David Rindlisbacher

Poster Design, Identity

Freelance

August 2022

"Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand"

Poster and identity designed for ENTKUNSTUNG's 2022 summer session in Berlin, an event that combines music and visuals at Festsaal Kreuzberg. Copies were printed digitally and hung around Berlin.

The poster was designed to exist in a static, as well as an animated state. It is made up of two main contrasting elements: the typographic background, and the 3D model of a clear beach ball in the foreground. The word "Entkunstung" is decomposed and distributed strictly to a grid, creating a mosaic effect. The beach ball is used to disturb this repetitive structure, not only by bouncing off it in the animated poster but also through the refraction of the clear material, which distorts the typography behind it. The ball introduces a playful element into the composition, alluding to summer, music, community and hopefully, a good time. Designed in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher.

Against Nature

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Identity, Lettering, Editorial Design

Freelance

July 2021

Against Nature, by Herwig Scherabon, is a multimedia exhibition that belongs to a body of work that navigates between artistic and philosophical research. The metaphorical notion of acoustic space and bodily and cognitive experiences underwrites predispositions towards immersion. The variously phenomenological, correlational and mystical positions that support the predominance of the immersive are subject to critique before suggesting a stronger distinction between nature and its representation.

Scherabon expanded the audio-visual material collected in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil to create a pilgrimage around a history of fabricated notions on the natural and our position as a species within a shared environment. The artworks on display are audio-visual objects as well as works in virtual and augmented reality.

Get the Book
Limited Edition of 500 copies
2021
56 pages
18.6 x 29.7 cm
Herwig Scherabon
Curated by ENTKUNSTUNG
Texts by Swantje Martach, Felipe Duque and Alexander W. Schindler
Lettering and Design by David Rindlisbacher
Art Direction by Maximilian Mauracher
Augmented Reality app by Refrakt Studio
Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, BMKOES, and Labverde

ENT005

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Vinyl Cover

Freelance

February 2021

Limited Edition Double Transparent 12" Vinyl including streaming AR (Augmented Reality) application (only for iOS) and a 16 pages booklet. Celebrating the release of ENTKUNSTUNG's firth record, the AR app brings the vinyl’s booklet to life and showcases interactive visuals by Berlin-based artist Herwig Scherabon. It creates a unique listening experience of the eight-track album "Fun ist ein Stahlbad" which deliberately oscillates between Ambient and Techno.

Written & Produced by Felipe Duque
Mastered by Cem Oral at Jammin Masters - Berlin
Art Direction by Maximilian Mauracher
Design by Maximilian Mauracher & David Rindlisbacher
AR Animation and Images by Herwig Scherabon
App Development by Refrakt
Documentation Photography by Felix Werinos

Available for purchase at ENTKUNSTUNG

Pool

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Identity, Web Design

Freelance

November 2020

Web design and corporate identity for Pool Publishing, an independent publishing house from Vienna with a focus on illustration, graphic design, and photography. Includes website, business cards, flyer and tape. Designed in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher. Documentation Photography by Felix Werinos.

B-Sides

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Editorial Design

Freelance

November 2020

Photography by Philotheus Nisch
Available for purchase at P-OO-L.COM

136 pages
Softcover with printed transparent sleeve
22.5 x 30.7 cm
Limited edition of 300
978-3-9504596-5-4

A compendium of outtakes, leftovers, discarded variations of motifs, actually visual B-Sides left behind on Philotheus Nisch' path to commissioned pictures for various newspapers and magazines. Philotheus Nisch is a photographer. His work contains commercial and artistic projects. He currently lives and works in Leipzig. Designed with Maximilian Mauracher.

VLAN

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Identity, Lettering

Freelance

October 2020

Identity proposal for the Vienna Local Artists Network. The project includes the lettering logo inspired by the art nouveau architecture present in the city of Vienna, landing page, business cards and template for instagram posts. Designed with Maximilian Mauracher.

/100

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Identity, Web Design

Freelance

February 2020

/100 is an erratic radio show for sound as artistic expression. What is certain in number, is uncertain in form. Conceived by the desire to reunite in one place the ephemeral and intangible condition of otherwise free-floating sound waves. An ongoing and everlasting archive of genre-crossing episodes composed by carefully selected contributors and friends. Designed with Maximilian Mauracher.

