Book Decoration /
NOVUM 11/2011
For the cover of the November issue we and our cooperating partners have pulled out all the stops to produce something very special. In 48,000 passes and with 140 extremely detailed die cuts per magazine, we created six differently coloured versions of the cover, without exposing the plates again each time. The result is a metamorphosis of paper, inspired by the one and only Richard Buckminster Fuller.
// Client_novum – world of graphic design // Studio_Paperlux GmbH // Creative Director_Max Kuehne // Art Directors_Carolin Rauen // Copywriter_Paperlux GmbH // Photographer_Michael Pfeiffer // Country_Germany
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Penguin's Vladimir Nabokov series Angus Hyland and his team have designed seven
// Client_Penguin
new book covers for Penguin's Vladimir Nabokov
// Creative Director/Art Director_Angus Hyland
series. As with the previous titles, these covers each
// Illustrators_Agns Decourchelle(Ada or Ardor),
feature a different game, sport or visual illusion used as a background pattern, which echoes the contents of the book.
Masumi Briozzo (Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins), Christina Christoforou (Nikolai Gogol), Peter James Field (Pale Fire), Berto Martinez (Strong Opinions) and Sam Weber (The Real Life of Sebastian Knight)
// Country_UK
Book Decoration
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CD Jacket /
CD Rascanya
Recycled materials for a folk music CD whose design captures the very identity of the music.
// Client_Rascanya // Studio_DĂdac Ballester Disseny // Designer_DĂdac Ballester // Country_Spain
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Identity
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The Carbon Concept
Our aim was to create a visual identity for the new Chinese high-end men's fashion brand, 'M-IDEA FOREVER', based on a strong concept, which expresses the brand's two fundamental characteristics: Avant Garde and Technology. The Carbon Concept contains and supports the brand values and can, on several different levels of abstraction, and is used as the DNA and source of inspiration for the creation and evolution of the whole identity. Apart from the fact that the element carbon forms the basis of all known life on Earth, it is exceptional because of its diversity. Under the influences of its surroundings, carbon can take various physical forms, each of which possess completely unique and diverse properties, although they are identical in their chemical composition. Looking at raw graphite and polished diamond, it is fascinating to imagine that they are both composed of the element carbon. Just like carbon, the M-IDEA FOREVER brand is characterised by its diversity. The new brand is based on a unique style composition, which mixes poetic Avant-Garde and functional Technology. Although very different, and sometimes even opposite, the two elements of M-IDEA FOREVER, tied together by the desire to constantly experiment, play together and strengthen each other. The soft, black Avant-Garde is expressed through the raw graphite. The bright and hard Technology grows out of the polished diamond. The carbon concept unites them.
// Client_M-IDEA FOREVER // Studio_Scandinavian DesignLab // Creative Director_Per Madsen // Art Director_Per Madsen // Designers_Line Arlander, Christian Steen Jørgensen // Country_Denmark
Identity
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Bagel Street Café
Bagel Street Café was founded by Erik Ekström in 2008. He was inspired by the street food in New York and wanted to translate it into his visual identity. It needed to be inspiring, expressive, direct and easily recognisable when it was seen outside the premises. Our solution was to make a distinct wordmark that derived from the Swedish street sign system. Making the identity monochrome gave us an opportunity to mix different expressions like photography, handwriting as well as iconic places arround Stockholm. The street atmosphere was introduced with big black walls where costumers could make an impact on the enviroment. All typography was deconstructed to give it a grafittilike impression, taking the creativity from the street into the Bagel Street Café premises.
// Client_Bagel Street Café // Studio_Nikolaj Kledzik Art Direction & Graphic Design
// Creative Director/Designer_Nikolaj Kledzik // Country_Sweden
Identity
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Miscellaneous
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Packaging
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Packaging
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Davidoff Champion
A radical approach. Rather than evoking the values associated with sport, the bottle borrows a signifier that can immediately be appropriated by sportspeople: the barbell. The bottle works as an avatar for the referent object. All the details are dealt with in an extremely realistic way.
// Client_Davidoff // Agency_Objets de Convoitises - Paris // Creative Director_Alnoor // Country_France
Poster
A T O H T I O O I I
GELEITSSTRASSE 103 2. STOCK, RECHTS GRAFIK DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
PRÄSENTATION DER ARBEITEN AUS DEN KURSEN
DAILY BREAD, PRESSEKLUB, PIECE OF CAKE& PLAKATWERKSTATT
BEI PROF. CATRIN ALTENBRANDT & PROF. ADRIAN NIESSLER (PIXELGARTEN)
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Taylor Ho BynumTomas Fujiwara Poster for a Jazz concert with trumpet player
// Client_Jazz in Willisau
Taylor Ho Bynum and Drummer Tomas Fujiwara. I
// Studio_Niklaus Troxler Design // Designer_Niklaus Troxler
visualised the spontaneity of the two musicians.
// Country_Switzerland
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WAW Magazine
WAW Magazine was established in 2010 in Warsaw
including music, theatre, cinema, visual arts, graphic
// Client_Nowy Teatr
by Mike Urbaniak (publisher and editor-in-chief) and
design, classical music, opera, literature, dance,
Agnieszka Kowalska (deputy editor-in-chief) along
architecture, photography and fashion. Is has separate
// Studio_Edgar Bak Studio // Creative Director_Edgar Bak
with Edgar Bak (art director) and Aga Bilska (photo
sections devoted to the LGBTQ culture and feminism /
editor). The magazine (print and internet version /
women's activity in urban life.
magazynwaw.com) focuses on Warsaw cultural life,
// Country_Poland
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EK bidbook
This book was designed for TEAM Amsterdam, via Biqini Amsterdam.
// Studio_Staynice // Country_The Netherlands
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Publication
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Self-promotion /
Team Amsterdam Brochure // Studio_Staynice // Country_The Netherlands
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Self-promotion
Editorial Plan Host 2011
This editorial plan for a Czech publishing house is based on exposed content of the publication. Many graphic elements from upcoming books define the whole new creation on the cover.
// Client_NakladatelstvĂ Host // Designer_Martin Pecina // Country_Czech Republic
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Self-promotion
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Joy Division: The Philanthropy of Numbers
This packaging is consistent with the concept behind the album: the city as a major industry, and the depersonalisation of the individual through the repetition of industrial production. That's why the materials chosen to build the package are iron, steel, rusty metal and screws, to support the same visual look and feel of the entire production.
// Client_Gabriele Design, Joy Division // Designer_Martin Rognoli Arango // Country_Argentina
Student
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Student
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