KAPWANI KIWANGA, TRINKET 2024
Corporate Identity

Kapwani Kiwanga Represents Canada at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia 2024

Kapwani Kiwanga is a multi-disciplinary artist who considers how diverse forms of power are manifested, how the histories they suppress are often overlooked, and their impact on everyday life. Her works function as experiential archives that offer temporary ruptures in established conventions, allowing audiences to both experience and imagine alternative ways of relating and being. With Trinket, Kiwanga transforms the Canada Pavilion by way of a site-specific sculptural installation. She invites visitors into an immersive environment through an ambitious intervention on the building’s interior and exterior. Viewed from its facade, the building becomes a large-scale tableau where distinctions between inside and outside dissolve through transparency, layering, and transgressing of the building’s original boundaries. Curator: Gaëtane Verna. The 2025 upcoming publication will include photos by Helene Binet.

DO THE STARS NEED A REASON TO SHINE?

Between the world of ideas and their possible materialization there is an elusive zone that is hard to conceptualize. Not design. Not art. Not theory either. It’s the ultrathin realm of the new. Today no one explores this sphere of pure visual intelligence with the same authority and precision as Markus Weisbeck.
Daniel Birnbaum

In an era of instantaneous design enabled by technology, Weisbeck’s careful and methodical experimentation re-teaches us how to see.
Paula Scher

189 pp., 230 colour illustrations, threadsewn hardcover, ISBN: 9783959056380 Spector Books

documenta. POLITIK UND KUNST
Campaign

The “d” is documenta’s distinctive mark and the defining element of the communication media for the DHM exhibition documenta. Politics and Art. The geometrically constructed letter takes up the history of graphic images — from the first documenta in 1955 to documenta X in 1997. Historical photographs of the major international exhibition are used, which are given a common identifying mark in the form of the “d”. The resulting surfaces are overprinted with colours that also go back to historical originals. The form and colours pay tribute to the visual diversity of the graphic design of the international exhibition. A typographic element with the correct counting of the respective exhibitions is introduced as a supplement.

GERMAN DESIGN AWARD 2024

The award design for the German Design Award is based on a color surface scale and new graphic forms in which the winners' images and films are embedded. In collaboration with Oliver Hardt, two accompanying music videos were created. One was made entirely with Prompts and AI technology, while the other was based on sculptures by the Artist Christina Kral, forming the basis of a variable type composition.

DESIGN DEUTSCHLAND, WORD UP, DÜSSELDORFER SCHAUSPIELHAUS, ACT ART CULTURE
Identity

These examples of logo brands show different visual approaches of identity designs such as Design Deutschland für the Triennale di Milano, Italy, the Lyric Festival Word Up, Germany, the Compitionion proposal for Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Germany and ACT Art Culture Technology for one Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA

MIRIAM CAHN
Editorial Design

Released on the occasion of Miriam Cahn’s solo exhibitions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, this publication gives a comprehensive overview of the acclaimed Swiss artist’s extensive and versatile body of work. Ed. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Gaëtane Verna, text(s) by Amin Alsaden, Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Miriam Cahn, Aruna D’Souza, Roxane Gay, Gaëtane Verna, John Yau

SONDERMARKEN

Different designs of special stamps for the Federal Ministry of Finance 2018 – 2024. A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or object. The subject of the commemorative stamp is usually spelled out in print, unlike definitive stamps which normally depict the subject along with the denomination and country name only.

BUNGALOW
Title Design

The title design of the film production “Bungalow” for ARTE/HR is based on the design idea of Armin Hoffmann’s methodical exercises for graphic arts classes at the arts and crafts department of the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel. These kinetic movements mask the start and end sequences of Stefanie Appel’s film as a composition with the typographic elements.

LA ESCUELA___
Online platform

LA ESCUELA___ is an artist-run platform for radical learning and collective making in public spaces. We understand art as a form of knowledge production, and education as an artistic practice in itself. La Escuela seeks to bring learning and art to everyone by partnering with universities, institutions, and communities to create formative projects in public spaces throughout Latin America. La Escuela is rooted in a long genealogy of Latin American artists and educators who seek to bring education closer to real contexts, so as to learn and act on them. Through public learning, we propose a transdisciplinary program where diverse forms of practices coincide through the transformative capacity of education.

≈ CLOUDS / ≈ / Cool Words
Poster

The latest advances in image generation using artificial intelligence (AI) are undoubtedly impressive. However, somewhat later, effective censorship and correction of certain features was also introduced. In the early versions of AI image generators, for example, it was still possible to combine human body parts in unusual ways, such as a combination of nose and ear or eye and mouth. Nowadays, this type of generation is generally no longer possible. This change is mainly due to ethical and safety considerations. The developers of AI systems have realised that the ability to generate such distorted or surreal images could be misused to create disturbing or harmful content. They have therefore integrated censorship and correction mechanisms into the algorithms to ensure that the images generated do not become an unpleasant problem. Design for the AGI Special Project in Basel 2024.

The “Cool Words” International Words Art Design Exhibition 2024 in Nanjing, China, initiated by Nanjing University of the Arts, stands as an international showcase dedicated to font researchers, designers and academic professionals. It promotes the continuous development and evolution of words art design through originality and exploratory approaches.

BAUHAUS FUTURE FICTION DIAGRAM
Corporate Identity

BFF is an experminal art and design class that incorporates spiritual attitudes such as cosmology, future knowledge and mindset while focusing on material attitudes such as hospitality, cooking, nutrition and foreknowledge. Bauhaus Future Fiction also deals with artistic interventions on themes of alchemy.

The first Workshop was realized in Tainan, Taiwan. 2023