGE, PIONEER, MYCOLOGY, HAPPENINGS, PIANO, MUSIC, ARIA, PERFORMANCE

John Cage – Prompt Poetry is a catalogue featuring AI generated images based on the music by John Cage and the characteristics of the FLUXUS movement. Later on these images were shown in a 360° video projection that was performed at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Throughout his career, the late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman used to catalogue his numerous ideas and thoughts in notebooks; these notes were organized and published as a book, CHROMA, in 2013. It is Jarman’s personal pondering on chromatogram, and I disguised the book as a private notebook, making use of non-standardized production methods, including the bare threads on the book’s binding, and the uneven category label stickers. These man-made defects help to close the distance between readers and the author.

An observation of Taiwan’s local font designs, penned by a Japanese author. The jacket, filled with the fonts selected from the contents, is in one piece with the book itself, implying that the book lies down in Taiwan’s environment of fonts when the jacket is spread in full.

Josep Renau i el temps de les imatges.
catalog for the exhibition. Provincial Council of Valencia, 2022.

The main element of the image is the typography with which a contemporary aesthetic is intended, at the same time that it refers to the poster design of the 30s in Valencia. The catalog is structured according to the different areas of the exhibition, alternating a gray offset paper for the texts and a coating for the images contained in each of the sections. The preliminary pages are printed on a natural white offset paper. The silkscreened hardcover binding, which is cut at the foot and head of the book, and the continuous transit through the different papers give the publi

A publication that celebrates the 20-year history of the studio. In the images and texts are superimposed as indivisible layers of information. Thoughts and explanations behind the projects: ideas, processes, motivations, preferences, objectives, etc. Interior with 140 pages in two types of paper and various inserts.
The hardcover cover lined with colored paper and printed in black,
with a sheet glued on a dry print and a screen-printed text.

Botanik Torre is part of a real estate development project in which we were responsible for all identity design and communication assets. At that point, we already knew that the development’s location, in the heart of Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil, was an area full of vestiges of the past, a neighborhood in transformation, with an even more promising future. We didn’t want to address location – something precious in the real estate segment – just in a commercial way. We propose to contextualize the place from a historical, cultural and social perspective. In this way, we seek to create a deeper feeling among residents for the neighborhood and the city.

A llibret de falla is a popular festival publication, around the typical festivals of the fallas in Valencia. It is a low budget publication with a limited number of copies, around 300 units. The book contains explanatory texts and images of the falla by Mossén Sorell Corona that he made in 2023, the falla was a work by the well-known urban artist ESCIF. The theme is about good and bad luck.

This publication introduces sixteen visual works that were created between 2011 and 2022. Most of the drafts are based on the principle of improvisation loops. Intermediate results are continually modified until a final theme and a final form emerge from the handling of the concrete material and the openness of the process. This approach, which designers are already familiar with, serves as a working principle even beyond concrete commissions: over the course of these pages, the results of this continuous visual inquiry will be presented in context for the first time.

Design, layout and illustration for the book that contains the decalogue of the new Reggaetón Art movement, introductory texts and the work of participating artists.
A project by Ricardo Santonja inspired by the advice of the diplomat, Tomás Rodríguez-Pantoja, whose opinion is that reggaeton is making the whole world sing in Spanish as pop and rock already did with English. In the same way that pop spread to the plastic arts in the form of Pop Art, a new form of art is emerging that we call Reggaetón Art.
Given the production limitations, I opted for the graphics, which had to be modern and at the same time respectful of the different artists.

FAC3D (2021) initiated by Chong Yan Chuah, is a collaborative exploration encompassing the idea of the digital self; one that connects machine learning, digital art, and the written word. This publication includes writings and Q&As by human and machine writers.

The skin-like tactile, bold read cover can be personalised with two vivid stickers. The grey pamphlet is a compilation of selected A.I.-generated conversations from the visitors.

‘The Misconceptions of Me’ deals with growing up in two different cultures and its effect on one’s identity. I am reflecting on my own identity and trying to research what belonging means when home becomes a blurry space inbetween. The diffuse identity is given a three-dimensional container. The aspect of double-sidedness of being bicultural is emphasized, from material and medium choices to the thesis design, by incorporating methods of overlapping, mirroring and transparency. By doing so, the thesis as well as the visual booklet are part of the installation in its printed form and 3- and 2-dimensional spaces are interchangeable and connected, just as the two cultures one grew up with.

