Monika’s background: After living at the harbour of design cradle (where she achieved the Crown of The Royal Academy of Arts) for a half of decade, it is a time to take a sail back home to share and not conquere. How Monika works: Like japanese pottery; from well thought form to the precision of details. Monika’s dream: To create a sign system to that would replace the alphabet. Monika believes: Geography is not about maps and borders*
Curriculum Vitae Graphic Designer curently based in Rotterdam. Born in 1987, Kaunas, Lithuania WORK Designer at JDWA architects 2015 — present CONTACT email: mickute.mon@gmail.com mob: 0615838300 EDUCATION Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Graphic Design / 2011 — 2015 J. Vienozinskio design faculty, Kaunas College / 2007 — 2010 INTERNSHIPS BureauDonald, 2014 Kaunas University of Technology, 2009 OTHER ACTIVITIES
2015 Exhibition: ‘Best Graduates 2015’ — BNO, Amsterdam Feature: Dutch Designers Magazine DUDE, BNO. 2014 Exhibition: ‘On Responsibility’ — PIP, The Hague Exhibition: ‘What’s inside the koffer’ — Ministry of Finance, The Hague Student competition: ‘Chaumont Design Graphique’ — Chaumont, France Exhibition: ‘Chaumont Design Graphique’ — Chaumont, France 2013 Publication: ArchitectuurNL Magazine 8/13 Exhibition: ‘Nature’ — Royal Academy of Art, The Hague Exhibition: ‘Typographical Karaoke’ — Depot BG, Amsterdam Competition: business class present from Court of Audit — Den Haag (3rd place) 2011 Exhibition: ‘The New Exhibition’ — Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Monika Mickutė
email: mickute.mon@gmail.com mob: 0615838300
Tactile Language These days, present language is identified as a curse: grammatically abused, incorrect as well as inelegant worldwide. However, dead languages never change. We used to speak the way we write and now we speak the way we type. A new communication pattern and language is developing itself in an unconscious and natural action. The new communication pattern could be named as figurative / typed language. The appearing new language is based on technological advancements and human tactility. Factors that enable us to write the way we talk. By means of a few swipes, a person is able to send a message and communicate with another person. My typeface design reflects modern communication patterns in which the graphical form of the typeface is based on human movement. In this case, typefaces become a graphical dialect that shows the personal touch we give to the way we use a keyboard or a pen.
Typeface design Graduation project
Stroom Proposal of a new identity for STROOM in Den Haag. Stroom (is an independent foundation founded in 1989) is a centre for art and architecture with a wide range of activities. Starting from the visual arts, architecture, urban planning and design the program focuses on the urban environment. Wherefor the stencil font was choosen to emphasize their focus on urban enviroment.
Identity
Logo process
Business cards
Letterhead
Navigation signs
Posters
Hypnotic Tango A typographic representation of the song Hypnotic Tango by My Mine. The posters were represented in exhibition at Depot BG in Amsterdam, 11th of May, 2013.
Posters
Dostoyevsky The task of the assignment was to find uniting typographic style for five book covers. Different heads were chosen as a grid for lettering the titles and to represent deeply developed characters in his books.
Book cover design
Legorandum The person welfare reflects of his residence status. It describes his position in society, occupation, and financial condition. We always seek to build and create our dream home. As a result to that I came up with idea of map build using Lego bricks. The map would show the municipalities with the highest and lowest debt per inhabitant. I choose Lego as an object because it refers with keywords: building, action figure, dreams, unit, structure. The visualized numbers and territory depiction in the map will help person to look at it from personal perspective. Lego map shows how that we build, used leaded us to current situation. With reference to quote from the speech on the presentation of the 2014 Budget Memorandum “we took risks, which we are now paying for...The government is working on a stable future of growth without bubbles�. I strive peoples to think and raise the questions. How wish for a better life turned against us? Ministry of Finance, The Netherlands 2014 Photo: Roel Backaert
Lego map/Infographics
GRACE GRACE is an alternative typographic script of Lars von Trier movie ‘Dogville’. The movie has a lot of hidden symbols. Every time you can spot something new… Therefore for this booklet I choose to present the main character GRACE as a porcelain doll. Grace stands for forgiveness, gracious, pleasant, favour. It also stands for elegance of form, manner, motion, or action. I tried to reflect that all in binding, paper and chosen script parts.
Book
New Delft Blauw For Supreme Court of Netherlands with group we proposed twelve New Delft Blauw plates. The plate and Delfts Blauw has deep traditions in Netherlands culture. You could see decorative plate almost in every house. Also souvenirs shops are full of ceramics decorated in Delfts Blauw. Delft’s Blauw is immediately recognizable, so it makes internationally known. In our opinion giving a plate would symbolize like a giving a wish to make more close and confident relationship. The present would be suitable for international and local use. We made 12 plates in reason to represent all regions of Netherlands. So they have more than one design and can choose most favorite or every time to give another one. We choose to make a New Delft Blauw plates to give another appearance for design witch has long traditions. To make it in our times design style and trends. We put old graphic in new content in reason to continue a deep tradition. Team: Viktorija Liaudanskaite, Tomas Komen, Monika Mickutė Supreme Court of Netherlands, 2012, 3rd place
Plate design
The Last Poster “The death of print” is a discourse that believes print to be(coming) obsolete. We believe that this discourse in itself is obsolete. The regular announcements of printed matter’s demise has been persistently proved wrong – still, we sorround ourselves with books, magazines and posters. This fact sparked our investigation into the notion of temporarity and “the last”. When can something in fact be described as “the last”? We gave ourselves the assignment to create the last poster, exploring the aforementioned idea that the poster is dying. However, knowing that the poster is still far from irrelevant, we wanted to stress its consistent reoccurance in society. We did that by creating a poster that claims to be the last poster – a claim that of course is both absurd and untrue and therefore ironically stressing our opinion, that posters will be around for a long time. The idea is that people can create their own last poster online via an online database consisting of user-generated content that all relate to the last. Users have the option to upload their own images and a poster can be automatically generated with the content along with it’s date of creation. Team: Menno de Bruijn, Monika Mickutė, Peter Palland, Kasper Pyndt, Machteld Stoop, Sandra Timmerman The project was selected and exibited at 21st International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont.
Competition/Poster
BureauDonald Visual impresion of time spent at BureauDonald. During the period of 4month at BureuDonald I was working on development of corporate identity, type speciments and app icon.
Identities
Internship results
Icon process
* These days while questioning the interactivity of
an object, we need to rethink viewer’s link with it (in this case portfolio). For this reason, I skipped the cover because motivation sentences become cover itself, that stimulates the viewer to interact with a portfolio immediately.
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