Upon some of my first times in Berlin, I noticed many bright, alluring, new promotions for parties and events. So many promoted in the same way; on the streets.
After the experience, most friends, myself and others are left feeling wonderfully trashed, broken down and dirty.
When we reflect on those times, only some layers of memory show us what we experienced. Some color; some bright light; some mood, all lumped into one big tattered memory.
Promotional image for Berlin based music project ‘Circular Ruins’. The photographic project projects potential cosmical sonic interpretations in the minds of those here on Earth.
A monthly routine of daily creation.
Over the duration of the last month of 2020 I created digital Still Lifes and Beats on a daily basis. I chose the medium of 3D Still Lifes because I wanted to sculpt the feelings of the particular day into something that would allow the beholder to discover different aspects about it. Visit Still-Life-Samples.com for the whole experience.
Poster for a party at the end of the semester at State Academy of Fine Arts and Design Stuttgart.
The corporate design for NudgeMe Coaching is an homage to the precisely drawn brands of the commercial graphic artists. It is a timeless design of the name’s initials. The visual appearance of management consultancies is often conservative, serious and masculine. NudgeMe Coaching stands in contrast to these companies and aims to appeal to young people of all genders. The contemporary visual contrast is created by a color concept consisting of a purple and orange hue. The logo design shows the NudgeMe Coaching company’s initials N and M and is based on a modular system, which can be extended or animated to a pattern.
My childhood was bursting with a multitude of colours – although pink was not my favorite one. Since memories shape our personality, a look into the past is good to understand what defines us as designers today. Right? Also, last year was a very good time to learn something new and have fun with it. I learned 3d modeling from my brother and that our loved ones are the most important thing in life.
A very personal message goes out into the world with the single »it will be fine« by the transgender actor Brix Schaumburg. The cover for this needed to be equally personal and unique. In Hamburg, Brix started his new life, so the port, its cranes and the reflections in the water are abstracted. In this way, a very simple graphic technique is used to allow the viewer to have any personal interpretation. Record covers often used optical illusions to gain this effect. The view into the harbor and the colors of sunrise over the water create a mood of the beginning of a new day or phase of life. The original record cover was created with linocut.
Little Museums are private institutions present all over Italy. The Little museums National Day is an event aimed to promote them.
The task of the communication project is to make the little museums familiar to the people and to create a symbol expressing the idea of reciprocal donation implicit in their activity.
The heart is therefore assumed as the core where memories and passions live and from where they spread about in the shape of flowers, recalling generosity.
For the second edition, the concept is further developed with flowers returning to the heart.
She’s a fluor goddess sunbathing in all her histrionic glory. I wanted to take this chance to print an illustration in fluorescent colors and create something fun, explosive and a bit chaotic. I love to play with geometrical shapes and working with a limited 2 color palette was a really fun experience.
The Hieronymus Bosch Pinball Game is part of my time studying Communications Design at State Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Stuttgart. I´m a huge fan of Hieronymus Bosch and always wanted to work with his incredible worlds and creatures. So here´s the pinball game! I interpreted lots of his figures and motives and also added some of my own, resulting in a new narrative. Everything that made me smile was allowed.
The dimensions of the poster are 67x135cm.
The winners of the competition 100 beste Plakate 20 D A CH for the best posters from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) in 2020 have been announced after the jury meeting on March 4th and 5th, 2021.
The competition attracted 600 entries with a total of 1,973 posters (868 individual posters, 321 series).
The jury, chaired by Markus Weisbeck, Studio Markus Weisbeck (Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Germany) with Xavier Erni, NeoNeo (Geneva-Carouge, Switzerland), Andrea Gassner, Atelier Andrea Gassner (Feldkirch, Austria), Na Kim (Seoul, Republic of Korea / Berlin, Germany), and Franziska Morlok, Rimini Berlin (Berlin, Germany) first made an online pre-selection as usual.
At the final jury meeting, which due to pandemic restrictions was not held as a face-to-face event as planned, but in the form of an online video meeting, there were 743 posters (298 individual posters and 127 series) from 275 participants.
The Results
By country, the winning 100 posters and poster series were divided into 43 × Germany, 50 × Switzerland, and 7 × Austria—of which were 75 × category A (commissioned work), 8 × B (own commissions), and 17 × C (student project commissions*). * This information is preliminary, as the category assignment may be adjusted during further evaluation of the results.
