Design: with Yvonne Van Versendaal
“TBDWBJ is a collection of extremely rarely heard statements by junkies about the circumstances of their own lives, before and after the start of their addiction: an audio-visual portrait of drug-addicted women living in Europe. The artwork consists of a series of identical dolls that communicate decisive events in the life of a drug addict. Each series represents one biography.”
The visual identity of the project corresponds to specific characteristics of the countries in which it was created. The Croatian project is a result of the cooperation with B.a.B.e. (Association for promotion of human rights and gender equality). The visuals were based on a shocking image of a baby doll. The Austrian project uses sentences from biographies of drug addicts as the basic elements of visual identity. The explicit expression intended for the Croatian audience stands in direct opposition to a subtle Austrian typographic outcome that reflects a somewhat petty-bourgeois wish to keep the problem away from the public arena.
The visual identity of the project corresponds to specific characteristics of the countries in which it was created. The Croatian project is a result of the cooperation with B.a.B.e. (Association for promotion of human rights and gender equality). The visuals were based on a shocking image of a baby doll. The Austrian project uses sentences from biographies of drug addicts as the basic elements of visual identity. The explicit expression intended for the Croatian audience stands in direct opposition to a subtle Austrian typographic outcome that reflects a somewhat petty-bourgeois wish to keep the problem away from the public arena.
