Since 2014, the Treptow-Köpenick Berlin District Office, Department of Culture, has been following the east-german exhibition series “Sculpture and Flowers” (1957-1988) in Treptower Park with temporary art projects. The selection of the respective work of art takes place within the framework of a competition. This year the jury decided on the sculpture “Heavenly Rose (hope, change and paradise)” by the Berlin artist Felix Stumpf. The artist developed his plan during the corona pandemic lockdown and sees his artwork as a reaction to it. Thus, his artwork is the first in Berlin’s public space for the Covid 19 pandemic.
Support, Last Judgement, Records
1. Poster created for Graphic Emergency initiative to support LGBT community in Poland.
2. Graphic interpretation of Hans Memling painting The last judgment.
3. Record shelf. Self initiative project.
Part 1 / Part 2
Two large posters featuring two semiabstract figures.
I created this work after reading two poems written by Elton Amadou-Connell.
(https://www.locus.gallery/elton-silvia)
“I am very keen on working with colors, I love them, and that’s visible in my whole work: I express myself through color most of the time. But I think it is the first time I do semiabstract art! And that is because the text is quite enigmatic, and not understandable as a whole. It creates a sort of confusion but at the same time fascination and stimulus to create a body of work”. Silvia Gallart, 2021
Moon-Heads / Mondgesichter
Tumbling through the night during this strange times: together but still apart. During the Covid pandemic all cultural events had been canceled and there was no concerts to advertise. Therefor the January/February F4 poster for Palace (a concert venue in St.Gallen, Switzerland) was just a reminder to all the moon heads out there to keep rolling and be colourful.
Transparent
The typeface Transparent gained its name after its first use—on the transparent of the artist led action The Letter, a contemporary reenactment of Tadeusz Kantor’s 1967 happening.
On May 6th, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of artists took a fourteen-meter-long banner-letter with the slogan ŻYĆ NIE, UMIERAĆ (To live not, to die) from the Main Post Office in Warsaw to the Parliament, where the letter was delivered to the addressee: “the Member of Parliaments from the Opposition.” The action was a gesture of artistic protest against the attempts to organize presidential elections to be conducted by postal ballot during the lockdown, a time overwhelmingly and unjustifiably favorable to the current government, ultimately putting the safety of citizens at stake. Shortly after the protest, The Letter was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw for its collection.
The designer of The Letter and Transparent which was used for the inscription ŻYĆ NIE, UMIERAĆ is Kuba Rudziński, graphic designer from Berlin, owner of Studio Lekko and participant of the action. Kuba received an award in the Project of the Year competition organized by STGU, for The Letter design and the Transparent typeface, in the Social Impact category.
Transparent is available free of charge for other artists and activists who wish to use it in their works, at protests, and in civil disobedience actions here.
Transparent
Designer: Kuba Rudziński (owner of Studio Lekko)
Release: January 2021
Weight: Regular
File format: ttf
Price: Free of charge
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Beyond Design: the Game of Social Solutions
The board game Beyond Design: the Game of Social Solutions is now available at Slanted Shop, ready to be played by you!
While writing the journalistic novel, Beyond Design: Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful, Renate Boere discovered ten steps that can be taken in order to set up one’s own project. These steps allow designers to render complicated information transparent and understandable for a wider audience. Boere wanted to make this easily accessible and transformed these ten steps into a game.
Beyond Design, The Game of Social Solutions guides you to set up your own socially relevant design project. This game navigates you through the ten steps of setting up a project based on your idea. Or if you do not have an idea yet, the game can also be used as a valuable brainstorm tool.
Get ready! With Beyond Design: the Game of Social Solutions, you’ll gain insights into how you create, present, and evaluate social design solutions in a fast and fun way. It is the perfect tool for generating ideas, brainstorming and team-building, and it will help amp up your associative thinking skills, and help you quickly generate ideas whilst working collaboratively.
The accompanying book Beyond Design: Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful is also available at Slanted Shop. This is an exciting and informative book that gives insights into the designer’s do’s and don’ts while working on projects from start to finish.
Beyond Design: the Game of Social Solutions
Publisher: BIS Publishers
Author: Renate Boere
Design and Concept: Studio Renate Boere, Renate Boere, Quirine Dob, Pia Jacques de Dixmude, Jennifer Kumer
Release: November 2020
Language: English
Format: 17.5 × 11.5 cm
Price: €15.–
ISBN: 978 90 6369 595 8
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type dudes
The 3D work >type dudes< is all about the celebration, the joyful perception of the glyphs as the living matter wobbling in all possible types of media.
