Photographic work and writing. Pictures and texts meet and seek each other, sometimes in a documentary form, sometimes using suggestive parables. The role of the various mediums are not compartmentalized in one or other of the given forms. Interrogations on the urban structure and its representations. Games of mirrors between formal findings and poetic essays, it’s a question of creating bridges between the collective imagination of the people and their social realities. Rather than the Balkans, it’s Belgrade. This city, which he met twice, a first time a few weeks after the end of the NATO bombings in 1999 and a second time in 2017. Two meetings, a curiosity and a nascent love. From its historical past to destructive reconstructions, the chaotic energy of the East, the melancholy of forgotten grandeur, the pride of the rivers, and the story to be rewritten incessantly, the walls of the white city are hypnotizing. It’s about this state of permanent grace, about that sadness of violin and about this dawn falling on its pavements, its concretes, as sunlight vapor. It’s about water that shines its docks, about those who live, pass or survive, about those who buy in oil the soon cosmopolitan Sava, about these worlds which cross between the night and the day that Alexandre Girod want to speak, write and render image. After 3 months in the white city, the swiss photographer will present you his work through exhibition and book designed by NORT. A book that can begins from the first page as well as the last. This duality then meets at its center, at the crossroads of the stories told by the authors. A unique dramaturgy, narrated by image and text according to a strong editorial concept which exploits an iconography with bold and carefully chosen lines of force.

Neograd is a modern typeface designed in 2018 by Nort and shared with serbian graphic designers for cultural projects. Inspired by the urban space of the city of Belgrade and its public display structures, the character set considers the use of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets of Serbian culture. April the 11th of the year 1948 marks the beginning of the construction efforts of “youth brigades” in monumental project of building new Belgrade. Before world war two mostly covered with sand and swamps, this place has had a huge transformation from fifties to eighties of 20th century. Architecture of this monumental project was inspired by Corbusier's ideas and spirit of internationality. Project was realized with help of working actions in which 200'000 workers volunteered. Idea was to achive new living and working place which will be in function of a new Yugoslavian society. To create all this constructors closed their eyes for previous ways as well as tradition. Solution was found in constructing buildings from standardized elements, which could be freely combined. Untreated concrete becomes the main characteristic of style, something that later will be called brutalism in architecture. New language of shapes and design comes directly because of new technological breakthroughs relying on modularity and freedom of composing elements. Today this part of the city is a home for more than 300'000 people and stays in sharp contrast with a rest of the city mostly because of its size and brutal concrete face. Like it or not it stands as a monument to different times when was possible to imagine a new future and a new society. When future was about everybody. Neograd font pays respect to this era drawing its inspiration from rather brave but brutal shapes, folowing the spirit of earlier builders to whom creation was for societys good. Creating cyrilic and latin font NORT provided great tool for local culture to live and trive in challenging global context. (Zeljko Loncar, Graphic Designer, teacher and assistant director at the National College of Fine and Applied Arts, Belgrade. Co-founder of Cabinet SR:CH and collective Turbo Tomorrow)