Poster for @goodroombk ‘Magnetic Takeover’ party in Brooklyn, New York. Had so much fun creating letters in 3D first.

Lo—TEK Water
A Field Guide for TEKnology

This field guide explores ancestral water technologies across diverse ecosystems—from salty coastal reefs to freshwater wetlands—through Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and contemporary TEK-infused hybrid systems demonstrating how Indigenous systems foster resilience, adaptation, and regenerative design. Drawing on years of field research and collaboration with Indigenous experts, Lo–TEK Water reveals how communities around the world have developed water systems that work with natural cycles rather than against them. 💙

Structured to bridge past and future, the book is co-authored with Indigenous knowledge keepers to honor cultural integrity and ecological specificity.

With a foreword by Dr. Lyla June Johnson (Diné/Tsétsėhéstȧhese), this volume invites architects, planners, policymakers, and communities to embrace water as a co-creator and to cultivate cities and landscapes that thrive through ancestral resilience.

Lo—TEK Water invites readers to see water as a living, relational system—one that shapes culture, ecology, and design—and offers insights for creating adaptive, climate-conscious, and future-ready landscapes.

Publisher: @taschen
Author: @juliawatsondesign
Graphic Design, Art Direction: @pierawolf @w_e_studio and Stephanie Specht @spechtstudio
Illustrations: @linamueller_illustration
Editorial Coordination: Nora Dohrmann
Typefaces: Repro and Repro Mono by @abcdinamo, Martina Plantijn by @klim_type_foundry
Printed in Italy

Made a series of illustrations, tweaked a lot, threw away stuff, added more elements and it is a never ending design in my head. There is a beginning but no end and I love that.

Birth announcement card for Amos König, son of Eike König and Anne Meekers. A card for Wolf (their first born) was made and the other cards were all in the same line designed.

An exclusive print design I made in collaboration with WeTheKnot, a Portuguese clothing brand. Inspired by time and productivity, I created a design that’s now featured on their newest t-shirt. Made in Portugal from 100% organic cotton, each t-shirt is screen-printed on both the front and back. Only 50 are available. Find yours at wetheknot.com or check out at their shop in Lisbon.

Free — Wild — Raw
Self initiated work

Designed in 2025

Breathwork
Self initiated work
Designed in 2025

Design for a page in an upcoming book about the “celebration of bananas in art” by @studiotrikken (Sweden). To be launched in Fall 2025!

Good Days
Self initiated work

Designed in 2025

A second edition of Plates by @relateddept is released (2025). The theme of this one is BODY.
List of places that will carry this title: @printedmatterinc (New York), @drawdownbooks, @tbs_book_society (Seoul), @secret_riso_club (New York), @batherslibrary (Oakland), @actual_source (Provo), @dale_zine (Miami)

Designed in 2025

How can humans and wildlife cohabit in the evolving urban landscape of Brussels? Co-Habitat is a research project that explores the intersection of ecology, urban planning, and design, envisioning new ways for nature and city life to intertwine.

Featuring the CO-HABITAT atlas, this research maps out future pathways for biodiversity in the Brussels Capital Region, drawing from case studies like ‘Marais Wiels’, where abandoned industrial land has transformed into a thriving ecological refuge. By introducing ecological knowledge into urban policies and design, Co-Habitat contributes to a much-needed disciplinary shift.

Researchers: @bjornbracke and Koenraad Danneels. Promotors: @brunonotteboom and Hans Leinfelder.

Later this year a new version of this book will come to life via Public Space.

Published in 2025.

A hat. Available in webshop.

If you have ever seen a talk by me you might remember how I mention the importance of water every time. From being a child on a sailing boat coloring in books, to my favorite Jacques Cousteau show when I was little, to being mesmerized by Oceanography students in Cape Town, to making self initiated work about water, to working with poems about water. And more recently I am diving deep into the work of Masaru Emoto. Last year I finished designing a book (with Piera Wolf) about Water for Julia Watson Studio (release this year). And end of last year I discovered Analemma_water (and I use their wand every day). I feel l also developed a friendship based on water interest with the talented Energy8medicine.

Self initiated work. 2025

Human Design is a tool that combines ancient wisdom like astrology, the chakra system, I-Ching and more with quantum physics. I have been diving deep in it since last year. I’m a Manifestor Generator (1/3 Investigating, Sacral Authority, Single Definition, Martyr).

Self initiated work. 2025