What is our contemporary sublime? How does the sublime landscape shift to a more complex and distanced nothingness? To find the visual representation of the awe and terror of sublime experience caused by the impact of digital technology nowadays, the awe-inspiring size and complexity in this work present the computer language of one single landscape image in a five-meter-long scroll.

When these digital translations apply to an analogue format, they also alter their original context’s narrative. The digital components and infinite information show a kind of distanced and complex relationship between nature and the network environment.

‘Uncreative portrait’ is an accumulation that documents the designer’s single portrait in multiple visual languages produced by the impact of computers and cyberspace.

By examining the digital sublime as an alternative visual representation, it establishes a discourse around the aura of self-identity in the age of digital reproduction. These images continuously explore our digital self’s shifting authenticity and identity in the contemporary digital era. Is there a line between the self and its data shadow? Where is our physical memory going in this endless re-identification process?

“The big balancer. Eternal WORK IN PROGRESS. Born while listening to my favorite no wave performers. Always balancing in the minute of OR, on the border of ‘A’ or ‘B’, stuck in the moment of decision. Programmed but handmade, for display, but for text, traditional grotesk, but handwriting based, mechanical, but full of intuitive details, guitar music, but wants to destroy guitars, wanna make music but it should be no-music.“ — Boldizsár Tóth
Inspired by these thoughts I designed a specimen for Boldizsár’s BETU font, through an interview with him and the process of making the font. Besides typographic compositions I integrated some of the InDesign crashes I captured during the process.

Is seven a lot? // Seven. What does seven mean? Seven at one stroke. You have to cross 7 bridges. The world was created in 7 days. There are 7 days in a week. 7 world wonders. 7 dwarfs. And so on. The seven seems to play a leading role. In religion, mythology and also in superstition, it appears everywhere. But is seven a lot or a little? Or perhaps just the right amount? The answers are seemingly limitless and consist of countless fragments. One possibility branches out into further possibilities and these in turn into further proliferating facets. Questions about truth, reality and actuality arise.

“Sex, but how?” is a publication that highlights the topic of sexual diversity from twelve different perspectives as part of sexual education. It tells the stories of drastically different, extraordinary people, that are not afraid of speaking openly and loudly about sexual diversity, and willing to share their personal experiences. It was of a great importance with the project “Sex, but how?” to not only pay certain contribution to explaining the diversity of sexual identities but make this important information accessible and exciting for young people.

Commissioned in 2019, the Ethiopian Forest Coffee Atlas brought the most successful and thriving coffee cooperatives in Ethiopia together in one atlas.

As a designed experience, Studio Otherness considered the history and intentions of the atlas: a wayfaring and mapping device. Small details such as latitudes and longitudes act as ornamental elements in the folio, while emphasis is put on the relational proximity of the cooperatives to their regions in Ethiopia.
The technical nature of a traditional atlas is reconsidered with inset stories from members of the cooperative.

The book deals with 150 false statements of former U.S. President Donald Trump, based on the collection of the Washington Post database collected by the journalists Meg Kelly, Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo. This database captures all of President Trump’s false statements and documents, categorizes, and refutes them in every detail, no matter how small. Furthermore, the book presents one way why the amount, variety of false statements and the ever-growing doubt about democracy, ultimately led to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Ode to Construction – Abstraction in the Digital Age explores the intersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.

At once a book, website, and exhibition, Ode to Construction demonstrates the fluidity of design’s materializations within the conditions of the digital, moving effortlessly between screen, print, and space. By reanimating the formal strategies of modernist abstraction, graphic designer Polina Joffe probes the technical and social registers of design today.

Four five type specimen
entirely screen-printed on black paper with silver ink.
Type design: Fabrizio Falcone
Specimen design: Stefano Lucchetti
Silkscreen printing: Giacomo Silva

Invierno (Winter in Spanish) is a photography book almost exclusively on flowers. It is not a Botanics catalog but an accumulation of closely taken pictures of flowers. Invierno runs away from an interpretation of flowers as symbols of the vulnerable and the inoffensive, showing instead their aggressive, strong, dirty, abstract and sticky side. Invierno presents sought flowers and found flowers, existing-no-matter-why-flowers and existing-by-some-human-choice-flowers.

Author: Marina Fornet Vivancos.
978-84-09-43474-9.
228 pages.
19,8 x 28 cm.
Offset.
Thread-sewn softcover.
Munken Crystal 300 gr/m2 and CreatorStar Gloss 150 gr/m2.
TWK Everett Mono Super and Neptun Nord SemiBold.
300 copies.

Crying is a uniquely human behavior that has always been a mystery, and society has considered crying shameful, causing people, especially men, to suppress it.

On the other hand, seemingly unrelated, embroidery is an artistic technique that has historically been deemed inferior to its counterparts. Practiced mostly by women, it has always remained in the domestic sphere.

This book is the collection of the research conducted on these topics. Through the binding, the book weaves these two subjects into one. The reader can choose to read the book in any order but, as the topics get interconnected, the pages of the two books communicate with each other until a simultaneous reading is needed.

