Typical Organization

After having finally our hands on some copies here some images of “Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement” a publication we designed for @cityastheatre published with @dpr_barcelona edited by @public_culture_ with a beautiful body of investigations, critical reflections, and performance scores offering new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures. Our design, gently hijacking the French road-sign system, could be resumed with the catch phrase "No sign is Neutral". Contributions from Magda Maaoui, Daniel Mebarek, Jonathan Steiger, Myrto Delimichali, Studio Inscape, Rubble, Ewa Effiom, Margarida Waco, Mai Linh Guinet-Brigitte, gel office, Neo-futuristic Walks, Dimitri Szuter, Melissa Harrison, John Bingham-Hall / Published jointly by Theatrum Mundi and dpr-barcelona as part of the LINA European Architecture Programme, co-financed by the European Union.

Two colors, one symbol set and the dream of a bright new world that never came. Arrows, hands, stars, telephones, airplanes, basic shapes. Promises in abandoned empty spaces. Zapf Dingbats was designed in 1978 by Hermann Zapf. These symbols were meant to assist communication, to simplify the world into legible signs. On this cover, they become something else: artefacts of a future that was once imagined as clean, modular, frictionless. Instead of these, we inherited noise. Dingbats stand as fossils of this broken contract. Yellow Red is the Synth-Pop side project of Stefanos Manousis, founding member of the Shoegaze - Dream Pop band Sugar for The Pill. Inspired by the love and passion for the 80’s Synth-Pop and New Wave scene, Yellow Red creates a sound that blends analog nostalgia with a fresh and modern digital tone, infused with catchy melodies and reflective lyrics that explore the ups and downs of modern life, delving into themes of love, human connection, and self-discovery. The debut album, titled “My Little Words”, is an autobiographical attempt that emphasizes to life’s unpredictable journey, and the emotions tied to it. It serves as a contemplative meditation on the inevitability of challenges and the resilience required to navigate through them. Stefanos Manousis @sifoman – vocals, synths, programming, guitar, arrangements. Alex Bolpasis– guitar Music & Lyrics by Stefanos Manousis. Produced by Alex Bolpasis & Stefanos Manousis. Recorded by Alex Bolpasis and Stefanos Manousis. Mixed by Alex Bolpasis Mastered by Iraklis Vlachakis Album cover & art direction by Typical Organization for Standards & Order. I would like to thank my sister Irene, my mother, my bandmates on Sugar For The Pill (Vana Rose, Spiros M, Elias K & Kostas A), Elias Michael, Nikos Maroupas. Special Thanks to Alex Bolpasis, Kostas Vlachakis, Iraklis Vlachakis, Make Me Happy Records, Christiana Fine. (C) @yellowred_band (P) @makemehappyrecords

stumbling on this exhibition guide we designed last year for ‘Crafts of the sea’ by @archipelago_net installed at the offices @goetheinstitut_athen we like how the leftovers of an organizational procedure (the black blocs we used as guides) suddenly appeared to be a visual motive that evoked concerns of the exhibition. (where tools of boatbuilders or fisherman such as pieces of wood become reading signs into the messy world of craft)

Joy to see some applications in use by @om60_architecture using a stencil tool system we designed some time ago. The Architecture studio takes its name from Omirou street 60, the location of the office. We typically had to think of Homer and his role in trasitioning a mixture of oral cultures towards new standardised forms. Homeric Greek, was a unique literary dialect of Ancient Greek, primarily an archaic form of Ionic Greek mixed with elements from other dialects, especially Aeolic Greek, and influenced by Attic Greek, forming a specialized poetic language for epic hexameter verse, not a spoken vernacular. With our intervention we thought of inverting this process of unification designing a set six different stencil typefaces that could be used to create again a series of multiform applications.

STRATA—Unruly Ethnographies of Troubled Worlds, is a collective work that rethinks how we narrate, live, and experience ethnography. Created by anthropologist-artists, the book combines images, texts, and sounds via the linked website to allow one to see and feel six research projects conducted in France, Portugal, Romania, and Congo. It explores the relationships between humans and non-humans, colonial memory, climate, time, and the sensory experience of the world. Our design starts with a phenomenological organization of the given mostly visual materials and then collapses in subjective sensorial fluidity. The cover of the book is using the Sierpiński carpet, a flat square fractal created through an infinite process of subdivision and perforation, to hind to the porousness of media and that the surfaces we are looking at are in theory zero, voicing typical Deleuzoguattrian notions as ‘territorialization’ and ‘deterritorialization’. In the website that we designed in parallel to the publication the user performs this passage from grid order to randomness in a click. Supported by the A*MIDEX ANFAA Chair of Excellence (Alternative Narrative Forms in Audiovisual Anthropology) at Aix-Marseille University / IDEAS. texts and images Aurélie Darbouret Camilo Leon Quijano Petna Ndaliko Katondolo Daniela Rodrigues Jeff Silva Laurent Van Lancker editing Céline Pévrier graphic design Typical Organization published by sun/sun photogravure Fausto Urru translation Mathias Lefèvre @sunsun_editions @laurentvanlancker4 @danielafiliperodrigues @kinojeff @aureliedarbouret @camilo_lq web development @bracket_webstudio

