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Ariane Spanier Design

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A Guide To Gravitys End

A book for Swedish Artists Björn Hegardt & Theo Ågren about their artistic research on the subject of levitation.
With text contributions by Aaron Schuster, Ann-Charlotte Gasberg Blomqvist and Helena Scragg

Year: 2017
Clients: www.bjornandtheo.net

Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim

New identity for the classical concertseries "Akademiekonzerte" by the Orchestra, which exists since 1778 in Mannheim.
Each season plays 8 concerts, so every concert got a number, designed with parts of musical notes.
musikalische-akademie.de

Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheater Orchesters Mannheim

Year: 2016 -

Creative direction and design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Website coding: Leakystudio

Borders

Over 230 self- and rewritten sayings, truths, and mind boggling lines  on the topic of "Borders", collected in a 236 pages book, A6, self published. 

Year: 2017

Pins for Fukt Magazine

Enamel pins for Fukt Sex issue #16 "Dirty Drawings"
if interested purchase here: fuktmagazine.com/shop

Fukt 16

Fukt # 16 Dirty Drawings - The Sex Issue
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing, published annually and presenting a fine selection of international artists practices in the realm of drawing.

fukt magazine

Year: 2016

Creative direction & design: Ariane Spanier

Greenpeace Smarter Eating

Cover illustration for German Greenpeace Magazin for a special food issue on smarter eating.
Year: 2017
Client: greenpeacemagazin

Christoph Niemann Sunday Sketches

A book about illustrator genius Christoph Niemann's agony living through the creative process and how to be able to survive, continue and maybe get happy on a lucky day.

Christoph Niemann / 
Abrams Books / 
Knesebeck Verlag

Year: 2016

Die Nacht / Museum for Communication Berlin

Poster for an exhibition about the Night - Everything But Sleep - in the Museum for Communication Berlin.
Year: 2017
Client: Museum for Communication, Berlin

Kieler Woche 2012

Poster and corporate design for the worlds biggest annual sailing regatta and festival "Kieler Woche" in Kiel, Germany. each year the poster / main motif is chosen out of a selection of proposals through a juried competition. The inspiration here was a "Spinnaker", a large, round, and often colorful sail that is used to augment a boat's sail surface. Printed in fluorescent color.

Client: City of Kiel

Year: 2012

Washington Post Magazine

Cover and opener Illustration for Washington Post Magazine Dec 23rd, on "Lives Remembered". The cover story was telling 6 touching life stories of people who passed away in 2012 in the Washington area.

Client: 
Washington Post Magazine

Year: 2012

11th Shanghai Biennale publications

3 publications for the 11th Shanghai Biennale "Why Not Ask Again". A guide book: Blueprint, an image book Mise-en-scéne and a book for a side project "51 personae" where visitors could book appointment for encounters with citizens of Shanghai.
Year: 2016 – 2017
Client: Powerstation of Art
Editing: Shveta Sarda

11th Shanghai Biennale

Design of the visual identity for the 11th Shanghai Biennale, titled "Why Not Ask Again. Arguments, Counterarguments and Stories" curated by raqs media collective, held at the Powerstation of Art and various places in Shanghai.

www.shanghaibiennale.org

Powerstation of Art

Year: 2016

Creative Direction and Design: Ariane Spanier
Animations: Ariane Spanier, Áine Gibbons
Design: Stephie Becker, Áine Gibbons
Design Assistance publications: Zhang Qi

Kloden - A theatre for the young, Oslo

A publication for a planned theatre for kids and young people in Oslo, Norway. "Kloden" means "world".
www.kloden.no

Year: 2017
Client: Scenekunstbruket

Time

Illu on questioning everything for the US edition of TIME Magazine.

Time Magazine
Year: 2015
Creative Director: DW. Pine

Momentum The Reader

The reader is one of 2 publications for the Nordic Biennale of contemporary Art Momentum 8 Tunnel Vision. A bottle with a scent of Tunnel Vision created by artist Sissel Tolaas was inserted into the books spine.
Year: 2015
published by Mousse publishing
Client: Momentum / Punkt ø

Fukt 14

Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing, published annually and presenting a fine selection of international artists practices in the realm of drawing.
For this issue there are 4 ball chains attached that alter the shapes of the letters of the magazines name with each movement. Additionally there was a custom typeface designed for the interior of the mag.

Fukt Magazine

Year: 2015

Tegnerforbundet / Drawing association Oslo

Visual identity for the drawing artists organization Tegnerforbundet including a custom typeface "Eyvin", based on children book covers designed by one of its founders, Eyvin Ovum, in 1938.

