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This series is the outcome of a lot of experimenting. We (Lukas Hopp and me) created images you get drawn into while looking at them by using vivid colors for depth and different objects for soothing shapes.

Scale Up

“Scale Up” consists of a series of images which reflect the idea of being ultra close to something. These images are super close ups of other images. More than 10000% scale up. A new image and aesthetic evolves.

MAVETRA Brand Building

“The best of two worlds” – this is how MAVETRA present themselves. Facts and emotion, head and heart – the two worlds of constrasts are worked into the complete brand, as to the content, tonality and look.
So we used the color gradient as an important part of the brand, showing the two worlds and how they merge together to be the perfect match for the customer. The color gradient has the two coaches in black and white pop out to the viewer instantly.

I.SL002

I.SL002 is a work in public space using the codes of advertising and propaganda displays. The committed text from Kate Bornstein’s book becomes a manifesto and the claim of pride. For the magazine, I may send you the original file to print it on a page or photos of the installation in the public space.

I.SL001

I.SL001 is a work in public space using the codes of advertising and propaganda displays. The committed text from Kate Bornstein’s book becomes a manifesto and the claim of pride. For the magazine, I may send you the original file to print it on a page or photos of the installation in the public space.

Beyond Design

The publication Beyond Design: Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful is now available at Slanted Shop.

The time has come in which graphic designers are playing an important role in rendering ever more complicated information transparent and understandable for a wider audience. To stress this urgency, Renate Boere dove headfirst in the world of project management lingo, confidentiality statements, copyright, complicated contracts, the search for stakeholders, and grant applications. This journey resulted in the designer’s novel Beyond Design: Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful.

This nonfiction novel provides insights into the contemporary, often hybrid, practice of today’s multi-talented graphic designers. The story tells how Boere decides to take matters into her own hands by working on socially relevant design projects. 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.

While writing the designer’s novel Renate Boere discovered a simple ten-step method that anyone can use for self-initiating a project. In addition to the book she invented Beyond Design, The Game of Social Solutions which is the perfect workshop tool for anyone interested in setting up their own socially relevant design project.

Beyond Design

Publisher: BIS Publishers
Author: Renate Boere
Volume: 192 pages
Format: 17.5 × 11.5 cm
Release: November 2020
Language: English

Bookbinding: Paperback
ISBN: 978 90 6369 594 1
Price: € 12.99 
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Calling

I wanted to show two creatures, looking at each other from a distance. They are made of colour, but also surrounded by it, and their bodies react to it, growing cooler or warmer. Is that good or bad? It just is, I suppose.

Universal Face

Just like stained glass patterns, the human dynamic is interchangeable. It is formed by an evolving sequence of elaborate yet basic emotions that are found in every person. Basic emotions may seem divided through cultural differences but are actually all bound by the same complex and beautiful human feelings. Facial expressions are proof that we have universal manifestations that are independent of culture and language. Stained glass is animated by colour, light, and form. Likewise, the face is altered through the expression of emotions.

außerhalb der Zeit (out of time)

This work approaches in different ways the shifted perception of reality, self-perception and intimacy during the first lockdown. Many everyday contexts are unchanged, but feel different, more intense or numb. Sometimes the days of the week blur, sometimes life seems to stand still, as if one’s own presence exists outside of general “time.”

An effective retreat from the linear concept of measurable time cannot succeed, because this time inevitably passes: the measured moment is unfortunately always completed with the execution of its measurement.

No Culture No Future

We have all been deprived of attending cultural events for almost a year. I just want everyone to remember how much these events brings happiness to our lives. That in the future, we humans are able to interact with each other, in person.

Rack

Rack came to me one night before bedtime with no meaning, no sense to me. It just came and used me as a tool and I did my best. Nothing more, nothing less. And here’s the result of my skill and knowledge at this point. I enjoyed working on it and it was really fun designing all the different shapes. Tens of them ended up in trash—too weird, too simple, too complicated, you name it.” — Designer Jan Charvát

Rack is unicase, but consists of two different alphabets, both of them fully Latin-extended character sets. You can even mix the cases as you like. There are some emojis like German card symbols, money, eyes or pile of poo. With the eyes and poo you can even choose which way they will look through stylistic set.

About the designer
Jan Charvát was born more than 30 years ago. Studied programming graphical applications on Czech Technical University in Prague. After finishing school he went freelance and also worked ten years in TV as an evening news graphic operator. He moved to Germany and worked for Monotype as a Font Engineer and there he specialized in scripting and large family production with focus on diacritics. Now back in Prague he’s Freelancer and Teacher of Type Theory and Graphic Design on two major higher education schools.

Rack

Designer: Jan Charvát
Foundry: Font Renegade
Release: 2020
Styles: two different Latin-extended character sets
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Hart Magazine

Hart is a leading Belgian magazine about art. Hart looks, reflects and writes with insight and inspiration. About artists and their work, about exhibitions, art institutions, collecting and engagement.
In September 2019 Hart had undergone a visual transformation at the hand of Vrints-Kolsteren. The studio was responsible for the re-design and still is for the ongoing art-direction of the monthly publication. The persistent use of typography and a structured layout leaves room for the content to take the lead. Each issue, a quote gets highlighted on the cover in a contemporary position, infused with a surprising new color combination.

Allan Sekula: OKEANOS

Allan Sekula: OKEANOS inaugurated TBA21’s year-long series of events, exhibits, talks and performances dedicated to the oceans. The exhibition presented a selection of works by American artist and theorist Allan Sekula whose most significant area of inquiry remained the political economy of seafaring.

The visual identity features a vibrant color palette, robust typography and corrugated rectangular shapes echoing Sekula’s recurring motif of cargo-containers. The stacking of solid colors evokes the diversity of forces that shape global economy.