Black and/or White

Black and white, black or white? Without one there would not be the other! In contrast as far away as it does not go on and yet in interaction harmoniously. Just like black and white, it is in the whole life with each other, for each other and next to each other

Branding, Website Design & Development for CPT

The award-winning digital design studio Moby Digg recently did the Branding, Website Design & Development for CPT – Center for Philosophical Technologies. The CPT is a strategic initiative of Arizona State University and brings together philosophers, designers, artists, scientists, and critical and creative practitioners to interrogate, critique, and reconceive the relation between philosophical inquiry and technological development in the 21st century and beyond. The CPT thinks about technologies broadly, from advancements in AI, biotechnology, and planetary infrastructure design to technologies for storytelling, ecological communication, and community building, in order to envision technical practices that are critically engaged, ecologically embedded, and speculatively framed.

Logo
Reflecting the center’s dynamic DIY approach, the logo builds on the acronym (CPT) whereby letters can be arranged freely within the system and are framed by parentheses. Our research into language and expression of ideas through typography led the conceptual rediscovery of parentheses: They allow writers the freedom to provide additional and clarifying information, inserting relevant thought, always providing context and content.

This variable branding system can be used both statically and animated, adapting to various formats and spacial contexts, but moreover it can easily be typed out and used together with research texts, or claims, creating connected streams of thought.

Identity
The website backgrounds build an analogy to Arizona’s desert landscape, embodying a view to the far horizon. The designers used blur, to emphasize the intersection of disciplines at CPT and the vast information clouds those disciplines are made of. The floating forms show an abstracted version of the constantly moving (philosophical) thinking process.

The resulting compositions of the logo, loose type and bubbles create a brand identity, that should invite free associations in the poetic vastness of philosophy and gestalt.

Website
The developed digital experience works with soft animations, blended layers and gradients. Working with abstract images that almost blend in with the background allows readers to think about new associations between the text, background and images. At the same time, they tried to make the vast amounts of texts as accessible as possible, without losing too much of the website’s usability.

Branding, Website Design & Development for CPT

Credits: Moby Digg
Creative Direction: Gabriela Baka, Maximilian Heitsch
Lead Design: Gabriela Baka
Design: Sebastian Haiss
Lead Development: Artur Nagenrauft
Development: Sebastian Haiss, Maximilian Heitsch, Korbinian Lenzer
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the awareness of touching

These days touching has become a very important thing: we can’t touch the ones we love. We are far from them. We think we might have touch something infected and we get paranoid. Now we have limited access to the things we can touch. Internet (again) has become our best ally. We can’t touch, but we can see.
At first I made this image with vibrants color, to give an image to what I cannot see (the virus) but then, we I change it to b&w it made a new form and sense of touching, instead of seeing.

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN is a free contemporary display typeface designed by Lukas Haider & Alexander Raffl. It consists of three styles: RND, PX, and MX. Additional alternates can easily be adapted using upper- or lowercase characters. Although the roots of the typeface are derived from a linear grid-system, the overall appearance is still organic through the variation of the individual characters. A vast set of glyphs makes it ideal for designing artworks, magazines, and logos. A Beta-Version of UNKNWON is already in use for various things, e. g. for the Recordlabel TAU.

Alexander Raffl is an Austrian graphic designer based in Vienna, who is working at HammerAlbrecht. Lukas Haider is a Graphic designer & Art Director from Graz who currently lives in Vienna and just started his own design studio Lukas Haider.

UNKNOWN

Designers: Lukas Haider & Alexander Raffl 
Release: March 2020
Styles: RND, PX & MX
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Ma’dan village

Ma’dan culture existed since late neolitic period on self-built islands on in delta of Tigris river. After thousands of years of existence, this treasure of human genius was almost wiped out by Saddam Hussain, yet they manageged to survive and are now rebuilding their culture. Ma’dan also represented one of the oldest exemples of human social organization: the archipelago of small economies based on exchange of goods. Today, when global moguls tend to become monopolysts Ma’dan paradigm is recalled by economists like prof. Jerzy Hausner in his recent theory of “islands and archipelagos” that evokes coexistence and collaboration instead of voracious and agressive fight for omnipotence.

