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Eva Kmentová Catalogue

book design
texts by Tomáš Pospiszyl and Zuzana Jakalová
published by Host
2023

Paragraphs as blocks of concrete – book design of Eva Kmentová, published as a part of an exhibition at House of Arts, Brno.

Eva Kmentová

visual identity, catalogue and spacial elements
of a show Eva Kmentová
photo 1, 4 by Poli Davydenko
2023, House of Arts, Brno

The retrospective exhibition of Eva Kmentová (1928—1980) presented the fundamental artworks of this sculptor. It showed the meanings of prints and casts for Kmentová’s artistic statement, reflected on the sense of ephemerality in her works and attempted to understand the position of Eva Kmentová's work in the international context of sculpture. Curated by Tomáš Pospiszyl, architecture by Dominik Lang.

Alarm books

book series, published by Deník Alarm
2024 – ongoing

Design of a book series of translated titles published by Deník Alarm.

WE ARE ALL EMOTIONAL

Performance festival We Are All Emotional
visual identity
photos by Tereza Havlínková
2022, Prague

“Emotions – be they highs or lows – are coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives and which thrive on our emotional engagement, as our own emoticons remind us every day. (…) We react emotionally to what is happening around us, but sometimes it seems as if the ways in which we react make us incapable of dealing with the problems at hand.“ Organized and curated by tranzit.org.

Because of the theme we wanted to design an identity which would feel somehow intense and urgent. Through using exclamation and question marks with an orange phosporecent color within the whole communication, the identity of the festival became sort of noisy, anxious and a bit passive aggressive.

WE ARE ALL EMOTIONAL – Catalogue

catalogue, We Are All Emotional festival

AVU diplomky 23

visual identity of a Graduation show
at Academy of Arts, Prague
slide 5 artwork by Adam Alva Fejfar
slide 10 artwork by Martin Fischer
2023

Together with the curators we decided to keep the process behind the show visible also through the identity. We asked the students for casual descriptions of what they're planning to exhibit, and used these textual visions as a main identity element. Curated by Nela Klajbanová and Vojtěch Märc.
diplomkyavu.cz

Matter of Art

Matter of Art visual identity
2021, ongoing

Matter of Art is a long-term institutional experiment and intervention into the public space. It is a non-profit organization which investigates possibilities for the social and political functions of art in the present day.

We based the identity on a simple system of shapes and charts, we wanted to have the most variable and default structure which could later be filled with any type of content.

Flora Olomouc 2022

visual identity of Flora Olomouc
collaboration with @mimokolektiv
2022, Olomouc

Flora is an annual floral exhibition happening every spring in Olomouc. We designed a simple visual system based on illustrations representing different moments of a plant life cycle.

Synthetic Becoming

book design
edited by Lenka Veselá
published by FaVU VUT & K. Verlag
2022

The collective monograph Synthetic Becoming brings together research by artists, activists, and feminist technoscience practitioners concerned with sympoietic becoming with hormones and hormonally-active chemicals.

Reakce

visual identity of a podcast series Reakce
by Radio Wave and Marie-Luisa Purkrábková
2023

Reakce is a podcast series about friendship and the power of sharing.

Fotograf Festival #9: Archeology of Euphoria

visual identity of Fotograf Festival #9
photos by Filip Beránek
animation by Kryštof Kučera
2019

The visual identity was based on claims from various unboxing YouTube videos – we were trying to express the main topic of the festival through that specific language, because we saw a link between that phenomenon with the main topic of the festival; huge expectations and big disappointment in Czech society after the transformation from totalitarian regime to capitalism in 1989. Based on this we temporarily renamed the title of the festival to Unboxing democracy.

2020 Never Happened

concept and design of a Brno Faculty of Architecture yearbook

While designing a Yearbook we got our hands on an archive of pictures, including many screenshots of Zoom calls, empty studios, etc. In spite of the 2020 pandemic reality, we decided to present a different, dreamy year, full of colorful events and fun experiences. We felt like everybody around us was already so overwhelmed by what was happening that we decided not to include any of the content so typical for that year; lockdowns, zoom calls, keeping safe. We decided to look at the year 2020 at the Faculty of Architecture from a totally utopian point of view and show it as a year that happened in a different universe.

Titul '21 '22 '24

visual identity and exhibition design
2021–24, Kumst Brno

Design of an exhibition Titul happening at the end of every school year, presenting diploma projects by students of Faculty of Architecture.

Various illustrations

ongoing

Illustrations and infographics for diverse clients. (Deník Alarm, Ankali, Lužánky, Artmap)