New artist promo shoot from local Chicago musician, Boy Romeo.

I divided a 180cm long sketchbook into sections and filled it with drawings with paint pens. I did this as an exercise in colour placement and balance. The drawings produced are all spontaneous and unrelated.

This image is an homage to the boundless imagination of a child — watching orange juicers at the grocery store was a favourite childhood activity, a form of entertainment. I called those mysterious machines rollercoasters for oranges. They were a magical combination of movement, shape, and colour.
Beyond the joyful presence of color as tied to a memory, this work was made with graphic design in mind: circles in the form of oranges; isometric view of the counter that makes two triangles; squares containing pictograms scattered about the image. The presence of geometry highlights the mechanical nature of the juicer and supermarket as a whole — counteracting the “organic” nature of oranges.

The Color Dot Font is a font composed entirely of colored circles. Each Latin character is replaced with a circle of a certain color. For example, an “a” character is represented by a green circle, an “r” character by an orange circle, and so forth. Described as “delightfully odd” by It’s Nice That, readers often find that replacing letterforms with dots heightens awareness of the patterns and structures of language. It’s interesting to see how much you can still understand. Available as an OTF file and a browser plug-in, the font can be installed and used on any computer operating system.

Invitation flyer for fatuk.de for their exhibition »Kaiserslautern. Entwürfe für die Stadt« to celebrate 10 years of the architecture gallery in Kaiserslautern. The exhibition shows students projects of alternative urban development for the city.
The whole city of Kaiserslautern itself is surrounded by a well-known nature reserve, the Pfälzerwald. So it was obvious to integrate it to the design process: the number 10 as monumental simple shapes in their corporate colour orange, framed by the green forest.
The flyer is also readable like a newspaper introducing every project, unfolded to DIN A1 it reveals the exhibition poster. Printed only with two spot colours, metallic green and orange.

Oh you fresh and sour lemonfruit. You juice me up when I’m in mood. Your healthiness is unlike other. Your yellowness is like the mother.

Folded flyer for the Creative Business Award – Kreativsonar. Printed in two flashy fluorescent colours. The letters are literally floating on the water like swimming hoops, partly overprinted for a nice contrast and depth.
Dare to take a jump into cold water?!

Play with forms

Play with forms

Every year the University of art and design in Saarbrücken, »HBKsaar« releases a yearbook with the students best work of the last year. From all the different disciplines like product design, communication design, art, media art and design. It’s been published for the annual exhibition. Colour plays a vital role in the HBKsaar’s colourful identity.
Due to the pandemic sadly the exhibition was cancelled, so the book this year becomes literally the exhibition. Entering all the many rooms directly on the cover the visitor can navigate through the book like going from room to room accompanied with a bold and vivid colour palette as a warm welcome to the HBKsaar.

1. Slanted Type: a colour font based on optical illusion. The font name – slanted – refers to that particular illusion. Demo posters A: Is it slanted? B: Type, C: Character set.

2. Sierpinski Chromatic: another colour/layered font based on an isometric fractal pattern. Chaos is non-random. It has a structure: fractal symmetry. My work harnesses the beauty of fractals and infused into typography. It has two layers for separate colours. The third colour is the same as the background. Demo posters A: Mercury, B: Xenon, C: Symmetry

Pattern creations with relections on separation.

This 4x2m Mural features an advertising-quote for the substance SOMA from Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”. It was handpainted and lettered in four pastelly, slightly tacky colors to underline the drug-induced, fluffy carelessness that plays a big role in the novel.

Every year the University of art and design in Saarbrücken, »HBKsaar« releases a yearbook with the students best work of the last year. From all the different disciplines like product design, communication design, art, media art and design. It’s been published for the annual exhibition. Colour plays a vital role in the HBKsaar’s colourful identity. There is always a different colour theme. This time reflex blue and fluorescent orange, a psychedelic and eye-catching neon colour combination. A force of attraction like a vortex. It absorbs you in a dark hole like Alice in the rabbit hole.

Grid formations of bold typography which formulates patterned structures = Colours Love.

CMYK & Peper mint camo

Every Nation has a flag. And a flag is needed for recognition worldwide. It’s used as a symbol, a signaling device, and sometimes to show what the nation is most proud of. We’re proud of our wild nature and colorful flowers.

»MonoTool« is an interactive artwork and design tool. It invites collaborators to play with Lena’s stylistic elements. The tool is an endless source of output and creates a coherent visual regardless of the current user. It strips the user of the ability to influence it’s aesthetic deeply while proposing a challenge to experiment within specific limitations. »MonoTool« is an »open« artwork, meaning it only exists at the moment a composition is laid down. The interactive artwork was created within a project, that collects aspects of the grid, with the goal to draw new inspiration from this topic.
Create new compositions of this artwork on www.aspektedesrasters.de

Away from the consideration of individual life, however, there is a super construct that leaves generations behind in aeons. In this work, mutations and the traces of life at different stages during evolution are interpreted. In doing so, the concept of mutation is removed from its biological origin and considered in a reduced way: (An-) Organic substances and material compounds are subjected to external influences such as supplied energy or forces and driven to change or even decomposition. 
The (internal) transformation of materials into various states also represents an optical transformation that could provide an interpretation for the evolutionary developments in nature. 

Design Direction, Strategy, Design: Nick Adam

Some time between the first and the second lockdown I started a bookclub with my friends. Its something I always wanted to do, but never managed to organize. I designed these stickers to promote bookclubs and encourage others to start their own

Canada Post commissioned Andrew Lewis Design to design a new stamp to thank employees across Canada thanking them for their service during 2020/21 with the pandemic. On a whim, Andrew suggested they apply the graphic “Thanks/Merci” plus the secondary artwork to the postal vans across Canada. And the CEO said “YES!” And so, Canada now has a fleet of trucks across the nation that now brighten the days of weary Covid Canadians. For a conservative, Government corporation to say yes to this silly idea is where the true magic is to this story, not necessarily with the actual design!

Abstract shore printed on riso.