Cromía (Design and Applied Arts Festival) Topic: Copyright in Ecuador. Selected in the 7th International Triennial of Stage Poster – Sofia 2013 (Bulgaria). Poster that takes The Art of hand embroidery from the community of Zuleta, located in the southeast of the city of Ibarra in northern Ecuador. The textiles represent an Andean cultural tradition.

expireddog is an independent artist with a focus on stencil art, text-based art, poster design, and bad drawings.

Having been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, expireddog explores the topics of not-belonging, loneliness, and anxiety, often through dark humor, sarcasm, and irony combined with typography and simple line art.

expireddog’s dog is one of the biggest inspirations, and that’s why dogs often appear as main characters.

Many years ago, expireddog tried himself in photojournalism

Hand-embroidered Cyrillic letter Ж (Zhe) on a denim jacket. Made for a solo
exhibition called “Imperfect alphabet” by Todor Georgiev in 2019.

Hardwear started out as a way to experiment with new forms of meaning in fashion, design & filmmaking. It is a collective project that brings new voices from different creative fields to merge and give birth to something novel.

“See You Soon” was a fundraiser aimed at supporting the Robert Johnson Club during the pandemic lockdown. Centered on collaboration and the interplay between music, art, and design, 16 renowned creatives were invited to contribute limited edition multiples. The keyring encapsulates themes of hope, connection, and anticipation for the future amidst the challenges of social distancing and isolation.

The typeface is inspired by the Japanese mending technique called “sashiko”. The stitching technique consists of simple running stitches that also creates ornamental shapes using patterns. This way, an old piece of clothing is repaired, strengthened and embellished.
One of the sashiko pattern is reimagined as a typeface and applied on indigo-dyed fabric using an embroidery machine.

Milan and Jonas collaborated on the design of a custom scarf for their friends as a creative exercise. But caution is advised. The scarf is so hot and stylish, a heatstroke might be likely 😉

The T-shirt is designed for a unique event, the Art+Computing Mini-Hack, held at Boston University’s Spark! Lab. This one-day event focuses on fostering interdisciplinary collaboration by hosting a project competition. It features both geometric and organic shapes to symbolize the integration of two programs.

Studio WHAT_ creates clothing objects that are the results of our artistic research. It explores the technique of defamiliarisation in the design of physical objects and discuss the shadow spaces of reality. One of stronger results of this work is the line of Signal-Bags, which fully retains the DNA of the signal waistcoat. The waistcoat is a familiar sign of street life everydayness, where it serves the human needs. We decided to give it a new role.

Does it look worn out? It never stops, neither do we.

“Ofici” (job in Catalan language) is the title of the latest album by the Mallorcan group CABOT. For the cover artwork, the team worked with the concept of traces of creativity on work clothes: traces of paint, calligraphed song titles, dripping, etc. to transform everyday work into art

A collaboration between visual artist Sergey Skip and Berlin-based fashion brand FUENF.
Garments are used as a canvas for chaos. Adorned with fragmented and broken type, they are embracing the beauty in imperfection.

Experiment with Bloggy typeface. Production TextileMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands

The JonaX logo and business card was created fot a young and very successful Slovenian fashion designer. The basic idea is based on its name and the representation of its main activity, which is wool.
Therefore, the whole idea (also on the business card) is based on the holey system of knitting and the possibility of different thicknesses creating a vaguely definite shape that is part of its creative concept.

OBLQ is a fashion brand co-founded by Denise Hödl and Sebastian Hemetsberger, designed to democratize the design process. Their interactive generator empowers users to create bespoke animations and visuals. By simply typing, choosing a style, and tweaking settings, anyone can craft a unique design. This user-generated art can then be printed on cotton shirts, merging personal creativity with wearable fashion in a novel way.

KD26 A is a handmade kimono, designed and created by fashion designer Korinna van Balkom and graphic designer Daan Rietbergen. A unique, typographic artwork made from a upcycled 100% wool blanket in which the lowercase letter ‘a’ is integrated. Accompanied by a grid, the shape of the letter moves repetitively from right to left. This makes the structured shape dynamic. The grid and movement are integrated into the kimono by using an enlarged and self-developed ‘tufting technique’.

Pedro is a typeface designed in 2022. It has a kind and including spirit and with their solidarity shirt Büro Gestalten wanted to express all of Pedro’s formal and principal character. For kindness with every fibre. (10 % of all income of shirt sales was and will be donated to #leavenoonebehind2020)