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Liam Gillick
German Pavilion
Biennale di Venezia 2009 53. International Art Exhibition The campaign is based on the idea to display the artist's name in several orthographical variations. Different refractions through a prims create the key visuals for the poster, invitations and website.
German Pavilion
Biennale di Venezia 2009 53. International Art Exhibition The campaign is based on the idea to display the artist's name in several orthographical variations. Different refractions through a prims create the key visuals for the poster, invitations and website.
The Forsythe Company
Saison 2009/2010
Intentional kinks anf folds per hand in the precise photography of Dominik Mentzos use the lines of the figures creating new light and shadow parts, that detail shots additionally abstract. Color typography-cluster that orientates itself along the kinks, completes the composition. The campaign comprises banners, poster, flyers, brochures, advertising, website.
Saison 2009/2010
Intentional kinks anf folds per hand in the precise photography of Dominik Mentzos use the lines of the figures creating new light and shadow parts, that detail shots additionally abstract. Color typography-cluster that orientates itself along the kinks, completes the composition. The campaign comprises banners, poster, flyers, brochures, advertising, website.
Daniel Birnbaum
The Hospitality of Presence
The Hospitality of Presence
Hospitality of Presence was published in 2008 with new Commentaries by the author, an Introduction by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an Epilogue by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Visuals by the artist Olafur Eliasson. The lay-out of the book´s format and order is based on these different levels.
Spread
The Forsythe Company
Campaign 2008/2009
The 2008/2009 campaign for the Forsythe Company displays black + white photography with abstract spaces that, due to their transference, emphasize the dynamics of the figure. The graphic composition integrates the typography in the areas with color and photography.
Campaign 2008/2009
The 2008/2009 campaign for the Forsythe Company displays black + white photography with abstract spaces that, due to their transference, emphasize the dynamics of the figure. The graphic composition integrates the typography in the areas with color and photography.
Olaf Holzapfel
Nakano Sakaue / Verhandelte Zeichen
Nakano Sakaue documents a series of photographs realized by Olaf Holzapfel during a residency in Tokyo. The artist has depicted a kind of residue from the city’s buildings: neon lights, images, and street signs, which are featured as so many promises for orientation.
Nakano Sakaue / Verhandelte Zeichen
Nakano Sakaue documents a series of photographs realized by Olaf Holzapfel during a residency in Tokyo. The artist has depicted a kind of residue from the city’s buildings: neon lights, images, and street signs, which are featured as so many promises for orientation.
Cover
Postage Stamp
Nebra sky disk
The Sky Disc is attributed to a site near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany and during the Bronze era dated ca. 1600 B.C. It is considered the world´s oldest, concrete depiction of the sky and as one of the most important archeological finds from this era. The theme of the stamp´s design illustrates an image of the sky disc as well as its burial objects.
Nebra sky disk
The Sky Disc is attributed to a site near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany and during the Bronze era dated ca. 1600 B.C. It is considered the world´s oldest, concrete depiction of the sky and as one of the most important archeological finds from this era. The theme of the stamp´s design illustrates an image of the sky disc as well as its burial objects.
Publication / Exhibition
Brinkmann – Schnitte im Atemschutz / Der unheimliche Brinkmann
A pleading for Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. Texts by: Bazon Brock, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ralf-Rainer Rygulla, Klaus Theweleit, Dieter Wellershoff u.a. Karl-Eckhard Carius (HG.), edition text+kritik, Munich. Exhibition: Vechta 2008. Produced and curated by Prof. Karl-Eckhard Carius.
Brinkmann – Schnitte im Atemschutz / Der unheimliche Brinkmann
A pleading for Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. Texts by: Bazon Brock, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ralf-Rainer Rygulla, Klaus Theweleit, Dieter Wellershoff u.a. Karl-Eckhard Carius (HG.), edition text+kritik, Munich. Exhibition: Vechta 2008. Produced and curated by Prof. Karl-Eckhard Carius.
Pocketbook Nr. 6
Jeppe Hein & Dan Graham
With a conversation between Jeppe Hein and Dan Graham presented by Dieter Roelstraete after the exhibition "From Seriousness to Silliness" at Gallery Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne. This book follows the series of the Gallery Publications: Wilhelm Sasnal, Wiebke Siem, Helmut Stallaerts, Olaf Holzapfel, Jan Merta.
Jeppe Hein & Dan Graham
With a conversation between Jeppe Hein and Dan Graham presented by Dieter Roelstraete after the exhibition "From Seriousness to Silliness" at Gallery Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne. This book follows the series of the Gallery Publications: Wilhelm Sasnal, Wiebke Siem, Helmut Stallaerts, Olaf Holzapfel, Jan Merta.
