Graphic, Concept, Intervention
2025
Supervision: Prof. Gerald Christ, Cecilie Behr
Parasitic Design – A Design Tactic for New Perspectives
BA Thesis
In my bachelor thesis I took an in-depth look at what defines the parasitic figure and its tactics, and how this can be translated into a (critical and speculative) design practice.
Parasitic design uses the tactics of parasites as a model for a critical and subversive design practice. A parasitic tactic offers tools for intervening in existing systems from within, questioning structures, and opening up new perspectives. Parasitic Design thus becomes a means for change, criticism, and transformation.
During the process I created a glossary containing terms that describe the parasitic figure and parasitic practice. The terms are visually supported by scans from the environment, made with a mobile scanner. They are visual traces and remnants of the environment. (Risography Print, 20x Prints) The glossary itself functions as a parasite by infiltrating books through its binding (Elastic Band and Draw). I also carried out an intervention in the urban space: the temporary meeting place (Temporärer Treffpunkt). A roundabout in Dessau temporarily became a social space for gathering friends and the people of Dessau. Viewers are confronted with an idea of what an alternative use of selected locations could look like.
Film, Graphic, Exhibition Concept
2025
Supervision: Cecilie Behr, Christian Kirchner
An Interpretation of Blue
An Interpretation of Blue is an experimental approach to display the poetic dimension of the color blue. The color portays closeness and distance. This contrast evokes feelings of peace but also uneasiness. It reveals that we are limeted beings which is both terrifying and freeing at the same time. Through an installation I wanted to enhance and portray this ambivalent feeling. The instalation consists of curtains and mirrors and a film, in both close-up and distant. These two scenes are projected onto the curtain fabric and a small white cube. In addition the lyrical interpretation of this project is part of the installation. Furthermore I designed two posters that were hanged up in the building to communicate where and when the installation could be seen during the Dessau Design Show 2025, one hanging infront of the room, the other hanging at the entrance of the building leading the people there.
Ceramic, Porcelain
2025
Supervision: Maria Volokhova
Kehricht
Kehricht is a translation of scrap into what was once called „white gold“, porcelain. I was interested and inspired by the contrast in material value and the intuitive form-finding process at the scrapyard. This resulted in a server set made of oil and balsamic vinegar vessels. These were exhibited at the Dessau Design Show 2025 on a table served with oil, balsamic vinegar, bread and grapes to invite people to try out the server set.
Film, Graphic, Typography
2024
Supervision: Radim Pesko
Collaboration: Štěpánka Petrželová
Interplay
The Collegio del Colle in Urbino, PU was the foundation of this project. When we visited we got a feeling for this contrast of organic and geometric. There is the contrast of the static nature, material of architecture and the movement, organic material of the human body and natural surrounding. The inbetween, the interaction, the interplay of these two evoked our interest and evolved into two typography experiments, a short artistic film and a poster. The typography experiments and the short film emerged out of the interplay between the architecture and organic nature of the sun and movement of our body. The constructed typeface was inspired by forms, lines found in the architecture itself. The organic typeface resulted out of the interplay between the sun, ourselfs and architecture: spots of light created by architecture and interrrupted by the human body creating shadows.
Graphic, Concept, Typography
2024
Supervision: Tony Brook
Collaboration: Elisabetta Silveri
Stripped
Stripped is a pilot magazine to showcase fashion and specifically fashion designers work. The intention of this pilot magazine is to portray the designers work as what it is: art. It can therefor inspire and inform people interested in this topic. It also sheds light on and emphasize their work as a work of art including concept, representation of time. The design for this magazine resultes out of an interest in the receipt and archive style because these are key elements of the fashion world itself. The font emerged from collected receipts and was put together to form a simple font (with elements like the code to scan, numbers) to be used as display typeface. The archive style was used in form of the binding of the magazine. The layout is rough yet classy.
Graphic, Concept
2024
Supervision: Stuart Bertolotti Bailey
Collaboration: Štěpánka Petrželová
Intangibility of Time
A timeline displaying the passing of time in an abstract form. Using the object of an orange and the peeling of it. Demonstrating different aspects of time being abstract and intangible. This timeline is depicted in the format of a book to underline the passing of time through flipping the pages
and moving forward while "changing" the object, the book.
Film, Graphic, Exhibition Concept
2025
Collaboration: Joris Graba, Moritz Michael, Charlotte Gwendoline Quandt, Lucy Dökel, Jonas Bader
What does the poster do?The poster communicates. Information as well as design are always in relation to another. They underline, comment or contradict each other. Both need to be well done and well learned. In this project we worked 15 weeks to come closer to the function and understanding of posters. By a lot of designing, workshops, challenges and group discussions we designed over 300 posters together that helped us come closer to answers, reduce fear of begining and better our skills in the adobe suit. It helped me reflect on my work critically and learn. In the end we exhibited a selection of 50 posters at the Bauhaus Mensa with a flyer containing a desription of our work approach and the posters names, aswell as an exhibition poster on the back. We also printed approximately 50 catalouges containing all posters, explaination for our work approach and personal learnings.