Experiments with a plastic bagScanning becomes a form of image-making.

Image direction and material experimentation, 2024

Plastic shopping bags were used as a site for visual research, shifting between physical and digital states through scanning, printing, and manipulation. By altering their texture, scale, and color, the work explores how reproduction transforms perception and challenges assumptions about permanence, value, and material presence.


















The speed of slowness / Experiments on slowing down reading
A publication exploring reading as a slowed, physical act rather than an instant act of consumption.

Concept, editorial design and material experimentation, 2024

This project investigates how design can alter the pace of reading. Through distortion, layering, shorthand, multilingual fragments, and handwriting, the publication invites readers to actively uncover text rather than passively receive it. Each section functions as an experiment, proposing alternative ways of engaging with language and resisting immediacy.






Archive of interpretations
When language is not understood, it shifts from meaning into sound and form.

Concept, visual system and publication design, 2024

This project explores what happens when words are misheard or partially understood. Beginning with a single original term, alternative versions emerge through repetition, distortion, and phonetic interpretation. Each transformation generates new typographic structures and abstract visual forms derived from sound.

The publication functions as both archive and experiment, revealing how meaning fractures, mutates, and reorganizes through perception.








GESTO LAUNCH EVENT 001The launch event expanded GESTO from publication to environment. The editorial identity was translated into spatial design, installation elements, and audience interaction, creating a cohesive visual and conceptual experience.

The project involved concept development, spatial art direction, and production coordination, ensuring continuity between printed matter, digital presence, and physical activation.




























                                           Joaquina Hintermeyer






















                                                                                              














With a background in graphic design, her practice works at the intersection of language, perception, and visual culture. Through publications, moving image, and material experiments, she investigates how meaning is constructed, distorted, and reinterpreted.















                                                          



                                                                      ( Joaquinahintermeyer@hotmail.com )






















GESTO
GESTO magazine
ACT 001 // to undress

Editorial direction & design — 2024–ongoing

GESTO is a research project in which each ACT centers on a single gesture, inviting contributors from different disciplines to explore a shared theme.
Functioning as a platform, GESTO brings together multiple perspectives through conversation, movement, and image, reflecting how meaning is never fixed.

300mm x 170mm 
100+ pages
8 visual / written essays
100gms paper
Linen press cover 300gms
English and Spanish





GESTO
A step, a flower, a map

A step, a flower, a map 

Concept, process and documentation, 2023

Mapping becomes a way of translating movement into something physical. Through walking and collecting flowers along a specific route, each step turns into a reference point, a small record of a moment and place.

The final bouquet functions as a material trace of the journey, proposing an alternative way of recording movement through space.





Portals exhibition Archiving the digital means preserving what constantly changes.

Creative production (with Christie Bakker), 2024
Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

Portals is an interactive exhibition exploring the preservation and display of born-digital archives. Through immersive audio, archival hardware, and research material, the project examines how digital files are conserved, interpreted, and prepared for the future.

As part of the creative production, I contributed to the translation of archival research into a spatial and experiential format, supporting the coordination and realization of the exhibition.