Queries that question the unforeseeable and explore the mysterious. Centered by humor, the being on the left blazes the world with color and laughter. It throws its body around in convulsive fits, brain alight with activity. The being on the right emulates and begins to stir the Humouristic.
CAMP RAINBOW – Experimental Offset on coloured Paper
Who is afraid of cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y) and black (K)? In terms of cultural history as well as experimental offset printing, we believe it’s worth exploring colours. Under the auspices of the rainbow – as a quite positive symbol of diversity and hope – we printed on 23 differently coloured papers. These offset prints are intended as a color impression to develop your own print product. To work as resource-conscious as possible we used mostly leftover papers and printing inks. All collected money goes to BBZ Lebensart e.V., which is committed to the recognition and acceptance of gender and sexual diversity as well as different ways of life and family forms.
Sonia’s typeface
In 2018 I created a video for the Paris Pompidou Museum for their webseries “mon œil” about Sonia Delaunay’s work and especially the colour painting movement she created with her husband Robert Delaunay called orphic cubism. This movement focuses on the contrasts of colours to create harmonies and an impression of movement in the painting. In addition to this video I created a typeface in echo with Sonia’s work. It is a titling typeface with simple geometrical and modular forms that can form words as well as patterns. One colour is one part of the letter, and the four colours combined together give you the whole letter. With this typeface, I question the meaning of a form as a letter.
Let us all bleed as one
The term “bleed” as used here as a double entendre between blending seamlessly and bleeding due to struggle, the two routes in colour and life.
Kaleidoscope
Looked at closely, we are all the faces of the world.
Just turn your eyes, a bit of shadow or light and we change color. Perhaps it is the concept of addition that diverts our gaze, that leaves us on the surface. Below, another skin, and below another again.
Bodegas Terras Gauda
See poster
Right To Education
See poster
Meaning Of The Colors
Fashion
The LP title »FASHION« from the band The Vintage Cinema Club was visualised through abstract collages. Humphrey Bogart got anonymised by bright and colourfull textures. The dancing silhouette of Elvis was flipped over so it would look like a man, falling from the sky. This way, the darker side of success and fashion got embraced.
CARNIVAL
EAST WEST
EASTER FEVER
FANTASTIC NOT PLASTIC
ICE DELIGHT
242 NOT FAR FROM HOME
TWO
2020 UDN 500 Party
The one-day limited outdoor lifestyle market held by UND, a newspaper published in Taiwan. The publisher wants to approach the young generation, therefore I create a valorous visual which is too overwhelming and nonsense to the clients when I present the work on the first day. It takes at least two weeks for them to absorb the design concept and pass the mutual agreement.
2020 Taiwan Design EXPO
The concept of Taiwan Design EXPO is approaching the public and embracing everyone to join the local community. The main visual design aims to incorporate the four elements, “wind,” “WIFI,” “bamboo,” and “the Internet,” which are symbolized and unitized, and flexibly combined to form various visual extensions. For “wind,” the imagery of “spinning wind” is used to strengthen the symbolism; combined with a sense of motion, wind transforms into Hsinchu Monsters to guide people on their paths of pursuit and exploration.
third space
Windows display transitory fragments, bridging the inside with the outside, ephemera with the enduring, and intentional with accidental. They provide alternate realities where fantasy and design intersect. When documented, they make public a fleeting moment of chaos. This spectacle, a textural essay, resonates in media res—directly into, while proceeding from—a voluble field.
The rebellion starts
I started sketching some random monster and it ended up being a very lovely friendly and funny sketch. Then I thought it might be nice to be friends with him, and that’s how all started. Why can’t our sketches become alive? I’d love to hear their voice, touch and interact with them, even if they get crazy. I’ve used two different fonts, both of them are sans serfi. I’ve played with contrast using a high saturated Klein blue. My intention is to create an interesting and attractive Poster so people would come to my crazy sketches Event.
Scanographes
My universe revolves around the combination of plastic researches and typographic editing work. In parallel I design images as sculptures, through a technic of image production : I scan objects, that I recomposed numerically. I present this images in lightboxes as in my solo show at playground gallery in Paris in 2019.
Diversity!
Can we use test charts in printmaking to remind ourselves about the visibility of human values in graphic design?
Typeface of the Month: WT Volkolak
We are delighted to present you our Typeface of the Month: WT Volkolak. The typeface is the latest release of the new Swiss type foundry Wraith Types, which we also present to you today for the first time.
WT Volkolak is a type system designed by Guillaume Jean-Mairet, exploring the common structure shared by didones and grotesque typefaces. It is available in three styles, a Serif, a Grotesque, and a contrasted Sans, and in four optical sizes, which provide designers with a plethora of typesetting options. The family was published by Wraith Types, an upcoming Swiss type foundry.
A Were-Wolf of a Typeface
Intrigued by the idea that typefaces stylistically as different as Didot and Helvetica shared a similar structure, WT Volkolak was designed from both ends of the spectrum at the same time, and many stylistic features stem from this process, such as the serif’s single story “a,” and the grotesque’s double story “g.” This bipolar identity gives the typeface a quirky yet sturdy visual touch, as the contrasting ends of the spectrum both influence the structure at the same time.
A Tool for Designers
With the original idea in mind, the development of the typeface followed Guillaume’s will to create a toolbox for graphic designers, each style working both on its own as well as mixed with the other two, and the numerous optical sizes offer a flexible product. Over the centuries, craftsmen learned the importance of their tools, and reflecting this, WT Volkolak is meant as a tool graphic designers can slowly build their collections up to, with the guarantee that the style they start with can at any time be upgraded with any of the two other matching styles. Given the rise of variable fonts, the typeface is also being adapted to the GX variable format, and a Cyrillic version is starting to see the light of day.
Typeface of the Month: WT Volkolak
Foundry: Wraith Types
Designer: Guillaume Jean-Mairet
Release: January 2020
File Formats: otf, ttf, woff
Styles and Weights: Grotesque, Serif (Poster, Display, Text, Caption), Sans (Poster, Display, Text), and matching Italics for all styles
Price Single Style: $ 50.–, Grotesque: $ 300.–, Sans: $ 350.–, Serif: $ 400.–
Price Full Family: $ 700.–
Buy at MyFonts or Fontspring
New York Subway Found Art Series
Within the space of the square frame, Charles wants to share with the viewer his exploration of found art on the walls of the New York subway system. Moving in closely, without too much forethought, Charles grabs bits and pieces of the remnants of torn advertising posters and/or the remains of spaces left bare. By exploring shapes, colors, textures, the photos become pictures in the artistic sense, much like abstract paintings or collages. The images emerge by chance, moving the iPhone gingerly over the horizontal plane, stopping to record a color or shape that catches his eye.