coexistence means cooperation

Coexistence does not only mean living side by side. For us it is much more: working together, supporting each other, learning from each other. And so these designs are not just the expression of one designer. They are a cooperation. Created in a process, in respectful handling of the work of the other creator. A constant development of one’s own ideas through new perspectives. With a result that would not have been achieved by oneself.
Value recognize and appreciate each other!

Design: Lisa Panitz and Jonas Herfurth

Coexistence means cooperation

Coexistence does not only mean living side by side. For us it is much more: working together, supporting each other, learning from each other. And so these designs are not just the expression of one designer. They are a cooperation. Created in a process, in respectful handling of the work of the other creator. A constant development of one’s own ideas through new perspectives. With a result that would not have been achieved by oneself.
Value recognize and appreciate each other!

Design: Lisa Panitz and Jonas Herfurth

COEXIST

Coexist in itself is a complex theme, while coexisting with others depends on the space each individual is granted, the amount of different individuals around oneself and the distance between them.

There is

There is
Beauty in contrast
Tolerance in co-operation
Edge in softness
And currents beneath the calm

There is unity in diversity
Peaks below the plains
Shadow in the light
And depth beneath the shallow

Colour, texture, shape, size
All come together
All share the space
And co-exist

United lovers

During these days we’re experiencing a big amount of cartographic data visualizations about COVID-19, turning our attention and concern on big red circles representing infected people. As designers, especially on these days, we felt the responsibility to reestablish a proper relation between the meaning of data and its actual representation. We rethought these shapes and colours using love – to other people, passions, activities – as a positive agent to change and heal.

To Coexist

Three different designers in three different locations coexist in one poster. As in the variations in music, each poster changes the starting point: I+L+R, L+R+I, R+I+L.The letters, unique in their shapes, fit, adapt, and respect each other. Furthermore, the posters themselves can exist singularly or coexist. With this game, we’ve tried to grasp a quite complex term in a simple way.

Ambiguität

As a society, we need to tolerate different concepts of life. There is no blueprint to it. A necessary skill for us to coexist in peace is ambiguity tolerance. Accept and tolerate each one’s indifferences, especially if they do not resemble one’s own. There is no right way, and that’s the beauty of it.

Ta’ayosh

Ta’ayosh poster is solely based on playing with the typography of the word co-exist written in English and in Arabic. The aim was to experiment with the shapes of the letters and how these words could come together in different forms.

Soupir

More than half the world confined.

The silence imposed by the COVID-19 crisis resonates like nature’s ultimate warning.
As a warning, but equally as salutary advice.

What if more pauses were to pace the frenzy of our tempo?
Allowing people to catch their breath; the earth to regenerate.

Fallow as a principle.
Silence as punctuation.

Work in Progress

Our world is currently work in progress:
Transforming.
Becoming.
Developing
&
Regenerating
A better world, where humans are hosts and not hostiles
A world where animals are part of the digital landscape,
And technology helps us rather than tearing us apart.
We exist to live & I got your back.

Text by Eduardo León

Braid Power

Hair is the issue with taking issue with hair – there shouldn’t be one. A powerful representation of power, resilience, strength, unity, the braids I present are binding yet freeing of a stigma that surrounds divisions and “tolerance” thereof. There is no tolerance in living and letting live. There is only a silent co-existence.

There are two sides to every question #5

The photo is part 5 of my series ›There are two sides to every question‹ and was taken in Israel in 2010, showing an Arab village and a Palestinian riding a horse on the border between the two territories. When I lived in Israel, I was impressed & at the same time moved by the incredible number of cultures that live here in a very limited space, but which make life difficult for each other.
This photo represents the coexistence of people of different origins, religion and political convictions as well as man’s intervention in nature and her response. Then as now, existing problems frustrate and climate change makes life in the Middle East more difficult. The solution is still a long way off.

To Coexist

Three different designers in three different locations coexist in one poster.
As in the variations in music, each poster changes the starting point: I+L+R, L+R+I, R+I+L.
The letters, unique in their shapes, fit, adapt, and respect each other.
Furthermore, the posters themselves can exist singularly or coexist.
With this game, we’ve tried to grasp a quite complex term in a simple way.

To Coexist

Three different designers in three different locations coexist in one poster.
As in the variations in music, each poster changes the starting point: I+L+R, L+R+I, R+I+L.
The letters, unique in their shapes, fit, adapt and respect each other.
Furthermore, the posters themselves can exist singularly or coexist.
With this game, we’ve tried to grasp a quite complex term in a simple way.