Raub und Restitution
Exhibitiongraphics, 2008
Concept and realisation of levels of information. The exhibition focuses on the paths of stolen goods from Jewish possesion by the national socialists, and their restitution after World War II. The graphic system describes 15 examples with a general outline as a separate level of information. The different typographic distinctions are arranged in close proximity to the described architectural objects and information, that are also in chronological order Architecture Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch + Hirsch with Tobias Katz und Marcus Kaiser. Jüdisches Museum Berlin
Exhibitiongraphics, 2008
Concept and realisation of levels of information. The exhibition focuses on the paths of stolen goods from Jewish possesion by the national socialists, and their restitution after World War II. The graphic system describes 15 examples with a general outline as a separate level of information. The different typographic distinctions are arranged in close proximity to the described architectural objects and information, that are also in chronological order Architecture Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch + Hirsch with Tobias Katz und Marcus Kaiser. Jüdisches Museum Berlin
Jüdische Museum Berlin, Jens Ziehe
The Greenroom
Publication
"The Greenroom", Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1. With Texts by T. J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Carles Guerra, Vít Havránek, Jörg Heiser, Stefan Jonsson, Maurizio Lazzarato, Olivier Lugon, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Hito Steyerl, and Jan Verwoert. Maria Lind, Hito Steyerl (Eds.) SternbergPress, Co-published by Center for Curatorial Studies , NY.
Publication
"The Greenroom", Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1. With Texts by T. J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Carles Guerra, Vít Havránek, Jörg Heiser, Stefan Jonsson, Maurizio Lazzarato, Olivier Lugon, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Hito Steyerl, and Jan Verwoert. Maria Lind, Hito Steyerl (Eds.) SternbergPress, Co-published by Center for Curatorial Studies , NY.
Cover
The Forsythe Company
Campaign 2007/2008
The dancers corpuses are defragmented into new abstract forms with intentional cuts and collages. The dynamic and procedural method correspond to Forsythes choreography. www.theforsythecompany.de
Campaign 2007/2008
The dancers corpuses are defragmented into new abstract forms with intentional cuts and collages. The dynamic and procedural method correspond to Forsythes choreography. www.theforsythecompany.de
Campagne 2007/2008
Patterns 2. Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture
Publication
Publication
The work of 85 designers, artists and architects appear in alphabetical order. Projects blend together from the three disciplines, that were edited independently of each other. The cover illustration combines two different artistic "all-over" strategies from different times. The book was published as a reslult of the publication Patterns – Patterns in
Design, Art and Architecture, Birkhäuser Publishing, Basel 2008.
Cover Patterns 2
Rachel Harrison
If I did it, Catalogue, 2007
Monograph for the artist Rachel Harrison. The New York artist incorporates photographic elements and sculptur. The catalogue includes several sequences of pictures from exhibitions in Migros, Zurich, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, a series of photographic works as well as an overview on her past 5 years of work. Attached to the visual impressions are texts and biography. Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and Kunsthalle Nürnberg. JRP Ringer
If I did it, Catalogue, 2007
Monograph for the artist Rachel Harrison. The New York artist incorporates photographic elements and sculptur. The catalogue includes several sequences of pictures from exhibitions in Migros, Zurich, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, a series of photographic works as well as an overview on her past 5 years of work. Attached to the visual impressions are texts and biography. Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and Kunsthalle Nürnberg. JRP Ringer
Johnen und Schöttle
Advertising Campaign
The advertising series developed especially for the cologne-based Johnen + Schöttle Gallery works solely with typographic elements. For this, an existing sans-serif by tracking and line-spacing was modified, creating the feeling of enclosed "spaces". These act as bands of color for the background color and typographical color distinction as a connecting element between drawing and surface, that result in a typographical relief "Image". This series was for Artforum magazine.
Advertising Campaign
The advertising series developed especially for the cologne-based Johnen + Schöttle Gallery works solely with typographic elements. For this, an existing sans-serif by tracking and line-spacing was modified, creating the feeling of enclosed "spaces". These act as bands of color for the background color and typographical color distinction as a connecting element between drawing and surface, that result in a typographical relief "Image". This series was for Artforum magazine.
Advertising
The Forsythe Company
Campaign 2006/2007
Campaign 2006/2007
The picture passage developed together with Armin Linke, that was especially choreographed by Forsythe, illustrates the dancers as a sculptural figure. The typographical markings vary on the basis of color accents, the distinguishing characteristics of the design collection by Kostas Murkadis. http://www.tbfb.net/
Poster
SternbergPress
Lukas & Sternberg Series
For the New York and Berlin based publisher Lukas & Sternberg, a pocketbook series was developed in 2000. The text of every first page is shown as an abstract facsimile on the cover. Thus, the expanding series has variations in title graphics, that can influence the individual authors. Including out-of-print editions, the series comprises 16 books.
