Stock Fiction is a meta story!
A story only using stock photo language. A typographic story through unintended poetry.
Published in the bookseries 100 for 10 by melvilledesign
Year: 2018
Catalogue for the final degree show for Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO) the cover comes with a sanding paper feel.
Year: 2018
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Romain Fontaine
Anonymous Drawings is an exhibition series by Anke Becker where drawings are shown and sold anonymously. The buyer will just learn about the artist after purchasing the art.
Year: 2018
Promotional cinema spot for the concert series of the orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim for the season 2018/19
Creative direction: Ariane Spanier
3D animation: Romain Fontaine
Video footage: m:con Rosengarten
Poster for an exhibition at Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2018
the poster was selected for the Graphis Poster Annual 2019 and received an Gold Award
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
Your West Stole My East Away
poster for an exhibition at the typography festival Typomania in Moscow, 2018
typomania.ru
Year: 2018
Editor: Anette Hüsch
Art Direction & Design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
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
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
Enamel pins for Fukt Sex issue #16 "Dirty Drawings"
if interested purchase here: fuktmagazine.com/shop
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.
Year: 2016
Creative direction & design: Ariane Spanier
Christoph Niemann /
Abrams Books /
Knesebeck Verlag
Year: 2016
Poster series for the subscription campaign of the Orchestra of the National Theatre in Mannheim.
Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheater Orchesters Mannheim
Year: 2018
Creative direction and design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Poster for an exhibition about the Night - Everything But Sleep - in the Museum for Communication Berlin.
Year: 2017
Client: Museum for Communication, Berlin
Cover illustration for German Greenpeace Magazin for a special food issue on smarter eating.
Year: 2017
Client: greenpeacemagazin
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
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
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
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.
Year: 2016
Creative Direction and Design: Ariane Spanier
Animations: Ariane Spanier, Áine Gibbons
Design: Stephie Becker, Áine Gibbons
Design Assistance publications: Zhang Qi
Illu on questioning everything for the US edition of TIME Magazine.
Time Magazine
Year: 2015
Creative Director: DW. Pine
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 – 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.
Year: 2015
A publication for a planned theatre for kids and young people in Oslo, Norway. "Kloden" means "world".
www.kloden.no
Year: 2017
Client: Scenekunstbruket
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.
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
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.
Year: 2017
Set up assistance: Aine Gibbons
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
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.
Year: 2014
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
A publication on art and artists spaces in the city.
Client: Transborder Studio
Year: 2017
Animation for a large LCD Screen at the waterfront in Shanghai, the bund.
year: 2013
client: Shanghaitype.net
Animation: Marie Sepstrup
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
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
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