Typically emotional to see EVERYNIGHT in the epic normally closed Alphaville cinema for witch we designed graphic paraphernalia. The exhibition that draws subtile lines between moving-image works and Athenian cinema culture projects bright points into our opaque present. Our design is proposing a parallel between looking to flickering film grains or pixels and the astrological gaze both systems of interpretation to understand something of our present future and past. Curated by @panos_f produced by @3_137_artist_run_space Moving-image works by: Shaheen Ahmed, Eleni Bagaki, Shadi Habib Allah, Sky Hopinka, Katerina Komianou, Simon Lässig, Manolis D. Lemos, Bahar Noorizadeh, Valentin Noujaïm, Louiza Ntourou, Lydia Ourahmane, Leslie Thornton, Eleni Tomadaki Installation: Chrysanthi Koumianaki Live music: Viki Steiri Readings : Yorgis Chronas, Georgia Diakou, Panagiotis Evangelidis Dimitra Ioannou, Manolis D. Lemos, Jack McConville, Rallou Panagiotou, E Scourti Visual Identity: Typical Organisation image nr.9 by Panos Fourtoulakis image nr.11 by Tristan Bera

BOOKS NOT BOMBS 10 ans sun/sun - trois mots face à un monde en ébullition sun/sun x @typicalorganization x @atelierbriselames.fr https://sunsun.fr/editions/books-not-bombs-bag/ > envois jusqu'au 17 décembre au matin #booksnotbombs #totebag #othersnarratives

Poster design and typography for “Luminous Strays” and exhibition by @efispyrou “Luminous Strays is an immersive installation composed of seven woven panels suspended at various heights within a dim, ecclesiastical space. Made of black fabric and high-reflective tape, the works remain nearly invisible until activated by light—through a flash, a camera lens, or a moving beam. When illuminated, hybrid creatures, emblems, and forms emerge as fleeting presences that hover between recognition and disappearance. The work explores notions of visibility and concealment, identity and estrangement, the embodied and the ephemeral. Drawing inspiration from the archaeological and folkloric landscape of Agrigento—where different cultures and myths have intertwined over centuries—Luminous Strays reflects on multiplicity and transformation beyond fixed definitions of self and other. As viewers move through the space, light and darkness coexist and exchange roles. Meaning unfolds through motion and attention, turning perception into an act of discovery. The installation becomes a living field of metamorphosis, where illumination is not contrast but recognition—a quiet dialogue between presence and absence, human and non-human, night and day. “ — Excerpt from the curatorial text by Danae Parlamas Pertejo.

Book presentation and discussion with Joshua Olsthoorn, Kostas Vlachakis (Typical Organization for Standards & Order) and John Bingham-Hall (Theatrum Mundi) with a screening by Myrto Delimichali Friday 5 December @ometeoritis 19.00 – 20.30 FREE Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass the embodied experiences of those that live them every day. In response, the publication 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 assembles on-site investigations, critical reflections, and performance scores developed through a residency programme offering new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures. As part of an international series of conversations around the book, Theatrum Mundi invites the graphic designers @typicalorganization to share their 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧. They will discuss their design methodology, that repurposes the visual apparatuses of power structures, and how it informed an identity for the Staging Ground project based on the road signs of the French motorway system. Our current systems, as they remind us, are temporary embodiments of values that could and should be revoked or altered. This observation also drives the investigations of Athens-based artist @post_raw____ , whose project 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬, created through the Staging Ground residency in Paris, is a feminist choreographic research that re-appropriates elements of urban landscapes to find opportunities for rest. Through a dialogue between her two films and the design research of Typical Organization, chaired by @public_culture_ we will explore scores and strategies for rethinking and re-inhabiting infrastructure from a human scale. Published by @dpr_barcelona & @cityastheatre as part of the @lina.community European Architecture Programme.

An updated website for @sunsun_editions organizing editions in a grid for the best or for the worst, typically to be useful. “The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.” —Wim Crouwel

Glotta is a new annual magazine. Each issue will weave together three themes and disparate voices from the present and past. It’s a hybrid publication for a many-headed audience. We take the ancient paradoxographers as inspiration, their attention to miracles and marvels, the abnormal and inexplicable. We have no manifesto. Only a sense that the subterranean rivers of history flow closer to the surface than might initially appear. And that if you listen attentively, you can still hear the babble of their currents’ many tongues. Pages: 100 Material: softcover ISBN: 9786188779006 Categories: greece Dimensions: 14.7 × 21 cm Publisher: Dimi Vourakis Editor: Nandi Kudan Designer: Typical Typeface: Windsor Pro Printed by @thefutureformat on Munken Print Cream 115gsm by @perrakispapers ISBN 978-618-87790-0-6

A matchbox design for sun/sun. What could be more typical for a matchbox of a publishing house than to reference the 1953 novel inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany transposed in a future American society? @sunsun_editions #Fahrenheit451 #RayBradbury #FrançoisTruffaut