PosterLad

PosterLad is an art project by Czech designer Vratislav Pecka. He believes that a poster does not have to always necessarily promote some event or product. Instead, Pecka uses the medium as a space for expressing his art ideas. The main common features of Vratislav Pecka’s work are simple shapes and vivid colors. His work was influenced by the Bauhaus school and a certain nostalgia and memories of the 90s. Posterlad posters do not aim to express any thoughts or to deliver a message. The main goal of these posters is to visually captivate and please the observer’s eye.

just joy’n life

Joy of life – an exaggerated expectation or the recipe for happiness? We often set our focus on a certain goal, which we believe will make us happier. An overdrawn picture of the future. Colour saturation sliding to the right. Achieving this, the colours fade and the moment joins the pale life around us. So expand the circle of joy in the here and now. Colour your world today. Then you join to the joy of life.

Weinfrühling

With this posters – and the whole corporate design – I want to celebrate happiness and joy of life. Thats it for the beautiful event of five winery owner from the Pfalz. All media could be adapted very efficiently and by the use of nearly unlimited colour-variations very individual. And also important: The campaign attract attention and is distinctive.

heimspiel

With this postcards – and the whole corporate design – I want to celebrate happiness and easy life for the heimspiel in Karlsruhe. The design-templates should be very easy modifiable by the customer. The basic layout is always the same – only the colours vary. Easy and fast to modify by global settings.

thought experiment 3/3

This is the collaborative result of five people from Numo Team. We conducted a mini-research about color, and ran a workshop where everyone visualized their idea as a separate image. The starting points were brain color perception peculiarities, individual and cultural interpretation, physical nature and thought experiments.

The images were randomly combined into a single composition using an algorithm. We had no control over the end result, and used randomness as a creative tool along with the involvement of each participant.

thought experiment 2/3

This is the collaborative result of five people from Numo Team. We conducted a mini-research about color, and ran a workshop where everyone visualized their idea as a separate image. The starting points were brain color perception peculiarities, individual and cultural interpretation, physical nature and thought experiments.

The images were randomly combined into a single composition using an algorithm. We had no control over the end result, and used randomness as a creative tool along with the involvement of each participant.

thought experiment 1/3

This is the collaborative result of five people from Numo Team. We conducted a mini-research about color, and ran a workshop where everyone visualized their idea as a separate image. The starting points were brain color perception peculiarities, individual and cultural interpretation, physical nature and thought experiments.

The images were randomly combined into a single composition using an algorithm. We had no control over the end result, and used randomness as a creative tool along with the involvement of each participant.

Access

“Access” is part of a series of works based on everyday observations of the urban landscape, on the commute to my studio. As I move around the city, I get in contact with many urban elements which can be seen as abstract pieces of art in themselves, but go rather unnoticed in the context of daily routine. This work is inspired by all the doors that open for me, in a daily ritual, leading me, one by one, into chaos, stress, pressure, but also into the diverse, colourful and comfortable life in the city.

Broken But Beautiful

Kintsugi is a Japanese technique that people use to repair broken objects with a golden glue. In this way, the object is given a second life, and it becomes more beautiful than before. This poster depicts our planet, that we broke with our activities, but if we commit to repair it, it will live again.

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Dyslexia has been a very defining part of my life. To make sense of any dyslexic strifes, this publication was made out of my flaws to represent and raise awareness of the learning disorder.

The publication focuses on defining ‘dyslexia’, and it includes existing articles that explain the encounter and understanding of dyslexia. It also consists of personal photographs that are mostly disordered and shifted to mimic the mind of a dyslexic individual.

I’m Doing Fine

With a wink and an optimistic mind, it captures a personal feeling with which many people can identify in the last year’s crisis. The subject matter aptly depicts the constant insecurity and instability we have been confronted with in recent months and shows in an honest and yet expressive way: Everything is fine – despite adverse circumstances I will always get up again.

