The Tokyo Skytree operates as a broadcasting tower for the Kantō Region. It replaced the Tokyo Tower due to the vast increase in development and high-rise buildings. With it also being the tallest tower in the world it can be seen to represent the exponential urbanisation absorbing our planet. Tokyo is the largest and most densely populated city I’ve visited but despite its size, everything runs extremely efficiently. It is a place where humans coexist with incredible balance with each other. A balance that is increasingly lost between the city and surrounding nature.

A scanned photocopy of a scanner scanning a scanner.

Departing from Warsaw airport

To coexist means to intersect

woman on train ride

To coexist means to intersect

This work portrays the unbelievable density of the human population in a Brazilian favela, where the poor have been marginalised into an illegal and dangerous urban environment. But the people in these places are coexisting and creating their own functioning communities despite the hardship.

We should stay more together.

Letters that stand close enough to each other melt. They become emphasizing elements and close disturbing gaps. There are no borders, no rules and there is no fixed number of possible combinations. Ligatures make a font family special. They prove sense and sensitivity of the designer. Analogously humans. We can associate and set an example. At first sight, the oddities seem too individual, but once time passes these missing connections will vanish. At first sight, the room already seems unbearably crowded, but after a while we curiously move closer together. It’s like M. Vignelli once said, “It’s not the notes, it’s the spacing between the notes that really makes the music.“

Modern society was living at an increasingly fast rate. But for once we have a chance to stop moving and observe how we interact with our planet.

We need to let go of the dysfunctional relationship we have with nature, where we believe that resources are limitless. This is a chance to reconcile with the basics.

To build a better world.

This is a quote from The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan. He warned us about the consequences of moving from a culture in which all the senses partook of a common interplay to a tyranny of the visual. We are all living a transformation that embraces all our senses. Due to the pandemic, we have lost skin-to-skin contact, in favor of eye contact, at a distance. Power is exploiting the effects of the pandemic to enrich itself, increasing social differences. On the contrary, life is asking us to embrace a wider vision, calling into question all points of view on the world.

There is no single player mode on earth

We touched the bottom, what’s now? Are we going to be able to change the old paradigms? We have the chance to look inward and raise up the vibes.

My artwork deals with different topics each, but all of them asked about the barrier between the so called us and the so called them. As we’re all in this mess together. A mess we’ve created.

Coexisting means order. To create an aesthetic and orderly future we must create parallel spaces and keep distances which respect the others yet still make us able to act. Design is a tool to show graphic elements coexist and live in a peacefully and calm correlation. It is now more important than ever to translate this hereby cited vocabulary in our daily lives to create an aesthetic future.

AI and templates will change the way designers will work. Everyone will be a designer. Coexistence of machine and designer. Change is on the way. Are you the hamster?