Miquel Hervás Gómez (b.1985, Terrassa). Graphic designer and educator based on the WWW. Tutor for Disarming Design at the Sandberg Instituut and Preparatory Course at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Workshop manager at the BB. Active member of fanfare and former Carne Kids.
2022-2023 Graphic design and identity for Pleasant Place. A growing collection of publications about the art of gardening. Pleasant Place informs and inspires by offering both practical and in-depth information as well as unexpected approaches to everyday garden tasks and garden design. Work done together w/ fanfare.
↑ Din A2 offset printed testprint. (CMYK+PMS)
↑ 18 x 24cm offset printed (CMYK+PMS) saddle omega stapled publications. Enclosures and Nasturtiums are the first two issues. Through collaborations with experts and artists Pleasant Place caters both to those who grow gardens as well as those who imagine gardens.
↑ pleasantplace.space mobile view. Coded by Sascha Krischock.
↑ Pleasant Place variable font/titles is rooted using Edition International and OpenPath.scpt by Elias Hanzer. A different color and species of plant is seeded in every issue, allowing the letters to blossom and generating a flourishing visual identity.
2022 Graphic design and identity for the exhibition of In Search of the Pluriverse at the Het Nieuwe Instituut curated by Sophie Krier and Erik Wong. Work realised in close collaboration with the caribbean architect Sean Leonard.
↑ Lightbox-poster exhibition design.
↑ Overviews of the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse, Het Niuwe Instituut. This exhibition takes the visitor on a journey through the ‘pluriverse’: a world that makes room for many worlds, portraying the consequences of a multivocal world on a social and political level. The extensive exhibition presents the work of designers, artists, activists and researchers from around the world and showcases an enormous wealth of projects, objects, video and audio productions and installations. (Photography by Aad Hoogendoorn)
2022 Disarming Design identity, publication, webspace, and radio show co-designed and guided with Agustina Woodgate, Sascha Krischock and the D_D graduates students.
↑ Din A1 screen printed posters designs.
↑ DailyDecisions.space mobile view. Daily Decisions brings together collaborative works developed in the wider context of the department. (2020-2022)
↑ Durable Discussions, 432p essay publication published by Onomatopee.
↑ Durable Discussions presents life-making practices across objects, events, places, and habits. In research through writing, seventeen essays sense and transform the poetics and politics of the everyday, offering perspectives in thinking about art and design as emancipatory politics.
2022 New HHHorizons:Het HEM x Horst visual identity and design.
↑ Digital animation designed w/ Oriol Cabarrocas.
↑ Type specimen showcasing potential variants on how New HHHorizon's identity can speak, mixing Het HEM (Bryant Compressed) and Horst (GT Alpina) typefaces.
2021-2023 Overgaden's 360° identity and design w/ fanfare.
↑ Din A1 offset outdoor exhibition posters.
↑ Overgaden.org mobile view. Website designed with and coded by Bram van den Berg.
↑ From order to disorder, grid and shapes. The glyphs of O—Overgaden make up the backbone of the visual language and follow the order of the dancing ‘O’. As a way of expressing graphically the relation to an exhibition space, the punctuation codes for dialog and sounds resonate playfully with their artistic context. Posters and vinyl stickers are designed for every show of O—Overgaden. (Photography by Christian Brems & Mikkel Kaldal)
↑ Unfolded Din A2 offset grand fold-out posters and folded self-covers for each exhibition catalogue.
↑ Selection Din A4 offset printed exhibition catalogue spreads. O—Overgaden’s publication series can be read online or downloaded for free, and print versions can be purchased at the gallery. The monographic series is published in relation to the in-house solo exhibitions from 2021 onwards and focuses on new artistic voices, enabling expanded conversations around these to travel as far as possible. Online you’ll find a free-to-download PDF version with an added full batch of documentation images. In print, this series comes with a special, grand fold-out poster as its cover.
2021 Echobox's development of identity, graphic language and website design.
↑ Echobox.radio desktop view. Website coded by Sascha Krischock.
↑ Echobox idendity built upon visual guidelines developed by Experimental Jetset.
2021 On invitation from The Palace of Typographic Masonry, fanfare represents the Playground of the In-Between. This playground creates space for chatting, gossiping, and sharing. Based on questions given to all contributors of The Palace of Typographic Masonry, the Playground of the in-between presents a soundscape and set of jingles and 14 vocal advertisements that hijack and play a part in the official museum audio tour. Designed and developed by fanfare, sound made together w/ Fabian Reichle.
