Baziche/بازیچه Logotype
Book design
“Fanzine” poster design
connect
connect with others, while keeping your distance.
How Much Longer
It’s time for change. Degrowth is the future. The only future.
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.
Give & Take
As nature shows us – it’s a give and take to coexist.
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…
Dystans
Promo visual created to accompany fictional cassette with relaxing music to get by isolation.
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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.
Social Distancing
Icon designed as a part of One Poster Gallery online edition to to virus situation. 76 designers participated to create one poster.
one to one
Combine the lines, combine the colours, combine the dots, combine one to one.
Untitled. The Offer (landscape for a little fly)
This artwork belongs to a series I did in 2018, while I was deeply interested (once again) in Tarkovsky’s work. His grace and care in dealing with silent love and humanity, art and desire were extremely important for me in that time.
The work I am proposing you take his title by one of his last movies, Offret, The Offer. As in Tarkovsky’s work many characters struggle to find their place in the world, so we struggle in finding our way to coexist. We look at or mirror each other, as if we were forced into some game-to-do. And we forget maybe that what really matters could be the space between us, the empty space in between where we can finally encounter each other.
Constable On the Post
Do we still need it?
Coexist — Call for Submissions
COEXIST—to live or exist together, in peace, at the same time or in the same place.
The first time in our lives the world is changing fundamentally. We need to rethink what all this is about. Higher, faster, and further at the expense of others cannot point the way to the future. We need to question ourselves, how we want to coexist, show consideration, and take a step back. How do we reconcile ego and common sense? How do we meet poverty where a few have everything? How can we face climate change, political madness, religious wars, and other paradigm shifts? How do we want to live in a society that is politically divided? How do we face government decisions that affect civic freedoms and human rights?
We are inviting you to submit a work that looks beyond Covid19. Please don’t submit posters telling us to stay at home and wash our hands etc. The topic is COEXIST.
SUBMISSION (ONLY BLACK & WHITE)
Instead of showing off with opulence we want to shine with modesty. Therefore, this issue will be produced exclusively in 1 color.
Graphic designers, illustrators, photographers—you’re very welcome to submit your artwork exclusively in black & white and add a statements that might guide us and others beyond status quo. Journalists, authors or poets, we would be very happy if you contact us by email and talk with us about your text submission. Text contributions are highly appreciated!
Submissions can be uploaded until June 5th, 2020. The issue will be published in October 2020. We will then review all contributions and get in touch with you. Thank you so much for being part of this!
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
What are illusions? Illusions trick you into perceiving something differently than it actually exists, so what you see does not correspond to physical reality. While scientists and doctors are studying how pathological illusion arises, our excellent designers are also working on how to trick your eyes with graphic illusion! In Optical Illusions in Graphic Design, it’s unbelievable to see how simple elements create extraordinary effects that attract your attention, make you doubt, and fall for their “tricks.” Waves and mazes formed by simple lines, overlapping images that cannot count the layers, stereoscopic vision from graphic to space, you will experience what optical illusions in graphic design does with your own eyes! Be prepared, and welcome to the “dizzyland!”
Wang Shaoqiang is a professor and graduate supervisor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (China). He is a prolific editor whose works focus on international design, architecture, branding, communication, trends, and culture. Also, he is the editor of Design 360° magazine and Asia-Pacific Design. He has been invited to lecture at numerous universities, design academies, and organizations, and he has also been a jury member for China’s most prestigious design and illustration awards. Mr. Wang is also director of the Guangdong Museum of Art and professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Arts and Humanities within the Macau University of Science and Technology.
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
Publisher: HOAKI BOOKS
Editor: Shaoqiang Wang
Language: English
Volume: 240 pages
Format: 21 × 28.5 cm
Brand: Promopress
Bookbinding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-84-17412-29-6
Price: € 35.–
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Adelphi
Adelphi was conceived in 2012, at a time when when the UK was enjoying something of a cultural renaissance, following the London Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. In that age of optimism and a resounding sense of national pride and togetherness, a charismatic entrepreneur was preparing to launch a handmade leather footwear business and required a logotype to reflect the twin values of quality English craftsmanship and stylish desirability. And so began an exploration into geometric uppercase letterforms to suit the brief. The resulting collection of capitals was crying out for an accompanying lower case that would begin to take on a life and direction of its own, laying the foundations for Adelphi.
Rooted in twentieth century modernism, Adelphi is a geometric sans with a difference; the rigid constraints that define the genre have been adjusted. The elementary square and circular shapes of the Bauhaus are merely implied which means Adelphi feels much more relaxed and approachable than other typefaces bound by geometric conventions. The uncomplicated letterforms also occasionally reveal a subtle naïveté associated with the early Grotesques, adding to both the undoubted charm and usefulness of the typeface.
But Adelphi is by no means nostalgic; it is a contemporary, comprehensive, and durable system with a pragmatic set of features, including not only its wide array of weights but also ‘duplex italics’ and variable extenders across three typographic variants, from tall and flat in Adelphi Text (suitable for immersive reading at small sizes) to short and sharp in Adelphi Display (intended for larger headlines) with default Adelphi finding the ‘sweet spot’ between these two extremes.
Adelphi—the name originates from the Greek word for ‘brothers’—provides comprehensive language coverage for three scripts; Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. The shapes in each script inform one another where appropriate and with cautious sensitivity. Such pan-European support—with small caps included—already makes for a vast character set, but Adelphi takes things a step further by including alternate glyphs to satisfy the DIN1450 legibility norm, a range of ordinals that can be used to create specialist compositions in all three scripts and two kinds of fractions and arrows.
