“Views”

Two analog collages that belong to a larger series called “Views”.
I don’t use to think about the meaning of a collage when I make it. Sometimes the meanings come later, sometimes they never do it. In this case, this series was made in the spring of 2020, during the lockdown, so probably these works are talking about the need of going out, although I didn’t make them with this intention.

Fluorescent Echoes

These images are self portraits taken using different polaroid cameras and out of date film. I experiment and disrupt the image and its chemistry using various techniques; layering damage to create strange abstractions. Images of my body metamorphose into the universal: landscapes, coastlines, weather fronts, fossils dug from the earth, or distant nebulae.

the future is queer

For me, colour is diversity, spirit, perspective, to live a joyful life. But some aspects are not self-evident for the queer community. Even though they represent colours in every way possible. But we are here and ready to fight hate with love. Together we can realize a colourful and queer future.

All Letters Are Beautiful

The typographical world is a seemingly endless and creative one — but works are often presented in reduced colors or entirely in black and white. The “All letters are beautiful” poster shows the diversity of typography in a contrasting way through colors; celebrating the beauty of different letters, shapes and styles. Realized as RISO prints, a color gradient was created with fluorescent pink and orange tones and printed on Metapaper warm white as well as on black drawing paper.

Shadok

Shadok is a place dedicated to digital arts, video games, djing, and events linked to digital field. The combination of colors, shapes and rhythm refers to an imaginary, fluid and moving technological world, able to cover various areas such as video games, techno music, children play and hacking.

rgb — construction

rgb — construction is an abstract art illustration that deals with the rgb colors. The illustration implies the interplay of red, green and blue.But it also shows that each color clearly stands for itself. A construction that only works through the union of individuals.

DANKE FÜR DIE KLEINEN DINGE

Die kleinen Dinge sind es, die das Leben ausmachen. Ein freundliches Lächeln, eine nette Geste, oder eine gute Tat. Kleine Dinge können den Unterschied machen. Angesichts der großen Aufgaben in während der Pandemie kann man sich entmutigt vorkommen und an den Herausforderungen verzweifeln.

Jeder kann auch mit kleinen Dingen helfen, unterstützen und einiges bewirken.
#zuhausebleiben #supportyourlocal #wirschaffendas

Eine Initiative der Bewegung für Radikale Empathie. @radikal_empathisch

Type Drives Communities

The Type Directors Club (TDC) announced the launch of the Type Drives Communities Global Virtual Conference that will explore the ways typography is used to form and transform creative communities.

Taking place online on May 7th–8th, 2021, the conference includes two half-days of talks, presentations, and group discussion spanning a broad range of design disciplines, and both local and global communities. TDC, part of The One Club for Creativity, has assembled a top global panel of diverse voices to share their experiences in driving communities. The complete list of speakers can be viewed here.

Sessions will highlight communities that use typography to pursue a common purpose, establish intergenerational connections, and spark and sustain change. Discussions will also encompass what these strategies suggest about how designers might navigate the challenges of our present moment of physical distance and virtual connection.

Type Drives Communities
Type Directors Club’s Global Virtual Conference

When?
May 7th–8th, 2021

Where?
Online

Register here
Early-bird registration for reduced-price tickets is available through April 12th, 2021

Indigo Poems

Indigo Poems is a zine and poetry collection written by Meg Costa. The use of highlight, gradient and text color aims to invoke feelings of nostalgia, melancholy, hope and tranquility in the reader. This zine attempts to convey complex emotion through a mixture of color, symbolism and descriptive poetry. Each poem is bursting with color and meaning, asking the viewer to encapsulate themselves in the visual world of a poet, where emotion and color are often intertwined.

Bittersweet

The beauty of life needs the pain as a point of reference. It would be truly boring and routine if we are only happy for a long period of time. We will need a next level of happiness for been happy again. The pain is like the salt a dessert needs to taste sweeter. The rainbow colours palette contrasts with the situation that the illustration describes. To enjoy the fullness of life we should learn how to deal with its bad faces with optimism and balance.

Restart – Montreux Jazz Festival (Proposal)

The poster lists things I connect to previous and hopefully further Montreux Jazz Festivals. Its unusual, but beautiful colour-palette and the use of those classic fonts with a modern twist, are an approach to reflect on one hand the diversity of sounds that are played at the festival. On the other hand it should be a contrast to the dull and monotonous white walls we were bound to. Much more the viewer should get the feeling of a busy festival, beautiful sunsets and a great lakeside 1080.