Let’s celebrate women’s beauty with flamboyant colours.
Program 2020 for Polish Institute Berlin
Just a publication of events run by PIB, that plays with colours, shapes and gradients with a lost Vistula River in background.
21 Postulates of Young
The Guerilla social campaign of 21 Posters created for the 40th anniversary of Solidarność strikes in Poland.
Nowadays the young people fight agains oppression and discrimination by writing 21 postulates for the equality, freedom and respect regardless gender, sex, orientation, religion or race.
Beauty without any depth
Cover for our JUX magazine – a lookbook of senselessness. It’s the mirror a generation dealing with banalities and beautiful things without any depth.
Women’s Equality
how to sit on a chair
A fun work that shows on how many different ways one can do what I do most of my day: sit on a chair.
Decay Okay
Everything is decay. All is passing by, nothing is permanent, all is just temporary. That is okay because it is natural, a fact of life. Through the stimulating colourful treatment (at which I was advised by my 6 year old son) I want to encourage the viewer to accept and embrace this simple fact. The positivity of a yes, a yeah, of an affirming ay is the shared part of both words. For this an RGB-Color-Treatment is the best suitable printing technique. Life itself is rgb, at least we perceive it that way, with our rgb eyes. Life is colourful and constant decay. That’s okay. AyAy.
Self portrait
It expresses my character with drastic contrast that only implements the primary and secondary colors, explaining that some things can be simple but the mind can play it in a more complex way
Faces
The faces represent emotions that are often hidden. The viewer is confronted with expressive colors and emotional expressions.
Stimming, Acid Pauli, Fejká
Poster announcing a triple electronic set performed by music producer Martin Stimming featuring Martin Gretschmann (Acid Pauli) and Brian Zajak (Fejká) at Uebel & Gefährlich, Hamburg.
Do: Not Fear
In April 2020 the consequences of the worldly spreading corona virus had hit hard almost everywhere on the globe. Anxiety and insecurity crept in on nearly anyone. I wanted to make a poster that at the same time mirrors / acknowledges this uncanny feeling and at the same time tries to lift the viewer up a little. The poster was always intended to be printed with fluorescent varnish so that the message would also be conveyed in the night. The message as the light in the dark. As a grain of hope, as a means of therapy (some sort of). Graphic design probably will not save the earth, but it can help us to remember that we can.
Global Climate Strike Open Source Posters
Global Climate Strikes became a regular necessity in order to remind the politics and the public of the need to change our lifestyle on a fundamental scale. Only a healthy planet can provide us a sustainable home. In order to mobilize as many strike participants as possible we designed BW-Poster templates for everyone, provided as a free download, for unrestricted use: #nomoreemptypromises #socialjustice / One Earth One Strike / Less Work More Earth / Global Climate Strike … Download, print on coloured paper or colour yourself and customize (e.g. by adding handwritten dates). Feel free to placard. Spread the message and create publicity. For more awareness for what’s urgent and what’s good.
Gheist
I love to work intuitiv. Therefor most of my works have no specific topic or meaning in a conceptual way. But they leave space for unspoken thoughts, random jokes and surprises which always keeps me interested in the outcome. Sometimes even in the process building their own story or twist by working out the colors or the final compositon.
Detail in typography
The publication Detail in typography is now available at Slanted Shop.
An attractive, interesting layout can certainly attract and please the reader; but when the details are not good, reading requires more effort and any pleasure is short-lived. Detail in typography is a concise and close-up view of the subject—letters, words, the line, and the space around the elements—and it discusses what is essential for the legibility of the text. Yet this is more than a guide to correct typography. How is it, Hochuli asks, that text can be set perfectly and yet look insufferably dull? Answers may be found here, not least in the way the book itself has been set and produced.
Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer, internationally renowned for his book design work. As a teacher, he has had long experience in Zurich and his home town of St. Gallen. As a writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). He has edited and designed the annually published Typotron series of booklets (1983–1998) and the Editions Ostschweiz (from 2000).
Detail in typography
Author: Jost Hochuli
Publisher: Édition B42
Release: October 2015
Format: 12.5 × 21 cm
Volume: 64 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 9782917855669
Price: € 16.–
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Werkschau Augsburg 2020/2021
The Werkschau Augsburg 2020/2021 catalog is accompanying the Werkschau 2020/2021. The Werkschau takes place at Zoom on Friday, March 19th.
This years catalog is very special edition, which was created in the course “Illustration Project Werkschau” by communication design students at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. The catalog Gesichter und Geschichten (Faces and Stories) is a farewell and a memory, with portrait illustrations that show the graduates of the Faculty of Design.
To be able to look into the faces of all the graduates once again and bring them to life as individuals—that was the intention with which the students of the “Illustration Project Werkschau” designed the catalog accompanying the Werkschau 2020/2021. For the first time, they exclusively used illustrations as a creative medium. Under the title Gesichter und Geschichten, the 61 graduates of the winter semester 2020/2021 are presented on around 160 pages. The very individual illustrative portraits are accompanied by interviews. This creates a diverse picture of the attitudes, moods, hopes, and insights of these young graduates.
