An ad I made for Kotä Records in zweikommasieben magazine #17. Shouts to Gleb Glonti and Kaj Lehmann!

„Excavate“ is a reader about collecting, exploring the relationships between the human and the world of objects he is surrounded by. It highlights main motives for collecting in the theoretical chapter (essays by J. Baudrillard and Wulf D. von Lucius) and features interviews with Günter Höhne (former Editor-In-Chief of „ Form+Zweck“, collector of Eastern German design), Simon Menner (artist), Jung und Wenig (graphic designers), Thomas Olbricht (art collector and gallerist), Stephan Steigleder (vinyl collector).

All the interviews are complemented with photo stories. In collaboration with Konstantin Medvedev.

Serafim is an interpretation of a sans-serif typeface used for the exhibition catalogue "Naivität der Maschine" (Kunstverein Hannover, 1974). It's rounded stroke endings and rough appearance has in common with typewriter aesthetics and early computer typefaces. Wide uppercase letters of the same width and generous spacing make the face appear almost monospaced. A bit less compact, still very legible Serafim becomes an additional tool for the modern editorial design purposes.

● Serafim is avaliable on request: info@anfalov.de

The sleeve design tells the story of a pigeon through man-made objects. Pigeons are not welcomed in cities. A church in Sao Paulo uses targets of a special color-combination to hypnotize pigeons. According to a BBC article, it prevents them of entering the church. The flip side shows a moving target, also known as “clay pigeon”, being shot. In collaboration Jasper Otto Eisenecker.

"Pepper" is a pilot issue of a street newspaper. It aims to re-think the format of street newspaper by bringing more directness into the content creation. From the editor's letter: "Pepper is meant to be sold by people in the streets of your city. Everyone in need can take it for free and sell it. (...) One of the main things we want to do is to hear from socially excluded people, whether they are sex workers, refugees, drug addicts, or homeless, about what their lives are like. Our approach is to give them portable film cameras, so they document their lives within one single day. The images are then included in the newspaper and supplemented by an interview with each participant. Our Issue 0 is devoted to the homeless life in the winter Moscow. An article by Svetlana Stephenson explains the background of Russian homelessness. With the generous help of Sasha Marshani and other collaborators, this issue was made possible."