This project is an attempt to take a look at the history of puppet theatre from a graphic design perspective. Abstract lenticular print on a cover refers to the experience evolving between a puppet and an actor – a still puppet becomes alive when animated, the same way – a book becomes an alive object when in one’s hands. The image “animates”, creates the interaction and enhances the experience.

Inside there’s a collection of archival photographs, interviews and documents which represent the history of a Puppetry Department of the Academy of Theatre Arts in Wrocław.

Edition: 1
Cover: Lenticular print
Paper: Munken Pure 120g
Binding: Perfect binding
Made in collaboration with Mateusz Barta

These posters are a visual representation of an online Iftar, created to help people celebrate the holy month of Ramadan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The posters features a vibrant, colorful and technological design that captures the essence of Ramadan. The posters concept successfully conveys the message of togetherness and community, encouraging people to come together despite the pandemic’s isolation.

I did these works based on randomness. I Googled random text, random photos. When combining such randomness, it causes dissonance and you look for new meanings

The visual concept for the book was to follow the character of the installation. The see-through quality of the book echoes the transparent character of “Oasis No.8” itself. The first and last pages of the book, including the cover, were printed on transparent paper. A feature that brought a challenge of its own in printing. The curved text beginnings with „banana swing“, first a mistake. The printed WhatsApp conversation, never questioned. Made with thread stitching, the book features numerous large-scale photographs as well as scientifical data carefully shown in infographics, and texts from several authors, in both German and English.

Unheimlich (“Uncanny”) is a reference to Freud’s term.

I undertook to embody the uncanny and surround the negative space with a ragged repetition of the title and idea of the book – “Unheimlich” as the essence of this term – a meeting with something very familiar, which leaves an ominous feeling.

This repetition principle is expressed on the front as well as on the back cover to become one unit. The back cover inherits the points from the letter i, extracted from the front cover word “Unheimlich”. It is a reference to a poetic rhyme, when words from one line convey particles of the sounds from the previous one.

Thus, Unheimlich is dark poetry and an uncanny encounter with the past.

SOLO is the first self published book by designer, photographer and author Nikolai Dobreff.

The book collects words and photos from a trip through South America. Nikolai fled heart broken to Rio de Janeiro and turned his diary entries from more than 2 months traveling into ten melancholic stories. “Too much gone to stay yourself”. In addition to the texts, the book also contains over 70 photographs from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia.

172 Pages. Paper: Mohawk Extra Rough & Munken Lynx. Open multicolored thread stitching. Transparent Hot Foil Stamping on the cover. Swiss Brochure.

The wines of Santorini is a comprehensive guide and visual trip to the magic island of Santorini and its wines narrated by Yiannis Karakasis a Greek Master of Wine. The book consists of twelve chapters where experimental illustrations introduce each one. The layout has enough space for the reader to take time and enjoy reading the facts and history while going through poetic photography.
Overall the unique feeling of the book is something that hardly can be found in wine publications.

A club as an exhibition venue:In summer 2021, after more than a year of pandemic-induced downtime, the Institut fuer Zukunft (IfZ) reopened its doors to host two exhibitions, DOSIS 1 and DOSIS 2. Works were produced by a total of 58 artists, who took over the premises. The book contains views of the exhibited artworks, demonstrating the (im)possibility of combining the ideas of club culture and artistic production. It also contains material on the works on display and essays. The book is not a record of the exhibition; rather, it shows how the club can be transformed, with a period of crisis causing new ideas to be implemented.
– IfZ is an electronic music club in Leipzig, founded in 2014

Daemon is a photographic novel with text and pictures from photographer Malte Sänger. Using assistive technology he assumed the position of the DAEMON in order to understand the condition and feeling of being constantly enveloped. The result of these various approaches and observations is a diffuse look into our present and also a look into the future: where will new technologies and artificial intelligence take us? The question is unresolved, and the viewer has the feeling that he is enveloped by an intangible plasma cloud – the DAEMON.
Silver Award German Photo Book Prize 20|21

Photo credit: Harry Griffin
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Design: Laura Coombs
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Editor: Mindy Seu
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Publisher: Inventory Press
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Biblio-graph is a work-in-progress web application developed by Archival Consciousness in collaboration with de Appel Archive. The images are captured by staff, researchers, and the community of the archive and published on biblio-graph.org. Fragments of publications can be visualised in a timeline, browsed in a map view or as a graph of relations. The graph shows the network of people, organisations and publications in the archive. With biblio-graph, we are experimenting with graph technologies and linked data in the front end to map the collection and aggregate visual information into the database, which later will be annotated to enrich metadata and data from the content of publications.

