From a splatter leftover from the sizzle of a frypan—to stains so large it makes you wonder what happened to a reader’s cooking endeavours—Accidental Cooking hilariously documents the stains found in the cookbooks of four public libraries in Sydney, Australia. It takes an even closer peak behind the covers of these cookbooks, swabbing their stains for bacteria and watching in wonder at the invisible worlds that grow. But don’t be grossed out! Paying homage to libraries through a form reminiscent of catalogue cards, this collection of accidental stains and growths celebrates the ephemeral and shared nature of public library books, their users and the mood of discovery found in libraries.
10 x Fw:Books
Photography is a unique medium; it doesn’t have a fixed way of revealing itself. The source is always invisible, you have to find a way to reproduce it to make work, that can be a photo on a wall, a website, or a photo printed in a books. Because of this unique relation between the medium and the form, i see the choice to make a book as a choice to make a new work.
The Alien
“The Alien” is a book by a Thai academic and a political exile, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, who has resided and worked in Kyoto, Japan. He was charged with Thailand’s draconian lèse-majesté law for his critical views of the monarchy. This book is intended to make itself accessible to readers in Thailand’s local bookstores, despite the author’s status as a controversial figure and his non-conformist political opinion. By devising techniques such as collage and digital painting, as well as an anti-design approach, the “surreal” elements created illustrations and layouts that representing Pavin’s criticism against the establishment and refusal to succumb to widely held notions and discourses.
Mr.Bucket Gets Replaced
My work is titled Mr.Bucket gets replaced. In charlie and the chocolate factory , Charlie dad gets replaced by a machine. The rise of AI, makes me feel scared that I can be replaced without even starting out yet in the industry.
letters
Vom Schreiben Reden
Winter Workshops Basel
A font for a bridge
The font is made in adaption of the architectural features of Frankfurt’s bridge “Eiserner Steg”.
Decay
This is an experiment into creating typographic forms that represent bloating and other visceral qualities of decay.
What Will Remain
It’s easy to forget about garbage after it’s thrown out. What Will Remain? draws attention to this by crafting letter forms out of trash and using them to spell out the question: What will remain after we are gone? The trash typography is photographed in nature to emphasize the contrast between the natural and the man made. This project is a reminder of the trash we create and what impact we have on the world around us.
TUL Mono & TUL Mono Underline
A custom open-source monolinear font TUL Mono (with variable cuts, CNC-ready and underline features) for the Technical University of Liberec. The font draws inspiration from the university’s technical focus and the 19th-century experiments of German inventor Friedrich Soennecken, which employed metal elements consisting of arcs and straight lines to create glyphs.
disfiguration
A visual experiment using type as a stand-in for the physical form and how it is subject to multiple interpretations.
Untitled
Refrigerator typography
LUBLIN PLAZA FONT
Font inspired by signboard mounting.
Font “Westhafen”
The font adapts the architectural features of the “Aeppler” tower in Frankfurt and reveals a completely new aesthetic of its own.
Beautiful Seoul
Poster for the exhibition Beautiful Seoul
A font for a skyscraper
The font adapts the architectural features of Frankfurt’s skyscraper “One”.
Ephemeral Breaths
This work uses typography, language, and composition to embrace the fleeting nature of existence and to celebrate the temporary.
Fukuda poster
The work was inspired by the quote of the great poster master Shigeo Fukuda: “I believe that in design, 30% dignity, 20% beauty and 50% absurdity are necessary.”
Flight
Promotional poster for a sculpture by Roman Stańczak entitled Flight that was presented at the Polish Pavilion during the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Visitors experienced the unique form and scale of the sculpture – an inside-out aircraft – but also the effect of an unexpected “reversal of the world”. The aircraft was cut in half and turned inside-out so that its interior (including the cockpit, onboard equipment, and passenger seats) appeared on the outside, while the wings and hull were moved to the interior of the piece. The work delivers a commentary on recent political and economic transformations.
An alphabet for the Naxos building.
After exploring the formal features of the Naxos building in Frankfurt, those were transferred into the creation of a new font. Naxos font has its strength in display sizes. As a 3D font it shows the close relationship to the Naxos building.
Connect the dots
I remember always enjoying connecting the dots and different drawings appeared when I was a kid. Connect the dots and see the hidden message.
Jindra Mono
Jindra Mono is an hommage to Jindřich Chalupecký’s typewriter font, designed to be used in both small and display sizes, where the rasterized effect provides a distinctive texture to the applications.
ROAD typeface
Stelios Fragkoulakis was born at 1994 in Elefsina, Greece. He studied graphic design and visual communication. Worked as an assistant teacher, graphic designer and as a freelancer. His work mainly focuses on contemporary typography, branding and editorial design.