Iceland's Studio Studio: so good they named it twice

I don’t know a lot about Icelandic literature, but I know what I like. Well I don’t, but I know when I like the covers, and boy do I like the covers that Studio Studio creates. The Reykjavík-based studio is made up of Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson and Birna Geirfinnsdóttir, and works a lot in the cultural sector designing books, brochures, identities, catalogues, signage, websites and typography. The work is clean, bright and intelligent, with poster designs as crisp and sophisticated as covers for complex literary works. As well as their editorial design prowess, the studio also boasts some brilliant identity design projects, including that for the Icelandic Art Center, which uses a simple blue and white template from which the identity can be expanded in multiple formats and looks using an expressive brushstroke device. Twice the name, and twice as nice.