Fukt magazine for Drawing #22
The Nature Issue
In our latest edition, we're exploring the timeless bond between drawing and the natural world. This issue brings together artists from six continents who capture nature from different perspectives. You'll find conversations on queer ecology, stories of pioneering female botanists, and reflections on how drawing can deepen our connection to the environment.
We also share personal memories tied to nature and discuss the urgent need to preserve our planet's diverse ecosystems. From the forests of the Amazon to prairies and landscapes shaped by wind and fire, this issue invites you to reconnect with the beauty and significance of the world around us.
Featuring:
Abel Rodríguez, Aerocene & Tomás Saraceno, Bjørn Lie, Charmaine Watkiss, Cy Twombly, Dane Mitchell, Devra Fox, Diana Baltag, Erin Wiersma, Erwin Lichtenegger, Gabriela Albergaria, Gizem Vural, Hannelie Coetzee, Jitish Kallat, José Gomes, Julie Brook, Katie Holten, Merete Joelsen Aune, Michael Amery, Nicole Wendel, Nohemí Pérez, Per Adolfsen, Petrit Halilaj, Piet Oudolf, Rikuo Ueda, Sarah Davidson, Sixto-Juan Zavala, Sonja Hinrichsen, Sylvain Le Corre, Tacita Dean, Wangechi Mutu, Yaneli Montiel, Zheng Bo
256 pages
softcover with die-cut
Fukt Magazine
2024
Catalogue for the exhibition “Die Mauer, Vorher, Nachher, Ost & West / The Wall, Before, After, East & West about art from both sides of the German Wall before and after the fall of the wall in 1989 at Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin.
Stiftung Brandenburger Tor
2024
Die Mauer - Vorher, Nachher, Ost & West
The Wall – Before, After, East & West
Poster (and exhibition graphics) for an art exhibition showcasing paintings before and after the Wall, from East and West German artists, of the collection of the Berliner Volksbank.
Stiftung Brandenburger Tor
2024
Art direction and design of the catalog and exhibition graphics for “Where The Wild Lines Are / Wo die wilden Strichen wohnen” - an exhibition on children’s books at Neue Sammlung of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Wall drawings and book cover & opener illustrations in the book by Christoph Niemann
2024
Die Neue Sammlung Pinakothek der Moderne
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Book design: Stephie Becker
Illustrations: Christoph Niemann
Exhibition architecture: Carina Deuschl
Graphics, still and motion for the 2024 edition of Anonymous Drawings - an exhibition project for drawings where art is sold anonymously - the buyer only learns the artists name after puchasing a work.
exhibition concept: Anke Becker
Anonymous Drawings
Exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg
An app that shows feelings
It is not easy to express feelings. The Heavy Mental app wants to change that by creating a place where vague emotional worlds and mental moods are visualized and valued. Mood shapes can be generated interactively by mixing emotion controllers. Entirely without guilty conscience and well-intentioned advice. The moving shapes are collected in a diary-gallery. The first version of the app will be used as a prototype to learn more about your wishes, ideas, and needs in order to incorporate them into the further development of the app.
www.heavy-mental.ch
Get it on the ios App Store
Heavy Mental was realized in the specialization Trends & Identity“ in the research field Care Futures at the Zurich University of the Arts. Heavy Mental was funded by the Sanitas Health Insurance Foundation.
Project funding:
Stiftung Sanitas Krankenversicherung
Project Lead: Judith Mair
trendsandidentity.zhdk.ch
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Concept and design:
Ariane Spanier Design
Ariane Spanier
Stephie Becker
App design and development: milkinteractive.ch
Website: Markus Kehrer
2019–2023
Poster (and titles) for the film “Dying” (Sterben) by Matthias Glasner. A film about the intensity of life in the face of the impertinence of death. It is tender and brutal, absurdly funny and deadly sad, terribly bitter and sometimes surprisingly beautiful. With Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg, Ronald Zehrfeld and many more.
Produced by Port Au Prince Films
Intl. Filmfestival Berlinale Competition 2024
Book design for Norwegian painter Meta Norheim on the occasion of her retrospective exhibition “Between Pearls & Potatoes” at Telemarkkunstsenter.
