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CATALOGUE EXPOSITION
This catalogue designed in newspaper style, was created for the artist Ernesto Salmeron who won the central american Biannual Art Exhibition in 2006. The print product was also integrated into the performance of the artist in Venice Biannual Art Exhibiton 2007.

CULTURE AND GASTRONOMY
For the Verein “Kultur und Gastronomie” was to create a brand, that communicates the interests of the many gastronomic and cultural Betriebe of the city of Basel.

The brand shows the connection between night, culture and gastronomy, and in a more abstract manner contents like social exchange, liberty of space and joy of life.
The black background stands for night, and the glass symbolises gastronomy in general. The star stands for quality in gastronomy, for light that’s still on at nighttimes and is a system for orientation.

CD REGELINDIS WESTPHAL
For the design bureau Regelindis Whestphal was to create a corporate design. The layout shows an open book with blank pages, which symbolises that the bureau is specialised in designing books. For the design only two colours are used. The mix of both of them creates the different shades of yellow, blue and green.

NEMAGON
In Nicaragua, thousands of ex banana-plantation-workers are suffering from the consequences of the pesticide NEMAGON. Since years, they are fighting to survive and to get compensation either from the companies, which produced the pesticide or from the owner of the plantations. The time consuming process of compensation purposely slowed down by transnational companies runs against the victims; thus their future turns darker every day.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2006
In November of 2006, the population elected their new president.
This postcard is to remind people the importance to start a reflection
and express their thoughts and doubts about the candidates.

FREE TRADE – FAIR TRADE?
Workers (mano de obra – “hand of work”) are very cheep personnel in Nicaragua.
At the same time, the Republic of Nicaragua offers free trade zones to attract foreign companies. Although these industries create plenty of job opportunities to the local population, labor conditions are poor and salaries can’t cover basic needs.
Furthermore high productivity pressure and repetitive work processes cause a high number of burn out syndroms and work related illness to workers.
An example of free trade ignoring fair trade.

MODERN MARIE
In Nicaragua, gender issue is easily mentioned but hardly applied in everyday life. Women are still oppressed. Through the prism of the nicaraguan male society the ideal woman has to be as pure as the Virgin Marie but also mother. Nevertheless, these contradictory facts are simply impossible and no woman can comply with this concept.
With this postcard, I want to underline that “modern maries” too have the right to freely live their sexuality.