Dreams of New York is a project that evolved out of our ongoing love affair with New York. We began “wandering” the streets of New York through Google Earth and eventually started to document the strange frozen images of life we found there. After countless digital forays into this weird wonderful landscape, we realized that there was something special happening that we wanted to capture and share.

It is a call for optimism and the certainty that everything bad and difficult, no matter what it is, will end and improve. And there is an example of it, Starting from January 2020, which marked the beginning of a new decade. A stretch of bad events kicked off and many people around the world had a hard time. There were a string of wildfires, volcanos, airplane crashes, train derails, Flash floods, Landfalls, earthquakes, Multiple explosions, and all besides the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, All the bad events that happened did not prevent the happening of the good ones. And now everything improved and is okay.

A BOOK on SOCIAL COMMITMENT AND ARTIVISM BY UN MUNDO FELIZ

This book present design is a tool of artistic communication that when it tackles social issues, which are generally controversial, becomes visual activism. Everything is there, we only have to know how to look and participate as free and reflective citizens who want to change attitudes, behaviours and conventions that do not allow society to advance. Un Mundo Feliz Images speak to us, they interrogate us, it is necessary to learn to listen and activate our responses.

The work is a version, translated into the analog world, of a backup of my computer data. All books (folders) are simultaneously translated folders from my computer desktop. All data is translated into binary codes and can be transformed back into virtual data by scanning. Printed on plastic paper to make it longer lasting and archival. Thus lasts longer than any hard drive.

Credits:
Photos:Dennis Haustein

The work deals broadly with the lack of movement and haptics in the digital, but will not be experienced in the digital, but translated into the “analog world”. The longing for the haptic is not presented here like a fleeting retro trend. The haptic aspect of the analog is made tangible and at the same time the limitations of the digital are made clear.

Conceptualized brand identity and developed unique accompanying graphic style and tone for use in communications.
 Monitored and designed online advertising and social media content campaigns for different strategies.
 Developed innovative marketing campaigns based on key objectives.
 Managed marketing campaigns to cultivate brand awareness and drive social media traffic.
 Planned, implemented and tracked sales and marketing strategies to promote brand products.
 Stayed current with market trends.
 Developed seasonal and brand style guides.
 Communicated with photographers and stylists to effectively showcase the brand vision.
 Sketched artistic and fresh designs for consideration.

The phrase “I don’t have time for that” became more of a lazy excuse than really expressing the lack of time. In the age of online discussions where everyone can participate disregarding their background, Twitter seemed to be the perfect place for this research project, where all posts since 2007 were analyzed, resulting in a database with 19305 post in total containing the German phrase for ‚i don’t have time‘. The whole layout process was automated with a custom inDesign script. Predefined parameters determined font sizes and widths and a ‚walk‘ algorithm solved the grid layout in the most space (and time) saving way.

Screen Life and Life Screen are two mirror art books that examine the work of Flavio de Marco, an artist who creates landscapes using browser as a medium. The books are both printed by combining offset, intaglio printing and bookbinding. The volumes have 528 A5 pages and follow a reverse chronological order: Screen Life from 2019 to 1999, Life Screen from 1999 to 2019. The covers are also mirrored: ‘Screen Life’ has a bodonian binding and hardback spine, and Life Screen has a cloth spine and hardback cover. The reading experience is immersive: Screen Life presents the artist’s canvases and Life Screen hosts de Marco’s writings, highlighting in the layout the complexity of each phase.