LCBA identity

Our identity for the London Centre for Book Arts has been developing over the course of a year, a dialogic process which allows us to shape how the designs are taken up and used in real time, to give LCBA a tailored and functional identity. The look relies heavily on a fat logo set in Original Sans, and on bold use of Caslon Ionic – both typefaces which hint to local history as the Caslon foundry’s last site. We combined this slightly heavy-handed branding approach with a vibrant colour palette to reflect the multicultural, LGBTQ+ friendly, alternative scene around LCBA, and play with materials and processes as much as possible, crucially producing all printed matter in-house.

Salam – Peace

My design explores arabic typography and print of the word ‘Salam’. Salam means peace in Arabic.
I choose the type in arabic for multiple reasons. Arabic in a formal form of symbol comes across as rigid and if religiously related would be considered blasphemous. (KSA flag, IS flag etc). I wanted to create such a type that can be read from top to bottom eliminating that ‘fear’ of where’s/ what’s right or wrong. Also on the note of xenophobia, i created this type with traditional Arabic pattern ‘Kiffiye or Shamagh’ which is a symbol of freedom but has now become such a strong political symbol, and i choose to pair it with peace. Salam x Peace

Tampieri open-day

Tampieri is an important industrial group, leader in different fields. Sign and colour form a single system of meaning and relationship that conveys the values of the multifaceted Tampieri universe.
For their traditional open-day, under the guidance of +fortuna it was decided to break away from the traditional form of communication linked to photography and introduce colourful illustrations with the industry skyline. A set of identical images coloured with different palettes of complementary colours, inspired by the contrasting combinations typical of Pop Art. The diverse activities referring to the same group are so emphasised by Andy Warhol’s detached and iconic use of polychromy.

King – Ice cream in a cup

After being consumed exclusively as a premium ice cream bar for many years, famous European ice cream brand King, for the first time on the market it is available as the dessert in a cup. The change in format required a noticeable, playful and contemporary design. A stylized shape of the crown was used, which symbolically communicates how the moment we consume our King in a cup turns into: a royal moment. The product comes in 4 flavors, but the classic ways of displaying flavors to which the manufacturer has been accustomed so far (photos of ingredients), now has been replaced by the emotion that ice cream provides and the suggestion of flavors is given by a thoughtful choice of colors.

Mid-quarantine dream. A sweet escape

During the pandemic and the first lockdown, people hung messages of hope outside their windows, posters with a hand-drawn rainbow and the words “everything will be alright” written on them. I found myself dreaming that those rainbows would turn into bridges to escape with the imagination from the walls that at times seemed to imprison us. Moreover, I wished they would lead us to a new world, in the hope that this terrible situation could be transformed into a positive drive for global renewal.

Interfaces 1

fractals and mandalas as visual representations of mathematicals principles fascinate me. pushing my analog pixel art into this area of op art/minimalism, i am researching the effects of acrylic colors on canvas. the work is created digitally beforehand, therefore printed in RGB. in the process, i try to get as close as possible to the digital sketch, naturally failing in greens and orange. i consider this an experiment in creating visual stimulus for experiencing an area beyond thought, therefore the naming interfaces.

Radiant Philistinism

In the virtual room installation “Radiant Philistinism”, which was realized using 3D software, I contrast various lifestyles. Dignified ambience meets neon tubes that proliferate in the room. Lighting moods inspired by works of Dan Flavin. A place that seems surreal and familiar at the same time. We celebrate color, we celebrate diversity!

Spectrum

A sketchbook collection Spectrum is a celebration of vibrant colours and variety. Inspired by the word itself and meaning behind, I wanted to showcase Spectrum as a unified set where each individual product is represented by a strong and bold colour. Taking this meaning a little bit further, Spectrum also as variety of opinions and meaning. Technically speaking each single sketchbook is made using a sole section case binding technique where the text block consists of 64 pages of 100gsm Fedrigoni Arcoprint Milk Blank Paper, end sleeves are decorated with Arabic and Islamic patterned paper and hard cover itself is wrapped in solid full colour book cloth.