This project was developed as part of an open call initiated by Swiss printer Courvoisier-Gassmann, around two fundamental themes: access to clean water and access to education. Rather than producing informative visuals, the bureau approached both subjects as fields of tension, where facts and inequalities resist simplification. The posters were conceived as two distinct responses to a shared question: how to give form to complex issues without reducing them.
The first poster engages water through a photographic gesture. A minimal, almost abstract image reveals a subtle division between two bodies separated by a fragile boundary. At first glance, it appears calm. On closer inspection, it suggests a fracture between those who have access to safe water and those for whom it remains a source of risk. The image holds this condition without illustrating it directly, allowing the tension to emerge without emphasis.
The second poster addresses education through a typographic system. Built as a fragmented grid of letters, it operates like a visual puzzle that resists immediate reading. Language is present but partially inaccessible, echoing illiteracy as restricted access to meaning. The composition is set in Unica77, chosen for its precision and neutrality. Across both posters, a restrained palette and shared graphic logic establish a continuity between image and type, engaging the same underlying condition: uneven access to what should remain fundamental.