Adelphi can be used simply as-is, or one can immerse oneself in the pleasing array of alternates. Choose the all-inclusive variable font or the individual styles (three variants packed together and priced as a single font). Either way, this understated beauty will carry you through.
Adelphi
Foundry: Rosetta Type Foundry
Designer: Nick Job
Release: October 2019
Scripts: Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
Format: OTF, TTF, webfonts, variable (weight, slant, optical size)
Weights: 3 × Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Extrabold, Black and corresponding Italics
Price: € 50.– per style (3 fonts), € 500.– for the bundle (3 × 16 fonts)
Free trial fonts available
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Şimdi heißt jetzt—Momentaufnahmen aus Istanbul. Eine Sammlung
“The first thing a big city does to us is sneak into their language, and if we don’t curse, the curse will fall on our cells.” Şimdi heißt jetzt (”Şimdi means now”) is a collection of personal essays. Fifteen authors tell of their encounters, adventures, and crises in Istanbul—lively, honest, humorous, and sometimes melancholic.
The interplay of atmospheric illustrations and background information on everyday Turkish culture creates a complex picture of this city in which so many cultural influences, social ideas and individual dreams mix together.
Şimdi heißt jetzt is intended to make encounters possible. Encounter with new impressions and personal perspectives that arouse curiosity and create connections between Turkey and Germany.
We are far away from each other. We are close to each other. And we care about each other.
With contributions from Tuğba Yalcınkaya, Carina Plinke, Matthias Wechsler, Seda Sina, Neslihan Yakut, Marie Hartlieb, Navid Linnemann, Onur Sesigür, Zeynep Ünal, Seden Filiz Güleç, Onur Sekmen, Derya Reinalda, Marlene Resch, Uğur Ugan, Sabrina Raap.
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editor: Maviblau e. V., Berlin
Idea and editing: Navid Linnemann
Design & Illustration: Eva Feuchter
Format: 16.5 × 22.2 cm
Volume: 192 pages
Workmanship: Hardcover, full color
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-948440-06-0
Price: € 25,-
FIESTA
Fiesta: The Branding and Identity of Festivals is a compilation of remarkable branding designs and campaigns for a variety of renowned festivals from around the world. The festivals examined span the worlds of music, cinema, design, gastronomy, culture, and art. The identity and communication campaign strategies deployed by festivals encompass an endless array of design techniques, from graphic elements such as logos, posters, web pages, advertisements, mobile apps, tickets, and wristbands to collectible items like T-shirts, bags, and cups.
Fiesta will inspire and serve as a useful tool for graphic designers and branding agencies that seek to handle challenging and wide-ranging festival projects with the highest degree of creativity and imagination, as well as for festival organizers and anyone interested in visual culture in general. The events featured show that the success of a festival has a close connection to its tailor-made branding and design and that no matter what the subject of the festival is, it is essential to have a coherent identity strategy.
Wang Shaoqiang is a professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (China), where he is Professor and Graduate Supervisor. He is a prolific editor, whose titles focus on international design, architecture, branding, communication, trends and culture, and the editor of Design 360° magazine and Asia-Pacific Design.
FIESTA
Publisher: HOAKI BOOKS
Editor: Shaoqiang Wang
Volume: 240 pages
Language: English
Format: 21 × 28.5 cm
Brand: Promopress
Bookbinding: Hardcover
ISBN 9788416851362
Price: 45.– Euro
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Moon Exhibition—Lockdown special
The renowned Forward Festivals for Creativity, Design & Communication has started an open call for the Moon Exhibition—Lockdown special. For the time of the Covid19-Lockdown Forward Festival invites the creative community to use their platform to help in this situation that affects us all.
Creatives from all disciplines are invited to pitch their ideas for a special of the “Moon Exhibition,” which has been Forward’s platform for featuring young talent over the last years. Since many creatives lost their jobs due to the crisis, Forward decided to offer some of its ad budget as a “first aid kit” for the community.
Financial help as a “first aid kit”
“The current situation is hard enough already but it is even harder if you have financial problems due to the circumstances. This is why we want to help out our community in the creative industries not only by connecting them and giving them a platform but also by supporting them a little bit financially.” Forward writes in their statement on the call. The criteria for the call is not very strict, it’s more about pitching a “good idea” to present in a slot of Forward Magazine (examples mentioned are live-painting-videos, tutorials, articles). As it is a curated call, participants will need to apply with a concept of what they would want to do with the slot and Forward will publish what fits best.
Moon Exhibition—Lockdown special
Check out the details at the Forward Website and visit their Instagram and Facebook channels for more info.
Typeface of the Month: Game Time
All passion and frenzied heads blasting flecks of au jus into the faces of the temporally confused because it’s our Typeface of the Month: Game Time, all the time, and they aren’t what they eat, just an orange getting squeezed.
A raw sense of energy, strength and determination. It’s bold and quick-stroke style was created by hand with a chisel tip marker providing harmony within the angles as strokes change direction, while also achieving a natural flow and texture to the aesthetic to the font. The stylistic handwritten approach along with slight imperfections in its execution achieves an appealing contrast of structure and looseness within the design. The overall style of the lettering is influenced by retro artwork of the 1980’s in combination with modern urban art and graffiti culture.
Typeface of the Month: Game Time
Foundry: BLKBK Inc.
Designer: Derek Campbell & Justin Graefer
Release: 2020
Font Formats: OTF / TTF
Weight: Regular Bold
Price: $ 28.–
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