OPAQUE

“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.

a draft for a new solar System

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.

“Martin Gredler – Findling” Book Design

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.

State of things / Stand der Dinge

»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.

Vernissage of the Werkbund Label Exhibition AUSGEZEICHNET!

Last Thursday was the vernissage of the Werkbund Label exhibition AUSGEZEICHNET! and we were happy to be able to participate in the event. A selection of the projects that have been awarded the Werkbund Label by the Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg since 2006 was on display.

Every two years, outstanding projects, initiatives and companies are honored that stand out for their innovative, forward-looking or creative quality, have a social or political role model function, use environmentally friendly technologies and energies or promote civil society developments. The Werkbund Label draws public attention to topics that make a relevant contribution to shaping the future and addressing ecological and social issues.

The exhibition presents various award-winning projects, ideas, companies and initiatives, from Karlsruhe to the world. Slanted had the great honor to be awarded in 2012 and to also be part of the exhibition. The team was present on the evening. Founded in 1907, the competition continues to be an important source of inspiration when it comes to future issues in architecture, urban planning, design, ecology, education and training. This is also very clear from a visit to the exhibition.

Vernissage of the Werkbund Label Exhibition AUSGEZEICHNET!

When?
Exhibition: April 13th–May 14th, 2023, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

Where?
Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe am Rondellplatz
Karl-Friedrich-Strasse 17
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN is a contemporary display typeface. It consists of three styles: RND, PX and MX. Additional alternates can easily be adapted using upper- or lowercase characters. Although the roots of the typeface are derived from a linear grid-system, the overall appearance is still organic through the variation of the individual characters. A vast set of glyphs makes it ideal for designing artworks, magazines and logos. In cooperation with Alexander Raffl.

Safferling Session

The Safferling Sessions were a series of back-to-back DJ Sessions live via twitch from a Munich living room in the Safferling Street. All Sessions were performed by DJs of the Feta Records Crew.

This poster was part of the promotion for the first session (which is still online on Feta Records Youtube account). The design idea behind this poster, was to create non-existing ligatures. The main one, the two capital S, became the logo of the series. It contains some more funny ligatures, like one combining an “n” with an “s”, a “z” with an “l” or and “R” with an Ampersand. The type was then rebuild in 3D and rendered with a glass-like material, to gave it this kind of an emerald look.

HOPE

HOPE is inspired by Psalm 23. It is a computational typography using Binary Tree Algorithm, Geomerative Library of Processing with a seed font, Avenir Next UltraLight. It also expresses the meaning of Perseverance which is continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition .

continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition : the action or condition or an instance of persevering : steadfastness.

Amalgam Journal #1 #2 #3

Amalgam is an occasional journal that explores the intersection of typography, language, and power. It traces contemporary discourses around typographic manifestations of multiplicity, hybridity, intersectionality, and identity. It brings together a group of BIPOC, queer, feminist, immigrant artists and designers thinking together across disciplinary boundaries about the mutability of language, the instability of communication, and the prospects for equitable futures.

Strange Flower, Anonymous Activities

The idea was to elaborate a publication which format simulates the anonymous nature
of an editor´s work. The challenge was to use graphic resources that can show the
dynamic concealment/disclosure. The accordion paper folding hides the unedited version of the interview. Only if you tear the paper you can read what it is inside. Both, questions and answers, have the same type treatment, in that way the author of the interview is not an author anymore, it loses singularity, it becomes anonymous.The face of the interviewed is hidden between the pages as well as the credits of the publication. Seen in an aereal perspective, the pages creates a colorful flower. A strange flower.

Big Data Exhibition Poster

This is a 3D poster created for the “Telling Stories: Big Data” exhibition, which will take place in Moscow in June 2023. The poster features a custom typeface and its design reflects the exhibition’s theme, dedicated to artists’ relationship with the use, analysis, and visualization of data in the modern world. The color scheme and geometric shapes on the poster symbolize the complexity of information flow. This poster captures attention and invites viewers to immerse themselves in the creative world of big data.

Konsequenz Typeface

Konsequenz is a typeface that mixes blackletter handwriting techniques with grotesque letter shapes. The initial design process started on paper with a 15 mm flat tip pen and a 3 mm broad nib pen. After experimenting with the tools, the first design was created, from which Konsequenz was later derived.
The round shapes of the grotesque typeface are broken up in order to emphasize the interrupted character of a blackletter script. Some curves remain and add small accents to the typeface. More classic letter variants have been added to the character set. To stand out from blackletter script, the capitals are mainly based on sans serif letter shapes.

Felsen Typeface

The typeface “Felsen” incorporates a decaying unbalanced character that takes advantage of generative methods of type design using the Python programming language and the RoboFont type design program. In particular, room was given to the possibilities of generated randomness to create a slightly different typeface each time the font is exported: stroke weights change within the module-based characters, spacing and spaces become large or small.

The first draft of the font in 2014 was solely used by myself. In May 2023 the font will be publicly available as “Felsen Typeface” and includes majuscules, minuscules as well as three weights.

“Gemeinsam Gegen Nazis”

This poster was created during an open call for entries that say that we are against fascism and that we are stronger if we work together. The typography of this poster is hardly readable from a distance, so an approach is necessary to pick up the text.
The headline is formed by dots representing a group of people. In addition, the large punctuation marks translate the statements of the headlines into an abstract, pictorial form.