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01The Monumentality of the Everyday2022
Design and art direction together with Lira Gjikolli for the Kosovo Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Art Biennale, “The Monumentality of the Everyday,” by artist Jakup Ferri.  The identity was heavily inspired by the artist’s multidimensional work. Our focus was to showcase Ferri’s art visually across promotional materials using a mix of characters from his drawings, paintings, and textiles. The project included various digital and print promotional materials, such as the catalog and the pavilion’s web page.

Artist: Jakup Ferri
Curator: Inke Arns
Commissioned by: Alisa Gojani–Berisha
Supported by: The Ministry of Culture, Youth 
and Sports (MCYS)

02Design and Visual Communication by Bruno Munari
2025 Book design developed at IN-FO.CO under the creative direction of Adam Michaels for Design and Visual Communication by Bruno Munari. Design and Visual Communication—the first-ever English translation of Munari’s extraordinary Design e Comunicazione Visiva (1968)—remains an important guide to bridging design education and everyday life.  My work on the project primarily involved image retouching and preparation, ensuring archival materials and illustrations were carefully restored and optimized for print in the facsimile edition, which also includes contextual annotations by Jeffrey Schnapp. 

Design: IN-FO.CO
Published by: Inventory Press

03Living to Learn: Art & Education for the Common Good
2025 Book design developed at IN-FO.CO under the creative direction of Adam Michaels for Living to Learn: Art & Education for the Common Good, edited by Noah Simblist. The publication brings together contributions from more than seventy artists, curators, collectives, and scholars who examine contemporary art as a site of learning. The design supports the book’s extensive essays and case studies through a clear typographic system that organizes diverse voices and materials across nearly five hundred pages. 

Design: IN-FO.CO
Published by: Inventory Press in collaboration with the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

04Portable Measuring Tape Tool2024
This project was developed in the Web to Print class at California College of the Arts MFA Design program. I first designed a user manual for a portable measuring tape using Google Sheets, focusing on numbers. Working within Sheets’ constraints, I later reverse-engineered a layout from my manual and recreated it as a web page using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This was my first coding experience, making it a unique way to explore design and code.

Instructors: Jon Sueda & Mathew Kneebone

05X in Crisis
2024 Inspired by Ines Cox’s methodology of Design Cannibalization, this project reinterprets the structure of a Twitter/X profile as a framework for poster design. The approach abstracts the platform’s interface into a system of building blocks to convey information visually. One poster disrupts the framework by overlaying "X" symbols, referencing the platform’s rebrand and visually echoing its transition. The other remains true to Twitter’s original profile layout. Together, the posters reflect the identity crisis triggered by the platform’s transformation—one that mirrors the uncertainty of its users.

06Art in the Fight for Peace
2024

Concept and identity created for a salon dinner project in Ethnography class at MFA Design, CCA. The task was to develop an idea for a salon dinner, theme, visual identity, and experience design. Given the state of the world at the moment and inspired by various art movements in protest of wars, my idea was to have a dinner where the topic would be Art in the Fight for Peace. 

Instructor: Cari Borja

07Notan Architectural Design2022
Architectural plans and geometric shapes formed the foundation of the studio’s visual identity. The logotype is designed for flexible use in various forms, while the letter “o” serves as a standalone brand icon.

08 Tintiriniti Typeface2023
Tintiriniti Typeface is an experimental modular typeface inspired by Jip and Jakup Ferri’s project of the same name. Influenced by technology and video games, their handmade carpets informed vivid, intersecting letterforms. 

Photos: Leonit Ibrahimi

09 Not Typeface2023
Not Typeface was initially developed as part of the brand identity of Notan Architecture Studio. The modular lowercase typeface was inspired by architectural plans of buildings, as seen in presentations of architectural projects. As a result, the letters have been constructed on a square grid to achieve the desired outcome. The plan is to develop this typeface further and craft the uppercase letters too. 

10 Diell Typeface2023
Diell—meaning 'sun' in Albanian, falls in the realm of modular typefaces inspired by the De Stijl movement, to be more precise, in one of the earliest sans-serif modular typefaces designed by co-founder Theo van Doesburg. The typeface is created on a grid of small squares, and its main characteristics lie in the lowercase letters. In the future, the main goal is to design versatile alternatives for various letters, such as the examples seen above.

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