Uma Grotrian‑Steinweg

(a) is living and working as a designer in Berlin.
(b) studied integrated design in Bremen and visual communication in Zurich.

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01

The Archive Is What?

  • Digital Archive
  • PHP, HTML, CSS, JS
  • 2024

How can underground culture be digitally preserved and made accessible?

In the Archive of Independent Publishing at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, independent print media from the 1960s and 70s are stored in grey boxes. The work explores how digital technologies can provide access to information and change the archive of today.

The website will be public soon :)

02

Dunst
Experimenteller Filmabend

  • Poster
  • DIN A1 silkscreen
  • 2024

In collaboration with Bremen’s local cinema City 46, Radau Kollektiv is organizing a film evening that creates intersections between experimental film and music. Film sequences overlap in the poster and form an atmospheric motif. Designed with Max Diemair.

03

Patchwriting as Hacking Practice
Hacking as Design Practice

  • Publication
  • 180 × 300 mm
  • 2023

By intertwining the statements of four designers and hackers together, a narrative takes form. The texts by and about Hackers & Designers, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, McKenzie Wark and Ruben Pater can be read as a converation, discussion or manifest. The booklet is an experimental approach to different ways of reading and writing.

04

Garage Display

  • Type Revival
  • .otf
  • 2022

Garage was created on the basis of Robert Thorne‘s Two Lines Great Primer, No. 1, which is part of the type specimen Improved Printing Types (1803), a collection of early modern shapes.

Garage is inspired by the high-contrast form, and evolved into two stylistic sets that emphasize different characteristics. The typeface was later published in the ZHdK publication Is Every Typeface A Revival?

05

Open Spell Book

  • Website
  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • 2023

By bringing together multiple voices that speak about these terms we want to capture the poetics of feminist theory, move beyond linear reading and open an experimental approach towards building knowledge. Designed and developed with Greta Lüdemann

openspellbook.de

06

Radau im P.ara

  • Poster
  • DIN A3 digitalprint
  • 2023

Poster for a techno party at P.ara Bremen. Organized by Radau Kollektiv, designed using the super.lig font (10).

07

Teaching Design Today

  • Essay
  • 594 × 210 mm risography
  • 2023

A collection of texts from art schools across various parts of Europe is dissected and ­organized along a timeline. Selected quotes form a statement on design education, exploring its past, present, and future: from the Bauhaus movement to an approach driven by empathy.



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Katharina

  • Modular Font
  • .otf
  • 2023

A modular font, inspired by geometric typefaces from the 60s and 70s.

10

Bremen Nature Culture Lab

  • Website
  • PHP, HTML, CSS, JS
  • 2023

Website Design for the Bremen Nature Culture Lab, a laboratory for social and cultural anthropological as well as interdisciplinary scientific, environmental, medical and technological research, foundet at the University Bremen. The Website shows upcoming and past events and talks and connects current research and projects.

naturenkulturen.de

11

Super.lig

  • Modular Font
  • .ttf
  • 2023

A modular italic font with a 25° angle. Super.lig is characterized by its large number of ligatures and is named after the Swiss Super League.

12

Tas et Reliquás

  • Newspaper
  • 250 × 350 mm
  • 2022

A newspaper, based on the Atlas des Régions Naturelles, a photographic archive documenting rural areas in France. The double-page spreads contrast images from the categories heaps and remnants with images of discotheques. The size and placement are determined by an algorithm. The result is compositions that show the tristesse and beauty of agricultural areas. With Marina Müller and Sarah Iller.

13

Hydrosocialities

  • Website
  • PHP, HTML, CSS, JS
  • 2025

Work in progress.

Hydrosocialities is a collaborative network that gathers together scholars across anthropology and geography in Germany and beyond. It aims to bridge established hydrological and scholarly divides across the marine and freshwater social sciences and humanities and thus thinks across salt and freshwater: oceans, rivers, lakes, lagoons, and deltas as well as rain, clouds and ice.

14

Voice Layers

  • Concert Series
  • Event Design
  • 2025

Design for a concert series at Lagerhaus in Bremen. Organized by Radau Kollektiv, with artists Epilog, Mira Mann and Carls8erg.

The design focuses on the interplay of three different voices in the format of posters, motion and sound sensitive visuals. The layers interact and form varying images.

Font in use is OCR-X, designed by Eurostandard and Maximage.

15

Radau Lounge

  • Listening Bar
  • DIN A2 Offset Print
  • 2025

Radau Lounge is a weekend filled with music and events featuring a variety of artists. The program includes a concert evening, a collective brunch, and a vinyl radio show. Organized by Radau Kollektiv, with concerts & dj performances by agnes & mon1ka, Peeled Blank, Belia Winnewisser and luxus.

16

Susan Schädlich

  • Visual Identity
  • 2025

Risography printes business cards and a hand-coded website represent the new identity of Susan Schädlich. Three colors visualize the intersection of different key points in Susans Work, and serve as filter buttons in the Website.

susanschaedlich.de