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
Check out their work here
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.
Incidental Croppings
The twenty photographs assembled for this composition represent a small sample of an ongoing project that dates back to 2015, dealing with grid-based, geometric forms found on everyday items. The captivatingly colorful paintings (both rudimentary and intricate – vibrant and faded) that adorn the legions of trucks crisscrossing the country of Turkey appear here as the subject.
Eyes
Eyes are our first approach of reality, through them we can explore the world and fix all memories.
With eyes we also communicate and discover bad or wonderful emotions.
“Eyes” print is all that, in its simplicity.
B&OxiSpot
Just fun with product shots, colours, grid and typography. The client didn’t like it. But I do so I don’t mind.
Orange Mess
It’s 50 shades of orange. It’s a Mess. It’s an ORANGE MESS.
And the beauty lies in its contrast – chaotic in its best way yet considered within its setup.
Institute Of Monochrome Art
Institute of Monochrome Art (IOMA) is the pairing of two artists who have worked, or continue to work in a single colour and explores, documents and questions the monochrome and the artists’ interest in it, highlighting both the similarities and differences. Facilitating ‘phantom’ or imagined exhibition opportunities for these artists can be seen at the project website below.
www.instituteofmonochromeart.com
Selfie
Silkscreen poster for “Selfie” group exhibition, at XIII Havana Biennale. Commissioned by René Portocarrero Silkscreen Workshop, “Selfie” exhibition was focused on making a portrait of Cuban present society. With this in mind, the work adopted a critical approach to our own inability as social individuals to pay attention to our real problems. Most of the time we don´t listen to reasons and close our eyes to the reality. We cannot afford such passive stance.
New Systems: Rules and Tools
“New Systems: Rules and Tools” featured a series of six artworks and two murals, all of them focusing more on the process, rather than the final product. The aim was to continuously create new shapes and generate new compositions, by creating new rules and building systems. The exhibition was part of EUROPALIA ROMANIA 2019-2020.
Postcard To Mind
In times of uncertainty with our minds circling these postcards are a reminder that we’re all going to be ok again.
night blooming
Floral motifs in weird landscapes. Organic forms and abstract foliage with a wondrous touch. Fine tuned with structure and textures. Inspired, among other things, by Japanese fabric patterns and medieval herb books. This mixture results in modern, subtle patterns and designs with fine details and nuances as well as vibrant and individual colour combinations.
Untitled
Floral motifs in weird landscapes. Organic forms and abstract foliage with a wondrous touch. Fine tuned with structure and textures. Inspired, among other things, by Japanese fabric patterns and medieval herb books. This mixture results in modern, subtle patterns and designs with fine details and nuances as well as vibrant and individual colour combinations.
The Scottish Colourists Foundation
The Scottish Colourists were four well-known painters (Peploe, Hunter, Fergusson, Cadell) who were grouped under this title given their similarities within their approaches and philosophy. Despite differences in medium at times, their usage and angst-free application of colour in their work became their signature. »Every man has to find his way, and mine will be the one of colour.« Fergusson said; based on this sentiment we developed the Foundation’s identity to include a multiple different business cards each featuring a unique artwork detail on the front. This allowed the Foundation to show the sheer breadth of all artists both in terms of subject and style.
Praysong I
The mine is based on a blank sheet of white paper. I am tense. I don’t want thoughts but they don’t stop. I’m looking for the emptiness in my head. As white as the sheet of paper. A white with endless possibilities. What to do?
I’m starting. Carefully, slowly, then faster. The line is created. It runs through the pure white. I stroll to the left, stop, turn and circling, race back and stop. I come to rest more and more until it flows.
My drawings are created spontaneously. I let my pen slide freely over the paper to develop shapes and forms. Later I will go into the shapes that are created in more detail to create various organic elements.
Lettering in Persian/Arabic alphabet
Art piece – digital lettering.
Type Specimen | LED Pixel | Love
Type Specimen for the Font – LED Pixel by Typo Graphic Design with over 73 Font-Styles & 903 glyphs,
Postcard | Golden Poo with Neon Heart | Riso Print
Metallic Gold glänzender Poo Emoji 💩 mit Hearted Eyes 😍
in psychedelischen Neon Farben.
