The LP title »FASHION« from the band The Vintage Cinema Club was visualised through abstract collages. Humphrey Bogart got anonymised by bright and colourfull textures. The dancing silhouette of Elvis was flipped over so it would look like a man, falling from the sky. This way, the darker side of success and fashion got embraced.
CARNIVAL
EAST WEST
EASTER FEVER
FANTASTIC NOT PLASTIC
ICE DELIGHT
242 NOT FAR FROM HOME
TWO
2020 UDN 500 Party
The one-day limited outdoor lifestyle market held by UND, a newspaper published in Taiwan. The publisher wants to approach the young generation, therefore I create a valorous visual which is too overwhelming and nonsense to the clients when I present the work on the first day. It takes at least two weeks for them to absorb the design concept and pass the mutual agreement.
2020 Taiwan Design EXPO
The concept of Taiwan Design EXPO is approaching the public and embracing everyone to join the local community. The main visual design aims to incorporate the four elements, “wind,” “WIFI,” “bamboo,” and “the Internet,” which are symbolized and unitized, and flexibly combined to form various visual extensions. For “wind,” the imagery of “spinning wind” is used to strengthen the symbolism; combined with a sense of motion, wind transforms into Hsinchu Monsters to guide people on their paths of pursuit and exploration.
third space
Windows display transitory fragments, bridging the inside with the outside, ephemera with the enduring, and intentional with accidental. They provide alternate realities where fantasy and design intersect. When documented, they make public a fleeting moment of chaos. This spectacle, a textural essay, resonates in media res—directly into, while proceeding from—a voluble field.
The rebellion starts
I started sketching some random monster and it ended up being a very lovely friendly and funny sketch. Then I thought it might be nice to be friends with him, and that’s how all started. Why can’t our sketches become alive? I’d love to hear their voice, touch and interact with them, even if they get crazy. I’ve used two different fonts, both of them are sans serfi. I’ve played with contrast using a high saturated Klein blue. My intention is to create an interesting and attractive Poster so people would come to my crazy sketches Event.
Scanographes
My universe revolves around the combination of plastic researches and typographic editing work. In parallel I design images as sculptures, through a technic of image production : I scan objects, that I recomposed numerically. I present this images in lightboxes as in my solo show at playground gallery in Paris in 2019.
Diversity!
Can we use test charts in printmaking to remind ourselves about the visibility of human values in graphic design?
Typeface of the Month: WT Volkolak
We are delighted to present you our Typeface of the Month: WT Volkolak. The typeface is the latest release of the new Swiss type foundry Wraith Types, which we also present to you today for the first time.
WT Volkolak is a type system designed by Guillaume Jean-Mairet, exploring the common structure shared by didones and grotesque typefaces. It is available in three styles, a Serif, a Grotesque, and a contrasted Sans, and in four optical sizes, which provide designers with a plethora of typesetting options. The family was published by Wraith Types, an upcoming Swiss type foundry.
A Were-Wolf of a Typeface
Intrigued by the idea that typefaces stylistically as different as Didot and Helvetica shared a similar structure, WT Volkolak was designed from both ends of the spectrum at the same time, and many stylistic features stem from this process, such as the serif’s single story “a,” and the grotesque’s double story “g.” This bipolar identity gives the typeface a quirky yet sturdy visual touch, as the contrasting ends of the spectrum both influence the structure at the same time.
A Tool for Designers
With the original idea in mind, the development of the typeface followed Guillaume’s will to create a toolbox for graphic designers, each style working both on its own as well as mixed with the other two, and the numerous optical sizes offer a flexible product. Over the centuries, craftsmen learned the importance of their tools, and reflecting this, WT Volkolak is meant as a tool graphic designers can slowly build their collections up to, with the guarantee that the style they start with can at any time be upgraded with any of the two other matching styles. Given the rise of variable fonts, the typeface is also being adapted to the GX variable format, and a Cyrillic version is starting to see the light of day.
Typeface of the Month: WT Volkolak
Foundry: Wraith Types
Designer: Guillaume Jean-Mairet
Release: January 2020
File Formats: otf, ttf, woff
Styles and Weights: Grotesque, Serif (Poster, Display, Text, Caption), Sans (Poster, Display, Text), and matching Italics for all styles
Price Single Style: $ 50.–, Grotesque: $ 300.–, Sans: $ 350.–, Serif: $ 400.–
Price Full Family: $ 700.–
Buy at MyFonts or Fontspring
New York Subway Found Art Series
Within the space of the square frame, Charles wants to share with the viewer his exploration of found art on the walls of the New York subway system. Moving in closely, without too much forethought, Charles grabs bits and pieces of the remnants of torn advertising posters and/or the remains of spaces left bare. By exploring shapes, colors, textures, the photos become pictures in the artistic sense, much like abstract paintings or collages. The images emerge by chance, moving the iPhone gingerly over the horizontal plane, stopping to record a color or shape that catches his eye.
FINF
FINF is an original video game, based on a concept by Shachar Freddy Kislev. The game takes its name from the German word for the number five, pronounced with a Hebrew accent. The concept of the game can be described as tic-tac-toe on an infinite board. Players take turns placing colored blocks on the board: the first player to create a row of 5 connected blocks – vertically, horizontally or diagonally – wins. The color-coded characters can acquire different super-powers, that add a manic and comical aspect to the gameplay.
Damage
Damage is my take on a simple comic explosion. I’m always intrigued by the abstract compositions of those old comic explosions.
Tanzquartier Wien campaigns 2019
Tanzquartier Wien (TQW) is Austria’s key institution for the sophisticated, inspired and socially committed discourse on contemporary dance and performance. From the start our guiding principle for the design is simple: movement is the motivation. For the campaign (2018/19), the letters TQW are rendered as clouds of hope or mystic smoke.
Nenuphar de Molitor
The installation for MOLITOR Hotel consists of 29 layers with three rows of colored
fabric each that are mounted above the outdoor pool.
The challange was to capture the soul and heart of the historic space.
Especially the light during the evening hours and the atmosphere of the
hotel inspired the colors of the installation.
Since my work is located between concret and abstract art, it has the possibility to do
both: One the one side, the installations affirm the universal energy art brings in our
lives, giving us an understanding of the profound foundation of the world itself, while on
the other hand, my art is a vehicle for the sensory dimensions that art has on the
individual perception.
L’abbraccio
These illustrations were created for an important music festival in the art city of Ferrara, Italy. The organizers asked me to express the idea of welcome, a hug. I made 3 different images, 3 couples (2 women, 2 men, a man and a woman), whose dancing bodies give life to great faces.
Colour Modes – Aldero™ Type Specimen
This poster illustrates three different colour modes: CMYK, RGB, and Lab. It’s also double as a type specimen poster for the Aldero™ font family from R9 Type+Design.
Home Sweet Home – Alio™ Type Specimen
This Home Sweet Home typography design was created with Alio™ Pro and Alio™ Decor from R9 Type+Design. We would like to showcase this font family’s hybrid modular design feature, allowing graphic designers to combine the typeface and its decorative counterpart to make stunning art. Just let your creativity flow and enjoy designing with Alio™.
The Quick Brown Fox – Alio™ Text Type Specimen
Here’s a type specimen poster for the Alio™ Text font family from R9 Type+Design. The round shape and round stem terminals illicit a friendly feel. That’s why we chose “The Quick Brown Fox” English pangram to showcase such a vibe. Alio Text looks excellent as a display type. It’s also legible and readable in small sizes.