HOMEBOUND – 35 Designers from 14 different countries – Collaboration during Covid-19

When I had to interrupt my internship in the agency of my professor Lars Harmsen in Munich (Melville Brand Design) because of Covid-19 and return to the home office in Bochum, I felt the urge to start a free project. Many young creative people have lost their jobs and commissions and an open collaboration seemed a good idea to me.
I used an Instagram story to encourage people to join in and received 50 registrations in a very short time: Since it was my first creative direction as a student, it would have been difficult to manage other people, and I stop the call there.

Some of the interested parties jumped out, but in the end 35 creative people from 14 different countries came together, who I divided into the groups poster design, type design, editorial and illustration according to their different skills. Each group could then choose its topic in consultation and consultation with me.

For example, it was »Quarantine Effect« for poster design and »Unlocked« for illustration. So pretty open, but emotionally conceived «.
I sorted all submissions by date and laid out them in sequence. A change of mood was clearly reflected here, especially by the coloring of the posters, especially when the number of deaths rose.

The content also includes a story about the underground fashion brand »Soin« from Luxembourg, whose business only got off to a really good start after Corona, and a sophisticated workshop by Rafael Bernado on the subject of time management during a pandemic. In addition, artworks by and interviews with Eike König (Hort, Berlin), Lars Harmsen (slanted publishers), Gregory Page (Pigment) and Tim Rodenbröker (TRCC) enrich the publication.

I finally printed my first work at the Newspaper Club from Glasgow, which gave a 25 percent discount for the campaign. The fonts were donated by Gradient Type from Bergen.

I'm very proud of the result and think it's a bit of a shame that we weren't able to print more copies. Demand is still very high, but we've been out of stock for a long time. We urgently hope for a second edition and further episodes of the documentation!

POSTERDESIGNER
“QUARANTINE EFFECT”

Ines Ayer (Art Direction)

Lisbon, Portugal

Elisa Marra (Editor)

Viterbo, Italy

Ryan Mcdonagh

Manchester, UK

Margherita Baldi

Manchester, UK

John Blond

London, UK 

Project Fade

London, UK

Joe Garret

Kent, UK

Maria Escorihuela

Dublin, Ireland

Nick Staebler

Stuttgart, Germany

Thomas Meyer

Munich, Germany

Lotus Creative Studio

Dortmund, Germany

Antoine Zucconi

Bastia, Corsica, France

Nastassia Toureev
Lyon, France

Jm Nyot

Ile-de-France, France

Nauel Benku

Uglitch, Russia

Dora Lazarevic

Kragujevac, Serbia

Carlos Castro Miranda

Barcelona, Spain

Ahmad Rajab

Beirut, Lebanon

Rita Rosa Prates

Copenhagen, Denmark

Rana Wasseff

Cairo, Egypt

TYPE TEAM

Lorenzo Poderini

Perugia,Italy

Samuel Lewek

Wismar, Germany

Chris Geo

Athen, Greece

Antoine Zucconi

Bastia, Corsica, France

EDITORIAL TEAM

Joe Garret

Kent, UK

Rana Wasseff

Cairo, Egypt

Nick Garratt

London, UK

LOGO DESIGN

Clemence Russeil

Paris, France

ILLUSTRATION ARTISTS 

“UNLOCKED”

Mustapha Ahmad (Art Direction)

Asyut, Egypt

Ryan Mcdonagh (Editor)

Manchester, UK

Leo Sandiford

London, UK

Sebastian Dietel

Duisburg, Germany

Nick Staebler

Stuttgart, Germany

Anna Tunikova

Berlin, Germany

Alexandra Breitenstein

Dortmund, Germany

Anais Urban

La Bouillie, France

Maria Escorihuela

Dublin, Ireland

William Sörqvist

Stockholm, Sweden

Poly Sans Typeface in Use
Milos Mitrovic 

Gradient Type 

Printer
Newspaper Club

Glasgow, UK

THANKS

With thanks to Lars Harmsen, Tim Rodenbröker, Eike König, Gregory Page, Milos Mitrovic Rafael Bernado, Antoine Lesch, Richard Ardaghand and the The Newspaper Club for their involvement and aid of the Homebound publication.

Creative Director & Curator

Cihan Tamti

Bochum, Germany

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