︎︎︎ JULIA SCHIMAUTZ ︎︎︎
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Julia is a graphic designer and printmaker from Austria. Her work is guided by a love for the beauty in imperfection and misregistration of print. She designs with a touch of nostalgia, and allows her digital designs freedom in how they translate in different forms. Julia is driven by exploration and experimentation, using bold colours with new and distinct techniques. The designer now runs an independent Berlin-based studio, Don't Try Anything New - which focuses on printmaking and design, specialising in Riso printing.
Projects Motion
Adobe InDesign
Splash Screen 2023
This playful handbound zine is a showcase of colour theory and Riso-printing, and of the creative potential of InDesign.
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Oct 2022
Berlin
Berlin
New Eyes
Music Video & Cover Design
Music video and cover design for In Bloom’s new single New Eyes.
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Nov 2021
Berlin
Berlin
DTAN Studio Booklet
Layout Design
Design for Don’t Try Anything New; an independent Berlin-based printmaking & design studio, specialising in Riso printing.
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Mar 2022
Berlin
Berlin
Every Thought You’ve Ever Had
Music Video & Cover Design
Cover deisgn and music video for Pan Well’s first solo release Every Thought You’ve Ever Had.
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Sept 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Convenience Store
Artist Book
A playful artist book using the familiar and alien visual language of the South African corner store as the backdrop to experiment with faux CMYK and halftones created by stencil printing processes of Riso & Screen printing.
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︎ Shop
Feb 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Funk Pop-Up
Risograph
Poster design for the pop-up event curated by FUNK.
Apr 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
May 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Going Nowhere Slowly
Riso Animation
A “deceivingly complex” collaboration between Julia Schimautz and Cult Wife’s Ines Soutschka
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︎ Shop
Mar 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Lovers’ Lane Zine
Risograph & Screen Print
Lovers’ Lane is the first collaborative zine curated by Julia Schimautz and published by Don’t Try Anything New, featuring work by young creatives across practices and techniques.
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︎ Shop
Feb 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Unrestrained
Riso Animation
A digitally designed riso print animation. Another example of Julia trusting the printing process, illustrating her confidence in the uncertainty of outcome.
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Nov 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Constellation
Risograph
A study of all the colours Dream Press has available, creating a work that considers colour complementation and combination in Riso printing.
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Nov 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Candy Crush
Riso Animation
An exploration of video translated through a Riso printed lens.
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Nov 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Floating Discs
Riso Animation
In her exploration of optical illusion through Riso printing, this 25-frame experimental animation is quintessential Julia Schimautz. The beauty in combining print and animation, according to the designer, is the uncertainty of the outcome. Though designing it digitally, the imperfections and misregistrations of printing render a composition out of the artists control, more often than not producing something more interesting that one could imagine to create.
Jan 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Coin
Riso Animation
A 20-frame experimental animation.
Dec 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Glitch Cultutre Merch
Screen Print
Designed and screen printed by hand for Glitch Culture, a Cape Town based brand, using two different designs and colour combinations.
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Sep 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Rotating Halftones
Risograph
This work delves into the moving possibilities of still images, through changing the angle of halftones, with original photography by Francis Broek.
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Jan 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Colour Wheel
Risograph
A study of colour theory in Riso printing, and an exploration of the outcomes of colour mixing.
Dec 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Dancing Halftones
Riso Animation
A further exploration of the seascape; through the use of larger halftones, the organic movement of the ocean is reimagined through the organic motions of basic shapes.
Mar 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Colour Exploration
Riso Animation
An exploration of colour translated through a Riso printed lens.
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Mar 2021
Cape Town
Cape Town
Noise EX. City Fest
Screen Print
Poster design and screen printed for the event Noise Ex. City Fest hosted by Glitch Culture in Cape Town, South Africa.
Feb 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Lowfi Photo Zine
Risograph
A hazy reminder of the Cape’s summer delights. Designed and printed by Julia Shimautz with half-frame photography by Francis Broek.
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︎ Shop
Sep 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Animation
Screen Print
Even before riso animation, Julia Shimautz had already explored movement in her screen printed work.
Much like in ‘Floating Discs’, it is the beauty in uncertainty and nuance that has her hooked on printed animations. “Though designing it digitally, the imperfections and misregistrations of printing render a composition out of the artists control, more often than not producing something more interesting that one could imagine to create.”
Oct 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Postcards
Risograph
Using scanned objects and three colours, Postcards was Julia Schimautz’s first exploration of riso printing.
Aug 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town
Hoosain’s Muslim Butchery
Screen Print
Four colour process screen print by Julia Schimautz, with a virko finish. Original photo by Francis Broek 🌟
Nov 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town