Cihan Tamti — Breakout

We are very happy about today’s release Cihan Tamti — Breakout – 100 Posters Book, that gives you a glimpse into the creative brain of the designer, a boost of ideas, and inspiration for eye-catching design.

Cihan Tamti started treating Instagram like a graphic design gym, and worked on designing a poster every day. Without constraints, he was able to experiment, often creating work that no normal agency would approve. Such freedom of approach allowed him to develop designs with strong, experimental typography, and complex compositions. Unexpectedly, these daily designs ended up winning some competitions and attracting some cool clients along the way, which now gave him the last necessary push to publish a book that combines all his ideas and creations.

Cihan’s Breakout—100 Posters Book summarizes 100 selected posters from the past few years. These posters include free and personal ones, real commission work, exhibition posters, and award-winning posters. But what it makes even more important is that it encourages and inspires to breakout oneself and to start spreading one’s own visual messages.

This project was brought to life through a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of last year. We would like to thank all supporters for making this possible!

Cihan Tamti — Breakout – 100 Posters Book

Design: Cihan Tamti
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: March 2021
Language: English
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Volume 128 pages
Printing: Offset
Workmanship: adhesive binding, Softcover with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-948440-22-0
Price: € 19.–
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Handouts Dürst Britt & Mayhew

Gallery Dürst Britt & Mayhew was founded in The Hague in 2015. For each of their exhibitions an art critic or curator writes an accompanying interview or an essay. These texts are printed on handouts. They deem it important that visitors can take away something analogue and tactile that contextualises what they have seen. The handouts have a fix format of an folded A3 and produced through risoprinting. A strict grid sytem and typesize (Patron by Milieu Grotesk) is a reaccuring element within the ever changing compositions, colours, forms and shapes. Resulting in unique expressions while maintaining a unity in the overall sequence. The collection consist over fifty handouts so far.

De Zingende Zaag

De Zingende Zaag is an experimental platform for poetry since 1989. A rich collection of publications has been published over the past 30 years. This jubilee edition (#42, 2019) embrases the celebrative character with a 12 meter long flag garland holding the archive of the De Zingende Zaag’s full history (containing newspaper clippings, pictures, presentations, articles, objects, ornaments, references, etc) alternated with photographic representation of all the preceding issues.

144 pages, 170 x 225 x 40 mm. Published by De Zingende Zaag Producties. Printed by Lenoirschuring (NL). Combination of flatbook and leporello binding by Voetelink & Zoon, Haarlem. Awarded Best Book Design 2019.

Eyesolation

In the last months I started to challenge me by trying to make one poster a day. Sometimes I just take a song quote and playing around with it. In this poster corona obviously took over and we deal with each other we just the eyes as a connector.

Hall of mirrors

The search for self can at times feel like you are in a hall of mirrors. Realising that the self is illusionary and there is not a centre from where you experience the world means that you can become conscious and experience the world the way it is.

46º Festival Sesc Melhores Filmes

Created in 1974, the Sesc Melhores Filmes Festival is the first film festival in the city of São Paulo and offers the public the opportunity to watch what was most significant on the city’s screens in the previous year.
I was invited by Sesc São Paulo to develop the visual identity of the 46th edition of this festival, using the logo of previous years and designing several pieces of publicity, including the teaser video and the printed catalog of the winners.
Using the language of projection, blurred images are overprinted, while the warm colors bring references to the Brazilian cinema, highlighting its political importance in 2019.

Shlup (1,2,3)

I just sketched around during work on some privat project and thoght this might fit in. The fish is designed by some letters of the font PILOWLAVA (http://velvetyne.fr/).
Hope you like it, if not, please give me some feedback.

Joy (a whole Lotta Love)

Meine große Liebe gilt der Collage – sie ermöglicht mir das Miteinbeziehen des Zufalls, den Moment der Selbstüberraschung und das Schöpfen aus einem schier unendlichen Fundus. Gern kombiniere ich auch Tuschezeichnungen mit Collageelementen. Am Anfang des Arbeitsprozesses steht das Sammeln, Ausschneiden und Ausprobieren – bis ich das Gefühl habe, die Komposition der verschiedenen Elemente stimmt. Später füge ich geschnittene, gemalte und gezeichnete Bestandteile und Ebenen meist digital zusammen.
Farbklänge sind mir extrem wichtig – sie entstehen durch Überlagerung verschiedener Schichten von Acrylfarbe – immer gemalt, pastos aufgetragen.

Creativity Flow

Let the creativity flow — das Originalplakat wurde anlässlich der Workshops zum Semesterauftakt an der ABK gestaltet und von Hand via Siebdruck gedruckt. Die eigens entwickelte Typografie durchkreuzt dabei die vielen bunten Kreativbereiche und verbindet diese. Im Original wurden die Farbverläufe durch einen Irisdruck erzeugt, wodurch jedes der Plakate zu einem individuellen Einzelstück wurde.