Tegnerforbundet

Year: 2013–15

Creative Direction: Ariane Spanier
Type design: Ariane Spanier, Mette Overgaard Madsen, technical support: Viktor Nübel
Design: Ariane Spanier, Stephie Becker
Animation: Lisa Graignic

Europan Norway 14 Productive Cities

Stop Animation for a call for entries for the architecture competition Europan Norway on the theme of Productive Cities, bringing small scale manufactures and handcrafts and production back into the city.

Europan Norway

Year: 2017

Set up assistance: Aine Gibbons

Sounds like the North

Identity for a soundmap project "Lyder Som Nordland" by Norwegian artists Siri Austeen / Elin Már Øyen Vister, mapping natural and human made sounds in the Norwegian Nordland area. Logo, print and interactive online sound map.
The color gradient scheme all inspired by the sunsets and dawns from the land of midsummer sun.

www.lydersomnordland.no

Year: 2015
Client: Siri Austeen / Elin Már Øyen Vister
Art Direction & Design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Maria Nogueira
Code: Christoph Knoth

Towards Gravity's End

Poster for an art exhibition by swedish artist duo Hegardt & Ågren in Oslo

Hegardt & Ågren

Year: 2015

Michael Johansson

Publication showing photographs of installations by Swedish artist Michael Johansson. The always appear with the second half of the image in black and white, when taking them apart, they are all single posters, with a black and white backside. 31 x 47 cm.

Michael Johansson

Year: 2014

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NETZ - Vom Spinnen in der Kunst / NETS - Weaving Webs in Art

The exhibition focuses on notions about nets and webs, mounting work not only exploring those naturally woven nets, such as spiders’ webs, but also the terms and entities we associate with webs and nets, such as data in diagram structures or using the flexible data we find in the Internet.

The book comprises an introductory essay as well as comments on the artworks and an associative glossary around the term net with 49 contributions by different authors.
Within these texts, the titles are all linked with each other through a coordinating system of dots and lines that spans around the book. It is printed in 2 languages, each turned 180 to each other, being a book with 2 covers.

Kunsthalle zu Kiel
published by KERBER VERLAG

Year: 2014

Editor: Anette Hüsch
Art Direction & Design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker, Maria Nogueira

Lightness of Matter

Poster for an art exhibition of Swedish artist duo Hegardt & Ågren

Hegardt & Ågren

Year: 2016

Room for Possibilities

A publication on art and artists spaces in the city.

Client: Transborder Studio
Year: 2017

Shanghaitype

Animation for a large LCD Screen at the waterfront in Shanghai, the bund.

year: 2013
client: Shanghaitype.net
Animation: Marie Sepstrup

Difficulty of Freedom / Freedom of Difficulty

A book about a project on artistic process and restrictions by Erla Haraldsdottir and students of the Academy of Fine Arts Umeå University, Sweden and School of Fine Arts Reykjavik, Iceland.
The book is designed with many fold out pages that display tasks the participants were giving to eachother and revealing the art works created by these rules. Hot foil stamping on the cover. Published by Crymogea.

Erla Haraldsdottir & Academy of Fine Arts Umeå University

Year: 2014

Art Direction:
Ariane Spanier
Design: tephie Becker

Me And The Storyteller

Map / Folder for an art project of Ebba Moi and Anna Carin Hedberg using the game "Chinese Whispers" to create art works.

Year: 2012
Client: Ebba Moi & Anna Carin Hedberg
Where: Kristiansand Kunsthall, Norway

Come into the open

invitation to the opening of 0047 gallery in Berlin
Year: 2006
Client: 0047

Zeigen Audiotour CD packaging

CD packaging for Karin Sander exhibition series "Audiotour" where visitors walk through an empty room only listening artists describing one of their works through an audioguide.

Year: 2005 - 2011
client: Karin Sander

A Guide To Gravitys End

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Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim

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Borders

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Pins for Fukt Magazine

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Fukt 16

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Greenpeace Smarter Eating

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Christoph Niemann Sunday Sketches

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Die Nacht / Museum for Communication Berlin

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Kieler Woche 2012

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Washington Post Magazine

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11th Shanghai Biennale publications

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Kloden - A theatre for the young, Oslo

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Time

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Momentum The Reader

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Fukt 14

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Tegnerforbundet / Drawing association Oslo

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Europan Norway 14 Productive Cities

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Sounds like the North

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Towards Gravity's End

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Michael Johansson

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NETZ - Vom Spinnen in der Kunst / NETS - Weaving Webs in Art

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Lightness of Matter

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Room for Possibilities

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Shanghaitype

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Difficulty of Freedom / Freedom of Difficulty

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Me And The Storyteller

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Come into the open

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Zeigen Audiotour CD packaging

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