PLASTIC REASSEMBLY PROGRAM
A modular identity system for a polymer recovery cooperative. Built on a strict 12-column grid with condensed wordmarks at six sizes.
A design studio applying Swiss typographic discipline to the practice of material reuse. Grid before gradient. Hierarchy before hue.
— Editorial Note, Vol. II
A modular identity system for a polymer recovery cooperative. Built on a strict 12-column grid with condensed wordmarks at six sizes.
Exhibition design for a touring survey of post-consumer textile recovery. Black-and-white wayfinding, signal red for required action.
A 264-page reference volume on municipal recycling streams. Set in Barlow Condensed and IBM Plex Mono.
A pictogram system for civic recycling stations. Forty-eight icons; one tone of red, deployed only on action items.
A web platform documenting the lifecycle of a thousand industrial materials. Layered grids, no decorative chrome.
A national-scale visual program for deposit-return logistics. Five posters, one rule book, twelve regional adaptations. Designed as a system, not a series.
The studio operates on a four-stage protocol — survey, strip, structure, state. Each stage produces an artefact: a survey ledger [1], a strip diagram, a structural grid, and a stated specification. Recycling, in this framework, is the recursive application of these stages to existing material rather than the production of new.
A 12-column grid [2] with sixteen-pixel gutters is treated as a constitutional document. Cards span 4, 6, or 12 columns. Marginalia is permitted only in the outer two columns. Any departure from the grid must appear as a footnote in the project record — see fig. 3.2.1.
Headlines are set in Barlow Condensed at weight 700, uppercase, with a letter-spacing of 0.02em. Body text is Inter at 400 with a line-height of 1.7. Reference numerals and citation marks are set in IBM Plex Mono [3]. No other faces are sanctioned.
The palette is binary. Pure black and pure white form the working pair. Signal red is reserved exclusively for required action and is never used for decoration. Two grays serve as structural utilities only.
Interactive elements scale to exactly 1.02 on hover — never 1.05, never 1.10 [4]. The transition is 0.2 seconds, ease. Background icons rotate on a 15-second loop. No parallax. No scroll-driven scaling. Motion is permitted only where it carries information.
Photography is forbidden in the manifesto and reference sections. Three-dimensional rendered geometry — cubes, planes, segmented arrows, octahedra — serves as the sole pictorial vocabulary. Each form is constructed from CSS transforms, never from raster.
| N° | PROJECT | CATEGORY | CLIENT | YEAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Plastic Reassembly Program | Identity | Arc Recovery | 2026 |
| 02 | Matter in Motion | Exhibition | Kunsthalle GS | 2025 |
| 03 | A Field Guide to Reuse | Editorial | Municipal Press | 2025 |
| 04 | Municipal Sorting Codes | Signage | City of Bern | 2024 |
| 05 | Circular Index UI | Digital | Index Circulaire | 2026 |
| 06 | The Long Return | Campaign | Federal Office for the Environment | 2026 |
| 07 | Closed-Loop Wordmark Series | Identity | Helix Materials | 2024 |
| 08 | Deposit Schedule Posters | Cantonal Authority | 2025 |