Together with @bethabes and @megan_e_lynch I visited the talented @ruxandraduru studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Ruxandra is a color researcher at Google Design. Aside from spending a very very nice day all together and looking at Ruxandra’s work, she also photographed us through her colorful lens.
Some images of the Forward Festival Amsterdam / 23-24 May 2024
Breathe with @annabellesbubble
Together with @pierawolf, I created the visual identity for a new project by stellar Swiss born NYC based experience designer Annabelle Schneider who created a serene sanctuary called ‚Breathe with Me‘. Synchronized textiles and soothing melodies will guide you to tranquility. Capturing Swiss design, it seamlessly blends timeless beauty with modern sensibilities.
If you’re in New York, don’t miss this immersive experience from May 17–23, noon till 7 at @wsanyc⏤the cutting-edge cultural hub in Downtown Manhattan⏤presented by the @swisscgny Swiss Consulate General in NYC with @nycxdesign.
Come, breathe and explore new and iconic designs by LAUFEN, Luft & Laune, PIEGA, PIN–UP HOME, Schaffner, Studio Christian Wassmann, Tisca, USM Modular Furniture, Vitra, and 4Spaces ZigZagZurich.
Imagery @annabellesbubble
Sound @luc.oggi
Typeface Rendi Wendy @ana.yvy
Typeface Monument Grotesk @abcdinamo
Thank you @annabellesbubble @swisscgny for including us in this powerful journey.
@laufenbathrooms
@luftundlaune
@piegaswitzerland
@pinup.home
@schaffnerag
@christianwassmann
@tisca_textiles
@usmmodularfurniture
@vitra
@4spaces @zigzagzurich
Next week Thursday (23 May) you can find me on the Main Stage of Forward Festival (located at the beautiful Internationaal Theater Amsterdam) in Amsterdam and on Friday I’m giving a small fun workshop as well. Honored by the beautiful line-up I am part of. https://forward-festival.com/amsterdam/overview
Some photographs from the shoot with @madsteglers for the #paretovowels typography inspired jewellery collection I did with the beautiful women / friends from @studiocollect 🖤 There are still some pieces available for sale on their website! 🖤 Go check it out at studiocollect.com 🖤
Collaboration with @oursisterofficial is available online now!
https://oursister.com/collections/specht
‘If you only knew the magnificence of the 3,6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe’ said Nikola Tesla. According to him, these numbers represent the paths through which energy and information manifest themselves to form the material world, attributing them to a superior consciousness in comparison to the others. My design for Our Sister has a main focus on 3,6,9 and might become your lucky garment. 🫣 A frequency untold, a gateway to unfold … Everyone needs a spiritual accountant! 😘🤍🤍🤍👋🏻
Updated sticker pack (back by popular demand 🫶🏻🤍) online now in my shop. Shipping in February 2024. Limited supply.
€10.00
5 stickers:
1. GLOW IN THE DARK 50mm x 30mm
2. METALLIC SILVER 148mm x 13.5mm
3. METALLIC CHROME RAINBOW 50mm x 30mm
4. TRANSPARENT 50mm x 50mm
5. METALLIC CHROME RAINBOW 70mm x 70mm
I created a design for Belgian jersey #8 for Goalissimo by @hensteethdublin — A celebration of the game featuring 13 artists from around the world who’ve used the jersey as a canvas in aid of @amnesty International’s Campaign for Migrant Workers in Qatar
Launching, Saturday, 3rd December.
All profits from sales of the shirts will be donated to Amnesty International’s Campaign for Migrant Workers in Qatar. The collection launches online at Hen’s Teeth with jerseys available to pre-order online from 3-17 December.
The group features: Mexico - Hola Lou # 1, England - Kelly Anna London # 2, USA - Vlad Sepetov # 3 , Brazil - Monga # 4, Cameroon - Sophie Douala # 5, Argentina - Seb Curi x Macarena Luzi # 6, Netherlands - We Are Out of Office # 7, Belgium - Specht Studio # 8, Germany - Eike König # 9, France - Marylou Faure # 10, South Korea - Jaemin Lee # 11. And on the bench are illustrators Gav Connell (Ireland) on the exhibition identity & Yeye Weller (Germany) on the scarves.
⚽️ @holalou - Mexico 🇲🇽
⚽️ @kellyannalondon 🏴
⚽️ @vsepetov 🇺🇸
⚽️ @mongadesign 🇧🇷
⚽️ @sebacuri x @macarenaluzi 🇦🇷
⚽️ @wereoutofoffice 🇳🇱
⚽️ @sophiedouala 🇨🇲
⚽️ @spechtstudio 🇧🇪
⚽️ @eikekoenig 🇩🇪
⚽️ @maryloufaure 🇫🇷
⚽️ @round.midnight 🇰🇷
100% polyester sublimated print jersey with a woven patch and embroidered Hen’s Teeth logo. Collar and cuffs are cotton. 150gsm weight.
