Isabel Seiffert*Blog

IBM Annual Report 2009/Redesign

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:19:33 +0000

Just a quick update: Together with Carolin Reisensohn I redesigned the 2009 Annual Report of IBM during last semesters Typography Class. More pictures and info will be found on my website soon. I’m heading to the Motto Bookfair in Berlin today…so maybe I’ll see you there?!

(This is not a) Terror Video

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:44:34 +0000

A couple weeks ago I was asked to design a poster, a program and a flyer for an event that shows films of students at Merz Akademie. The result is a folded A1 poster which also holds the flyer, the program and filmstills on the back. The idea was to use a very strong, insisting typeface to indicate the “terror”. The background-image is printed in silver to point out the message that it is actually “not a” terror video.

Poster front and back:

Folded:

Berlin Between

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 22:06:18 +0000

During my internship at Daniela Burger in Berlin earlier this year, I was asked to create a visual appearance for a documentary film about Berlin in the 90’s. Due to the content of the film I decided to design a type that was handmade and had a metal-/future-like-feeling to it. In addition to that I made a couple poster-drafts that could work well as silkscreen prints (except for the one with the color-photos of course). As far as I know the type will be used in the later outcome.

Type Experiments:

The Title:

The Posters:

Theater Rampe

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:06:32 +0000

Together with Daniel Schenk I redesigned the Logo, Program and Tickets for “Theater Rampe” in Stuttgart. It was a self-initiated project for Typography class. The Program is a 2-color Silkscreen Print. Here are some making-of pictures and the final result. See more detailed photos on my website!

Battle of Symbols

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:27:37 +0000

Look what I just found in my archives. The “Urban Chess Game” which was played during a workshop in December 2008 at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart and hosted by Vinca and Gon from Metahaven. We were split in 2 teams. The black and the white team, of course. We would then design a system of symbols which would represent the traditional chess figures and start playing by using the chessboard on googlemaps and hanging A1 Posters (chessfigures) in the city. Our concept was to use characteristics of the city that was on our side of the board. See what the black team had to offer:

The lonely Cat(6)

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:29:39 +0000

Einsam? Dreh die Heizung auf! Ausgrenzung fühlt sich tatsächlich kalt an. Wer gesellschaftlich integriert und geschätzt wird, dem ist wärmer. themcats

The lonely Cat (5)

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:17:36 +0000

45 Zentimeter, haben Wissenschaftler herausgefunden, so nahe dürfen uns fremde Menschen kommen, damit wir uns gerade noch nicht belästigt fühlen. Kosmetiker und Masseure bezahlen wir dafür, dass sie diese Schranke regelmäßig durchbrechen. themcats

The lonely Cat (4)

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:21:28 +0000

»Je näher die Menschen einander kommen, desto ungeselliger, schmerzhafter, destruktiver werden ihre Beziehungen zueinander.« themcats

The lonely Cat (3)

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:03:28 +0000

Unser eigenes Leben nehmen wir wie einen Film wahr, den wir andauernd selbst inszenieren. Aber warum Regieanweisungen geben, wenn niemand zusieht? themcats

The lonely Cat (2)

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:01:28 +0000

Wir sind isoliert mit all dem, was uns ausmacht. Ohne andere sind wir quasi nicht existent. Denn nur durch den Abgleich mit unserer Umwelt können wir uns versichern, dass wir da sind. themcats