At The Other Collection we have developed a unique and innovative technique combining the advances of modern typography with the quality and artisanship of centuries-old knowledge of book printing. Letterpress printing from metal type looks back onto five hundred years of history but has become impractical today. At TOC, we design digital layouts, then transfer the data to polymer printing plates, using our own lasersetter. Printing those plates on traditional letterpress machines combines the virtues of analog and digital processes, resulting in the best of both worlds: refined typography and a smooth analog reading experience.

The DAE Graduation Catalogue 2021 is a guide to navigate graduation projects by themes, keywords, materials, and methodologies. Divided into four indexes, it offers references for potential connections between the projects.
A fluent layout allows to showcase each graduation project in the best possible way, keeping a main structure of a catalogue. It is an invitation to discover the innovative ideas, techniques, and visions of the next generation of designers.
Selected as one of the Best Dutch Book Designs 2021 in the student category.

»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.