OMNE/WORK 2016–2018 showcases the results of the first artistic residence organized by OMNE – Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est; ten projects, ten visions, between memory and contemporaneity, show the complexity of the landscape of the North-East of Italy through a common theme of analysis: “work”.
The editorial project is inspired by the theme of investigation and translates it into an object that wants to remember the typical archival collector. Inside, different page formats and types of paper indicate the passage from critical texts, to teachers’ contributions, up to the projects of international artists, presented in the form of rubricated files.

Artefakt explores how human-made traces can be visually fragmented using modern tools. The process involves framing an artifact to capture its original appearance, then breaking it down and analyzing it through five experiments. Ultimately, the fragments are reassembled into a new visual expression, using unconventional techniques to process the original trace. The goal is to create something new and innovative by investigating the remnants of human activity.

From high-end to low-res, from artificial intelligence to digital trash, from post-photographic conditions to technosphere, from screenmemories and faithbooks, from the intrinsic self and posthumanism, from undead photography and photogrammetry, from media-reflexive social criticism and self-therapy, from Google hacks and digital détournements.
noPublication is an experimental publication by the international artist group darktaxa-project, which artistically and theoretically works at the interface of photography and post-photography using the new digital imaging processes such as photogrammetry, augmented reality, 3D scanning, AI, etc..The publication is largely designed life per zoom.

Spindrift is an annual art and literary review. The 2022 volume is a rejection of isolation, so it features four different covers that combine to form a larger interconnected image, using either the front or back covers. The inside covers reverse the exterior images, adding further dimension. The spines also connect. The cover illustration, by Anna Ramsey, flips, slices, and extends the well-known print by Hokusai, expanding our world. Just waves waving.

This book by Angelika Maria Schnell is about traditional dishes from a village in the mountains of South Tyrol: Altrei. There are old recipes, rituals and cremes – provided with dialectal sayings.

In the design we have placed great emphasis on the font choices. We used Wayfinder CF by Connary Fagen for the titles and Maiola by TypeTogether for the basic text and ingredients. With Wayfinder, we found it especially exciting to use all the great ligatures and beautiful glyphs.

The book was published by Effekt Verlag.

The incredible and timeless text by Italian writer Italo Calvino fascinated me for many years. I finally got to make a tiny book, exploring three concepts: colour, AI and light to try and capture some of the meaning and expression of the book. Nine chapters with eleven themes in five variations asked for a structure to be envisioned and visualised. The names of the cities, women’s names, play a central role in my approach. The colours referencing the city types are taken from the chapter openers. This is just a prototype.

The d.school Yearbook is an annual publication that celebrates the school year’s activities and events. Overlapping joyful colors represent the intersections of a lot of different people (educators, students, and community) with different ideas coming together. Paired with bold typography and a vibrant color palette, the publication captures the school’s innovative methods. Each of the book’s three sections is color-coded for easy navigation.” 164 pages, 8 × 10.5, 4-color, perfect bound.

Designed by 908A (E Roon Kang and Andrew LeClair), published by Draw Down Books (C and K Sleboda). This book is built on a set of interconnected technologies: 302 Markdown files, 9 CSV data files, 10 HTML templates, and 989 lines of CSS. It was generated from a command line in 90 seconds on April 13, 2022 at 11:41am. Framework 101 features work from the Communications Design community at Parsons in NYC, along with texts from visiting designers and a typographic showcase. Cover features contributor names, interspersed with reflective foil that allows a reader to see themselves as part of the community. 296 p., offset, 6.6 × 9.5 in.

The text in this book is written in response to the images, subverting traditional methods of composition and illustration. We invited 50 people to respond to the prompt, Is the Internet Down? They had a week to respond with new work or something already created. We analyzed responses and placed them into themed groups, then drafted essays that contextualized the works.

The book weaves together pop culture references and statistical facts about the greatest network of our time, playfully examining the history of the Internet, with nods to world domination; the physical and emotional cost to humans; network fragility; and more.

Presents 50 posters produced by Draw Down Books, designed by K. and C. Sleboda, for art book fairs, workshops, and lectures between 2013 and 2021, accompanied by reflections and essays by graphic designers that provide context and insights, providing readers with new ways of considering their own poster-making and event documentation. Swiss binding, with neon green thread (lies flat). Offset printed, all text printed in Reflex Blue. Neon orange Pantone (selected by crowd-sourcing via Instagram) used for cover; use on interior cover creates warm inner glow. 160 pages, 5 x 7.5 inches.

