The book documents my conversations with my grandmother and compiles our memories of everyday objects into a memory archive. Through her oral history, I delved into the cultural context of bygone eras and gained insight into slices of her past and use her memories as evidence to understand the value of the lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, as well as our own cultural identity and origin.

I interpreted my abstract feelings about memories into a visual design through the use of translucent papers, typography, and screen printing graphics. it conveys my personal experiences to inspire readers to explore their own memories and understand the importance of culture and identity.

This project is about the art and literary work of the Arabic letter shown in Islamic verses,
which appears on buildings, street signs, lighting, graffiti, crafts and old books in Cairo, Egypt. The booklet consists of 20 pages, with a centerfold poster. The poster describes a design talk being held in Al-Azhar University about the topic in detail, with calligraphy workshops.

Publication about the experiences in the Chilean territory of the students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad del Desarrollo.
The book is inspired by what in Chile is known as Work Book or Manifold. It is a personal document that registers the process, handled individually by each architect. Book of Work used by architects everywhere. This book is intentionally full of errors and graphical accidents. The cover was worked manually, with a bas-relief to cause mismatches that made each unit different.

The book is based on the concept of the Urpflanze, Goethe’s imaginary primordial plant, the origin of all plant forms. The focus is on the unfolding formation of the repeating structures and patterns of the plant kingdom, observing the morphology of plants, and the systematic patterns of nature. The new patterns, like the Urpflanze, carry the trace of the steps of the pattern’s formation – the pattern’s unfolding can be traced throughout the sequence, revealing the steps of its metamorphosis all at once. These were collected in a booklet, the form of which is reminiscent of a plant: the cover is the spine, the stem, from which two tendrils can be unfolded, with branched particles at the end.

“Noema in the Mirror – Visual and Dialogical Self-Reflection” is my bachelor’s project, in which I spent four months exploring feelings, fears, and memories that I usually repress. To evoke them, I started with intuitive drawing and meditation. To further discover and process them, I conducted interviews with different marginalized women, and we shared our experiences. We found that our experiences were often similar due to the persisting patriarchal society we live in. I reflected on the different topics and ideas further in essays and illustrations, which were drawn by hand and then composed digitally. All the illustrations, essays, and interviews were collected in a hand-bound book.

various book projects about design and publishing…open to see what works for you!

Peter Radelfinger is an obsessive collector. Falsche Fährten visualizes the thousands of (analog & digital) folders of texts, poems, and images he collected for over 14 years—with content ranging from serious and tragic, to absurd, ironic, and comical. Peter meticulously files his collections with four distinct codes based on type: FF (Text), FBP (Image: Print), FBD (Image: Digital), and FBN (Image: Network). Referencing his manuscript, the book interlaces FFs on the left with FBPs or FBDs on the right; until the FBNs and Index begin, and it switches. A script was written to automate the image loading and numeration, and place the text boxes. A custom typeface was also designed: FFS.

The book “Time to Breathe” is the result of an artistic and creative exploration of the work of the mountaineer Reinhard Karl. His photographs and texts inspired me for a journey on which I entered into a dialogue with his world. It is a declaration of love to analogue photography, the art of woodcut and linocut and the magical attraction of the medium itself, a book as a reliable object that can be experienced with all the senses.

An architectural publication on architecture is used to create Ornament is Crime. The various pages are cut up with a scalpel. In the process, blocks of text are removed and the printed elements of building parts and the like are left behind; the sequence of pages and the original book remain. The various layers now form a kind of relief. Opening to any random double page spread, we see a three-dimensional architectural landscape, a kind of model presented in space. In the video work we see two hands flipping through the book object page by page, leafing through it, and in so doing creating all sorts of combinations of architecture as in a kind of “architectural generator.

As a way of challenging habits of the graphic designer process and in direct relation to the subject of the texts, each section of the publication was formatted using a different editing tool or software. In this performative process, F451 used five different tools and software: Adobe InDesign 17.4/18.0, Paged.js 0.3.5, LibreOffice Writer 7.4.1.2, Microsoft Excel 16.64, and HTML5 + CSS3 + Javascript ES6. While the layout templates aimed to achieve graphic interoperability, the pages of the book showcase distinct characteristics that highlight the unique possibilities and limitations of each software environment.

“A Wandering Poem” is the printed collaboration between travelling poet Christian Marques and visual interpreter Angharad Hengyu Owen. An experimental literary project which embodies a bi-disciplinary re-exploration of an eight-month journey from Europe, across the Middle East, to Asia: Undertaken by the author himself, crossing seven countries, covering roughly 11’500 kilometers by land, unearthing one poem a day. The result is a bilingual (EN/PT) collection of emotional imprints, where each poetic free-verse works hand in hand with its unique visualisation on paper, offering a multi-layered and inner-directed reading experience, and ultimately a voyage of sorts through printed words.