We’re excited to share the soft power website, which we designed and developed in collaboration with the soft power team. 

soft power is a collectively run, non-profit art association and venue for artistic projects. As a conceptual framework, soft power appropriates a political term that describes the influence “soft” assets like culture and art can have on policies and economic spheres. The ongoing program is guided by the question of how this notion can be subverted, challenged, and reclaimed from an artistic perspective.

soft power was founded by Linnéa Bake, Eva Herrmann, Melissa Lücking and Donna Volta Newmen.

The site features the NewEdge 666 typeface by Charlotte Rohde.

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Web portfolio design and bespoke typeface for the performance artist Selin Davasse.

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Poster and Type design for new short film PACIFIC CLUB. We created the logo type, credits and with @ceheivi the poster design.
Film by Valentin Noujaïm
Produced by @iliadeetfilms

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we had the pleasure to be part of @isdbund project ‚Telling our Stories’, conceptualizing and designing the digital exhibition.
This project was directed and created by Jeanne Nzakizabandi and Siraad Wiedenroth. Thank you for the trust.

Compiled as a 7 chapters podcast and digital exhibition ‚Telling our Stories‘ aims to attempt to narrate Black German history in its ambivalence and interconnection. In doing so, it focuses on the theme of migration and raises questions such as: how do subversive moments manifest? Where does the potential for identification exist for us today? What can be learned from a glimpse into the past?

CREDITS
Direction at Large & Concept: Siraad Wiedenroth
Project Management, Podcast Host & Concept: Jeanne Nzakizabandi @jeanne.nzk
Sound Concept & Production: Géneviève Lakoéle Lassey
Exhibition Concept & Web Design: Studio ABO @studio.abo
Website Development: @soco.graphics · Anna Greunig
Research: Merle Kondua
Texts and Editing: Jeanne Nzakizabandi, Merle Kondua
Proofreading: Eleonore Wiedenroth–Coulibaly
Transcription: Jan Weidner
Translation: Dehom Melissa Pereira Gnassingbe, Siraad Wiedenroth
Public Relations: Christelle Nkwendja-Ngnoubamdjum
Interviews with: Sandra Karangwa, Josephine Apraku, Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, Dr. Ismahan Wayah, Eleonore Wiedenroth–Coulibaly, Olga Macuacua, Dr. Natasha A. Kelly
Narrators: Christelle Nkwendja-Ngnoubamdjum, Eric Otieno
A special thank you goes to: Nicola Lauré al Samarai, Paul Arzten, Folasade Farinde, Kirsten Köhler, Adel Oworu, Bafta Sarbo & Eleonore Wiedenroth-Coulibaly
Typeface: Space Grotesk · Florian Karsten

Telling Our Stories is a project by the Initiative Schwarze Menschen e.V.
The project is funded by Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ).
@evzfoundation

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Poster and exhibition flyer design for Goethe University lecture series „Deutsche sind Schwarz! Faschisten können keine Deutschen sein. Schwarze und queere Perspektiven auf deutsche Geschichte, Politik und Kultur“ @studiengalerie1.357 @goetheunifrankfur by James Gregory Atkinson and Antje Krause-Wahl.

Broshure & digital poster for the exhibition ‚The Hotel Show‘ at Pearl Hotel Frankfurt.
Curated by @alkeheykes @seda.pesen @sarita_ma_mu & @anna_lisa_s_

Visual identity and logo design for Steinkampf Flower Cakes

Logotype and web portfolio design for Kayhan Kaygusuz.

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Borrowed Faces: The Digital Archive

Fehras Publishing Practices try to understand publishing practices in their relation to the political and cultural realm. Therefore the observation of archiving practices, cataloging systems, and their political dimension become a part of this investigation.

In the wake of the digitization of archives and libraries, the collective looks into new tendencies of how institutions and universities make specific inventories accessible to research aims. This movement raises questions about the ownership of the archive and new ways of writing history.

