The following poster is in part inspired by the idea of borders and what that means in today’s context. By taking visual cues of map outlines and merging, distorting, and erasing them I’m attempting to create imagined landscapes that speak to the fragmented and disorienting nature of what it means to live in a globalized yet very divided world.

Two jobs coexist, sharing the same mission of protecting and saving people. But the reality tells a different story.

Power to the people

UNITY THROUGH DESIGN. POWER TO THE PEOPLE. COEXIST.

It may feel naive to hope for, but peace is power. It rises from the ash of protest.

Actually, we are living in a society with extreme thoughts, intolerance and violence. In front of these, we claim for peace above all else.

In June 2020, when we are still recovering from the shock of Covid, American society rises up against racism and police violence. Millions of people join this initiative all over the world and we don’t want to miss the opportunity to express our support, because, Yes Black Can!

Actually, we are living in a society with extreme thoughts, intolerance and violence. In front of these, we claim for peace above all else.

The Tokyo Skytree operates as a broadcasting tower for the Kantō Region. It replaced the Tokyo Tower due to the vast increase in development and high-rise buildings. With it also being the tallest tower in the world it can be seen to represent the exponential urbanisation absorbing our planet. Tokyo is the largest and most densely populated city I’ve visited but despite its size, everything runs extremely efficiently. It is a place where humans coexist with incredible balance with each other. A balance that is increasingly lost between the city and surrounding nature.

A scanned photocopy of a scanner scanning a scanner.

Departing from Warsaw airport

To coexist means to intersect

woman on train ride

To coexist means to intersect

This work portrays the unbelievable density of the human population in a Brazilian favela, where the poor have been marginalised into an illegal and dangerous urban environment. But the people in these places are coexisting and creating their own functioning communities despite the hardship.

We should stay more together.

Letters that stand close enough to each other melt. They become emphasizing elements and close disturbing gaps. There are no borders, no rules and there is no fixed number of possible combinations. Ligatures make a font family special. They prove sense and sensitivity of the designer. Analogously humans. We can associate and set an example. At first sight, the oddities seem too individual, but once time passes these missing connections will vanish. At first sight, the room already seems unbearably crowded, but after a while we curiously move closer together. It’s like M. Vignelli once said, “It’s not the notes, it’s the spacing between the notes that really makes the music.“