No Waste Challenge
The No Waste Challenge presented by What Design Can Do and the IKEA Foundation is now open for submissions! You can submit your work until April 20th, 2021.
This January, WDCD an international organization that uses the power of design and creativity to transform society, launched the No Waste Challenge. This new global design competition is tackling the massive problem of waste and consumerism—asking creatives to come up with bold solutions. Creatives from around the world are invited to submit design-driven solutions to reduce waste and rethink the way we buy, sell, and use resources on the planet.
With landfills growing by some 2 billion tonnes of garbage every year, the No Waste Challenge seeks “exciting, feasible, and potentially scalable solutions” that attack the problem from many angles. The competition brief details how all kinds of waste are now threatening our ecosystems: plastic waste, textile waste, food waste, and electronic waste, just to name a few. Research shows that the issue is systemic, and has a disastrous impact on all other social and environmental problems. From deepening inequalities to accelerating global warming, our wasteful economies are driving us towards a climate crisis. The No Waste Challenge asks: How can design help us envision new ways forward?
The overall goal of the competition is to deliver creative contributions that “accelerate the transition to a fair and circular economy.” But the challenge is also meant to spark an honest dialog about the relationship between design and waste. By making things desirable one day, and disposable the next, the creative industries have become a huge part of the problem. In a bold new video campaign launched this week, WDCD recruits seven renowned design thinkers—Alice Rawsthorn, Bruce Mau, Fernando Laposse, Fred Gelli, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Selly Raby Kane, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto—to weigh in on where design went wrong and what we can do to fix it.
You can read more about the open call (until April 20th) and media campaign at their platform page. More than 200 entries are already in, and are available to view in the project gallery.
Submit your proposals by April 20th, 2021, and join WDCD in accelerating the transition towards a just and circular society. To get started, learn more about the scope of the challenge, or check out the three design briefs available to participants: TAKE LESS, MAKE BETTER, and HANDLE SMARTER.
In May, a jury of leading experts in design and sustainability will review the entries and select a minimum of ten winners.
No Waste Challenge
Deadline: April 20th, 2021
Categories: TAKE LESS, MAKE BETTER, and HANDLE SMARTER
Price: ten times € 10,000 in funding, a development program co-created with impact hub, publicity via all WDCD platforms and partners
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Climate crisis and the global green new deal
The Noachos project aims to design a poster for all the Noam Chomsky events listed on his official website.
Flag for Dâmbovița County
The flag developed for Dâmbovița County is based on the coat of arms of the county (silver deer on a triangular shield in the blue field) transposed here in an open space, field and hill.
About the coat of arms of the county: “The deer represents the main element of the rich and diversified fauna of the area. This means the traditional heraldic representation of the county, attested for the first time during the reign of Neagoe Basarab.”
The flag was created as part of the RO42 — Forme Locale project.
Weekly Work Pieces
Weekly Work Pieces is a series of experimental graphic works that have been expanding every week since 2015. The visual compositions were created using a variety of techniques and programs. An important part of these works is the combination of parametric/generative design methods and individual handwork. I mainly use Photoshop and Filter Forge for this, but also Blender, Adobe Illustrator and other programs. My goal in this self-made challenge is experimenting, discovering new graphic effects and styles and the regular challenge to become creative.
Expanding the Arts — 16th Elia Biennial Conference
To represent the subject transdiscilinarity we worked with the metaphor of a Rubik’s Cube. Turning and twisting creates new surfaces and colour patterns. The individual square surfaces come and work together. The colours are complementary. In addition to presenting the basic idea of transdisciplinarity, we also wanted to represent the city of Zurich and the university itself. Visually we therefore oriented ourselves to the Zurich Concrete Art. The School of Zurich Concretists evolved to today’s Zurich University of the Arts. We interpreted the idea of the Zurich Concretists: to let everything emerge from a square. Next to the coloured shapes we also created a font based on the same grid.
Herbarium
In his work, Leon Dekker is looking for a catharsis; the cleansing effect of art.
For his work, Dekker is inspired by logos and lettering of consumer goods and packaging such as fruit crates and boxes, potato labels and cattle feed sacks. He reuses his own imagery, changes it and gives it a different meaning. The familiar and predictable images are given a different story, they have a disruptive effect. Dekker breaks the link with the original in order to ultimately retain an autonomous image.
MAGENTUR paper samples
The task was to show the printing possibilities on various types of paper as a sample collection. I developed a type system showing various challenging aspects of printing. Differently combined they present every papers’ name in various colors. Bound together with a rubber band so it can be used in a scaleable way.
