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S/L - 2018 •/•••

Indipendent research projects


!This page is still under construction!
Here will be uploaded from time to time with new experiments in silkprint or handmade/ digital visual productions.


1. Black Box poster concept

Poster experiments in collaboration with Yann Patrick Martins with 3D shapes about the topic of Black Box and Artificial Intelligence.
How can be visually shown the concept of black box? What is the hidden part in between of the process of input-output production? 
A question which we are still trying to experiment with through the medium of static or (soon) moving images.



CH / 2018
Printed A2 Printed version of the poster



2. Graveyard Typeface  

Development of a Typeface inspired by a graveyard inscription found in the Cemetery of Basel (Dreispitz) 
The Typeface, is an on going project in development during the class of Type-design at SFG by Matthias Pauwels. 



CH / 2018
Picture The Original Graveyard as an inspiration of the Typeface

The interesting aspect of the typeface are the high junctions visible especially in the letters E, R and G. 
The font keeps the characteristics of the orginal inscription such as the iregular terminations as well as the constant change of high of part of the metnioned letters in a range of variable glyphs.


CH / 2018
Screenshot Some Glyphs still on the process of making



3. Silkprint whale collection    

In a series of Silkprints it is questioned the medium as expression of the figurative representation of an image.
The color and the movement of the tools


CH / 2017
Technique Silkprint on paper and metal







! New experiments coming soon !
Mark
 
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This is Arianna's visual archive: an incomplete constellation of projects, traces, and experiments.

I'm a Polish-Italian designer working at the intersection of visual research, systemic transitions, and ecological imagination. At Dark Matter Labs I move between roles depending on what a project needs: visual sensemaking, design strategy, narrative direction. My practice is always collaborative, shaped by the people and places I work with, and by a stubborn curiosity about how things are made, who they are for, and who gets to shape them.

Outside of DML, I perform with a theremin in the sound duo Younger Siblings, and I carry with me the education philosophy I helped build at La Scuola Open Source in Bari, where I once directed the education programme: learning as a collective, failure as method, permission not to know.

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This website is an archive: part memory, part method, part map.
It isn’t intended as a formal portfolio. For that, reach out to my human version.

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Projects are intentionally scattered rather than sorted. Some are dense, complex ecosystems that unfolded over months or years. Others are small but charged with meaning.
I’ll soon add a diagram to map them by complexity, scope, ethics, impact, methodology, and who collaborated with me on what.

Scrolling the image gallery you’ll find research inquiries, commissioned freelance work, poetic interventions, and pieces made in response to real and imagined futures. Some are made for people, some with them ︎︎︎ and some are dedicated to beings with many legs, wings, or forgotten stories. 

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The projects speak many languages as the involved partners: Italian, English, French, Polish, Dutch, Icelandic, German mostly, but not only.
Full credits are on their way. Nothing here was made alone. ︎

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This site isn’t super user-friendly yet. A more accessible and funkier version is planned for 2026-27. 

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We should all go for a walk now. 


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Mark