Glitch Library is a knowledge sharing space and an idea exchange place. We stack books on art, design, cultural theory and everything în between: from visual culture resources to typography, illustration, photography, with a keen interest on poster design.

It is not just a physical collection of books; it’s a place where creative minds come together to exchange thoughts and build a community around the love of art and design books.

The library itself is housed in the Glitch Design Studio offices, surrounded by colleagues and friends who share a deep passion for art and design. This unique setting fosters collaboration, whether you’re here to work on a project, explore new ideas, or simply enjoy a good book.

The branding inspiration was found in print based elements such as letterpress blocks, trim symbols, color guide symbols and typographic experiments. The main font used is Inter from Rasmus Andersson for its clean aesthetic and paired with Bookmania by Mark Simonson Studio for it serif madness and appropriate name for a book library project.

Within the library's activities Glitch Studio DesignSessions (a talks series of events) was initated. I designed all of the event posters as part of Glitch Studio. All of them play on the general love of print that is also the basis of the visual identity. Beyond typographic and lettering experiments all posters use trim marks or color guides in different ways for cohesion.

For the last three DesignSessions talks, designers from the Netherlands were invited to give talks on book design and graphic design. The first of these events saw Esther de Vries on her book design experiments, as such the main focus was showcasing a virtual book cover for the poster. Following this Richard Niessen showcased his ongoing project The Palace of Typographic Masonry, inspiring the poster to focus on Graphic Languages.The final event was hosted by Liza Enebeis from Studio Dumbar/DEPT® on books and motion. The concept behind this poster was an animated form of letterpress blocks.

This project has been awarded in the Poster category of Local Design Awards 2025; it was also selected in the 29th International Warsaw Poster Biennale Main competition as well as shortlisted for the Antwerp Poster Festival 2025.

Creative direction by Dan Stănescu, project management by Ana Banu. Art direction and graphic design by Andrei Nicolescu. Photo credits: Mihai Ciobanu (posters) and Dragoș Hanciu (events).

Navmaro is a Romanian tubulature and steel manufacturer in the naval industry that builds for performance.

With projects on construction sites in Romania and Europe, they rely on professionalism, solid qualifications and a constant commitment for performance. Each stage of their evolution reflects the seriousness with which they treat each project. They offer complete piping solutions, from production to installation — precise, fast and adapted to technical requirements. They work with a wide range of materials: carbon steel, stainless steel, copper, CuNiFe and PVC.

What matters most to them is their commitment to quality.

The fluid lines in the visual language evoke depth and movement, symbolizing exploration and connectivity, while subtle geometric elements refer to strength, durability and industrial craftsmanship. The design strikes a balance between nature and engineering, creating a modern, versatile identity that conveys reliability and innovation.

The Loos typeface is useful for a naval company because its clean, modern, and highly legible design conveys precision and professionalism—qualities essential in maritime industries. The icon is derived from the Loos Wide Black typeface, as well as an abstract pipe layout. The supporting typefaces are Roboto and Roboto Mono.

Poster for Type Thursday Bucharest @ &NowEast

As a member of the TypeThursday Bucharest team I created the main poster and visual communication materials for TypeThursday Bucharest @ &NowEast – a talk organised in collaboration with the &NowEast festival on 23th Spetember 2021. The event was hosted by Andrei Grosu (designer and chapter lead of TTB), with Andrei Turenici (designer at Daniel & Andrew) and Adnana Cruceanu (representative for CNDB) as guests. The panel discussion was on poster design, the relationship between designer and client. The event was livestreamed with the support of Black Rhino Radio.

To better integrate, Andrei Grosu and myself chose to set the event’s identity to be chromatically similar to the &NowEast festival’s identity, while using the mainline brand elements of TypeThursday.

What I liked about this project was the great freedom in the creative process and interpretation of all visual communication elements. I was tasked with designing not only the poster but it was an integrated approach with visual materials to be used on the chapter's social media as well as chirons and endscreens for the livestream of the event.

As throughout 2021 all TypeThursday events were held exclusively online and knowing that this collaborative event was to be livestreamed I opted to play with our typographical sets – setting a very dynamic visual approach and experimenting with various lettering interpretations of TypeThursday's acronym.

For all the materials developed from the posters, I used Obviously as the only typeface in varying widths and pairs to obtain dynamic and playful compositions. The use of the typeface was a directive from the TypeThursday team as it is the brand typeface approved for usage in all materials.

Visual material used for social media promotion / event date announcement

Visual material used for social media promotion / reminder for the event

Visual material used for social media promotion

Mockup view of the app screen for BRM.Live where the event was also livestreamed