Extremism Blockade

Poster was made for occasion of Exhibition Tomáš Rafa: Extremism Blockade in House of Arts in Ústí nad Labem. Iconic symbol with three flourescent direct colors printed by silkscreen
more info about exhibition https://duul.cz/en/tomas-rafa/
and https://www.instagram.com/p/B5sZzLjHrB6/

Eyepanic

“Eyepanic” is a series of posters referring to op-art. Op-art is a style of painting which makes use of optical illusions and other kinds of unusual optical effects. The series is a contemporary form designed entirely in graphic programs and not on canvas.

Grafikmagazin

The new Grafikmagazin is out now and proves: Print is not dead! Grafikmagazin, as the name proposes, is a German-language design magazine aimed primarily at professional graphic designers, creative agencies, and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and beyond. Every two months, its editorial team presents outstanding work from the fields of graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper, and printing on over 100 pages.

When the almost 100-year-old magazine novum – World of Graphic Design was merged with the publication Page in December 2020, the former editorial team announced that by February 2021, they were going to publish a new print magazine of their own. Editor-in-chief Christine Moosmann, deputy editor-in-chief Sonja Pham and art director Tobias Holzmann will remain in their roles, while the former advertising and marketing manager Christian Meier will also take on the position of managing director of the Phoenix Verlag für Grafikdesign. Just like before, their passion for haptics will be central which is why special papers and printing or finishing techniques will continue to be used on a regular basis.

For the first issue, the editorial team selected the Grafik+ theme The digital museum. The exhibition designs and digital solutions they portrayed show how imaginatively and playfully many art and cultural institutions defied the restrictions of the pandemic.

Readers can get to know other creatives in the extensive Showroom section, such as the typographer Marta Bernstein or the graphic icon Paula Scher. It’s purely coincidental that for this issue, the team chose four female designers, but the representation of all genders and backgrounds truly matters and will continue to be of high importance. 

The Design & Research category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research may creatively refer to and play an active role in graphic design.

In the Production & Publishing section everything revolves around the topic of print, here you will find exceptionally beautiful books, particularly refined annual reports, or high-quality embossed greeting cards. Here, the poster designer Dafi Kühne is interviewed; he was responsible for the cover of the first issue. He artfully combined old handicraft with modern elements, and even designed a corresponding poster, which is now available via the website.

Grafikmagazin

Editors: Christine Moosmann, Sonja Pham, Tobias Holzmann, and Christian Meier
Publisher: Phoenix Verlag für Grafikdesign
Release: March 2020
Volume: 106 pages
Format: 21 × 27 cm
Language: German
ISSN: 2703-1071
Price single issue: € 19.80 
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Hati – Work in Progress

It all started with an elephant illustration for a product for children. The project was not implemented – the illustration and the knowledge that the graphic elements that make up the sketch offer a variety of possibilities remained.

The results are colorful illustrations, a font and numerous animations.

https://yasminkarim.de/project/hati

Uth KLUB

A unique addition to the K11 Art Mall membership program, Uth KLUB is created specially for the Gen Z population in Hong Kong. Focused on providing exclusive art, cultural, and career development experiences, Uth KLUB offers a wide array of privileges with youth appeal.Spotlighting individuality and identity, a series of six personalities were conceived to illustrate the dynamic realm of Uth KLUB. The Foodie, The Fashionista, The Intellect, The Aesthete, The Athlete, and The Techie are experiential embodiments of K11 Art Mall. Each personality is brought to life through vibrant illustrations of symbolic objects representative of the personas.

Programme Stellwerk Theater S18/19

34 x 46 cm Programme for the Stellwerk Theater of Weimar for the 2018/2019 Season.
The motto of the season was “XXL”, so we decided to exagerate everything, to be loud with the graphics and the type. We used the Elastik font from Benoît Bodhuin as the main font for the programme but we decided to give a voice for each play with its own type and illustration. We streched type, we draw some, and used as well free fonts. The neon orange pantone was used to tigh everything together and was referencing as well the street posters for fleamarket, or to promote sales, where the font is usually stretched in order to maximize the space.

20210212

This work is based on my memories and their textures. To construct a new position from various resources including photography and advertisement which i see in my everyday life. I find memories as the chunk of textures which are composed by colours, light, smell, temperature and so on. On my own project, I keep working with these thoughts and ideas.

Digital is Dead

“Digital is Dead,” especially now where we have become a binary world, while modern history disappears with the swipe of a finger—and more than ever due to current pandemic precautions. We need to get back to the days of having tangible publications to feel and physically connect with, to pull from your actual bookshelves.

Acid

To become equal to the aggressive character of acid, there is no getting away from the strong, almost exaggerated use of full tone colors. With the biting colors and the slightly asymmetrical composition, it is intended to hurt the eyes a little when viewed.
The poster was created as part of the Blankposter project.