Creative direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Client: Telemarkkunstsenter
Photos: Istvan Virag
2024
Book celebrating 10 years of the festival “Firstborn Girl” for feminist culture, which aims to promote diverse approaches in deliberating and (re)presenting gender in the art and critical practices, Skopje, North Macedonia.
Tiiiitinc.com, Skopje
2023
Ariane Spanier has transformed the 350m long construction site fence for the future Museum of the Twentieth Century (aka berlin modern) at the Kulturforum. Her work BORDERS is now on view as art in public space along the construction site for the Neue Nationalgalerie’s expansion venue designed by Herzog & Meuron.
BORDERS
Around sixty thought-provoking sayings trace the perimeter of the construction site in a ribbon of letters. Ariane Spanier collected expressions and quotes from media, music, and literature, even motivational slogans posted on social media. She altered the texts with the word border in such a way that new meanings resulted – sometimes committed, sometimes ironically critical, and sometimes lyrical. The aphorisms refer to various kinds of borders and boundaries, including territorial, political and individual ones. This leads to ambiguities that can be intriguing as well as irritating.
Which Border, Whose Border?
Such questions touch on the history of the location because the construction site is in the former border zone. Some thirty-five years ago, the Wall dividing Berlin into East and West still stood nearby at Potsdamer Platz. The Nationalgalerie collection, which will be displayed in the building now taking shape behind the construction fence, includes a large number and variety of domestic and international artworks from the period when Germany was separated into the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The same applies to the collections of the Kunstbibliothek and the Kuperstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings), which will present their works on paper, book and poster art, archival materials and 20th century models in the new museum.
Aren’t borders inevitably a source of irritation? They are drawn by people wanting to protect something: their ideas, themselves, other people, possessions, or territory. Borders and boundaries are sought out by those wanting to cross them – for reasons of ambition, curiosity or a desire to expand consciousness, but also out of desperation, a will to survive and aggression. When is a border or boundary good; when is it bad? The answers are rarely clear-cut and depend on one’s point of view. Twentieth and twenty-first-century art has often concerned itself with questioning and transcending borders and boundaries, visualising personal borderline experiences, and initiating discourse. BORDERS is relevant to the here and now, because this work represents an ambivalent, historically and culturally charged, genuinely political, and omnipresent phenomenon – borders and boundaries define our world. They challenge and limit us. They mark – intentionally or unintentionally – beginnings, transitions and endings.
By Christina Thomson & Uta Caspary
Neue Nationalgalerie
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2023
Logo for Slovenian chef Ana Roš’ new young dining restaurant JAZ in Ljubljana.
client: Ana Roš
2023
Contribution to AGI / Alliance Graphique Internationale’s poster exhibition of the 2023’s Special project Kōrero at Objectspace in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. 2 words, any language.
AMO JIBU = LOVE ANSWER (Esperanto & Swahili).
objectspace.org.nz
AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale
FUKT Issue #21 ventures into the realms of the Unknown. Featuring drawings by 29 contemporary artists from 18 countries around the world, we explore the uncertainties that inundate our everyday lives, the mysteries that are lurking in the shadows, and the vast potential of life beyond our own universe.
2023
A visual history of all things video games, this book provides the reader with an overview of the gaming industry, from the very first game created around the mid-twentieth century, right through to the present day. Particular focus is given to advances within the industry during this time, such as new technologies, innovative gameplay, never-before-seen graphics, and design.
client: phaidon
2023
Book design for artist Marilyn Ann Owens on the occasion of her retrospective exhibition at Telemarkkunstsenter in Norway.
Client: Telemarkkunstsenter
Art Direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Photography: KUNSTDOK / Istvan Virag for Telemark Art Centre
2023
Poster design for the Tårup Dark Sky - Art & Science festival at Kunstrum Fyn. Tårup Dark Sky is a new Nordic art and science festival initiated by Kunstrum Fyn, taking its inspiration from the dark night sky. The festival combines art experiences outdoor and indoor, with a diverse science and knowledge program, and a sustainable profile.
With Tårup Dark Sky Kunstrum Fyn wants to create dialogues between art, science, nature and people.
