Studio Spass’s large-scale type installations take inspiration from tear-out calendars

Studio Spass always strives to come up with simple ideas that are “highly accessible and aimed at making visitors interact in an intuitive way.” Jaron says: “We create ‘the potential’ and the framework, but it is the audience who ultimately brings the work to life. Like any work intended for the public, the responses are varied. These include “kids who go completely crazy, as if it were a physical challenge”, and a few “clever people who take a sheet from each block so they can reproduce a full layer at home “.

Before they get bigger, many of these installations start as miniature paper models (which we absolutely love), to test mechanics, materials and techniques. Some of the studio’s ideas come from typographic sketches. In fact, it was a stack of sketches that gave birth to the idea for their very first interactive installation. Something, for an exhibition entitled Do it at the Kunsthal, in Rotterdam. Instead of asking users to turn pages, Something invites them to tear up sheets like a tear-off calendar to create new typographic expressions. The appearance of the installation’s panels, which has carried over to many other Spass projects, was heavily inspired by “the tiled page printing feature of our A4 printer which we used extensively for testing large-scale printing for larger posters in the past. “, says Jaron.

Eager to create more characters and present more of their works to the public, Studio Spass is developing new ideas in their studio playground. When discussing future projects that require major work, Jaron says the studio is currently working on “a landmark design,” so watch out for that next — we’re sure it won’t be hard to miss .