In cooperation with the Stadtwerken Saarlouis, ten power houses in the Saarlouis urban area were artistically designed. These form a permanent open-air exhibition.
The context of the found power house is characterized by open spaces that are exclusively declared as private parking areas and thus do not provide for any public use. Based on this deplorable state of affairs, the typographic supergraphic “Nur Parken, Nur Parken” was created.
By using found symbols and signs as well as barriers to mark parking spaces, a lettering was developed that aims to draw attention to the waste of public space caused by parking areas.
The Dark Side of The Moon
This anamorphic painting is named and inspired by “The Dark Side of the Moon”. The original design is inverted, first of all by working on an off-white background instead of a black one. The circular “dark side” reveals all its colors with, on the furthest plane, a fade progressing from a mauvish purple to melon yellow. On the foreground the colors shift, going from lemon yellow to light blue. The round “moon” acts as a lens, magnifying the triangular prism. Acrylic colors were combined with spray paint to create clean and smooth gradients.The palette was directly sampled from the stained-glass windows which filter the daylight into the room, an elegant 1800’s interior.
Photo by Luca Farinet
Claudia Skoda
The publication Claudia Skoda – Dressed to Thrill is now available at Slanted Shop!
As a pioneer and icon of Berlin’s underground culture, Claudia Skoda defined the fashion of the 1970s and 1980s. She knitted delicate yarns—having taught herself the handwork techniques—into groundbreaking, body-hugging designs that triggered a revolution in our understanding of knitwear. Superstars such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop were soon among her friends. Skoda’s performance-like fashion shows became famous: they were staged as spectacular events in the Congress Hall or the Egyptian Museum and caused an international sensation.
This comprehensive catalog Claudia Skoda – Dressed to Thrill is published to accompany her first solo exhibition and presents fashion, photographs, films, and music by a wide range of artists, including Martin Kippenberger, Luciano Castelli, Salomé, Jim Rakete, Ulrike Ottinger, Silke Grossmann, Manuel Göttsching, and Kraftwerk. The book not only highlights Skoda’s fashion designs, but also looks at how they were produced and marketed. In addition, it explores her living community and workshop Fabrikneu, her fashion shows and stores, her time in New York, as well as her social networks and her collaborations with many different artists. This book is the first major compilation of Claudia Skoda’s works and includes a text by fashion designer Wolfgang Joop.
There is an accompanying exhibition about Claudia Skoda’s Work at Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from April 1st until July 18th, 2021.
Claudia Skoda
Editor: Britta Bommert, Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Volume: 240 pages
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Language: German
Bookbinding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-86206-829-6
EAN: 9783862068296
Price: € 42.–
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Death By Rainbow Logo
Death By Rainbow is a Berlin based Queer Clublabel.
Acid ist Fertig!
Illustrated selection of flyers for a Berlin based party series called “Acid ist Fertig” which is always showing a new variation of the trademark smiley/pill-illustration.
T®YPOPHOBIA 水
Based on the Japanese Kanji character for “水 water”, I created this image to show the generative changes of the character.
MISCELLANEOUS
Swiss Poetry Slam Championships 2019
A happy and playful event identity designed for The Swiss Poetry Slam Championships of 2019. In order to visually accommodate the fun cultural event a bright colour scheme was paired with playful typography, abstract illustrations and animations which were used throughout the event.
Night Soil / Fake Paradise
Poster inspired by Melanie Bonajo’s short-film Night Soil/Fake Paradise, 2014.
“Can ayahuasca have the same significance for our day as LSD had for the 1960s? Exploring this question Night Soil/Fake Paradise presents an amalgama of personal accounts on the spiritual and bodily experiences with the Amazonian substance, giving particular weight to the feminine voice and point of view, traditionally neglected in psychedelic research.”
„Fluff“
With the ‘Tanzkamera Obscura’ movements of dancers are caught and transferred into light-drawings. The arms and legs of the dancers are—like a puppet on strings—connected to a hand-built machine that registers them into a drawing. The camera is a self-designed 3D printed camera obscura with an integrated light drawings system. Pictures are taken with long exposure times on light-sensitive colour photo paper. Included in the camera is a fiber-optic light-drawer, that traces the movements of the dancers. The final photo shows the different reactions from the different light sources on the photo paper.
In collaboration with Felix Pape, Agnes Storch and Veerle Vervliet.
Pizza
I enjoy painting wobbly characters in bold striking colors.
villa Noailles
La villa Noailles art center in Hyères, southern France, promotes contemporary art, fashion, photography, design & interior design with a focus on emerging talents.
Its unique location, surronded by the Mediterranean, luxurious nature and precious colors & light, has been the starting point of the creation of its visual identity, translating these components into highly sun-concentrated graphics.
Printing Marks
Printing Marks is a wrapping paper designed for the bookstore of the french Centre National du Graphisme de Chaumont. the pattern is composed of a collection of colors print markers collected from industrial packaging.
Nebula
Nebula is an abstract illustration made in code. By using feedback loops and noise, digital textural moments are generated. I make those analog by intervening at the right time and pulling high quality prints from it. ✌️
Architecture du Nouveau Réalisme
This book tries to depict the future of museums trough multiple projects of transformation of the Museum of Art and History of Geneva. Each designer presents a new energetic and climatic influence on architectural reflection and evolution. Colours intervene as a visual cue to navigate the three chapters (light, humidity and heat) in which the projects are organised.
Photographs by © HEAD Micheal Giesbrecht
Hope Soon
This series was designed as an investigation of my relationship with control versus surrender. A series of life events left me feeling out of control. My process: experimental methodologies in material explorations, layout techniques, and “blind” elements that create chance outcomes. Chance methodologies can produce unexpected results, which are integrated with both analog and digital techniques.
BeigeNotBeige
BeigeNotBeige documents overpaintings on building facades in order to hide minor damages. Not every repair work justifies the repainting of the whole building. The repaired patches aim at “striking the right tone” of the facade, sometimes insisting on its original color and sometimes considering the patina the building has collected over the years. Yet in every case the repair work is distinguishable from the original facade. The edges of the newly painted areas begin vibrating almost in a “Rothkoian” manner. The resulting shapes start leading a life of their own. They appear as a deliberate intervention, sometimes as a site specific comment, sometimes in dialogue with other facade elements.
ELIA Biennial Visual Identity
For the European network for higher arts education we created the visual identity for this years biennial in Zurich with the title „Expanding the Arts“. The Expansion of the art terms as a goal of the biennial is visualized with the flexible yellow brackets. The colour is getting a very high importance in this concept because the yellow together with the shine is the center of the events identity. We have a very wide range of developed applications that could be showed in the magazine, from printed matters over digital elements to signage design.
We would love to see it printed in a reflective bright yellow, for example a fluorescent colour.
Poster series to increase the voter turnout during the German federal election 2017
In 2017 I worked on a poster series for the upcoming German federal election. The goal was to increase the usually pretty low turnout in the Cologne district Kalk. The result is a poster series with 4 different colorful gradients, which represents all parties present in the government at this time and also had a high chance to be reelected. Above the notable gradient, you can see the word “Wähl:” which means “vote:”. To guarantee a neutral, impartial design I made a series of 4 posters in which the gradient is turned by 90° each time. Also, the color gradients are supposed to represent the fluent transitions that exist between the parties and their wings. (Find more details on my website.)
Heavenly Rose (hope, change and paradise)
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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