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❦ Visual Identities & Advertisements for Public Events


2024

  1. CHATTY CHATTY Social Media Content for talk gatherings hosted by students of the MA Transversal Design (FHNW).
       
  2. TO DANCE ON TABLES Identity & Concept Design of the MA Experimental Design public rehearsal at the Transbonna Halle in collaboration with Carolin Lerner & Ivan Weiss.

  3. GUITAR LESSONS Business cards for Ernesto Herrera.



2021

  1. ANIMA Flyer design for SWITCHES Graduation Exhibition.

 ⏛ Publication Designs


2024

  1. ARTISTIC PORTFOLIO for Maarten Keus.
     
  2. FARAWAY A small book of illustrated poems & illustrations by Oliver The Faraway.

2021
  1. LISTENING BEYOND Thesis by Ines Deru on ‘somatic’ listening & finding a place of belonging.

  2. LOST:NEWS ABOUT OUR DISORIENTATION STRUGGLES How can the act of reading the news become a navigation tool? Through diverse situationist instructions this work explores our quest for orientation by providing a diverse catalogue of maps and articles related to our spatial experience.

  3. ‘WHERE THE FUCK DO I BELONG?’ Thesis by Sean Kobi Sandoval where he investigates the notion of belonging and questions what Home is through the perspective of a third-culture kid (TCK).

2020

  1. COLLECTIVE INTENT Thesis by Maarten Keus on rituals as a way of destigmatizing extreme practices that can allow moments of catharsis and healing.

  2. TRAVELS IN ALASKA Redesign of John Muir’s book in an archive and diary format including personal photographic material of my own journey through this territory in 2018. Exhibited on the digital exhibition of ‘pagefound.online’.  

  3. THE MASTERY OF PERSPECTIVES Thesis by Soeria van den Wijngaard on ‘Listening for (in) love’.

  4. A CYBORG MANIFESTO Redesign of Donna Haraway’s book on Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. As a way of unpacking the often-times complex nature of Haraway’s text, the publication offers additional information within the biding. By reaping apart the pages the reader can literally gain further “insight” into the text.

  5. PIGMENTUM An archive of my explorations into the alchemical world of colors and minerals by crafting the legendary technicolor stone... with a Riso Machine.

2019

  1. THE WORK OF REPRESENTATION Redesign of Stuart Hall’s book. Each chapter has been divided into six different volumes.

  2. BRAVE NEW WORLD Redesign of Aldous Huxley’s novel. Exploring the role “the marginal” and its spatials effects within 2D & 3D dimensions. Sculpture inspired by Brutalist Architecture plans and its ideas on Utopia.

  3. MY FAVOURITE THINGS zine.

 ❡ Communication Design for Rewilding Argentina


REWILDING ARGENTINA is a group of conservationists and activists united by a strong commitment to the restoration of natural beauty, a belief in the intrinsic value of all species and in the possibility of creating a model of development for rural communities based on conservation and rewilding.

2023

  1. WILD NEW WORLD Annual Report 2022.

  2. THE JAGUAR CORRIDOR Video Campaign.

  3. Concept Notes and Booklets


✍︎ Writtings & Published Works


2023

  1. WHAT SEEPS THROUGH THE CRAGS: BASILISKS, TUNNEL VISIONS, SWISS NEUTRALITY & OTHER MYTHS Essay piece that is part of the collective publication of the Experimental Designs program (FHNW) around the the subject of infrustractures.



  2. AVALONIA: ESTABLISHING (S)KINSHIP Essay piece as part of the SIMULACRUM magazine The Re[kin]dling Issue ignited by the words of Mike Davis “If there ever was a time for fire in the belly and a radical politics of hope, it is now,” as well as an exploration into ways of “finding (kin) in (odd) places”.

2022

  1. TOPOGRAPHIES OF IMPACT Essay piece as part of the Neo-metabolism Reseach Capsule Utopian Thinking in the dark times – Season 2: Autumn/Winter 2022 offering “reflections on utopian thought to understand its problematics, nuances, and (above all) its possibilities”. 
       
  2. BECOMING MATTER Bachelor thesis exploring the after-lives/hoods of a capytalist ruin such as the ex-mining site of Avalonia Cave. 


 〠  Products, Prints & Textiles


2024

  1. QUAN VEJA QUE JA NO CANTE ALBUM The music of Xaloq reinterprets Valencian melodies and original pieces inspired by the Mediterranean musical tradition with a blend of modal and free jazz.

  2. BOOKMARKS lasercutted on metal for lecturebooks.


2020

  1. EARTHLINGS poster series centered around the subject of the “Anthropocene”. The grids are inspired by diffrent writers serving as visual maps to navigate the morphology of their axioms and worldviews.

2019

  1. NO A LA SALMONICULTURA poster inspired by @sinazulnohayverde’s campaign against salmon farming. Designed in the style of a print sample, this poster aims to put into evidence the artificial components involved in this extractive activity. One of them being Astaxanthin, a pigment injected into salmon to redden the flesh.

  2. MALINCONIA sublimated textile piece. Its designs is a melancholic inquiry of a place soon to dissapear due to sea levels rising such as the case of Venice.

  3. DRIP DRIP DRIP Batik dyed textile piece using the melting of ice as a collaborator to paint an aerial view of Iceland, reflecting upon the role of glaciers as architects of the landscape and the consequences of their retreat due to climate change.

  4. ARMA BRANCA Poster series inspired by Paulo Nazareth Exhibition at the Boros Colection Bunker Berlin.

2017

  1. OIKOS This jewelry collection explores the ecological importance of the endemic rock plants of the Lago Buenos Aires’s Plateau in Patagonia. Like pieces of a puzzle the value of each specie is not only on their individual uniqueness but its intrisic and irreplasable role and place in forming a whole/world

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