Contrast Experience

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other. (Deepak Chopra)

Coexistence

Custom type lettering with its letterforms overlaying one another to represent the nuances and diversities in humanity, that we should appreciate differences and also embrace the similarities that make us people.

Succubus

Current economic system through the period of pandemic has shown itself as succubus of society. Can people coexist with each other and progress without the concept of money?

Struktura

We coexist in the structured chaos of constant information overload. Each individual has to find their own way through the myriads of visual, audial and textual voices. Through structuring informational mayhem into individual paths which with time develop into distinguishable shapes, we form subliminal perception of world’s hum. The process is visualised on these images.

Osmosis Guardian

The Osmosis Guardian is a God which has the duty to keep mankind balanced to ensure its coexistence and survival. Indeed, he needs to carefully size up or size down the amount of power, wisdom, temptation and love in the world by throwing homemade divine apples on humans.

This character design aims to think beyond what we have in front of us. It gives us the opportunity to imagine what are the Gods roles into our lives and how this one in particular can look like.

Reality Check

When you can’t really tell what’s real anymore! Excessive used of photo retouching and manipulation in social media, 3D rendering in fashion and advertising, and CG effects in films. We’ve been living with lies and we don’t seem to mind!

C/O VIENNA Magazine

“SMELLS LIKE CHEWING GUM”—The C/O VIENNA Magazine Beauty issue is full of interviews, reports, stories, photo and art works by internationally known and upcoming artists and authors. From which ingredients does beauty develop? Where do we find beautiful things in the world? What is beautiful? Who determines what is beautiful and what is ugly? We’ll try to answer these questions by talking to people who might have found the answer.

The Beauty Issue comes along with contributions by: Bela Borsodi, Jakob Lena Knebl, Healing Stones 2.0, Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?, Gelatin, Der Pferdenarr, Sarah Steiner, The Diver, Sissel Tolaas, Der Kitsch, Die Schönheit des Bösen, Chris Austin Hadfield, Immo Klink, and Los Mantero. With a limited Art Edition by Peter Kogler

C/O VIENNA Magazine

Editor: REDAKTIONSBUERO OST
Volume: 306 pages
Format: 27 × 21 × 1 cm
Language: English, German
ISBN: 978-3-9504677-1-0
Price: € 16.–
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altogether

We have reached the eleventh hour already, the best way of preventing the overflow of the proverbial vase is to harmoniously cooperate, actively work together and be aware of the dependency on each other.

Think Like an Artist / a Designer, Don’t Act Like One

There are two new Publications by BIS Publishers which you shouldn’t miss, if you want to get a refreshing and entertaining first insight into the world of design or art.

Think Like an Artist, Don’t Act Like One by Koos de Wilt provides a fresh look at the fundamental questions we face nowadays in daily life; about success, love, work, friendship, and about life and death. It is a lovely introduction to art history.

It presents 75 ways to look at art and 75 life lessons you can learn from it. From the works of ancient Egypt and Greece to today’s abstract and conceptual pieces, by way of Leonardo, Dürer and Rembrandt, Picasso, Warhol and Ai Weiwei, art inspires us to take a fresh look at the fundamental questions we face. Questions about success, about love, about work, about friendship and about life and death.

Think Like an Artist, Don’t Act Like One is a lively introduction to art history as it resonates in your own daily life. And an exhortation to look at art in your personal way.

The Author
Koos de Wilt is writer and art historian working on the interface of culture and business. He published books like Rembrandt Inc, The Rijksmuseum Story Book, and books with subjects ranging from business, diversity, canal houses, and music conducting. He also made documentaries, for example on Vermeer and Rembrandt.

Title: Think Like an Artist, Don’t Act Like One
Publisher: BIS Publishers

Author: Koos de Wilt
Workmanship: Paperback with flaps
Volume: 160 pages
Format: 18 × 14.5 cm
ISBN: 978 90 6369 468 5
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Think Like a Designer, Don’t Act Like One by Jeroen van Erp:
75 LESSONS FROM THE WORLD OF DESIGN—This anthology of design concepts reveals what you can learn from Mad Men’s Don Draper, why the Beatles were not just brilliant as musicians, how a lemon tart can make you world famous and why purple is just always so wrong. Unless you’re Prince or the Pope, that is, but this book is for everyone who isn’t.

75 inspiring, educational and sometimes hilarious insights in the adventurous minds of the designer.

The Author
Jeroen van Erp is a designer, professor and author. He cofounded strategic design agency Fabrique and teaches at Delft University of Technology.

Title: Think Like a Designer, Don’t Act Like One
Publisher: BIS Publishers
Author: Jeroen van Erp
Workmanship: Paperback with flaps
Volume: 160 pages
Format: 18 × 14.5 cm
ISBN: 978 90 6369 485 2
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Eames Fondation Quarantine

During this quarantine I started drawing imaginary worlds in quarantine. I’ve decided to create a world were everything and everybody is in peace despite what’s happening outside. A world where design (Belleville Chair, Eames elephant, Jasper Morrison Sofa, Eames Lounge Chair), nature (greenhouse inside the house) and living beings coexist. I’ve done it underwater, as we can see the pisces and the shark, imagine it like rising water have taken over the world and that’s the reason why, everybody is in the same house (Eames Fondation). All living together, watching TV news, playing chess, relaxing… It’s like the new Atlantis mixing Noah’s ark. A hidden utopian place.