Dots represent people. Some divided by invisible borders, others clustered by compulsion.
Humanity has no borders
We live in a world where peace is granted. Or is it? While most people sit in their homes with their loved ones, living a peaceful life – hundred thousand of people flee from their war driven countries. They saw death, hunger and destruction. They are looking for nothing more than peace. They seek protection, help and comprehension. But we hide, we close not only our eyes but our countries, build walls to keep these away who are looking for help. What are we afraid of? Should we be afraid of these, who seek the peaceful life we live in? We talk and praise about humanity, but humanity is nowhere to be found.
Your Typeface
Your Typeface is a variable typeface experiment that enables you to design a typeface from the proportions and forced emotion of your face. Look surprised or uptight, yawn or smile, and let your face design your own typeface. And as if that wasn’t enough, you can download it and use it freely for any project you’d like.
By combining the variable font technology with face recognition the creative agencies, Overtone and Set Snail created a surprisingly fun tool that appeals to everybody. The very personal interaction with the typeface encourage you to make face gym and push your yawn to extremes. It’s fun and it might even keep you fit and young …
Your Typeface is made as a co-creation project by Aarhus based design agency Overtone and creative developers from Set Snail. It’s a non-profit passion project, that they just couldn’t let go.
The Type Design
The typeface consists of 8eight masters and can be transformed on three axes. The eight masters represent the extremes of the different styles and designs and they are designed to create multiple expressions along the axes. In this way you can (if you’re really face fit) design complete type families or multiple contrasting styles.
The Tech
The program uses the Beyond Reality Face SDK framework to process the users camera feed. The framework outputs a point cloud, which is use to draw the smiley face and update the variable font in the browser. When users download their font face, a new instance of the font is created on the fly using a framework called FontTools. This way the program is able to lock the font, and the user can download their very own, highly customized font file (.ttf), ready to install on their local system.
Your Typeface
Concept, design, and typeface design: Overtone
Creative developer: Set Snail
Face tracking software: BRFv5 Face Tracking by Tastenkunst
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Structured
Media Hysteria
Beware media hysteria!
No Border
The concept / idea of borders needs to be reconsidered constantly in a world where borders are both naturally given and at the same time artificially constructed while pushed and dissolved or neglected at the same time.
Less
All I need is Less. We all need to accept that less is more. Less for every single one means more for everyone.
History Herstory
His/tory always was and is and will be Her/story. Since long it’s time to acknowledge this. Let’s learn from the mistakes our ancestors made in the past. Let’s step into a future of us … for us.
cornucopia
The body of work “cornucopia” consists of stills I shot during the corona lockdown. The pictures were taken under improvised conditions on my coffeetable showing things I found in our flat. At the same time they represent my reduced horizon due to the curfew and the cornucopia of weird ideas.
The Peace Report
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Two beings are standing on a cliff. It is unclear whether they are moving closer or keeping the distance. An indistinct perspective opens up to them. waves blurring in the fog show uncertainty which is both hopeful and intimidating.
Spin the World!
Even if there’s a virus on your doorstep, don’t ever stop spinning!
What a Wonderful World
I actually made this poster in 2018, and I only used it to post it on my social media, but I think it’s appropriate for this call. I think don’t it needs much explanation.
We Can Still Wave…
The city of San Diego began locking down all non essential businesses and further curtailing social interactions on Thursday the nineteenth of March, in an attempt to deal with the spread of the novel coronavirus. Later that evening, I designed and printed the poster I’m seen holding in the photo, which my wife shot the following morning. I posted the picture to my social media account with the intention of letting all those both near and far know, that regardless of the immediate issues at hand, we are still capable of simple acts of kindness, communication and solidarity. Now and in the future.
Save the silence
We have found silence. Is Silence. But means less irrational consumption, less car, less speed, less saying, more listening.
We
We. Just We. A great Community. One unique and simple word as a gesture collective.
the core of coexistence
All people are different, we have different opinions, backgrounds, religions. But there are always things that we share, starting with being human. We should always remember that. It’s the core of coexistence.
coexist
We should coexits with nature, not dominate
New Babel
The Tower of Babel narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world’s peoples speak different languages.
According to the story, a united human race in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language build a tower tall enough to reach heaven. God, observing their tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia to reduce text size)
Visually the entire space is divided 50/50 : Black/White. Different, yet equal in shape, size and importance.
#united #respect #empathy #balance #winwin #coexist
Needed Coexistance
The poster is produced in 1 colour, black. So, the opposite, the non-produced is white.
Black and white are the opposite and they have always to coexist. So the poster is divided into 2 vertical parts.
In both colours, black and white. The written part is designed with the opposite colour so, they have to coexist somehow, and for these colours is an endless coexistence. The meaning is that, beyond the virus, we have always to coexist with something that is the opposite.
This why in the middle the two words appear together, because, at some point, the opposites have to coexist.
Das Grafische Atelier Stankowski + Duschek
Logos, signage, corporate identity—these essential components of every modern company’s brand image were still in their infancy in the mid-twentieth-century. The Stankowski + Duschek graphic design studio in Stuttgart spearheaded their development; for many decades, it was one of Germany’s leading communication design agencies. The partnership spawned many famous trademarks and company images, including those of Deutsche Bank, Viessmann, and Messe Frankfurt.
After having made a name for himself in the Swiss avant-garde during the 1930s, Anton Stankowski (1906–1998) went on to build on his reputation as a graphic design pioneer with his Stuttgart studio founded in 1951. His kindred spirit Karl Duschek (1947–2011) joined the firm in 1972 and soon became a partner. Their ability to reduce complex messages to an essential telegraphic style and encapsulate them in memorable sign systems was the defining feature of their approach.
This book is a comprehensive introduction into Stankowski + Duschek’s work that offers fascinating insights into late twentieth-century German corporate culture. It documents the studio’s output by presenting sketches, variations, realized designs, jobbing work, advertisements, and corporate fonts, complemented by academic essays, interviews with contemporaries, and a complete list of all of their clients.
Das Grafische Atelier Stankowski + Duschek
Editor: Christina Thomson for the Art Library of the Staatliche Museen in Berlin
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Volume: 240 pages
Language: German
Format: 22 × 27 cm
Workmanship: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-86206-800-5
Price: € 38.–
C O E X I S T
Coexisting right now means being together and also staying apart. The typography reflects this quite literary. PS. Let’s hope we can get closer soon.
Atiptap–Climate Protection meets Design
“If we all switched from bottled to tap water, 1.5 times as much CO² could be saved as is produced annually by domestic air traffic.”
The Berlin based Studio Last designed a new website for the association A TIP: TAP e.V., who advocates since 10 years for the use of tap water. With the project “Wasserwende”, which is supported by the National Climate Initiative, the association aims to reverse the trend of using bottled water instead of tap water.
The new website supports the project by providing a fresh approach to the topic. In addition to information on the association’s projects and offers, knowledge about tap water is offered in various formats. The color scheme and design is inspired by water. With the unusual design concept Studio Last want to point out the importance of the topic “Tap Water” in a catchy and playful way.
The bright but clear tonality of the websites conveys the relevance of the topic as well as the positive approach of the climate protection initiative. A novelty is the “join in” button, which invites you to volunteer and support memberships. The classic donation button is thus supplemented in a participatory manner.
Atiptap–Climate Protection meets Design
Concept & Design: Studio Last
A tip: tap Website
Code: web3000
being
shot in Gujarat, India (2019)
being explores an intersection of nature coexisting with modern technology