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.

In light of the social disconnection caused by the global pandemic, Span imagines a new visual platform that is a collaborative art experience. Digital canvases display simple compositions created by a group of virtual performers. The aesthetic takes visual and conceptual inspiration from the art movement of Suprematism (Russian: Супремати́зм)— which emphasizes “the supremacy of pure artistic feeling.” Suprematism was practiced during the world’s previous global pandemic around 1918.

Reaching Out of Reach is a digital design research initiative conceived by Span during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to the new socially-distant way of life. As humans, we need to connect. How can we design

My work represents an utopic/dystopic flag, a mix of various flags coloured with “wrong” palettes. The lower part of the flag’s gone through a liquefying and then drying process. So the flag is depicted after this tumultuous, bizarre fabric metamorphosis, giving the result of an exhausted look, expressing excitement, but also tiredness. In this way, the drive for life and freedom meets a bitterness feeling. But the message is there, clear and unequivocal: no borders, let’s just admire the colours of the world. Let’s face the fact the we are all equally different, but always bond to each others. Let’s break mental barriers: this poster is the symbolization of that difficult process.

As we quarantine, we feeling disconnected with those who we care about most. Span imagined an interface that communicates touch through light, animation, and warmth, allowing loved ones to share an embrace even if they are miles apart. As people touch the sphere, the location, duration, and intensity of the gesture is transmitted to a matching sphere in real time.

Reaching Out of Reach is a digital design research initiative conceived by Span during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to the new socially-distant way of life. As humans, we need to connect. How can we design ways to come together when we have to stay apart?

The book is about the importance of not fitting into the ideas or expectations of society. Instead, try to fit into yourself. Get to know yourself; find out what you feel good at; and stay true to it. Above all, stay free.

I chose orange color for the cover and inside the book. It’s like an orange sea. Orange color is associated with meanings of joy, encouragement, change, determination, freedom and expression. The are handwritten poems with abstract illustrations.

Der Erbsenzähler (bean counter). Watercolor. Illustration for a childrens book citing old, almost forgotten proverbs and offering both the original and a fictitious meaning. The beancounter sits in his dungeonlike hideout and tinkers with his precious green peas which are soon going to become the worlds most sought after food.

Brilliant Together is a statement on the power of unity. Our voices and actions have the potential of reaching greater heights collectively than when working independently. Together, we can elevate one another as individuals and form a synergy that radiates brilliance. Let’s be brilliant together.

For this reader differently coloured papers were used for a playful child-friendly look but also for an easy b/w-xerox-printing. Even the client can reprint the brochure in every copyshop. Also the format is adapted to that DIY-production-approach: A4 folded vertically. 8 sheets = 32 pages in total.

The colours also define and seperate the different sections in the brochure.

And because this educational program is for children, we’ve modified the client’s corporate font for a playful, slightly quirky expression.

Span designed the visual brand identity for the Chicago Cannabis Council (CCC), the region’s budding cannabis network. Founded to help ensure the success of the cannabis industry the council is assembled of cannabis businesses and professionals from every sector — healthcare to recreational, legal to policy, education to finance.

The brief put to Span was to design an identity that embraced concepts of connection, collaboration, and community while visually positioning the council at the frontline of the cannabis industry.

The identity Span designed centers on a series of concentric ’C‘s that form the ’CCC’ monogram around the cannabis leaf — symbolizing the council. Drawn with clean, prec

Graphic research and exploration about gradient.

An ethereal illustration I created as a dedication to my favorite mirror by Ettore Sottsass. The mirror’s dream-like curves inspired my application of colors and gradients.