SKIP AD is the first artist’s book by the graphic designer Gjorgji Despodov. Despodov creates a playful artistic method called the “Session for self-discovery,” an integral part of the more comprehensive SKIP AD project. Through this method, critically oriented towards mass consumerism, Despodov opens the possibility for an alliance between the graphic designer and us, the users.The project is sponsored by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development.This book is published by PrivatePrint Year: 2021Dimensions: 21х14,8 cmPages: 152 Language: English
Printed on Fedrigoni Arcoset paper with FSC certification. Editor: Ilija Prokopiev
Assistant editor: Marija Hristova

Kristel ter Beek is a Dutch photographer. In her photos you’ll never see people. This publication is based on the work method of Ter beek: showing more that the eye sees at first glance. All photographs taken by Ter Beek in this series are in the book, but also the ones she didn’t shot. When one takes a second look, hidden texts and boxes appear. This bold publication was made by printing ton-sur-ton: white ink on white paper (190gr. Condat Matt). The white ink is printed in 4 runs and becomes visible when the book is slightly tilted and moved. The cover is printed with white ink only and the Curious Matter (380gr. Goya White) paper gives the book a rough, concrete feel.

The book Beyond Matter offers a survey of all the photographs, drawings, installations, sculptures and videos by artist Levi van Veluw. This extraordinary book is an artwork in itself. Through the use of white space, symmetry and harmony—often utilised to depict the pursuit of divine perfection—in combination with a bespoke typeface, materials (both choice of paper and binding) and tactility, the book imitates a sacral experience: each book cover contains a unique handmade sculpture, the book ends at the beginning and dissevered typography makes the book larger than the book itself. Also a special edition slide-in case is made entirely by hand. A true object of veneration.

Time Flows is a handmade book that documents my inner thoughts and struggles for my first four years of design practice after graduation, for my parents, for their long-suffering.
It is not necessary about going to a certain place or arriving at a certain goal in life, the most important thing is about what you learn along the way in that journey, destination may not be important. Life will make its turns and you just have to learn to go with the flow and learn how to be ready for that, stay curious and the life force inside

The act of glossing can conceal, reveal, expound, destabilize, obscure, and divert attention from a main text. Glosses is a book composed of letters written by sixteen anonymous collaborators. These are printed in blue ink and arranged as a continuous stream of correspondence. My commentary, printed in metallic gold, contains notes on social media and human interaction. Gold ink was chosen for its historical connections with illuminated manuscripts and marginalia. Here, the two texts intertwine and eventually the annotation becomes the main text. Glosses exposes the viewer to various human emotions in the form of letters and also provokes questions regarding the nature of our correspondence.

This publication carries forward research undertaken during a series of solitary and collaborative walks as part of ‘The Drive of Walking’ masterclass (2016) at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands. Self-reflective and experimental in its approach, it is a collection of notes, impressions and reflections on/during these walks. This is followed by visual scores depicting a soundscape exercise carried out by a group of participants. They can be described as experimental graphic scores to the city of Maastricht reflecting the time and place of another, some of which may never be heard again.

My book “Do not disturb my circles” (Orig. Man störe mir meine Kreise nicht) retells the history of mathematical sciences in a more entertaining way than usually seen in specialist literature or popular science. In 10 chapters referring to important mathematical milestones and 15 fictional short stories featuring remarkable mathematicians the history of Mathematics unfolds in all its fascination. I researched and wrote the texts myself. My collage illustrations support the content in a more playful way whereas scientific graphics help to understand complex matters. The grid is based on principles of the Golden Ratio. The book cover and packaging was screen printed on Gmund paper.

“Re: Re: is a project in which the two graphic designers Yunus Ak and Umut Altıntaş send each other letters using their typographic vocabulary, text, word, and writing that becomes completely abstract, marked, complicated, simplified, and meaningless.

> https://umutaltintas.net/RE-RE-1
> https://umutaltintas.net/RE-RE-1

Horizonte is an annual publication within an initiative of the Faculty of Urbanism and Architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar. The 14th issue was designed by Handina Murandu and Josephine Schröder. 500 copies, 320 pages. The subject is manifestations. Hence, the design is based on a manual: two parts, seminar and submitted contributions, are distinguished by white and yellow paper. Also, there are different page numbering systems and text use in both parts. The graphic elements in one part are silver blocks that emphasize the text, in the other part the lines stress the white space. They contrast each other.The layout is held together by the grid, header and the colors silver and black.

This book is a financial fail but an affair of the heart. Over 140 pages reflecting the transparent process of my graduate fashion collection, a cooperation with homeless people. The printing of softcover/poster and pages has cost a fortune. To save money I ‘ve cut all pages by myself and used a simple stapler for binding. I ‘ve mixed the pages with low cost laser prints on ordinary colored paper. Latter turned to a stylistic device. From images, over texts & interviews, to layout and spelling mistakes, the book is the result of my passionate work. I’ve sold 2 of 10 I’ve bound. The others were gifts to the homeless. Until today the rest of the uncut pages get dusty in a box.

WATER, FLUXUS, POETRY, JOHN CAGE, PIONEER, MYCOLOGY, HAPPENINGS, PIANO, MUSIC, ARIA, PERFORMANCE

John Cage – Prompt Poetry is a catalogue featuring AI generated images based on the music by John Cage and the characteristics of the FLUXUS movement. Later on these images were shown in a 360° video projection that was performed at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Throughout his career, the late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman used to catalogue his numerous ideas and thoughts in notebooks; these notes were organized and published as a book, CHROMA, in 2013. It is Jarman’s personal pondering on chromatogram, and I disguised the book as a private notebook, making use of non-standardized production methods, including the bare threads on the book’s binding, and the uneven category label stickers. These man-made defects help to close the distance between readers and the author.

An observation of Taiwan’s local font designs, penned by a Japanese author. The jacket, filled with the fonts selected from the contents, is in one piece with the book itself, implying that the book lies down in Taiwan’s environment of fonts when the jacket is spread in full.