The poster announces design workshops at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. It discusses the gap between digital working and handcrafted production in modern graphic design. The poster combines both analogue letter stamps and digital vector graphics. It is printed in 8 rounds and 2 colors (black + black) on a A3 laserprinter with special folding techniques.
What Design Can Do
What Design Can Do announces electric line-up at new design festival on June 3rd, 2022. At the International Theater Amsterdam, 1,000+ creatives will unite around design, climate action, and social justice.
Third time’s the charm! After two years of delays, What Design Can Do (WDCD) is finally returning to Amsterdam with a new edition of its festival on the impact of design. At the heart of the one-day festival is a packed program of urgent talks, exhibitions, and workshops on the intersection of design, climate action, and social justice. Together, it will be discovered how design can help us imagine a better world, and empower those who dare to build it.
Leading the conversation is a line-up of creative visionaries: revolutionary fashion designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal (NG); award-winning architect Marwa Al-Sabouni (SY); triple-threat designer—activist—academic Julia Watson (US); Pussypedia founders Zoe Mendelson (UK) & María Conejo (MX); acclaimed photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen (NL); innovative digital fashion designer Amber Jae Slooten (NL); legendary designer Bruce Mau (CA); expert environmental policy advisor Yvo de Boer (NL); Emmy-winning film director Josh Fox (US); multi-faceted designer and Pentagram partner Eddie Opara (UK), and more to be announced soon.
A Call for Urgency and Optimism
With each passing year, it becomes clearer that all of humanity’s most pressing problems are deeply interconnected. Fortunately, the same holds true for the best of our solutions. “At WDCD Live 2022, we’re bringing change makers from radically diverse disciplines together, to unravel the knot from every direction,” explains WDCD co-founder and creative director Richard van der Laken. “From designers and diplomats, to activists and architects—we’re going to have the skills and thinking-power needed for lasting change, all in one room. There’s real power in that.”
To explore the full range of creatives’ capabilities, the festival will dive into some of the greatest ecological and social issues of our time, as well as the threads that connect them:
The Climate for Change Is Here—There is growing consensus among climate activists that need to be moved beyond the linear economy, and fast. The pandemic has brought into sharp focus the realization that to secure a healthy future for both people and planet, we need to break away from business as usual. But where do we go from here? Can design redefine its own relationship with consumerism, waste, and value? And how can we make a circular future not just accessible—but enticing—for people from all walks of life?
Gender, Design, and Power—What does it mean to have a seat at the table? At WDCD Live 2022, the focus will be shifted from what it takes to pull up a chair, to how the people, as an industry, can rebuild the table from scratch. Together you will dive into why the gender gap remains so widespread, asking: what are the biases and injustices that the system is built on? And how design can be used as a tool to advocate for the rights of women, non-binary, trans, and queer communities?
No Climate Action Without Social—The richest 1% of the world’s population are responsible for twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorest 50%, and yet they do not equally share the burden of its consequences. Now, more than ever, we must champion climate action that also centers and uplifts the world’s most vulnerable people. Using a decolonial lens, the festival’s program will evaluate the links between design and climate justice and invite participants to transform their creative skills into activism.
A Day Designed for Maximum Impact
In a nutshell, here are the main components of this year’s edition of WDCD Live in Amsterdam:
– A main stage program featuring illuminating talks by 10+ thought-leaders in the creative industries, plus a string of musical performances to bring the crowd to their feet.
– A parallel program that invites visitors to dive deeper; featuring exhibitions and panel discussions on themes like gender equality, the circular economy and design in times of Covid-19.
– The chance to collaborate and grow your own impact in a range of interactive workshops, classes and networking sessions—including a pitch event featuring 11+ leading, innovative start-ups.
– An afterparty for visitors to raise a glass together and close the festivities in style. WDCD will be announcing more details about this year’s program over the next few weeks. As the date of the festival is coming nearer, the health and safety policies will be updated to follow the latest recommended Covid-19 guidelines. To stay in the know—and to catch any previews in the run-up to the event—interested parties can follow What Design Can Do on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.
About What Design Can Do
What Design Can Do (WDCD) is an international platform that advocates for design as a tool for social change. Since 2011, WDCD has undertaken numerous activities to promote the role of designers in addressing the world’s most pressing societal and environmental issues. To date, WDCD has hosted 14 successful conferences in Amsterdam, São Paulo, and México City. In 2016, WDCD launched an ambitious design challenge program that engages the creative community with urgent societal issues such as the wellbeing of refugees and climate change.