The opening exhibition with presentation of all posters and presentation of the yearbook, which will again be published by Dortmund based Verlag Kettler, will open in mid-June 2021 in the Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen (Art Library) and will then be on display at several venues in the three participating countries as well as in Korea.
The visual identity for the new competition is designed by Vienna based Studio for Visual Communication Bueronardin.
100 beste Plakate 20 D A CH
Competiton
Participants: 600 people from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Submitted Posters: 1,973 posters (868 individual posters, 321 series)
Jury: Markus Weisbeck, Studio Markus Weisbeck , Xavier Erni, NeoNeo, Andrea Gassner, Atelier Andrea Gassner, Na Kim , and Franziska Morlok, Rimini Berlin
Winners: 43 from Germany, 50 from Switzerland, and 7 from Austria in the categories A–commissioned work (75 winners), B–own commissions (8 winners), and C–student project commissions (17 winners)
Opening Exhibiton
When? Mid-June, 2021
Where? Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Get general information about the competition and a comprehensive online archive of all posters from 2001 onwards on the 100 beste Plakate website, as well as on Instagram, and facebook.
Poster Credits
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Designer: Niklas Apfel, D Berlin, poster: Imageplakatserie UFA Fabrik Berlin, Serie von drei Plakaten, for: Internationales Kultur Centrum ufaFabrik e. V., size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/ FLYERALARM GmbH, category: A
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Designer: Neue Gestaltung, Nina Odzinieks, Annika Soja, Pit Stenkhoff, D Berlin, poster: Drei Schwestern, for: Staatstheater Mainz, size: A0, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/ Viaprinto, CEWE Stiftung, category: A
3.
Designer: Scarlett Bang, CH Zürich, poster: Big Zis, client: Netzwerk Neubad, format: F4, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Multi Reflex AG, category: A
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Designer: Niklaus Troxler, CH Willisau, poster: Just tape it!, for: A-Z Presents, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Lézard Graphique, category: A
5.
Designer: Nordland, Peter Gärtl, CH Steffisburg/Thun, poster: Adelboden Ghost Edition, for: Ski-Weltcup Adelboden AG: Christian Haueter, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Citywerbung Print Thun, category: A
6. & 7.
Designer: Hammer, David Schatz, Sereina Rothenberger, Martin Parr (Fotografie), Tomiris Shyngyssova (Illustration), CH Zürich, poster: Gessnerallee, series of two posters, for: Gessnerallee, size: each F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Lézard Graphique, category: A
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Designer: Mike Dziambor, D Hamburg, poster: Shrooms, for: Kunstschule Wandsbek, Projektauftrag an der Kunstschule Wandsbek, supervision: Julia Meyran, Stefan Kerp, Johanna Meixner, size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Daisy’s REPRO, category: C
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Designer: Stahl R, Tobias Röttger, Timm Häneke, Susanne Stahl, D Berlin, poster: Imagine the City, Series of three posters: Public Face / Backdrop / Bee Chapel, for: IMAGINE THE CITY, size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/ Gebr. Klingenberg & Rompel in Hamburg GmbH, category: A
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Designer: Iza Hren, CH Zürich, poster: Énergie animale, for: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Uldry AG, category: A
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Designer: Herendi Artemisio, Milana Herendi, Tiziana Artemisio, Simon Meier, CH Zürich, poster: MyCollection: Bruno Monguzzi, for: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Hagmann Siebdruck GmbH, category: A
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Designer: Fons Hickmann M23, Fons Hickmann, Raúl Kokott, Paul Theisen, D Berlin, poster: RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, series of four posters, for: Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre gGmbH, size: each A0, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/, category: A
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Designer: Henning Wagenbreth, D Berlin, poster: Culture at Vlisco, series of five posters, Learn to Laugh / Enjoy Diversity / Seek Business Opportunities / Love Africa / Take Risks, for: Vlisco, size: je CLP, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Lézard Graphique, category: A
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Designer: Balmer Hählen, Yvo Hählen (Art Direction, Grafik-Design), Priscilla Balmer (Art Direction), Julien Le Goff (Grafik-Design), CH Lausanne, poster: Daniela Edburg, Topographies of Transformation, for: Fabienne Levy, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck mit gemischten neonorangen und blauen Metallicfarben/ Uldry AG, category: A
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Designer: Chris Gautschi Graphic & Editorial design, Chris Gautschi (Grafik-Design), Henry Leutwyler (Fotografie), CH Lausanne, poster: IM/ MOBILE, for: CHUV – Institut des humanités en médecine, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Uldry AG, category: A
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Designer: Barbara Galizia, D Leipzig, poster: It’s A Book, It’s A Buzz, It’s Time to Discuss, for: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Projektauftrag an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, supervision: Prof. Markus Dreßen, size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck mit einer Sonderfarbe/ WIRmachenDRUCK, category: C
In June 2019, A Black Cover Design worked with Foundertype to curate “Shape of the Type –
The Foundertype Poster Exhibition” and “Tokyo TDC Selected Artworks 2018-2019 in Beijing”.
