An oder to my youth and homage to growing up

I’ve always been some kind of hopeless romantic. I follow whatever ignites my light and for some reason colour is something I am very drawn to. The realization you expect as you get older is to feel some sort of calm in everything. Nevertheless I don’t feel the need to calm down when it comes to colour. It was my first real love and an ode to my youth coupled with a homage to growing up.

75 Years Landjugend Plainfeld

»Hau di her, samma mehr!« A saying in heavy austrian accent, roughly translated as »sit down and join the party«, that everyone in Austria knows and is almost representative for a celebration. As a result, it fits perfectly as a leitmotif for the 75th anniversary party of the »Landjugend Plainfeld«. Here is a first insight into the extensive design that we created on the occasion of the anniversary.

Please Madame – Young Understanding

Please Madame is an Austrian pop-rock band who wanted to be loud with their fourth album “Young Understanding”. This also had to be reflected in the design.
Large, colored areas that address the youthful topics of sex, alcohol and partying without a lot of extravagance, also visualize the extravagance that characterizes youth. To be different, revolutionary, rebellious and not reticent. Combined with the specially made, strong symbol, which consists of the initials P and M and now functions as a logo, the result is a cover in which young people can find themselves and also feel understood.

Yearbook’19

The publication Yearbook’19 collates the events and activities held at INSTITUTO in the year 2019, celebrating the exciting beginning of our history, and starting an annual collection. Yearbook’19 presents a selection of contributions from authors working in different fields organized into four chapters.

The book is edited by Paulo Moreira designed by Studio Pê and produced by Tamanho Azul Association, recently formed to manage the cultural project of nonprofit organization INSTITUTO. Yearbook’19 is an essential means to continue disseminating and promoting experimentation and investigation between architecture the arts and their interdisciplinary crossings.

About INSTITUTO
INSTITUTO is a focal point for different forms of cultural expression, located in the heart of Porto, Portugal. The team’s interests and backgrounds have given rise to a program that diverges from the field of architecture to encompass the visual and spatial arts, critical thinking and multidisciplinary collaborations.

About the Editor
Paul Moreira is the founder of the Porto based Studio Paulo Moreira Architectures. They develop architectural, cultural and research projects for post-boom times. The studio was established by Paulo Moreira in 2011. INSTITUTO is the interdisciplinary extension of their practice.

About the Designers
Studio Pê is a graphic design studio based in Porto, founded in 2014 by Pedro Ponciano. They develop projects, locally and internationally, in various areas of graphic design, such as visual identities, websites, publications, and other printed and digital matter for cultural and commercial clients.

Yearbook’19

Editor: Paulo Moreira
Design: Studio Pê
Producer: Tamanho Azul Association
Price: Portugal € 12.–, Europe € 16.–, World € 20.– (free shipping)
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Shapes & Colours – Digital & Analog – Mistakes & Conscious Decisions

How to design shapes and select colors? All elements of this graphic are based on a photo. This photo was reinterpreted and abstracted by misinterpretations during loading by the computer. This resulted in countless shapes and color codes, on the basis of which I created a new design. The result was an interplay of digital and analog, of mistakes and conscious decisions.

Posters for En Sommerdag på Bellahøj 2019

The outlying Bellahøj district of Copenhagen is characterised by suburban building-block aesthetics. However, few know that hidden in this area is a flourishing amphitheatre that plays host to a music festival. We have emphasised this unique aspect of contrasts in the posters we created for ”En Sommerdag på Bellahøj”.

The abstract forms and shapes mimic the surrounding scenery and combine with bold colours to set a vibrant mood. There is a nod to the tradition of silk-screen printing in the combination of magenta and orange that create the poster’s bright red colour. We have also used this detail of overprint within the typography, Lars-Bold Extended, drawn by Mads at Bold Decisions.

sisters in wine club

‘Sisters in wine club’ is a wine edition from the Bernhard winery from Wolfsheim, that was launched on the international women’s day. The idea behind this project was to show female diversity in all its beautiful facets. The result is five wines and matching designs each as different and colorful as are women. Bright colours and clean lines are the connecting momentum of all designs. The illustrations each take up the distinctive nature of unique women characters. They are expressions of female individuality and self-confidence. The characters convey a playful awareness of their very own strengths, making you feel the enriching value of diversity.

Illustration: Naomi Wilkinson, Bristol.

installation + campaign #wachtsambleiben 

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic we are dealing a lot with barrier tapes in our daily routines. I wanted to create a ribbon that connects and stands for solidarity. That’s why I created the concept of the outdoor installation #wachtsambleiben. My multicolored streamer has been installed all around the city center of my hometown Oldenburg in March 2021. As art + culture are suffering very much in this pandemic, my Corona awareness campaign brings art and positive messaging to the street. 
Beside of the installation posters, banners, billboards and social media assets reminded the people to take care of what is important now. “Wachtsam” means careful but also mindful in German 😷

Landscape / SuperSpace / Shapeshifter

The work wants to be an approach to the upgrading of the small community after the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, a trace that seen from the above becomes a characterizing place, recreating a meeting point between culture, sport and nature. Once again I’m confronted with the urban space and the desire to regenerate an area by a group of young people grown up in that plate, linked to that space for many reasons, grown up with basketball among friends, for friends. A new challenge; each playground in fact has a story in itself, which must be listened to and then translated into shapes, colors, graphics and relocated to where it was, always communicating with the surrounding environment.

