BeigeNotBeige documents overpaintings on building facades in order to hide minor damages. Not every repair work justifies the repainting of the whole building. The repaired patches aim at “striking the right tone” of the facade, sometimes insisting on its original color and sometimes considering the patina the building has collected over the years. Yet in every case the repair work is distinguishable from the original facade. The edges of the newly painted areas begin vibrating almost in a “Rothkoian” manner. The resulting shapes start leading a life of their own. They appear as a deliberate intervention, sometimes as a site specific comment, sometimes in dialogue with other facade elements.

For the European network for higher arts education we created the visual identity for this years biennial in Zurich with the title „Expanding the Arts“. The Expansion of the art terms as a goal of the biennial is visualized with the flexible yellow brackets. The colour is getting a very high importance in this concept because the yellow together with the shine is the center of the events identity. We have a very wide range of developed applications that could be showed in the magazine, from printed matters over digital elements to signage design.
We would love to see it printed in a reflective bright yellow, for example a fluorescent colour.

In 2017 I worked on a poster series for the upcoming German federal election. The goal was to increase the usually pretty low turnout in the Cologne district Kalk. The result is a poster series with 4 different colorful gradients, which represents all parties present in the government at this time and also had a high chance to be reelected. Above the notable gradient, you can see the word “Wähl:” which means “vote:”. To guarantee a neutral, impartial design I made a series of 4 posters in which the gradient is turned by 90° each time. Also, the color gradients are supposed to represent the fluent transitions that exist between the parties and their wings. (Find more details on my website.)

Since 2014, the Treptow-Köpenick Berlin District Office, Department of Culture, has been following the east-german exhibition series “Sculpture and Flowers” (1957-1988) in Treptower Park with temporary art projects. The selection of the respective work of art takes place within the framework of a competition. This year the jury decided on the sculpture “Heavenly Rose (hope, change and paradise)” by the Berlin artist Felix Stumpf. The artist developed his plan during the corona pandemic lockdown and sees his artwork as a reaction to it. Thus, his artwork is the first in Berlin’s public space for the Covid 19 pandemic.

1. Poster created for Graphic Emergency initiative to support LGBT community in Poland.
2. Graphic interpretation of Hans Memling painting The last judgment.
3. Record shelf. Self initiative project.

Two large posters featuring two semiabstract figures.

I created this work after reading two poems written by Elton Amadou-Connell.
(https://www.locus.gallery/elton-silvia)

“I am very keen on working with colors, I love them, and that’s visible in my whole work: I express myself through color most of the time. But I think it is the first time I do semiabstract art! And that is because the text is quite enigmatic, and not understandable as a whole. It creates a sort of confusion but at the same time fascination and stimulus to create a body of work”. Silvia Gallart, 2021

Tumbling through the night during this strange times: together but still apart. During the Covid pandemic all cultural events had been canceled and there was no concerts to advertise. Therefor the January/February F4 poster for Palace (a concert venue in St.Gallen, Switzerland) was just a reminder to all the moon heads out there to keep rolling and be colourful.

The 3D work >type dudes< is all about the celebration, the joyful perception of the glyphs as the living matter wobbling in all possible types of media.

The Noachos project aims to design a poster for all the Noam Chomsky events listed on his official website.

The flag developed for Dâmbovița County is based on the coat of arms of the county (silver deer on a triangular shield in the blue field) transposed here in an open space, field and hill.

About the coat of arms of the county: “The deer represents the main element of the rich and diversified fauna of the area. This means the traditional heraldic representation of the county, attested for the first time during the reign of Neagoe Basarab.”

The flag was created as part of the RO42 — Forme Locale project.

Weekly Work Pieces is a series of experimental graphic works that have been expanding every week since 2015. The visual compositions were created using a variety of techniques and programs. An important part of these works is the combination of parametric/generative design methods and individual handwork. I mainly use Photoshop and Filter Forge for this, but also Blender, Adobe Illustrator and other programs. My goal in this self-made challenge is experimenting, discovering new graphic effects and styles and the regular challenge to become creative.

To represent the subject transdiscilinarity we worked with the metaphor of a Rubik’s Cube. Turning and twisting creates new surfaces and colour patterns. The individual square surfaces come and work together. The colours are complementary. In addition to presenting the basic idea of transdisciplinarity, we also wanted to represent the city of Zurich and the university itself. Visually we therefore oriented ourselves to the Zurich Concrete Art. The School of Zurich Concretists evolved to today’s Zurich University of the Arts. We interpreted the idea of the Zurich Concretists: to let everything emerge from a square. Next to the coloured shapes we also created a font based on the same grid.

In his work, Leon Dekker is looking for a catharsis; the cleansing effect of art.
For his work, Dekker is inspired by logos and lettering of consumer goods and packaging such as fruit crates and boxes, potato labels and cattle feed sacks. He reuses his own imagery, changes it and gives it a different meaning. The familiar and predictable images are given a different story, they have a disruptive effect. Dekker breaks the link with the original in order to ultimately retain an autonomous image.

The task was to show the printing possibilities on various types of paper as a sample collection. I developed a type system showing various challenging aspects of printing. Differently combined they present every papers’ name in various colors. Bound together with a rubber band so it can be used in a scaleable way.

Printed with an HP Indigo 5500 in CMYK+White.

www.martingnadt.de/magentur-digital-printing-paper-samples/

In 2019, I’ve been noticed by Beats Across Borders : a French association which aim is to create parties to help refugees to integrate, wherever they come from. 🙂
I volunteered on this project and create for this association and their parties a bright and colorful visual identity (posters and flyers). I tried to express joy, love, sharing and unity through those illustrations all made by hand : painted, colored charcoal, scanned, and generously risoprinted by a friend called Oscar Ginter, founder of Quintal Editions.

Those are the two last edition #08 and #09.
Due to coronavirus some parties have been deleted, but I can’t wait to create the next #10 edition !

Our first record sleeve and identity for the record label Oossha. The first vinyl release was screen printed by hand in fluorescent yellow with a full colour cat sticker.
Oossha is a Dutch record label. We’ve been working with them since they started in 2018 on their branding, merchandise and each release.

Colour should not be a factor, that divides, separates and splits society – and though, regarding everyday discrimination it still is a problem we have to face. Colour can be a tool to catch attention, but it’s role is not to overlay the message for pure decoration. It should rather be a tool to unite and create solidarity, no matter what tone it has. Therefore, this work’s colour should be determined by the paper that it’s printed on.

You, Me, Us and These Structures

Power and communication in seminars in the field of development politics

Published by eFeF, Series of Continuing Education Program

Digital Publication

This guideline explains mainly gender and rascism topics and looks deeply into the connected language and behaviours. Besides theoretical background infos the publication delivers lots of practical ideas and tips for seminars. Useful likewise for participants and referents.

***See each file name for correct illustrator credits***