How do we want to live together?
Coexistence is often in our own hands. Do we eat local products or do we get everything imported? Do we go to the small shop next door or do we get everything delivered? With the call to act locally, it is once again necessary to raise awareness and to support regional businesses and companies. To be aware what influence we can have on others and on us.

Eat Local — Buy Local — Think Global

Coexistence, in its simplicity, binds us together in times where we are vulnerable to division. The use of overlapping type symbolises the connections we form as we stay together in such volatile times.

We have a dysfunctional relationship with nature. One in which we believe resources are unlimited and selfishly ignore the destructive consequences we are making.

But we have to change that. Now more than ever its time to break down systems, reconnect with nature, and rethink the way we interact with it. We have pending work to do.

If we coexist that means we can accept/share our differences so we can live peacefully. Every person in this world can learn to open up, learn and value others. Lets bloom together and turn toward the light.

I chose a South African term. Ubuntu is an adjective that represents humanity, understanding, union. We can translate it with the concept “I’m because we’re”. I think it’s the key to coexistence. Everything exists just in relation to something else.

How do we want to live? How will we live? We all only exist because of exchange and cooperation. We are different and that is exactly why we become one. “One type different face” shows that we can only exist together because we exist together as the whole. Faces are formed from the font Arial, with different characters in a one fontsize. Different faces show individual characters and emotions and all of them they based on the same font. Seeing comes before speaking – and this is the only way we can exist in the future – by recognizing and not judging, because in the end we are all the same.

The notion of being together again, to coexist, nearer to each other has taken on a a kind of surreal quality in this period of regulated isolation. This time in isolation offers us a chance to ruminate on what it means to live together, to share this planet and its resources. Beyond Covid, we will be together again, increasingly closer as the populations grow, the answer will be doing that well. Part of a series of 3 works. A collaboration between Paul Garbett and Falvio Carvalho.

Coexist —
Our paths separate and cross even when they don’t meet. Nobody is really alone with their problems. Somewhere in the world there are people who experience the same and feel the same. Even though we are different. We have a lot in common. We are connected in our decisions, opinions, ways of thinking, feelings, experiences, mistakes, skills, interests, needs, perceptions, aims, conscience, problems, illness, area, friendships, family, responsibilities …

People are like Tetris bricks. Everybody is different. The game can only be one if all the bricks fit together.

Language is the key to our society.
Get inspired by the different voices of your city.
Listen and connect. Now more than ever.

The abstract shape in the background represents the Rosetta Stone. One of the first multilingual engravings.

Coexistance = Respecting each other. No dominancy, no discrimination, but equal rights!

JP/US is a collaboration with Rok Hudobivnik that explores the idea of verbal interpretation through photography and between two culturally different countries. This series of images present opposing perspectives, whereby each pair is linked by a single word. For this pair of images that word is ‘Up’.

Stop thinking about yourself and your interests, Let’s start thinking about us as humanity. Be altruistic!

JP/US is a collaboration with Rok Hudobivnik that explores the idea of verbal interpretation through photography and between two culturally different countries. This series of images present opposing perspectives, whereby each pair is linked by a single word. For this pair of images that word is ‘Scale’.

complementary coexistence shows how different from each other species may look like from the outside. but actually they couldn’t exist without each other despite their distinctions. even if our differences are shown in coexistence, they do not divide us, but rather complement us as different species.

In the past three or four months we have noticed a particular phenomenon which was the quick spread of misinformation and fake news about the Corona virus. We have witnessed a lot of false information (some of it dangerous and some of it just absurd and therefore funny) being shared online. These fake news can become a beacon of hate and prejudiced speech (calling the Corona virus the “chinese virus” or administrating all the blame to China and therefore creating a wave of prejudice against asians). With the word “coexist” in mind we wanted to visually explore the importance of building a critic response to the information we consume and share online.

everyone everyday everyhumanbeing everyanimalbeing everysky everyocean everytree everyplant everyall should live in peace

In the midst of chaos & uncertainty,where everything feels uncomfortable & unjust,now more than ever is the point in time that connectivity & collective effort are key elements & through a process of extrovert experimentation,new forms of collaboration,design & communication,will develop & evolve.New,different,unexpected & above all constructive approaches towards whatever arouses in the life path are needed.It is all about resetting your mindset,experiencing enrealment in the here & now,being a responsible,emotionally intelligent human & trying to build consistent,lifelong processes of mindful solutions cause “The problem is not the problem.The problem is your attitude about the problem.”

Coexistence does not only mean living side by side. For us it is much more: working together, supporting each other, learning from each other. And so these designs are not just the expression of one designer. They are a cooperation. Created in a process, in respectful handling of the work of the other creator. A constant development of one’s own ideas through new perspectives. With a result that would not have been achieved by oneself.
Value recognize and appreciate each other!

Design: Lisa Panitz and Jonas Herfurth