Exploring the diagrammatic language and its use, with emphasis on its potential to form narratives while investigating the brain and how thoughts are developing. A visual study on diagram elements as facts versus interpretation, clarity versus ambiguity, and subjectivity versus objectivity. A journey through shapes, lines and arrows.

A Brainful of Diagrams takes the form of an artist’s book, cataloging a series of experiments that record my own perception and ideas around the topic. A collection of printed media that challenges the reader to interact with; observe, analyse, think, and shape their own interpretations. 

What happens when the brain takes the form of a simple circle, and how it affects and is being affected by its surrounding visual elements? A visual study that uses diagrammatic illustrations to explore and communicate brain functions through a graphic communication lens. A diagrammatic journey where the brain is being transformed, taking new dimensions; revealing how it is divided, and how thoughts are developing. (Pack of 50 cards.)

This book gives life to a series of poems written by Angelos Ioannou. The cover itself is an abstract collage; a visual representation of our inner selves. A combination of images, text and shapes full of hidden messages.

How can a narrative be communicated using simple dia[grammatic] elements? A story developed based on random thoughts, using shapes, lines, arrows and words, that altogether create the most meaning-less story. Or not?

This zine introduces a range of graphic remnants collected from Dubai, UAE. The viewer has the opportunity to meet this city through an alternative perspective; tickets, flyers, receipts, labels, menus, packages, hotel key cards, luggage tags, maps, etc.

Using Apple Mail as a subverting drawing tool, this publication represents a visual gallery of artworks consisting of patterns and typographic compositions. All 11 black-and-white visual outcomes are created entirely using the keyboard as a drawing tool (letters, numbers and symbols). The source behind the compositions is a series of images connected to urban life and environment; surfaces, textures, memories, influences.

This one-page book is dedicated to Fortino Samano, and his haikus “Volta sto Kaimakli”. (Printed on tracing paper.)

This one-page book is dedicated to Fortino Samano, and his haiku “Zithos”. (Printed on gray matte paper and packed in a transparent case.)

No Words of Warmth / Keine wärmende Worte is a multifaceted and hybrid art book—combining text, sound, and images—that provides a glimpse of a young Jewish woman’s life as an artist in Germany. Associations relating to the roles of sister, daughter, mother, and grandmother are woven together through the eyes of the protagonist to create a cohesive feminist voice that explores the past and its influence on the present. Reality blurs with fantasy in a form of stream-of-consciousness writing that is as true as memory or remembered history. Energized by a process of critical selfreflection, this book can be seen as a stand against dehumanization, and a reflection of Jewish life in Germany today.

Our magazine »Ruhm & Ego – Einfach Machen Magazin« is all about stories and projects away from the daily business routine. When people passionately start their own projects alongside their jobs, dare to enter new industries despite their lack of expertise, and perhaps go their own way somewhat amateurishly, but with a great deal of heart and soul. For us, it’s all about the people behind their projects and their way of thinking. This passion and enthusiasm attracts us and that’s what we present to you in our magazine.

A hand-made book of frottages (rubbings) taken from utility covers, signs, and other patterns in Japan.

“Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía” (Hispanic Women and Typography) documents four individual projects that target tangible topics, such as educational systems, colonialism, indigenous languages, and calligraphy. Based on academic and field research, these projects reflect the influences that individual cultures and histories have on contemporary graphic design and typography, and challenge the colonial and patriarchal narratives that still affect these fields.

Self-published zine, documentation of miscellaneous happenings, thoughts and situations from two months spent in the Sudety mountains.

This edition answers the question “how to give editorial substance to the fantasy of vintage through an inter-generational sharing edition?”
The aim of this project was to make people discover (or rediscover) fashion in the 1980s through the eyes of a child of generation Z, while experimenting with the treatment of visuals according to the style of clothing discussed on the page.
The resources are fashion magazines from the 1980s, which have been cut up and reworked. The more the visuals tend towards unconventional fashion (rock, punk), the more unstructured and chaotic the visuals become. The chromatic range changes with the visuals to retranscribe the universe of the fashion in question.

