Blended Perspectives is an interactive poster based on my personal manifesto on design. The poster begins folded in the word “Blended” and as you peel back the layers, shifts into a completely new word, “Perspective.” As you are folding the pieces, the manifesto reads: Design is a multi-disciplinary and layered process, design should shift perspectives and heighten your curiosity, design will re-imagine barriers, limitations and mistakes, design should be an intersection of all of your practices. My intention is that while you are physically interacting with this piece, those concepts are something you can tangibly feel. Once the poster is fully open, an entirely new piece is revealed, displ
Cognitive Distortions Type – Thinking Mistakes We Make Every Day
Cognitive distortions are exaggerated patterns of thoughts or beliefs that are not based on facts, distort person’s perception of reality, usually in a negative way. In short, they’re habitual errors in thinking. This term which belongs to cognitive behavioral therapy suggests that our thoughts, emotions and behavior are all connected, and what we think and do affects the way we feel. Cognitive Distortions Type is a display font with different variants in, inspired by thinking mistakes that are classified as cognitive distortions which we frequently encounter in daily life. Letters have the characteristic features of distorted thinking such as being rigid, sharp,dominant, sensitive etc.
Super Tramp Typeface
This display focused typeface is designed to pridefully take up space with wide letterforms, generous tracking and lively, multifaceted swashes. It’s about reflecting diverse characters and identities as well as dismantling biases. It offers several types of swashes to express diverse attributes. Drawn from a classical idea of a serif typeface the swashes want to break with an orderly design concept and reveal a more diverse look but at the same time keep a certain coherence to the overall appearance. Extrovert, introvert and everything in between or beyond; every character has a right to exist and be given space as well as acceptance.
Eclectic
Experiment borrowing from calligraphy and typography practices, forcing individuality in each letterform while trying to create a sense of wholeness.
Uneasy
This experiment took place while traveling on an airplane. I tried to push my sense of aesthetics and limits of legibility while drawing these letterforms. Individually, each letter is barely recognizable, yet in context the phrase is easy to read.
Residency at Holke 79 2021; A–Z Halloween 2020; Build Yourself 2020
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experimental typeface
Analog total
If you are interested in analog photography the catalog Analog total which is available at our Slanted Shop, is the right book for you.
Analog photography is enjoying a revival. Whereas digital photography is predominantly used for documentary and everyday purposes, its analog counterpart is becoming increasingly popular as an artistic and experimental medium.
This catalog showcases the wide variety of contemporary trends in analog photography as exemplified by individual and serial works, as well as photographic installations. Produced by twenty-four artists from German-speaking countries, the works are grouped into four thematic sections that illustrate different facets of this art form, all with a distinct focus on the material and experimental uses of light, chemical ingredients, and technique.
The publication highlights contemporary takes on photograms, chemigrams, and lumen printing, which all hark bark to the early days of photography. Silver daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of modern-day sceneries create a disturbing anachronistic effect. Yet other artists employ very different forms of photography that go beyond simple cameras.
The catalog also includes artistic positions that blur the boundaries between analog and digital photography, e.g., by interacting with artificial intelligence, collaborating with digital machines, and transposing digital images into analog pictures.
Including works by: Sylvia Ballhause, Eun Sun Cho, Günter Derleth, Jana Dillo, Tine Edel, Alexander Gehring, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Alexander Kadow, Georgia Krawiec, Martin Kreitl, Antje Kröger, Ute Lindner, Lilly Lulay, Harald Mairböck, Florian Merkel, Falk Messerschmidt, Elisabeth Moritz, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Helena Petersen, René Schäffer, Karoline Schneider, Regina Stiegeler, Claus Stolz, Ria Wank.
Analog total–Fotografie heute
Editor: Grassi Museum für angewandte Kunst
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Language: German, English
Bookbinding: Hardcover
Volume: 192 pages
EAN: 9783862069507
ISBN: 978-3-86206-950-7
Price: € 32.–
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2018 / Obsession I & II / Reading_Scores_High / Sketching_Modules / Slow / Tricky_Maxinquaye / Violence I & II / Whilst_writing_with_the_unorthodox_hand
The selection of works here is a collection of type-based experiments, textural or literal, in certain situations metaphorical. Anything becomes type and type might become anything, there’s a special ecstasy in working with visual, symbolic forms of spoken / written language. It shapes moods and messages. It goes beyond words, endless possibilities in shaping ideas equal endless possibilities of existence.
The image set is compound of sketches, layers and experiments with type I incorporated in posters, visual identities or advertising materials.
Extended
Extended is a p5.js sketch running on an HTML webpage. The outlines of letters and/or words can be stretched by the user with the cursor. The paths of a letter are traced by dots. Each point’s position is manipulated by the position of the cursor.
TypeThis!Studio
Today we want to introduce you to the new type foundry TypeThis!Studio from Hamburg.