What Design Can Do
When?
June 3rd, 2022
Where?
International Theater Amsterdam
Leidseplein 26
1017 PT Amsterdam
Netherlands
Click here for more information
Experimental Daily Typographic Poster
While I was waiting at airports and train stations, I took a photo while watching the timeline on the digital screen, and I thought why not an experimental font design on these screens, I created a sketch for this work and came up with a completely experimental font design.
Matches
This is a stop-motion video experiment using matchsticks.
This experiment takes place almost daily in the morning hours. This is a group of video images as an accumulation of these experiments.
By ignoring the usage and story of the matchstick, and considering it as a structure with red circles and long stick elements, we design a new event of movement. And then we observe it.
STU / FSC Series / Imprimer Internet / Infinite Loop Recovery Mode
STU : Visual Identity & promotion graphics for a virtual labor union for truck simulation game users.
FSC Series : FSC is a series of presentations of seasonal collections by Italian textile manufacturers for high fashion market. The event is for giving information about new collections and the characteristics of the manufacturers briefly to fashion designers.
The posters were based on the photoshoots of each collections—details and textures from the textiles—and each manufacturers characteristics and salse point.
Imprimer Internet : Typographic illustration about printing the Internet for Nichons magazine (FR)
Infinite Loop Recovery Mode: Personal project about the theme ‘looping recov
Tauba Auerbach
I created a poster for a talk and presentation by artist Tauba Auerbach at the Yale School of Art.
Her recent work explores how a spherical Earth are flattened in various map projections, and the inaccuracies of land representation within that form. Since we both explore maps in our practice and love typography, I drew the letters of her names on a grid that I developed from various map projections of the Earth to reference both her work and mine. The poster was created in a landscape format to evoke a direct connection with landscapes and physical maps in general.
Coding types
My project consists of experiments with letter shapes inspired by coding in Drawbot. All the posters are united by the idea of pushing boundaries of recognisability and emphasizing unique parts of letter constructions.
Rotterdam
“Niet lullen, maar poetsen!” Translation: Don’t bullshit, just do the work!” And many more expressions from Rotjeknor (Rotterdam) are hidden this photo conversion.
This typeface is developed with the designer in mind. Nel is a modern typeface with lots of options. The Regular version consists of UPPERCASE and lowercase letters, and quite a few other punctuation marks. The Nel Brickbuild is a playful stencil version and the Nel Dots is a dotted typeface. The Nel also has a light and heavy style with corresponding fun versions. Icons (an all icon font) is the most recent member. There are nine options in total to mix and match while designing awesome prints, posters, logos, or whatever 🙂
Spuren/Traces
I want to express my works as “Spuren”.
They’re like a “Zeitgeist” for me what I’ve done in the past.
The first “R-O-T-O-R-BOOK” is a work that created a new image with only the alphabet consisting of R-O-T-O-R.
I used the Futura but I wanted to give it a different feeling that can’t felt with the existing alphabet.
Next, “Umbruch Book” is literally my personal Umbruch theme and made like a little magazine.
Studying in Germany is my Umbruch, so Germany, where I could start designing, became a subject and related content.
It’s a bit of a pity that I took the text from a page from the Bauhaus, but the photos and the cover were made by me.
I’m honored to post traces of mine in Slanted.
FCUK SAFE, ADD YELLOW
A classic serif font with a twist. WBP Emperio has an interesting shape. She has rounded corners and a slightly ‘curvy’ look. The little indent makes her stand out above the rest. A sensation in the making. Emperio has two styles. The Regular: Great for designing friendly corporate identities. And there’s the Hand Drawn style: Great for design posters of prints with a handmade feel. Combine the two and you can go infinite.
Old and new work series
An exploration into challenging legibility. Working with collage and acetate to see how far type can be explored. By using letraset and the freedom of analog process it allows me to experiment with the relationship between type and collage.
TAPE/TYPE
An experimental TAPE/TYPE project dedicated to the gods of rock ’n’ roll. Every letter derives from an infamous band logo of our last century. Can you guess which one?
Lorem Ipsum
It is the first time that I have seriously created a typeface with not a vector. This work can open up my skills, techniques and can adapt to my illustrations.
