Conceptual poster for the ballet Coppélia of Alexei Ratmansky. This ballet is the story of a man who falls in love with a doll made by the complex and dangerous Dr. Coppélius. I wanted to express the controversial characters in the story. I used my socks – a hint to a doll accessory – to create the consonants letters C-P-L of the ballet’s title. The rhythm of the stripes aim to convey the bright distinct character of the lead woman hero. The energy of Swanilda is the story’s engine.

I made this conceptual poster for the theatrical show “Cherry Orchard”. The acts of my poster take place on a tablecloth, where the beauty of a blooming cherry bouquet attracts our attention. Like the main characters in Chekhov’s play, we don’t realise that a bouquet also means a cherry orchard’s ending and a farewell to the old ways of life. These letters, as the cherry bouquet, will wither soon, even though we haven’t accepted yet that changes are happening.

I made this conceptual poster for Shakespeare’s play “Taming of the shrew”, performed in Mossovet Theatre in Moscow. “What excites us is what is modern…Shakespeare, be it comedy, tragedy or fantasy, is a mixture of heaven and farce, high and low, beautiful and ugly, which is what our life today actually is”, says Konchalovsky. These words made me think of the Russian idiom “life is black and white stripes” and a beach umbrella with its blue and white stripes, like a series of events in our liv

The collected font comes from various inscriptions and letters encountered during walks. The “victims” include advertisements, graffiti, manhole covers, inscriptions on generators, etc. These inscriptions and letters are often noticed very quickly by viewers without even reading them or paying attention to them. But can all types of advertising and street graphics be a great source of inspiration and part of contemporary culture? And can they be used in creative/design practices?

This is one out of three experiments, which are part of my bachelor thesis from ss24 at RH Cologne, exploring the creation of letterforms in new and experimental ways.
This experiment is based on a grid, but not a classical layouting grid. The grids used are created from human input, in this case, interesting pictures. These inputs are the base for a grid, which is used with different rulesets. Now we can see the results of 4 experiments, using 2 different grids compared with 2 rulesets.

A poster that shouts; BARS ARE CLOSED, BUT PUB IS OPEN, have a drink with us and make your publishing dreams come true. PUB is looking for new members. A poster designed in collaboration with TextEdit.

𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 is an instant publication for Auftakt Festival that came into existence in just a few days during a writing workshop led by Lilian Peter in frosty December 2023 in Cologne. In this publication typographic conventions are challenged – by slanting regular and un-slanting italic to take the other’s place – resulting in an unusual type treatment where italic turns regular and regular turns italic.

This is one out of three experiments, which are part of my bachelor thesis from ss24 at RH Cologne, exploring the creation of letterforms in new and experimental ways.
This experiment uses a simple 4×4 grid and several abstract shapes, to puzzle with. The shapes were obtained from a larger form, which was placed on the grid and divided into several parts. With the given pieces the user is free to create and experiment with letters and possible new structures, in accordance with carious rules.

This is one out of three experiments, which are part of my bachelor thesis from ss24 at RH Cologne, exploring the creation of letterforms in new and experimental ways.
This experiment took place at a wall, where the letters were spray-painted, using a ladder to use the whole wall. The idea was, not to sketch any outlines or having any idea beforehand. All letters are instantly created as their mass. The whole work is influenced by the wall itself, the person creating and their surroundings.

Promotional materials for charity bandura concert to support Ukraine.

This story is about the big Kyiv cake. And if you cut it to 16 triangle pieces you can compose the name of the city Kyiv (Київ) out of them. Two dots over the letter Ї are made of white flowers that are part of traditional creamy decorations. The illustration keeps original design of Kyiv cake that became a symbol recognizable throughout the years.

Punkt. Punkt. Komma, Strich– is a hand-bound book about experimental typography and type design. It includes the serif typeface “Diagonal”, designed for this project and explores the concept of “The Line” in relation to typography as a whole. It is a response to the Student Assessment Scheme task set by the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and was awarded a Membership Award in June 2024. It is printed on a mixture of white and transparent paper and is set in black and white.

Poster featuring the experimental custom typeface called Expromt (WIP) and the word LOVE in Ukrainian. Love brings closer, unites, and fills the space.

Can experimental typography be based on heritage and its reinterpretation in the modern conext? UKRAINIAN LETTERS (temporary) MUSEUM is the only museum of Ukrainian letters and, perhaps, the smallest museum in the world. The exposition presents 33 letters of the Ukrainian alphabet. The letters were found on old book covers and other printed materials from 1917, the time of the Ukrainian National Republic, to the present day of Independent Ukraine.

The main story in this book is a fictional dialogue between the isolated protagonist and a mosquito in his home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The writer Ivan Dimitrov marked the mosquito’s “words” with the onomatopoeia “bzzzz”. The typographic interpretation of this sound aims to provide additional meaning through visual information. The unconventional approach to the typography adds another (visual) story to the book. This abstract visual narrative activates the reader’s imagination even more.

Retro Meets the Present” is an artistic homage to the 36 Days of Type Challenge 2023. This collection is more than an exploration of the past analogue world; it marks a colorful reinterpretation of retro aesthetics. Each letter reimagines this aesthetics, merging analog switches and textured elements of fabric and glass into dynamic forms. Every sculpture, featuring illuminated components, embodies the vibrancy of the digital world and the fluidity of data transmission.

Vienna Typeface is a three-dimensional portrait of Vienna in 26 letters. The project captures the essence of this majestic city by illustrating the
Latin Alphabet.
Each of the illustrated letters is a 3D miniature that picks up an aspect of the Viennese lifestyle or a monument and portrays them in a diorama.
The illustrative series was created independently to learn 3D by selfeducation.

Renment is a device inspired by Charles Dickens’ aphorism, “We forge the chains we wear in life,” which symbolizes the binding nature of our ideas and emotions. Words can become mental chains, and this device visually represents that. Renment writes the aphorism using chains, then deconstructs the words back into chains, leaving blanks.

Kawaguchi created code analyzing files with either letters drawn or input on a low-res monochrome digital plane; then applying organic, simplified textures to them; and finally replacing them with geometric shapes according to the depth of the texture. By manipulating this image, he has tried several experimental typographic works. The work was inspired by a philosopher Michel Serres’ statement in <> that order is considered a rare state within disorder.

Hinemosu 30 displays letters and patterns by twisting five white elastic bands with thirty actuators to represent the passage of time. The computer software that controls the device generates dynamic images that evoke textile patterns, ocean waves, mountain storms, and falling snow, as well as the date and time.

Poster for a workshop by Michael Rock at the Yale School of Art

Poster for The School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 3 – collective study and experiments in practice, performance, and pedagogy. A week-long series of performances, workshops, talks, conversations and new formats for study inhabiting the poetic frame of a school.

Tbilisi Posters studio experiments 2024

Introducing Goshuri, a fusion of ancient Nuskhuri, elegant Mkhedruli, and bold Gothic influences crafted exclusively for the Georgian language. This singular font style embodies the essence of tradition while embracing the innovation of a new era. Made at georgian calligraphy course at Georgian Calligraphers Association