Work inspired by the painting “The Three Graces of Rubens” but brought to a modern world to the rhythm of reggaeton.
In the words of the historian Marcelo Ferrando Castro: “They were in charge of presiding over all those events in which pleasure was the main ingredient, such as good meals and banquets or dance shows, among many others. They were capable of providing as much joy as possible. both gods and mortals, but they also provided eloquence and wisdom. For this reason it was said that those mortals who were blessed by one of these three Graces, would become a great orator, philosopher, artist … “
It is produced on paper in a proportional format and smaller than the original.
Brighting
A new Chilean LED lighting company, with objectives aimed at energy saving, flexibility and short-term distribution, entrusts me with the design of its brand with a view to being applied to very different media: stationery, bags, packaging …
More than an immovable logo, I propose a range of interchangeable images in which the pictographic element consists of a set of multicolored squares / led lights that are distributed around the name. We thus achieve a fluid brand that accommodates different applications in a less rigid way than with a conventional brand. The text is composed with Ion Lucin Big John and Slim Joe sans serif typefaces.
PLOKTA Film Festival
Plokta is a festival where the moving image feeds ideas about technology. It is a meeting place for creative disciplines, thinkers, and artists. Plokta has an interdisciplinary and open take on technology. It explores what technology is and what it does—and what we make of that.
Andante, presto… maestoso
Call for the 52nd Gathering to Talk about Art and Design promoted by the dean designer and interior architect Luis Corbella.
Sometimes this gathering is transformed into presentations or master classes. On this occasion, Teresa Sapey gave a talk at the showroom of the Spanish coatings brand Cosentino and was scheduled for the Madrid Design Festival.
The motto was the musical term “Andante, presto, maestoso …” And, based on that context and on Sapey’s colorful work, I designed an image inspired by the lights of the equalizers.
The main typeface is a design I developed for a logo in the 90s. The LHF Sofia Script calligraphic font designed by Chuck Davis is contrasted.
Mixed Double
Analog works by Jana Janekovic and Sophie Schmid fragmentally digital mixed together.The artists exhibit together. Every now and then there is an invitation card made up of two works by the artists.The invitation cards were so well received and became a collector’s item that the artists made a whole series of such mixed works. More than 30 years ago they attended an art school together and have been friends doing art together ever since.
Ms. Janekovic is an architect and artist who deals with nature and architecture in her works. Ms. Schmid is an illustrator, artist and author who deals with people and their stories in her work.
Night parade of Monsters
I am inspired by Japanese Art and especially ukiyo-e prints. This painting I made with ink paints is my style interpretation of the parade of the Yokai aka Japanese monsters. It is a tribute to monsters and holy spirits, just as ukiyo-e masters do.
Flotsam
Plastic flotsam from the ocean, origin unknown, collected on beaches nearby Lecce / Italy.
HOMMAGE TO X
With my artistic approach I try to find out where the border between design and art is. Therefore I combine analog and digital methods.
Anne Tallentire: As happens
As happens is an exhibition by Anne Tallentire held at Hollybush Gardens in 2020. The exhibition builds on an ongoing engagement with precariousness and contingency in relation to social spaces, articulated in works that dismantle, re-order, and re-situate everyday materials and systems tied to specific locations or situations.
The booklet captures two conversations between Anne and directors Lisa Panting & Malin Ståhl. Presenting each in parallel, divided between a graduating line and blended together with a jarring colour shift from strong red to bright orange. A bound jacket hides a full-bleed installation image within two horizontal flaps, giving the booklet a sculptural quality.
Colour Factory
“Colour Factory”: How animals get their colours and patterns…
Illustration from the picture book “Als die Schweine ins Weltall flogen” (“When the Pigs flew into Space”, Publisher: Mixtvision Verlag, Munich.
It is an illustration for a picture book without text: The brief was to create vividly colorful scenes (so called „storytelling pictures“) for 12 everyday-words such as Light, Car, Body, Colour etc. Each spread is teeming with crazy fun motives and artistic ideas. This colourful, imaginary and funny picture book invites children and parents to immerse themselves in the pictures, let their minds wander, to develop their own stories.