The Very Holiday 80 Sampler
First in a new series of EPs released by The Very Polish Cut–Outs label. Each EP is dedicated to one artist. The future releases in this series will feature same sleeve design and different colour label.
Die Wilde Jagd
The task was to design a poster for the concert of the German band «Wilde Jagd» in the Neubad Luzern. The name of the band refers to an old folklore motif that occurs in various northern European cultures. Wild Hunts typically involve a chase led by a mythological figure escorted by a ghostly group of hunters engaged in pursuit. For the poster design I tried to capture the atmosphere of this hunt by designing a lettering based on fraktur fonts which is dismembered in a dinamic style.
Chocolated ink
The creation of this typographical error, or more precisely a typographical printing error, is due to the support on which the typography was printed. A transparent paper which was to be used as a cover for a photographic paper edition. This edition was made for the museum of photography in Chalon-sur-Saône. In order to define the typographic size of the title on the cover, I made a scale print on a transparent paper. Simply, on this type of paper, there is a face which absorbs the ink and another which is impermeable. I must specify that I made this home-made print on an inkjet printer, which creates this ink deposit.
Lustra Variable Font
Lustra – a variable pixel font, is an outcome of the Lem Variable Fonts Workshop, conducted by Verena Gerlach and Maciej Połczyński in 2021. The goal for each participant of the workshop was to create a variable font inspired by Stanisław Lem – a polish science fiction author and futurologist.
This typeface visualizes the transition between human world and the world of Lem’s works. The form of it was heavily inspired by mathematical and logical, yet still organic planetary forms from one of his most famous novels „Solaris”. It fits best in patterns or other decorative purposes.
Available for free at lemfont.xyz
Breach Festival 2022
Breach Festival is a festival dedicated to Improvisation and Experimental music.
Breach’s mission is to boost and support these practices in Cyprus: free improvisation, free jazz, contemporary classical music, experimental electronic music, sound-art, as well as many other uncharted sound territories.
This year is the first edition of the Breach Festival and it has joined forces with the Irtijal Festival in Lebanon – the largest festival in Beirut which celebrates its 22nd anniversary of supporting improvised and experimental music.
Gobbble Typeface Specimen
Gobbble is our first typeface and effort on building type and drawing fonts together as Lobbby24, a collective founded during the first Covid-19 lockdown. We couldn’t meet and see each other so we thought about ways to connect and work asynchronously as a team. Every style is drawn by another person using the same stroke thickness and metrics so all letters connect to each other at fixed points. This makes it possible to mix up all styles and create a united mess.
We released Gobbble on Erntedank 2020, the german Thanksgiving, free and open source. For Halloween 2020 we added three Lining styles.
4 works: Eye – Random stripes – 我 – Alphabet
1. Eye.
It’s the EYE word and you can see from both side. And both sides have different emotion.
2. Random stripes.
Random white stripes on black background create some letters (N, H, A, E…)
3. 我
It’s Chinese word, it means “I”; illustrator, 3D.
4. Alphabet.
I create new alphabet font; illustrator, 3D, stripes.
ADHD
An interesting development for me recently was finding out I have ADHD. Not entirely sure what to make of that information. I guess it’s good to know though. I guess it explains a lot.
Metamorphose & Philia
The multicolored typeface “Metamorphose” is inspired by the biological phenomenon of the same name. Each glyph of the font is a formal transition of another glyph. The various shapes take reference to Jugendstil designs of the early 1920s as well as to an anthroposophic approach to design, formulated by Rudolf Steiner during the same time. Besides this abstract experiment, a more functional and readable typeface was designed with the same ideas as a starting point. “Philia” offers contextual alternates for most glyphs, resulting in words whose letters seem to lean towards each other.
Piano Alphabet
This artwork was created after i listened to a lyrical song and get some inspiration from it. So why i will use piano to creative it? That is because the melody of the whole song uses a lot of piano sounds, so in the final i use the piano form to complete this artwork.
The Children of Loki
This is a series of ten craft beer can labels, each using experimental type layouts to tell a part of a story, the parts of that story explained through a statistic. Each statistic refers to the economic differences encountered in life by the Baby Boomer Generation and the Millennial Generation. It is a comparison in spending power, earning power, the cost of housing, education, debt, and investments in infrastructure that enriched an older generation at the crippling expense of future generations. A true display of selfishness and individualism that will have economic ramifications for generations to come.