According to project manager Professor Mike Loos, this approach was chosen quite intentionally, in a semester in which people only encountered each other in masks or as zoom icons. The Werkschau catalog is clearly intended as a response to the lack of personal contact. “At least the graduates should be able to remember each other by book,” says Loos. Since illustration is a very slow technique compared to photography, the project took a lot of time. The catalog now accompanies this semester’s purely virtual exhibition of all the graduates work. The catalog’s rather elaborate illustrations are complemented by portrait drawings reduced to simple lines, which symbolize the coming and going of the graduates in the form of small animated films.
The special appeal of illustrations lies above all in presenting a person to the viewer in a truthful way, bringing him or her closer to us, as Loos explains. He says: “There are several truths in every portrait. There can be a representation of external details whose mimetic effect amazes us. In addition, however, there is also a form of likeness that deals with the interior of the person portrayed, clarifies his or her essence.” Before a portrait painting, in fact, at least two people would meet each other: The sitter in the painting and the viewer in front of the painting. They communicate with each other, according to Loos. He says, “Strictly speaking, there is always a third person involved who speaks to us secretly—the creator of the painting. Because they, too, reveal something of themselves to us through their work, become experienceable as designing individuals.”
At a time when faces are disappearing behind masks and every contact is becoming anonymous, it seemed logical to focus on the graduates as individuals one last time, to show their faces and let them have their say. Gesichter und Geschichten—a work full of individually designed portraits as a farewell and memory.
Werkschau Augsburg 2020/2021 catalog
Title: Gesichter und Geschichten (Faces and Stories)
Volume: 160 pages
Price: € 15.–
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Werkschau Augsburg 2020/2021
When?
Friday, March 19th, 2021, 3 p.m. until open End
Where?
online on Zoom
What?
After the welcoming and honoring of the graduates, four guest lectures by renowned illustrators are planned:
– Katharina Bitzl (alumna of Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, illustrator, and designer from Augsburg)
– Karina Shor (illustrator from Israel)
– Zeloot (illustrator from Holland)
– Raban Ruddigkeit (illustrator / typographer / designer from Berlin)
Afterwards: Werkschauslam—the graduates introduce themselves and their work in short presentations. Afterwards, the university’s DJ will ring in the Werkschau party in the photo studio. Dancing to the livestream at home in front of the screen. Anyone can zoom in, and this can become a virtual group experience, similar to the old Werkschau parties. End open!
On Saturday, March 20th, individual Zoom consultations with graduates will be available in the afternoon. Times will be determined by graduates and announced on the Werkschau website.
Find more information on the Werkschau Augsburg Instagram and facebook page.
Gradientsss
This is a design for a Riso print to play with gradients. Came out beautiful!
RED
For this project I have collected/written 5 types of texts. I asked people what color came into their heads when they read the different texts. With those different answers I made a data visualization per text on posters. This particular poster is the combination of data about a Bible text:
When you offer a meal or a banquet, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your wealthy neighbors, expecting them to invite you in return to give something back. When you receive people, invite the poor, the lame, the paralyzed, and the blind. Then you will be happy, they may not do anything in return for you, but you will be rewarded for it at the resurrection of the righteous.
Señalética
Signage, we’re not going anywhere.
La cigarra
From photographs, paintings and other types of images produced in a physical format, different digital textures are born that contradict their “origin”.
Stay Creative
Stay Creative, a campaign using contemporary imagery and shapes, to communicate inspiration and motivation to young post and undergraduates in a design degree, to carry on and stay creative despite the current lockdown and restrictions covid-19 and the government has caused. The vibrant colour theme represents strength, youth, power and creativity. My own experience of lockdown inspired this project. I experienced a lack of motivation and creativity at the start of lockdown and had major anxiety in my prospects and skills as a graphic designer. It was only once I started seeing passion projects from other creatives that my confidence and motivation came back, which inspired this project.
The hand series
Blue Bird
This piece is inspired by the theme “Fauna and Flora” for a show at Giant Robot Gallery.
Die Neue Vernunft
Die Neue Vernunft offers strategy consulting for brand and corporate development. With a focus on the individual strengths and a deep understanding of their clients, Die Neue Vernunft helps companies to transform on the long run, sustainable and in cooperation with the employees. Die Neue Vernunft doesn’t stick to buzz words, it is brave enough to create new ways for positive transformation processes. The logo shows the concentration on the purpose, while the colorful gradients are a symbol of the transformation itself.
Het huis (The House) oil colour on canvas board, 40 x 50 cm)
In my concrete paintings I study the visual suggestion of the third dimension.
An image can float in between reality and illusion. This intermediate area is what interests me.
Cognitive and sensual observations have lots of interconnectivity. The recognition of depth seems to be on a tipping point, while the impression of colours is inexplicit.
Working with spacial and color perception simultaniously I aim to discover and uncover the equivalence of both patterns of recognition.
It forces the viewers to become aware of their conditioned observation. Questions rise like: What do I expect? What do I see because I want to see it? Wat do I actually see?