just a break

we humans coexist with nature. that’s a fact. or not? maybe not because we destroy it. if one destroys the other is it a coexistence still? and talking about escape from civilization in my other submission and calling it “dropout”, this one portrays both, dropout from civilization and dropout from destroying nature in relation.

Reference to the famous phrase by Greek storyteller Aesop. Simply by using the brilliant typeface ‘Typefesse’ by Océane Juvin, the human figure has been introduced in the letters, because, ultimately, coexistence is about people.

We have to grow together in unity, rather than isolate as separate nations. The abstract idea of flags that have been merged together. It symbolizes the one nation we should become.

The times we are living showed how fragile, unequal and unprepared our society is, now it’s the moment to rethink the way we live and to take on a challenge to establish a “New Order” where words like tolerance, equality, solidarity and sustainability will matter.

feels like a year off for the whole world and everything that lives on it

Ego, common sense, poverty, climate change, wars, government decisions, civic freedoms, human rights? Set your own pace. Speak up. Do not be afraid of changes. Brighter days will come, stay safe and help each other. Be happy. You are not alone in this. Live and exist together, in peace, no matter the place, the name, the color or the language. Just to be human after all.

The concept of coexistence is represented through space-time parameters; the set of dots depicts the cities, related to the Time Zones, creating an abstract map of the world on a faded white sphere. The idea is to focus on the concept of here and now in a larger dimension; the dot itself as an indispensable unit to a larger and more complex design, whether it represents a city, a person, a housing complex, an institution and so on.
The artwork shows a date and time moved to zero that symbolize not only the possibility of restarting but also the immanent nature of coexistence, that sustains life.

Medicine students across the globe are often not taught how to conduct an abortion. They often teach themselves, using papayas because they resemble the human uterus.

In Germany, spreading information about abortions is a criminal offence.
Instead of supporting women with an unwanted pregnancy, they are not even given the chance to inform themselves freely.

Our poster is hanging in flat-shares and pubs, making detailed information accessible that otherwise is hard to get.
We want to kill the social stigma, break the silence. Because every third woman once makes the decision for an abortion.

The original size is DIN A1, printed in colour.

So, what can we as creatives contribute to figuring out how we as a global society want to coexist?
In a world so complex and so fast that nobody can understand it, where everything merges into a blurry background noise, we as creatives are constantly searching. Maybe even mediating, but in the first place searching.

I made this poster for the annual exhibition of the design department of my university, HTW Berlin, where I study communications design. “Jahresausstellung” is German for “annual exhibition”, where students of product design, fashion design and communications design show their works.

The original size is DIN A1, printed in colour.

In my opinion people should live in harmony with nature otherwise our existence will end soon.

Man facing the end of the world. And on Titanic the orchestra is still playing.

Man is always looking for something. He often skips what he is looking for and goes further.

Times and Helvetica. Both are nice.

Two fonts, both are nice.

Together forward, not too fast, but together.

Many plans. Many colors. Many dreams. Many roads. When? Do i have to choose? Only black and white? I like grey. Coexistance feels right.

My interpretation of how to coexist in peace, together alone under the same roof in 2020.

With the pandemic, global panic has ensued inspired by the expected collapse in global industries and power systems – an anxious narrative about the livelihood of the capitalist system is being pushed down to every individual on the personal level; highly contradicting the state of things for each individual. For the first time, we’re forced to sit down. With our past, with our present, and with our future. With ourselves and with our environments. We’re forced to sit down and contemplate, we’re forced to pause and sit eye to eye with a new rhythm, with a new normal and learn to live with its otherness from the “normal” we supposedly want to get back to.