ADC Bronze Nail for Xander Heller

25.06.2024
Xander Heller with his award, the bronze ADC nail.

Graduate Xander Heller wins a bronze ADC Nagel 2024 for his bachelor thesis “Latent Spaces” at the Merz Akademie – congratulations! Xander’s thesis deals with experimental typography from the cultivation of a blob, also known as a slime mold.

I wanted to combine my bachelor’s project with my thesis, in which I dealt with artificially generated images, among other things. After all the “dry” AI theory, I decided to make it my mission to find analog processes that would enable me to generate writing.

is how Xander Heller describes his approach.

Every year, the ADC competition honors the most creative work in the German-speaking world. For over fifty years, the ADC jury has honored communication and design achievements with the bronze, silver and gold ADC nails as well as the ADC Grands Prix. Excellent creative communication is honored – from web design to illustration, from staging to packaging, from advertising to photography.

Experimental typography with the “blob”

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