Happy Spring 🌱
5 years ago I decided to celebrate the equinoxe by delivering flowers to the important people in my life.
It started small and quickly grew into a yearly project where I sent wishes through graphic trinkets to my friends all over the world.
This year, instead of invading your letterboxes, I share with you this microscope inspired parrot tulip.
Thank you for an incredibly joyful year. Let’s hope for less horrors, a time filled with adventures and community strengthening alongside crazy projects.
I love you, let’s hang soon 🌷
Absolutely loved working on the Blitz exhibition animations for the @designmuseum . It felt weirdly cyclical as the museum opened when I was a student at LCC, and I shared my first visit with @carlosromomelgar who co-designed the exhibition with @johnphilipsage .
How amazing to be able to work for the museum now.
Archiving one of this year’s thrilling project. Graphics and VFX for Salt Bath directed by @chemicalbromance_ and @ccalena , a moyen-métrage for their Double Vie exhibition at the CAPC de Bordeaux. T’was so much fun ♥️
Rejects of yesteryear
Here lies cancelled projects, refused proposals, unwanted designs but also learning spaces, invisible revolts, and unending collaborations
Some months ago we started Dispatches, an occasional publication gathering details and material traces from works we develop at spreeeng. The first dispatch contained as well a welcome note about our practice, speaking about the inner politics of spreeeng and current members.
Dispatch 1 – hello from spreeeng
Detail extracted from visual protocols developed for the Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre. It shows a reproduction of the horse carving present in Bidston Hill. This image belongs to a kit of visual elements arising from a site-specific observational methodology developed at the Bidston Observatory. The methodology established visual translation techniques to incorporate coexisting histories and voices from the site and its users.
The text of the print (I’m here for the building, the building is here for you) is an extract from a conversation with BOARC directors, transpiring the values of the organisation. BOARC is is a self-organising study site for research, communality and experimentation.
The horse is one of the several carvings of Bidston Hill that are believed to date back to 1000 CE.
Screenprinted on Olin paper by @dotstudio
Images 2-4 by Dot Studio
I had the chance to participate to Le détail qui tue, a publication about cinema and design earlier this year. Here’s a snippet of the visual essay and article I wrote about typography, titles, films and adaptations. 🌌
Our new website is up!
We have been working as spreeeng since late 2018, with current members: @carlosromomelgar@hls.da@johnphilipsage and @roxyamina
spreeeng is a cooperative design practice providing graphic design and creative research to clients in the cultural sector. It is key for us to disseminate the knowledge that emerges from practising as designers from within the work that we make. We are also part of different design education programmes and take part of informal educational initiatives.
Our approach emphasises cooperation, seeking partnerships, and maintaining a horizontal structure when collaborating with other independent design practices. Furthermore, a significant part of our mission involves engaging with communities in various ways, be it through projects, collectives, or community outreach programmes.
Check us out <3
Website built by @soup.work
eee glyphs by our collaborators @venidadevenida@rosa_que_nao_pica@v____rm@simon.aw and us :)
