Like Minds

The works have a human touch, given that coexistence is about people living & working together. The works are iconic coexist gestures.

Like minds: Is a work exploring the dynamic of people finding connection.

Vision

The works have a human touch, given that coexistence is about people living & working together. The works are iconic coexist gestures.

Visions: Is a cheeky work where many visions find a common gaze.

Tic Tac Coexist

A simple play of the classic paper-and-pencil game ‹Tic Tac Toe› where the original 3×3 grid is expanded to 7×7 grid to match the amount of letters in the word ‹COEXIST›. The typography is set using an all-caps custom monospaced typeface, with varying thickness of the ‹O› and ‹X› characters to represent the pluralism in societies. The poster’s layout is deliberately made readable upside-down to represent the multiple point of views from each diverse entities within the closely-knit grid. XOXO.

Tic Tac Coexist

A simple play of the classic paper-and-pencil game ‹Tic Tac Toe› where the original 3×3 grid is expanded to 7×7 grid to match the amount of letters in the word ‹COEXIST›. The typography is set using an all-caps custom monospaced typeface, with varying thickness of the ‹O› and ‹X› characters to represent the pluralism in societies. The poster’s layout is deliberately made readable upside-down to represent the multiple point of views from each diverse entities within the closely-knit grid. XOXO.

1st: Ban public smoking (cars). 2nd: Ban public smoking (factories).

In order to ‘live or exist together’ our planet is vital. These 2 posters respond to the too late ‘climate change’ world-wide problem… In many countries around the world, it is illegal to smoke indoors in public places like cafés, pubs, galleries and restaurants. More and more countries are doing this, and our posters take the initiative of keeping the health of the public as good as it can be, a step further. The largest smokers are cars, aeroplanes and factories, but they are still legal everywhere. Why are they allowed to smoke (pollute) when the public cannot?

Shapist

A simple composition showing shape diversity

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Journeys / Vision / Like minds

The works have a human touch, given that coexistence is about people living & working together. The works are iconic coexist gestures.
Journeys:
Each of us on our own life journey, this work depicts the wonder of individual journeys working in, along and around each other.
Visions:
Is a cheeky work where many visions find a common gaze.
Like minds:
Is a work exploring the dynamic of people finding connection.

Choose Life

In this difficult period we all live in, there are many questions. Much as the uncertainty surrounding issues such as poverty, political and economic changes, human progress, political turmoil, social isolation, climate changes, human rights issues and freedoms.

Leaving your fate in the hands of others is in itself a resignation. So, choose how you’d like to live.

Make your dreams come true, work with yourself, try to be better, read books, stay or be creative, raise your voice, talk about what’s bothering you.

This not a ego push or ego pressure to become sad, or bad-competitive, but to be better for yourself.

It is time to live, do not just exist, do not stand idly by.

geolocated

I have searched faces in a free image bank. The names of the photographers and the geolocation of the photo. The images were beautiful and highly defined, but I extremely narrowed the definition down to almost bit-code-like. We are in different places, with different aspects (determined by our race), but we live together on the planet and we are 99.99% genetically identical.

Un-polarized

Religion, corruption, greed and polarized society personified in a high-contrast format. The approach itself rather emphasizes the the message instead of showing off design as such.

Recovered

Coexistence is a macro-issue. But reconciling our inner fragments – our particles – is the first fundament for clearing the path to harmonic coexistence: in human relations, in society, in nature, as a tiny part of the universe. Recognizing and embracing those pieces as part of ourselves play a role in how we perceive light and darkness within and around us. When we account the multitude of shades in the space between two extremes we find the ground to leave positive impressions. In those intermediate shades we coexist.

INNEN

INNEN is the Bachelor thesis of graphic designer Laura Pauline Bockel at Münster School of Design. It is dedicated to women in graphic design.

For those who are interested in design, it shouldn’t matter if the work was created by someone female, male or of other gender. Even though equal opportunities officially exist, there is clearly a discrepancy between the larger number of female graduates and their later professional careers. Only about 11% of management positions in graphic design in Germany are occupied by women. This disparity is also reflected in in the area of design history, the participants of design conferences and teachers at universities. Where do the many female graduates go? What experiences, goals and wishes do they have?

INNEN sees itself as a platform that represents female German graphic designers: Women, regardless of their age, who work in management positions, who are self-employed or employees. INNEN showcase their life paths and make their work more visible, and so present creative role models and show which career paths can be taken. It is not only about the “professional success,” but also about personal satisfaction. So that everyone, even those who are not working yet, can be certain to find their place in this very varied professional world.

INNEN

Editorial, concept and layout: Laura Pauline Bockel
Bachelor thesis, Münster School of Design
Content: 19 female graphic designers presented using interviews, photos, text, biography and a particular exemplary work + data & facts chapter

Release: 02/2020
Print: Druckerei Kettler, Druck & Verlag Kettler GmbH
Language: German
Volume: 188 pages
Format: 26 × 19cm
Production: Bookazine, Softcover

Edition: 50 (sold out)
Price: 25 Euro

Atlas of circles

Atlas of circles (2020) by République Studio, curated by Slanted Publishers.
From natural elements to invented objects, solid or liquid, huge or microscopic, things that makes us strong or vulnerable, scared or joyful, this way of depicting the links between nature and culture is based on the Mnémosyne Atlas of Aby Warburg. By playing with scales and circles, it reinforces the uniformity and the connection than can happen between items that compose our day-to-day life. Because everything is in constant dialogue, we need to re-evaluate our relationship with the planet and with others.

Regularity

Regularity? Regularity.

A treaty that will be imposed on us if we ourselves do nothing to change.

Regularity is not, the reduction of wages, the layoffs, the economic and psychological uncertainty, the social isolation and the concentration of wealth, only for the few.
After the pandemic the questions are many, but there are answers.

Το be human, to think, to act.