»Ceasefire« is a typographic interpretation of B.J. Novak’s short story about a naïve woman who goes on a blind date with a man who reveals himself to be a warlord.
It was visualized in the form of a four-course-meal menu card that shows the dialog as it would be written in a drama. The typical verse numbers are depicted as prices for different dishes, while emotions look like allergy information.
Each course is introduced by an opening page picturing its most important passage. His statement »I am a warlord« is portrayed by quotation marks resembling tracks of a tank.

Processo de criação em design gráfico: Pandemonium is the book by Leopoldo Leal, result of his Ph.D. dissertation presented in 2019, which focused on understanding the graphic design creative process in which chance and experimentation are inserted.
It was based on the eight phases of the creative process described by Robert Keith Sawyer. These phases constitute the structure of the project and provide clarity and understanding of the entire creative process, which does not occur in a linear standard. It is as if the practical items of an experimental work in design originate from any material such as punch cards, craft sticks or a collection of bar codes.

Daily experimental work created in the first week of 2023.

A photo book about Vietnam – unknown landscapes, noisy old mopeds, dragon fruits, conical hats, paddy fields, incense sticks …

A prosaic series of books that depicts impressions and characters from different places through essayistic short texts. I travelled to three different cities and captured thought-sketches, snapshots, everyday philosophy and experiences in prosaic form as a reflection of my own perceptions.

On one hand, a biography about the Viennese poet and writer, Ernst Jandl – well known for his experimental poetry. On the other hand, a second book documenting my own stay in Vienna where I wrote down my own thoughts and short texts on the tracks of Jandl. The result is two books of concrete poetry and documenting photography, which correspond to each other.

Human life draws a cut behind it. Wherever people go, they leave trash behind. With my main project for the second semester (P2): » Die Schneise, die das menschliche Leben hinter sich herzieht – Müll und Abfall« I would like to open up new perspectives. Because although garbage has an exceedingly negative image and is almost exclusively associated with bad things, many problems related to garbage are growing: Littering, resource theft and also unrecyclable composites. How can it be that we learn a comprehensively negative narrative about trash on a small scale while losing sight of the huge, existentially threatening problems of trash on a large scale?

The global pandemic has pushed us to be immersed in a global, interconnected galaxy of virtual worlds, avatars, and online communities, a world where the physical and virtual worlds converge. Between Hype and Hyperreality provides readers with a framework to understand the economy and technology of the Metaverse and the hidden danger of dataveillance, while examining the unlimited potential of the Spatial Web. The WebVR experience of the book aims to turn the printed object into an embodiment of the Metaverse, transcending the printed 2D artifact to a 3-dimensional space.

Many weeks. Hundreds of kilometers. Countless steps.

A thirst, a goal, the trails.

This journey is over. But behind the blue cover, it still exists.

One can see the skies. Hear thoughts. And maybe even feel what it means to be on the road.

weiter weg – far (a)way – is a book of remembering. It documents a journey. Not in its entirety, not necessarily chronologically; yet immediately and personally.

Text fragments, playful typography, a Leporello – an unconventional photobook.

BookBindingKit offers an overview of the elements of haptic book design. When different techniques are combined playfully, new ideas for unconventional books and book objects emerge. Consisting of a poster and cards, the BookBindingKit can be used in many ways; as teaching material for students and apprentices or as inspiration for designers and artists. It can also be helpful when meeting customers in print shops, bookbinderies, and publishing houses.

A “A Garden at Night”, an art exhibition by the artist Tiago Madaleno, is based upon the story of a garden that Kurt Schwitters had in its childhood and its destruction. The book was to reflects upon some of the exhibition’s main topics: the Garden, the life and work of Kurt Schwitters. The book invokes the idea of the wanderer, so familiar to the philosophy behind the English garden, to reenact this dialogue between body and landscape. The book is divided into two paths: one is composed of text, where three authors write about Gardens, Kurt Schwitters and Text Expanded into Space; the other is a mirror accordion folio that plays with reflection, montage and perception.

“OPAQUE” is a book published by Kerber Verlag with a special pocket binding that contains a total of 137 photographs, a short story, and personal reflections by the young photographer Stephie Braun on the crisis of existence in photography. The special binding allows the content to appear not only on the pages but also between them, and removable photographs can engage in a dialogue with the prints. The book comes wrapped in a poster and proudly bears its title in the feminist font “Good Girl” by Marion Bisserier. Not just a book, but more an object that also runs 100% on female power.

In 2022 the whole world seems wrecked. Global warming, unjust north-south divide, an ongoing pandemic and a misanthropic and inhuman war in Europe. With these impressions in plain view I set up the mind game of restarting from scratch and of developing a draft for a brand-new solar system, which would give us the opportunity to undo gross mistakes and to return to a paradisaic or even pre-paradisaic state of the earth.

Book design for Salzburg artist Martin Gredler. The catalog shows the work called “Findling”, which consists of numerous woodcut prints. Partly bound as Leporello, partly single pieces.
The catalog uses the color scheme of the works and provides a framework for them. The cover is laminated with a linen binding and refined with the help of hot foil stamping. Inside the book is an altar fold-out, which shows the unfolded leporello.

»Stand der Dinge« is the bachelor thesis at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. The book is a typographical exploration of the potential legacy of a person. In the form of lists, Farina Michelle describes her current material pos- sessions, immaterial facts about her persona and precisely described memo- rabilia. Black boxes and line spacing of different sizes describe the relationship to her objects. Cross-references throughout the book provide insight into how her thoughts are linked. They contrast the restrained design, which was modeled on the bureaucratically aloof work of a curator of estate.