The designer Lennart Van den Bossche used Atlantic by Heavyweight typefoundry to take the reader through the index and titles of this doctoral thesis. The body text is set in Times and every reference to a graphic is set in Courier.

Brazilian poet Zuca Sardan has been publishing sporadically since the 1950s, although his diplomatic career kept him away from Brazil. Ximerix/Xiremix was illustrated by the poet himself. The book was meant to keep the aesthetics of fanzine but with a hint of graphic refinement.

The constructivist caps are stylistic alternates from Euclid BP Bold. This font has been revised and expanded into a full family, now known as Euclid Flex.

Editorial object for the application for the Master degree level of Paris design schools (École Boulle, Duperré, Estienne and ENSAAMA).

This editorial project needed to reflect the seriousness and official nature of the request, and the personality of the Paris design schools that train future designers. We created an object easy to understand and handle, that focuses on making the bulky and complex content (with many charts, diagrams and appendices) more legible.

Client: Boulle, Duperré, Estienne and ENSAMAA
175 × 250 mm, 201 pages, 60 copies
Typefaces: Brut Grotesque (Bureau Brut) and Totentanz (Yoann Minet)

Werkschau — Auf dem Weg zum Spezialisten is a compendium of the various works created at the FH Potsdam. It displays a cross-section of the design knowledge and skills acquired in the second part of the study and thus serves as proof of the qualification as a designer.

Hardcover: 180×280 mm | 76 pages | open thread-stitching

Track One tracks the general Melbourne public’s differing perspectives on the matter of Formula One races over the course of nineteen years. A range of interviews were conducted with the intentions of revealing why people think differently about Australian Grand Prix.

19.5×26 cm

“LEAP Dialogues is a manifestation of the state of the art in design practices through the lens of social innovation. It offers readers a potent cross section of case studies and career trajectories of successful people who are shaping this emergent field. The book demonstrates how design matters in social change and how an education in design allows a professional to move throughout their career making contributions to the world,” said Dr. Mariana Amatullo, lead editor of LEAP Dialogues and co-founder and vice president of ArtCenter’s Designmatters department.

LEAP Dialogues is a first of its kind book that explores the new career pathways in social innovation for designers, with contributions from 84 thought-leaders from across disciplines and sectors. These contributors encompass critical and diverse points of view, stories and experiences about key issues direct from the field, creating a multilayered picture of how this field is being shaped.

The book’s distinctive dialectic framework, presented through a series of informal dialogues interposed with first person essays, “day in the life” entries and case studies, addresses the spectrum of challenges and opportunities for designers building career pathways in social innovation, and for the organizations and institutions looking to support those careers. The interesting and unexpected pairings of perspectives in the dialogues push each other to uncover stimulating insights and debatable ideas that are at times provocative, at times reflective, at times informative but always engaging and accessible.

TwoPoints developed a visual identity for the publication and its marketing tools, website, poster, postcard, e-flyer and newsletter. The flexible visual identity consists of a simple yet distinctive color scheme (neon red, petrol blue and soft gold) and a custom designed typeface.

LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways for Designers in Social Innovation was edited by Amatullo with Bryan Boyer, co-founder and partner at Dash Marshall; Liz Danzico, creative director, NPR and founding chair of the MFA Interaction Design, School of Visual Arts; and Andrew Shea, founder and principal of MANY. Visual Identity by TwoPoints.Net.

“Speculating Systems” is the first of a series of publications that will now be published yearly by the Sandberg Instituut Design Department. As a reflection of this year’s Sandberg Instituut Design Department this publication contains the students’ graduation essays as well as the first year students’ column texts.

After five years and six issues, our time as the designers of the architecture magazine Quaderns has ended. It hasn’t been always easy and there are things that could have gone better, but there is one thing we are very happy with: the tone we achieved. For us, the content and form of the magazine should reinforce its temporary nature. A magazine is a document of its time. Contrary to a book, its frequent publication allows an immediate response to currently relevant themes. These themes may be irrelevant in a year’s time, but by then a new issue will be out anyway.

With each issue of Quaderns we tried to express the unfinished state of an immediate response to a specific moment and theme. Rather than giving answers, we tried to raise new questions. Allowing different voices, sometimes contradictory, to appear. In each issue we celebrated imperfection and incoherence. Not just because we thought this to be the adequate answer to the problem of Quaderns, but also because we felt that design in Spain at that particular moment was stuck in a neatly composed nostalgia. A lot of designs looked like an idealized version of northern European design from the seventies. For us, this did not and still does not make any sense, especially considering the times we live in.

This issue of Quaderns explores some of the questions raised in the previous one, “House and Contradiction”. While that issue focused on the relationships between domesticity and politics, this one aims to analyse the relationship between domesticity and the public space. This is a logical continuation if we take into account to what extent the very definition of the domestic often blurs the boundary that exists between the urban sphere and the home, between the public and the private. It is impossible to understand the domestic without understanding its indissociable bond with the public space, their complementary nature.

Design: TwoPoints.Net
Client: COAC
Year: 2016

Released on the occasion of Merete Vyff Slyngborg’s solo show at the Grimmuseum in Berlin, curated by Mette Woller. The publication contains a series of texts and interviews together with installation shots from the exhibtion.

Morf is a Dutch magazine in (formerly) book form about design-related texts, topics and theory. Published by the Premsela foundation and given away for free to Dutch design students.

This page shows the English summary to Piet Schreuders’ important essay Lay In – Lay Out, originally written and published in 1977.