“Back in the days, epic battles raged on MTV: Michael Jackson vs. Prince for King of Pop, Pepsi vs Coca Cola for the global soft drink empire. For all practical purposes Jackson struck a $5 million deal with PepsiCo that would shatter the record for celebrity endorsements and set the bar for every integrated marketing campaign to follow. While the King of Pop would demise slowly, the reality of brand marketing catched up all the quicker. ”

from TAKEN BY SURPRISE. Gestalten Verlag, 2012

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for CARHARTT WIP. Ad Campaign Slogan, S/S 2016

“We see blown-up plastic bodies, suggestive of pop art, or possibly, of porn: Hugyfot, one of the oldest and most renowned camera housing manufacturers, speaks of its products’ “sexy curves,” much like Mario Bellini once referred to his design of the Lexington typewriter that he offered Olivetti—purportedly with nude photographs interspersed in his presentation slides.”

from THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE UNDERWATER CAMERA. Acid, 2014

“Es steckt das Wörtchen egal im Regal, doch im Grunde ist jeder Gegenstand in den Fächern dort aus irgendeinem Grund. Während die Gegenwart in Form von Gegenständen auf Sideboards und Schreibtischen herumfliegt, erzählen unsere Regale von Vergangenheit und Zukunft zugleich.”

from PERSONALITIES. Hatje Cantz, 2016

“On the one hand, we have soft shapes and the sensual process of sanding sculptures by hand. On the other, the brutality her chainsaw blade. People have asked her to do performances with the machine. She refuses. And yet, the heavy tool has become the artist’s involuntary trademark. Claudia Chainsaw Comte. Apparently the image is too imposing to ignore.”

from THE SUBJECTIVE DIRECTORY. Self-published, 2015

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for CARHARTT WIP. Collection Slogan, S/S 2016 (photo by Sara Sani)

“Some products are designed for protest, like anarchy pins or the lock-on devices demonstrators use to attach themselves to buildings, bulldozers or train tracks. Sometimes form itself fights, in a less literal sense. Security features combat forgery. Functionalism famously fought against frills; then in turn, the Memphis Group’s glaringly grotesque furniture attacked functionality. Not particularly political, but still provocative and progressive, Memphis’ furniture was pretty much applied-arts punk; Instead of pleasing the eye, it poked into it with a surplus of color and wacky shapes.”

from THE ART OF BEING AGAINST. A Skateboarding Annual, 2015

“Seit Caravaggio oder später Steenwijck und Snyders sie malten spiegeln Stillleben die Umstände ihrer Zeit. So inszenieren neue Meister zwar weiter Genre Klassiker wie Bouquets oder Tierkadarver, arrangieren sie aber werbewirksam mit Taschen und Pumps.”

from BUSINESSCARD MIT REBHUHN. Form, 2014

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