Client: Kunstrum Fyn
2023
For this 10 second stop motion animation for VICE TV i used a series of words that rhyme with VICE and end on the VICE logo.
VICE TV
2022
Graphics for the 17th edition of the competition for young architects in Norway.
Client: Europan Norway
2023
Graphic identity and typographic installations for the Year of Language 2022 by the Klassikstiftung Weimar.
Together with exhibition design studio Franke/Steinert we designed a series of 9 public typographic installations and type installations in the city and at various museums in Weimar. The exhibition in the Goethe museum included a room of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. For the sculptures quotes by famous poets and writers were used who lived in the city in the past centuries. The writings were thematically addressing politics, societal issues and human sensitivities, with strong contemporary links to nowadays realities.
Graphic identity & typographic design: Ariane Spanier, motion design: Lara Gessner
Exhibition design & production management: Franke / Steinert
Photos: Ariane Spanier, Vera Franke, Frank Steinert, Hannes Bertram, Henry Sowinski
Client: Klassikstiftung Weimar
2022
concept and animation for the Year of Language by Klassikstiftung Weimar.
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Animation: Lara Gessner
Client: Klassikstiftung Weimar
2022
A yearly planner on the topic of courage, change, anger, politics and activism with daily tasks on how to become more courageous and how to take action on subjects that matter to you.
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Lisa Hexamer
Client: Radikale Töchter
2022
Music video for Das Paradies, for the single “Rosa Luft”
Graphic & Animation : Ariane Spanier, Stephie Becker
Video footage & editing: Marco Sensche
Client: groenland records
Das Paradies
Book design of the monograph on the Dutch garden designer, featuring his gardens and the largest collection of his drawings ever published.
Client: Phaidon
2023
Catalog for the exhibition 1+1=3 The art worlds of Mary Bauermeister at Kunsthalle zu Kiel. Bauermeister has made a living from art since selling her first painting in 1955, and despite huge success in the New York art scene in the 1960s, has remained unknown to a wide audience.
Art direction & design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Lara Gessner
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2022
Record design for Das Paradies’ 2nd album “Transit”
Watch the music video we did for the single “Rosa Luft” here.
Client: groenlandrecords
2022
Title design and graphic treatments for trailer and film “In The Bunker” - an experimental documentary by Lou Savoir of Cascade Berlin about a bunker which houses the extensive art collection of Christian Boros and where art mediators lead visitors through the works.
Title design: Ariane Spanier
Written and directed by Lou Andrea Savoir
Producer: Julian Dykmans
Director of Photography: Fred Mortagne
Cinematographer: Niki Waltl
Editor: Monica De Alwis
Composer: Felix Godden
Opening song: Caterina Barbieri
Client: Cascade
2021
While creating portraits is as old as humanity, what does that mean today, especially in the age of selfies and social media? After the years of a global pandemic and people hidden behind masks FUKT Issue #20 explores and celebrates the human face. We delve into the world of portraiture and the face in contemporary art. Inside the magazine, you’ll discover a range of perspectives and topics, from face blindness, courtroom drawings and lockdown portraits to facial recognition – a selection of drawing positions that present a unique take on the face.
The cover comes in variations of 24 different printed faces. When unwrapped, that loose sheet of paper reveals an empty face on the cover. The reader is invited to draw a portrait and share on socialmedia.
fuktmagazine.com
Book design featuring more than 200 designers from more than 50 countries, including icons and trailblazers past and present such as Ray Eames, Eileen Gray, Florence Knoll, Ilse Crawford, Faye Toogood, Nathalie du Pasquier, it records and illuminates the fascinating and overlooked history of women preeminent in the field. This A-Z survey shines a vital spotlight on the most extraordinary objects made by women designers.
2021
Client: Phaidon
Project identity for Temple of Alternative Histories - a transdisciplinary collaboration between visual art, stage art, scientists, and the wider community at Staatstheater Kassel in 2022 by theatre director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, visual artist Anna Rún Tryggvadottir and curator Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch.
