Emma Kouassi
Projects
Visual Communication
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Visual Identity
BASEMENT ROMA
2023
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New identity and website for Basement Roma, a Rome-based exhibition space led by CURA. magazine since 2012. Designed together with Dan Solbach.
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Type Design
STRADA
2022
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«Strada» is a display typeface, originally drawn by Walter F. Haettenschweiler in 1967 and first published in Lettera 3. As part of a collaboration between Visual Communication ZHdK and Museum für Gestaltung Zürich the existing alphabet was digitized and extended to a basic latin character set. All fonts can be viewed on eFont.ch and were displayed as part of the exhibition «Haettenschweiler von A bis Z». In addition, a poster was designed to showcase the typeface at another exhibition in the city of Zug in March 2023.
© Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and Erbengemeinschaft Walter F. Haettenschweiler
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Visual Identity
COUNTERPARTS: DESIGN BEYOND THE HUMAN
2022
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Identity (including Poster, Website, Signage, Socials…) for the Swiss Design Network research summit Counterparts: Exploring Design Beyond the Human. Designed with Ladina Dörig, Severin Weber and Nicolai Jaron Kager.
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Editorial
VC ZHDK DIPLOMA PUBLICATION
2022
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The Diploma Publication 2022 for Visual Communication ZHdK, designed together with Ladina Dörig and Romain Salomon. The concept Past-Present-Future divides the publication into three chapters, framed by the envelope showing the timetable for the next two semesters.
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Editorial
COMFORTING GLOOM
2022
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«Comforting Gloom», a photo editorial on the topic of darkness and the (dis)comfort it can cause.
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Type Design
TAL GROTESK
2021/22
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The current state of «Tal Grotesk», a narrow grotesk typeface designed in collaboration with Miloš Gavrić and Armando Guetg.
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Posters
POSTER PROPOSALS
2021/22
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Poster proposals for the Filmpodium Zurich and the ZSC Pfingstregatta.
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Editorial & Motion
AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATIONS ON BEAUTY AND UGLINESS
2020
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This project started out with abstract photographs, in which I tried to capture the fine line between the beautiful and the ugly. They were then combined with a selection of texts, each either dealing with beauty or ugliness. The hypothesis that both in fact may lie very close together, translates into the layout, with the two different topics running parallel on the same page. To differentiate them, each has their individual layout.
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Type Design
KONSTRUKTA
2019
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Konstrukta is a simple and geometric monospaced typeface. It is the result of my first time dipping a toe into the field of type design in 2019.
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Emma Kouassi is an independent graphic designer, based in Zurich. Her practice is centered around the realms of art and culture and she designs for print and digital media with a focus on typography. For further information feel free to contact her and visit her Instagram for more regular updates.
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