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Task/BackgroundWith its new team, Stadttheater is embarking on a new artistic journey that embraces the cultural richness of Ingolstadt. The opening campaign, which features multi-lingual and multi-scriptual greetings across Ingolstadt, embodies the theatre’s commitment to inclusivity, ensuring that all citizens of the city feel represented and invited to join this exciting new era. The theatres identity captures the balance between the classical traditions and the contemporary artistic expression. The design serves as a bridge between past and future, reflecting the theater’s ambition to engage a wide audience while honoring the cultural richness of Ingolstadt. This approach ensures that the Stadttheater remains not only a cultural landmark but also a hub for connection and creative growth in the community.

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Visual Identity
Newspaper
Exhibition Design
Poster Series
Workshops

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Alwan338 is an annual exhibition project by Al Riwaq Art Space in Manama, Bahrain. Each year 20 international and 20 local artists are invited to create art pieces in public space within the block 338 – the area Al Riwaq is situated in. 2014 we were invited to develop the identity for the exhibition and furthermore take part as artists. We developed a visual concept for a series of countless individual posters which were pasted in public space all around town.

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Visual Identity
Publication

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The DEWAN Festival is an annual symposium of contemporary dancers and performing artists in Wadi Rum, Jordan reflecting on the question of how to survive as artists in a context that is suffering from polarity between militarized regimes verses the fundamentalist religious movement and a youth bulge stepping for­ward with very limited opportunities? 

We were commissioned to develop their logo and a visual concept for the festival publication. As the meeting is all about creativity we decided to leave the cover blank and had all typographic elements produced as stamps. All participants were able to design their own covers.

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Web Design

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Witness to a Golden Age is an online database and mapping project that provides access to more than 1,000 archival documents related to hundreds of art exhibitions at more than 50 art spaces that were operational in Beirut from 1955 to 1975. It features an interactive map of Beirut coupled with a searchable timeline where visitors can examine and download archival materials ranging from exhibition catalogues, posters and invitation cards, to photographs and film footage of openings and art events, along with personal correspondence, artist/gallery contracts, newspaper reviews and articles. It is an ongoing research initiative that will continue to expand in scope and content. Further materials and papers will be made available on the respective website. 

Witness to a Golden Age is the inaugural edition of Perspective, the Beirut-based Saradar Collection’s annual research program, where a curator is invited to critically engage with a theme derived from the collection.

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Visual Identity
Book
Exhibition Design
Poster
Web Design

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Daniela Swarowsky and Samuli Schielke commissioned us to develop the visual identity, exhibition design, website and publication for the collaboration between six Berlin based researchers and six artists from outside of Europe. To what degree is Europe still a standard for other parts of the world. Was it ever the role model it likes to see itself as?

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Book Design
Print Media
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Addressing im/migrant forms of expression around the globe, this rich, illustrated collection includes poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, analyses of diasporic fashion, cinema, and mixed media installations, as well as performances turned into writing, photographic work, collages, and drawings. Forms of Migration shows us how to apprehend migration differently, through innovative storytelling, offering opportunities to confront the complexity of migration processes.
To illustrate the transformation of a migration, our visual concept is based on a variable font that changes shape on each page of the book. The headlines change throughout the book from Light/Condensed to Bold/Extended, the page numbers in the opposite direction. Text passages abruptly change from white to black, thus interrupting the flow of text and the reader’s viewing habits, who constantly have to adapt to the visual environment. The cover illustration visualizes the topic of form, movement, direction and changes in an abstract form.

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Book
Concept
Redaction
Editing
Organisation

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As a result of globalisation and increased interaction across countries and cultures, multilingualism is becoming increasingly important all around the world. Script, as the most important conveyor of information, is at the centre of this development. Designers are more and more faced with the challenging task to create advertising posters, signage systems, books or lettering for example that not only combine different languages but two or even more writing systems with varying visual precepts and habits.
The book Bi-Scriptual documents and discusses sociocultural premises, technical requirements and practical considerations concerning multiscript design and typography. All eight in-depth presented writing systems are then described by specialists in the field and illustrated by work examples from international designers and studios. Bi-Scriptual provides a thorough overview of the various possibilities for the booming field of multiscript design to foster international communication.

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Editorial Design

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This publication is part of a collaborative series that brings together authors, artists, and designers from the Middle East and Europe. The aim of these co-productions is to foster dialogue and friendship across national and linguistic boundaries, through processes of translation and engagement with another’s creative work.
„The Face that I See, The Face that You See“ is a collaboration between poet Tammam Hunaidy and photographer Newsha Tavakolian. While the immediate connection between Tavakolian’s photos and Hunaidy’s poems may not be evident, both capture the essence of places affected by recent conflicts. The publication features 33 landscape photographs taken across Asia, Africa, and Europe, establishing connections with Hunaidy’s verse.