XC.HuA Summer Shows

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Poster Design, Motion Design

Freelance

August 2020

Poster, flyer and motion design proposals for Hua International‘s summer 2020 exhibitions in Berlin (with the title "Walking In Ice") and Beijing (entitled "Touching Feeling"). This project was designed in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher.

XC.HuA

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Editorial Design

Freelance

April 2020

Booklet and screen-printed envelope designed with Maximilian Mauracher for XC.HuA Gallery in promotion of their emergeing artist Tong Kunniao. The costum-made envelope doubles as shipping package and as ad space when sent to the collectors.

Balladur

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Type Design

Bern University of the Arts

January 2019

Ongoing type design project developed in the Typoclub type class at the Bern University of the Arts. It is inspired by the architecture of Jean Balladur in the La Grande Motte commune in southern France. The full typeface will be available soon upon request.

Architecture Portfolio

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Editorial Design

Freelance

Octobre 2018

Print portfolio designed for Samuel Rindlisbacher, in the context of an application for an internship in an architecture studio. The portfolio consists of 6 projects, developed between 2015 and 2018. It was important to show the work in a rational and structured way, hence the use of a strict grid-based layout. The cover shows a graphic take on the architectural scale often found throughout the portfolio on the bottom right side of a page.

Manifest

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Poster Design

Freelance

January 2020

Poster and banner designed for Austrian electronic music group Manifest Vienna to promote their fifth anniversary celebration. The lettering element reads "Fünf" (meaning "five"), alluding to the context of the event. Created in January 2020 with art direction by Maximilian Mauracher.

Big Picture

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Editorial Design, Poster Design, AR

Bern University of the Arts

June 2019

Is an analog image only a part of the physically perceptible world, or can it trigger other images in another dimension? Do the images we see every day stand alone or do they exist in a larger context? What is the big picture? Big Picture is a multimodal graphic narrative on the concept of reality based on the dialogue between Socrates (S) and Glaucon (G) taken from Plato’s Book VII in The Republic. Consisting of a book, an analog and a digital augmented reality (AR) poster, graphic elements are specifically arranged so that different perceptions of reality are interrelated across several platforms. This project was developed under the mentorship of Christoph Miler.

Picture This

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Editorial Design, Scientific Writing

Bern University of the Arts

March 2019

Theoretical BA Thesis titled Picture This: A look into the future implications brought about by the development of augmented reality technologies on media consumption and manipulation. The paper was written under the mentorship of Robert Lzicar and Jonas Christen.

Robert Walser

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Spacial Design

Bern University of the Arts

January 2019

Window display developed within the scope of the release of the trilogy “Robert Walser - Briefe” by the Robert Walser Zentrum. The display was located in Buchhandlung Zytglogge, Bern. The installation was made up of four acrylic glass layers that fit within the existing shape of the window. A CNC machine was used to mill the typography into the glass. Designed and produced in collaboration with Carolina Sanches and Till Seeholzer.

TC Afterwork Lectures

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Poster Design

Bern University of the Arts

May 2019, December 2018

Posters designed for and submitted toTypoclub poster competitions in promotion of different Afterwork Lectures. First poster: RUR’ URU2R’ — Afterwork Lecture with Reto Moser from Grilli Type. Second poster designed for Katharina Reidy's lecture Music was my first love.

Archive Fever

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Editorial, Poster Design

Bern University of the Arts

May 2018

Double-sided silkscreen poster/publication inspired by dàzìbào designed using material from the IISH archives in Amsterdam. Combining content from Brazilian alternative newspapers from the 1970's focusing on workers rights and "A note upon the 'Mystic writing pad' (1925)" an excerpt from Freud's "General Psychological Theory, Chapter XIII, 1925", the A0 poster folds down into an A4 publication with the headline "Pros, Lance, Seca" in the front. On the back is a typographic poster containing the headline of the issue.

Now What?

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Poster Design

Weltformat Newcomer Award

September 2018

Posters submitted to the Weltformat Newcomer Award Competition. My submissions were among the 20 selected to be shown at the Festival, which took place in Lucerne from the 28th of September to the 6th of October 2018. The question "Now What?" was the theme of the festival's 10th edition. The task for the contest was to visualize the concept of turning points, as in "moments of maximal tension, just before everything changes". In my posters I played with typography in a somewhat literal interpretation of the theme and experimented with motion blur and depth of field settings in a rendering of a coin flip.

