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I Wish You Water

Installation, Essay, Audio
2024
Read more... “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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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.

Pictures: Joe Habben


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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

Graphic Design: Studio Ward Goes
Author: Matt Johnston
Published: Onomatopee
“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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Sense of Space (S.O.S.)


[Graduation Project]
Installation - Manifest
5 Signs, manifest: A2
2022

“Sense of Space (S.O.S.)” is a visual, qualitative method representing both the physical and the mental experience of wandering through the city. By means of tangible signs, which serve in a disorientating way, wanderers can identify their perceptions of their physical surroundings. The familiar is made unfamiliar. Sense of Space is a manifesto that encourages the flaneur in everyone. 

The project arose from the obsession with and the fear of getting lost. It simultaneously reflects on the positive experience of wandering around. Is it possible to unite this contradiction in a distinctive design? So that it leads to a renewed vision, experience and perspective on getting lost?

“Sense of Space (S.O.S.) was inspired by works such as Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” and Laure Prouvost’s “De-Learning”, and is modeled after Charles Baudelaire’s modern life in the city. The installation experiments with cartographer Jacques Bertin’s method of visualizing data. 

Pictures: Sieske Geven