The three part project consisted of:
TEMPLE OF MATERIALISED HISTORIES
TEMPLE OF EMERGING HISTORIES
TEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
An Art exhibition, public programme & a stage production, presented by Staatstheater Kassel
Temple of Alternative Histories
www.annaruntryggvadottir.com
Staatstheater Kassel
Design: Ariane Spanier
Web development: Markus Kehrer
2022
Graphic identity for the Yokohama Triennale of contemporary art. Afterglow was the title so the design became an atmosphere of color with tiny disruptions and nuclear glows. A wall along a construction site outside the museum carried a long flow of colors in the design of the triennale.
Artistic directors: Raqs Media Collective
Client: Yokohama Museum of Art
2020
www.yokohamatriennale.jp
Identity design for Kunstrum Fyn - a platform for art and science finding its inspiration in the dark sky located on the island of Fyn, with an unusal hilly landscape in an otherwise flat Denmark, run by Helga Marie Nordby and Crispin Gurholt. Fyn has an exceptional dark and starry night sky.
2022
Identity design for polyrama - a museum for life stories in Berlin. The museum tells stories and paths of people with diverse backgrounds through performances, exhibitions and gatherings. The website archives a collections of audiorecordings of interviews and stories.
Founded by Anna Chrusciel and Sadaf Farahani.
polyrama
2021–
A tiny book about a dream in the family of icelandic artist Erla Haraldsdottir in 5 languages.
2021
Book design for the exhibition “Amazons of Pop - Women artists, superheroines, icons 1961–1973” at the Kunshalle zu Kiel and a 2nd exhibition period at Kunsthaus Graz.
Client: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunsthaus Graz
2021–2022
Poster in support of the Iranian freedom movement “Woman Life Freedom”, shared online for free download on various platforms.
2022
Typographic motion gfx for Cascade Berlin’s campaign for bike brand Specialized promoting their e-bikes Vado and Como.
2021
Client: Cascade Berlin
Specialized
Production and Creative Direction by Cascade
Director: Julian Dykmans
Art Direction for Specialized: Dustin Ortiz
Creative Director: Lou Andrea Savoir
DOP: Niki Waltl
Photographer: Laura Kazmarek
Digi Op: Andre Fister
Editor: Monica de Alwis
VFX: Joe Pease
GFX: Ariane Spanier
Sound Design: Felix Godden
Color Grading: Peter Schulz
Music: Felix Godden
Talents: Gabriel Engelke, Florence Marc & Lou & Elliott. Philissa Williams. Roberto Alegria. Johanna Trenkelbach & Konrad
Seasonal posters 2021/22 for the classic concert series Academy concerts by the Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim.
2022/23
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Illustration & design: Lucie de Brechard
Design: Stephie Becker
440 pages strong book showcasing 100 emerging chefs selected by 20 culinary masters.
A custom handwriting typeface was created for this book.
2021
client: Phaidon publishers
The tragedy of the 1963 earth quake which destroyed 80 % of Skopje in North Macedonia of former Yugoslavia led to a pouring of international acts of solidarity and help in replanning and rebuilding the city. But also the international art community started to donate art works after the catastrophe - a collection that would create the starting point of a new museum of contemporary art.
Poland initiated an architecture competition for a museum building in Skopje and in 1970 it was opened. I designed their 50 years anniversary logo, an M which is open and incomplete, which cannot be fixed, it is fragile but adaptable, it is shaken but it is form.
Client: Moca Skopje
Year: 2020
Seasonal posters 2021/22 for the classic concert series Academy concerts by the Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim.
2021/22
Art direction & design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Musikalische Akademie
“Waiting for the Live Scream” - Poster for Berlin theatre Berliner Ensemble, contributing to a charity campaign “solidarity posters” for independent theatre professionals who suffered most by the pandemic. All profits from the sales of prints of the posters go to a fund to support the affected freelancers.
2021
client: Berliner Ensemble
Design for artist Christoph Niemann’s book on a trip to the zoo during the a pandemic lockdown in Berlin, featuring drawings, photos and linocuts.
2021
Client: Christoph Niemann
This new release of Fukt magazine for Drawing, created during the COVID-19 pandemic looks at the art of narration in drawing.
You can expect a myriad of illuminating stories to unfold both through drawings and interviews. Contributions from established artists Chris Ware, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Brian Rea as well as emerging artists Maria Paz and Xiyu Tomorrow among many others make up this issue.