This project is an effect of my interest in
psychogeography, memory and maps. As I was dwelling through the city of Vilnius during my Erasmus exchange at Vilnius Academy of Arts, thoughts and views started to appear in my head and this art book contains them, and fellow students impressions as well.

During my bachelor’s degree project, I wondered if creation could take shape within destructuring. This edition is therefore an experimental edition, aiming to communicate on the creative stage of the destruction. The resources are fashion magazines from the 1980s, which I cut up, tore up, destroyed so that I could then put them together, glue them back together and create new visuals.

Łódź Houseplant Correctional Facility is the
transmedial story about the quasi-institution of
punishment spread throughout the urban tissue.Kacper Szalecki documented tropical plants in artificial mise en scene between layers of curtains, window glass, and metal grating, using instant photography, which is associated with prison photos. After a year-long creative dialogue that project has turned into an art installation, which crucial part is 10 hand-sewn fascicles inspired by the form of a herbarium and biologist procedures of cataloging plants.

The futurist Joël Luc Cachelin is addressing the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the „Forum Kultur und Ökonomie“ and takes a look into the year 2040 by collecting social developments and thinking ahead regarding its impact on cultural funding. The book object „Kultur 2040“ was designed to be handy so that it could be given to the audience at the event. Ten manual interventions in the form of the publication, for example torn off pages or coffee stains make every copy an original and illustrate the content. The elegant effect of the design contrasts with the brutal interventions.

Conglomerate –
lat. conglomerare
‘to clump together

The artist book “Conglomerate
is an examination of
boxes of notes.
For writers and
philosophers
the memories/thinking machines
in pre-digital
times

Everyday things, things far away from the world,
poems, photos, observations.

Bunching up. Filling the dream box. No front – no back. Finding without searching. Announcements without endings. Archive without head.

absolute freedom as a challenge: when everything is allowed, nothing demanded or hoped for, the difficulty lies in the endless possibilities. in collaboration with nicolai zeiher, the publication “mixed wombos” was created. In the first part, works of students were presented and explained. in the second part the given material was processed with the help of a software to an independent, new illustration. these ever new images were placed in the context of also given texts. the freedom granted at the beginning resulted in 1,400 individual illustrations.

This book is printed with UV security ink, also used on bank notes etc. In daylight the color is invisible – the book presents itself as empty.

A small number of copies was produced but never published, due to financial and other hurdles.

The book block was supposed to be delivered in a special case with a device featuring a processor and a UV light source. Turning on the UV light, one would be able to read the book in darkness.

The book was edited by Mario de Vega, Victor Mazón Gardoqui and Daniela Silvestrin and printed by Medialis, Berlin.

Photos in images DiceyStudios_ReadingInDarkness_03.jpg and _04.jpg by Chris J. Villafuerte.

“Güllen’s green vegetables” depicts the St.Gallen youth movements’ awakening, struggle, dialogue, liberation and networking. Urban youth work and youth cultures have mutually influenced and stimulated each other. The open spine brochure has a black and white reduced design with a neutral stage for the diverse subject, emphasized with black thread binding. Black-and-white photography accompanies the text, and each chapter ends with a colorful picture series. The typography gradually reduces in size, and “links” refer to content pages and overview maps. The 320 pages are set in ragged format.

Karel Martens: Exhibition showing for the first time all books designed by KM.
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Stephan Keppel: For Enter Enter Stephan will expand his book into the project-space, creating installations based on the pages of the book, investigating the relation between the book and the space as a form of representation, and re-creation.
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Bertien van Manen: all of her books, alongside unique material from her archive.
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What They Saw: The What They Saw Reading Room showcases this history and shares both historically significant and under-appreciated photobooks by women.
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Revue Faire: All 45 issues of this cutting edge French Magazine.

‘American Origami’ is the result of six years of photographic research, and results in a statement of over 700 photographs which closely examines the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools, weaving together first person interviews, forensic documents, and original photographs. The book takes the reader through a visual journey of shared grief, to illuminate moments of beauty and bring forward moral questions embedded in acts of collective healing. The book is bound in a unique way, and creates a parallel world of the past and the present, showing the silenced landscape interwoven with the personal artifacts created by those left behind.