TypeThis!Studio is a new type foundry by German type designer Anita Jürgeleit. The company aims to help creatives and businesses improve their typography design and thus fulfilling their visions. Focused on editorial, branding and corporate identity use, their typefaces are high-performing fonts tailored to provide exactly the features their clients need.
TypeThis!Studio offers a variety of fonts for businesses and designers. “Designers typically know the value of a well-designed typeface,” explains Anita Jürgeleit, founder of TypeThis!Studio, “but it is difficult to determine whether a typeface meets your needs. Therefore we have developed a service to boost our clients’ confidence in the versatility of our fonts.”
With digital specimens, TypeThis!Studio offers visitors a tool to assure whether the desired font fulfills all their technical requirements. One of these requirements could be the support of a certain language or a special typography glyph.
More importantly, visitors are also given the ability to download free trial versions of the fonts. With these free trials, TypeThis!Studio shows trust and good faith towards their clients. Designers are now one step ahead and can layout, test typefaces, and get a visual impression of their typography before their work becomes a commercial project.
Last but not least, we would like to mention the newly introduced Core Editions. Core font families contain an essential character of TypeThis!Studio’s best-selling fonts. To support junior designers and small startups, all Core versions are offered under $ 30.–.
To learn more about TypeThis!Studio’s fonts services and how to get access to their typefaces, visit their website.
The Hidden Essence
The show interprets Ukiyo-e as photographs documenting the everyday lives of Edo commoners, rather than works of art. In the poster, a large area of the print is obscured from view, inviting the viewer to come closer and study the details. Also, Inkjet technology has made it possible to add texture to the obscured area so the viewer can vaguely make out the details of the print. Black shape cropped each Ukiyo-e was based Kanji, linked to their respective themes. Our posters have succeeded in incorporating the essence of the show, by looking at both the details and the entirety of the print, that there is so much more to Ukiyo-e than meets the eye.
The Origin of Life
We created a visual symbol made by programming and graphic design. The three types of “BIO” typography are inspired by the fact that a proto cell, the origin of life, has a simple lipid membrane structure. The design was aimed to be derived not only from the aesthetic sense of the designer, but also exploring the possibility of a more organic visual with life by incorporating the laws and dynamics of nature and the physical world.
Planning / SHA inc.
Art Direction / Kazushige Takebayashi
Design / Natsuki Isa , Shuhei Yokota
Visual Technologist / Miki Kudo
Programing /
Junichiro Horikawa [Orange Jellies],SHoya Dozono [Qosmo, Inc.],Ryosuke Nakajima [Qosmo, Inc.]
chaos to the order
Every fail is an idea, that we didn’t have. Every time something doesn’t turn out the way we imagined, we might have created something completely new. This work is a homage to all the fails out there. Showing the beauty within the error.
This work is referred to the Motion Experience Lab, a creative room to experiment with time and space with design at Köln international school of design. Just like good old MTV channel, the videos of the lab should be added with intros, bumpers, openers and closers. This is my contribution to that aim, this project was hosted by Nina Juric, founder of the MXL. Created with a wonderful extension of processing: Petter, programmed by Benjamin of LAFKON.
CHAOS—ORDER
CHAOS—ORDER is a screen printed poster, originally designed to be a diptych mural. These letterforms and their legibility are no longer defined by outlines, but appear through the illusion of movement and depth, all thanks to the viewer’s visual perception. As a result, letterforms seemingly raise above the plane, beyond the two-dimensional structure from which it is constructed. Therefore the typography takes shape, via the viewer’s eye and mind, somewhere on the boundary between reality and appearance.
A5/10: Collecting Graphic Design
Today is a good day to browse through our Slanted Shop, where you can now find the publication A5/10: Collecting Graphic Design by Jens Müller.
Modern graphic design has existed for more than a hundred years. In an exciting history of evolution, the discipline has evolved and established itself worldwide. The fact that we can trace this development in detail today is largely thanks to archives and collections that preserve posters, logos, book covers, design manuals, and small printed matter. The natural short-lived nature of many of these media, the ever-changing visual zeitgeist, and the fact that graphic design is always a reflection of contemporary history make its history incredibly appealing.
A5/10: Collecting Graphic Design presents ten specialized graphic design archives and collections from all over the world—from traditional institutions to private initiatives. Curators and collectors show favorite exhibits and highlights from their collections, tell the stories behind the artifacts, and report on their work in in-depth interviews. The book presents collections and archives from Berlin, Buenos Aires, Milan, Paris, San Francisco, and Tokyo. An appendix features more than 60 other international collections in brief.
