TwoPoints.Net | International Bureau of This And That

THURSDAY 01.01.2009

TwoPoints.Net was founded in 2007 with the aim to do exceptional design work. Work that is tailored to our clients needs, work that excites our clients customers, work that hasn’t been done before, work that does more than work.

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WEDNESDAY 19.01.2011

TwoPoints.Net is directing the Elisava postgraduate program in Typography. Based upon the traditional northern European typography education, this postgraduate program concentrates on typography as a tool for the undertaking of visual communication projects.

MONDAY 19.09.2011

Gustavo Gili hired TwoPoints.Net to design the jacket of the book "Lettering". The book explains old and new production techniques in typography. We worked with one of our typefaces, the "TpMartini", an interpretation of a neo-classical Antiqua, in order to make the book look neither too old or too modern. Additionally we let the typography emboss in a carton with canvas structure. The lively orange gave it a fresher appearance.

SATURDAY 09.04.2011

Lupi Asensio and Martin Lorenz founded TwoPoints.Net in 2007 and are paving the way for new and exceptional design work.

Their book Left, Right, Up, Down: New Directions in Signage und Wayfinding is just one exciting example of how the Barcelona-based couple combines intuition and ratio, the subjective and the objective, and the experimental with the traditional.

We trekked all the way up to the Catalan capital's mighty Montjuïc to chat about work that excites clients, work that hasn't been done before, and work that does more than just work.

The text was taken from the Gestalten.tv website.

SATURDAY 09.04.2011

Every typeface has its own charisma. Not only does its presence in design lend an attribute to the identity of a product or project, but also reflect the taste, personality and attitude of the designer behind. Most designers keep a list of favourites with no more than ten typefaces throughout their trajectory. Some make a statement by sticking to just one typeface in every piece of their work. The choice for typeface is the flag held high by designers.

SATURDAY 09.04.2011

Every typeface has its own charisma. Not only does its presence in design lend an attribute to the identity of a product or project, but also reflect the taste, personality and attitude of the designer behind. Most designers keep a list of favourites with no more than ten typefaces throughout their trajectory. Some make a statement by sticking to just one typeface in every piece of their work. The choice for typeface is the flag held high by designers.

SATURDAY 09.04.2011

Barcelona. Leaving three days of fever delirium behind, but packing my 38°C degree fever to take along, soaked into a never ending dizziness I find myself in a Taxi to Barcelona Airport, 30 minutes before the departure of my plane to Paris.

Barcelona, noisy as always yet so familiar and hospitable, is about to experience one of its most devastating storms in years. As if intuitive to what is about to happen, our plane escapes as fast as it can, shaken by winter clouds, jumping up and down through the cold cotton like world. It all seems a dream to me, moving like a movie I am watching, but not directing.

Paris - Charles de Gaulle is like landing in Terries “Brazil”. Lost in an 1980’s like science fiction movie scenery, no working bus service, no information, no signage nor direction, just mafia cab services and friendly French soldiers.

Antoine appears out of nothing, ready to create something exceptional, … and there it is again, the excitement of not knowing what is going to happen, entering a different delirium, a different cold cotton world.

FRIDAY 08.04.2011

Nearly 10 years ago we designed the visual identity and website for Largoland Music production, a company that composes music for commercials, cinema, television and television stations. It was time to design a new website that would meet the new possibilities, habits and technologies of today's internet.

THURSDAY 21.10.2010

In 2009 the design school Elisava moved to a new, larger building on the Rambla, and took this as an opportunity to make contact with the Associació d'Amics, Veins i comerciante de la Rambla (The association of friends, neighbours and traders of the Rambla). TwoPoints.Net, as directors of a postgraduate degree and teachers at Elisavas, were commissioned to create a visual identity for a possible application on the Ramblas for the World Heritage Site. The identity was launched on the 2nd February 2010, which was presented to the Mayor of Barcelona.

