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!

Work / Graphic Design Martin Müller designs covers for Specious Books that don’t, but could, exist

“The project was inspired by the dilemma graphic designers and illustrators are so often faced with in commissioned projects – all your efforts won’t heighten the quality of a poorly written book,” says Martin Müller of Berlin-based Dicey Studios. “And more importantly, why become an accomplice in spreading preposterous, even malignant works by helping to give them a more appealing visual form?” Martin’s response to this was to design a series of speculative and absurd book covers for the likes of Martin Heidegger, Beyonce and Canadian president Justin Trudeau.

Owen Pritchard — 22 September 2016
Work / Graphic Design Going Down Swinging, the publication visually representing literature

Going Down Swinging works across platforms to promote and produce a high quality publication that supports artists and writers. As a digital, print and audio anthology of creativity since 1979 they have become one of Australia’s “longest-running and most respected literary journals”, creating a platform for “writers and artists telling stories worth sharing”.

Lucy Bourton — 21 September 2016
Work / Graphic Design Väg: a new identity for Swedish band “owned” by design agency Snask

Stockholm-based design agency Snask has designed an identity for rock band Väg, a band that co-founder Fredrik Öst “bought” after a raucous rock and roll night out. The logotype is designed around the name of the band, which means ‘road’ in Swedish, written in bulging bubble type. “We wanted to get the feel of psychedelic 70s rock obviously. We looked at a lot of record sleeves from that period and genre as well as gig posters and found that nice roundy feel,” explains Fredrik. “We then had the logotype cut out in wood and painted in different colors. We really like sleeves when there’s an effect as you slide out the album. So we had the plastic protection cover screen printed.”

Owen Pritchard — 21 September 2016
Work / Graphic Design Ran Park explores the chaos of "Konglish" in a new zine

Konglish is the use of English words, or words derived from English words, in a Korean context. This simple premise was the concept behind Berlin-based designer Ran Park’s zine, Lost In Konglish. “The inspiration is a little bit whimsical,” explains the designer. “One day, I heard a gentleman explaining to a foreign tourist what a ‘banana’ was called in Korean. Phonetically it was the same, which made me think of the subtle alterations in the Korean language over the past decades.”

Owen Pritchard — 20 September 2016
Work / Graphic Design Ricardo Ferrol reinterprets the work of influential German designer Otl Aicher

1984 is Ricardo Ferrol’s MA thesis project at ECAL. It’s the first part of a fictional exhibition series that unfolds new narratives, explores and re-stages design-related subjects from past to present. “The concept of this ongoing show is to always reinterpret existing ideas to create new approaches to an initial project by a chosen protagonist,” explains Ricardo.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 20 September 2016
Work / Publication Elana Schlenker launches Gratuitous Type 4.5, a new breed of half issues for the mag

Gratuitous Type is a magazine which celebrates typography and graphic design in a slew of glorious layouts and beautiful printing approaches. The mag is the brainchild of New York-based designer and art director Elana Schlenker and this month sees the launch of a new breed of “half” issues of the publication.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 19 September 2016