Nelli Serzanowa, 2023
Website and logotype for visual artist Nelli Serzanowa.
A Bear Trap in No Man's Land, 2022
Publication and installation which intertwine two archives of the twentieth century: photographic records and excerpts from literature. The book is read vertically, moving through it as through the drawer of an archive. With facts eschewed to an index in the back, the literary and visual representations affect the reader as they are, before revealing the histories that contain them. Diploma project.
THE BALCONY, 2021
Development of an identity system for The Balcony. The flexible system follows the dynamic of an irregularly descending cascade which is crossed by permanent elements. In collaboration with Pavlo Radich.
Apocalypse Me, 2021
This redesign of the original book written by Jan Zalesak features an additionally curated exhibition to extend the contemporary relevance of the topic. While the original artworks of the exhibition are archived between the text, the newly curated “exhibition” is shown in colour and separated by thin sheets of paper.
The Russian Experiment in Art, 2020
The redesign of this pioneering work by Camilla Gray features the addition of an indexing system which lists the artists chronologically below the page as well as in conjunction to the chapter title. This system reveals the many cross-cultural and international origins of the participating artists across the Soviet Union, who in contemporary culture are wrongly grouped under the singular umbrella term of Russian artists.
Stoma, 2021
Publication for the exhibition by Amy Opstal, Stoma is a photographic documentary about her mother's dysfunctional body. By framing it as intimate and natural, the documentary seeks to clear the negative. connotations to the condition. Blind embossed cover and copper ink.
The Poetry of Protest, 2018
Where protests are part of a systematic, nonviolent campaign to achieve a particular objective, involving the use of pressure and persuasion, they go beyond mere protest as a definition and may better be described as cases of civil resistance – or situations of absolute chaos. The Poetry of Protest takes a look at the character of protest, decomposing its underlying destructive nature through a poem in three verses: the chants, the chaos and the aftermath.
New Order: Modernism 1917–2017, 2017
An enquiry into the origin, development, descent and revival of Modernism within the field of Graphic Design. It follows the history and development of Modernism, Postmodernism and Neomodernism, striking parallels between their graphic languages. Blind embossing on cardboard, open back binding. Diploma project.
Updated March 2023
© Julia Waraksa
Nelli Serzanowa, 2023
Website and logotype for visual artist Nelli Serzanowa.
A Bear Trap in No Man's Land, 2022
Publication and installation which intertwine two archives of the twentieth century: photographic records and excerpts from literature. The book is read vertically, moving through it as through the drawer of an archive. With facts eschewed to an index in the back, the literary and visual representations affect the reader as they are, before revealing the histories that contain them. Diploma project.
THE BALCONY, 2021
Development of an identity system for The Balcony. The flexible system follows the dynamic of an irregularly descending cascade which is crossed by permanent elements. In collaboration with Pavlo Radich.
Apocalypse Me, 2021
This redesign of the original book written by Jan Zalesak features an additionally curated exhibition to extend the contemporary relevance of the topic. While the original artworks of the exhibition are archived between the text, the newly curated “exhibition” is shown in colour and separated by thin sheets of paper.
The Russian Experiment in Art, 2020
The redesign of this pioneering work by Camilla Gray features the addition of an indexing system which lists the artists chronologically below the page as well as in conjunction to the chapter title. This system reveals the many cross-cultural and international origins of the participating artists across the Soviet Union, who in contemporary culture are wrongly grouped under the singular umbrella term of Russian artists.
Stoma, 2021
Publication for the exhibition by Amy Opstal, Stoma is a photographic documentary about her mother's dysfunctional body. By framing it as intimate and natural, the documentary seeks to clear the negative. connotations to the condition. Blind embossed cover and copper ink.
The Poetry of Protest, 2018
Where protests are part of a systematic, nonviolent campaign to achieve a particular objective, involving the use of pressure and persuasion, they go beyond mere protest as a definition and may better be described as cases of civil resistance – or situations of absolute chaos. The Poetry of Protest takes a look at the character of protest, decomposing its underlying destructive nature through a poem in three verses: the chants, the chaos and the aftermath.
New Order: Modernism 1917–2017, 2017
An enquiry into the origin, development, descent and revival of Modernism within the field of Graphic Design. It follows the history and development of Modernism, Postmodernism and Neomodernism, striking parallels between their graphic languages. Blind embossing on cardboard, open back binding. Diploma project.
Updated March 2023
© Julia Waraksa