The main inspiration for the branding was the many staircases found in Haifa حيفا and the big shape in the middle is an abstracted form of the letter ح in Arabic.

The Haifa Independent Film Festival aspires to create a cultural crossing between Haifa and the unreachable, prohibited parts of the Arab world - allowing a leap out of our inner and inter-cultural voids that have been prevalent for too long. Within Palestine, there are multiple productions of pictures that are screened annually in front of international audiences. The Haifa Independent Film Festival is the first to host a local stage for these local talents: the prominent, the emerging, and the unacknowledged.

Poster announcing ‘THE PARADOX OF LABOUR’ a talk and event by Adrian Melis at Publics in Helsinki. Inspired by this constant yet futile mobilisation of mass labour and fixation on output Cuban artist Adrian Melis creates absurd production lines formed through a bizarre set of tasks. Shortly after the poster got printed, the event got cancelled due to Covid19.

The website Open Window was meant to be an online solution (pandemic safe) for a week-long program of activities that evolve around design graduation works at the HDK-Valand institution in Sweden. Unfortunately, the activities had to be cancelled during the week of programming, due to complications with the virus. 

The poster was scheduled to print in the morning of March 13th. We had to wait for the Swiss federal council to announce their corona measures that afternoon. They introduced the “Ausserordentliche Lage” (extraordinary situation) and the poster was obsolete.

“Weinverkostung” was a daily wine-tasting event that never happened in a pop-up wine bar that never opened, thanks to the second nationwide lockdown in Germany. The illustrations, were created during a workshop given by Christoph Niemann on creating mundane instruction-manuals – the topic chosen was “How To Taste Wine.” Before the lockdown, dozen of posters were printed and hundreds of glass-coasters were made for the event that will probably never happen at all. 

In early January of 2020 we got approached by the cultural department of the city of Stuttgart to design an identity for the cultural brand for “Weltgeister”, a combination of literary events that were supposed to happen throughout the year in 2020 celebrating the 250th anniversary of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Hölderlin, who both spent a meaningful amount of their lifetime in Stuttgart. Quite an honourful task, not only because we were given creative freedom in execution, but also, because we were able to put the clever wordmark, that Ina Bauer designed, into play.

Every December, Les Urbaines Festival explores emerging aesthetics over the course of a single weekend. By encouraging the experimentation of alternatives to previously established forms, the festival provides an indispensable — and totally free — opportunity to discover propositions that open the way for new artistic languages. ‘Fluidity’ and ‘Emergence’ were the key words of this year’s visual identity. We focussed on the surface, thinking of it as a living tissue shaped by multiple interacting processes. Due to the COVID-19 regulations, Les Urbaines could not be the convivial festival, where one can capture the discordant voices of a new generation of artists. However, all of this must continue and there will be another time.

Book design for Oslo based artist Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis.Fundamentally, his practice is regarded as a visual diary of his personal observations of the mundane, specifically in nature and people. His works are composed in a unique manner to allow multiple entry points for viewers, prompting them to reflect on the complexities of contemporary life. This was supposed to be publish in fall 2020. The project got postponed and we still don’t know when it will be published.

The main inspiration for the branding was the many staircases found in Haifa حيفا and the big shape in the middle is an abstracted form of the letter ح in Arabic.

The Haifa Independent Film Festival aspires to create a cultural crossing between Haifa and the unreachable, prohibited parts of the Arab world - allowing a leap out of our inner and inter-cultural voids that have been prevalent for too long. Within Palestine, there are multiple productions of pictures that are screened annually in front of international audiences. The Haifa Independent Film Festival is the first to host a local stage for these local talents: the prominent, the emerging, and the unacknowledged.

Poster announcing ‘THE PARADOX OF LABOUR’ a talk and event by Adrian Melis at Publics in Helsinki. Inspired by this constant yet futile mobilisation of mass labour and fixation on output Cuban artist Adrian Melis creates absurd production lines formed through a bizarre set of tasks. Shortly after the poster got printed, the event got cancelled due to Covid19.

The website Open Window was meant to be an online solution (pandemic safe) for a week-long program of activities that evolve around design graduation works at the HDK-Valand institution in Sweden. Unfortunately, the activities had to be cancelled during the week of programming, due to complications with the virus. 

The poster was scheduled to print in the morning of March 13th. We had to wait for the Swiss federal council to announce their corona measures that afternoon. They introduced the “Ausserordentliche Lage” (extraordinary situation) and the poster was obsolete.

“Weinverkostung” was a daily wine-tasting event that never happened in a pop-up wine bar that never opened, thanks to the second nationwide lockdown in Germany. The illustrations, were created during a workshop given by Christoph Niemann on creating mundane instruction-manuals – the topic chosen was “How To Taste Wine.” Before the lockdown, dozen of posters were printed and hundreds of glass-coasters were made for the event that will probably never happen at all. 

In early January of 2020 we got approached by the cultural department of the city of Stuttgart to design an identity for the cultural brand for “Weltgeister”, a combination of literary events that were supposed to happen throughout the year in 2020 celebrating the 250th anniversary of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Hölderlin, who both spent a meaningful amount of their lifetime in Stuttgart. Quite an honourful task, not only because we were given creative freedom in execution, but also, because we were able to put the clever wordmark, that Ina Bauer designed, into play.

Every December, Les Urbaines Festival explores emerging aesthetics over the course of a single weekend. By encouraging the experimentation of alternatives to previously established forms, the festival provides an indispensable — and totally free — opportunity to discover propositions that open the way for new artistic languages. ‘Fluidity’ and ‘Emergence’ were the key words of this year’s visual identity. We focussed on the surface, thinking of it as a living tissue shaped by multiple interacting processes. Due to the COVID-19 regulations, Les Urbaines could not be the convivial festival, where one can capture the discordant voices of a new generation of artists. However, all of this must continue and there will be another time.

Book design for Oslo based artist Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis.Fundamentally, his practice is regarded as a visual diary of his personal observations of the mundane, specifically in nature and people. His works are composed in a unique manner to allow multiple entry points for viewers, prompting them to reflect on the complexities of contemporary life. This was supposed to be publish in fall 2020. The project got postponed and we still don’t know when it will be published.