Duftkuss

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Identity, Motion Design

Bern University of the Arts

November 2017

Identity and animated poster developed at the Bern University of the Arts for a mint/lime flavored drink that eliminates unpleasant body odors. The words “Genuss“ (indulgence) and “Geruch“ (smell) combined with the title Duftkuss (“fragrant kiss”) make up the claim of the product and summarize its effect.

JZ AW ‘16 Larger Than Life

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Editorial, Poster Design

Workshop with Bureau Collective

January 2018

Look-book for Julian Zigerli’s “Larger Than Life“ Autumn/Winter 2016 collection, designed in a one-week workshop with Bureau Collective at the Bern University of the Arts. The pages of the Look-book turn as it unfolds, increasing in size during the process, and finally revealing an A0 poster on the back side.

The collection was promoted in video form in a collaboration between Julian Zigerli and (LA) Horde, where the concept of a fashion show was reinterpreted so that the 3 hour shooting of the catwalk process was the fashion show. The black shape is a visualization of the camera movement of the video.

Etnica

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Type Design

Bern University of the Arts

January 2018

The inspiration for this project was an arabic letter I saw in a poster, which to me looked like the letter g in the latin alphabet. I wondered if this precept would apply to other characters and letters, which led me to look for a corresponding character for every letter in the latin alphabet. The result was a collection of characters from diverse origins, such as cyrillic, japanese, chinese, arabic, korean, greek, hebrew, sanskrit and telugo.

I realized that this project was political in nature, and could be a metaphor for multiculturalism. What was just a stylistic exercise at first, quickly took on a political dimmension: Elements from different cultures assembled together and arranged in a new cohesive and harmonious context.

Threesome

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Editorial Design

Editorial Proposal 'SS 18

February 2018

Promotional magazine spread proposal for Julian Zigerli’s SS ‘18 collection Threesome featuring artists Manon Wertenbroek and Christopher Füllemann. The campaign was to be featured in the magazines Fucking Young and Gayletter. The typographic proposal was inspired by a liquid foam technique used in the collection and in its promotion.

Hotel der Künste

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Poster Design

Bern University of the Arts

September 2017

This project was commissioned by the theater department of the Bern University of the Arts for an event where all disciplines of the universtity had the chance to come together for a cultural night inspired by the Chelsea Hotel.

In collaboration with Marlen Büchi, it was decided the poster would depict a vintage NY-inspired neon typographic sign, which I conceived, drew and vectorized. Versatility was important, as we wanted the design to adapt to different formats, (poster, logo, flyer and stickers). The image was completed by my colleague with the 3d rendering.

The Bible The Word Of God

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Typography, Poster Design

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

April 2018

Silkscreen poster developed with Jan Husstedt at Typography class at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. We were assigned to create a typographic intervention in a public, outdoors setting. The poster is inspired by the typographic signs at the Scheveningen Pier in The Hague, particularly by a Kiosk that gives away free Bibles in several languages. The Kiosk was titled "The Bible The Word Of God" in simple black on white typography, contrasting heavily with the other typography found at the pier. This contrast was the basis of the poster, in that we kept the stucture of the Kiosk's title but replaced the nouns by words found in signs nearby. The result was an absurd sentence that reflects the diverse atmosphere of the scene.

About

Swiss-Portuguese graphic designer with a focus on type and graphic design. Currently based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Education

2018
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague,
Graphic Design

2016 — 2019
Bern University of the Arts,
Visual Communication

2015 — 2016
Plexgroup, Berlin
Intern

2013
ibl und partner ag, Solothurn
Intern

Exhibitions

2018
From A to B, Stroom Den Haag, NL
Archive Fever, IISH Amsterdam, NL
Weltformat Newcomer Award, Lucerne, CH

Press

It's Nice That
The Design Kids
Design Calendar
Collide24
Type01
The Brand Identity
The Brand Identity
Collide 24
best advertising print designs

Contact

mail@davidrindlisbacher.com

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