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Miquel Hervás Gómez (b.1985, Terrassa). Graphic designer and educator based on the WWW. Work in between cultural production, publishing and visual communication. Tutor for Preparatory Course at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, as well as at Gengdan Academy of Design Beijing. Workshop specialist at the BB. Active member of fanfare and former Carne Kids.

hola@miquelhervas.com +31 (0) 625 254 038 @fanfare @BB Da Costakade 154
1053XC Amsterdam CV

²⁰²⁴ Graphic design and identity for the Republic of Cyprus pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia Arte. The exhibition “On a wildflower-lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare...” was done with Endrosia collective.

↑ Din A0 offset printed (CMYK) city posters.

↑ 11 x 17cm offset printed perfect bound publication. A collection of writings authored by Endrosia collective, Lower Levant Company (Peter Eramian, Emiddio Vasquez) and Haig Aivazian. Each text appears in English, Cypriot Greek, Cypriot Turkish and Arabic. Co-published by Archive Books & Cyprus Department of Contemporary Culture.

^2022-2024 Graphic design and identity for Pleasant Place. A growing collection of publications about the art of gardening. Pleasant Place informs and inspires by offering both practical and in-depth information as well as unexpected approaches to everyday garden tasks and garden design. Work done together w/ César Rogers.

↑PP covers.

↑ 18 x 24cm offset printed (CMYK+PMS) saddle omega stapled publications. Through collaborations with experts and artists, Pleasant Place caters both to those who grow gardens as well as those who imagine gardens.

↑ pleasantplace.space mobile view. Coded by Sascha Krischock.

↑ Pleasant Place variable font/titles is rooted using Edition International and OpenPath.scpt by Elias Hanzer. A different color and species of plant is seeded in every issue, allowing the letters to blossom and generating a flourishing visual identity.

^2023-2024 Nocturnalities identity, graphic design and website.

↑ Designed chart overview connecting real live coordinates input transform into typographic, readibility and graphic features output.

↑ Nocturnalities view. Website coded by François Girard-Meunier.

^2021-2024 Overgaden's 360° identity and design w/ fanfare.

↑ Din A1 offset outdoor exhibition posters.

↑ The dancing Oo is one key aspect of it, which triggered the spelling out of the name from… Overgaden to O-Overgaden passing by (O-O)vergaden... When doing so, we explored various ways of vocalizing the ‘O’ sound in written form, framing it with punctuation, approaching the letter o as if it were an open mouth, and playing with silence and duration, scattering and echo. The identity is based around the font family Glossy Magazine by Bold Decisions.

↑ Overgaden.org mobile view. Website designed with and coded by Bram van den Berg.

↑ From order to disorder, grid and shapes. The glyphs of O—Overgaden make up the backbone of the visual language and follow the order of the dancing ‘O’. As a way of expressing graphically the relation to an exhibition space, the punctuation codes for dialog and sounds resonate playfully with their artistic context. Posters and vinyl stickers are designed for every show of O—Overgaden. (Photography by Christian Brems & Mikkel Kaldal)

↑ Unfolded Din A2 offset grand fold-out posters and folded self-covers for each exhibition catalogue.

↑ Selection Din A4 offset printed exhibition catalogue spreads. O—Overgaden’s publication series can be read online or downloaded for free, and print versions can be purchased at the gallery. The monographic series is published in relation to the in-house solo exhibitions from 2021 onwards and focuses on new artistic voices, enabling expanded conversations around these to travel as far as possible. Online you’ll find a free-to-download PDF version with an added full batch of documentation images. In print, this series comes with a special, grand fold-out poster as its cover.

^2020-2023 Uncommon Sessions is an experimental space for collaborative production. Three different channels present an alternative format for participants to engage with a common tool in an uncommon way. Concept, design and identity with Sascha Krischock and Agustina Woodgate.

↑ Uncommon Sessions is a neighborhood for channeling a pluriverse discourse designed and conceptualized by Agustina, Sascha and Miquel. It engages with cross-educational models and operates at the intersection of design, tools, open-source and politics.

