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SATURDAY 09.04.2011

Barcelona. Leaving three days of fever delirium behind, but packing my 38°C degree fever to take along, soaked into a never ending dizziness I find myself in a Taxi to Barcelona Airport, 30 minutes before the departure of my plane to Paris.

Barcelona, noisy as always yet so familiar and hospitable, is about to experience one of its most devastating storms in years. As if intuitive to what is about to happen, our plane escapes as fast as it can, shaken by winter clouds, jumping up and down through the cold cotton like world. It all seems a dream to me, moving like a movie I am watching, but not directing.

Paris - Charles de Gaulle is like landing in Terries “Brazil”. Lost in an 1980’s like science fiction movie scenery, no working bus service, no information, no signage nor direction, just mafia cab services and friendly French soldiers.

Antoine appears out of nothing, ready to create something exceptional, … and there it is again, the excitement of not knowing what is going to happen, entering a different delirium, a different cold cotton world.

THURSDAY 21.10.2010

In 2009 the design school Elisava moved to a new, larger building on the Rambla, and took this as an opportunity to make contact with the Associació d'Amics, Veins i comerciante de la Rambla (The association of friends, neighbours and traders of the Rambla). TwoPoints.Net, as directors of a postgraduate degree and teachers at Elisavas, were commissioned to create a visual identity for a possible application on the Ramblas for the World Heritage Site. The identity was launched on the 2nd February 2010, which was presented to the Mayor of Barcelona.

WEDNESDAY 28.07.2010

Aamodt/Plumb Architects asked Constructing Communications —a collaboration of TwoPoints.Net with Irene Hwang— to design a pattern for the façade of the Hamptons Beach House, New York, USA. The pattern should make a reference to the vegetation the house is surrounded by. TwoPoints.Net drew a vector-based calligraphic, floral pattern which was cut-out in thick steel panels.

FRIDAY 28.05.2010

Latin America is bursting with creativity. As economies in this region have prospered, the demand for work by local creative talent has grown. In this context, an aspiring generation of designers and artists has been evolving and refining its own visual language. latino-gráfico presents a colorful selection of graphic design, illustration, and typography that explores one of the world's most dynamic and unique design cultures.

THURSDAY 01.04.2010

Apart from the stationery, these three booklets are among the first items to which the new visual identity of the Helsinki Design Lab has been applied.

TUESDAY 01.12.2009

Banjo Music commissioned TwoPoints.Net to design their showreel – as they do every year. The new showreel was printed on white Chromolux with Pantone Silver and Lilac. Mmm... shiny!

MONDAY 02.11.2009

The british design magazine Creative Review asked five studios around the world to show where they work. Among them TwoPoints.Net.

THURSDAY 29.10.2009

"We believe that the scale and complexity of today’s challenges are more effectively addressed when design is a leading voice coordinating many, rather than a service applied to pre-defined problems. With a specialized ability to bring synthesis to complex problems, to work from conception to implementation, and to visualize complex relationships, the strategic designer plays a lead role in addressing the issues faced by contemporary society. Helsinki Design Lab (HDL), a project initiated by Sitra – The Finnish Innovation Fund – fosters state-of-the-art knowledge, capability, and achievement in the area of strategic design in order to improve global supply of this essential 21st century problem solving skill."

THURSDAY 22.10.2009

TwoPoints.Net designed this year's Christmas greeting material for the Col·legi Oficial Disseny Gràfic Catalunya (Professional Association of Graphic Designers in Catalonia). Instead of sending a postcard or chocolates, we wanted to make something useful during Christmas -- a kind of play on the idea of a present -- so we thought to ourselves that there would be nothing better than designing a custom wrapping paper for the holidays!

FRIDAY 03.07.2009

Munich-based brand agency KMS TEAM commissioned a visual system for their proposal on a brand strategy of the communication of Vodafone Germany. Examples of commercial ads for different products had to be developed.

FRIDAY 26.06.2009

A Banjo Music ad for the magazine Brandlife.

MONDAY 01.06.2009

Page, the German design magazine, asked us to make an attempt at the impossible: Summarize the best of Barcelona in under 4000 characters. Wir werden mit Sicherheit unsere Tipps bald erweitern müssen.

In addition to our office, container Plus from London, Martin Svoboda of Funkfu from Prague, Kerstin Linder Meier of Univers poétiques from Paris, Andy Simionato of This Is A Magazine from Milan, Musa Collective from Lisbon and Erik Kessels of Kessel Kramer in Amsterdam, also participated in this project.

THURSDAY 01.02.2007

The New York-based magazine Metropolis hired us to illustrate a series of very interesting articles about design. An intensive exchange with the magazine was vital in creation of the right visualization for the texts.

WEDNESDAY 15.03.2006

For the first time in its history "The One Weekend Book Series" has become accessible to a worldwide public.

MONDAY 01.01.2001

Wemove is a programming studio. In order to properly reach their customers, they came to us to create a new visual identity that would connect their vision with that of their clientele.