Selected European Designers and Artist were asked to artistically respond to the growing popularity of closed borders with comments, denouncements or positive approaches *. They had the choice between four different poster samples to design on *. These were screen printed and published in the box.
Designer > Yasseen Faik, London/UK
Concept > "My poster plays on the concept of disadvantage and prejudice based on age, sex and location. Taking a phenomenon from the digital world and subverting the meaning, presenting it in analog poster format. The typography has been manipulated to represent a wide variety of people, playing on the idea of difference."
About > Yasseen Faik is a London based Graphic Designer with a love of minimal, contemporary design, primarily working at the cross-section of art, music and culture. Yasseen's design ethos is simple: “create, collaborate and communicate”. Driven by a desire to constantly progress – academically, theoretically and professionally – Yasseen is consistently delivering bold, simple, typographical design. Yasseen is keen to initiate debate regarding his briefs, and it is this concerted effort to establish a strong design concept which allows him to display both substance and style.
Designer > Judith Cleve, Krefeld/Germany
Designer > Maximilian Mauracher, Wien/Österreich
About > Graphic Designer and Art Director working in the fields of print and web design with a strong focus on typography and simplicity. Services include art direction, branding and visual identities, websites, magazines and books. Based in Vienna and sometimes Berlin. Founder of POOL publishing, Editor at Entkunstung.
Designer > Marc Galan, Barcelona/Spain
Concept > "Happy Fences"
About > Hip-hop, design, analogic, scanners, handmade, graffiti, 90’s and sneakers. This is the world behind Marc, a 23 years old graffiti writer and designer of Barcelona. He studied in Massana and Bau, nowadays works as a freelance collaborating in different projects. One love.
Designer > Bruno Rodrigues, Coimbra/Portugal
Concept > "The message that I decided to create is an advice. THESE WALLS MUST BE BROKE is an utopian challenge that I want to believe that can be achieved."
About > Bruno Rodrigues is amongst the emerging portuguese graphic designers that are constantly pushing the boundaries of his country’s visual landscape. The way he uses typography is strongly tied with his roots on graffiti, which combined with a mature and careful conceptual approach, leads to exciting and stimulating visuals. Presently he works as a graphic and brand designer at Bürocratik, but previously he ran his own studio and collaborated with Andrew Howard. He is part of the creative collective Confooso and has an on going type design collaboration with João Miranda. His work as been featured in Slanted Magazine, was awarded for Original Typeface at European Design Awards (with Bürocratik), among many other national references and awards and exhibitions.
Designer > Jonas Cleve, Cologne/Germany
Concept > My poster is inspired by my erasmus stay in portugal in 2015. The erasmus program gave me the chance to live in a city abroad, get to know people from all over Europe and especially to make great friends and a close network to many other countries. I couldn´t have made this experience without open boarders, international exchange and the attitude of open mind and curiosity for the foreign. My illustration is a positive homage to open borders in a time of silly people.
About > Jonas Cleve is a Cologne based Designer working in the realm of editorial design, illustration and photography. After his bachelor studies at MSD Münster and IADE in Lisbon he is currently doing his master studies in communication design at HSD in Düsseldorf. His work is characterized through serious design composed with funny anecdotes. With his subtly attitude he wants to bring ironic nuances into often to stylish design.
Designer > Monika Jagla, Köln/Germany
Designer > Kj 263, Moskau/Russia
About > "We are constantly in the middle of circumstances. The excitement to tell the story comes from the standing on the edge of ups and downs of the social classes, mostly shaped though the lifestyle of the 90s. The situations happening with Pinocchio-like characters point out that they are falsifier or their stories are lies. The consideration is under discussion." Grown up in Duesseldorf’s scene the graffiti artist and designer Kj263 gets international attention with his characters marked though flexible noses and bad behavior. The creations of the native-born Russian convinces the audience with the perfection of their ease and gesture. His sometime surreal motifs have a peculiar charm showing a fascinating and ironical mixture of everyday life and fiction. At first glance, thought the movement, the characters remind of Comics drawings. But the form of expression consist much more in a mix of Graffiti, Illustration and Grapfhc Design.