The storyline has been interrogated in a number of ways throughout the edition, taking the reader on a journey from the mythical, to the sequential and the storyboard. For editor Björn Hegardt, the thread that unites all of the featured artists is that “above all, they are people who create drawings with beautiful, surprising, funny or sad stories. Like always in our magazine, everything revolves around our beloved practice of drawing.”
Artists in #19:
Adéla Marie Jirků, Bjørn Bjarre, Brian Rea, Byun Young Geun, Chris Ware, Colin Matthes, Danielle Morgan, Davor Gromilović, Emma Talbot, Gareth Fuller, Jana Gunstheimer, Johannes Høie, Maria Medem, Maria Paz, Marie-Louise Ekman, Miodrag Manojlović, Océane Moussé, Ori Toor, Sakubei Yamamoto, Shuvinai Ashoona, Toyin Ojih Odutola, WOSHIBAI, Xiyu Tomorrow, Yuichi Yokoyama
2020
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Graphic identity, logo and website for the project space, gallery and artist collective Tenthaus in Oslo. Their new logo is embracing all kinds of possible content, sub-projects and activities by taking them into its center, in between tent and house. The website as well is framing everything thats going on at, with, from or by tenthaus.
www.tenthaus.no
Design and Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Website design: Sarah Discours
Website development: Magnus Liistamo
Catalogue design for Norwegian Greenlightdistrict’s art festival Skog (forest), an exhibition focussing on nature, art and human impact.
2021
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Client: Greenlightdistrict
Posters for 2020/21 season of the academy concerts of the orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim. As with all big audience cultural events in 2020 the orchestra as well was hit by the pandemic. Many concerts of season 19/20 were cancelled and for this new season the campaign’s start and the concerts aren’t exactly happening as it would have without covid-19. Nevertheless the campaign was designed and the concerts got their new look for the year of 2020 and 21, presented on their website as well.
musikalische-akademie.de
2020
Poster for upcoming documentary film Wer Wir Waren (Who We Were) by Marc Bauder on reflections on our current state of the world through conversations with six thinkers of diverse backgrounds: an astronaut, a buddhist monk, an oceanologist, a philosopher, a critical post humanist and an economist.
2020
bauderfilm
X Verleih
An English/Macedonian catalogue for Macedonian artists Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska for their exhibition at the Museum of contemporary art Skopje showing works of a series of 3 exhibtions in 3 places. The experimental typeface was created by Hristina Ivanoska referencing Oskar Hansens open form theory.
Clients: Hristina Ivanoska & Yane Calovski, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
2020
Muscle, Beefsteak… Beafsteak Run Amok
Artist publication for artist Mariken Kramer, including a custom cover typography.
published by Multipress Forlag
2020
Graphic identity for the artist run action group Radical Daughters, who are holding workshops on democracy, participation, educating on art and politics and human rights for freedom, equality and sisterhood. A community to strengthen democracy.
radikaletoechter.de
Redesign of the identity of the Montessori elementary school in Berlin Kreuzberg.
www.nuertingen-grundschule.de
Client: Nürtingen Grundschule Berlin Kreuzberg
2019
Design for a book by artist Christoph Niemann on the struggle of learning the piano.
As the drawings are obviously all by the artist, as well as the custom hand writing fonts - my position as designer in this type of job is one of the “editor-eye” or “art director” - contributing my view on the rhythm of images in the story telling, size, use of color, production details regarding materials and a little bit of typographic solutions here and there. I constantly learn a lot from our conversations on images, sequences and what they tell by the way we show them.
Christoph Niemann
2020
Catalogue for an exhibition of multi media artist Rachel Maclean at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel. A wide landscape format with a padded cover showcasing her cute and seductive yet disturbing art in uninterrupted widescreen stills of her video works. Referencing some elements of fairy tales this book gives the impression of a childrens book, but as you look closer its anything but that.
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2020
The paper is a book by artist Christoph Niemann: “A wordless book about the joy of reading magazines and newspapers”.
