Radiant Signs was a five day screen printing workshop exploring sign systems, pictograms and visual miscommunication through drawing experiments, paper cuts and modular stencil printing. 

Signs leave their mark on public spaces. They inscribe and demarcate places, communicate rules and regulations. They can declare property and access rights. They can direct, warn, inform, prohibit, and explain. Signs speak their own language, combining symbols with typography, indexes, and pictograms. They are often designed with cross-cultural communication in mind, sometimes even with aspirations towards a universal visual language - and yet the most seemingly intuitive signs are not necessarily understood beyond their cultural context. In this five-day course, students played with the tension caused by partially or incorrectly deciphered signs: what happens when an attempt at graphic communication goes astray? What unforeseen paths might it take us on? What happens when coincidence, deliberate misreading and nonsense are suddenly thrown into the mix?

Taught collaboratively with Charlotte Hornung at UdK Berlin.