THURSDAY 07.10.2010

Some impressions from the Helsinki Design Lab Event in 2010.

WEDNESDAY 01.09.2010

I Love Type is a collaboration between Viction:ary and TwoPoints.Net. The type collection series, with focus on one specific typeface at a time, documents the fashionable comeback of a selection of timehonored typefaces in a myriad of contemporary designs gathered from around the world. I Love Futura and I Love Avant Garde are the first to delight the fans of classic types!

WEDNESDAY 01.09.2010

I Love Type is a collaboration between Viction:ary and TwoPoints.Net. The type collection series, with focus on one specific typeface at a time, documents the fashionable comeback of a selection of timehonored typefaces in a myriad of contemporary designs gathered from around the world. I Love Futura and I Love Avant Garde are the first to delight the fans of classic types!

FRIDAY 27.08.2010

The true importance of signage and wayfinding systems only becomes evident when they do not work. This book presents the unsung heroes of functional graphic design.

Left, Right, Up, Down presents current approaches to design that provide orientation in and around buildings. The book provides myriad examples that combine graphic design and architecture so well that the result elegantly meets the specific navigational needs of the situation. The range of attractive, experimental, low-budget, and flexible solutions make it an inspirational and insightful examination of current possibilities for practical applied information graphics.

When trying to get through masses of people quickly at a train station or airport to catch a connection, when looking for the right hospital ward in an emergency, or when simply navigating through large, unfamiliar buildings such as museums, convention centers, or parking garages, one urgently needs orientation. In such situations, signage systems help us find our way effectively in spite of stress, crowds, or circuitousness.

THURSDAY 29.07.2010

The c de c, short for club de los creativos, is an unique organization in Spain. Every year the c de c publishes an annual containing the best of Spain's advertising campaigns.

In 2010 TwoPoints.Net had the honour of designing the annual. The theme of the design is the impact that advertising has on us in everyday life, and how it it can get people talking.

WEDNESDAY 28.07.2010

Aamodt/Plumb Architects asked Constructing Communications —a collaboration of TwoPoints.Net with Irene Hwang— to design a pattern for the façade of the Hamptons Beach House, New York, USA. The pattern should make a reference to the vegetation the house is surrounded by. TwoPoints.Net drew a vector-based calligraphic, floral pattern which was cut-out in thick steel panels.

FRIDAY 28.05.2010

Latin America is bursting with creativity. As economies in this region have prospered, the demand for work by local creative talent has grown. In this context, an aspiring generation of designers and artists has been evolving and refining its own visual language. latino-gráfico presents a colorful selection of graphic design, illustration, and typography that explores one of the world's most dynamic and unique design cultures.

THURSDAY 01.04.2010

Apart from the stationery, these three booklets are among the first items to which the new visual identity of the Helsinki Design Lab has been applied.

TUESDAY 01.12.2009

Banjo Music commissioned TwoPoints.Net to design their showreel – as they do every year. The new showreel was printed on white Chromolux with Pantone Silver and Lilac. Mmm... shiny!

MONDAY 02.11.2009

The british design magazine Creative Review asked five studios around the world to show where they work. Among them TwoPoints.Net.

THURSDAY 29.10.2009

"We believe that the scale and complexity of today’s challenges are more effectively addressed when design is a leading voice coordinating many, rather than a service applied to pre-defined problems. With a specialized ability to bring synthesis to complex problems, to work from conception to implementation, and to visualize complex relationships, the strategic designer plays a lead role in addressing the issues faced by contemporary society. Helsinki Design Lab (HDL), a project initiated by Sitra – The Finnish Innovation Fund – fosters state-of-the-art knowledge, capability, and achievement in the area of strategic design in order to improve global supply of this essential 21st century problem solving skill."