Christoph: “The world is facing countless pressing issues. I don’t know how to solve them, but I’m convinced that in order to find out, we need a press that can ask the relevant questions, without fear of threats, persecution and violence. We need to protect reporters who take risks to shine light into the darkest corners of the world and to bring us the truth about sensitive subjects involving our health, our safety and our geopolitical environment. RSF is fighting for this since 1985.” All the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Christoph Niemann
2019
Cookbook for renowned Slovenian chef Ana Ros, who runs Hisa Franko in Kobarid, Slovenia.
client: Phaidon
2019
A book for artist Inken Reinert, showing her beautiful series of installations and interventions constructed out of east german furniture. She picked these up from private households in post wall Berlin when people wanted to get rid of their GDR wall units.
Client: Inken Reinert
2020
Contribution to a collaboration project at the typography festival Typomania 2020 in Moscow. The poster is getting animated by other designers.
Year: 2020
Typomania
Poster as part of the graphic identity for the Yokohama Triennale 2020 AFTERGLOW at Yokohama Museum of Art. Curated by Raqs Media Collective.
Client: Yokohama Museum of Art
www.yokohamatriennale.jp
2019/2020
Academy Concerts by the Orchester of the National Theatre Mannheim Season 2019/12
Seasonal posters as part of the graphic identity for the classical concerts series Academy Concerts by the Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim, season 2019 / 20
Creative Direction +Design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Client: Musikalische Akademie des NTO Mannheim
2019
Issue No. 18 Systems is focussing on artistic methods, rules and critical views on systems in the field of drawing. The cover is interactive and includes 3 paper discs that break up the title.
The issue received the “cover of the year” award at the stack awards.
Buy it here
2019
Book of results for the 15th edition of the architecture competition Europan Norway - Productive Cities 2.
Europan Norway
Design direction: Ariane Spanier
Book Design: Sarah Discours
2020
Graphic profile for the 15th edition of the architecture competition Europan Norway, focussing on Productive Cities. The scope includes posters, site brief covers, animations and a results book in the end of 2019
Client: Europan Norway
Year: 2019
The book showcases more than 80 contemporary floral designers who are extending the boundaries of their art.
Year: 2019
Client: Phaidon
Poster as part of the graphic identity for the Drawing Triennale “Human Touch” by Tegnerforbundet in Oslo, curated by Helga-Marie Nordby.
Client: Tegnerforbundet
2019
Poster for an exhibition by Swedish artists Björn Hegardt and Theo Ågren at Kunsthall Ålesund, 2019
Poster made out of alphabet letter shaped bleached corals, found on a beach. the poster was part of an exhibition at the COP Climate Change Conference in Madrid, 2019. Exhibition organized by What Design Can Do and the UN Climate Change.
Poster for the exhibition on Picasso’s etching series “The Vollard Suite” at Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Year: 2019
Client: Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Book design on New York’s Lower Eastside restaurants Contra and Wildair by wunderkind chefs Fabián van Hauske and Jeremiah Stone for Phaidon publishers.
client: Phaidon
2018
A book for Swedish Artists Björn Hegardt & Theo Ågren about their artistic research on the subject of gravity and levitation.
How did the Tibetan monks levitate heavy boulders? What is barophobia and who was Qamar Ali? How did Ann Hodges' life turn out, the only human on earth hit by a meteorite?
This book is more than simply a guide or glossary, it responds to the colossal themes of levitation and free fall through an artistic lens. It contains scientific, artistic and mystical examples, reflections and fictional stories by different authors on the phenomena and history of gravity, weightlessness, levitation and their antithesis: the art of falling. It is a collage, a summary of the artists own experiments and investigations, that will take the reader on a journey that straddles the fictional and the real. The book contains stories in which for example humans, frogs and objects are capable of floating freely through space, be it through magic, cheap tricks, advanced technology or other, more imaginative methods.
Available here
Year: 2019
Clients: www.bjornandtheo.net
Design of an artist Book by Swedish artist Erik Bünger.
Based on a lecture performance that revolves around the role the animal plays in human language as a name for that speechlessness from which speech once took off. A creature that does not speak; a creature you cannot speak of.
Client: Erik Bünger
2018
published by: Galerie m29
Artist book on a story on how artist and illustrator Christoph Niemann met David Hockney in Los Angeles.
Client: Christoph Niemann
Get it here
2018
Animations for each concert for the season 2018/19 for the classical concert series Academy Concerts by the Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim.