↑ Din A0 screen printed poster.
↑ Selection of jingles hijacking the autiotour of the traveling exhibition.
↑ ‘An Alphabet of Cases’ exhibition overview at Graphic Days in Torino(IT).
2020 In search of the Pluriverse, Het Nieuwe Instituut, identity and web cover design.
↑ In search of the Pluriverse tunes into different places in and around Europe to learn from local initiatives how design can contribute to cultivating futures that have a future. Identity system translates those places weather conditions into typographic constellations. These likeable yet abstract narratives form the basis of the graphic layer.
↑ Designed chart overview connecting real live weather data and atmospheric values input transform into typographic and graphic features output. Each of the columns In search of the Pluriverse website is responding to a synchronized forecast feed of the five different locations: Istanbul, Berlin, Asturias, Isle of Mull and Casablanca. Depending which temperature, wind force, rain, snow, mist, day or night and cloud situation, the typography will behave differently. Miguelito variable font in use. A personal and shaky variable typeface project; a twisted Arial Narrow modified and hacked version.
2019 VPN (Virtual PUB Network) explores the possibilities of autonomous infrastructures by building a zone of trust and situated knowledge. It stands in opposition to the platformization of institutions: as both a form of ontological anarchism and a temporary consensus zone based on unexpected alliances. By building a local network and designing its architecture, VPN aims to link all the distributed locations and generate in-between spaces. Project design and realised w/ Agustina Woodgate and Sascha Krischock.
↑ VPN in use.
↑ VPN website mobile view screenshots. VPN creates an interface that allows visitors to engage with each stage of the communication system, thereby revealing the physical processes that underpin the virtual space. Through pings, packets and trace-routes; through the invisible, the scalable, flexible and malleable: the VPN PUB network lays bare its strengths and weaknesses, its traffic and its interferences, making the invisible visible.
2019 Graphic design and identity for Tropical, Objects, Turns commissioned by Aram Lee within The New Alphabet School, Haus der Kulturen Welt (HKW). The project happened in context of the exhibition Elsewhere Within Here curated by Jo-Lene Ong and was co-supported by Framer Framed.
↑ Three Din A1 offset printed posters designs.
2018-2019 PUB is a trans-department platform initiated by students of the Sandberg Instituut to structure and establish a publishing practice within their school. While investigating the publishing possibilities in the context of an artistic master program, PUB is a hub to identify interdisciplinary connections and accelerate collaborations amongst students and third parties. Currently, PUB’s output includes Radio, TV, Type Lab, Journal, and publishing sessions.
2016—2021Identity and web design for Station to Station, an online magazine of DutchCulture/TransArtist focusing on international collaboration through the lens of artists practices and residencies.
↑ SS#1 “Dirty talks—Money.” Website Mobile view. Highlighted words are calling Google Custom Search API, directly dependent on your browsers’ search history.
↑SS#3 “Living on the edge.” Website Mobile view. Depending on your internet speed and connectivity, you will have the chance to read… or not to read the text.
Miquel Hervás Gómez (b.1985, Terrassa). Graphic designer and educator based on the WWW. Tutor for Disarming Design at the Sandberg Instituut and Preparatory Course at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Workshop manager at the BB. Active member of fanfare and former Carne Kids.
2022-2023 Graphic design and identity for Pleasant Place. A growing collection of publications about the art of gardening. Pleasant Place informs and inspires by offering both practical and in-depth information as well as unexpected approaches to everyday garden tasks and garden design. Work done together w/ fanfare.
↑ Din A2 offset printed testprint. (CMYK+PMS)
↑ 18 x 24cm offset printed (CMYK+PMS) saddle omega stapled publications. Enclosures and Nasturtiums are the first two issues. Through collaborations with experts and artists Pleasant Place caters both to those who grow gardens as well as those who imagine gardens.
↑ pleasantplace.space mobile view. Coded by Sascha Krischock.
↑ Pleasant Place variable font/titles is rooted using Edition International and OpenPath.scpt by Elias Hanzer. A different color and species of plant is seeded in every issue, allowing the letters to blossom and generating a flourishing visual identity.
2022 Graphic design and identity for the exhibition of In Search of the Pluriverse at the Het Nieuwe Instituut curated by Sophie Krier and Erik Wong. Work realised in close collaboration with the caribbean architect Sean Leonard.
↑ Lightbox-poster exhibition design.
↑ Overviews of the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse, Het Niuwe Instituut. (Photography by Aad Hoogendoorn)