Werkplaats Typografie
Moriz Oberberger
21/10/2018 – 21/11/2018
Here you meet Herta, an old lady. This fictional character is for Moriz Oberberger an intimate partner for conversations. Herta brought her daily life actions to perfection. She is the personification of the present. Her life experiences brought her to this point. Herta’s life is unscheduled, although she has absolutely no spare time. Every movement leads simply to the next one. It makes her aware of the essential creature of herself.
For the occasion of this billboard Herta is in the WT building, more specifically in the kitchen. The kitchen is the heart of this school. It is the social meeting point for the first coffee of the day, for communal lunches, discussions and games. It is a space where new ideas occur. This scene is therefore a snapshot of a typical situation during a WT day, where the environment constantly transforms, gives new input for the work and where you occasionally will come across traces of other participants.
Moriz Oberberger is an Italian graphic designer and illustrator currently a participant at Werkplaats Typografie (WT), a design school in Arnhem, Netherlands. In his work, Moriz explores the interaction between the insignificance and significance of daily life activities. He focuses on mundane everyday actions, the ordinary objects people use and the settings they are placed in. Subtle observations evolve into a manifold of hidden stories from parallel worlds captured with a playful tone of voice. These narratives are exercised in different mediums, ranging from drawings, stories, books and games.
The Werkplaats Typografie (WT), part of the ArtEZ University of the Arts, is a two-year graphic design masters programme founded in 1998. The WT is centered on self-initiated projects and assignments with lectures, encounters, seminars, meetings and readings geared towards self-accountable and independently motivated work and research.
Billboard framework: Olivier Goethals
Photography: Michiel De Cleene
This billboard is a collaboration between Design museum Gent and 019. It functions as an alternative exhibition platform for (graphic) designers. A leftover from the Museum Of Moving Practice project that happend between the 18th of May and the 17th of September 2017, where 019 temporary occupied a part of the museum. This billboard is a copy of the Billboard Series framework that has been hanging at 019 since September 2015. (A project by artlead, All Things Contemporary Vzw & 019.) Each billboard stays up for two months. The designers are selected by 019.
