selected works
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Book
2018
Art & Crisis is the first volume of a series of books for ZHdK’s Master in Fine Arts. This editorial project aims to replace the traditional diploma catalog format with a theoretic approach illustrating the students trajectories along their graduating year. A tag index facilitates the navigation through heterogenous contents: academic texts, interviews, a travel diary, reproductions of works, biographies and Instagram feeds. The central part of the book is dedicated to the graduating exhibition. All referenced contents are gathered in a final visual index. Designed in collaboration with Nicolas Eigenheer and Noémie Gygax.
Art Direction, Design and Typography
Softcover, 160 × 228 mm, 320 pages, EN
Published by JRP|Ringier
Monograph
2017
Monograph for artist Magali Reus on the occasion of her exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Works are presented in the form of a register of materials, echoing some of the artist’s formal concerns. The book showcases 6 series of works in 6 matching sections, accompanied by exhibition views in opening and closing sections. Designed in collaboration with Nicolas Eigenheer.
Art Direction, Design and Typography
Hardcover, 205 × 250 mm, 320 pages, EN
Published by JRP|Ringier
Artist book
2017
Published on the occasion of the Blind Approximate exhibition at the Château de Gruyères Museum in 2017, Strappato proposes to approach the work of artist Michael Rampa under the theme of strata, echoing his pictorial technique of rubbings and reservations. This book reproduces the exhibition on a 1:10 scale, reduces the works in black and white and randomnly redistributes the colors of the works. By keeping only the notions of presence or absence of pigments within the works, Strappato offers a new, specific insight in the artist’s work.
Art Direction, Design and Typography
Softcover, 240 × 320 mm, 48 pages, EN/FR
Published by Micronaut
Artist book
2018
Photographs of a residency project in China, during which the artist Nicolas Delaroche documents more than thirty private art collections on condition of anonymity. Unable to divulge any information on these images of collections or their owners, the edition proposes a color classification derived from an algorithm. An interview between the artist and Uli Sigg, led by Eléonor de Pesters, completes this volume.
Art Direction, Design
Programming by Thibaut Brevet
Softcover, 165 × 225 mm, 320 pages, EN
Artist book
2009
A photographic documentation of artist Valentin Carron’s surroundings, inter-crossed with reproductions of his sculptures. Creation of a custom CAPTCHA-based algorithm that generates the layout of the book automatically. Awarded as one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2009.
PHP programming
Softcover, 160 × 220 mm, 128 pages, EN
Published by JRP|Ringier
Typographic Script
2018 —
Development of a generative typography interface for various lettering applications. Work in progress.
Art Direction, PHP/HTML programming
Book
2015
This book accompanies an exhibition presented in the form of a movie screened in a movie theater, and takes the form of an end credits of more than 400 pages. The central notebook welcomes the specific contributions of 16 artists on display. Work in collaboration with Nicolas Eigenheer.
Art Direction, Design and Typography
Softcover, 170 × 240 mm, 456 pages, EN/FR
Published by Les Presses du Réel
Book
2013
An inventory of relations between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of some thirty international artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theoreticians and curators. This text book is presented in the form of a dynamic typographic score. Work in collaboration with Nicolas Eigenheer.
Art Direction, Design and Typography
Softcover, 168 × 238 mm, 320 pages, EN/FR
Published by Les Presses du Réel
Typeface
2009 –
A survey of Open Source technologies and communities results in the creation of a hybrid typographic character. Several preliminary versions of the character are tested at EPFL on a Tobii Eye Tracker, a tool for measuring eye movements, to ensure the best ergonomics. The final character assembles different possible versions of the alphabet and illustrates its origins and the context to which it is dedicated.
Type Design
School project
Artist book
2014
Edition of a photographic archive of the artist Anne Hildbrand on the occasion of her exhibition at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne. The piece exhibited by the artist suggests a movement without beginning or end. The sequence of images, presented as a fixed structure within which an infinite number of combinations take place, is realized using a conditional algorithm, ensuring that each image is represented once in large in the book. Work in collaboration with Nicolas Eigenheer.
Art Direction, Design
Programming by Lionel Tardy
Softcover, 150 × 200 mm, 320 pages, EN
Published by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Interactive design
2009
The Captcha (automated test to differentiate a human user from a spam robot on the internet) has the mission of being indecipherable by machines, thanks to protocols of distortion and scrambling text and image. The formal result makes it a language exclusively dedicated to the human being. All the Best consists of a Captcha algorithm hijacked into an email messenger service, a research documentation and a series of camouflage posters for webcam users. Winner of the 2010 Federal Design Awards.
Art Direction, Design, Programming
Programming help by Lionel Tardy
Interface: HTML/PHP
Book: A4
Posters: F4