Featured Collections: Graphic Design Documentation Center of Aiap—Milan, Italy / Canada Modern—Mono, Ontario, Canada / DNP Graphic Design Archives—Tokyo, Japan / IDA Foundation—Buenos Aires, Argentina / Sammlung Grafikdesign Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Berlin, Germany / Letterform Archive—San Francisco, USA / Rochester Institute of Technology—Rochester, New York, USA / Serge Ricco—Paris, France / Swiss Graphic Design Foundation—Winterthur, Switzerland / A5 Sammlung—Düsseldorf, Germany
A5/10: Collecting Graphic Design
Publisher: OPTIK BOOKS
Design: Vista, Düsseldorf
Author: Jens Müller
Printing: Offset
Finishing: Brochur with poster cover
Language: English, German
Volume: 128 pages with 500 illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-9822542-2-7
Price: € 28.–
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Find Joy
The message is as simple as it reads. Find joy in the everyday, the best things in life are free.
Visually the poster explores illustrated typography and composition, while being true to its message; simple.
THE EDGE OF LIGHT
This Reactive Type Relief concerns analogue work in which the typography reacts to the movement of the viewer. The typography may appear to be virtual, but in reality makes use of the technology of printing, the viewer’s visual perception and own physical movement. In this way, the viewer translates two-dimensional line structures into the appearance of three-dimensional and transforming typography. The line structures produce a moiré effect that, in this case, produces a moving image and vivid stereoscopic depth. Moiré is considered an undesirable side effect, in both on-screen and in printed matter, which Dijkstra uses to the sculpting of typography.
THE SHAPE OF SPACE
This Reactive Type Relief concerns analogue work in which the typography reacts to the movement of the viewer. The typography may appear to be virtual, but in reality makes use of the technology of printing, the viewer’s visual perception and own physical movement. In this way, the viewer translates two-dimensional line structures into the appearance of three-dimensional and transforming typography. The line structures produce a moiré effect that, in this case, produces a moving image and vivid stereoscopic depth. Moiré is considered an undesirable side effect, in both on-screen and in printed matter, which Dijkstra uses to the sculpting of typography.
Fridge
I rework a single photograph several times, always in a different way, until I get the shapes and colors that I like
We are daily surrounded by the same things. We are so used to their presence that we no longer notice them, we no longer see them; even if our eyes are set on them, we do not notice them and it is as if we do not see them.
In the DAILY project I want to represent everyday objects, to decontextualize them, to make them assume their own identity and a new life.
The series I am completing have the refrigerator, the dishwasher and the bed as their subject, and the images I propose refer to the FRIDGE series.
THISISNOT.LA
50% Documentary and 50% Fiction, the short film THISISNOT.LA about protagonist Flockey Ocscor, leads us through his way of diving into his creative mindset as a dancer. The viewer is taken on a journey including the endless inspiration he explores, while his perception of reality is changed with every slight influence, always creating something totally different with every move. It’s him standing in his old shoes and riding new waves. Time after time.
The title THISISNOT.LA is a sarcastic allusion to the dazzling and wild world in the city of Los Angeles, creating a discrepancy between his reality and his desires. As his creative path has led him to L.A., Flockey has a strong inspirational bond to the city of course. But as he states, it’s about yourself, the people, the vibe, and the atmosphere. It’s the moment that leads you, so you don’t have to think about anything. Because this is a never-ending story of something unique in the making.
As part of the film project THISISNOT.LA by BAM Photographers, for which OOOZ Club created the graphics, came the idea of a limited edition as a promotion for this. The story of the film relies on the creative influence of a dancer. How this is created and where the inspiration comes from. And what supports a dancer more than anything else? Music.
Because of this, they decided to design a specially developed picture LP that includes the complete story of the film. Equipped with eight double-sided photo prints and almost the same weight as a normal LP. All images were also perforated so that the first impression really resembles a recordable LP. The special pack also includes a tote bag, matches, patches, and a limited sticker pack containing all graphics appearing in the film.
THISISNOT.LA
Designers: OOOZ Club
Authors: BAM Photographers
Editors: BAM & OOOZ Club
Publishers: Self Published
Release date: September 2021
Volume: 8 pages
Format: 310 × 314 mm
Language: English
Production/Finishing: Letterjazz (LP Cover) / Nießen Offsetdruck GmbH (Inlay)
Limited promotion pack to 700 pieces
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Behind the looking glass
I created this poster for an event at University of Applied Arts called “Behind the looking glass”. I tried in my design to get effect of distortion with different pieces of the glass and bold typography.
Sunder
Logo design for musician Alexis Sunder. Custom font in 2 weights for branding and visual communication
Finally, things are happening. Studio for Immediate Spaces Graduation Show 2021
Finally Things Are Happening is the title of the graduation show of the class of 2021 of Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. The students contextualised their research around Maison Descartes, the former French Institute of Amsterdam, now an Antikraak building. The graphics were born out of a formal and material research on the aesthetic qualities of papers alien to the typewriter. All the different components were physically typed on toilet paper and later on scanned and reprinted. Toilet paper is a methaphor of the immediacy of the current times. A way to grasp the zeitgeist of the transition that humanity is experiencing. A time of uncertainty.