Lost & Found Invitation

Curator Julia van Mourik asked me to design one of her invites for Lost & Found, and audiovisual event in which she showcases contemporary and past work by filmmakers and artists.

The theme of the event for which I was asked to contribute, was Geosphere, a term that refers to the sphere circumscribed by the Earth’s crust.

The idea which I based the invite on, is the concept of compression, which can be visualized by crumpling a sheet of paper to a ball, which is essentially the same process that holds the Earth together (gravity pressing the material together from all angles until it forms a sphere).

The typography combines Univers Bold Extended, Normal and Condensed, again to mimic the concept of compression.

The invite was first printed on one side with the type, and then on the other side completely black. The mimeograph printing technique was chosen so as to achieve the rub-off effect. During a week of August 2010 I stood in the Stencilkelder in Amsterdam crumpling the 1000 invites, next to Sander, the printer, who was handing me the freshly printed sheets. All the invites were then stretched out and folded—a process which refers to the title of the event—Lost & Found.