UND WEIN (2023)

Visual identity, naming, label design, copywriting and mobile newsletter for a modern German winery launching a small family of two differently aged red wines. 

The act of wine drinking is a very social endeavour that enhances communal experience and contributes to a strong emotional bond between people. I consider a bottle of wine to be an important part of this togetherness, an intangible immaterial “heritage” that people continually pass to one another as they share their stories and experiences during a meal.

From this thought, the idea emerged to create patterns based on the hand and fingerprint impressions of real people I invited to a home-cooked dinner. These impressions symbolise the "traces" that people leave on the wine bottle and the emotional "heritage" that is literally passed from hand to hand at the table. In another interpretation, the hand and fingerprint impressions serve as a metaphor for the product being passed from the producer to the consumer.

A set of visuals was chosen from the numerous handprints created together: thick and intensive strokes for the mature and older wine, while lighter and thinner strokes for the younger one. The name und wein was inspired by everyday communication in a restaurant or a café. It sounds like a logical conclusion to an order and suggests that the wine is a part of the whole experience, not standing alone. The handwritten style of the word mark gives it a human and inviting appearance.

Calligraphy: Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky 

PINA BAUSCH — SELECTED WORKS (2023)

This publication brings together a selection of Pina Bausch’s works spanning eleven years, starting in 1975. It comprises a collection of analytical essays and stage photographs that illuminate her philosophy, dance aesthetics, and her comprehensive body of work.

RAQUEL GOMEZ DELGADO (2023)

Portfolio website and business card for Raquel Gómez Delgado, a Berlin-based photographer and documentary videographer.

VOLCANO DAY (2022)

Kamchatka has long been a land of legends. Indigenous people often organized festivities to worship nature and forge spiritual connection with it, singing songs and presenting her with gifts. Volcanoes, the proudest residents of the Kamchatka region, did not go unnoticed.

Volcano Day is the most recent annual educational festival in Kamchatka (Russland), held as part of the Kamchatka Region's tourism days. The primary location for the festival is the Nalychevskaya Valley. This celebration takes place in summer, but in recent years it has expanded both in duration and geographical reach. The festival program includes climbing to the Avacha and Kozelskiy volcanoes, sports and motorbike competitions, film screenings, educational lectures about the flora and fauna of the volcano region, and local dance performances.

ARE WE THERE YET (2022)

In my Bachelor project Are We There Yet, I explored and conceptually analyzed the notion of virtual travel as an image-based experience. I embarked on an extensive digital journey that challenged both my emotional and physical boundaries, sometimes in metaphorical and other times in literal ways. I committed myself to a pilgrimage, driven by the feeling of novelty and desire to examine the truthfulness of virtual travel, as well as to test my emotional resilience and endurance.

By subjecting myself exclusively to digital itineraries and images provided by Google Street View, I aimed to evaluate whether this "going-far-away-but-staying-home" journey could be truly authentic, enjoyable, meaningful, or capable of leaving a lasting impression and a memorable story to share with others. Therefore, I placed a significant emphasis on visually documenting my steps and efforts, to underscore the authenticity and credibility of my journey.

The resulting photo book presents the outcomes of this exploration and serves as a personal photographic travel diary. It contains numerous screenshots taken throughout the journey. Completely and intentionally devoid of any text, it presents the journey through dense visual material consisting of black and white photographs at times overlaid with scribbles, other images, or collage cut-outs – a mix of both analog and digital techniques.

By giving space to my curiosity and replacing Google Street View’s robotic gaze with the reflective, imaginative, and selective perspective of the flâneur, I gradually built my own narrative, shaped my understanding and found my own meaning in these externally and impartially recorded virtual locations. By replacing mechanical objectivity with the aesthetic gaze of a human, I re-infused these navigable virtual spaces with enchantment, transforming them into subjective realms open to reflection and interpretation. This approach brought personal commentary ans a touch of poetry to the journey.

"Mementos" unveil the essence virtual flânerie and my quest for authenticity. They embody my interpretation of each location, stemming from self-reflection and emotional response to what appeared on the screen. Each spread is individually designed to emphasize the distinctiveness of each moment.

SCHAUSPIEL FRANKFURT (2021)

Book accompanying the season theatre program 2021/22 for Schauspiel Frankfurt that I worked on during my internship at Double Standards, Berlin. The book was intended as a playbook and focused on the act of distancing and desire for closeness. The project was done in collaboration with the Dutch photographer Melissa Schriek who photographed and filmed the actors in movement. Later on, the augmented reality feature was added to the photographs, so the performances of the actors could be viewed in motion. 

BEETHOVENCHOR LUDWIGSHAFEN (2021)

Logo proposal for the Beethovenchor Ludwigshafen, created during the internship at Double Standards. 

TURRITOPSIS NUTRICULA — A LIFE LIVED BEFORE (2020)

This 12-page gatefold publication provides fundamental information about Turritopsis nutricula, a species of small jellyfish with remarkable biological immortality. Thanks to its unique reproductive cycle and cell transformation process, it can reverse its life cycle, effectively avoiding death and extending its lifespan indefinitely. The ability to achieve biological immortality positions Turritopsis nutricula as a significant subject in the research of human aging.

LOOK AT THE PEAKS
PART I: NEGOIU_RO (2020)

A double-sided poster accompanying the field trip sound archive recorded in the mountains of Romania.

BERLIN SUMMER UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS (2019)

Opera concert program for the Intensive Opera Audition Training course with Prof. Cheryl Studer and Prof. Gerd Uecker, held as part of the Berlin Summer University of the Arts 2019.

PAPIER (2020)

Poster for the paper sculpture and carvings exhibition at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam.