CCFI

Centro de Capacitación de Fundación Itaú (CCFI) provides courses in the fields of cultural management, production and journalism from its campus in Montevideo. CCFI believes in the dissemination of art as a powerful tool for social transformation.

The visual language of the campaign is based around a collection of shapes and colours inspired by Uruguay’s constructivist movement. Each colour represents a different course when used individually and the programme as a whole when applied together.

Remembrance and Farewell

Recorded in his native Buenos Aires, “Remembrance and Farewell” marks the debut single of drummer and composer Alejandro Dixon as leader of his jazz quintet.

The cover artwork aims to capture the emotions of a purposefully personal recording inspired by the intangible passage of time and a deep yearning for the past.

PUKEKO edition

For the fictive publisher „Pukeko Edition“ I created a corporate design. The name is taken from the Pukeko bird and so the design is based on two stylised Ks, which reminds on the form of its feet. The colours reflects the asthonishing featerhs of the bird. Printed on letterhead and business cards, the logo creates the new visual identity of the publishing house.

The Great Escape

In these dark times of forced isolation and heavy limitations, a gloomy fear seems to accompany our lives. We with our bodies are physically unable to travel and meet our loved ones. But our thoughts are not. They are free to wander, explore, live new adventures. I imagined this as a metaphor, some weird hyper-colored butterflies make their way through the fences to break out from captivity and finally fly light in the world while the flowers are anchored to the ground. This is us, looking at ourselves in this fascinating process. This is us, hoping for a new beginning. This is us, dreaming of the impossible and beyond as in a magic spell that makes us alive and immortal in front of death.

48 exxperts

‘48 exxperts’ is a typographic-illustrative wall calendar for 2021. Each month four interesting female experts are presented. These women range from natural scientists to philosophers, astronauts or fighters. The elaborately produced calendar is perforated several times. Through the perforation the 4 motives on one page can be separated from each other and continue to exist as a single card.

13 Pages, Risography printing in 5 colours.

The Tolerance Poster Project

The Tolerance Poster Project by Mirko Ilić is now to be seen for the first time in Germany at Kunstareal München from March 30th to April 29th. Lars Harmsen, also Creative Director at Melville Brand Design, curated this show together with Caroline Fuchs (Curator for graphic design at Die Neue Sammlung).

At Slanted, we met Mirko back in 2015 while working on the Slanted #26—NY issue. He initiated the Tolerance Project in 2017. Since then, the exhibition has toured the world, but was never shown in Germany. Mirko invited the who’s who of graphic design to create a poster (Craig&Karl, KarlssonWilker, Ed Fella, Edel Rodriguez, Niklaus Troxler, Peter Bankov, Christoph Niemann, GunterRambow, Uwe Loesch, Art Chantry, Paula Scher, and Ariane Spanier …). Only rule: the poster should include the word Tolerance in the designers native language. Milton Glaser was the first to contribute, he also created the logo.

The show is now presented at over ten different institutions within Kunstareal, that all lend the special atmosphere and specific environment to the show. From Pinakothek der Moderne, home to Die Neue Sammlung, to the church of St. Mark that is even presenting one of four selected poster in the altar room at specific services, even in the tube of Munich … The Kunstareal München is located right at the heart of Munich and with its museums and colleges is one of Europe’s most important cultural hubs. Across an area of 500 × 500 meters it is the home of 18 museums and over 40 galleries as well as six international colleges.

The Tolerance Poster Project

When? 
March 30th to April 29th, 2021

Where? 
At over ten different institutions within Kunstareal München
All locations of the exhibition can be found here: KUNSTAREAL MAP

Find more information here

Announcement poster by #larsharmsen, animated by Johannes König @melvillebranddesign

St. Peter Ording

This short comic-story was published in Pure Fruit magazine #23. It praises the northern German federal state Schleswig-Holstein und says that you can do whatever you want in that region – unless everything that’s not legal.

Pure Fruit #15 Cover

This is the cover of the free German comic-magazine »Pure Fruit«, issue #15. The magazine contains comic-strips that lasted for only one episode. All artists who contributed a comic-strip invented their stip and characters and buried all of it after drawing one episode.

Pure Fruit #18: Hell int Finster

Cover for the free German comic-magazin »Pure Fruit«, issue #18 with the title »Hell int Finster« (»A Light in the Dark«). The magazine pays tribute to the northern German poet Klaus Groth. Various artists illustrated his poems which are all in low-german. 10.000 copies were given away for free to celebrate his 200th birthday.

Let’s talk about diversity

Equal rights, anti-discrimination and diversity are process-related issues that need to be discussed continuously. Not only but especially a common exchange and discussion about the main idea of the lecture series »Let’s talk about diversity« is essential at institutions to sensitize for diversity and to address individual thoughts and fears. The posters encourage to look behind the curtains of uncertainty and ignorance in order to see the colorful rainbow that represents peace, acceptance, tolerance and diversity.

Like A House On Fire

As a synesthete, I experience multiple senses simultaneously, i. e. I see digits and letters as certain colors. In a current project titled „Like A House On Fire“ I transfer information from an autobiographic text into abstract geometric drawings through repeated translation. For example, protagonists are identified by their initials, initials are equated with numbers, numbers are split into digits, digits are associated with colors, et cetera. The result are diagrammatic metaphors, which are at once rational and enigmatic, and which shed a new light on past and present experience.

Partially Aware

Between the constant lockdowns due to Corona, categories of in– and outside, private and public the mind keeps jumping between different states of awareness. Locking oneself in certain circumstances while opening to others. More than before structure is what keeps the mind going at ease.