Posters for Beeler Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

Poster and identity for Busan Biennale 2012

36 logos is a personal project reimaging existing brand concepts in a new way. Following my 36 days of type 2020, I started a new series with the chromatic effect I developed for the type challenge. To explore the visual variabilities of this technique, I decided to do another run with popular logos and brands instead of letters only. I tried to create my own interpretation of the individual logotypes – inspired, but mostly deviating from the brand guidelines. The style could be described as an overblown form of neumorphism, which is characterized by its holographic chrome textures.

Bei meinen künstlerischen Arbeiten interessiere ich mich für eine starke Formensprache und knallige Farben. Auch eine kritische und humorvolle Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Themen wie Umweltschutz, Sexismus, Gender etc. ist mir sehr wichtig. Für die Umsetzung meiner Arbeiten benutze ich Illustration, Animation und Tätowieren. Die Einsendungen sind einzelne Illustrationen aus einem von mir gestalteten Magazin mit dem Titel “Nonbinary Future”.

Times of isolation lead to moments of reflection that lead to close observation of the nearby surroundings that lead to observing details and objects that are made of private, subjective collections that lead to understanding intimate needs that take the form of a diary that become our own story that becomes our own private museum.

Our Christmas cards combine all associations we have during Christmas time and show them in various graphic and artistic expressions. Prints, illustrations, three-dimensional objects, photographs and copies are united in the consistent aesthetics of the riso printer. A series of four cards presents itself in gold as well as neon orange and black. These cards were different regarding to the design process. We took advantage of digitality and limited possibilities of interaction during the year. Using the split screen function became our method. We generated a kit of pictures and text from which we alternately took one each and arranged it, intuitively and experimentally.

In August 2020, Anika Kunst and Lilo Schäfer founded the design studio lano. The contrast of a strong, black logo placed on a range of six playful colors and fine micro-typography with charming punctuation on a white background shows the approach of two young female designers to create sensitive yet consequently good design. Conceptual thinking and ambitiously precise work is characteristic for them. Between the fundamental colors yellow, red and blue, orange and pink join the range whereat the yellow is a lemon one, the orange is a soft peach and the pink is a light rose. A light grey is unagitated and brings balance to the strong red and blue.

This poster illustrates one of the first tools that interfaced me with the world of color, a tool as simple as it is iconic. At a time when we go more and more, year after year, towards a process of digitization, this wants to be a nostalgic tribute to the brilliant and colorful analog world.

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The poster shows lucky symbols from different cultures, inspiring life force for the new year with its bright colours.

The distance between the physical experience of colour and its reproduction on a screen or on a printed page makes me often feel unsatisfied. Colour in real life is complex, three-dimensional, fleeting, unstable, reproduction is reductive and flat. In the attempt to overcome this gap, I’ve decided work through approximation, in its etymological sense, getting closer and closer to objects and capturing blurred samples with my cameraphone. This is where I tried to piece them together.

I was immediately intrigued by the option of having my work “printed in 1 color on a colored paper,” primarily for the fact that this process best lends itself to collaboration and ultimately results in a unique composition specific to this issue. My aim, therefore, was to submit a design capable of retaining certain intended formal qualities while simultaneously leaving others open to interpretation. With that in mind, I would prefer to leave the choice of ink and paper color entirely up to your discretion.

I was immediately intrigued by the option of having my work “printed in 1 color on a colored paper,” primarily for the fact that this process best lends itself to collaboration and ultimately results in a unique composition specific to this issue. My aim, therefore, was to submit a design capable of retaining certain intended formal qualities while simultaneously leaving others open to interpretation. With that in mind, I would prefer to leave the choice of ink and paper color entirely up to your discretion.

Visual identity for animation festival. The visual reacts to the theme of the festival – propaganda. The poster with the portrait represents the festival logotype, which is a woman with a scarf called Anča (a typical Slovak name). The logotype is completed by other elements to quote the famous propaganda poster by Nina Vatolina. The film flag poster quotes the coat of arms of Slovakia. The poster with the number represents the year of the festival. For the accompanying event Game Days, I have created a stand-alone poster, its main elements are flags. The visual identity was made in bold colors in order to lighten the difficult theme of the festival.

The publication connects the author’s photography and designer work. The photographic series is dedicated to public space and the ways how people design it. The design reacts to the theme with a reverse format of the book. The first way to read the book, half opening, represents a fast walk through the city. The second way, full opening, represents a slow walk and a more detailed observation of the city. The typefaces quote different time frames, layered in architecture and design of public space. The gloss used for the title quotes paints signs in the streets and on the photographs. The accompanying text is formatted into irregular paragraphs to evoke the spontaneity of urban structures.

Together with Anna Sukhova, GER. For the exhibition »From Today’s Perspective. Discourses on the Future« at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main, we developed a visual identity. Emerging throughout the exhibition, the motifs create a surreal atmosphere. The graphic figures are on the brink of being object or subject, opening up the space for imagination.

The Colourful objects series attracts us particularly with specific material characteristics. Its rich texture, glossy surface and bright neon colors not only grab our attention and force to come closer and explore, but even mesmerize and tempt. The artwork derived its effect from elements peculiar to painting itself. It raises the desire to possess and, at the same time, question the seductive capability of abstraction.

Colours have the power to influence mood and emotions. As simple as it sounds, vivid colours bring to mind a sense of pleasure and euphoria, while muted hues drives home the sense of calmness, peace and order. This juxtaposition of bright and pastel gradients shows the contrasting element of the colours it has people’s emotions.

Current feelings expressed through an experimental approach to typography and a feeling of glitching.

Three basic colours and shapes of contrast. Like the first few colours we are taught to look at, the artwork represents the simple relationship among the colours, with the top shape looking like an iris and the bottom image representing the simplest form of colour mixing and combination.

Two Sunsets draw from the confluence of warm-cool dual colours during the golden hours.