Olof Ottelin
2023
262 pages covering the life, career, and creations of interior architect and furniture designer Olof Ottelin (1917-1971).

Involvement:
Typography, Grid, Layout, Typesetting, Cover Design

Finalist at Kauneimmat Kirjat Most Beautiful Books 2023.

Circuit: Test – Risk – Change
2019
Circuit was a four-year UK-wide programme led by Tate and funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation aiming to create opportunities for a more diverse range of young people to engage with art in galleries.

I worked in collaboration with Polina Joffe to create this 600-page publication compiling photographs, essays, interviews, statistics and reports about the Circuit programme.

In addition, I created animations that were used to promote the publication and previous research.

Portfolio Exhibition
–  The Exhibition Format and its Potential for
Showcasing Graphic Design Work and Practice

2023
Master Thesis completed during my MA in Visual Communication Design at Aalto University, Finland.

My research explores how portfolio-related characteristics and processes can translate to the exhibition format to showcase a graphic designer’s work and contribute to an expanded notion of graphic design practice. The thesis comprises four sections combining theoretical and artistic research.

Download PDF here.
Filed under:
Writing, Research, Layout

Advisor:
Tuukka Kaila

Supervisor:
Arja Karhumaa

Dear Sincerely
Ongoing
Dear Sincerely explores conversation as a form of knowledge production. Its pages encase 12 letters adressed to friends around the world, each focussing on a specific topic. As part of the book, the letters are available to an unknown audience, thus inhabiting an ambivalent space between the private and the public. 

Apart from the letters, the book includes 12 stamps featuring patterns found in commercial envelopes.

Edition of 20, Pages printed on Risograph, Dustjacket printed in Serigraphy 

Fragments
2021
Fragments is a series of six booklets. The first three – Collected Words – consist of a collection of text fragments that explore topics related to artistic research, publishing and curating. The other three booklets document three exhibitions I curated in my home, changing the context of the living room to that of the White Cube, the Wunderkammer and the Studio.

Alltogether, Fragments fuses ideas, topics and knowledge gained from the readings with my personal archive of collected images and objects. The publication makes visible the exercise of arranging and re-arranging thoughts and material on paper and in space.

Edition of 20, Printed on Risograph




©Amelie Scharffetter