About

Stu­dio (art)

Since 2000, {ths} aka Thomas Schos­tok works at the cross­roads of art and graphic design. His stu­dio is based in Essen, West Ger­many. He is a for­mer tile sales­man is known for his uncom­pro­mis­ing graphic works, full of pow­er­ful, bru­tal and dirty aes­thet­ics, have been shown and appre­ci­ated internationally.{ths} is famous for his recur­rent dirty images jux­ta­posed with con­tro­ver­sial mes­sages. He is an obses­sive visual ter­ror­ist who keeps attack­ing the cor­rupt show­biz, the rich cor­po­rate world, the “uni­formiza­tion” of our thoughts and lives. For him, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and his eyes love every­thing that is con­sid­ered “dirty” and “ugly”. Read the full biography…

{ths} is with­out anger or hate, because it’s fond­ness for Elvis Pres­ley and Barry White records, that con­tin­u­ous play­ing dur­ing work­ing, make him nice and merry. He defines his work as “trash urban war­fare porn dirt style pop”. Hail to the King, Baby!

Stu­dio (design)

{ths} thomas schos­tok design was founded 1999 and offers a range of ser­vices includ­ing: Graphic design, web design, illus­tra­tion, lay­out, design con­cept, typog­ra­phy, logo design and art direc­tion. Please visit our web­site by.ths.nu if you want to hire {ths} for a doing a design.

TYPOGRAPHY

In 2002, Thomas Schos­tok founded the Cape Arcona Type Foundry  together with Ste­fan Claudius, to explore the typo­graph­i­cal side of graphic design. The foundry offers a a large amount of type­faces that Thomas Schos­tok cre­ated since the 90’s.

INTERVIEWS (ONLINE, SELECTED)

Art Nou­veau

BOLO Magazine

BAK Magazine

Art Bas­tard (in German)

Not­pa­per

BOOKS

{ths} has released 2 mono­graphs to date

2008, ›{ths} Mr. Trash‹, Sold out

2008, ›{ths} Hard Blow‹, Rojo® Editions

Group Exhi­bi­tions

2012, ›Almost Blue‹, Phone Booth Gallery, Long Beach, USA

2011, ›Zom­bie Art Show‹, Long Beach, USA

2011, ›Oh you are sick…‹, Phone Booth Gallery, Long Beach, USA

2011, ›dirty­works vol. II‹, 30works, Cologne, Germany

2011, ›Jouwe Cus­tom Toy Show‹, Out­land Gallery, Nether­lands, Amsterdam

2010, ›Jouwe Cus­tom Toy Show‹, Arty Farty, Cologne, German

2010, ›Erot­ica‹ MARGINAL, Vejle, Denmark

2010, ›Mirabilia‹ KALPANY, ROJO art­space, Milano, Italy

2010, ›Trash Amok‹, MARGINAL, Vejle, Denmark

2009, Zim­mer­mann & Heit­mann, Düs­sel­dorf, Germany

2008, ›In a Box?‹, Traf­fic Design Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2008, ›Hard Blow/YAH3‹, Berlin, Germany

2005, ›WIMP Remixed‹, UK

2005, ›44 Boards‹, USA

2005, ›Ranger Bas­tards‹, Indonesia

2004, ›Urban-Act 2‹, Stu­dio 14, Rome, Italy

2004, ›X-Care‹, Eslite Vision Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan

2004, Galerie ART LOFT, Port/Biel-Bienne, Switzerland

2003, Lucky Strike Lanes,USA

2003, Galerie Ralph Schriever, Cologne, Germany

2003, ›We are all Mes­sen­ger‹, Foundry, Syd­ney, Australia

2003, ›King Big‹, CIRCUIT, CCCB.org, Barcelona, Spain

2002, ›Pussies+Astronauts‹, 55DSL, New York City, USA

Solo Exhi­bi­tions

2012, ‘Good­night travel well’ simul­ta­ne­ous in dif­fer­ent Gal­leries in France, Canada, Japan, Nether­lands, Greece, Aus­tralia, USA (Hawaii and Los Ange­les), Rus­sia, Nor­way, Brazil, Argentina, China and Turkey

2010, ‘Hail to the King, Baby!’ @ ‘Out of STH’, Gallery BWA Awan­garda, Wro­claw, Poland

2010, ›For All Is Van­ity — Part 2‹, KALPANY, ROJO art­space, Milano, Italy

2009, ›For All Is Van­ity — Part 1‹, ROJO art­space, Barcelona, Spain

2004, ›Mid­night in Magic King­dom‹, Espai Pupu, Barcelona, Spain

2004, ›WeShow!‹, Spaced-Out Gallery, Essen, Germany

2003, ›4bis1‹, Figaro, Barcelona, Spain

Lec­tures

2010, ›{ths}: Art and Typog­ra­phy‹, Gale­ria Design — BWA Wrocław, Poland

2010, ›Reflek­tor 3: Spiel­trieb‹, FH Dort­mund, Germany

2006, ›33PT‹, FH Dort­mund, Germany

2006, ›Speaker’s Cor­ner‹, Mün­ster, Germany

2004, ›BD4D‹, Mannheim, Germany

Pub­lished works (selected)

Sushi 13, ADC Germany

Refk­lek­tor 3, Fach­hochschule Dortmund

Typo Lyrics, Slanted

Type Addicted, victionary:workshop limited

Cus­tom Kicks, Lau­rence King Publishing

New Typo­graph­ics…, Pie Books

The 1000 Jour­nals Project, Chron­i­cle Books

Data Pilot 1.0

On Barcelona, Actar

Slanted Mag­a­zine

Bul­garia Magazine

Nihao

Vierkant Mag­a­zin

rebel:art #01

Club­spot­tin 3.0

Blood­wars Magazine

Blood­wars, Vol­ume One

Com­puter Arts Project

Com­puter Arts

Rethink Redesign Reconstruct

Salir Mag­a­zine

Cold, Rojo®

Revista AB Magazine

Free­Fonts!

Web­De­sign Magazine

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Cre­ative Review Mag

XFUNS Mag­a­zine

eDesign Mag­a­zine

Dig­i­talX­po­sure

Port­fo­liosOn­line

The Designer’s Guide to…

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