The project is reflecting on the strategy of hostile architecture/design. The first chapter of the photobook shows examples of the most common form of hostile design. As the added elements on the benches create a visual disharmony and an unexpected symmetry, the pages are bound in a special way to accent this symmetry. The photos of the second chapter serve as a reaction to the first, with the help of experimental typography.

We created a special format catalogue design for a renowned Indonesian artist’s exhibition of new works on the theme of media, which was reflected through a publication split into 3 different sections but bound to look like a stack of magazines. The resulting publication was interactive but could also be viewed linearly like a regular book.

One Point Six One Eight is a special format poetry book produced on a shoestring budget. The poet came to us wanting an accordion format for her book but due to machine-printing size limitations, we were unable to fit so many pages in an accordion. We then experimented with a spiral diecut format that zig-zagged into a booklet, which was reminiscent of the accordion format, and we were able to fit many more pages in. Grey chipboard was utilised as a raw finishing for the cover, and the entire book was printed in a single-colour black ink.

Small Night’s current project (Slanted issue #22 a formative influence) is dedicated to text-based art. Text is prevalent in our visual economy, especially in the proliferation of memes on social media. The editors have prioritised artists who use text in their art as a standalone thing, divorced from the visual, but intimating an imaginary space that brings images and emotions to bear on the reading of them. The texts come in a variety of forms, from typed to handwritten. Our hope is the reader will experience the chiastic structure of text as experience & experience as text. Since 2022 we have published three issues, featuring 18 international artists, from Laure Prouvost to Tony Cokes.

We created a special format catalogue design for a renowned Japanese contemporary artist’s exhibition of new works. Playing on the theme of artwork creation from both the manga cut-outs of the artist’s collage-based compositions as well as using its by-products, we came up with a catalogue which featured an additional booklet containing essays embedded into the front cover to mirror the concept of the exhibition.

Mind The Gap was a special format catalogue design created for a tripartite art exhibition involving the work of 3 different contemporary artists. Segmented into 3 sections, interacting with the book became a typographic word play with the title “Mind The Gap”, where flipping through pages disembodied the title and carefully came together again to form the front cover when closed.

Nicanor Parra’s technique of “antipoetry” consists of the brilliant invention of using a “second-hand language” in his collections of poems. This means using the words and syntax of colloquial speech, popular sayings, set phrases, linguistic clichés, slogans, and the tone of language from the media, radio, journalism, and religious preaching. All of these are mixed with a cultured or pathetic language.
The main concern of Parra’s poetry was to destroy the elevated, dogmatic, and prophetic position of the “vates” poets (such as Neruda and Huidobro) and replace it with the voice of a speaker from the common and current masses.

Our memories never fully belong to us. The last family moments that analogue photography has immortalized belong to our generation – that of Beltran, who was born in Santiago de Chile in 1985, and that of Lucia, who was photographed since August 1992 ten thousand kilometers away, in Oviedo, Spain.
This is the story of our grandparents, who smiled brightly in some studio photographs of our parents, who found themselves in a different city, but still found ways to keep their memories alive. From our childhood, whether as children, grandchildren, or siblings, we cherish memories of bike rides, dances, and days at the beach that are almost identical despite the passage of time and distance.

Bound documentation of the own VR project “Illusionary Spaces”. This project shows a visual processing of the theoretical examination of constructivism. In the multimedia project digital spaces were created, into those are thrown different images of ‘reality’, that are more or less abstract depending on the space. The deformations visualize the subjective mechanisms that influence people’s constructions of reality. The documentation combines the theoretical consideration and my visualization to it.

ReadingRave is an event series initiated by Julia Bichler during her diploma studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The unique event format brings together individuals to silently read books in a communal setting. In a world where reading is becoming increasingly unpopular, ReadingRave is a countermovement to this trend.

By creating a space where individuals come together to read a book, ReadingRave aims to create a sense of community around this solitary activity. By removing the pressures of socializing and conversation, ReadingRave provides a unique opportunity for people to connect with each other without missing out on a good party! ;–)