Idee & Gestaltung: Typo Graphic Design ■ Manuel Viergutz
Format: 10,5 cm B × 14,8 cm H (DIN A6)
Papier: Nachhaltiges Metapaper, warmwhite, extrarough 270 g/m2
Druck: Risografie (digitaler Siebdruck) mit umweltfreundlichem Metallic Gold + Neon Colors
von www.drucken3000.de
orange skin
The colourful gnomes and the happy cat
They are strange people, the colourful gnomes. As soon as they sense the presence of a happy cat in the vicinity, they immediately run towards it and jump into its mouth.
One day, amazed by the scene, I stopped a blue gnome before it jumped into the feline’s jaws and asked it:
“But why are you so happy to jump into the cat’s mouth? Once swallowed you will die!”
Then the gnome shrugged its shoulders and replied, in a calm voice: “That’s what we’ve always done. If we suddenly stopped, what else could we do?” and with that, it ran off, throwing itself on the big happy cat’s pink tongue.
TSFF 30
For over 30 years the Trieste Film Festival, the most important cinema festival of Central Eastern Europe, has observed and narrated the creative yet often turbulent events of this part of Europe. A series of contrasting circles, transparent, vibrant, overlapping, complete, unfinished or merged, joined or separated, evoke this 30 years-long story.
tat*
tat* — Inspirational Graphic Ephemera is a bit of a graphic designer’s curse. Walk into any design studio and you’ll see bits and pieces of graphic ephemera pinned to the walls or taped to a computer screen. Even the purist will have a secret cache hidden away somewhere. Designer Andy Altmann has been collecting tat for more than 30 years. He finds inspiration in the ordinary, and magic in the mundane. Finally he has decided to share his collection with the world. Conceived and edited by Andy, this is the apotheosis of tat. A visual treasure trove, full of surprises, it should find a place on every graphic designer’s desk.
Andy Altmann is a founding partner at Why Not Associates, one of the UK’s leading multi-disciplinary design companies. Although he trained as a graphic designer, Andy’s work typically blurs the boundary between design and art. His projects range from exhibition design to postage stamps, via advertising, publishing, television titles, commercials, corporate identity, and large-scale public art. The common thread is a fundamental love of typography, research, and experimentation.
As a student, a decision to present a scrapbook instead of a sketchbook for his interview to St. Martin’s School of Art, was the catalyst for starting his collection of tat: “I rummaged through the drawers at home and found some football cards from the 60s / 70s (plenty of Georgie Best), an instruction leaflet from an old Hoover, Christmas cracker jokes … Then I started on the magazines, cutting out images of anything that interested me … and photocopied things from books before reaching for the scissors and glue.”
It was the beginning of a significant collecting habit that he has maintained ever since. So what is it that makes a piece of graphic tat interesting? Is it the ‘retro’ thing—a fascination with a bygone age, the primitive printing techniques, naivety of the design or use of color? All of the above of course, but it’s never quite that simple. It has to have that indefinable element of magic. To a graphic designer, most of this book could safely be regarded as ‘bad’ design. But there is something special in each and every piece that made Andy pick it up off the street, trawl online or enter a dodgy looking shop on the other side of the world to snap up. You’ll find everything from sweet wrappers to flash cards, soap powder boxes to speedway flyers, wrestling programs to bus tickets. More tat than you can shake a stick at. Taken together, it represents a lifetime of gleeful hunting and gathering.
tat* (noun)—anything that looks cheap, is of low quality, or in poor condition; junk, rubbish, debris, detritus, crap, etc.
tat* — Inspirational Graphic Ephemera
Publisher: CIRCA PRESS
Release: April 2021
Author & Designer: Andy Altmann
Volume: 400 pages
Format: 25 × 21 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-911422-27-3
Price: £ 45.–
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Holidays on Mars
The pictures from astronomic telescopes deliever extremely colourful views of galaxies, exoplanets and space. Those pictures show the tremendous impact of light and its absence on our perception of colours. My work “Holidays on Mars” illustrates and reflects the 2021 mars landing in a form of holiday photography. It’s built out of computer driven light gradients created within the main rule of quantum physics: by a fusion of chance and cause.