Schegge / Splinters

A book to celebrate the 80th birthday of Nadia Bassanese, a gallerist from Trieste. Inside you will find the “splinters”: her memories, her exhibitions, her rendez-vous between Trieste, New York, Venice, Paris, Milan with personalities like Leo Castelli, one of Nadia’s great friends, Jean-Michel Folon, Bruno Munari, Roy Lichtenstein, Ileana Sonnabend. And also pictures, letters, cards from her archive, as for instance the beautiful original sheets with the stripes and the “benday dots”, commissioned by Lichtenstein to a paper factory in NY, and which he used for his “Nudes”. On the cover, a blow up of these papers and the Bodoni, taken from the letterhead of the Leo Castelli Gallery in NY.

Fabriano Festival del Disegno 2020

Fabriano Festival del disegno takes place each year in Milan, as an occasion for drawing-lovers of all ages to meet and share their visual thoughts, or just to let themselves be carried away by signs, shapes and colours.
+fortuna creates the graphic communication for the event since 2017. The project includes the whole identity system, from information to promotion. The 2020 edition saw the participation of Guido Scarabottolo, the great illustrator who animated colourful characters drawing each other, inviting young and old to rediscover the pleasure of drawing.
The colourful characters welcome participants at the entrance, guide them along the routes and orientate them on the map.

My surf memories

Before Covid-19 broke out, I spent a month in South Portugal surfing and volunteering in a hostel. I discovered a lot of beautiful costal areas and small villages. When I got home quarantine time just started and I really missed traveling, surfing, and all the beautiful landscapes. So instead of being there, I started to draw them. I chose a few colors, which make the illustrations happy and playful even the landscapes were sometimes quite dramatic. Drawing these colorful illustrations by hand made me feel like being back in Portugal and last but not least made me very happy.

Skip_Instathesis

In their search for answers, Verena Stürzebecher and Marius Remmert explored the phenomenon of skipping in their master’s thesis Skip_Instathesis, and designed a new way of presenting scientific work: “There is hardly any other medium in which skipping is as present as in the social network Instagram. That’s why it was an obvious idea to make our master’s thesis directly experienceable on the cell phone and on this platform,” the two explain, referring to the Canadian communication theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan, who said, “The medium is the message.” Their supervisor Dr. Stephan Schwingeler, Professor of Media Studies at the HAWK Faculty of Design, supports the idea: “The step was favorable because it makes form and content fit together perfectly. A scientific paper that’s about skipping, published on a platform that excels at just that.”

Without question, the skip function has been more than just a switch on the CD player for a long time.It has now become a popular media phenomenon, something we all know because we do it every day: we “skip.” Be it the chapter in the book, the intro of the favorite series or the commercial on YouTube. The phenomenon of skipping, i.e. skipping content, has become an integral part of the modern media landscape. But what does it mean to skip certain content within the blink of an eye? With their findings, the two students have discovered a new way of communicating scientific work. The research results can be found in a collage of short animations, interview sequences and video excerpts posted on their Instagram profile.

“Breaks can have a special significance in today’s world. If we skip continuously and fill the spaces in between with content throughout our daily lives, our attention is permanently engaged, making it harder to process information. However, if we endure abstinence from sounds and images and perceive it as a conscious pause, this can lead to an increased form of attention, so that we can better engage with new media again,” the two students explain.

But what if you don’t care? Then you can just keep skipping …

Skip_Instathesis

Idea and Realization: Verena Stürzebecher and Marius Remmert
Supervisor of the Masterthesis: Dr. Stephan Schwingeler, HAWK Faculty of Design 
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Captions
Picture 1: Form and content fit together perfectly: You skip through the film, which is all about skipping (Photo: Marius Remmert).
Picture 2: Verena Stürzebecher records the off-texts in her home office (Photo: Timo Brülls)
Picture 3: Marius Remmert plays the role of the annoyed user in the film (Photo Steffen Remmert)

Change. Architecture. Cities. Life.

Change is a festival about architecture and climate change, a place to share ideas and create connections between architects, universities, and people. A conversation to find resolutions and think about how much we impact our way of life.
Data is a tool for measuring changes, which is why we designed a variable data–driven identity system, to show through an easy-to-understand visual system all the changes and their impact on everyday life.
A visual identity to attract, raise awareness, and create participation.