Everything you have seen so far, I also designed.
The exhibitions, the labels, the posters, the identities, the software interfaces, the books. Design has never been a separate department in my work — it is how an idea becomes a thing you can stand in front of.
Design
Pontificum Mundi
Two hundred and sixty-five popes on a single sheet, from St Peter to Leo XIV. Every tile carries a name, a regnal number, a birth name, dates, a country and a line of significance. Around them: the longest pontificates, a world map of papal origins, the Vatican City plan, a cutaway of St Peter's, and two thousand years banded by era along the foot.
VK 007 · Infographic · 40×60 in
Master the Art of Library Rules
Library rules, delivered entirely straight, through the history of art. No running in the library — horseback riding is also considered unwise, over David's Napoleon crossing the Alps. The joke works because the typography never once winks.
VK 008 · Poster series
Timeline of the Holocaust
A full-height timeline for Holocaust Memorial Day, from the appointment of the Chancellor in January 1933 to the German surrender in May 1945. Barbed wire down both margins, cream on black, no ornament anywhere. The other register of the same practice.
VK 009 · Exhibition graphics
Saint Gertrude House
An imprint mark for a student publishing house: a walking cat, a hand reaching down to meet it, burnt orange against didone capitals. St Gertrude of Nivelles is the patron saint of cats, and the whole point of the imprint is that someone reached out first.
VK 010 · Identity
The Mini-Modern
A corridor and two bathrooms turned into a modern art gallery, inspired by the Tate. Mondrian across the walls and the ceiling, so students walk inside the painting. Matisse's cut-outs across three walls, with museum-quality plaques throughout.
VK 011 · Environmental