Produced by Vulfco in the UK
COST: €75 exl. postage
Event details: Launch in store at 3pm, Saturday, 3rd December
Where: Hen’s Teeth, Blackpitts, Dublin 8, D08A9FD
Online: www.hensteethstore.com
Loooove this new cap by @burgunderofficial with a B @nannareseke and myself designed back in 2020 — still fresh. Burgunder is Swiss made in small quantities only but very high quality! 🤍
https://burgunder.xyz/
Mads Teglers came visit me in May 2022 and took some photographs. I designed a book for him as well How are the bees that will be published later. Thank you Mads for the good energy everytime we work together! 🌻 > photo featuring my dog Gino’s front and back 😆🤍 and ‘who’s a good boy’ look.
Last September 2021, Goûte Mes Disques asked me to design a t-shirt and said ‘you can do whatever you want’ AKA the magic sentence. It’s nothing too crazy. A mmmmmmmmmm for the goûte and a plate with lettes for the disques 🖤 It is a very limited edition. Buy here: goutemesdisques.bigcartel.com
Graphic Support Group invited me to talk on their latest podcast. We talk about mindfulness, health scares, the great outdoors, and the importance of work-life balance. I found it so interesting this experience. It became really a personal talk. Thank you Drew and James for this! Listen to it here: https://graphicsupportgroup.substack.com/p/episode-25-stephanie-specht-outdoors?s=r#details
Hello! I just finished a two day workshop for @intl.international 💙 💙 Results soon here!
International Assembly is a global creative festival with 19 action-packed days of workshops and conferences welcoming designers and creatives from across the world taking place online between the 28th March–15th of April 2022.
There was an unmissable lineup of workshops at International Assembly with Lamm & Kirch, Eva Cremers, Studio Spass, Daan Rietbergen, Sander Sturing, Kiel Mutschelknaus, Stephanie Specht, Xavier Monney and Liebermann Kiepe Reddemann.
Also, I actually smile a lot. I am not as serious as in this picture but I do love the photo, thanks @madsteglers 💙
😥All this work for nothing 😭 Drawing Marathon 2022 for Academy Antwerp got cancelled. Many studies, close to a final design. 💔
Say hello to @charles_ardilouze who’s helping me out with design these days. He is a graphic and motion designer from Paris, based in Brussels. Graduated from Villa Arson (Nice, France) — videography and illustration and master in design and animation graduate from graphic research school of Brussels. Mega talented human being! Happy to have him on my side. 👋🏻
Tomorrow (17 Nov. 2021) I am giving an online talk and workshop at Google VISD Summit by @googledesign. It is an honor to be surrounded by all these talented creatives. Aaaaaand super excited about the fact that someone like @saewwwon and her @_sunsong_ project gets a platform here. It gave me a smile on my face to read her name. 🖤
The VISD Summit is a set of events, talks, and creative conversations put on by a group of creatives (Visual designers, illustrators, animators, typographers, etc) from across Google’s product design teams. Their goal is to foster strong creative connections between Google designers, to drive inspiration from diverse and design-adjacent spaces, and to support each other emotionally and professionally. By investing time and energy into unique creative gatherings, they are helping make Google’s products become even better and, hopefully, even more beautiful.
Happy to be featured in the new Victionary book More is More!
MORE IS MORE
Designing bigger, bolder, brighter
Minimalist design has grown into a popular and timeless aesthetic due to its emphasis on uncluttered spaces and the exclusion of unnecessary elements, making it the perfect anecdote to the chaos of modern life. However, although it works across a variety of mediums—spanning visual identities and interiors—some may find its rigour and restraint too dull or lacking in character visually.
As such, the maximalism movement has been gaining more and more momentum of late. Instead of extolling ‘less is more’ and paring everything down to a bare minimum, creatives are expressing themselves in bigger, bolder, and brighter ways that brim with personality. Whether it is by mixing clashing colours or matching disparate patterns and elements, MORE IS MORE is an ode to the fearless few who deftly break design rules and push the boundaries to make eye-catching statements.
Editor: victionary
Specs: 185 x 255 mm, 288 pp
Format: full colour, soft cover
Release date: November 2021
Language: English
ISBN 978-988-74628-7-3
Available for sale here: https://victionary.com/collections/all/products/more-is-more?variant=41122600943778
Two weeks ago, a graphic design student from Royal Academy Antwerp, Ellen Bresseleers came by to photograph me (for her school project) in the small pop-up shop I had. Usually I am never really happy to see myself in a photograph (except when Mads Teglers takes them) but I was surprised with these. I think Ellen was able to really capture how I felt that week: super relaxed and happy to see so many people again after a long time. With many people I mean a lot of students as well! — Thank you Ellen!
A screen print of my work for Dazed is now available.
Steinbach – 100 x 70 cm.
80 Euros without shipping. Only pick up in Antwerp.
