The illustration shows the coexistence of nature, animals and humans. This illustration is intended to show a certain fluidity and community in this coexistence, which shows a great harmony.

Es könnte so friedlich sein, würden wir uns alle einfach ein bisschen mehr Zeit füreinander nehmen. So würden wir lernen uns gegenseitig zu respektieren und könnten auch ohne Angst vor dem Anderen eine gute Zeit haben – gemeinsam oder nur mit sich selbst. Es spielt keine Rolle woher wir kommen, was wir tragen oder welche Hautfarbe wir besitzen. Die Erde dreht sich weiter und so sollten wir akzeptieren, dass – trotz unterschieden – wir alle Menschen sind.

Black & white are not colors.
They are just our perception.
Coexistence is a matter of right perception.

The 4 graphic designers of atelier YOUPI found themselves sorely deprived when the confinement arrived – since their orders were mostly suspended. Locked down but not resigned, they responded graphically to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. During these 50 strange days, 19 ideas took shape, following the news : shortages of medical equipment, security management of the crisis, austerity, solidarity with the most affected, lies of the State, impasse of capitalism… To keep track of that time and glimpse other possible futures

Coexisting is messy, it’s claustrophobic, it’s never easy. All the same, we can make it work. We have to.

With this piece I explore the concept of coexistence with a minimal approach. The letters in their different forms, each fighting for their own within the given space it has to share with others.

It poses a question on how we, with our differences, can live together in this space. This shared world. This finite earth that we have to share with each other. This world that is ever chaotic, unjust, ugly, and also beautiful.

Black and white are not colors. They are just our perception. Coexistence is a matter of right perception.

If we stay together, we’ll leave together.

Visual representation only with type in three different languages with the same message “We are united”. The graphic mixs the three languages (English, mandarin and catalan) creating the different combos and posibilities.

Today’s world is shaped by global inequality and injustice. Instead of sharing and giving there exists an imbalance — people keep taking and taking… While many live in abundance, they continue to enrich themselves at the expense of those who are destitute. We have to share our wealth in order to coexist equally.

In times of dispair and uncertainty, governments and institutions have failed.
We’ve reached a breaking point, both socially and environmentally. We must choose. Coexist or die.

To coexist means to change our concepts of how things should be because of how they always were. We need to stop preying on each other and find compassion, tolerance. See past preconceptions. We need to be each other’s shelter.

This work wants to invite people to think of words that we need to preserve and eliminate to coexist with each other. It’s a participative work that wants to stimulate a serious consideration on the value of words.

how can we live together when racism is still alive? this statement reflects the time we live and serves as a reminder that there is no vision of coexistence unless we can unite and find a solution to systemic racism.

To coexist, empathy is required to understand each another. It’s the effort to contextualize and understand our different backgrounds. It’s the unifying rush of empathy needed to attempt coexistence in a world where everything is far from equal.

Once we get cut off from all external noise, surroundings, interactions and routines, all we are left with is ourselves and our thoughts. It can be the most challenging dialogue of all, when all around there’s only silence. Coexisting begins with oneself and then it’s projected outwards. This lockdown has been a good exercise on that.

*please notice there is a animation of the poster send to Laura 🙂

or download it here:
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various views on what has happened

Is coexistence possible in the world we used to live in until today? Or maybe should we go further and design a new world, being not so sad of leaving the present one?

For me, to coexist is to build a working relationship. While we live and share the same space and time, to live in peace and take considerations of other’s needs is like being each other’s roommates/crew maters. To treat each other how we want to be treated, to be respectful, to agree to disagree, to have necessary boundaries while still being supportive and caring.

The concept derives from quotes by two of recent history’s most visionary futurists. R. Buckminster Fuller wrote, “We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth.” And Marshall McLuhan wrote, “There are no passengers on spaceship earth, we are all crew.”

Humanity must coexist!
The variety of typeweights as a representation of our difference and similarities. We all play a role that makes our earth, communities and families complete. The circle is a universal symbol that represents the notions of wholeness, original perfection, the Self, the infinite, and eternity.