Creative Direction: Ariane Spanier
Animation: Romain Fontaine
Client: Musikalische Akadmie des NTO Mannheim
2018
Fukt Magazine for contemporary drawing issue No. 17 The Words Issue - Written Drawings, 2018
Buy it here
Poster for the exhibition Strong Resonances about the architects Frank Gehry and Hans Scharoun and their building design for music, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Berlin Philharmonie in Berlin.
Client: Stiftung Brandenburger Tor Berlin
Art Direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
2018
Poster for the exhibition „Epilogue (Form Of An Argument) by Macedonian artists Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska at the Museum for Contemporary Art Skopje, November 2018
Poster contribution to Mirko Ilic’s travelling poster exhibition on social tolerance. Ivited designers are asked to design a poster using the word “tolerance” in their own language.
Year: 2018
Promotional cinema spot for the concert series of the orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim for the season 2018/19
Creative direction: Ariane Spanier
3D animation: Romain Fontaine
Video footage: m:con Rosengarten
Catalogue for the final degree show for Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO) the cover comes with a sanding paper feel.
Year: 2018
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Romain Fontaine
Stock Fiction - a meta story!
A story only using stock photo language. A typographic story through unintended poetry.
Published in the bookseries 100 for 10 by melvilledesign
Available for purchase here:
100for10.com/product/ariane-spanierstock-fiction/
Year: 2018
Anonymous Drawings is an exhibition series by Anke Becker where drawings are shown and sold anonymously. The buyer will just learn about the artist after purchasing the art.
Year: 2018
Poster for an exhibition at Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2018
the poster was selected for the Graphis Poster Annual 2019 and received an Gold Award
Your West Stole My East Away
poster for an exhibition at the typography festival Typomania in Moscow, 2018
typomania.ru
Year: 2018
Editor: Anette Hüsch
Art Direction & Design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
New identity for the classical concertseries "Akademiekonzerte" by the Orchestra, which exists since 1778 in Mannheim.
Each season plays 8 concerts, so every concert got a number, designed with parts of musical notes.
musikalische-akademie.de
Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheater Orchesters Mannheim
Year: 2016 -
Creative direction and design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Website coding: Leakystudio
Over 230 self- and rewritten sayings, truths, and mind boggling lines on the topic of "Borders", collected in a 236 pages book, A6, self published.
Year: 2017
Enamel pins for Fukt Sex issue #16 "Dirty Drawings"
if interested purchase here: fuktmagazine.com/shop
Fukt # 16 Dirty Drawings - The Sex Issue
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing, published annually and presenting a fine selection of international artists practices in the realm of drawing.
Year: 2016
Creative direction & design: Ariane Spanier
Christoph Niemann /
Abrams Books /
Knesebeck Verlag
Year: 2016
Poster series for the subscription campaign of the Orchestra of the National Theatre in Mannheim.
Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheater Orchesters Mannheim
Year: 2018
Creative direction and design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Poster for an exhibition about the Night - Everything But Sleep - in the Museum for Communication Berlin.
Year: 2017
Client: Museum for Communication, Berlin
Cover illustration for German Greenpeace Magazin for a special food issue on smarter eating.
Year: 2017
Client: greenpeacemagazin
Poster and corporate design for the worlds biggest annual sailing regatta and festival "Kieler Woche" in Kiel, Germany. each year the poster / main motif is chosen out of a selection of proposals through a juried competition. The inspiration here was a "Spinnaker", a large, round, and often colorful sail that is used to augment a boat's sail surface. Printed in fluorescent color.
Client: City of Kiel
Year: 2012
Cover and opener Illustration for Washington Post Magazine Dec 23rd, on "Lives Remembered". The cover story was telling 6 touching life stories of people who passed away in 2012 in the Washington area.
Client:
Washington Post Magazine
Year: 2012
3 publications for the 11th Shanghai Biennale "Why Not Ask Again". A guide book: Blueprint, an image book Mise-en-scéne and a book for a side project "51 personae" where visitors could book appointment for encounters with citizens of Shanghai.
Year: 2016 – 2017
Client: Powerstation of Art
Editing: Shveta Sarda