↑ Details of US glyphs.

↑ US variable logo.

↑ US identity was based on an edited open source Compagnon Roman typeface by Juliette Duhé + Léa Pradine via Velvetyne. Deconstructed and rebuilt capitals and vocals glyphs to give an uncommon characters and voices.

²⁰²³ Museo del Perro * Honden Museum mascot and identity. The first museum for and about dogs of Europe.

↑ Logo header.

↑ Mascot.

²⁰²² Graphic design and identity for the exhibition of In Search of the Pluriverse at the Het Nieuwe Instituut curated by Sophie Krier and Erik Wong. Work realised in close collaboration with the Caribbean architect Sean Leonard.

↑ Lightbox-poster exhibition design.

↑ Overviews of the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse, Het Niuwe Instituut. This exhibition takes the visitor on a journey through the ‘pluriverse’: a world that makes room for many worlds, portraying the consequences of a multivocal world on a social and political level. The extensive exhibition presents the work of designers, artists, activists and researchers from around the world and showcases an enormous wealth of projects, objects, video and audio productions and installations. (Photography by Aad Hoogendoorn)

↑ Signage tubes and stripes made with the leftovers vinyl floor material of previous exhibition.

↑ Variable identity design.

↑ MDF Stellaes as a display system and plexiglass as wall text, all upcycled from past exhibitions. (Photography by Aad Hoogendoorn)

²⁰²² Disarming Design identity, publication, webspace, and radio show co-designed and guided with Agustina Woodgate, Sascha Krischock and the D_D graduates students.

↑ Din A1 screen printed posters designs.

↑ DailyDecisions.space mobile view. Daily Decisions brings together collaborative works developed in the wider context of the department. (2020-2022)

↑ Durable Discussions, 432p essay publication published by Onomatopee.

↑ Durable Discussions presents life-making practices across objects, events, places, and habits. In research through writing, seventeen essays sense and transform the poetics and politics of the everyday, offering perspectives in thinking about art and design as emancipatory politics.

²⁰²² New HHHorizons:Het HEM x Horst visual identity and design.

↑ Digital poster.

↑ Digital animation designed w/ Oriol Cabarrocas.

↑ Type specimen showcasing potential variants on how New HHHorizon's identity can speak, mixing Het HEM (Bryant Compressed) and Horst (GT Alpina) typefaces.

↑ Digital banner.

²⁰²¹ On invitation from The Palace of Typographic Masonry, fanfare represents the Playground of the In-Between. This playground creates space for chatting, gossiping, and sharing. Based on questions given to all contributors of The Palace of Typographic Masonry, the Playground of the in-between presents a soundscape and set of jingles and 14 vocal advertisements that hijack and play a part in the official museum audio tour. Designed and developed by fanfare, sound made together w/ Fabian Reichle.

↑ Din A0 screen printed poster.

↑ Selection of jingles hijacking the autiotour of the traveling exhibition.

↑ ‘An Alphabet of Cases’ exhibition overview at Graphic Days in Torino^(IT).

²⁰²⁰ In search of the Pluriverse, Het Nieuwe Instituut, identity and web cover design.

↑ In search of the Pluriverse tunes into different places in and around Europe to learn from local initiatives how design can contribute to cultivating futures that have a future. Identity system translates those places weather conditions into typographic constellations. These likeable yet abstract narratives form the basis of the graphic layer.

↑ Designed chart overview connecting real live weather data and atmospheric values input transform into typographic and graphic features output. Each of the columns In search of the Pluriverse website is responding to a synchronized forecast feed of the five different locations: Istanbul, Berlin, Asturias, Isle of Mull and Casablanca. Depending which temperature, wind force, rain, snow, mist, day or night and cloud situation, the typography will behave differently. Miguelito variable font in use. A personal and shaky variable typeface project; a twisted Arial Narrow modified and hacked version.