Solo Mute Pan is a collaborative exhibition project that brings together for the first time Olga Kokcharova and Laurent Güdel, two sound artists whose common ground is their work with listening and sound spatialization. Using various recording and amplification techniques, Olga and Laurent auscultated the Kunsthaus building during the hot summer 2022. Their respective approaches consider phonography (the writing of sound through microphones) not only as a documentation process, but also as a performative and musical act. The project is published by activeRat.

Designed by Vincent Devaud, the cassette cover art features exclusively Artex, designed by Valentin Brustaux and released by Optimo.

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Black Campaign School is a year round leadership, political education and strategy program started in 2017. I was approached by BCS in the summer of 2022 to work with the team at Three Point Strategies to revamp the brand identity of Black Campaign School as well as develop the identity for the resurrection of “Black Camp”: a hands-on, immersive camp.

The goal was to create a brand that separated itself from the typical political / Washington DC world. Something that showed intentionality but also screams joy and black excellence. Organizing and campaigning is loud, in your face and direct, therefore I knew that the logo needed to be a reflection of that. After a lot of exploration I found the recently released Artex type family from Optimo and we knew that it fit perfectly. Redaction is used as the secondary typeface.

Upon further exploration we kept stumbling upon the theme of horizon. Knowing that BCS would be hosting Black Camp at Haley Farm for the foreseeable future, we took the prominent and historic library and paired that up with the motif of a new horizon for the logomark.