Jubilator is performed on many different occasions - Lowlands music festival 2008, Synch, Electronic music and digital arts festival, Visual Power Show, Los Angeles

More in-depth documentation is available at www.jubilator.org.
Jubilator was first performed in October 2007 during the opening event of the new big videocreen CAS Zuidas in Amsterdam.
Jubilator is a ball of 120 cm diameter with a wireless built in camera and microphone. The image that is captured by the ball is live projected on the video screen in front of the crowd.

By watching the screen you can directly see the results of your own interactions with jubliator: while observing the crowd you suddenly see close-ups of faces, hands, arms and other body parts and together with this image you hear the emplified jubilating sounds people make by interacting with the ball.


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/jubilator

A design concept
Talking about, and expressing opinions on the Middle East is a difficult and touchy subject. There is the potential for many misunderstandings. People can get hurt. Is one allowed to say what one wishes, even if it might be labeled discriminatory by others? [...]

The proposal that most of the texts in the publication would be in the form of interviews suggested that they are one of the most direct, straight forward forms of dialogue. As a visual approach to the catalogue and website, the hope is to combine the complexity of communication with a visualisation of dialogue.

The design is based on analyses of all the conversations with the artists. However the parameters for the graphics have been based not on WHAT is said, but on HOW things are said, by focusing on the uses of language, punctuation, grammar and other characteristics of communication. By doing this communication is visualised without commenting on its contents.

On the one hand the attempt is to be as objective as possible by applying the graphical treatments using the same rules, on the other hand who invented those rules?

By giving the interviews a major presence, the focus is on dialogue. The choice was to represent dialogue in a graphic form as a speech bubble. Speech bubbles date back to the 13th century when they were used to depict speech in art using scrolls, flags or sheets of paper. They could be seen as an icon for dialogue across all cultures.

The physical parameters of the text on the page influences different sorts of modifications to the speech bubble


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/infocus

This class was taught by Luna Maurer and Jonathan Puckey. The other participating teachers were Jeroen Bodewits, Katja Prins, Ine Lamers and Rob de Vree.
Students: Lena, Inna, Arina, Ana (Dimitrovsgrad), Dima (Dimitrovsgrad), Farida, Olga, Sveta, Tolik. All the students were from Samara except for Ana and Dima.

Before the start of the Summer School we had no idea how Russian students work and think. Because of this we tried to set up our part of the workshop in a way that staid close to our own personal interests and professional approach to design. We wanted to show them the way we work and think and let them decide what they find interesting and usable in their own work.

The workshop ended with the exhibition: The accidental tourist (see the series of posters announcing the exhibition)
The assignmet was to create a "tourist guide" to the city Samara and it had to be a series.
Four projects were developed in our class:

1. "Moscow Highway" by Lena, Inna, Arina (a series of bags)
White textile bags were thrown on the biggest street of Samara, the Moscow Highway, so they would be driven over by cars. De car tires functioned as a printing technique that created the patterns that emerged on the bags.

2. "What do you want to sell to a foreigner?" by Farida, Olga and Sveta (a performance, installation and book)
Farida, Olga and Sveta addressed the relation between the intimate, private and public in Samara. Their project investigated the tear-off advertisements that Samara is littered with. They asked passers-by in the city what they would like to sell to a foreigner and asked them to write it on a bed sheet with their phone number. They filmed this action and projected it on a bed sheet inside the exhibition. The completed sheets were hung in the back yard of the exhibition space.

3. "Contrasts in Samara" by Tolik (a d.i.y. guide)
Tolik was fascinated by the big contrasts in the city of Samara. He developed a kit consisting of stickers, instructions and a specially designed, empty booklet. Visitors were asked to take a walking tour and create compositions based on the views that Tolik had chosen. Some stickers referred to old Samara, and some referred to modern Samara. The visitor is free to decide how to make the compositions, but is forced to look at these differences because of the ingredients of the kit.

4. "Reflections of Samara" by Ana and Dima (a series of photos)
Ana and Dima developed a tool that they could use to create special images. They cut bottles of typical drinks in two and looked at the different reflective properties of the liquids. In the end they created a photo series of special locations and routs in the city of Samara reflected on Pepsi Cola, Samara beer, Kvas (a traditional Russian drink made with fermented bread) and pure water.


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/the-accidental-tourist

The information on the website is evenly divided in four sections, the Casco logo is placed in the centre. The left side contains the navigation (top: chronological / down: themewise). The right side contains content (top: images / down: text). The division stays always in proportion when resizing the browser window. The typeface used for the navigation on the left side is designed for Casco by Laurenz Brunner.


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/casco-website

CO-OPs comprises seven teams that consist of a scientist and artist who collaborate on a specific topic that both are concerned with but that so far was only studied from within ones domain. The concept for the website is based on the RGB color cube describing all possible RGB colors. The three dimensional cube is laid out on two axes and cycling through all states.

Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/co-ops

It is a series of 10 posters that is created during the workshop 'Conditional Design' at the art academy St. Joost, Breda, led by Luna Maurer and Jonathan Puckey. Each of the ten participants received a design kit as material to create the poster with: The kit contained diferent colors of tape, text, stickers and a code that had to be executed. The code determined the position of the elements on the paper. The sheet had to be passed on after each run of the code.

The posters are exhibited during the exhibition 'Graphic Design in the White Cube' from June till October 2006, curated by Peter Bil'ak.


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/graphic-design-bienale-brno

Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/playtime

Roel Wouters and Luna Maurer gave the workshop for children (8-12 years) during the exhibition "Games Art and Reality' at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March - June 2006. The children were supposed to play based on simple rules - their movement was captured with a camera from above and projected on the screen in front of them.
Photos: Guido Crolla

Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/rgb-play

I decided to use the mathematical principles that are discovered a lot in nature:
The Voronoi-Diagram and the Delaunay Triangulation

The Voronoi Diagram has the property that for each site every point in the region around that site is closer to that site than to any of the other sites.
The Delaunay Triangulation is the geometric dual of the Voronoi Diagram. Alternately, it can be defined as a triangulation of the sites with the additional property that for each triangle of the triangulation, the circumcircle of that triangle is empty of all other sites.

These closely related data structures have been found to be among the most useful data structures of the field of 'Computational Geometry'.

The images show some screenshots how the website-tool is constructed, and documentation of how Dinie applies the tool to different kind of media.
Jewelry, exhibition design, fashion...

I designed with the tool the invitation and banner for her exhibition "LoloFerrari", October 2006 - January 2007 in De Zonnehof, Almere, The Netherlands.

Programming tool: Karel de Vos


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/voronoi-tool-for-dinie-besems

17 x 24 cm, 128 pp, full color
The publication Jetzt/Now is a catalogue for the festival as well as Luna's (artist-) contribution to the exhibition. The traditional catalogue is interspersed with a text that describes the process of the "book in making", (in green typography). This text flows through the book independent of it's editorial content. The timeline goes backwards: it starts on the cover with the moment of the purchase of the (finished) book and goes backwards until the end of the book where the reader is left with the mere plan of making a book.
Kathrin Hero rewrote everything that happened while making the book into a narrative form. She chose to write it from the book's perspective, interacting with everyone involved with the project.
Jonathan Puckey was approached to use his Lettering Tool to make the calligraphy on the cover that requests people to write down the date of purchase on the book.


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/jetzt-now