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“I Wish You Water” features a gathering of objects intricately woven within ropes, inviting viewers to navigate this organic choreography in the space, as though embodying the meandering journey of a body of water.
Exploring contemporary water rituals, the project aims to deepen the understanding and rekindle connections between humanity and nature, emphasizing kinship occurring among them. It suggests that healing our relationship with water begins by listening to what it has to recount.
Inspired by writer Masaru Emoto’s The Hidden Messages in Water and the notion of satori—a state of profound presence in Japanese Buddhism—the installation’s simplicity encourages introspection and tranquility. This poetic endeavor invites exploration of the imagination, invoking water as a means to nurture emotions, and foster deep gratitude for the wonders of the Earth.
Pictures: Silvia Longhi
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A Gesture
Book Design 310 pages , 17 x 24 cm 2022
The catalog “A Gesture” showcases the work of 180 graduates from the University of the Arts Utrecht that have each made a gesture in their own way. Their gestures are explored through themes of Approach, Arouse, Merge, Question and Revive. These themes allow for a categorisation based on stories, rather than studies.
The book contains a total of 310 pages and is printed using offset technique. It's wrapped in a screen-printed sleeve complimented by a green elastic-band that holds everything in place.
Collab: Arta Samakova & Valentino Angela
Pictures: Valentino Angela
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De-Mapping Fabrica
Poster Design 2024
“De-Mapping Fabrica,” created during Ana Kulachek's poster workshop at Fabrica Research Centre, explores the architecture of Tadao Ando's masterpiece. It draws inspiration from the building's minimalist lines and natural light, combined with Kulachek's colorful and bright design.
Pictures: Joe Habben
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BookLab
Poster Design & Talk 2024
Residents of Fabrica Research Centre discuss Afonso de Matos' book Who Can Afford to Be Critical? The book's campaign explores how issues of affordability, class, and labor are often overlooked in design discourse. By questioning "Critical Design," it challenges designers to reflect on their positioning within complex social theories and the balance of awareness in their work. The metaphorical placement of a comma symbolizes the ongoing dialogue about where designers stand in relation to critical and political issues.
[2024]
It blends analog photography and digital scanning, symbolizing a bridge between the past (academy years) and the future (post-graduation).
[2023]
Visuals for Keep an Eye Foundation award 2023. The Keep an Eye Foundation supports young, promising talent in the field of art and design. With the Keep an Eye Stipend and the collaboration with AIR Pastoe, graduates are offered support: both practical and financial.
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Mapping Memory
Poster Design 2024
Intuitive collection of water imagery in Mexico, spanning from 2021 to 2024, presented in the form of risograph collages. By reconstructing these visuals, the project preserves the essence of the original memories, each collage intricately connected to the exact date, time, and location of the captured moments. This fusion of past and present in new forms invites viewers to reflect on the passage of time and the enduring significance of memory.
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Motion Trek
Infographic 4 Posters, 70 x 100 cm 2021
“Motion Trek” is a research project surrounding analogue codes. This ethnography visualises twenty-eight routes in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Categorised in four blocks: the physical route in a block structure, a colour code, the coordinates and the time frame of the journey. The route is delineated into the used types of transport. Within the colour codes, there are ten colours, each is shown with its own sub-colour.
Printed in white due to the rush that a journey normally includes, certain features of a city are commonly hidden. Increasing awareness of your own perception, elements in a certain environment will be more visible.
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Photobooks &
Graphic Design Assistant - Book Design 212 pages , 17 x 24 cm 2021
“Photobooks &” is a research into themes focusses on contemporary photobooks written by Matt Johnston. He emphasis on the connection between creators and readers, by using extensive research techniques and qualitative data. Through many references and notes, Johnston invites the reader to read the book in two different ways. This is shown by placing text and notes separately from each other in the book. The visual language of the book refers to the form of diaphragm, designed by Studio Ward Goes.
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Passage
[Graduation Project]
Book Design 3 Zines, 69 pages, 177 x 289 mm 2022
“Passage” is an independent zine that centralizes the complexity of cultural diversity. It is divided into topics focussed on everyday life in street scenes. Through participant observation and conversation, the creators surround themselves in the social and public spheres of different localities. Taken subjectivity and personal position into account, a connection is publically shown regarding social complexities in combination with contemporary local artists and writers. This highlights the notion of uniqueness in every single issue.
By negotiating the zine into different locations, “Passage” tries to collect and share as many stories as possible in an accessible way; to expose people to a broad range of all possible images of an alternative set to cultural diversity and to most importantly, understand them.
The zines are part of the first edition of “Passage”, located in Odeceixe and Lisbon (Portugal). It focusses on transnational migration flows, public spheres and cultural diversity in musical art.