This font was created with a self-made tool.
Take an unbalanced motor // Glue it to the cap of a spray can // Tape some markers to it //
Attach four strings to control the device // Find a partner to operate the device together // Power it
This font was created with a self-made tool.
Take an unbalanced motor // Glue it to the cap of a spray can // Tape some markers to it //
Attach four strings to control the device // Find a partner to operate the device together // Power it
Slusalke is one of four experimental typefaces that were created with typographic apparatuses. Typographic apparatuses are experimental objects with movable parts that serve as a template for the design of typographic characters. Each apparatus was based on an everyday object, this one being headphones. These typefaces are concerned with the question of legibility in an alphabet that is not based on existing scripts.
Chelas nha Kau, means: Chelas my place. The entire visual identity for the film, communication supports and title design was taken from Chelas architecture, from the walls of the people who inhabit the neighborhood. Raw material to design letters, ornaments and illustration, and build a sense of belonging
Typeface made with collages of pieces of glasses created in Ai. The poem composed with drawn letters is part of a poster by Poets & Painters.
Out.fest is an Exploratory Music Festival that takes place in the city of Barreiro. This year’s edition is based on typographic exploration inspired by shapes linked to the culture of the city railways that have existed since 1857. On a visit to the railways workshops, I found panels with joints from locomotive engines, panels rich in shapes, or interior covering foams, textures, etc. That served to create an visual language for the Festival that is based on the exploration of sound.
Vinyl edition by artists who recorded music on magnetic tape under the Iron Curtain between 1979 and 1990. The typographic work for the vinyl artwork was done manually with magnetic tape from old cassettes, cut, shaped and glued to make the letters, which were then photographed and assembled in photoshop.
The process and aesthetics of this artwork reflect the magnetic origin of the recording and the DIY resilience of these artists in their editions.
Title for an exhibition at Works/San José, an experimental community art space, depicting the stresses on ecosystems. Fresh (green) and dried dead leaves are arranged to mimic Akzidenz Grotesk.
Type illustration for an exhibition at Works/San José, and experimental community art space. The exhibit explored relationships between the natural world and humans. The type—human made—is melding with and dissolving into natural forms.
study information day at the design department – make synapses pop!
Announcing Poster for the first edition of the “Elke Twiesselmann Preis” – an award with the intention to support female actors of the degree course in acting at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany.
Screenprinted in two signal colors.
Announcement poster for a screen printing workshop with Stefan Guzy and Björn Wiede (Handsiebdruckerei Kreuzberg / Zwölf) at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
Screen printing in two colours: Golden Yellow and Indigo Violet.
Announcement poster for the film series at the Department of Design, which in the summer semester of 2022 will deal with all kinds of provocative subculture sins and experimental underground nonsense from film history.
Screen print in bright red, anthracite grey and deep black.
Announcement poster for a screen printing workshop at the Folkwang University of the Arts, which is renowned for its practical approach with a craft-based approach to design processes.
Screen Print in two colours: Piglet Pink and Deep Black.
Program poster for the legendary film series at the Department of Design, which has long since become a cult event itself on its 10th anniversary in the winter semester 2023/24.
Announcement Poster for the Trial Lectures of the Professorship for Visual Identities at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
Announcing poster for the exhibition program at Galerie51 in the summer-semester of 2024
Program poster for the film series at the Department of Design, which embarked on a reflective trip into the genre of the acid western in summer 2023.
Announcement poster for the new book by Almut Baumgarten. With a translation into Ukrainian by Chrystyna Nazakewytsch and illustrations by Merle Tebbe.
This student publication features several interviews and essays about graphic design. The cover was made by experimenting with 3D printed type that was vaccuum sealed under a transparent sheet to create a flat cover with relief typography.
Wendeplakat zur Ankündigung der Ausstellung des internationalen Plakatwettbewerbs
Mut zur Wut im Plakatmuseum PAN Kunstforum Niederrhein. Siebdruck in Knallrot und Tiefschwarz.
White Night – silkscreen printed announcement poster for the Culture Night at the Department of Design of the Folkwang University of the Arts (located on Zollverein World Heritage Site). Printed by hand in jet-black and yellow-green afterglow color (yes, the poster glows in the dark :-)).
Mycographiæ proposes typography as living beings through a bio-printing process with biological inks made of molds and yeasts. Like micro-fungi that permeate the layers of life, new forms of symbiotic writings come to life to redefine the experience of an image/letter: a letter that’s now cultivated.
In this act, the fungus no longer reproduces a sign; it digests its form, seizing it to redefine its structure and vitality : the sign gradually gains an organic autonomy that escapes the designer.
Exploration of the anatomy and bones of typography, and the universe of hidden structures and haptics that emerges when teasing typography.
Sound waves enable us to speak. When we read, we perceive letters visually, and the brain processes this information, instructing the vocal cords to send a pulse using a scanner and speaker. For example, vibrations can occur at frequencies like 16.35 Hz and 32.70 Hz. Sound waves allow the air vibrations caused by a letter to be detected by our eardrum. My experiment explores how letters would appear if sound waves were projected onto them, conducted in a home environment.