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NEW WEBSITE
We are eagerly working on our new website and hope forward to go online pretty soon. In the meanwhile we’ll give you a short glimpse into a recent project. We did some tape art for the Opel stand at the Paris Motor Show 2012.
Spielzeitheft 11/12
A continuous image-concept leads the viewer through the brochure. The chapters are separated by different tones of color. It’s printed on Munken Cream, you’ve got to hold it in your hands, to get an idea of how beautiful paper can be. Photos by Ramon Haindl.
Smoke Land
We developed the stage- and printdesign for Silvia Ospinas’ new dance play .
Superblak
The motiongraphics section of Via Grafik now offers their work under the name of Superblak. Of course we designed the logo for their studio. check out the new website www.superblak.com
Publications
Our works got published in several books again.
Faces & Laces Moscow
Dimitry of Faces&Laces invited us to stay in Moscow for a while and exhibit in a popup gallery in an empty mall. The artwork can be considered as a reflection of what we experienced during our first stay in this fast changing city.
Design Politics
For the second time we designed a poster for the design politics exhibition held in Santiago de Chile. More after the jump
Mäusesheriff
Our back-projected drawings contribute to the plot of the play ‘Der Mäusesheriff’ which is an adaption of the great story by Janosch. The drawings were animated by Marcel Franken.
Spielzeitheft 10/11
The concept of the program brochure is a straight-forward separation between images and text. The images of the ensemble are printed on differently sized paper within the brochure. The almost all-new ensemble is introduced to the audience with formally clear portraits.
The headlines and columns are arranged flexibly within the gridsystem, to get a tension-filled composition within the strict design.
Photos by Ramon Haindl.
whatever burns the best
We were part of the first exhibition of Casus Magazine in Heilbronns’ public library where lighting a fire could have a quite special impact.
Frameshift
Rob was invited to do the openingshow of the new art space “systM”, a laboratory for young art and design in Berlin. A series of new sculptures and installation work as well as a collection of photographs are shown.
November 21, 2009 – January 16, 2010 at systM
transit tropical
For the new production of Silvia Ospina we developed a selection of stage elements and the artwork. The performances will take place on the 12th, 13th and 14th of november at the KHM Köln.
HESSISCHES LANDESTHEATER MARBURG
Currently we are working on the new corporate design for the Theater Marburg. As the implementation of the new visual appearance is going to be next summer we can only show a first brochure for now. It contains an overview over those pieces which can be purchased by other organizers as well. Concept and graphics by Via Grafik, photos taken by Margarita Brenner-Grigorova.
il fiume dei writers
We have been invited to San Sperate, a small town in Sardinia with a “murales” tradition. One of our works was this piece of land art – a white line wich winds within an abandoned channel on a length of approximate 250m. Another work can be watched on streetfiles.org
Between
Tim’s new shortfilm “Between” is online. Have a look at between-film or watch it on vimeo.
Bright
Sergej of the basementizid gallery invited us to take part in the exhibition he has done for the bright tradeshow. We were happy to paint a wall at the show.
Streetwear today
Lorenzo of Streetwear Today did a short interview with us for their new issue…
Fefè
Along with artists like phunkstudio & Rachel de Joode we are featured in Fefè, a design magazine from italy. The overall theme for the magazine is “nice things are done slowly”. Are nice thinks really done slowly? That is the question that could immediately arise. Striving for imperfection sometimes involves rapid working, following the stream of consciousness, ignoring borders and conventions, speed as an ultimate source for creativity, destruction and mayhem to overcome the rigid and square status quo that is forced upon our daily lives. A call for pure life as opposed to the dead end mentality of uninspired society.
Slanted
For the 7th issue of slanted, entitled Geometrics.Porn., we contributed to their type section with our Anti font.
casus
Casus, a free Art & Culture Magazine from Heilbronn, Germany did a small feature on our work.
Manual
The skateboardmag Manual from New Zealand did an interview with us.
grafuck
Grafuck features erotic work from artists around the world, we contributed a double page spread for their 4th issue.
360
The 360 Design magazine from Hong Kong did an articel about our work.
Names Book
A nice book about the Graffiti- and Streetartfestival Names in Prague has been published, documenting the festivals atmosphere and artists.
Spacecraft 2
Our gardenhouse sculpture is featured in the new Spacecraft 2 book by Die Gestalten Berlin.
