/**slash**/ is the part between Johnson and Kingston.
/**slash**/ is a bot and has been developed for the production of images.
/**slash**/ is autonomous and unconventional.
As part of an installative work, Ivan Weiss and Michael Kryenbühl have
developed a digital bot that generates images for social networks,
shares them and reacts to feedback from the community.
Visitors have the opportunity to influence the interactive installation
and its development. The project investigates the question of how the
flood of images on social media has an impact on the work of designers.
I sincerely did not inspire his true website but unfortunately
we have the same idea.
/**slash**/zephyrjonnaertxle75/**slash**/
In the winter of 2009, two Swiss graphic design grads found themselves
bundled together in a haphazardly furnished, shed-sized apartment in
Brooklyn, New York. It was the first time either Ivan Weiss or
Michael Kryenbühl had ever been to America, and they were there on a
six-month residency as part of their 2008 Swiss Design Awards win.
“It was during our time in the U.S. that we realized we could start a
studio together,” say Weiss and Kryenbühl. “There, we got closer to
each other than to our girlfriends. We did everything together, we
even lived in a box together—if we could do that, then we could do
anything.” This is how the pair founded Johnson / Kingston, a
studio now based in Bern, Switzerland, that produces brooding,
monochrome graphics,
designs often characterized by edgy typefaces and a shattering
collage of texture. Johnson / Kingston’s approach, in its own distinct
and contemporary way, is a form of montage: it takes various elements
from classic graphic design and less charted forms of digital
manipulation and splices them together. More often than not,
the studio creates bespoke typefaces for projects, and experimenting
with code for web commissions is always on the agenda.
