Biodesign: From Inspiration to Integration was an exhibition of works of contemporary art and design that help us to reform our relationship with nature, moving it from a destructive to a more integrated, mutually beneficial model.

The exhibition marked the release of the 2018 edition of the book Biodesign: Nature + Science + Creativity, by William Myers, published by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and celebrated the RISD Nature Lab's 80th anniversary.

Gyrator and Lack were chosen to reflect the organic and technical aspects of the works in the exhibition, respectively. And their placement in the identity represents the conversation between the two realms throughout the exhibition. The poster additionally uses Reader.

Lead curator: William Myers
Co-curators: Lucia Monge and David Kim
Curatorial assistants: Julia van den Hout and Peter Rogers

The Licence Amicale is a software license that regulates a creative work's distribution within a private setting, fostering its organic propagation among individuals. Creation files may be distributed online or in person, including via email, direct messaging, or external hard drives.

This initiative originated in France with Anton Moglia and was further developed through collaboration with the Velvetyne team and David Jonathan Ross. The single-page website for Licence Amicale features Lack for headings and Inria Serif for text blocks.

Originally created for typeface distribution, Licence Amicale extends its application to various digital creations such as music, 3D files, software, and more. Users can share projects in progress or drafts with friends and family, simultaneously licensing them.

Creation files distributed under Licence Amicale can be freely used by each recipient for a range of projects, whether commercial or otherwise. One of the fonts distributed under Licence Amicale is Vercetti.

This poster was made for the Graphic Matters festival in Breda (NL), an international biennial about graphic design and its impact on our daily live. The festival called on designers to create posters on the topic of Information Superpower!. Our poster was selected alongside 49 others and exhibited during the festival.

In 2018, 38.27 million people visited Thailand. The country has facilitated its administration, making EU passports owners exempt of Visas for a journey up to 30 days, 2% of the population of Sweden, one in every fifty, is going to Thailand every year. With winter arriving, streets and subways are filled with advertisement selling idyllic vacations to the white beaches of Thailand. What about Thai citizens visiting Sweden? In this work we are looking at the unbalanced relationship between Swedish tourists coming en masse every winter and Thai tourists forced to give as much as 14 documents to be allowed in Sweden. Tourist Visa, travel bans or exemption of visas, with this example, we aim to ask, who is allowed to travel freely and based on what?

We used Lack by Adrien Midzic (available from Velvetyne Type Foundry).

Poster as shown during the festival.

Signage for an outdoor photography exhibition in the Raymond VI garden in Toulouse.

As part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the Retirada, the Toulouse Municipal Archives wanted to highlight the views of four photographers on Spanish Republicans who found exile in France after the Civil War.

Witnesses and sometimes actors, they immortalized the distress, but also the dignity and resilience of these uprooted populations. Jean Dieuzaide, Germaine Chaumel, Enrique Tapia Jimenez and Marius Bergé, Toulousains by birth or adoption, professionals or amateurs, have all been confronted, at some point in their lives, with the drama that unfolded at the gates of their city, and its consequences.

The exhibition graphics were designed by Vif Design, using Tme by Benoît Bodhuin and Lack by Velvetyne.

Buchclub V is a book club in Vienna, concerned with the topics of digitalization and future. The website brings together Adrien Midzic’s sans serif Lack (Velvetyne) and the monospaced Nimbus Mono (URW’s version of Courier).

Branding for Américo, a sales agent for clothing and accessories based in Porto. The design combines the sans serif Lack and the biform Didone Solide Mirage, both distributed by the Velvetyne Type Foundry. See more images on Behance.

Lydia Pyne looks at the story and impact of the unique body of images by photographer Yvette Borup Andrews (1891–1959).