Lukas & Sternberg Series
For the New York and Berlin based publisher Lukas & Sternberg, a pocketbook series was developed in 2000. The text of every first page is shown as an abstract facsimile on the cover. Thus, the expanding series has variations in title graphics, that can influence the individual authors. Including out-of-print editions, the series comprises 16 books.
Lukas&Sternberg Series
KISS
Magazine Design
Kiss, a Siemens Arts Program project, awards annual project grants to students studying the teaching of artistic subjects to mediate contemporary culture as well as to promote and support teachers to be. The publications introduce the scholarship recipients, documents their projects and presents examples of their work, materials and learning concepts. The graphic design concept links texts and work samples as well as providing an overview of the widely varying subjects was developed.
Magazine Design
Kiss, a Siemens Arts Program project, awards annual project grants to students studying the teaching of artistic subjects to mediate contemporary culture as well as to promote and support teachers to be. The publications introduce the scholarship recipients, documents their projects and presents examples of their work, materials and learning concepts. The graphic design concept links texts and work samples as well as providing an overview of the widely varying subjects was developed.
Cover
The Sad Mac
Cover Design
Intervention of the Corporate design of a no longer available operating-system, that was partly responsible for non trouble-free sequences because of its age. Nonetheless, Stephan Mathieu still produced his music with this software version. Label Heaz Tokyo
Cover Design
Intervention of the Corporate design of a no longer available operating-system, that was partly responsible for non trouble-free sequences because of its age. Nonetheless, Stephan Mathieu still produced his music with this software version. Label Heaz Tokyo
TheSadMac Frontcover
März
Cover Artwork / Installation, 2003
Release by Karaoke Kalk with tracks of everybodies darling of neo-folk electronica März from berlin. The cover idea is the endless genderless kiss. The design is a collage of three different sources. Cover became later a contribution to the Peace Tower by artist Tikrit Tiravanija for the Whitney's sculpture court 2006.
Cover Artwork / Installation, 2003
Release by Karaoke Kalk with tracks of everybodies darling of neo-folk electronica März from berlin. The cover idea is the endless genderless kiss. The design is a collage of three different sources. Cover became later a contribution to the Peace Tower by artist Tikrit Tiravanija for the Whitney's sculpture court 2006.
Coverimage "März"
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Corporate Design
An adaquate metaphor was sought for memory and redefinition in the art debate in general. A calendar system was devised, bringing together developments and events both general and concrete. This calendar, the key visual, marks important dates and shows the duration of an exhibition.
Corporate Design
An adaquate metaphor was sought for memory and redefinition in the art debate in general. A calendar system was devised, bringing together developments and events both general and concrete. This calendar, the key visual, marks important dates and shows the duration of an exhibition.
Billboard Calendar
Shantel
Disco Partizani Releases
Disco Partizani Releases
The album cover references previous releases (Bukovina I&II). The plant flora found in the rumanian Bukovina region surrounds a portrait of the artist and emphasizes visually, the ornamental impression of the music. The project received the BBC World Music Award 2006.
Shantel Release
forcetracks
Cover Design
Mille Plateaux released a series of 60 records focused on contemporary electronic music. The eye as a metaphor of focusing was printed as the only serial key element on each cover. Every new release is marked by a vinyl label depicting an iris. Each iris is given a specific pantone color, none beeing repeated.
Cover Design
Mille Plateaux released a series of 60 records focused on contemporary electronic music. The eye as a metaphor of focusing was printed as the only serial key element on each cover. Every new release is marked by a vinyl label depicting an iris. Each iris is given a specific pantone color, none beeing repeated.
Cover Design
Gerhard Richter
Deutsche Guggenheim
The Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin commissioned a work by Gerhard Richter for the exhibition "8 Grau": 8 monochrome gray glass panels with paint applied to the rear of the glass. The graphic concept was as programmatic as the exhibition title. Richter's shade of gray determined the whole campaign. The typography retreated into the background, so that the gray planes defined and dominated all information media. Invitation and poster were printed on a reflecting foil.
Deutsche Guggenheim
The Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin commissioned a work by Gerhard Richter for the exhibition "8 Grau": 8 monochrome gray glass panels with paint applied to the rear of the glass. The graphic concept was as programmatic as the exhibition title. Richter's shade of gray determined the whole campaign. The typography retreated into the background, so that the gray planes defined and dominated all information media. Invitation and poster were printed on a reflecting foil.
Gerhard Richter Editionsposter
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