Printed with an HP Indigo 5500 in CMYK+White.
www.martingnadt.de/magentur-digital-printing-paper-samples/
Beats Across Borders
In 2019, I’ve been noticed by Beats Across Borders : a French association which aim is to create parties to help refugees to integrate, wherever they come from. 🙂
I volunteered on this project and create for this association and their parties a bright and colorful visual identity (posters and flyers). I tried to express joy, love, sharing and unity through those illustrations all made by hand : painted, colored charcoal, scanned, and generously risoprinted by a friend called Oscar Ginter, founder of Quintal Editions.
Those are the two last edition #08 and #09.
Due to coronavirus some parties have been deleted, but I can’t wait to create the next #10 edition !
Gallery Russi Klenner, series of invitation to exhibition openings
Staatstheater Mainz »Symphony Concerts«, series of brochures
Staatstheater Mainz »Concerts for Children«, series of posters
OOSSHA001 – Pitto ‘Panthers on the Roof’
Our first record sleeve and identity for the record label Oossha. The first vinyl release was screen printed by hand in fluorescent yellow with a full colour cat sticker.
Oossha is a Dutch record label. We’ve been working with them since they started in 2018 on their branding, merchandise and each release.
solidartiy has no colour
Colour should not be a factor, that divides, separates and splits society – and though, regarding everyday discrimination it still is a problem we have to face. Colour can be a tool to catch attention, but it’s role is not to overlay the message for pure decoration. It should rather be a tool to unite and create solidarity, no matter what tone it has. Therefore, this work’s colour should be determined by the paper that it’s printed on.
Du, Ich, Wir und diese Strukturen
You, Me, Us and These Structures
Power and communication in seminars in the field of development politics
Published by eFeF, Series of Continuing Education Program
Digital Publication
This guideline explains mainly gender and rascism topics and looks deeply into the connected language and behaviours. Besides theoretical background infos the publication delivers lots of practical ideas and tips for seminars. Useful likewise for participants and referents.
***See each file name for correct illustrator credits***
Cihan Tamti — Breakout
We are very happy about today’s release Cihan Tamti — Breakout – 100 Posters Book, that gives you a glimpse into the creative brain of the designer, a boost of ideas, and inspiration for eye-catching design.
Cihan Tamti started treating Instagram like a graphic design gym, and worked on designing a poster every day. Without constraints, he was able to experiment, often creating work that no normal agency would approve. Such freedom of approach allowed him to develop designs with strong, experimental typography, and complex compositions. Unexpectedly, these daily designs ended up winning some competitions and attracting some cool clients along the way, which now gave him the last necessary push to publish a book that combines all his ideas and creations.
Cihan’s Breakout—100 Posters Book summarizes 100 selected posters from the past few years. These posters include free and personal ones, real commission work, exhibition posters, and award-winning posters. But what it makes even more important is that it encourages and inspires to breakout oneself and to start spreading one’s own visual messages.
This project was brought to life through a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of last year. We would like to thank all supporters for making this possible!
Cihan Tamti — Breakout – 100 Posters Book
Design: Cihan Tamti
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: March 2021
Language: English
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Volume 128 pages
Printing: Offset
Workmanship: adhesive binding, Softcover with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-948440-22-0
Price: € 19.–
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Handouts Dürst Britt & Mayhew
Gallery Dürst Britt & Mayhew was founded in The Hague in 2015. For each of their exhibitions an art critic or curator writes an accompanying interview or an essay. These texts are printed on handouts. They deem it important that visitors can take away something analogue and tactile that contextualises what they have seen. The handouts have a fix format of an folded A3 and produced through risoprinting. A strict grid sytem and typesize (Patron by Milieu Grotesk) is a reaccuring element within the ever changing compositions, colours, forms and shapes. Resulting in unique expressions while maintaining a unity in the overall sequence. The collection consist over fifty handouts so far.
De Zingende Zaag
De Zingende Zaag is an experimental platform for poetry since 1989. A rich collection of publications has been published over the past 30 years. This jubilee edition (#42, 2019) embrases the celebrative character with a 12 meter long flag garland holding the archive of the De Zingende Zaag’s full history (containing newspaper clippings, pictures, presentations, articles, objects, ornaments, references, etc) alternated with photographic representation of all the preceding issues.
144 pages, 170 x 225 x 40 mm. Published by De Zingende Zaag Producties. Printed by Lenoirschuring (NL). Combination of flatbook and leporello binding by Voetelink & Zoon, Haarlem. Awarded Best Book Design 2019.