10.2015 – 11.2015
Services: Graphic Design
Project at Parsons. The New School for Design NYC – Supervised by Pan Terzis & Jason Booher
Develop a series of typographic posters using silkscreen printing, translating digital concepts into a manual, layered print process. The challenge was to design within technical constraints – limited color layers, precise registration, and material behavior – while maintaining a strong visual concept.
Design peers, educators, and viewers interested in experimental typography and printmaking, as well as audiences who appreciate tactile, handcrafted design.
The process began with broad research and sketching before refining one strong concept per poster. I explored how typography could work within a layer-based system, considering color separations, overlaps, and transparency. Working with silkscreen required constant testing – how colors interact, how layers align, and how imperfections can influence the final result.
The final series consists of three typographic posters, each defined by bold compositions and a hands-on printing process. The silkscreen technique gives each piece a unique, tactile character, where small imperfections become part of the aesthetic. The project deepened my understanding of color, material, and print production, while reinforcing a structured yet intuitive design approach.
The task for this project was to visualize an important date on a poster. I picked a personally important date – 06-05-2011 – when I decided to study design and handed in my application and homework to my design school. At this time there were two dominating emotions: on the one hand I was happy to have made this decision, on the other hand I was confused, unsure if I fit into this study area and if I would be accepted.
The dynamic design of my poster visualizes the process from a black and stable life to a more colorful and creative future where everything is possible. I illustrated this transition by splitting up the color black into its printing ink basic colors C-M-Y, resulting in a color explosion. The poster is dominated by many unregular lines, showing my confusion and uncertainty around the date. The design represents movement and liveliness at this point of my life.
5 color Silkscreen Poster Print
What if every city would be replaced by New York City… Cologne… Shanghai? A futuristic urban utopia thinking implemented in an abstract way. It’s a series of 3 posters, which you can string together to a never ending poster. Each shows a scenario for one of the city. The typography is written in the language what is spoken in the city. And the planets shows just a part of street lines of the respective city. This forms a pattern like a mandala.
4 color Silkscreen Poster Print on colored Paper
This is a design for the event “Association of Medical Illustrators”, a conference for medical illustrations. The motive of the poster refers to a “phantom limb”, the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts. This shows the rare exceptional and abnormal occurrence; a facto of scientific interest susceptible to scientific description and explanation. This invisible and old phenomenon stands in the nice opposite of the illustration part, what you always see and plays with illusion and reality. A quotation of an affected person illustrate his confusing and painful situation. The shaky typography is written with from a right-hander with his left hand, because his right hand was amputated. It is wired arranged to reflects the feeling of the patient. The body in the background shows an illustration of an torso. The white space demonstrate the missing body part.
2 color Silkscreen Poster Print on colored paper
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