Irma Boom has designed a remarkable cookbook for the Rijkmuseum. Printed on very thin, parchment-like paper, it features hundreds of full-color illustrations of objects from the collection.

In the cookbook, 50 ingredients characteristic of Dutch cuisine – from potatoes and seaweed to cod and eel – form the basis for 130 traditional and modern dishes. The recipes are inspired by paintings from the museum’s collection.

„24 Stunden“ is a book project that both visualizes time and allows you to physically count it. It includes a total of 24 books, each visualizing one hour of the day and each page representing one second of the day. At the intersection of each hour to the next, the book can be put together to form a circle, creating the image of a clock.
While the books can function as a kind of calendar and offer the opportunity to record moments and experiences, tied to a very specific time, they can also be used as a stopwatch or timer. It takes about as long to turn the pages as the time indicated on the pages. The book spine with the ruler printed on it can be used as a tool for measuring objects.

“Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age” examines the challenges and opportunities in the wake of the rapid rise of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. The book includes over twenty interviews with major figures in design.
On the level of design the first part contains a more academic account of the research, while in the second part the design team proposed to analyze the texts with the help of machine learning algorithms and thus to rearrange them in thematic fields.
Research team: Demian Conrad, Rob van Leijsen, David Héritier
Graphic Design: Johnson/Kingston

“If you’ve seen it all, close your eyes” presents extracts from a decade of artist Coco Capitán’s handwritten notebooks. Coco Capitán has always scribbled down her thoughts – everywhere, all the time – often on scraps of paper that have filled notebook after notebook. From her first day in London in 2010 until now, and as she travels the world on photography assignments, Coco Capitán’s writings grant an insight into her free and instinctive creative process. Playful aphorisms and short poems address an array of issues with hints of humour and irony.

Based on a collaboration between art and cultural institutions in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg and Liège, Elements is a publication-catalogue that gathers a series of art and design exhibitions and programs that have taken place in 2021. It was commissioned and published by the Jan van Eyck Academy, where Offshore was part of a residency program in 2020/21. The conceptualization and editing of this book was in the hands of Jan van Eyck alumni Jessica Gysel and Offshore. Offshore was also responsible for the Art Direction and graphic design.

The book, edited and designed by Jianping He, and published by hesign in 2018, includes most updated design works of more than 200 new members of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) from the last ten years. Each new member also expresses his/her opinions on the current situation that graphic design is now facing. The unique book design won the the Macau Design Award 2019, the Red Dot Grand Prix 2019 and the iF Design Award 2020.

Ferdinand von Schirach spricht in seinem Buch “Jeder Mensch” von alten Utopien, die Bestandteil unseres Grundgesetzes waren/sind und stellt die Frage, ob wir nicht neue Utopien brauchen, um den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit zu begegnen. Dazu schlägt er sechs neue Grundrechte vor, welche zusammen mit der Charta der Grundrechte der EU die textliche Basis dieses Projektes bilden.
Die Sc(hrift)rolle ist ein scrollbares Buch oder wenn man so will ein analoger Onepager. Es gibt keine Seiten und so ist Leser*innen kein Springen oder Blättern zwischen Kapiteln möglich, wodurch sie stärker an die vorgegebene Reihenfolge des Inhalts gebunden sind.

6,000 dandelions from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge Massachusetts. The dandelions have been picked, pressed, dried, and laminated between clear plastic sheets.

it is a Photobook, developed during the time of covid-19. A work together with Malte Sänger.