Pickle Bar | Your Slavic Aperitivo
At the art collective Slavs and Tatars the plan was to open a new cultural space, the so called Pickle Bar. Everything for that was set to open during the summer in collaboration with KW. The Pickle Bar’s opening has been postponed and we really had to rethink how to make this (small) space function in a post-Corona time. Anyway the flyer was done, and an ad was published in a brochure.

Although Nam June Paik’s show at Stedelijk Museum was put into sleep mode (the museum had to close its doors the day the exhibition was due to open), we were unable to prevent the spread of its campaign in the streets of Amsterdam. The posters show an interpretation of a television test signal (an element often used by Nam June Paik) with the exhibition title THE FUTURE IS NOW in the subtitles. For weeks now the city is covered with these images, symbolizing an empty channel without programs being broadcasted. With no other campaign in line to replace this one, the sun has been doing some editing by making the bright colors more pale every day.

Creatives of all kind, labeled previously in “The Rise of the Creative Class” by urban theorist Richard Florida as the driving force behind inner city regeneration, are thrown into precarious situations. Especially now, our situation as (freelance-precarious workers) designers, the loss of work, the dark clouds looming over the cultural field. The Tee approaches this misère with a wink to luxury brands and alma mater branding via our cognitive worker mascotte serving its knowledge on a “plat du jour”, aka the day labourer.

Our record label is called ARPEGE and we are from Nantes, located on the west coast of France. For the moment, two of our events are cancelled:

The Experimental Type Design Workshop was supposed to take place on March 12th 2020. The 3-day workshop invited participants to look at the components and anatomy of type—both Arabic and Latin—and work with shape, rhythm, impressions and associations (both cultural and visual) to create a bilingual alphabet. The workshop was to be run by a local type designer, Najla Badran and a Swiss graphic/type designer, Florian Jakober. Florian was already in Cairo when we had to cancel everything!

This is a poster for a group exhibition called “5×7×2.5“ which was curated by Christel Harms and Roswitha Witten. 75 artists responded to the call with artwork that measured 5×7×2.5 cm in size. The group exhibition was planned as a touring exhibition so this specific size allowed for flexibility in moving the exhibition from one place to another.

Every summer the Zurich’s department for culture hosts free outdoor concerts with local artists for a few days. Each year the visual identity for this popular music event is designed by a different local graphic designer or illustrator. For the 2020 edition the organizers approached us and we started working on it around the time the lockdown came into effect in Switzerland.

This is one of 10 poster variations we made for the Art Directors Club Switzerland’s Creative Week 2020. Only one of them made it into print before the event, which should have taken place at the end of March, was postponed indefinitely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This years motto was “The Creative Take-over”, so we created individual flags for each participant through a modular system of code, based on their personal information. The key visual shows an adaptation of the time code, which gives information about the date of the individual talks.

Pickle Bar | Your Slavic Aperitivo
At the art collective Slavs and Tatars the plan was to open a new cultural space, the so called Pickle Bar. Everything for that was set to open during the summer in collaboration with KW. The Pickle Bar’s opening has been postponed and we really had to rethink how to make this (small) space function in a post-Corona time. Anyway the flyer was done, and an ad was published in a brochure.

Although Nam June Paik’s show at Stedelijk Museum was put into sleep mode (the museum had to close its doors the day the exhibition was due to open), we were unable to prevent the spread of its campaign in the streets of Amsterdam. The posters show an interpretation of a television test signal (an element often used by Nam June Paik) with the exhibition title THE FUTURE IS NOW in the subtitles. For weeks now the city is covered with these images, symbolizing an empty channel without programs being broadcasted. With no other campaign in line to replace this one, the sun has been doing some editing by making the bright colors more pale every day.

Creatives of all kind, labeled previously in “The Rise of the Creative Class” by urban theorist Richard Florida as the driving force behind inner city regeneration, are thrown into precarious situations. Especially now, our situation as (freelance-precarious workers) designers, the loss of work, the dark clouds looming over the cultural field. The Tee approaches this misère with a wink to luxury brands and alma mater branding via our cognitive worker mascotte serving its knowledge on a “plat du jour”, aka the day labourer.

Our record label is called ARPEGE and we are from Nantes, located on the west coast of France. For the moment, two of our events are cancelled:

The Experimental Type Design Workshop was supposed to take place on March 12th 2020. The 3-day workshop invited participants to look at the components and anatomy of type—both Arabic and Latin—and work with shape, rhythm, impressions and associations (both cultural and visual) to create a bilingual alphabet. The workshop was to be run by a local type designer, Najla Badran and a Swiss graphic/type designer, Florian Jakober. Florian was already in Cairo when we had to cancel everything!

This is a poster for a group exhibition called “5×7×2.5“ which was curated by Christel Harms and Roswitha Witten. 75 artists responded to the call with artwork that measured 5×7×2.5 cm in size. The group exhibition was planned as a touring exhibition so this specific size allowed for flexibility in moving the exhibition from one place to another.

Every summer the Zurich’s department for culture hosts free outdoor concerts with local artists for a few days. Each year the visual identity for this popular music event is designed by a different local graphic designer or illustrator. For the 2020 edition the organizers approached us and we started working on it around the time the lockdown came into effect in Switzerland.

This is one of 10 poster variations we made for the Art Directors Club Switzerland’s Creative Week 2020. Only one of them made it into print before the event, which should have taken place at the end of March, was postponed indefinitely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This years motto was “The Creative Take-over”, so we created individual flags for each participant through a modular system of code, based on their personal information. The key visual shows an adaptation of the time code, which gives information about the date of the individual talks.