nicht gönnen können – Personal examination of the feeling of envy

As an adult, how can one deal with one’s own envy, confront others’ envy and communicate one’s needs without losing face. During my Master’s studies, I dealt with this feeling for several months. These thoughts became texts and illustrations. To complement this, I asked other people to anonymously write down moments when they were envious. If they wanted, they could also draw the emotion. Finally a collection of honest expressions and uncomfortable truths was formed, risoprinted and bound by hand.

Anne Gathmann: Statics of Resonance

On the occasion of the documenta 14, the church of St. Elisabeth showed a site specific installation by the artist Anne Gathmann The artwork is one large hanging bow, consisting of 4000 aluminum bars. The single bar with its distinctive shape and materiality becomes the key visual for the whole visual identity and is found on all the printed matters.

The book is accessable from two sides. The used paper features a coated and an uncoated side leading to a destinctive rhythm throughout the entire book: One spread coated (images) one spread uncoated (text), etc. The 90° rotated text runs through the book as one long ribbon, same with the images. Reference numbers link text to art pieces.

Hypertourist

»Hypertourist« is a design-philosophical, cultural and media-historical examination of travel.

Is there a difference between travelers and tourists? Who will design the travel of the future? And – do you need a suitcase for virtual travel? »Hypertourist« is a hypertextual, non-linear journey. It has neither order nor hierarchy, it will never be complete or finished. Each user can start at any point, arrange the intermediate stops themselves, skip or repeat them. Each person can shorten, change or add to the journey. As a hypertourist, everyone experiences their own, hyperindividual journey.

political and emotional dimensions of language

What are microaggressions and how do they feel? How does catcalling feel for affected individuals? Language can hurt, and that’s exactly what the illustrations show. The speech bubbles poke, squeeze, and choke the characters.But behold! The heroine, the gender star, takes action. Large megaphones protest for equality and structural change. In an optimistic vision of the future, the speech bubbles intermingle in a great diverse communication. New ideas develop from the conversations and a respectful and enriching exchange is outlined. In this particular collaboration, the theme and content of the illustrative work are supported by the endless page and the uncut continuity of the storyline.

The search for boredom – An investigation of the effects of digital change on creativity processes

This work is a theoretical exploration and a solution approach that does not demonise growing connectivity, but combines it with boredom, thereby building a bridge to creativity. To visualise the feeling of boredom, the text is printed on continuous paper by a dot matrix printer, which in itself is a very decelerating and boring activity. The book block was then split lengthwise down the middle so that the two halves can be turned parallel to each other, but don’t have to. Anchored in a handmade cover, the result is a book object that already looks like a dusty file cover from the outside and gives the audience a completely new reading experience.

TRUE_FAKE

The project stems from a series of reflections on the current social context, where it is and will be increasingly difficult to identify the dividing line between truth and fiction. Playing with this dichotomy and exploiting an old personal project born to experiment with unconventional symbols, I created these enigmatic words/icons composed of non-alphabetic symbols where the perception of the text becomes difficult and ambiguous and deceives current OCR technologies.

ALEODOR

This typographic experimental work is part of a branding project for a science museum and it was developed under the concept “Making the strange familiar and the familiar strange.”

Aleodor Science Center is nurturing a new world of intelligence, by reducing the distance between what’s perceived as familiar and what seems strange in science. It’s bringing science closer to people’s interests, by developing a new way to discover it.

Aleodor Generator.
The symbol generator was created as a public tool for the Aleodor Science Center staff and the general audience as well. It generates graphic elements for all the brand communication materials and it makes possible an interactive dialogue.

Das gewöhnliche Design

Das gewöhnliche Design (The ordinary Design) is a hidden classic of German design history, something the vinyl era would have called a B-side hit. Newly edited by Frank Philippin and Florian Walzel, the facsimile returns the work to a wider audience.

As early as 1976 a group of students and young professors at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt questioned the way design objects were generally perceived, talked, and written about. Frustrated by the contrast of their self-perception as comprehensive designers and the prospect to have future careers as mere product stylists, they were looking for an alternative understanding of what constitutes good design. The group led by Friedrich Friedl and Gerd Ohlhauser started to collect ordinary things such as bottle openers, air pumps, or bus timetables. In an ad-hoc approach these objects, all from anonymous authors, where exhibited at the faculty under the title The ordinary Design. This show, which presented only “boring” everyday commodities, surprisingly received national attention and discussions flared up in the design press. In a comical manner the young designers had used means of traditional exhibition design like velvet covered pedestals, usually reserved for “high art.”

Together with the unspectacular exhibits this provoked or at least irritated the audience. At the same time the absence of any heroic, iconic, or aesthetically refined qualities among the things shown seemed to mock the whole design education. The approach was original enough so that the Rhenish Open-Air and Regional Museum Kommern bought the extraordinary ordinary exhibits, repeated the show, and printed an exhibition catalog. The catalog (104 pages) contained among others contributions by Bazon Brock, Peter von Kornatzki, and Adelhart Zippelius. The 110 black-and-white photographs provide a specific snapshot of what unspectacular product normality meant in the mid-70s.

Although this must be considered one of the earliest attempts to anchor the appreciation of mundane qualities in design discourse, the catalog became a rarity and is now available in only a few libraries. By publishing a facsimile, the editors make a design classic more than just available again; this renews the question: How much of design is owed to the ordinary? In a time that dedicates its cultural attention almost exclusively to novelty and exceptionalism, everyday utility is the silent opponent of “design.”

