DEMOKRATIE

“Farbe bekennen” (show colors) is a german phrase and means to have an opinion and to speak openly about it. The freedom of speech is the basis for every kind of democracy.

Democracy is one of our greatest achievements. We have to defend it every day, otherwise it would start to crack. Splitting the word into several colored speech bubbles provokes a short irritation during the reflection phase. This graphical approach should show and reflect the difficulty of being able to confidently pronounce, reflect and show the true goal behind the word.

Cells & Squiggles

These prints were made during an artist residency where I worked with scientists that were researching Beta-Cells. I re-purposed elements from medical images, re-appropriating images created using calcium imaging and 3D macromolecular structure data from the protein data bank.

(1) yellow-and-brown-house, (2) pink-house, (3) light-green-and-red-house

(yellow-and-brown-house) Who lives there, what are their tastes, are they female, who knows? There is also a long tradition in Suffolk, a county in the United Kingdom, of painting house and cottages this pink colour. (pink-house) I noticed this unusual, unloved and uncared for house on the outskirts of a town in the United Kingdom. The shear horridness and dullness of the colours, seems to produce interest. Who lives there and would you live there? (light-green-and-red-house) I noticed this unusually coloured house in a town in the United Kingdom. There is something about the yellow colour used, and the complimenting dark brown, that is quite interesting, very daring.

Aesthetics of Sustainability

Aesthetics of Sustainability is a beautifully crafted book that lives up to the book’s theme of sustainability by using green paper made from algae, for example. It shows the possibilities of using renewable materials in product design and demonstrates through thoughtful graduation projects from ECAL / Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne what good ideas can do for our world.

The book Aesthetics of Sustainability summarizes the results of an eponymous research project led by ECAL / Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne. It brought together master’s students of product design, established materials specialists, manufacturers, and researchers with the aim of exploring and defining the aesthetic potential of a new generation of sustainable materials.

The result of this research-through-design project is a series of fourteen case studies involving the development of materials made from textile waste, recycled paper, rubber granulate, or vegetable fibers such as algae, rice husks, hemp, flax, and wood. The resulting new materials can be shaped, pressed, woven, or welded. A selection of these materials will be presented through experiments and prototypes of products.

The aim is to offer future designers a range of practical tools and applied knowledge about the methods of analyzing and processing seminal materials, utilizing their advantageous qualities, and developing functional, yet aesthetically intriguing objects. The materials further aim to provide proof that sustainable materials are a great market opportunity for manufacturers and consumers alike.

With contributions from: Christophe Guberan, Chris Lefteri, Ala Tannir, and graduates of the Master’s Program Product Design of École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL).

Aesthetics of Sustainability

Editor: Thilo Alex Brunner
Graphic Design and Editorial Management: Federico Barbon
Publisher: Triest Verlag
Language: English
Volume: 272 pages, ca. 150 images
Format: 19 × 26 cm
Workmanship: softcover with flaps
Production: printed on resource-saving paper made from algae and kiwi peels

ISBN: 978-3-03863-062-3
Price: € 39.–
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Sardine can (o.t. Fischstäbchen)

According to a study by the »Ellen MacArthur Foundation«, more than eight million tons of plastic deposit in the global oceans every year, consequently there would be 2050 more plastic than fish in the water. Around 4 % of the found garbage on North Sea beaches are cotton swabs. Aim was to build a critical position towards daily plastic consumption to the benefit of marine conservation. The illustration was part of the group exhibition »Seagulls. Waste. And some Mermaids« and was screen-printed in three colors on DIN A2 in a limited edition of 30 pieces.

Void Fish Blinks Blind #4

Void Fish Blinks Blind #4 belongs to a series of watercolors i was asked to create in 2018 by the sound artists duo Islands Songs (Nicolas Perret and Silvia Ploner) in order to give a “visual image” to “The Forest Within – Within The Forest”, sound piece they presented at ArGe/Kunst in Bozen. From the artists’ statement: “Featuring a conversation in-between a human and microbe, the piece interleaves human and microbial perspectives, spaces and times; exploring borders, frictions and symbioses in-between acoustic and synthetic, abstract and concrete, single organism and environment, the guest and the host, the self and the other”.

FEEDBACKS

“Feedbacks” is a typographic Poster series about some of the most used feedbacks on social networks regarding graphic design and other visual fields.
Aesthetically each poster is like an abstract block composition inspired by printmaking movable type machine.
In order to enhance the “fun” mood each letter has a different ratio (also texture and color) compared to the others, but all together stay and interact inside a rectangle layout in an imaginary photographic set.

POV

My Work explores Greek/Cypriot slang language, proverbs, sayings or urban myths. The work takes up a word or a phrase and explores the ways that can be transformed into a visual work of art. The trigger for this project is about how people deconstruct and merge languages or influences from other cultures to express their selves or pass an ethical lesson in everyday life. I think that the essential point of connection between humans is the use of language and ethical lessons. In a way this is the most common thing we have as species, to be creative in expressing ourselves to each other, therefore this is a form of self-exploration enabling us to unlock our limits of imagination.

Numbers 2020

Layout of a calendar with custom numbers (personal experimentations). These numbers are used for show different months, 1 month per page. This calendar was printing in offset (100 copies) with Munken Polar paper (200 g/m2). Colors Pantone used : 801, 802, 804, 805.

soft chaos

I don‘t apply colours, I am searching for them. I‘m searching for the perfect symbiosis of composition, texture, lighting and colour. This process can take hours or months. I have a starting point with one or a few photos, scans or other materials and transform them until the result is perfect and triggers emotions in myself and others. The works all have different moods but I would describe the overall vibe as a soft chaos, that you can fall in love with.

THERE IS A GHOST IN MY HOUSE

We created this project for our instagram channel. First we designed an architecture in CGI, which is composed over 9 posts and added the model afterwards. In this way, the boundaries between the real and the illustratively surreal become blurred, the socks become secondary and an unseen colorful world emerges.