typo/graphic posters

For the poster, we invited the participating artists to provide us with a small drawing along with their autographs – similar to how they sign books for their fans. These personal sketches and signatures convey a playful and spontaneous style typical of comics, highlighting the unique opportunity to meet your favorite artists at the festival and have a book signed.

Poster for a boxing event featuring 12 elite amateur boxing matches. The title pays homage to the iconic French brawls from the Asterix comics. The design captures the dynamics and energy of these scenes. The typography is intentionally arranged to break the boundaries of the poster format, resembling a comic panel, which enhances the impression of movement and action.

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Protocol is a magazine published by the architecture department of the Berlin University of the Arts. The call for submissions for the fifteenth issue, titled “R.I.P. – Remember Me,” was announced in 2024 using a flexible, modular poster system. This poster consists of individual A4 sheets that can be expanded as needed, making it easy to distribute and readily duplicable using a standard printer.

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Posters for the Contrechamps 24/25 season. A software produces visual responses based on soundtrack analysis, using the letter as a research area. It offers a visual representation of sound in real time, based on different settings resulting in visual diversity. Represented on the posters, each shape is therefore the visual response to a specific instant. Every single “color of sound”, variation, intensity and each technical aspect of the musical track will impact the shape and how it behaves on the sphere’s surface.

My contribution to the 7th “Cool Words” Art Design Exhibition 2024, an international event for typographic researchers and designers, organised by Nanjing University of Arts. Latin letters and Chinese characters, both mean the same thing: dragon. Harmoniously combined into one form without losing their own meaning.

Posters designed for the exhibitions “Objects of Desire” and “Alchemy, Surrealism and Glass Art” the Museum of Design Lausanne, mudac. The exhibition “Objects of Desire” showcases a selection of surrealist design objects from the vitra collection. The “Alchemy, Surrealism and Glass Art” exhibition shows mudac’s contemporary glass art collection.

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Rescue posters are printed on ISO-standardized commercial rescue blankets measuring 210 × 160 cm, using the UV direct-to-plate printing process. The civil collective "Rettungsplakate" utilizes these posters to highlight the consequences of inadequate housing construction in Germany, where 50,000 people are homeless. Tragically, six individuals froze to death during the winter of 2023/24. These posters can be removed from the wall and used as blankets.

After reviewing the material for the exhibition, I proposed to create two individual posters for each of the exhibitions, carrying the same typographic system in combination with an image. Steffani’s split-screen images naturally lent themselves to the poster format. For Jota’s poster, I was intrigued by several self-portraits which I discovered sifting through the material and press articles. As the physical presence is of imminent importance in the artist’s oeuvre, the idea of the captivating self-portrait seemed to be powerful. Both posters were printed in silkscreen with additional spot colors and refined with varnish over the text.

The reduced and bold black-and-white design creates a strong connection to Chiara Fumaiʼs graphic murals and references the “dog-flag-signature” from her work Der Hexenhammer. The font Palatino, used for the poster, was also employed in the artwork. The portrait The Moustache Woman is a revised screenshot of a newly acquired piece in the collection. The poster was specifically designed for the façade of the museum in Southern Italy.

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Poster for the exhibition “Tschicholds bibliotheek uitgepakt” curated by Davide Fornari at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent, realized with the support of Design Museum Gent, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Embassy in Belgium and ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne (HES-SO). The exhibition features the corpus of bibliographical sources cited by the graphic designer Jan Tschichold in his work Die neue Typographie (The New Typography, 1928).

The design captures the working context of the symposium guests within a library environment. It serves as a bridge between traditional archival work and the digitization of those archives. The bitmapped light stripes reference the scanning process, which makes digitized information visible through augmented reality (AR). By deliberately simplifying the elements of text processing programs and employing annotation as a stylistic device, the design formally translates the scientific work done in and with archives.

Inspired by the film movement of German expressionism, Lupu Pick’s music celebrates contrasts such as light and shadow, madness and reason, as well as the absurdity and fleeting nature of normality. Their music is both powerful and intimate, drawing from a diverse range of musical traditions, including jazz and punk, while also hinting at future influences. Their songs are danceable, seductively melodic, and driven by a strong rhythmic groove. If you’re ready for a musical journey to Metropolis, Lupu Pick will take you there.

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Poster for the open dialogue process regarding the development of the area where the new fire station and Neubad are located in Lucerne. The city of Lucerne aims to utilize the development of the Kleinmatt-/Bireggstrasse area to create a diverse and identity-building space for living and social interaction. A key aspect of this dialogue process is to involve the local population.

Designed for the annual workshops at the Communication Design Department in abk Stuttgart. The concept is a typography experiment, utilising the most kitschy fonts such as Luminary, Georgia, Acumin, Arial, DIN, Times New Roman, Papyrus, Emoji One, and Brush Script. The message emphasises that there are no wrong typefaces – only inappropriate contexts for their use.

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The letterpress poster for the biennial hand press fair in Frauenfeld, scheduled for 2024, features a unique design. First, the lines of text were printed in silver using hand-set poster letters made of plastic. Then, the two printing rollers and the symbolized printing ink were cut out of linoleum and printed over the text.

Typography under the strobe: Since 2021, the Strobo party series has become one of the most successful NuRave/Trance events in Switzerland. By incorporating a few key elements – words, effects, and neon design – the series has gained significant recognition. It pays homage to the rave posters of the 80s and 90s in Berlin, utilizing inexpensive printing on neon paper without images and maximizing the print area with scaled text. The events are held at the Gaskessel Bern, one of the oldest youth and cultural centers in Europe.

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The design motifs for the 2024/25 season at the State Theater Braunschweig were developed through a dynamic collaboration among designer Max Kuwertz, the theater’s dramaturgy, graphics, and public relations departments, along with contemporary AI image generators. The outcome is a captivating visualization of ten premiere titles, all centered around the season’s overarching theme: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

Exhibition posters for “Greenland: Everything Will Change” at ALPS in Bern feature two stills from short stories addressing themes such as identity, generational change, tourism, emigration, and construction changes – presented without judgment. Neon yellow letters overlay the images, creating a striking contrast to the romanticized portrayal of Greenland. The exhibition explores the rapid changes occurring in the region, their significance for the local community, and the lessons we can learn from them.

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The exhibition “Pictorial Composites: Blurring Boundaries – Ambiguous Realities” offers an insight into the artistic and academic practice of Philipp Schaerer within the context of contemporary digital image production. The exhibition features a selection of Schaerer’s artistic works, as well as a variety of student works created within his teaching modules “Constructing The View“ at the School of Architecture of EPF Lausanne. The focus of the presented works is on the generation and processing of image data, as well as on the exploration of digital image strategies, concepts, and aesthetics.

The poster was created during the summer semester of 2024 as part of the course "Art, Countries & Visual Identities" at Bauhaus University Weimar. The assignment was to develop a visual identity for a topic of our choice, and I chose "outdoor swimming pools." The design of the poster is inspired by the aesthetics of water wings, incorporating warning signs, safety markings, and the vibrant color neon red.

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Poster for a jazz competition for young musicians that will take place in Näfels at the foot of the waterfalls. I tried to find a metaphor that well conveys the rhythm of jazz energy. I simplified the poster graphic language to the point of minimalism, working with such simple elements as ‘lines’ that are rhythmically arranged on the sheet, repeating the movement of the water in a waterfall. The Bavaria Glossy White 70 g2 paper is so thin, the silver colour reflect sunlight like a water surface.