Ghost is a carefully drawn, brutalist yet elegant serif typeface. First informed by street letterings and the sharp flow of honorific Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah, the typeface matured over time, from the street to the magazine cover, from graffiti markers to digital typography. Very edgy and spiky, it is a rather rational and constructed serif Roman with a tempered Italic. Now available on TYPE.WELTKERN®!
Everett is a contemporary neo-grotesque typeface known for its characteristic sharpness. The font’s design is balanced with an organic drawing and a particular digital flavor. Strong typographic cuts add a high tension while still keeping a natural reading comfort, finding the right balance between a font that is graphic yet fluid. The typeface now spans 2 collections, the standard Everett and its monospaced variation Everett Mono, offering 40 styles in total. Both font families are now available exclusively on TYPE.WELTKERN®!
Edition Taube is a publishing house specialized in artists' books & editions based in Munich / Zurich. Together, we developed a subtle redesign of their corporate identity around their known bird symbol and the introduction of a new typeface. The new identity is very simple and straightforward: one font, one cut, a few type sizes and clear grid systems. This way, the system is simple to use in-house. The typeface FT Kunst Grotesk used in a bold way, gives a contemporary edge throughout.
Winning proposal as part of a pitch for Gasteig, Europe’s biggest cultural center in Munich, made with PARAT.cc. The goal was to develop a CD system, in order to avoid confusion between events that the Gasteig hosts and offers. As a nod to the old logo, we designed a type system with brackets as a frame that allows type compositions in the center reacting to what is being promoted. It’s been designed to be flexible and responsive.
While Kairos Studio being the digital agency of Art Basel, we expanded their digital presence by developing a motion design system and a web tool to generate videos. This enables the communication team to create animated videos on demand to promote all programs on all channels.
Forever Everett is an hybrid publication celebrating simultaneously Daniel Everett’s photographic work and the eponymous typeface designed by Nolan Paparelli. The publication is composed of a series of 6 double-sided posters, folded twice, which becomes a large booklet when combined together, always alternating between photo- and typographic details. Now available on WELTKERN®!
This poster series emerged out of a commission for a magazine celebrating 20 years of the Swiss music festival Festi’neuch in 2021 (hence the name “MF21” for Magazine Festi’neuch 2021). Using only typography in b/w, the posters extract and remix various content from the magazine into a poster format. It’s a way of rediscovering the experience of the magazine in a different way.
Concept for a small music festival on the shore of Neuchâtel’s lake in Switzerland. Mostly self-driven and private event with a very limited capability. Each poster displays the artist, date and time in a vernacular way while more details are accessible through a hotline.
Counterpoint association is a Zurich based non-profit organisation that investigates the present through multiple art forms, create alternative narratives to foster critical thinking and mediate new territories for culture. The whole identity is constructed by bringing together the four most spoken languages in Switzerland, inspired by the aesthetics of the federal bureaucracy while adding a more contemporary, technical feeling.
As part of an ongoing creative collaboration with the London based designer Jana Zornik, we created a gallery within the website to showcase her work, as well as a custom typeface to highlight projects in a unique way.
Modular identity system developed for Matière Vive, a Swiss based practice specialised in digital media and websites. The logotype is composed on a dots grid that allow to write their initials “MV” in various different ways, reflecting the variety of their work and the ability to adapt themselves in any kind of constraints within a project. The use of only lowercases refer to the web designer’s way of typing code.
Diccionario Lukumí-Español offers a modern perspective on the Lukumí language, which is used mainly by the Yoruba community in Cuba during Santería ceremonies. Lukumí is an hybrid language, mixed of Spanish and African Yoruba. Commissioned by the designer Laura-Issé Tusevo, I developed a custom version of my Everett typeface for the publication. Based on the most recurrent letters in Lukumí, the typeface plays with double letters and thin punctuation, creating surprising rhythms throughout the various definitions of the dictionary.
“Familial” describes best the atmosphere of the PUCH festival. This small Bavarian open air festival stays authentic and charming, offering every year an inevitable summer rendez-vous in the countryside of Munich. Using only typography, the key visual creates a direct link to a known food icon, which is also popular and highly consumed in the area.
Baumeister is a monthly architecture magazine published by Callwey in Munich and designed by Herburg Weiland since 2011. In collaboration with the studio, I developed the overall layout of this issue on the theme of “Sound forces” that features the new Elbphilharmonie of Hamburg pictured by photographer Andreas Mühe, among other essays.
