The Geneva-based queer film festival, Everybody’s Perfect, organized an exhibition titled The Perfect Guests. This exhibition was displayed on 60 billboards, stretching across 650-meter around Lac Léman, or Lake Geneva. It featured a wide range of filmmakers, actors, artists, and experts, all committed to advocating for positive representation of the LGBTQIA+ community.

The Perfect Guests exhibition took place throughout the month of September 2022. It showcased photographs by Camilo Agudelo, taken during the past four editions of the Everybody's Perfect Festival.

We were commissioned to design the exhibition poster and panel layouts, aligning them with the festival's graphic identity that would take place a few weeks later.

For the poster, we used a photo of Sandra Guldberg Kampp captured by Agudelo during the screening of the film Kød & Blod by Danish director Jeanette Nordahl. The close-up on her eyes engages and challenges the viewer. The text layout draws inspiration from movie posters, credits, and subtitle aesthetics. To create a feeling of motion and connect the photo exhibit with the film festival, parts of the dates and titles were intentionally blurred, akin to the effect of a moving camera. Additionally, we chose a mint Pantone color to contrast with the vibrancy of the photo and harmonize with the exhibition’s location at Lake Geneva.

These initial choices set the foundation for the visual communication, which extends to the overall festival identity happening later during the year (see the dedicated post). We used Grotta, created by Due Studio with a complementary font, Bw Nista Grotesk by Branding with Type.

Printed in 4,500 copies and distributed in Geneva’s La Jonction quarter, this gazette allowed the people to participate, to inform themselves, to reflect and to dream about the future Parc of the Pointe de la Jonction, a place that was left vacant by the departure of the TPG buses at the end of 2020.

The role of this gazette was to announce the activities that took place on the site during the summer of 2021. It became one of the tools for consultation for the creation of this new space in collaboration with the citizens, the Forum Pointe de la Jonction and the associations and the City of Geneva.

The masthead of la gazette du parc is set in Forgotten Shapes’ Schmale Egyptienne No. 12 FSL, while for the body text Production Type’s Proto Slab is used. Spicing up this typographic palette are colorful illustrations by Popy Matigot and titling fonts that change with each of the four issues that have been published. These include Clementhorpe Italic (no. 1), Bagerich (no. 2), CirrusCumulus (no. 3), and Garaje 1803 (no. 4).

All issues are available for download as pdfs.

BIG is an art biennale highlighting Geneva’s local and independent art scene. The event’s aim is to federate and engage with diverse art forms, in a democratic and horizontal approach, outside the market of art galleries or national institutions.

In 2021, Geneva’s 4th art biennale becomes uncancellable, planning every possible way so that, no matter the circumstances, it can transform, adapt, and exist. This year’s biennale is therefore called Biennale Inannulable des espaces d’art de Genève(BIG) (“Geneva’s uncancellable art Biennale(BIG)”).

The logo is set in Tomato Grotesk (Andrea Biggio), with WT Kormelink Italic (Jacob Wise) used for the date. The three letters “BIG” constitute the main element. It is followed by the tagline of the festival “4e Biennale Inannulable des espaces d’art de Genève”. Repeating and transforming the letter n, we highlighted the word inannulable (“uncancellable”). This play became the unifying thread of the communication.

The poster uses different layers. First, the orange graduated background is grained and faded, reminding of a sunset but also of sand. On top, the font is in cyan, to contrast with the background. In between, we can find “4e Biennale des espaces d’art de Genève”, present but almost wiped out. Resisting its removal, it is “uncancellable”.

The event happened at l’île Rousseau, central to Geneva’s city. Ironically echoing our times, the island was once used to quarantine imported goods from countries in high risks of infections. The space was imagined and built by the architecture collective Tarex.
The year’s theme was “the roof”, reflecting on the idea of inhabiting a space together, in a time of global pandemic. 52 artists and collectives each took over the space for 24h, over the course a month. We completed the sign design with banners, flags and tarps.

The website (www.bigbiennale.ch) was programmed by Fabien Duperrex. The homepage shows the three letters “BIG” and can be erased with the cursor, revealing the word “inannulable”.

We’ve worked with Gilroy for a campaign that promotes sports in the City of Geneva, Switzerland. The posters were designed by creative studio Paperplane together with Forchic.

A digital situationist tourist guide of the Geneva region

Result of Nizar Kazan’s practical exam at Eracom, Lausanne. Awarded with the CVCI prize for the best exam result.

The fonts in use are Lausanne and Lausanne Mono (TBA on WELTKERN®) by Nizar Kazan plus a custom version of Futura Extra Bold Condensed.

Corporate identity for the tourism department of the city of Geneva, Switzerland.

It was designed by the Bern-based agency franz&rené using Euclid Flex.