JP/US is a collaboration with Rok Hudobivnik that explores the idea of verbal interpretation through photography and between two culturally different countries. This series of images present opposing perspectives, whereby each pair is linked by a single word. For this pair of images that word is ‘Scale’.

complementary coexistence shows how different from each other species may look like from the outside. but actually they couldn’t exist without each other despite their distinctions. even if our differences are shown in coexistence, they do not divide us, but rather complement us as different species.

In the past three or four months we have noticed a particular phenomenon which was the quick spread of misinformation and fake news about the Corona virus. We have witnessed a lot of false information (some of it dangerous and some of it just absurd and therefore funny) being shared online. These fake news can become a beacon of hate and prejudiced speech (calling the Corona virus the “chinese virus” or administrating all the blame to China and therefore creating a wave of prejudice against asians). With the word “coexist” in mind we wanted to visually explore the importance of building a critic response to the information we consume and share online.

everyone everyday everyhumanbeing everyanimalbeing everysky everyocean everytree everyplant everyall should live in peace

In the midst of chaos & uncertainty,where everything feels uncomfortable & unjust,now more than ever is the point in time that connectivity & collective effort are key elements & through a process of extrovert experimentation,new forms of collaboration,design & communication,will develop & evolve.New,different,unexpected & above all constructive approaches towards whatever arouses in the life path are needed.It is all about resetting your mindset,experiencing enrealment in the here & now,being a responsible,emotionally intelligent human & trying to build consistent,lifelong processes of mindful solutions cause “The problem is not the problem.The problem is your attitude about the problem.”

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

“First Things First” is our vision on what coexistence is, start over and learn from past mistakes, in order to improve the society and the people. We got our inspiration from “First Things First Manifesto” published in 1964 by Ken Garland, which was a call for a return to the humanist aspect of design. In our opinion, the vision of the future of the design that is described in the Manifesto blend with our vision of the future of coexistence. We resumed the alphabet developed by Edward Wright to compose the poster, because despite the character is futuristic in a constructivist kind of way, there is, however, something somewhat primitive about it.

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 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 is a house we are building together

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
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

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.

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.

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 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.

Coexist we must. With the planet. With all species. With the world. With others. With ourselves…there’s more than meets the eye. Everyone unfolds, holding multiple layers. All the two headed monsters.

People embracing

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.

In this historical moment more than ever, we must rethink the concept of community and try to abandon our lifestyle focused on ourselves

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