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Richard Niessen
TM–City, a three-dimensional installation based on the work of graphic designer Richard Niessen, will be on show in Bern. Richard Niessen will also give a lecture and a workshop.
About: TM stands for ‘Typographic Masonry’. Sources of inspiration that can be detected in TM–City include the poster designer A.M. Cassandre, artist Eduardo Paolozzi and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo – all honoured by having streets named after them.
Richard Niessen’s graphic design work is an ode to ornamentation. His apparently organised chaos is captured in a complex system of layered decoration. In Niessen’s work, ornamentation is not a matter of superficial decoration, but an integral part of the whole. By stacking and ordering typographical elements, he creates interweaving linear patterns that have virtually no equivalent anywhere else in the Dutch graphic design field. His highly consistent approach betrays a love of Byzantine and medieval manuscript illumination and is characterised by an exuberant blend of typography, calligraphy and visual images.
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