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Two abstract, circular faces composed of geometric shapes and textures. The figures feature metallic eyes and are set against a black, diamond-plate industrial background.

Anthropomorphic robot faces make up Non-Format's latest festival work

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Date
23 May 2013

British music festivals take note, this is the second excellent identity for a Scandinavian festival we’ve featured this week.THIS WEEK. Those Finns and Norwegians are having a blinder. The first came from Santtu Mustonen and Flow festival and this one arrived direct from Non-Format, who have produced a selection of anthropomorphic robotic faces for this year’s Only Connect Festival of Sound, this year themed around Machine Dreams. The illustration and design work is all top notch and we must confess we’re excited by the programme, which looks like a covetable piece of print in its own right. Come on Glastonbury, you know what to do; that little ring of dancing men won’t cut it forever.

A graphic design for a festival, featuring a circular illustration of a stylised robot face on a black diamond-plate background. The robot has large silver eyes and a red and pink body. Above it, a grey poster reads “Musi” in large, inverted white letters, with “Oslo 5–8 June 2013” written vertically.
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A graphic design spread featuring two circular, abstract faces composed of geometric shapes and industrial textures. The faces use metallic discs for eyes and a mix of colourful blocks and lines to suggest facial features. A grey booklet behind them reads “Mute” in large, inverted white type.
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A grey brochure cover features the vertical white text “Machine Dreams”. Smaller text on the side reads “Oslo 5–6 June 2013”. Beside it, a circular graphic resembles a stylised face with metallic eyes and a textured black surface.
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A close-up of an open book showing a page of text and a graphic. The illustration features a dark, textured diamond-plate pattern with white geometric lines and a yellow shape.
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A close-up of a grey box containing a series of printed cards. One card lists event details for “Cinemateket” on “Thursday 6 June”, “Kunstnernes Hus” on “Friday 7 June” and “Teknisk Museum” on “Saturday 8 June”.
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A printed programme for a screening of “The Bruce Lacey Experience”, directed by Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams. The page includes descriptions for performances by Biosphere and Christian Blom’s “Al-Khwarizmi’s Mechanical Orchestra”.
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A three-fold brochure open to show a programme of events. The left page features the word “Symposium” written vertically, while the right page lists speakers and performers.
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A close-up of a printed publication featuring a circular graphic with blue, yellow and white geometric shapes over a dark, textured pattern. Beside it, a grey page contains white text that mentions “a series of concerts, and installations”.
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Three posters for the “Machine Dreams” festival in Oslo, dated 5–8 June 2013. Each features a stylised face composed of industrial parts, including metal plates, bolts and colourful plastic components.
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Non-Format: Only Connect Festival of Sound

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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