Open Collab

This web-based platform was created to enable and encourage remote real-time collaboration between graphic communicators. It is intuitive and free to use. Participants create a typographic or image layer in response to a given subject. The prepared artworks are uploaded by each user, randomatically mixed with other content by the platform and displayed. The aim of the project is to encourage dialogue and experimentation. The resulting combinations permit participants to view their own work from a new perspective. Since its public launch in March 2020, multi-sessions aimed specifically at participants in lockdown due to the Covid-19 have taken place around the world. Participants include internationally renowned creatives and students from 150+ international universities, academies and schools.

Concept: Patrick Thomas and Jonathan Auch
Development: Max Wohlleber
Selected sessions: Open Collab Melbourne, Design Indaba Cape Town, Maryland Institute College of Art (with Ellen Lupton), Design Manchester, Parsons School of Design New York (with Pascal Glissmann), Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles (with Emma Kemp)