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The Fotobus Society, set up by Christoph Bangert, is a network that connects more than 400 photography students from 29 German and European universities and photography schools. Members can avail themselves of a wide range of cultural and social activities offered by the association. At the heart of the community is a 30-year-old bus serving as a mobile photography school that regularly carries members to photo festivals, symposia, and professional events. Over the last years, the association has firmly established itself as a promoter of cultural and academic exchange within the international photography scene.

further 01 is showcasing selected works by members, inaugurates a series that from now on will be published annually by Verlag Kettler. The projects presented in this first edition offer an overview of different contemporary approaches that oscillate between documentary and conceptual photography, challenging and crossing the boundaries of the genre. Many of these works have already received international awards. Collected in a single volume, they provide intriguing insights into today’s young European world of photography.

Works by
Arne Piepke, Mafalda Rakoš, Vivian Rutsch, Max Slobodda, Felix Kleymann, Lena Kunz, Elias Holzknecht, Martin Lamberty, Maximilian Mann, Lucas Bäuml & Lando Hass, Alexander Ziegler, Ole Witt, Luise Jakobi, Ronja Hermann, Jann Höfer, Ingmar B. Nolting, Kristina Lenz, Markus Seibel, Patrick Junker, Lukas Kreibig, Sebi Berens, Rafael Heygster, Richard Heinicke, Magnus Terhorst & Thomas Morsch, Anna Roters, Theresa Albers, Fabian Ritter, Katja Sterzik & Wolfgang Gähtgens & Ronja Hermann & Florian Genz, Monika Hanfland, Victoria Jung, Elena Fiebig, Marvin Böhm, Josh Kern, Benedikt Ziegler

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Editor: Christoph Bangert, Florian Genz, Lea Szramek, Magnus Terhorst, Victoria Jung
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Volume: 320 pages
Language: English, German
Format: 13.5 × 19 cm
Workmanship: soft cover
ISBN 978-3-86206-794-7
Price: € 20.–
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Where do I come from?

Being a Chinese international student studying in the U.S. Especially now during this global pandemic makes me think more about things like identities and where I belong. All those social and political issues arise from the virus makes me self-conscious about the relationship between my own individuality and the world we live in. I made this poster as a visual representation of me being lost in thinking about my identity.

Peace, Shalom, Salām

Designed for one of our clients. The client organizes trips to Israel and also deals and lectures about political aspects in the region with fair representation to all sides of the conflict. In the brief they requested us to express the values of the company that promotes the values of coexistence, brotherhood and peace.
Designer: Daniel Diller Creative | Director: Eran Bacharch

Black and White Drama/Series

Among them are Cosmos, Roller Coaster, and Striped Dancer.Even at home, our thinking is like a roller coaster, and we are sometimes happy and sometimes nervous about the current situation.But we live in this cosmos, our hearts are connected.Striped dancers represent our global human thinking and dance together to celebrate, because we can use digital media and technology to solve all problems in an efficient way.Now we should learn to accept the facts and see the good side it brings to us, the real digital age is coming.The most important thing people should learn is to face suffering, and we should have hope and positive mindfulness. This is how human beings can coexist in the spirit.

Ways to connect

An illustration for a workshop I co-organised at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia: Community as Interface. The two figures suggest two different ways of organisation, a monolithic (centralised) and peer-to-peer (decentralised). Although these models are more often referring to computer networks, the rocks bring back something elemental and tribal understanding of a community. By showing both models, I would like to leave it for the viewer to choose a model in which they would prefer to co-exist…

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Love – a timeless word. It includes tolerance, compassion, being human to other people. simple but not easy. At the present time, it is the only sure thing we can give.