{"id":370912,"date":"2026-01-15T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:32:12","slug":"benoit-bohnke-tells-time-differently-through-visualisations-that-play-with-colour-and-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370912\/","title":{"rendered":"Benoit B\u00f6hnke tells time differently through visualisations that play with colour and motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people can tell the time, but can they tell it differently? The Paris-based graphic designer and co-founder of mire studio<\/a>, Benoit B\u00f6hnke, combines visual experimentation with coding practices in his exhibition project 12:12<\/a>, which attempts to visualise time in alternative fashions. Questioning the clock, an object that is nearly as old as time itself, various interpretations of how time looks, how it feels and how it sounds are presented through twelve digital projects, whilst a second series features guest designers and artists showcasing their own takes on time.<\/p>\n

Exploring the relationship between time and technology, 12:12 is beautiful and inventive. Rooted in typographic and chromatic experimentation, two central components of Benoit\u2019s design practice, alternative clocks and mesmerising animations explore the colour, motion and form of time-telling. \u201cThe history of time-measurement tools is rich and deeply connected to technological developments,\u201d says Benoit. \u201cIn the specific context of graphic and digital design, John Maeda\u2019s 12 O\u2019Clocks, from 1996, remains a key milestone, and 12:12 positions itself as a continuation of this lineage.\u201d As well as that, Christian Marclay\u2019s The Clock<\/a> plays a great role \u2013 a 24-hour montage consisting of thousands of film and television clips depicting clocks and other references to time, synchronised to the local time. Benoit carries the ongoing fascination with how time exists in our visual culture and continues challenging it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most people can tell the time, but can they tell it differently? The Paris-based graphic designer and co-founder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-370912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}