THURSDAY 22.10.2009

TwoPoints.Net designed this year's Christmas greeting material for the Col·legi Oficial Disseny Gràfic Catalunya (Professional Association of Graphic Designers in Catalonia). Instead of sending a postcard or chocolates, we wanted to make something useful during Christmas -- a kind of play on the idea of a present -- so we thought to ourselves that there would be nothing better than designing a custom wrapping paper for the holidays!

TUESDAY 01.09.2009

Neuland - The Future of German Graphic Design reveals a previously undiscovered territory - in search of young talent that will shape the future of German graphic design.

Neuland asks questions in place of providing answers: Are preconceived notions about German graphic design correct; does German graphic design really even exist? The answer to these inquires involved a journey to Germany, getting to know its German and immigrant designers, and a trip beyond Germany‘s borders, in pursuit of German designers who live abroad.

Neuland provides a helpful map of information for designers curious about study, lectures, workshops, books, or exhibitions in Germany; those individuals that want to learn about the history of design in Germany.

FRIDAY 03.07.2009

Munich-based brand agency KMS TEAM commissioned a visual system for their proposal on a brand strategy of the communication of Vodafone Germany. Examples of commercial ads for different products had to be developed.

FRIDAY 26.06.2009

A Banjo Music ad for the magazine Brandlife.

MONDAY 01.06.2009

Page, the German design magazine, asked us to make an attempt at the impossible: Summarize the best of Barcelona in under 4000 characters. Wir werden mit Sicherheit unsere Tipps bald erweitern müssen.

In addition to our office, container Plus from London, Martin Svoboda of Funkfu from Prague, Kerstin Linder Meier of Univers poétiques from Paris, Andy Simionato of This Is A Magazine from Milan, Musa Collective from Lisbon and Erik Kessels of Kessel Kramer in Amsterdam, also participated in this project.

MONDAY 02.02.2009

bambi/bylaura is a fashion brand based in London and Barcelona. Lead designer Laura Figueras has shown her work on the runways of Paris, Milan, London, and Barcelona. Her designs are sold at Topshop in London and she has recently developed a signature line for Roxy.

TwoPoints.Net designed a flexible visual identity design based upon a corporate typeface and corporate elements with infinite configuration possibilities.

MONDAY 07.07.2008

Banjo Music has created the music for commercials, cinema and television. Each piece of music is made exclusively for each project, which required flexible musical styles. Their corporate identity had to express this flexibility, but also have a solid visual language that ensures the recognition of the brand.

SATURDAY 05.07.2008

Montjuïc de Nit (Montjuic at night) is a festival that will be celebrated yearly in the Montjuïc area of Barcelona. The beauty of this festival is the participation of the various institutions (theatres, museums, cinemas, swimming pools, etc.) located on Montjuïc. All of these institutions are invited to open their doors during an entire night dedicated to Montjuïc de Nit.

MONDAY 03.03.2008

Verb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of an increasingly dense and interdependent world. It presents innovative projects and research through original photos, essays, and exclusive interviews with key figures from architecture and urban planning to environmental, economic, and global affairs. Confronted by shifting densities and uncharted urban transformations, Crisis tackles the conflict between the physical limits of architectural design and the demands on the practice for an updated social relevance. TwoPoints.Net designed not only the book, but a flexible visual system that they editors could easily work with, a quality that was a significant advantage in helping to communicate the complex layers of information.

FRIDAY 04.01.2008

Everyone familiar Holland, knows that the Dutch are thirsty for innovation: for the new that reinvents the old; new rules that question the old.

THURSDAY 01.02.2007

The New York-based magazine Metropolis hired us to illustrate a series of very interesting articles about design. An intensive exchange with the magazine was vital in creation of the right visualization for the texts.

WEDNESDAY 15.03.2006

For the first time in its history "The One Weekend Book Series" has become accessible to a worldwide public.

MONDAY 01.01.2001

Wemove is a programming studio. In order to properly reach their customers, they came to us to create a new visual identity that would connect their vision with that of their clientele.