Deathercise

Work / Graphic Design

Deathercise

Words by Jez Burrows, Saturday 09 February 2008

You’ll have to excuse this brief little lapse into shameless self-interest, but I’ve got a design in the running over at Threadless this week. Should you need an excuse to exercise an itchy voting finger, it’d be very much appreciated!

Spin studio shares its latest work and how to perk up "depressed-looking" v’s 16 August 2017
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“I don't want to lose my connection with the tangible”: illustrator Jack Taylor on his new digital and 3D process 16 August 2017
Greta Thorkels: a graphic designer creating Gilmore Girls zines and record sleeves 16 August 2017
Grégory Michenaud’s ongoing project sees him explore identity in a Hasidic Jewish community 16 August 2017
Photographer Gilleam Trapenberg explores macho culture against rose-tinted skies in Big Papi 16 August 2017

Work / Graphic Design Greta Thorkels: a graphic designer creating Gilmore Girls zines and record sleeves

“‘Does it have to be readable?’ is a main theme in a lot of my work,” says Icelandic-born and Berlin-based graphic designer Greta Thorkels. This approach to design isn’t a usual one, but by turning design on its head Greta is carving her own eclectic graphic path.

Lucy Bourton — 16 August 2017
Work / Graphic Design Design studio Afrika talks custom typefaces and exhibition identities

Afrika is a design studio based in Switzerland, founded by Florian Jakober and Michael Zehnder. The studio works on a variety of projects, most recently finding itself designing custom typefaces for other studios and agencies. “It’s nice to have clients that understand as much about typography as we do. This way of working also allows us to work in bigger teams and learn a lot from everybody,” says Afrika.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 15 August 2017
Features / Graphic Design “Always more!” – a walk in the woods with Noma Bar

If you go down to Highgate Woods in London today, you might be in for a bit of a surprise. Among the dog walkers, the frazzled parents searching for their kids and the forestry workers making sure that the ancient woodland is being preserved, you might, if you look carefully, find one of the most prolific artists and illustrators working in the UK. Highgate Woods, all 28 hectares of it, is Noma Bar’s ‘office’. Everyday, come rain or shine, the graphic artist is there, somewhere, armed with his notebooks and pens, working through ideas that will appear in their final forms in newspapers, magazines, as part of a campaign or a gallery.

Owen Pritchard — 15 August 2017
Work / Graphic Design Wrong Studio combines well-executed typography with “flaws and errors”

Inspired by “wrong” design and a fondness for “flaws and errors”, aptly named Wrong Studio has been championing well-executed typography and graphic expertise by adding a twist of their own signature style. The studio was founded in 2013 by two colleagues, Andreas Peitersen and Jess Andersen, who decided it was time to steer things in a more personal direction. Since its launch, the duo have dabbled in various projects with a close-knit and collaborative ethos. We spoke to Andreas to find out more about some of its most studio-defining projects.

Ayla Angelos — 11 August 2017
Work / Graphic Design Sawdust’s typeface for Wired is designed to work as flat and 3D forms

As part of the Wired UK redesign, London-based Sawdust was asked to review the display typography that was being used as section headers throughout the magazine. Sawdust, who designed the typeface previously used, responded with a typeface that could be implemented as flat colour and three dimensional form, in both black and white.

Owen Pritchard — 10 August 2017
Work / Graphic Design Designer JS Aurelius proves that collaboration is king

On asking designer, visual artist, musician, and Destruction Unit guitarist JS Aurelius how he gravitated towards design he explains: “I’m not sure how it’s possible for anyone to pinpoint when or how they got into design…That’s like trying to ask someone how they got into speaking.”

Lucy Bourton — 09 August 2017