The joy of sex
In many cases, sex is still taboo, and something that isn’t talked about freely and openly. Despite it being one of the oldest acts of the time, as a global society, we still aren’t very comfortable talking honestly about it. So, we want to get talking about sex – we want to be part of the discussion, creating educational content to normalize and provide support around the discussion of sex – both online and offline. We will delve into those touchy subjects we normally shy away from; from stigmas to sexuality, fantasies to fetishes, consent to chlamydia – we want to get ourselves, and our daters, comfortable talking about sex.
SUN
This poster is a tribute to the sun as well as the color spectrum and chaotic beauty. Color and light are represented here in a personal way in an infinitely large (or small) space. This poster is realized by programming with the p5.js software by decomposing colored frames.
Somewhere in between
‘Somewhere in between’ is a serie of screenprints that started out of a feeling of being “out of place and out of space” in my own thoughts. The serie evolves around boundaries and finding my sense of self.
YES, BUT NOT NOW
Visual identity for our digital platform to create a willingness to deal with the “taboo topic” organ donation in Germany.
In which controversies do we prefer to ignore rather than giving attention? Today’s civil society is flooded with issues that are relevant to everyone’s life, but are often successfully suppressed – one of them is the topic organ donation. Distant, uncomfortable, even frightening to some people and full of prejudice – there never seems to be the right moment to listen what people have to say about this topic.
A partner project with Kira Pawlewski 🙂
Hommage to the New Yorker magazine covers
Series of 6 images done with the same colour palette (5 vibrants colours) in hommage to the New Yorker magazine covers.
Bogged Down in Cementics
The poster combines political satire with promotion for architecture critique. It was published in 2020, when the media was criticising UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, for confusing semantics regarding the pandemic. It was created for an online discussion about architecture at the Uroboros Festival.
Buttergemüse
As part of my bachelor’s thesis, I created 27 posters. The topics were given by friends and were drawn randomly every day. This poster deals with the term “Buttergemüse” German for buttered vegetables. Inspired by the dish, I designed a small-scale and colorful poster that depicts all the different ingredients and put them together like a mosaic.
Visual Rhythm Generator
Wir arbeiten mit dem Konzept des «Aufgeschriebenen Design». Unser Programm kombiniert Bilder und fügt diese mit der Methode der Fragmentierung zu einem Ganzen zusammen. Diese Methode eignet sich besonders für serielles Arbeiten, wie beispielsweise bei Erscheinungsbildern (Corporate Design). Das Programm greift dabei auf unterschiedliche Archive zu.
fractal 01 , fractal 02
fractals are works based on repetition of one single picture.
The basic single pic was realized with a sx70 camera and sx70 Polaroid film dedicated to skyscrapers.The starting pic it’s then repeated in order to create a new final pattern, a kind of psychedelic texture.
La Consentida
I based this composition on the esthetics of the “chivas”, a rural form of transportation that represent the colombian idiosyncarsy with a beautiful and picturesque combination of color and forms. The “chivas” were declared cultural patrimony in 2008 and are a symbol of the emblematic floklore that I wanted to transmit in this poster.
FORKA Project
The FORKA Project is a platform that includes various creative activities that develop innovative approaches to research of the form, both in its formal form, and in the sense of its abstract expression, perception and understanding of the sensual, emotional, material and mental aspect.
According to various types of creativity and activities, the motto THE MORE IS MORE, THEN LESS, is an important source for creative solutions.
The result was the mixing of different design genres, which would show the basic idea of a new approach in design dedicated to very young artists.
Colour of life
I am more then my colour or my measurements.
Asap Pilar The Fluid Identity Edition
Twice a year the centre organises Pilar Asap: a multidisciplinary festival of exhibitions, performances, lectures and workshops. A selection of young artists and musicians that Pilar believes should be on everyone’s radar takes centre stage. As far as communication about the festival is concerned, designers Corbin Mahieu and Lennart Van den Bossche went in search of a typography that embodies the different worlds of Pilar: the historical force and age-old generations of the university on the one hand and the rebellious, punky youngsters of Pilar on the other. The font Bill from 1950 by the artist Max Bill (1908-1994) encompasses both elements.
June 2016
Prate is a calendar, a command line, a depository for illustrator files, an open directory and an aesthetic testbed for myself. This is a piece of Prate.