In this regard, Fehras decided to open their archive and make it accessible digitally to the public. The digital archive presented as a part of this installation gathers the archive of Borrowed Faces, which Fehras are collecting and commenting on since 2018. The visitors are invited to browse various entities such as publishers, magazines, institutions, etc., and read commented documents. The digital archive also offers the possibility of exploring possible connections between these entities. These connections aim to graphically present the complexity of cultural production and the interrelation between politics, culture, and funding on a global level.

This digital archive and The research of Borrowed Faces is facilitated with the support from Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme for 2020/21.

Borrowed Faces: The Digital Archive, 2021, installation, mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation view in the solo exhibition
Borrowed Faces: The Second Chapter, Fehras publishing Practices, Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung, 2021
Borrowed Faces: The Research Hub, 2021, installation, mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation view in the solo exhibition
Borrowed Faces: Future Recall, Fehras publishing Practices, The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2021

Editors
Fehras Publishing Practices – Kenan Darwich, Omar Nicolas, Sami Rustom

Design
Fehras Publishing Practices

Development
Studio ABO

We designed and developed a website including a calendar tool for Decolonize Berlin e.V..

Decolonize Berlin e.V. advocates for a critical examination of German colonialism and its continuities, such as racism within contemporary German society, recognition and critical reappraisal of colonial injustices, and decolonization of German society as a whole.

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Art Direction and Website for ‘Passion Propaganda’ a Fashion brand from Istanbul

Video ‘using one’s feet has become an option of last resort’ (2019)✨in collabration with @tra.my1
shot in Hanoi/Berlin.

Thanks to the team:
Model: @kanucia
Soundtrack: @comic_ans
Tour guide: @mega.storm.93
Production assistance: @hburakyel @ayferezgi @ani_meirs

Logo for the Frankfurt based Project Space LINK ⤷

From the project “using one’s feet has become an option of last resort” by Tra My Nguyen. ????

Working within the medium of 3D and web design, Cost of Gold examines the symbolic value of gold in its natural state. Through interactive visual storytelling, the user navigates within a 3D gold mine. In that way, the user has a spatial and size comparison of the amount of the gold in relation to the mine.

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In Culture Inventory Atlas, there are nearly 15.000 cultural entities and artefacts marked and classified in a digital cartographic database. We created a website with a search engine and filtered map by entity group, type and location. The user can rediscover cultural properties by examining its historical information and original location. Originated in the geographic region of the Middle East, Anatolia, and the Balkan, the aim is to create an international and open source cultural property database.

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A digital publishing project, Ikonographie des Dataismus, explores three different historical belief and value systems: Theism, Humanism and Dataism. Through the lens of iconographic imagery, web and literature research, this project aims to set analogies of contrasting visual languages of each belief and value systems.

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Data Platform for the Environmental Activism is a digital mapping project displaying environmental conflicts. Drawing upon relational visualisation of the responsible actors, impacts and commodities, the aim is to build a solidarity data platform for environmental activism.

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Digital and print poster design for ‘Playa Apotheum Music Festival NY’ 2019.

Corporate identity and logo design for the Istanbul based online art magazine Border_less ⤷.

Lookbook editorial and web publishing identity for Tra My Nguyen’s collection XLoca

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Logo design for Rendevouz3000’ digital archive Antigone Archive Oper

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This digital clock is coded with CSS and JS languages. A self-made font serves as the operating system on a dot-matrix.

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Digital and print poster design for Kelman Duran’s EU 2019 Tour

Anatolian Scripts is a digital cartography and archive web design project. It focuses on the writing culture and epigraphic artefacts from Anatolian civilisations furthering neighbouring geographies, such as East Mediterranean region. This project aims to be a visual reference source and research tool, accessible for everyone.

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Poster series design for Institut für Zukunft⤷ Winter programme (09-11/2020)

Logo and web design for the mobile app magicplan ⤷

Book design Lord of the Flies for the Istanbul Film Festival 2014.