As a passionate collector of books, magazines and ephemera, as a frequent visitor of exhibitions and (independent) book fairs, and last but not least as a publication designer, I have gathered a massive amount of paper, bound and unbound, piled, organised, stacked and stored in boxes, on shelves, tables and on the floor. What can one make with all this? The publication explores the material in different sections.
The chapters Shelved and Unboxed look at publications that we bought, traded or received as gifts. The chapters Explored, Detailed and Opened look at publications that I sometimes conceived and always designed. Texts on archives and books complete the experience.

The work “Leafless trees in a square of earth” contains a collection of different structures of the ground. They have been copied with a frotage technique in combination with texts that have been written with a type writer. All those elements have been printed out with a riso printer and binded with a spiral. The cover has been made with a very old letter press. You can see the imprint on on the first page after the cover. In this work, the haptical and handmade component is very important. The ground has been copied with hands and letters have been produced with the usage of old machines.

This self initiated magazine is an ode to the different, the bad taste and the will of revendication of the anti design aesthetic. Unique visuals that requestions the rules of graphic design become as important as the content.

In the book work(shop) we explore books and their characteristics in terms of structure, technology, concept and aesthetics. Books expanded into analog and digital spaces, mix with other media or are taken apart. Thank you to the students in my courses at HTWG Konstanz.

This Annual Report highlights the potential for growth, driven by the disrupting constant changes that characterize human life.
To outline this idea, a visual concept of a situational-present design was created, which formally serves its respective content. This was achived be freeing the layout of a common concrete grid, but working with similar elements that follow a common design idea. Through the use of functional elements–the „fold here“ prompts–an innovative space is created, far away from conventional linearity, which allows the reader an interactive-physical encounter with the annual report and opens up new perspectives.

Exit prize is the prize for young artists on czech and slovak art universities. As we designers have seen art practice ain’t easy practice at all, it’s hard job, we’ve chosen the thermochromatic view on a galery space as the catalogue topic. As we use tre thermochromatic camera data, we need to extend the color gamut of the printed catalogue a bit. Therefore we swapped the 4 cmyk colors to 4 only fluorescent colors in offset printing process. Acording to that decision we mede serrious extra problems to the printers and unexpected result for us and the client. Result: new colors were found, nobody harmed, catalogue succesfully finished.

Civette and combinatorial literature in the headlines of local newspapers.
The “civetta” that the newsagent displays every day in front of his newsstand, that is, the poster with the (hilarious) summary of the most important headlines of the newspaper, is the object of investigation of “ABC 18688 e altre”, a catalogue and a dictionary, a combinatorial game of words and expressions to produce amusing “owls” ad infinitum. A system from the Oulipo group, the potential literature workshop of Queneau, Perec and Calvino. 18688 is the fruit value of the computer code.

With Sugarcoat Giulia Heuser and Johanna Geyer created a manifest of the New Romanticism, featuring a diverse range of visual and literary content centered around the theme of romanticizing. Combining extravagant fonts and colors, the topic is playfully visualized in 6 themed chapters. No two of the over 300 pages are alike, the visual abundance is disrupted by dreamy cloud photographs. With interactive elements such as glasses that make you see hearts, or illustrations and typography that come to life using the Moiré effect, Sugarcoat is more than a book. It becomes a playful experience, breaking the boundaries of traditional book design and reviving fantasy and creativity.

This book was made as an object using different types of materials – transparent foil, pachica, coloured paper with neone color silkscreen prints. We have printed it a week ago and there was not much time to make product photos – that we can deliver if needed – if you will choose to present our work. Book is an collaboration between me as an author and photographer Alžběta Jungrová. Main idea behind the selection is a story of Alice in wonderland – different types of images in strange combinations. Finally Iam sorry for the quality of presentation – that we can fix easily. all best, Adam.

A 1000+ page book examines a fixed set of the 178 Pantone process colour range. Two tones from opposite ends of the spectrum are confronted and detailed in their technical composition. The book in it’s strict structure offers two entrance points, accidental colour combinations, and can be flipped through for a continuously changing colour journey.