UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN is a free contemporary display typeface designed by Lukas Haider & Alexander Raffl. It consists of three styles: RND, PX, and MX. Additional alternates can easily be adapted using upper- or lowercase characters. Although the roots of the typeface are derived from a linear grid-system, the overall appearance is still organic through the variation of the individual characters. A vast set of glyphs makes it ideal for designing artworks, magazines, and logos. A Beta-Version of UNKNWON is already in use for various things, e. g. for the Recordlabel TAU.

Alexander Raffl is an Austrian graphic designer based in Vienna, who is working at HammerAlbrecht. Lukas Haider is a Graphic designer & Art Director from Graz who currently lives in Vienna and just started his own design studio Lukas Haider.

UNKNOWN

Designers: Lukas Haider & Alexander Raffl 
Release: March 2020
Styles: RND, PX & MX
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Ma’dan village

Ma’dan culture existed since late neolitic period on self-built islands on in delta of Tigris river. After thousands of years of existence, this treasure of human genius was almost wiped out by Saddam Hussain, yet they manageged to survive and are now rebuilding their culture. Ma’dan also represented one of the oldest exemples of human social organization: the archipelago of small economies based on exchange of goods. Today, when global moguls tend to become monopolysts Ma’dan paradigm is recalled by economists like prof. Jerzy Hausner in his recent theory of “islands and archipelagos” that evokes coexistence and collaboration instead of voracious and agressive fight for omnipotence.

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The Fotobus Society, set up by Christoph Bangert, is a network that connects more than 400 photography students from 29 German and European universities and photography schools. Members can avail themselves of a wide range of cultural and social activities offered by the association. At the heart of the community is a 30-year-old bus serving as a mobile photography school that regularly carries members to photo festivals, symposia, and professional events. Over the last years, the association has firmly established itself as a promoter of cultural and academic exchange within the international photography scene.

further 01 is showcasing selected works by members, inaugurates a series that from now on will be published annually by Verlag Kettler. The projects presented in this first edition offer an overview of different contemporary approaches that oscillate between documentary and conceptual photography, challenging and crossing the boundaries of the genre. Many of these works have already received international awards. Collected in a single volume, they provide intriguing insights into today’s young European world of photography.

Works by
Arne Piepke, Mafalda Rakoš, Vivian Rutsch, Max Slobodda, Felix Kleymann, Lena Kunz, Elias Holzknecht, Martin Lamberty, Maximilian Mann, Lucas Bäuml & Lando Hass, Alexander Ziegler, Ole Witt, Luise Jakobi, Ronja Hermann, Jann Höfer, Ingmar B. Nolting, Kristina Lenz, Markus Seibel, Patrick Junker, Lukas Kreibig, Sebi Berens, Rafael Heygster, Richard Heinicke, Magnus Terhorst & Thomas Morsch, Anna Roters, Theresa Albers, Fabian Ritter, Katja Sterzik & Wolfgang Gähtgens & Ronja Hermann & Florian Genz, Monika Hanfland, Victoria Jung, Elena Fiebig, Marvin Böhm, Josh Kern, Benedikt Ziegler

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Editor: Christoph Bangert, Florian Genz, Lea Szramek, Magnus Terhorst, Victoria Jung
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Volume: 320 pages
Language: English, German
Format: 13.5 × 19 cm
Workmanship: soft cover
ISBN 978-3-86206-794-7
Price: € 20.–
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Where do I come from?

Being a Chinese international student studying in the U.S. Especially now during this global pandemic makes me think more about things like identities and where I belong. All those social and political issues arise from the virus makes me self-conscious about the relationship between my own individuality and the world we live in. I made this poster as a visual representation of me being lost in thinking about my identity.

Peace, Shalom, Salām

Designed for one of our clients. The client organizes trips to Israel and also deals and lectures about political aspects in the region with fair representation to all sides of the conflict. In the brief they requested us to express the values of the company that promotes the values of coexistence, brotherhood and peace.
Designer: Daniel Diller Creative | Director: Eran Bacharch

Black and White Drama/Series

Among them are Cosmos, Roller Coaster, and Striped Dancer.Even at home, our thinking is like a roller coaster, and we are sometimes happy and sometimes nervous about the current situation.But we live in this cosmos, our hearts are connected.Striped dancers represent our global human thinking and dance together to celebrate, because we can use digital media and technology to solve all problems in an efficient way.Now we should learn to accept the facts and see the good side it brings to us, the real digital age is coming.The most important thing people should learn is to face suffering, and we should have hope and positive mindfulness. This is how human beings can coexist in the spirit.

Ways to connect

An illustration for a workshop I co-organised at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia: Community as Interface. The two figures suggest two different ways of organisation, a monolithic (centralised) and peer-to-peer (decentralised). Although these models are more often referring to computer networks, the rocks bring back something elemental and tribal understanding of a community. By showing both models, I would like to leave it for the viewer to choose a model in which they would prefer to co-exist…

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Love – a timeless word. It includes tolerance, compassion, being human to other people. simple but not easy. At the present time, it is the only sure thing we can give.

Untitled. The Offer (landscape for a little fly)

This artwork belongs to a series I did in 2018, while I was deeply interested (once again) in Tarkovsky’s work. His grace and care in dealing with silent love and humanity, art and desire were extremely important for me in that time.
The work I am proposing you take his title by one of his last movies, Offret, The Offer. As in Tarkovsky’s work many characters struggle to find their place in the world, so we struggle in finding our way to coexist. We look at or mirror each other, as if we were forced into some game-to-do. And we forget maybe that what really matters could be the space between us, the empty space in between where we can finally encounter each other.