We have provided the exhibition key visual for the two exhibitions, including invitation, posters,
catalog, and decorations. Some of the advertising materials are “interspersed”, that is, the
“Shape of the Type” invitations is packed in the envelope of “Tokyo TDC Selected Artworks”.
COLOR
The moment your feet leave the ground while jumping for joy, for all those positive feelings for someone or something and the incapability of keeping them in.
During corona crisis a lot of artists can not work, must stay at home and have no salary. They have no perspectives. Somehow a lot of artists remember me on dying swans. After corona crisis hopefully artists are able to follow their professions and can do what they live for.
1) Green, Orange and Purple are the secondary colours which are mixed with two of the primary colours. The designed type face with one of the primary colours shows the secondary colours when it mixes with the background colours.
2) Colours would be meaningless when it stands alone; they are important to our feelings when they coming with black and white.
Skat, Mau Mau or Doppelkopf — with this deck of cards you always have an ace up your sleeve. Through 32 finely printed cardboards (59×91mm), dull family evenings can be spiced up and new friends made. Sitting comfortably together, following rules and wisecracking. Lovely!
The design is inspired by a deck of cards designed in 1906 by Wiener Werkstätte-related artist Editha Moser.
Photo by Charlotte Hafke
A poster inspired by a gully cover discovered in the streets while having a walk.
Launched in 2017, its catalog has more than 40 typefaces and includes experienced type designers as well as young ones whom 205TF support for their first typeface. 205TF aims to be a virtuous platform when digital typography is sometimes seen as a consumable whose cost must always be reduced.
In its catalog, there are only original and quality typefaces; body as display ones; extended families and variable fonts for discerning users. 205TF makes the choice of a demanding selection to be an alternative to broadcasting platforms where the user no longer knows what to choose.
Typefaces by 205TF
Garaje by Thomas Huot-Marchand takes its inspiration both from the alphabets of the Bauhaus school and the vernacular inscriptions of Spanish garage owners.
Clifton by Yoann Minet is a reinterpretation of the Athenian typeface that was distributed around 1896 by the British Type Foundry.
Thelo by Tassiana Nunez-Costa, a serif type designed for print and screen, in Micro, Text, and Display versions.
Injurial by Sandrine Nugue, a sharp and elegant typeface made to withstand the worst, while saying it with refinement and eloquence.
Andersen by Thierry Fétiveau was born out of the lack of typefaces adapted to children’s stories.
Heliuum by Damien Gautier is a playful typographic program which contains seven different character sets.
Molitor by Matthieu Cortat is a modernist yet joyous typeface, named after the eponymous and emblematic building in Paris.
Romain 20 by Alice Savoie is a contemporary revival of a typeface originally named “Romain Vingtième siècle.”
Dédale by Thomas Bouville is a type family inspired by inscriptions cut into the stone of the underground passages of the Paris Catacombs.
Salmanazar by Juliette Collin is a typeface which has its roots in nineteenth century French type design, and in particular, the specimen of Antique Warnery no.1.⠀
ART / TYPE / COLOR / PAPER / PLAY
The blame game
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Poster to commemorate International Women’s Day. The different colors used in the posters symbolize the different identities of all of us. Under the motto of “Do it for you”, I wanted to convey a message to help people engage in any kind of movements for gender equality. Because it’s not for someone else, it’s for ourselves.