Typographic design
TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN is a book about the last tendencies in the universe of fonts, the title presents a comprehensive selection of complete alphabets…
Vormator
Finally the Vormator Book got published, we joyfully contributed to the book, check for more info here.
Graffest
At the Graffest Festival in Gdansk, Poland we built an installation with the name 5,2%. the idea was to create a new perception of the space by shifting the suggested room and the installation within it. 5,2 slope, 5,2% alc.
Pompinien
Via Grafik developed the setdesign and the costumes for the play ‘Pompinien’ of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. The idea was to create a picture of a fallow land, a non-space, as a projection surface for the interpretation of the audience.
GRAFFEST
If you’re around Gdansk at the 15th or 16th of May, come around, see some art and listen to the beats of Lukid, Bullion, Vex’d, Mike Slott, Paul White, Dj Food and Rekordah. See you there! More infos here.
Let’s get lost™
To celebrate B.S.s new studio in leipzig the temporary VOID gallery invited us to do a small opening show.
Common Ground
The Goethe Institute and TheNewDowse Museum brought Via Grafik and Cut Collective (Auckland) to Wellington/New Zealand to introduce their work to the public.
Tommys Toko
Tommy invited us to Amsterdam to repaint the walls of his barbershop. For the occasion of the event ‘Kersvers’ we treated the walls like single canvases that are linked together by the overall theme of hair.
Names
We were invited to the Graffiti- and Streetartfestival Names in Prague. Front view of our installation titled ‘Sooner or later it all comes down’.
BASEMENTIZID FEAT. VIA GRAFIK
For the opening of their new gallery in Heilbronn, Sergej asked us to contribute a shirtdesign. You like it? Order here: www.basementizid.com
Soft and Fury
These are our two contributions to the Soft&Furry project, where several international designers were asked to customize the handmade figures for a group show at Plastic Chapel, Colorado USA.
Junges Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Via Grafik developed a new visual appearance for the youthsection of the Staatsthater Wiesbaden including concept and realisation of both picture and graphic language. The aim was to account for the high quality claim of the ensemble with an appropriate picture language and to reach primarily adults without forgetting the actual target group – kids.
Trust
Two in a row. We were happy to design two covers in a row for the punk/hardcore magazine trust.
11 Freunde
For 11 Freunde we inscenated all logos of the 32 Bundesliga teams. As part of a calendar the photos illustrated the introduction of the teams for the start of the new season.
Gudberg Magazine
Gudberg from Hamburg featured 3 spreads of illustrations by Via Grafik.
Around Europe
Indexbooks released a new title about promotion. Several works of Via Grafik got featured.
Blond ‘Rebellion’
This time we were comissioned to illustrate the main article about ‘Rebellion’. We developed posters which then were placed in spots where they hurt the most. www.blondmag.com
Playboard chose this variation of their logo to print it in three nice colourcombinations. For the opening of the designshop 18bit in Linz we contributed a posterdesign. Via Grafik contributed, along with 30 other artists, to tis charity exhibition of skateboard art for the benefit of the SAGE-Hospital for Children in Senegal, Africa. The exhibition is currently running in berlin and will open on the 8th of feburary at the heliumcowboy artspace in hamburg. check the blog for more info. Via Grafik is featured in the book ‘Illusive 2’ by Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin. We were invited to the University of applied science in mainz to speak about recent projects… Via Grafik was invited to contribute a little piece of art to the 100th issue of blond. Three exclusive designs for the Montana artist line. For Klaus and We the People we painted a wall in their new people’s store in Cologne. Via Grafik is featured in the book Tactile by Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, the follow up to hidden track. We were invited to take part in the seatbeat exhibition Heilbronns’ skateshop has got a new orientation system. Via Grafik had a little show at the basementizid kunstkellar in Heilbronn. Thanks a lot to Sergej! Via Grafik is featured in Wii love Arts – a compendium of projects inspired by wii publication with a few double pages. For those who love to play… Finally it’s published. ‘Logo Design’ is a big compendium of logoworks from around the world, also featuring a lot of logos from Via Grafik. See a small preview here.
Playboard Magazine
18bit
Helping Hounds of Hell
Illusive 2
Hello my Name is
Blond No. 100
Montana
We the People
Tactile
Seatbeat
organized by wtp
Burnside
Horizon is Lost
Nintendo ‘Wii love Arts’
Taschen Verlag