Das gewöhnliche Design

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editors: Frank Philippin, Florian Walzel
Authors: Friedrich Friedl, Gerd Ohlhauser
Design: Frank Philippin
Publishing Direction: Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl
Format: 15.2 × 22 cm
Volume: 104 pages
Language: German
Workmanship: Softcover with Stitch-Binding, black offset-printing with spot color
ISBN: 978-3-948440-48-0
Price: €15.– (DE)
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BERLIN

Publication made by the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad del Desarrollo, corresponding to the experience of teachers traveling to the city of Berlin, Germany.

The book was articulated as an atlas of 3 major themes. Circular cuts were made as a guide when consulting the book. The abstract illustration, understanding Berlin as a large park, was a contribution to get away from the classical images of its architecture.

DESERT

Catalog of the exhibition of the photographic work of the artist Roderik Henderson at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Chile.

In the search for new formats, the proposal was a series of collectible postcards as a book, in which each visitor received a different selection. The work of stereoscopic photography was enhanced with an envelope that allows viewing of the variable content, together with a strong visual identity of the name of the exhibition: Desierto

Design, Populism and Politics

Being populist and political in this polyphonic visual communication environment means trying to say everything for everyone at the same time. This poster does just that. It tries to convey its slogan under the name of “polyphony” in the midst of confusion. The title of the symposium is written in three fonts that have become popular, and all three are superimposed on top of each other. None of these three typefaces can fully reveal its own character; it gets lost in the others or hides behind them. When the three are together, they do not form a coherent unity, on the contrary, they create a crowd.

Digital Me (Or: What the World Wide Web Knows About Me)

Within three weeks, as much data as the internet has about me was requested and collected. The resulting archive served as the basis for further design, all images and codes used can be found in this archive. Several individual works were created. In these, the focus was on an experimental approach to designing and conveying the feeling of powerlessness. One of them is the following book. Dimensions: 14 × 15 × 36 cm, 8.288 pages.

The stones, onto which images from the archive have been mapped, serve here as fragments or even digital artifacts that support the content. These elements are augmented with augmented reality (AR).

ET–ET

ET-ET is a thesis project for a Master’s degree in Communication Design and Publishing at ISIA U in Urbino. The project involved the development of a private website prototype for a multiparametric interdisciplinary system for historical and visual analysis. The prototype was based on the cataloging standards of REICAT and ISBN, and implemented with typical aspects of historical and graphic analysis. The prototype filtered and analyzed a sample of 54 archival posters, providing automatic statistical elaboration of the study data. The book ET-ET presents the entire project, from its theoretical origins to the final prototype, showcasing the analysis results through texts and infographics.

Open Arts Forum Poetry 2019

Open Arts Forum: Poetry 2019 is an anthology of poems aggregated from the online platform Open Arts Forum for Poetry. This collection was sourced algorithmically, according to social engagement: it contains those poems published in 2019 that were the most-liked and most-commented. This subtracts part of the editor’s traditional role in forming a book and instead turns that responsibility over to, first, the crowdsourced opinion of the works and second, the algorithm responsible for assessing engagement. Each poem is published together with its number of likes and comments, allowing the reader to consider not only the poem but also also the context of its social impact.

Not Wanting To Say Anything About This Exhibition

Poster design for the exhibition called “Not Wanting To Say Anything About This Exhibition”. The show is based on these questions: What is the distinction between curated and un-curated content? How can we bring apparently disparate elements together? Is it possible for an unintentional assembly of “things” to build a meaningful whole? Can we make a narrative out of them? In response to these concerns, the typographic components on the poster were created. Inspired by John Cage’s artwork, Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel (1969), the title and arrangement of the letters -as if they’d come together by chance- is a tribute to Cage’s original artwork.

Ally

Ally is an expressive but delicate typeface that pushes the boundaries of legibility. Its unconventional shapes emerged from calligraphic experiments with the attempt to design characters with only one stroke and only curves. Ally was initially conceived for display situations and short texts but can also evoke interesting textures in smaller sizes and longer texts. It provides a playground for distinctive and vigorous typography.

Diploma Exhibition 2023—Perspectives

From May 4th to 21st, the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe presents the graduation projects created between 2022 and 2023 within the Diploma exhibition 2023—Perspectives in the atriums of the school.

The works shown in the exhibition open up a vide variety of perspectives on themes that are paradigmatic of our times. They revolve around themes such as memory, capitalist time structures, contemporary forms of work, the effects of the media on society and the individual, and the relationship between human and nature.

While to some, the exhibited works appear as mere qualification steps necessary for obtaining an academic degree, for the young artists and designers themselves they often stand for much more. As the result of extensive work processes they are testimonies to doubt, experimentation, and collaboration. As threshold between study and working life, they are inextricably linked to memories and plans for the future. By presenting these personal aspects alongside the diplomas, the exhibition allows visitors a glimpse behind the surface of the completed diplomas and perfected CVs.

Diploma exhibition 2023—Perspectives

When?
May 4th to 21st, 2023
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Opening: Thursday, May 4th, 2023, 6 p.m.
Festival weekend: May 5th–7th, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.

Entry free

Where?
Atrium in the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe

Lorenzstr. 15
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany

More information here.

Fashion Views

My projects stand out for their narrative force, all my visual work It is a constant search for my own visual language, where I try to imprint a personal vision to each project , always with high aesthetic and communicative values, where the core is to find the story that represents each product, each brand. The final objective is therefore, to conquer the eye of whoever is in front of any of his pieces, be it an image or a visual piece.