People’s coexistence creates many problems in all areas of life that are completely unnecessary and irrational. Society is torn apart and the gap between the parties is widening. Welcome to 2020.

Shapes that symbolise people, nature and our environment coexisting as one, revealing the interconnected bond between us and the Universe.

A plea to coexist. Aiming to manifest the necessity of coexisting by lifting up each others voices. As colors and ideologies coincide, nations follow suit, despite varying principles. With a combination of vulnerability and power “can we?” is the question we need to ask ourselves.

Selected people I see in the same places every day.

Coexistence : A composition out of two similar fabrics, carrying two different ideologies that are originated from the same region in Middle east. Brothers, friends before, those two religious entities unfortunately have been torn down by the deformation of the historical filter of politics and are now in extreme difficulty to reconstruct a normal relationship. However inside those two religions leans — just like the very same textile thread — the essence of peace and reconstruction. Both religions aspire for peace and respect and it is shown in the way they greet each other which sounds almost the same. Shalom Aleikhem and Salaam-Alaikum.

Coexist of love – a lovely reminder and a representation of how we keep in our core those who we love and make us strong.
Collective existence – we are all in this together bound by a same cause, let us hold and help each other.
Mind coexist – my visual representation of coexisting with our inner demons.
Lend a hand – it is always a full circle of love and gratitude.

1. Where In The Same Boat But Drifting
2. Say It Again And Again. Hopefully Somebody Will See And Hear
3. Converge to Coexist

Thinking about coexisting, intersecting and separated groups.

My work approach to the matter is manifested through typography and religious symbols.
Overlapping and merging letters as well as a geometric symbol combining two separate arms into one, the X letter center light and religious symbols exposed in one folded sheet of paper symbolize the indispensable need of reconciliation by reducing social divisions and tolerance.
So crucial, especially in the light of recent happenings.

we have to do something.
we have to look in the mirror.
we have to make a difference.
in all directions.
no matter if it is about humanity, about water shortage, our nature, simply about our earth:

move!

It’s been 50 years since the Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons came into force. We coexist together under the constant threat of this man-made technology that still has the power to destroy us all.

Humans learned to coexist in unlikely spaces. The desire to alter these unfriendly environments has always been stronger than any concern about breaking the rules or creating discomfort for others. This me-first mentality is everywhere, this lifestyle is on display – one can intrude and examine from the outside.

To be an invisible part of society, is a wrong assumption. Everybody is part of a living and vibrant system, even when this seems not so visible any more to many of us. The tiptoeing alienation of people – not necessarily from nature – but rather from the consciousness of what your own actions evoke, leads into a
dangerous tilt. Everybody is part of a whole. Everybody is valuable and useful. Everybody equally contributes to the stability of a whole.
Living is a fact aand a, not a competition. When we support tendencies that directly or indirectly harm others, our homes and habitats, we eventually destroy ourselves.

My poster is based on a very simple concept regarding the lack of empathy. To change the current social status, we need to take a step back and look past our ego. The basic typographic visualisation of “ME” turning into “WE” is my response to this problem.

Despite geography draws walls we all share the same room.

What are the choices we have?

An order form for potential life – Even with the highest scientific and medical standards we are not able to design the basic conditions of our lives. »Ouviepo« asks questions about the choices we have and more so of the choices we do not have. To peacefully coexist we need to be aware of the life conditions of ourselves and of others. The conditions, we have to face, those we have to accept and those we have to fight for or against. That is our choice.

This drawing is based on the initiative “Seebrücke” (Leave No One Behind).

The drawing is inspired by the painting »Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer« by Caspar David Friedrich. I use the work as a pictorial metaphor for life and premonition of death, limitation and vastness, past and future.

The “HIROSHIMA APPEALS” poster design series was started from 1983, with new poster introduced by assigned graphic designer every year in memorial to the atomic bombing at Hiroshima in 1945. The first poster was designed by Yusaku Kamekura, who also designed the 1964 Tokyo Olympics posters. As what he had said, the poster series aimed at exploring new view of point towards the incident with a neutral stance.
Inspired by Kamekura and fellow designers who took part in the design relay, I decided to accept the challenge for 2020 version.
It is a poster of an illustration themed “life”. The girl represents my mother at her childhood, myself, as well as all the girls in general.

I hope that we open our eyes and see that everything is related, that the actions we take today will influence our tomorrow. Just as the letters are all different but part of the same family so are we; we are all interconnected, no matter the country we live in, color, race, sex etc.

So, are we conscious of our everyday actions? Or we are just walking ahead blindly? Are our normal habits our best behavior? And how many of us locked into comfort zone? I hope that this wake-up call that has disturbed our deep sleep and once we have opened our eyes we will work harder for a better coexistence, be more empathic, more caring towards one another and the nature around us.