Sardine can (o.t. Fischstäbchen)

According to a study by the »Ellen MacArthur Foundation«, more than eight million tons of plastic deposit in the global oceans every year, consequently there would be 2050 more plastic than fish in the water. Around 4 % of the found garbage on North Sea beaches are cotton swabs. Aim was to build a critical position towards daily plastic consumption to the benefit of marine conservation. The illustration was part of the group exhibition »Seagulls. Waste. And some Mermaids« and was screen-printed in three colors on DIN A2 in a limited edition of 30 pieces.

Void Fish Blinks Blind #4

Void Fish Blinks Blind #4 belongs to a series of watercolors i was asked to create in 2018 by the sound artists duo Islands Songs (Nicolas Perret and Silvia Ploner) in order to give a “visual image” to “The Forest Within – Within The Forest”, sound piece they presented at ArGe/Kunst in Bozen. From the artists’ statement: “Featuring a conversation in-between a human and microbe, the piece interleaves human and microbial perspectives, spaces and times; exploring borders, frictions and symbioses in-between acoustic and synthetic, abstract and concrete, single organism and environment, the guest and the host, the self and the other”.

FEEDBACKS

“Feedbacks” is a typographic Poster series about some of the most used feedbacks on social networks regarding graphic design and other visual fields.
Aesthetically each poster is like an abstract block composition inspired by printmaking movable type machine.
In order to enhance the “fun” mood each letter has a different ratio (also texture and color) compared to the others, but all together stay and interact inside a rectangle layout in an imaginary photographic set.

POV

My Work explores Greek/Cypriot slang language, proverbs, sayings or urban myths. The work takes up a word or a phrase and explores the ways that can be transformed into a visual work of art. The trigger for this project is about how people deconstruct and merge languages or influences from other cultures to express their selves or pass an ethical lesson in everyday life. I think that the essential point of connection between humans is the use of language and ethical lessons. In a way this is the most common thing we have as species, to be creative in expressing ourselves to each other, therefore this is a form of self-exploration enabling us to unlock our limits of imagination.

Numbers 2020

Layout of a calendar with custom numbers (personal experimentations). These numbers are used for show different months, 1 month per page. This calendar was printing in offset (100 copies) with Munken Polar paper (200 g/m2). Colors Pantone used : 801, 802, 804, 805.

soft chaos

I don‘t apply colours, I am searching for them. I‘m searching for the perfect symbiosis of composition, texture, lighting and colour. This process can take hours or months. I have a starting point with one or a few photos, scans or other materials and transform them until the result is perfect and triggers emotions in myself and others. The works all have different moods but I would describe the overall vibe as a soft chaos, that you can fall in love with.

THERE IS A GHOST IN MY HOUSE

We created this project for our instagram channel. First we designed an architecture in CGI, which is composed over 9 posts and added the model afterwards. In this way, the boundaries between the real and the illustratively surreal become blurred, the socks become secondary and an unseen colorful world emerges.

Corona Food Habits

CORONA FOOD HABITS
When curfew, assembly bans and home office became reality, food and eating quickly advanced to the highlight of the day. For our work as designers in the area of food it is crucial to constantly follow up on social and cultural trends. With social media having been flooded by sourdough and banana bread recipes, we were wondering how the circumstances of the lockdown has changed our food preferences and eating habits. Through our research we were able to observe a number of phenomena, which we translated into a series of 8 images – styled in monochrome colours and repetitive patterns, reflecting recurring routines and the monotony of the days during the lockdown.

BAUHAUS X SOTO

The straightforward flashcards series entitled “BAUHAUS x SOTO” discover the resemblance between the German and Venezuelan jargon. The series put under the microscope the way that we informally refer to those among us and towards other individuals or events in spoken word.

The emblazoned playful and toddler-driven designs resemble a hybrid of kinetic art by Venezuelan sculptor Jesús Rafael Soto and artworks of the Weimar-based Staatliches Bauhaus which suggested dimensionality by pairing flat planes with overlapping shapes or perhaps by featuring bold typography and blocks of color.

ohne Titel

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.